I wrote a song for our immigrant neighbors here in Minnesota.
Pardon my rusty guitar skills—it’s been over 10 years since I wrote my last song, but this moment called for music.
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Bruce Springsteen releases anti-ICE protest song: ‘Streets of Minneapolis’
"Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst"
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Rep Ro Khanna (D-CA), in Minneapolis this afternoon www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPDi...
He was executed for filming. I've seen the video, from before the pile on, from before the execution.
Gov. Tim Walz says federal agents shot someone in Minneapolis Saturday morning and is calling on the White House to end the operation. Minneapolis officials say the shooting happened near 26th Street W and Nicollet Ave.
"Economics is not a science. It is the art of presenting the decimation of nature as an act of creation when it is in fact an act of destruction."
Art Sled Rally at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis. Ten sledders go down first, each as bowling pins, each with a name painted on: Trump, Putin, Miller, etc.
Then they all line up at the bottom.
Then the bowling ball comes.
The air is damp and warm. Rain’s coming in soon. I am prepared for cozying in and having a read. Thanks for the thoughts and perspectives @tsakraklides.bsky.social
I think humans knew this, once, and acted accordingly. Oh, how terribly far away we have come through this "civilization" thing we're living in now!
This is incredible.
"Our boats carry more than aid," says Global Sumud Flotilla. "They carry a message—the siege must end. The greater danger lies not in confronting Israel at sea, but in allowing genocide to continue with impunity."
“It’s clear that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is doing its best to stop the listing of the Pacific fisher. The law, however, requires that science drive decisions, not the whims and wishes of the timber industry.” kymkemp.com/2025/08/27/f...
At a profound level, MAGA's immigration policies are simply a way to transfer taxpayer dollars to private contractors whose job is to terrorize the American people. Fundamentally, leaders are using our own money to destroy our democracy.
He calls it "necrocapitalism", what I have come to commonly call the extinction economy.
Banner that says "You will never convince me the solution to a problem is to kill children" painted in red on black cloth with a white kite painted next to the words
Summer reading
Here's a local station covering the wildfire firefighter shooting www.khq.com/live/
“EXCLUSIVE: Zeteo Acquiring Film About Gaza Doctors That BBC Refused to Air”
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We CANNOT only not forget, but some of our wildly whirling attention MUST remain on the caged Palestinians in West Bank communities. This apartheid condition MUST STOP
“We both know why you’ve been detained…it’s because of what you wrote about the protests at Columbia” If you've been under a rock & didn't realize how pervasive and utterly absurd this has gotten...Read the thread
Oh America...
Here's your opportunity to see No Other Land
"How many acts of genocide does it take to make a genocide?"
As people debate the term "genocide," I think back to this question we asked the Biden administration just a few months ago, back in December.
Israeli forces have killed at least 10,000 people since then.
Photo of cat named Silly Goose. She is white with gray spots with darker gray stripes in most of her spots. She's looking directly at the camera responding to me calling "Goose!"
My assistant, Silly Goose
US weather and climate scientists are gearing up to run a continuous FIVE-day livestream at month's end in protest of the Trump administration's research cuts.
It will consist of speakers giving 25-min talks on their science. There's an open call to join.
wcstreamathon.netlify.app
My new essay: "Running Blind."
Trump administration efforts to purge, censor, and silence assessments of environmental threats to the US will blind the country to instability and real-world conflict risks, jeopardizing our military and national security.
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