Cathy Crea
@cathycrea.bsky.social
Community College English and Reading instructor in White Bear Lake, MN. Chronic migraine. Knitter, bookbinder, metalsmith. 🐈⬛🐈⬛ She/they 🏳️🌈 Trans rights are human rights
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Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.
January 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.
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Excerpt from Revolutionary Letter № 8 by Diane di Prima
January 16, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Excerpt from Revolutionary Letter № 8 by Diane di Prima
My Facebook feed and email is full of “Sorry, we’re closed until it’s safer for us/our employees.” I’m patronizing businesses that I can. Federal government obviously won’t help, so if we want these small businesses to survive, state and local governments will have to help.
Ok Walz and State legislators what are you going to do to support businesses that are shutting down for fear of ICE?
We supported them during COVID, how do we support them now?
We supported them during COVID, how do we support them now?
January 16, 2026 at 10:52 PM
My Facebook feed and email is full of “Sorry, we’re closed until it’s safer for us/our employees.” I’m patronizing businesses that I can. Federal government obviously won’t help, so if we want these small businesses to survive, state and local governments will have to help.
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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/10 The ICE “reformers“ want you to eat around the cockroach. I want you to send the plate back.
Stomp the cockroach.
Stomp the cockroach.
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
/10 The ICE “reformers“ want you to eat around the cockroach. I want you to send the plate back.
Stomp the cockroach.
Stomp the cockroach.
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The North Remembers.
We will remember those who spoke up, did work and those in places of leadership from business owners, elected GOP officials who sat on their hands. Once this is past, we will remember those who stood up for our community.
We will remember those who spoke up, did work and those in places of leadership from business owners, elected GOP officials who sat on their hands. Once this is past, we will remember those who stood up for our community.
January 14, 2026 at 12:56 PM
The North Remembers.
We will remember those who spoke up, did work and those in places of leadership from business owners, elected GOP officials who sat on their hands. Once this is past, we will remember those who stood up for our community.
We will remember those who spoke up, did work and those in places of leadership from business owners, elected GOP officials who sat on their hands. Once this is past, we will remember those who stood up for our community.
Folks who are still on Facebook, please repost stories from the Minnesota occupation to Facebook. Some people don’t realize how often human and civil rights are being violated, and Facebook is a good place to reach them.
January 13, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Folks who are still on Facebook, please repost stories from the Minnesota occupation to Facebook. Some people don’t realize how often human and civil rights are being violated, and Facebook is a good place to reach them.
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ICE is making Minnesota less safe. They need to leave.
January 12, 2026 at 7:31 PM
ICE is making Minnesota less safe. They need to leave.
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Everything you can do to slow down ICE's ethnic cleansing pogrom will save lives.
If you make it so it takes 12 goons to do a 6-goon job, you're saving lives. Every minute they spend in location 1 is a minute they can't spend in location 2.
Every squad they deploy to your city saves another city.
If you make it so it takes 12 goons to do a 6-goon job, you're saving lives. Every minute they spend in location 1 is a minute they can't spend in location 2.
Every squad they deploy to your city saves another city.
Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people.
Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.
Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.
June 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Everything you can do to slow down ICE's ethnic cleansing pogrom will save lives.
If you make it so it takes 12 goons to do a 6-goon job, you're saving lives. Every minute they spend in location 1 is a minute they can't spend in location 2.
Every squad they deploy to your city saves another city.
If you make it so it takes 12 goons to do a 6-goon job, you're saving lives. Every minute they spend in location 1 is a minute they can't spend in location 2.
Every squad they deploy to your city saves another city.
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One thing I’d like to see is my senators and governor every day on tv at 5pm holding a press conference with video of every documented abuse that ICE is doing. Curate all of the witnessing we’re doing and show it to the press.
Local parents groups asking if adults can ride school buses to help protect children from ICE after a special ed bus got stopped this morning. Like a Dirty Harry movie except the villain in the federal government.
January 12, 2026 at 5:04 PM
One thing I’d like to see is my senators and governor every day on tv at 5pm holding a press conference with video of every documented abuse that ICE is doing. Curate all of the witnessing we’re doing and show it to the press.
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“Clearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors” is mplsmutualaid, lots of good links:
linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid
linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid
@mplsmutualaid | Linktree
Clearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors
linktr.ee
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 PM
“Clearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors” is mplsmutualaid, lots of good links:
linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid
linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid
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This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 AM
This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
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"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"
A list of ideas!
A list of ideas!
January 11, 2026 at 10:33 PM
"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"
A list of ideas!
A list of ideas!
Drove 5.7 miles to get tacos from a Mexican-owned restaurant today. It’s not unusual for some of these places to be closed Sundays, but: El Pariente, Red Luna Seasons, Mr. Taco, Red Luna Taco Factory, and Catrina’s were all closed today. El Itacate was open and busy.
January 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Drove 5.7 miles to get tacos from a Mexican-owned restaurant today. It’s not unusual for some of these places to be closed Sundays, but: El Pariente, Red Luna Seasons, Mr. Taco, Red Luna Taco Factory, and Catrina’s were all closed today. El Itacate was open and busy.
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if you are on instagram kirstie (beyondbeurreblanc) has been doing a lot of local minnesota work on identifying places that are anti-ICE or immigrant owned as well as organizing food collection for joyce’s food shelf in uptown, highly recommend www.instagram.com/beyondbeurre...
