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I’ve written and taught. Profile photos from Sapsucker Farms Yellow Belly Cidery, Mora, Minnesota, USA, 2022. He/him.

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A beautiful arctic sea smoke sunrise over Lake Superior this morning. Sending healing vibes. ❤️‍🩹

22.01.2026 17:21 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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US immigration authorities arrest Spanish-language news reporter in Tennessee A Spanish-language reporter in Tennessee was arrested during a traffic stop. Her lawyer called for her release, but ICE has asked a judge to deny the request. (AP)

A Spanish-language reporter in Tennessee was arrested during a traffic stop. Her lawyer called for her release, but ICE has asked a judge to deny the request. (AP)

07.03.2026 05:34 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Strongly recommend calling your US senators today to tell them:

1. Publicly call for Sheehy to be expelled from the Senate for assaulting a protestor.

2. DO NOT vote to confirm Mullin for DHS.

Find your senators at reps.fyi

06.03.2026 22:35 👍 541 🔁 306 💬 3 📌 6
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DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

07.03.2026 00:20 👍 3372 🔁 1451 💬 51 📌 61
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Dropkick Murphys finish up their set at a benefit show across from Alex Pretti Memorial: “We’ll never forget what we saw with our own eyes, we’ll never forget what we’ve seen here today. thank we’ve seen here today. Thank you all for allowing us to come bear witness with you, thank you Minnesota!”.

07.03.2026 00:19 👍 1600 🔁 343 💬 14 📌 28
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Highlights from the Abolish Ice Fundraiser (Mutual Aid Benefit) near the Alex Pretti memorial on 3/6/26, featuring @dropkickmurphys.com

07.03.2026 05:57 👍 33 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 1
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With Dropkick Murphys at the Abolish ICE benefit today — I was the “Peedah” they mentioned. “The Men Behind the Wire,” which they covered, was also sung by Emmett Doyle at the Whipple building last week.

Stream the full festival here: abolishice.live
Donate here: www.standwithminnesota.com

07.03.2026 05:46 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dropkick Murphys performed a free show today outside the memorial for Alex Pretti 🎶

🎥: @chrisrstrib.bsky.social

07.03.2026 03:01 👍 70 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
07.03.2026 03:43 👍 40 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 0
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What Happens When a Pastor Oversees Immigration Operations That Leave People Dead? The Gospel commands Christians to love our neighbors as ourselves. That does not allow us to look away when our neighbors are harmed by state-sanctioned violence.

"For many Minnesotans, those events raised a deeper question: what happens when the authority of the church becomes intertwined with the power of the state?"

06.03.2026 20:55 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Even after getting robbed by HCSO/ICE, Haven Watch keeps on going. Thanks to all who have donated these past 8 weeks. It makes a big difference!

07.03.2026 00:57 👍 37 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2

Lots of changes in the past couple weeks. The sheriffs left, for one thing, sometime before Sunday's (sheriff-heavy) protest.Today, a driver also came by and told us that ICE had cleared out of the Minnesota Air National Guard base.

06.03.2026 17:21 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Aw!

06.03.2026 17:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Me in inside-out Target rain poncho and winter gear with smiling woman in front of the Whipple building, separated from it by two chain link fences. About 50 degrees with all snow but the plowed gray mountains melted.

Me in inside-out Target rain poncho and winter gear with smiling woman in front of the Whipple building, separated from it by two chain link fences. About 50 degrees with all snow but the plowed gray mountains melted.

With observers, protesters, and volunteers at the ICE detention center in Fort Snelling — an unusually quiet morning, despite the rows of new cars in the lot.

06.03.2026 16:06 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1

They fund it in Gaza. They're doing it to Venezuelan fisherman. They're doing it in Iran. They're doing it in the streets and in concentration camps to immigrants in the US. They've done it to US citizen protestors on the streets in Minnesota.

There are no limits to what they are capable of.

