Cleated Rivalry

He loves you too!

Yeah, that too!

Oh, yeah. His eye markings are beautiful— it’s the Anatolian shepherd in him!

White woman with brown hair and blue and red glasses wearing a Minnesota maroon hoodie with gold and white letters lying on beige carpet. A shepherd mix pup with black muzzle and eye markings is lying next to her at her left. His face is angled across hers so that only her right eye and his left eye are visible.

Eyes

Why would voters ever make a promise to a party. Why would that ever be the balance of power in anything but a cult.

The U.S. fucking blew up school with over 150 kids in it.

Instead of reinforcing the idea that most Americans won’t care because the victims weren’t white Christians, how about opposition leaders who show some appropriate outrage over this crime against humanity?

Someone was taken near 20th & Central tonight at 10 PM. Within 5 minutes, there were over 20 people on a call and even more people on foot in the area to respond.

today was Camden Drama Club’s closing performance of 9 to 5. all our productions are completely student run from front & back of house.

as of right now, Camden Drama Club will not exist next year as theater has been cut from our North Minneapolis HS. this is truly devastating for our community.

“I really want to hold onto the distinction between someone who is actually my enemy and someone who is talking out of their ass, or making me mad right now, or who has hurt me, or become my opponent in a particular moment. Those are not all the same thing. And if I start treating them as though they are, that distorts my politics and makes me worse at navigating conflict. When I am dealing with my own communities, my responses actually help define, not only who I am, but who I am in relation to those people, and if I am treating them like the enemy anytime we disagree, I am going to become their enemy, whatever my intentions are.” - Kelly Hayes

"I want to be clear that I am not talking about Nazis here ... I’m never going to be in a process with one of those people, or trying to repair a relationship that we don’t actually have." truthout.org/audio/ruptur...

I love that AIPAC has been made into a pariah within the Democratic Party but we need to stop just asking if someone has taken money from AIPAC and specify the Israeli lobby as a whole.

Too many Democrats take J Street funding because they are liberal zionists & think that makes them better.

"Nothing like this has ever happened!"

"Yes, it has! You're wrong!"

These exchanges usually yield nothing useful. What is this like? How is it similar? How is it different? How have folks resisted under related conditions? What struggles are linked in the present? What actions make sense now?

There's a section in my book with Mariame Kaba, Let This Radicalize You, called "Make Connections, Not Comparisons," and I think it's worth reading and thinking about.

I would love to place a moratorium on arguments about whether or not events are "unprecedented." A thing does not have to be *unprecedented* for us to be off the map of our experience, or for solutions that were applied in a different era to be ill-suited (or worth considering).

Guy on the bus started in on that a few weeks ago and I told him he should do a land acknowledgement before he says that.

Hey, there’s hardly a need for colonizer countries to compete over who’s the most anti-indigenous and racist.🙄
There’s more than enough colonial violence to spread through the imperial world.

Agreed. And this blatant display of matter-the-fact racist exposés is so common.

1000%
I work in primary care in downtown Winnipeg & @lauriappelbaum.bsky.social works at HSC, the provincial hospital. Can confirm it’s blatant and unapologetic.

Analog round clock with silver frame on a white wall. Hands indicate 4:20

Time for tomorrow

She's a caricature of a politician, an Onion article, everything self-serving, egregiously smug, dismissive & exploitive of The People that a politician can be. Blatantly unbothered by the wake of disregard & harm she ignores & creates. We shouldn't dignify her, she certainly doesn't dignify us.

The people of #Minneapolis and #SaintPaul don't exist to @amyklobuchar.com.

Not sure who frustrates me more: anti-vaxxers, or the people who insist that their covid vax means they won’t get covid

Pancake ice for breakfast, courtesy of the Assiniboine River.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Shepherd mix pup sleeping on a white blanket on a couch in the sun.

Sweet baby angel in the sun

Caitlyn Jenner is so worthy of criticism for so many things. Her being trans is not one of those things.

I won the LA Times Book Prize for YA literature!!!

Never forget that Chuck Schumer wanted this shit, for Israel. He stayed silent too much for Latinos, etc bc he wanted the Mahmouds and Rumeysas of America kidnapped for daring to criticize Israel. She has asthma. She could have died in detention. I am sad she is leaving but she's protecting herself.