Lauren
@tinydancer84.bsky.social
Therapist
Dancer
Abolitionist
"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." - Lilla Watson
Dancer
Abolitionist
"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." - Lilla Watson
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As we say goodnight, a reminder that from lifesaving research to community care, Black innovators have shaped public health at every turn.
We honor their brilliance, resilience, and impact. Black history is American history. Just a few public health heroes below.
Happy Black History Month!
❤️🖤💚
We honor their brilliance, resilience, and impact. Black history is American history. Just a few public health heroes below.
Happy Black History Month!
❤️🖤💚
Recognizing Black Public Health Leaders Through History | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Researchers, physicians, and activists who have inspired Bloomberg School faculty and shaped the field of public health
publichealth.jhu.edu
February 3, 2026 at 4:36 AM
As we say goodnight, a reminder that from lifesaving research to community care, Black innovators have shaped public health at every turn.
We honor their brilliance, resilience, and impact. Black history is American history. Just a few public health heroes below.
Happy Black History Month!
❤️🖤💚
We honor their brilliance, resilience, and impact. Black history is American history. Just a few public health heroes below.
Happy Black History Month!
❤️🖤💚
This. This is why I will never set foot in a church again. They are NOT safe. When we put cishet men in positions of power, especially white cishet men, it does not end well for the women, the trans folks, and the children who are under that "authority".
Despite knowing Clint Massie was abusing girls for years, church leaders never reported him to police.
It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.”
(Published Nov. 2025 with @startribune.com)
It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.”
(Published Nov. 2025 with @startribune.com)
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
February 3, 2026 at 6:36 AM
This. This is why I will never set foot in a church again. They are NOT safe. When we put cishet men in positions of power, especially white cishet men, it does not end well for the women, the trans folks, and the children who are under that "authority".
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We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.
JUST IN: The five-year-old Columbia Heights Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, who have been in an ICE detention facility in Texas, are on their way home.
Liam Conejo Ramos and his father have landed back in Minnesota following a judge's order
Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old whose detention by ICE sparked national fervor, returned home to Minnesota with his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, Sunday morning after a judge ordered their release.
www.mprnews.org
February 1, 2026 at 4:19 PM
We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.
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I'm not being facetious. Epstein was apparently giving talking points to the people pushing anti trans rhetoric in the UK.
February 1, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I'm not being facetious. Epstein was apparently giving talking points to the people pushing anti trans rhetoric in the UK.
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Y’all want division to be THE problem because you don’t want to deal with the racists. Specifically the ones you know, love, and admire. Especially the one in your own heart. Unfortunately, that commitment to an only sometimes soothing delusion is powerful enough to break a nation.
January 28, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Y’all want division to be THE problem because you don’t want to deal with the racists. Specifically the ones you know, love, and admire. Especially the one in your own heart. Unfortunately, that commitment to an only sometimes soothing delusion is powerful enough to break a nation.
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Even if they release body cam footage, take off their masks, get more training, they are still responsible for detaining and deporting thousands of our family, friends & neighbors every day.
ICE doesn't need new rules. It needs to be dismantled entirely.
ICE doesn't need new rules. It needs to be dismantled entirely.
Contracted ICE employee pleads guilty to sexual abuse of female detainee
An contracted employee has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a female detainee at a Louisiana ICE processing center. He now awaits sentencing.
www.shreveporttimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Even if they release body cam footage, take off their masks, get more training, they are still responsible for detaining and deporting thousands of our family, friends & neighbors every day.
ICE doesn't need new rules. It needs to be dismantled entirely.
ICE doesn't need new rules. It needs to be dismantled entirely.
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Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go.
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.
As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.
As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Live updates: Top Border Patrol official Bovino expected to leave Minneapolis as Trump sends Homan to the state | CNN
Tom Homan is headed to Minnesota after the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in an encounter Saturday with federal agents deepened outrage over the Trump administration’s surge, part of its nati...
www.cnn.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go.
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.
As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.
As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
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This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 10:02 PM
This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
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Feel free to bring a meal, bring donations of shelf stable food, or just bring yourself!
Come as you are! All are welcome!
#foodnotbombs
Come as you are! All are welcome!
#foodnotbombs
December 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Feel free to bring a meal, bring donations of shelf stable food, or just bring yourself!
Come as you are! All are welcome!
#foodnotbombs
Come as you are! All are welcome!
#foodnotbombs
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This.
Not to mention:
The Nazis learned so, so many lessons and tips and tricks from American white supremacists.
