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Please watch the whole video from our Saint Paul Olympian. It’s one of the most direct and eloquent statements about the situation that I’ve heard from anyone.
Proud to be a Minnesotan, proud to be represented by Rich Ruohonen.
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
February 10, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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For many in the Trump regime it seems incomprehensible or a scam of sorts that those not categorically under attack by ICE are so committed to solidarity with their neighbors who are, and thereby to universal human rights, to standing up on principle, and will risk their lives to do so.....
This Cold Winter, Love Is a Superpower
There are great days and terrible days in history, days a nation or world changed, that you remember forever. For me that's the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the Zapatistas, 9/11, Hurricane Kat...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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Let this radicalize you.
January 19, 2026 at 5:53 AM
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Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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"Knight noticed that more people turned to their community for help in reimagining their lives, and in the process created what Knight calls micro-utopias. Cycling clubs sprang up everywhere, and people made more effort to spend time together"

www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you’re not alone
I hadn’t fully grasped how the idea of a better future sustained me – now I, like many others, find it difficult to be productive
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:44 PM
This is a stunning piece: data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l...
"Political pragmatism is not about fighting only the battles you expect to win. It is the refusal to let probable failure dictate what you attempt."
Looking forward to talking with my students about it.
The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls
On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.
data4democracy.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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Couldn't sum up the mood in Minneapolis right now any better than that.
Was at a community defense training the other day and a bunch of little old ladies were like "what happens when we get arrested"
January 11, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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70% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to govt data.

Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”

As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.
January 11, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Door-to-door raids also began in Minneapolis today, in about as brazen a repudiation of the fourth amendment as one could make. An amendment which exists because of the British doing exactly this in the colonial/revolutionary period.

www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Watch/...
January 11, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"

A list of ideas!
January 11, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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1. Call and/or e-mail your Senator and your House reps. Demand Noem be impeached and removed; demand that ICE be defunded. (They're only funded through the end of January!)
January 11, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Okay, I have next to no followers on this platform, but now seems like a good time to make a list of Anti-ICE resources, solidarity, mutual aid, etc., please share or start your own threads!
January 10, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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My very smart colleagues are doing excellent coverage of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis today. I would urge you to follow along with local sources familiar with the area and the residents here.
Live: Mayor Frey blasts ICE in fiery response to fatal shooting
The mayor called for calm after a fatal shooting by an immigration agent in south Minneapolis. ICE said the agent acted defensively.
www.startribune.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
For the #weekwithoutdriving I wanted to share a pic of our car: this summer we started putting little green leaf stickers on the car to celebrate every time with didn't drive it, when we biked or walked or took the bus instead. We're hoping to cover the whole car. :)
October 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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#Trumpflation is going to hit us all hard as we will all have to pay for rising electric power costs.
Your power bill going up isn't because of more use in your household, it's because of the Billionaire Tech Oligarchs!

They are using the American public to subsidize the power costs of their MASSIVE AI data centers.
September 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP8O... So, I wasn't sure what to expect with this video: did not expect to learn the phenomenal origin of the phrase term "redneck" (spoiler: it's a symbol of worker solidarity!). It literally made me cry.
I Took Bernie Into Deep Trump Country. Can He Win Them Over?
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Just a friendly reminder that Covid is no fun at all, and if you're feeling ill, please get tested. I'm sincerely hoping that we can all get new boosters soon to protect each other. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
As Covid surges in the US, Americans can’t get vaccinated: ‘terrified I might kill somebody’
The FDA is allowing the vaccine for people 65 and older, but younger people need to have an underlying condition
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Over half of this year's global health funding has been approved but not spent. Contact your reps here to urge them to keep our Global Health Funding from Expiring:

nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...
Restore Public Health Funds to Communities
Tell Congress to reverse harmful funding cuts and restore critical public health funding to our communities.
nwmd.social
August 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
You guys. Have you seen that many countries are no longer delivering mail to the US? www.msn.com/en-us/money/... Including NL. 😭
MSN
www.msn.com
August 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is
August 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Sending love to all the academics working on their courses the night before the semester begins.
August 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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According to the Watson School of International and Public Affairs in Rhode Island, more journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the war in Afghanistan combined.
August 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I keep thinking about all the people necessary to make the whole system work under Hitler. How many train conductors, how many cafeteria workers, how many guards, how many officers, all of them just complying. I want to get in the way of my city complying now- please sign: chng.it/TdRCD7yTyb
Have you seen this petition yet?
Tell Faxon Law New Haven Road Race to Cut Ties with Avelo Airlines!
chng.it
July 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Everyone should read this.
July 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM