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Donate to the ICE Relief Community Fund, organized by John Burke Communities in the Minneapolis area have been devastated by anti-immigration activi… John Burke needs your support for Donate to the ICE Relief Community Fund

Help me and my Honey raise a little rent. It's still cold and very icy in MN, and we are on the brink of mass evictions. Little donations, huge donations - all good!
Miigwech!

Today is the day "I first learned about the deportation (or “repatriation”) of a million Mexicans during the Great Depression, and that of those million, an estimated 60 percent were US citizens of Mexican descent."
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Democrats in Congress won't fight back against fascism & corporate greed, so Justice Democrats is building the Democratic party we deserve—through primaries.

Today, we're rolling out our full 2026 slate: our vision to build a team of fighters to build working class power in Congress.

Twin Cities - we deserve some love. The more we have the more we share.
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Letter From Minnesota: “We Had Whistles, They Had Guns.” The first time I visited the African American Museum at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. was 2017. I had just been elected to the Minneapolis City Council, the first Black, out Transwoman in the …

Andrea Jenkins on the violent echoes of Reconstruction in the streets of the Twin Cities.

I'm supposed to be writing. What are you supposed to being?

Neighbors Helping Neighbors Changing the culture of how we help each other. A grassroots mutual aid network connecting Twin Cities community members with volunteers providing rides, groceries, and support.

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Heid E. Erdrich, Marlin M. Jenkins, and Athena Kildegaard — Conduit

Today's reading in St. Paul, at the reasonable hour of 4 p.m., is a FUNDRAISER for Neighbors Helping Neighbors - link in comments below. Join us!
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Letter From Mni Sóta Makóče: “No One is Illegal on Stolen Land” This is a place where some creatures, when gassed and shoved, bloom with butterflies and song, where jelly dongs rain down upon our enemies and where a censored snow sculpture melts and resolves in…

Read @heideerdrich.bsky.social's eloquent essay "Letter From Mni Sóta Makóče: 'No One is Illegal on Stolen Land,'” read @mprnews.org's article about the ice sculptures, then attend the vigil and ceremony at 6:00 p.m. this evening at the top of Lake of the Isles in MPLS. lithub.com/letter-from-...

Poetry fundraiser for rent assistance happening 2/15 at 4pm central! Featuring yrs truly, @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social, @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social, @katnuernberger.bsky.social and more! Donate to receive the zoom link.

Artwork ("The Gift") by Pete Railand of @justseeds.bsky.social

My current PoeS.A project is "JustUs," a crowd-sourced poem on justice. My work is supported by a Camille Gage memorial fellowship. I loved and admired Camille and so this is a great honor. She always met moments of injustice with art-in-action. I'm humbled by her memory.

Letter From Minnesota: Our Work is to We Protect What We Love For thousands of years before ICE made the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building the home base for their sweeping immigration roundup, this place has been known to the Dakota people as Bdote, where…

"Perhaps no one ever told you that we are all beloved of the earth, that she asks only that we love her in return."

The Letters from #Minnesota in @literaryhub.bsky.social are flat-out beautiful, y'all. Be sure to check them out when you need to fill your tank.

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Letter From Mni Sóta Makóče: “No One is Illegal on Stolen Land” This is a place where some creatures, when gassed and shoved, bloom with butterflies and song, where jelly dongs rain down upon our enemies and where a censored snow sculpture melts and resolves in…

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How terrible! Is she ok?

Under Federal Siege: Minneapolis is Rising! - Hill & Lake Press A firsthand account of Minneapolis under ICE’s Operation Metro Surge, detailing federal intimidation, civilian abductions, and the city’s organized, peaceful resistance.

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WE ALREADY HAVE OUR THIRD PARTY. WE ARE IT: “They’re never going to run for office, and those grass-roots leaders brought this administration to their knees this week to do something about it. So there’s other ways to serve, and I’ll find them,” Gov. Tim Walz, the 2024 Democratic VP nominee.

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Designing signs now.

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Oh, Dara!

Image with information about a Zoom titled Ecopoetics of Invasive Species. Green background shows an elephant silhouette with a kangaroo to the right and a tiger toward the middle. Below the tiger is a photo of author and moderator Su Hwang. To the left are photos of authors and panelists Heid E. Erdrich, Roy Guzman, Michael Kleber-Diggs, Katie Robinson, and Sun Yung Shin.

ICE is making a lot of us "vicious animals" in Minnesota.

Pickle Rick ftw

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

There is a grave moral consequence to letting this go on. Shut down the government, have a general strike, grind the country to a halt, hit the streets. But not treating a demented administration lying about its thugs committing cold-blooded murder as an emergency? That is an emergency in itself.

Make it viral.