January 11, 2026 at 5:43 AM
if you are on instagram kirstie (beyondbeurreblanc) has been doing a lot of local minnesota work on identifying places that are anti-ICE or immigrant owned as well as organizing food collection for joyce’s food shelf in uptown, highly recommend www.instagram.com/beyondbeurre...
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If outside Minneapolis and you want to help the helpers:
@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social
@mspwhistles.bsky.social
DuckDuckGo:
🪄CANMN community food hub delivering to local targeted ppl
💫unidosMn local immigration org
@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social
@mspwhistles.bsky.social
DuckDuckGo:
🪄CANMN community food hub delivering to local targeted ppl
💫unidosMn local immigration org
January 7, 2026 at 7:31 PM
If outside Minneapolis and you want to help the helpers:
@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social
@mspwhistles.bsky.social
DuckDuckGo:
🪄CANMN community food hub delivering to local targeted ppl
💫unidosMn local immigration org
@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social
@mspwhistles.bsky.social
DuckDuckGo:
🪄CANMN community food hub delivering to local targeted ppl
💫unidosMn local immigration org
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Minneapolis northsiders are raising money to support neighbors dealing with the impacts of ICE. I know the people running this fundraiser personally. Please help my neighbors support each other gofund.me/356cf8608
Donate to Support Near North Families Affected by ICE Raids, organized by Kurt Taken-Holtze
At and around Near North, several families have been directly impa… Kurt Taken-Holtze needs your support for Support Near North Families Affected by ICE Raids
gofund.me
January 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Minneapolis northsiders are raising money to support neighbors dealing with the impacts of ICE. I know the people running this fundraiser personally. Please help my neighbors support each other gofund.me/356cf8608
I hope everyone skeeting opinions about the MN governor’s race shows up to their local precinct caucus on Feb 3, otherwise it’s politics as spectator sport
January 5, 2026 at 6:22 PM
I hope everyone skeeting opinions about the MN governor’s race shows up to their local precinct caucus on Feb 3, otherwise it’s politics as spectator sport
Minnesotans, go to your precinct caucus! Tuesday, February 3. If you’ve never attended before, just show up and see how it works.
Well, based on the news I woke up to* that may be official later today, now seems like a good time to remind folks about precinct caucuses. Sounds like they will get a lot more interesting soon.
* Walz may be ending his Governor campaign.
dfl.org/caucus/
* Walz may be ending his Governor campaign.
dfl.org/caucus/
Precinct Caucuses | Minnesota DFL
A precinct caucus is a gathering of neighbors who come together to discuss issues and organize their local DFL party unit. It’s one of Minnesota’s most grassroots traditions — small rooms where big id...
dfl.org
January 5, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Minnesotans, go to your precinct caucus! Tuesday, February 3. If you’ve never attended before, just show up and see how it works.
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I have a new paper w Andrea Prat & Jake Spitz. We show that Republican appointed Supreme Court Justices vote in favor of the richer party by over 70% today, as compared to D’s at 30%. In the 1950s and both were at 50%. This strong trend may contribute to rising inequality. www.nber.org/papers/w34643
Ruling for the Rich: the Supreme Court over Time
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
January 5, 2026 at 9:14 AM
I have a new paper w Andrea Prat & Jake Spitz. We show that Republican appointed Supreme Court Justices vote in favor of the richer party by over 70% today, as compared to D’s at 30%. In the 1950s and both were at 50%. This strong trend may contribute to rising inequality. www.nber.org/papers/w34643
I don’t know who in the Twin Cities needs to hear this but Dick’s Going Going Gone in Roseville has a ton of Smartwool clothes for super cheap right now. I got two sweaters for $82 (total) yesterday
January 1, 2026 at 4:54 PM
I don’t know who in the Twin Cities needs to hear this but Dick’s Going Going Gone in Roseville has a ton of Smartwool clothes for super cheap right now. I got two sweaters for $82 (total) yesterday
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like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"
January 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
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In investigative journalism, reporters dig into evidence & present the conclusion *it has led to*.
In extremely online factions, the *belief is held*, & influencers backfill it w/justifications.
It’s distorted sensemaking, but the influencer-algorithm-crowd trinity shapes public opinion today.
In extremely online factions, the *belief is held*, & influencers backfill it w/justifications.
It’s distorted sensemaking, but the influencer-algorithm-crowd trinity shapes public opinion today.
December 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
In investigative journalism, reporters dig into evidence & present the conclusion *it has led to*.
In extremely online factions, the *belief is held*, & influencers backfill it w/justifications.
It’s distorted sensemaking, but the influencer-algorithm-crowd trinity shapes public opinion today.
In extremely online factions, the *belief is held*, & influencers backfill it w/justifications.
It’s distorted sensemaking, but the influencer-algorithm-crowd trinity shapes public opinion today.
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About 18 seconds into this news story the reporter says the police AI report writing software erroneously wrote that someone turned into a frog. Yet this is the headline they’re going with.
December 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
About 18 seconds into this news story the reporter says the police AI report writing software erroneously wrote that someone turned into a frog. Yet this is the headline they’re going with.
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A core source for the article now calls the story “bullshit” and claims he was misquoted. Another person cited in the piece is distancing himself from the reporting. www.startribune.com/city-journal...
Key source says story that prompted Trump tirade against Somalis is erroneous
The writers of a City Journal story alleging a connection between Minnesota fraud and al-Shabab say they stand by their story.
www.startribune.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A core source for the article now calls the story “bullshit” and claims he was misquoted. Another person cited in the piece is distancing himself from the reporting. www.startribune.com/city-journal...