happify
@happify.bsky.social
To walk in an American city is to bear the collective sins of an entire culture, to be seen, simultaneously, as both pariah and saint.
// pedestrian in the wind
// pedestrian in the wind
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Begging everyone with these kind of centrist senators to call their offices every single day. If you want to support Minnesota, set a daily alarm and call
January 25, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Begging everyone with these kind of centrist senators to call their offices every single day. If you want to support Minnesota, set a daily alarm and call
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We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it
January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it
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"I insisted that the agents let me assess him. Normally, I would not have been so persistent, but as a physician, I felt a professional and moral obligation to help this man, especially since none of the agents were helping him."
BREAKING: A young doctor who lives near where Alex Pretti, a nurse, was killed by ICE says in a declaration he saw the shooting, went out to help, was not let through at first then patted down before being let by, and was apparently the first to try and provide any medical assistance to Pretti.
January 25, 2026 at 2:01 AM
"I insisted that the agents let me assess him. Normally, I would not have been so persistent, but as a physician, I felt a professional and moral obligation to help this man, especially since none of the agents were helping him."
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“Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me.”
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:26 AM
“Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me.”
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Especially if you're not in Minnesota. Especially if you have Republican senators. Please help us.
YOUR PHONE CALLS TO THE SENATE ARE WORKING. KEEP CALLING.
202–224-3121
Three Democrats who previously broke with the party and voted with the GOP are now saying they will not vote for the bill. That’s enough for the bill to be unpassable right now.
202–224-3121
Three Democrats who previously broke with the party and voted with the GOP are now saying they will not vote for the bill. That’s enough for the bill to be unpassable right now.
DHS funding bill faces new Senate hurdles after another person killed in Minneapolis
Some Democrats who voted for recent funding bills said they'll vote against any DHS bill without restrictions on enforcement operations. The deadline to avert a shutdown is Friday.
www.nbcnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Especially if you're not in Minnesota. Especially if you have Republican senators. Please help us.
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One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
January 24, 2026 at 9:29 PM
One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
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Friends. This is the long haul. Regulate yourself. Breathe. Act if you must today, but know that the work will be here tomorrow. Pick your lane. Connect to your people.
January 24, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Friends. This is the long haul. Regulate yourself. Breathe. Act if you must today, but know that the work will be here tomorrow. Pick your lane. Connect to your people.
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Things to do remotely, today:
1. Make donations to mutual aid groups in Minnesota.
2. Flood the Capitol switchboard with phone calls.
3. Don't give unsolicited, online advice to Minnesotans.
4. Be careful what posts you share. Stick to MN sources, or trusted journalists.
1. Make donations to mutual aid groups in Minnesota.
2. Flood the Capitol switchboard with phone calls.
3. Don't give unsolicited, online advice to Minnesotans.
4. Be careful what posts you share. Stick to MN sources, or trusted journalists.
Someone asked how to help and I truly don't know rn.
Our local support networks are strong, we're all doing everything we can. We just want this occupation to end so kids can go to school and parents can go to work and we can all eat tacos and yell about the terrible local sports teams together.
Our local support networks are strong, we're all doing everything we can. We just want this occupation to end so kids can go to school and parents can go to work and we can all eat tacos and yell about the terrible local sports teams together.
January 24, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Things to do remotely, today:
1. Make donations to mutual aid groups in Minnesota.
2. Flood the Capitol switchboard with phone calls.
3. Don't give unsolicited, online advice to Minnesotans.
4. Be careful what posts you share. Stick to MN sources, or trusted journalists.
1. Make donations to mutual aid groups in Minnesota.
2. Flood the Capitol switchboard with phone calls.
3. Don't give unsolicited, online advice to Minnesotans.
4. Be careful what posts you share. Stick to MN sources, or trusted journalists.
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In the Emily Holmes' original "tetris can help reduce PTSD" study, what was found was that tetris is an activity which busies the part of working memory called the visuospatial sketchpad: imagining the rotation of shapes.
www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/tetris-...
www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/tetris-...
Tetris used to prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms
A single dose psychological intervention, which includes using the computer game Tetris, can prevent the unpleasant, intrusive memories that develop in some people after suffering a traumatic event.
www.psych.ox.ac.uk
January 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM
In the Emily Holmes' original "tetris can help reduce PTSD" study, what was found was that tetris is an activity which busies the part of working memory called the visuospatial sketchpad: imagining the rotation of shapes.
www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/tetris-...
www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/tetris-...
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Ways to help if you're local, ways to help if you aren't in MN.