06.03.2026 13:31 👍 915 🔁 223 💬 4 📌 2

they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends

06.03.2026 13:31 👍 760 🔁 266 💬 2 📌 0
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Celebrate Kristi Noem’s Firing. But Keep Protesting ICE. Finally, someone in the administration is paying for their cruelty and incompetence.

Trump’s about-face on the ICE operation in Minneapolis was his first defeat in the 14 months of his second term, and has provided a model for other communities to resist federal cruelty.
https://bit.ly/46FNkXj

06.03.2026 13:39 👍 68 🔁 28 💬 6 📌 1

Holding children in detention is sick and twisted.
Abolish ICE. Defund DHS.

06.03.2026 13:40 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Virginia moves to forbid schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was peaceful In what appears to be a first in the country, legislation headed to the desk of Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) would prohibit public schools from teaching that the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capit...

It is utterly ABSURD that states have to pass laws to teach facts. Oh wait … remembers US history … yeah okay we do still have to do that here.

Gift link.

wapo.st/40a6zol

06.03.2026 13:25 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Link preview with Trump's face scribbled out

Link preview with Trump's face scribbled out

This is a wild & surreal amount of how the WH has used Call of Duty graphics to justify the war in Iran, "propaganda designed to stimulate the 47 administration’s prime constituency—unsocialized Discord incels, Joker-fied elder millennials, & bloodthirsty Gen Xers."

Free link: archive.ph/gY3sF

06.03.2026 13:13 👍 132 🔁 32 💬 4 📌 2

Bernard LaFavette, voting rights advocate, non-violence theorist, & teacher has died. Another mighty oak has fallen whose legacy will fertilize the aspirations of future generations rising from the forest floor. May his memory be a blessing.

06.03.2026 00:20 👍 70 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2
Frank Hatchett - Break Out [US, electro] (unknown) way unexpected electro tool form the King of Broadway
Frank Hatchett - Break Out [US, electro] (unknown) way unexpected electro tool form the King of Broadway

Frank Hatchett - Break Out [US, electro] (unknown) way unexpected electro tool form the King of Broadway
https://redd.it/lqflf9
https://youtu.be/Uy5-qAfx5ZQ

06.03.2026 06:20 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Minneapolis CM Jason Chavez Took ICE Fight to the Streets - Racket Plus helping immigrants access health care safely, even more ICE updates, and an amazing video showcasing 1981 downtown Minneapolis in today's Flyover news roundup.

In today's Flyover news roundup... In today's Flyover news roundup...

05.03.2026 23:51 👍 41 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

“There is no thought process into what any of this means long term,” said one official. “It’s not coordinated regime change. It’s just ‘bomb them until they’re less of a threat.’”

Asked about the administration’s plan for Iran after the war, that official responded: “Whatever.”

06.03.2026 01:18 👍 159 🔁 61 💬 4 📌 6
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Fateme Reyhani, le visage de la jeunesse iranienne, se filme en train de faire du «roller» dans les rues de Téhéran tout en chantant. #Iran limportant.fr//infos-iran-...

22.11.2025 16:08 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

05.03.2026 23:19 👍 12855 🔁 3324 💬 2102 📌 568

Just donated $20: who else has a little bit they can spare today? (Especially among my friends who aren't in MN themselves.)

05.03.2026 17:27 👍 24 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 1
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Poetry is a bird
perched lightly on the back
of all that is fickle
and dangerous in this world...

05.03.2026 17:25 👍 2788 🔁 412 💬 61 📌 24
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🇺🇸WE’RE THE REFUGEES NOW ✈️

👉 An Omni 777 (tail: N819AX), typically used for military charters and ICE removal flights, arrives from Southwest Asia—with a load of American evacuees—to Washington Dulles International 👀

05.03.2026 18:36 👍 36 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0

The airplane flying the University of Wisconsin men's hockey to Penn State right now, N459AW, was used to fly shackled ICE detainees from Michigan to Louisiana on Sunday.

04.03.2026 19:58 👍 141 🔁 91 💬 2 📌 3