when your friends are doing so much rent mutual aid that everyones venmos are frozen and you gotta zelle someone to paypal someone

Y’know, in case you were wondering how surreal it is to be here in beautiful south Minneapolis.

There’s a journalist staying at my neighbor’s Airbnb who came out while I was shoveling the walk in a full flak jacket with the big PRESS patches.

Vehicles abandoned due to ICE detention will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.

Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.

Learn more: www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-d...

Metro Transit workers decry ICE activity at transit stops Metro Transit drivers say they’re witnessing ICE arrests at bus stops and in the streets of the Twin Cities.

Metro Transit drivers are witnessing ICE arrests in the streets, and one operator from Somalia was held for over a month after being detained on his way to work, according to union leaders.

Written by Andrew Hazzard.

rest in power and peace

vigil at 34th & portland

Worth noting that Minnesota Public Radio is NOT doing that. They're interviewing people on the ground, chasing down witnesses and facts, and treating ICE statements with the appropriate amount of skepticism.

ICE shot and killed an observer today in Minneapolis. Say her name! We witnessed an atrocious attack on our community today. Community members were taken from us and an observer was shot dead. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA NOW! E 34th St and Portland Ave S. Minneapolis, MN 55407 Today, Jan 7 5:00 PM MIRAC

Emergency response vigil organized by @miracmn.bsky.social tonight.

Such a lovely show at the Entry.

Really American (@reallyamerican) BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara just announced his police department will not work with ICE and other federal immigration authorities. Local government is standin...

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara just announced his police department will not work with ICE and other federal immigration authorities. Local government is standing up to Trump.
substack.com/@reallyameri...

There is a lot of talk of legal observer training and not enough talk of dressing for the cold

Homan on when ICE will make its "presence really known" in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul: "The focus is there. It's coming."

Last Juneteenth I was in a public park in Florence, Kentucky sweating so badly my headphones disintegrated while capturing audio on our last reporting trip for Rebel Spirit.

This Juneteenth you can listen to the full run of our incredible, award-winning show. rebelspiritpodcast.com

ICE took a grad student from the University of Minnesota.

Today I learned that a graduate student at the University of Minnesota was abducted by ICE yesterday. We need a rapid response from leaders at all levels on what we can do to protect everyone in our community. I will keep working on this issue and update as I learn more.

Amazing!

I loved that magazine so much.

Feeling like you buried the lead here…

Kite (for Refaat Alareer) YouTube video by Vijay Iyer - Topic

In "Journal of an Ordinary Grief" Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish imagines this exchange:

Q: "Is there something else you want to say?"

A: "I do, but I don’t understand the words."

I thought of that as I listened to this beautiful tribute to Refaat Alareer.

Thank you @vijayiyer.bsky.social.

Not quite ready for mass production of AI-read books and scripts 🥺

You only won the first 15 minutes! I demand the full results!

Dry comment.

Such a great data viz micro-seminar!

Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide The Transgender Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a tool reporters, editors, and other journalists can use to improve news coverage of trans people and the stories that affect ...

So grateful for the Trans Journalists Association’s style guide.

From the intro:

"The English lexicon of gender, sex, and sexuality is dynamic and constantly contested … Where our stylebook is silent, honor the way someone speaks about themself whenever possible, and let that inform your writing."

A set of railroad tracks with parts of them set on fire as a commuter train prepares to cross.

It has snowed in Chicago and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Time to remind everyone that we light our train tracks on fire to prevent the switches from freezing.

Friends remember you’re always 5 min & a good food processor away from wonderful, cheap, genocide free humus.

It’s 4:1 chickpeas to tahini, lemon for acid, as much garlic as you like, cumin/paprika & salt. Add ice cubes instead of water to make it creamy. Drench olive oil on top.

That’s it!

A page reads: they were all gone, too? The massacre in Gaza is so much more than an aggregate count of lives. It is the loss of collective memories held in those lives—of events, of people, of places. A loss for which gener- ations and generations to come will continue to pay the price. In the face of a colonizer intent on the destruction of their nation, of seventy-five years of unrelenting violence, Palestinians have insisted on sumud, unwavering perseverance. That they will be free in their land. That they will grow and bear fruit like the olive trees that they plant.18 Gazan children deserve more than survival. They deserve more than to simply be unmolested by the whims of tyrants. They deserve futures, joyful futures. They deserve to babble and giggle with their parents. They deserve to live free, from the river to the sea. For Palestinian parents, the natural act of loving one’s child is done in the unnatural conditions of occupation, apartheid, and geno- cide. In these conditions, love fuels resistance. To care for a Palestinian child is to abhor that they have to play under the buzzing of drones. To worry about them is to fight for their right to walk to school unthreat- ened by Israeli bullets and bombs. To dream for them is to topple the borders that confine them, that cut through land that should be theirs to freely roam. To be Palestinian is to be an abolitionist. And to be a Palestinian abolitionist is to fight for us all. The technologies that police, incarcerate, and kill the children of Palestine, the children in Gaza, are exported globally to kill migrant children at the techno- logical fortresses that make up the borders of nation-states, to spy on dissidents who fight for better tomorrows for us all, to police student activists at places of learning everywhere. None of us are free until Palestine is free. The earlier, original version of this essay appeared in In These Times magazine in January 2024.

"For Palestinian parents, the natural act of loving one’s child is done in the unnatural conditions of occupation, apartheid & genocide. In these conditions, love fuels resistance."

-@hebagowayed.bsky.social in "We Grow the World Together"
(Earlier version appeared in @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social)

For the second night in a row, I’ve walked up the stairs to an empty second floor, followed a buzzing sound that led to the bathroom, and found an electric toothbrush buzzing in the darkness. This is the ghost I’ve always wanted. ✨

"If Fortran is the lingua franca, then certainly it must be true that BASIC is the lingua playpen," said Kurtz, approximately four centuries ago.