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Desirée D. Rowe

@drclaw1.bsky.social

Performance studies, radical negativity, and general hooliganism. Associate prof @TowsonU

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This is that “carry wood, carry water” mentality I learned living in MN.

08.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
St Brigid of Kildare

St Brigid of Kildare

Happy St Brigid’s Day! St Brigid helped spread Christianity in Ireland, becoming the abbess of a powerful convent. When a nun came to her, pregnant and scared, St Brigid laid hands on her belly, prayed, and induced a miraculous abortion.

01.02.2026 17:32 — 👍 439    🔁 90    💬 7    📌 0

This again is why Minnesota is nucleus of repression and the resistance. This largely white place - far from the "coastal elites" - has the nerve to attempt true multi-racial democracy, enacting progressive policies, having highest voting participation and quality of life indicators. How dare they.

30.01.2026 23:26 — 👍 562    🔁 128    💬 19    📌 7

And by "the theater," Tom Homan (paid by us) means the occupation (paid for by us) by state agents (armed & paid by us) of a state that annually sends $44 million more in taxes to DC than it gets back in federal support for the 5.8 million Americans who live there - or, as they might say, "us."

29.01.2026 15:09 — 👍 484    🔁 154    💬 11    📌 5
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors.

i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.

thank you. thank you.

25.01.2026 20:12 — 👍 2556    🔁 942    💬 69    📌 51

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

25.01.2026 17:00 — 👍 17483    🔁 4336    💬 144    📌 119

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

24.01.2026 19:31 — 👍 60686    🔁 18927    💬 1406    📌 741
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Support Mi CASA on GiveMN MI CASA is a non-profit organization founded by a group of six Latina women. They are dedicated to promoting and enhancing healthy lifestyles by raising awareness about mental health, encouraging heal...

If you like people that get shit done, help my friends at Mi Casa feed and help Shakopee during this ICE occupation.

Donate food and $$ -> www.givemn.org/organization...

23.01.2026 22:55 — 👍 86    🔁 34    💬 0    📌 3
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Minnesota is the best of us.

23.01.2026 22:52 — 👍 42592    🔁 9711    💬 657    📌 722

It’s really hard to bear the contrast on my TL of regular ass Minnesotans doing some of the bravest shit I’ve ever seen in the face of state sponsored terror followed by a deep blue state senator posting: “errrm how does taking Greenland help lower the price of groceries?”

20.01.2026 05:30 — 👍 2025    🔁 438    💬 14    📌 7

A little angry bright spot indeed!

13.01.2026 17:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

18.12.2025 14:17 — 👍 21069    🔁 5493    💬 221    📌 549

Oh. Spartanburg.

10.12.2025 01:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

28.11.2025 15:07 — 👍 12395    🔁 2023    💬 212    📌 302

Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract

*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***

Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy

11.11.2025 19:58 — 👍 890    🔁 436    💬 18    📌 27
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ICE poised to ramp up raids in Baltimore by Thanksgiving The Trump administration has rush-ordered infrastructure to conduct raids, abduct residents, and detain people for months.

I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”

07.11.2025 22:40 — 👍 886    🔁 404    💬 30    📌 55
UAM-UMD collective bargaining bill screenshot from MD legislature website

UAM-UMD collective bargaining bill screenshot from MD legislature website

Ready everyone?!?

Our bill—done w/ @aaup.bsky.social, @aftunion.bsky.social, @afthighered.bsky.social, @aftmaryland.bsky.social—for collective bargaining for ALL faculty & librarians in the USM system just dropped:

Its here: mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills...

What is it & why is it important? 🧵

27.01.2025 16:19 — 👍 38    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 17

Never burn yourself out to make any institution brighter.

15.08.2025 02:12 — 👍 500    🔁 134    💬 3    📌 3
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Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully.

This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.

Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

24.07.2025 01:37 — 👍 1786    🔁 637    💬 58    📌 41

Remember folks, June is Pride, July is Lust, August is Sloth, September is Envy, October is Wrath, November is Gluttony, December is Greed, January is Sneezy, February is Dopey, March is Bashful, April is Doc, and May is Free Parking.

30.06.2025 12:44 — 👍 176    🔁 46    💬 1    📌 0
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The protests aren’t stopping anytime soon in AZ. Thousands of protesters in Tempe right now for an anti-ICE protest.

15.06.2025 03:51 — 👍 1982    🔁 397    💬 15    📌 15

Fulbright scholars are pretty deep into the "first they came for" chain, in case you're wondering how alarmed you should be.

11.06.2025 19:46 — 👍 169    🔁 75    💬 3    📌 0

Damn. 🤤

05.06.2025 00:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Welcome to Autonomy News Welcome to Autonomy News, a new publication created and owned by two reproductive rights and justice journalists. We write about bodily autonomy and the attacks levied by politicians and activists wh...

Hello world! We are Autonomy News, a new worker-owned reproductive justice news outlet cofounded by @garnethenderson.com and @susanrinkunas.com.

Our reporting will never be paywalled, and you can support our work with a subscription to keep it free for everyone.

04.06.2025 13:23 — 👍 584    🔁 305    💬 23    📌 57
Tenure Bans 
Barrett Taylor discusses An Exploratory Study of State Legislation Proposing to Eliminate Faculty Tenure
New in the Review of Higher Education
Illustrated with the Hopkins Press Podcast logo, cover art from the Review of Higher Education, and a headshot of Barrett Taylor

Tenure Bans Barrett Taylor discusses An Exploratory Study of State Legislation Proposing to Eliminate Faculty Tenure New in the Review of Higher Education Illustrated with the Hopkins Press Podcast logo, cover art from the Review of Higher Education, and a headshot of Barrett Taylor

The new episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast is a conversation with education professor Barrett Taylor, co-author of a survey of recent legislative efforts to restrict or ban tenure featured in the new issue of The Review of Higher Education

tinyurl.com/2e4rfuwr

28.05.2025 18:00 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2
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Ms.Rachel is showing more humanity than our politicians

21.05.2025 18:06 — 👍 4258    🔁 1074    💬 43    📌 122

One reason why universities have proven such a soft target for Trump is that they're so often run by idiots.

22.05.2025 00:55 — 👍 669    🔁 103    💬 12    📌 0

301727671273 just
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14.05.2025 23:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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