Also still need support for our unhoused neighbors, especially in this cold. Links in quoted post.
www.standwithminnesota.com has links, including a way to send messages to Minnesota.
Also still need support for our unhoused neighbors, especially in this cold. Links in quoted post.
www.standwithminnesota.com has links, including a way to send messages to Minnesota.
Not in Minnesota & want to help? Check this out:
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
In MN & want to help? See:
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...
It's very cold! Help our unhoused neighbors:
linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
In MN & want to help? See:
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...
It's very cold! Help our unhoused neighbors:
linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...
How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…
naomikritzer.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Ways to help if you're local, ways to help if you aren't in MN.
Also still need support for our unhoused neighbors, especially in this cold. Links in quoted post.
www.standwithminnesota.com has links, including a way to send messages to Minnesota.
Also still need support for our unhoused neighbors, especially in this cold. Links in quoted post.
www.standwithminnesota.com has links, including a way to send messages to Minnesota.
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this is just my opinion and there's a good chance I'm wrong, but: it seems to me that one important thing people who aren't here can do is spread the word, calmly and relentlessly, to people in your life who aren't tuned into what's going on (or the reality of what's going on)
Someone asked how to help and I truly don't know rn.
Our local support networks are strong, we're all doing everything we can. We just want this occupation to end so kids can go to school and parents can go to work and we can all eat tacos and yell about the terrible local sports teams together.
Our local support networks are strong, we're all doing everything we can. We just want this occupation to end so kids can go to school and parents can go to work and we can all eat tacos and yell about the terrible local sports teams together.
January 24, 2026 at 6:03 PM
this is just my opinion and there's a good chance I'm wrong, but: it seems to me that one important thing people who aren't here can do is spread the word, calmly and relentlessly, to people in your life who aren't tuned into what's going on (or the reality of what's going on)
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ALL MN PROTESTERS
Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.
Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.
January 24, 2026 at 5:47 PM
ALL MN PROTESTERS
Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.
Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.
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If you know anyone who still supports this one or doesn't think it's that bad in MN, please send them this. People need to know.
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 1:09 AM
If you know anyone who still supports this one or doesn't think it's that bad in MN, please send them this. People need to know.
It's stupid that the anti-accessibility/pro-car folks are spending so much of their time on this while most of us are trying to materially protect our neighbors, but they are.
Email MPRB commissioners that parks that are for people + green and growing things, not cars + pavement, by 5:30 today.
Email MPRB commissioners that parks that are for people + green and growing things, not cars + pavement, by 5:30 today.
All of this controversy is being kicked up over *guidelines for occasional, temporary closure of parkways.* Lots of misinformation about permanent closures and making parks inaccessible.
Stick it to the thin-skinned commissioner and her team of liars by contacting your commissioners in support.
Stick it to the thin-skinned commissioner and her team of liars by contacting your commissioners in support.
January 21, 2026 at 7:47 PM
It's stupid that the anti-accessibility/pro-car folks are spending so much of their time on this while most of us are trying to materially protect our neighbors, but they are.
Email MPRB commissioners that parks that are for people + green and growing things, not cars + pavement, by 5:30 today.
Email MPRB commissioners that parks that are for people + green and growing things, not cars + pavement, by 5:30 today.
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Seriously, if you want to help the folks in Minnesota (& we could really use your help), please call your members of congress. Also spread the word to the less-online about what's going on.
And if you've got money, throw it at something here:
www.standwithminnesota.com
And if you've got money, throw it at something here:
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Seriously, if you want to help the folks in Minnesota (& we could really use your help), please call your members of congress. Also spread the word to the less-online about what's going on.
And if you've got money, throw it at something here:
www.standwithminnesota.com
And if you've got money, throw it at something here:
www.standwithminnesota.com
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Any one of my bike rides, man.
January 17, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Any one of my bike rides, man.
Maybe don’t use people’s physical characteristics as insults or ways to demean them?
Using “small” or “short” as an insult is bigotry based in and reinforcing misogyny and racism.
Using “small” or “short” as an insult is bigotry based in and reinforcing misogyny and racism.
January 17, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Maybe don’t use people’s physical characteristics as insults or ways to demean them?
Using “small” or “short” as an insult is bigotry based in and reinforcing misogyny and racism.
Using “small” or “short” as an insult is bigotry based in and reinforcing misogyny and racism.
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This is true, we fact checked
if you're cheering for freezing temps in MN you have to go donate at least one coat and pair of wool socks to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social
yes, I do in fact make the rules
yes, I do in fact make the rules
January 17, 2026 at 9:42 PM
This is true, we fact checked
This is supposed to say “chud” not “child.” I like and respect children as vital members of our society. My apologies for not catching the auto-correct!
