Today is day 140 of the ICE occupation of MN.

Cases like these are why it feels like every Minnesotan is raising mutual aid rent relief.

(You can help at StandWithMinnesota.com)

“Competence porn.”

Eliminating libraries in prisons is a disaster, completely shortsighted. Libraries are a lifeline for incarcerated people who want to learn and grow, and have few other options.

What is the price of one-up-mansship? What is the price of idolizing the dollar? What is the price of your humanity? The price is everything. Everything you are. Everything you want to be. We need to do hard things. Right. Now.

We need to step up, yes, in the face of a civilization-annihilating event. But also every single day. In every interaction and decision. We need to choose the route of care and kindness every time.

We are all at fault. We wait and hope for a hero to free us from this reign of terror. The Congress, the Supreme Court, the Military, the people of Minnesota, the Youth. What we really need is for every. single. one. of us to step up and be that hero.

The Elementary School Disciplinary Record of Jesus Christ “Fermented all the juice boxes during snack time. I can’t prove it. But I know he did it.” 4/5/26

@mcsweeneys.net can always be counted on for a timely laugh. Happy Easter!

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The Trump administration is dismantling the U.S. Forest Service. 193 million acres of public land (bigger than Texas) is being handed over to political operatives and industry insiders.

Well, we crashed the website. Let’s try another route. It’s not as easy and doesn’t go out to as many people, but it will get the message directly to the BLM.

The Road Home – Stephen Paulus YouTube video by Stephen Paulus Music

Michael Dennis Browne (1940-2026)
(composer Stephen Paulus, poet Michael Dennis Brown)
"Tell me, where is the road
I can call my own,
That I left, that I lost,
So long ago?
All these years I have wandered,
Oh, when will I know
There's a way, there's a road
That will lead me home?"

Thanks for posting this, Susan. I have sung it and didn’t realize how deeply it was steeped in MN.

Omg, this is giving my giant messy piles a complex.

Yes, please for all icy zines on their way to MN.

I spent many hours and days driving through rural Minnesota in my orchestra musician days, and "the flat-as-a-fucking-pancake part with seven farmers who all hated each other for being the wrong kind of Lutheran" is just a spot-on description of a very specific chunk of the state.

This was the best off-off-off site reading last year. Crushed to make neither AWP nor NAWP this year, but hope the lovely BlueSky poetry folks who cannot go to AWP make connections here.

WE ALREADY HAVE OUR THIRD PARTY. WE ARE IT: “They’re never going to run for office, and those grass-roots leaders brought this administration to their knees this week to do something about it. So there’s other ways to serve, and I’ll find them,” Gov. Tim Walz, the 2024 Democratic VP nominee.

a group of stuffed animals are standing around a tree in the woods . ALT: a group of stuffed animals are standing around a tree in the woods .

When we finally have Victory Over Ice Day, Minnesota will be like

Wait—“theater” as in make-believe crisis invented for cinematic effect or “theater” as in war against a US population???

Moon Palace has not only books but a whole section of zines and chapbooks. They are great at saying “yes, and. . . “ to the community.

I love how folks outside the state are showing up for Minnesota in so many ways. Thank you. Here’s one more: donate blood. MN supplies are super low right now because we are all a wee bit busy defending democracy. Our elders, our cancer patients, our trauma care centers could use your help.

I love Moon Palace so much. They are a crucial hub of the social justice community. Angela is a Minnesota treasure.

I need to also say that EVERYONE in Minnesota is showing up. We are protesting, guarding schools as safety patrol, packing food, fundraising, signing up for legal observer training, writing essays and poems, and holding each other close, and nourishing joy wherever we can find it.

My naturalized, US-citizen husband just got called into work. His office is across the street from the USCIS building in downtown Minneapolis. He took his passport with him and I kissed him and told him I love him as if I might not see him this afternoon. This is Minnesota right now.

What time does the off-air signal change to cartoons.

“I didn’t run for this job so I could have this job. I ran for this job so I could do this job.” —Gov. Tim Walz

Although this is the first year they'll actively be trying to shoot him down.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.