Not to mention:
The Nazis learned so, so many lessons and tips and tricks from American white supremacists.
White Americans keep looking to 1930s Germany for lessons on authoritarianism, but they ignore Black Americans who have survived it here.
Slavery, Jim Crow, and racialized state violence are forms of American authoritarianism.
Slavery, Jim Crow, and racialized state violence are forms of American authoritarianism.
January 16, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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As @rimibchatterjee.bsky.social observes, below, this is a needed coda:
White Americans keep looking to 1930s Germany for lessons on authoritarianism, but they ignore Black Americans who have survived it here.
Slavery, Jim Crow, and racialized state violence are forms of American authoritarianism.
Slavery, Jim Crow, and racialized state violence are forms of American authoritarianism.
January 16, 2026 at 1:40 AM
As @rimibchatterjee.bsky.social observes, below, this is a needed coda:
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Can confirm this place is out there and doing great work supporting the communities that need it most.
Check out their Insta if you want to see more of what they're doing and their excellent badassery.
Check out their Insta if you want to see more of what they're doing and their excellent badassery.
Twin Cities Leather (and adult toy store Smitten Kitten) have stopped regular operations to become a staging and delivery space for food and supply donations- they are requesting monetary donations to keep them afloat without any income
www.paypal.com/paypalme/kpa...
www.paypal.com/paypalme/kpa...
Pay Kurt Kopatich using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/kpattonleather and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
www.paypal.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Can confirm this place is out there and doing great work supporting the communities that need it most.
Check out their Insta if you want to see more of what they're doing and their excellent badassery.
Check out their Insta if you want to see more of what they're doing and their excellent badassery.
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My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support.
PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-
Venmo @powwowgrounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-
Venmo @powwowgrounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
Pow Wow Grounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM
My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support.
PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-
Venmo @powwowgrounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-
Venmo @powwowgrounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
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Yes
January 13, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Yes
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Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
inthesetimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
She literally just asked a question and they forcibly removed her. Where are all of you so called "supporters of free speech" when it's not hate speech being thrown around? I guess as long as you get to yell the n-word and the r-word, that's as far as "free speech" needs to go?
Emily Feiner was forcibly removed from GOP Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall after she asked her so-called "moderate" congressman to stand up to Donald Trump's authoritarian power grab.
There's a great pushback happening across the entire country — even in Republican held districts.
There's a great pushback happening across the entire country — even in Republican held districts.
May 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
She literally just asked a question and they forcibly removed her. Where are all of you so called "supporters of free speech" when it's not hate speech being thrown around? I guess as long as you get to yell the n-word and the r-word, that's as far as "free speech" needs to go?
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"Ultimately, several service members told Military.com they feel Hegseth's idea of what a defense secretary is expected to do doesn't line up with what the job actually requires of him."
MORE: www.military.com/daily-news/2...
MORE: www.military.com/daily-news/2...
May 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"Ultimately, several service members told Military.com they feel Hegseth's idea of what a defense secretary is expected to do doesn't line up with what the job actually requires of him."
MORE: www.military.com/daily-news/2...
MORE: www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Everything that bigot touches is infused with her beliefs, whether blatant or not. I will not be watching or reading anymore of her work. #TransWomenAreWomen
An HBO executive has promised fans of the Harry Potter franchise that the upcoming reboot television series will not be “infused” with J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans beliefs.
HBO Exec Promises 'Harry Potter' Series 'Not Secretly Being Infused' With J.K. Rowling's Anti-Trans Rhetoric
An HBO exec has promised fans of the Harry Potter franchise that the upcoming TV series will not be "infused" with J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans beliefs.
rollingstone.com
May 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Everything that bigot touches is infused with her beliefs, whether blatant or not. I will not be watching or reading anymore of her work. #TransWomenAreWomen
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I can’t stress enough that mutual aid needs to be the foundation of whatever gets built after this shitshow ends.
April 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I can’t stress enough that mutual aid needs to be the foundation of whatever gets built after this shitshow ends.
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Happy National Library Week! If you don't have a library card, go get one. If you have one, use it!
Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections.
Use it or lose it!
Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections.
Use it or lose it!
April 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Happy National Library Week! If you don't have a library card, go get one. If you have one, use it!
Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections.
Use it or lose it!
Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections.
Use it or lose it!
Ideas for how to prepare for what's coming: ko-fi.com/post/Things-...
Things You Should Do If You Are An American Planning on Staying
Sharon Astyk published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Ideas for how to prepare for what's coming: ko-fi.com/post/Things-...