So in the age of social media and as an “influencer”, this child drew fewer people than showed up to the same intersection to protest Bill Clinton’s bombing of Iraq in 1996?!?!
January 17, 2026 at 9:06 PM
This is supposed to say “chud” not “child.” I like and respect children as vital members of our society. My apologies for not catching the auto-correct!
So in the age of social media and as an “influencer”, this child drew fewer people than showed up to the same intersection to protest Bill Clinton’s bombing of Iraq in 1996?!?!
January 17, 2026 at 8:56 PM
So in the age of social media and as an “influencer”, this child drew fewer people than showed up to the same intersection to protest Bill Clinton’s bombing of Iraq in 1996?!?!
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“[T]he vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of—and reward them for—that violence.
ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval.”
ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval.”
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 17, 2026 at 8:41 PM
“[T]he vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of—and reward them for—that violence.
ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval.”
ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval.”
Our frozen Mpls lakes. The original, true, lover-of-all-people ice. The ice that holds us up, allows us to walk on water, welcomes everyone.
(Pictured: Bde Maka Ska in December, where I talked to so many out for the miracle, including immigrant neighbors.)
(Pictured: Bde Maka Ska in December, where I talked to so many out for the miracle, including immigrant neighbors.)
January 17, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Our frozen Mpls lakes. The original, true, lover-of-all-people ice. The ice that holds us up, allows us to walk on water, welcomes everyone.
(Pictured: Bde Maka Ska in December, where I talked to so many out for the miracle, including immigrant neighbors.)
(Pictured: Bde Maka Ska in December, where I talked to so many out for the miracle, including immigrant neighbors.)
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‼️Our relatives cannot shelter safely outside due to ICE escalation. MIWRC offers a culturally grounded low-barrier sanctuary; services, warmth, food, safety, & support obtaining tribal ID’s/documents.
This is survival. This is sovereignty. We take care of us.
Help here: bit.ly/Healinglight
This is survival. This is sovereignty. We take care of us.
Help here: bit.ly/Healinglight
January 17, 2026 at 5:38 AM
‼️Our relatives cannot shelter safely outside due to ICE escalation. MIWRC offers a culturally grounded low-barrier sanctuary; services, warmth, food, safety, & support obtaining tribal ID’s/documents.
This is survival. This is sovereignty. We take care of us.
Help here: bit.ly/Healinglight
This is survival. This is sovereignty. We take care of us.
Help here: bit.ly/Healinglight
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We are in fact DESPERATE for winter coats, waterproof gloves, and good boots. We get so many wonderful donations but it is so cold and the numbers of unhoused unsheltered people are going up at the absolute worst time for it, and we run out of coats weekly.
The frigid Twin Cities temperatures will hurt the homeless; so do not gloat about the impact on ICE without also stepping up here:
If you're still able to help Minnesota, @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social is always accepting donations. $10 buys a pack of handwarmers. If you were given Amazon gift cards this year for Christmas, you can shop their Amazon wishlist: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...
January 14, 2026 at 7:29 PM
We are in fact DESPERATE for winter coats, waterproof gloves, and good boots. We get so many wonderful donations but it is so cold and the numbers of unhoused unsheltered people are going up at the absolute worst time for it, and we run out of coats weekly.
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Middle of the night (or very early morning) is a good time for shy or awkward folks in the United States to leave messages for their members of congress. Being shy or awkward is not a requirement, anyone can call any time . . .
Make some calls, give your name & zip code at the start of any message you leave.
5calls.org
reps.fyi
Numbers for folks in my neck of the woods:
Sen Klobuchar: DC: 202-224-3244; Mpls: 612-727-5220
Sen Smith: DC: 202-224-5641; Saint Paul: 651-221-1016
Rep Omar: DC: 202-225-4755; Mpls: 612-333-1272
5calls.org
reps.fyi
Numbers for folks in my neck of the woods:
Sen Klobuchar: DC: 202-224-3244; Mpls: 612-727-5220
Sen Smith: DC: 202-224-5641; Saint Paul: 651-221-1016
Rep Omar: DC: 202-225-4755; Mpls: 612-333-1272
a red telephone is sitting on a table in a room
Alt: a red telephone is sitting on a table in a room and it is blinking (it's the batphone)
media.tenor.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Middle of the night (or very early morning) is a good time for shy or awkward folks in the United States to leave messages for their members of congress. Being shy or awkward is not a requirement, anyone can call any time . . .