it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Photo of a grey tuxedo tabby cat lying on top of the back of a leather recliner. The cat is stretching its forelegs out in a Superman type pose.

Impeccable form. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)

As Measles Takes Toll on Kids, Anti-Vaxxers Have Change of Heart Enough parents are quietly embracing the MMR that it’s helping to slow the outbreaks.

Good news story, of a sort: the anti-vaxxers who‘ve come around (after measles was already spreading) … including a RFK-pilled woman who once went “dressed as the measles for Halloween.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... (Gift link)

They arrived on the scene at 3:35, secured the perimeter at 3:39, and did not know she was laying in the house in need of aid until 4:09. EVEN THEN they waited until 4:40 to breach the doors and reach her.

A full hour and 4 minutes after they arrived on scene.

'Like Gaza': IDF razes south Lebanon villages during cease-fire, sources say Sources Describe a Policy Modeled on Gaza Operations, With Contractors and Heavy Machinery Demolishing Civilian Infrastructure South of the Litani; Officials Say It Aims to Prevent Residents' Return a...

IDF commanders told Haaretz that southern Lebanon is being demolished “like Gaza.” The declared goal is to prevent civilians from being able to return.

Both are war crimes punishable under international law.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Yes, Israel is destroying Lebanon's breadbasket. This is why I have been saying that Israel's goal is to destroy Lebanon itself.

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The Alex Pretti nursing scholarship is being created. An endowed scholarship awarded to a student with financial need. Preference will be given to students with an interest in supporting America's veterans. Link below. Thank you.

Thirty minutes is the timeline from when they knew she was down.

They waited over an HOUR to actually get in there to give her care.

They arrived on the scene at 3:35.

It's likely she could've been saved if cops had actually just gone inside.

The "freedom to drive" actually means having zero choice. You are forced to buy, maintain, insure, fuel, and store a depreciating asset on repeat forever.

True mobility freedom is having safe, efficient, accessible alternatives, not surrendering your financial independence to car dependency.

so presumably we can conclude that the pigs took advantage of vance boelter's murders and refused to render aid out of pettiness right?

since they didn't follow their own fucking rules, why, exactly, do we let them have drones again?

THIRTY MINUTES.

thirty goddamn minutes.

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care.

The judge also blocked "any similar policy."

Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws.

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a photo of a gas canister that says TO BE USED BY TRAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRECTIONAL OR MILITARY PERSONNEL

a photo of a gas canister that says DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY

Picking up trash in the blocks around the Alex Pretti memorial this morning and found two munitions thawing out of the snow

ICE gassed my neighborhood so much that I just found two more spent munitions on my block FROM JANUARY

Over half of Americans don’t have passports.

NEW: Small business owners at Minnesota’s largest Latine shopping center are calling for government support in the wake of Trump’s ICE surge. The Plaza México shopping mall and food court on Lake Street is home to more than 80 businesses that are seeking funds, and many face the threat of eviction.

In case anybody started thinking that the Occupation of Minneapolis was over.

With mutual aid efforts running dry, it’s crucial more than ever to pause evictions and save lives. We aren’t going to let a veto keep us from fighting for more time for our neighbors.

Testify at the Committee of the Whole on Tuesday, April 21st at City Council Chambers (350 S 5th St Minneapolis)

If I were a mayor that wanted to see a renaissance of walkable districts in my city I would introduce a strong vacancy tax, legalize accessory commercial units, and make it easy to convert any residential property on a major street into commercial space. But that'd mean snubbing the landlord lobby.

US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets

After working on climate-related humanitarian work around the world for the past 20 years or so, this is the thing that gets me the most.

$2 billion a week would go such a long way towards solving the vast majority of issues for the world's 5 billion poorest.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Keith is 100% right. Commercial property ownership is almost always the problem holding back neighborhoods and growth.

TOMORROW!

angie craig thanks you for this framing because this is exactly the conversation she wants ahead of the DFL convention in rochester rather than having to reckon with her vote for the laken riley act and how minnesotans angry with the ICE occupation oppose her because of that

There’s an article going around today about how this was what drove the Silicon Valley moguls to the far right.

They encountered people who didn’t agree with them or give them respect online, and their reaction to that became their entire personality and political orientation.

Minnesota woman detained by ICE in El Paso seeks release Andrea Pedro Francisco was scheduled to have surgery to remove an ovarian cyst, but immigration agents detained her six days before.

Andrea Pedro Francisco was scheduled to have surgery to remove an ovarian cyst, but immigration agents detained her six days before.

From @elpasomatters.bsky.social

I can guarantee you you will never see this fact in a headline in US Traditional Media

Sex in commercial buildings⁉️ It makes spicy headlines, but the truth is that bathhouses have a long history as safe spaces in the LGBTQIA+ community. Let’s repeal the bathhouse ban and make Minneapolis a city where our queer communities thrive. Thank you @jchavezmpls.bsky.social for leading this!

Tracking the Environmental Harms of Trump Actions | Revolving Door Project A tracker of the the most important tangible increases in pollution, as a result of President Trump's agenda

This month alone, the Trump admin has voted unanimously to exempt the oil and gas industry from Endangered Species Act requirements in the Gulf of Mexico, canceled a program helping farmers pursue conservation efforts, announced an Arctic drilling lease sale, and more. We're tracking these harms ⬇