also yes I sat in the snow and counted the rings (lost count around 60ish) when they chopped it a couple months ago because I felt like the tree deserved to be honored in some way

a wide stump of a maple tree with wet edges where the sap

over the winter, the seminary chopped down a 60-70 year old maple in my yard and now the roots are trying to send sap to the tree

the tree is trying so hard to live and it’s using up all that it has left in the process

why am I crying over this sad wet and sticky stump 😭😭😭

yay ♥️🏵️

hello to my city council member @mollycoleman.bsky.social, please get your colleagues on this asap

Hey, while we’re removing men who sexually abuse children and women from landmarks…

I hope Peggy Flanagan and Juliana Stratton are friends in DC

bring back Melvin

vicarage update: I love preaching

Minnexit now

my friend said that the secret to mpls is lutherans + anarchists

I still think the best way to think of the ending of US AID is as the single worst genocide committed by any one US presidential administration.

even given all the horrific things the US has done, it's not really that close. 750k dead already; expected 14 million.

this message from the lake of the isles pencil on 2/6 is so sweet

“Minneapolis, I have been watching over you this difficult month, while ICE agents occupy us and kill us… I have never been prouder to stand among you and to belong to this community.“

is there any legal standing for the Diocese to challenge it? would the name have to be changed by legislators? I assume the Diocese (or the passionate Episcopalians of Minnesota) has already spent time looking into this??

You’re an icon!! Thank you for your work!! You’re definitely invited to our party this year :)

Believe it or not, it’s nice here in winter too 🩵❄️🩵

If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.

In better times, Sam was the journalist who interviewed me and Wesley about our silly party when we got the new state flag. Minnesota is supposed to be artsy and quirky and joyful. Now we have journalists in bathrobes rushing to document government violence.

www.mprnews.org/story/2024/0...

Rick Steves is in a long-term relationship with the ELCA bishop of the Seattle area and I’m amazed at the restraint parishioners must have whenever the bishop and RICK STEVES show up to church lol

the countless Angie Craig signs pasted all over the walls just look more and more desperate, the more I see them in the backgrounds of these pictures

just like Scandinavia, Minnesota’s social fabric is held together by the Lutherans and the unions (with a LOT of overlap)

Axios had a story today about how hard Minnesota’s economy is being hit and how slow the recovery could be. So, I’m going to take this opportunity to say that if you want to support the Twin Cities, you should plan a visit for this summer, spend some money here, & see how amazing it is for yourself.

we're bringing it back out. keep crying, Lyman.

Funny how “love thy neighbor” is central to pluralistic and antifascist societies, and becomes an activist position when Christian nationalists and their fascist buddies take over. One might even say that Jesus’s message is incompatible with Christian nationalism and fascism.

I unfollowed a girl I knew from college because I noticed her instagram bio said she lived in “Minne” … one of my greatest pet peeves

I know people are just being supportive, but no one calls it "Minne." The real power of the word is the long "O" sound of "Sota."

it’s such a huge disrespect against the legacy of all the Titans (and all the Enterprises tbh) to switch the name 😭😭😭

it still makes me so angry

Minneapolis' "playbook" is not the Viet Cong's; it's the organizational skills you develop as an active Lutheran.

walked out of church amazed how warm it feels today

it’s literally 2°

I love you forever Minnesota

This martyr could be any of us. He is doing what so many of us have been trained to do. Standing and recording on his phone, trying to warn his neighbors, and now he’s dead because armed, masked federal paramilitaries are acting with impunity to perform ethnic cleansing.