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Kathryn Kysar

@darklake

Writer. Editor. Professor. Friend. Proud Minnesotan. She/They. Poetry Books: Pretend the World, Dark Lake. Recent words in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Mollyhouse, Voicemail Poems, Water~Stone Review.

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Come hear about the joys, challenges, and freedom of being an mature writer: we promise we will be honest, truthful, and fun. Saturday. Noon. @awpwriter.org #AWP2026 @thesusanito.bsky.social @deniselow9.bsky.social

06.03.2026 22:18 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Just realized that with Abolish ICE at +11, it's polling over 30 percentage-points ahead of Trump approval. Guess that means if the media wants to be representative, it should give at least like 40% more airtime to people who support abolishing ICE to Trump supporters

04.03.2026 01:06 👍 1268 🔁 285 💬 12 📌 6

Sometimes before, but yeah, waiting and waiting.

04.03.2026 01:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Notice we are going to be political off-site.

03.03.2026 00:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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AWPers: Friday, March 6 at Checkerspot Brewing 1:45-2:45 p.m. in Baltimore, MN authors will be reading and raising money for Monarca and Pillsbury House. Beverages and food will be available for order. Sponsored by @literaryhub.bsky.social, @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social, and @kimbiliofiction.com.

03.03.2026 00:32 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1

From MPR News, photographer Jeff Schafer got a drone shot of this “Kaleidoscope of Love” event in Powderhorn yesterday.

01.03.2026 12:52 👍 115 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 0

I think the last time the USA created regime change solely through bombing was in Cambodia, when a massive carpet bombing campaign so destabilized the country that the Khmer Rouge came to power and wiped out the Royal government—the American ally. Genocide followed.

01.03.2026 07:18 👍 220 🔁 91 💬 6 📌 3

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:

Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
HBO
Warner Bros
TNT
TBS
MTV
DC Studios
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
And more...

This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.

State AGs must step in and block it.

27.02.2026 16:21 👍 5556 🔁 2107 💬 353 📌 179

Looks like a ship’s hold

20.02.2026 14:11 👍 377 🔁 138 💬 11 📌 4
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Letter From Minnesota: How We Get Through the Darkest Nights I am white and I was born in Minnesota, and because of that, there is a lot I don’t know, a lot I can’t ever truly understand. But I am here, and I am terrified and furious. We all are. The P…

@literaryhub.bsky.social's @jonnydiamond.bsky.social is publishing amazing essays from Twin Cities writers. Letter from Minnesota: How We Get Through the Darkest Nights by poet and children's book author Molly Beth Griffin about the strength of chosen family and community. lithub.com/letter-from-...

13.02.2026 00:23 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

How very black history month to suddenly discover even more underground railroad

11.02.2026 04:43 👍 1779 🔁 385 💬 8 📌 2
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FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

10.02.2026 23:32 👍 8842 🔁 2743 💬 48 📌 243

Now, I would like the Mpls City Council to look into whether this practice of taking a CHILD to a HOTEL is common in the hotels DHS is staying in here, and I’m grateful they didn’t just rubber stamp renewal of the liquor licenses so they can do so soon!

11.02.2026 01:43 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

People Not In Minnesota: The national narrative is that ICE is de-escalating. This is not the case. Many of our businesses are financially in peril, as are thousands of families who cannot leave their homes to work safely. Please send a small donation. Link below.https://www.standwithminnesota.com

08.02.2026 18:39 👍 55 🔁 53 💬 0 📌 1
What is Going On? Legal Analysis and Resources Related to the Federal Enforcement Surge in Minnesota – Warren E. Burger Library

A detailed listing of legal resources from Hamline Mitchell Law School in Occupied Minnesota: mitchellhamline.edu/library/fede...

08.02.2026 02:13 👍 16 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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‘I felt hopeless’: Hmong refugee stranded in Texas after release from ICE detention Thi Dua Vang is one of a growing number of Minnesota refugees targeted in a federal operation and rapidly transferred to immigration holding facilities out of state.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

08.02.2026 01:31 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Ice Out for Good’: Art and censorship in the Minnesota snow A new snow sculpture in Minneapolis features the face of Renee Macklin Good with a blindfold that says “ICE OUT,” and it references two snow sculptures that were disqualified from competitions last mo...

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

07.02.2026 16:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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-...

07.02.2026 16:37 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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A Winter of Anguish for Minneapolis Children

“That was one of the scariest moments of my life, just knowing that they have no boundaries, and really seeing that this is not something in a movie, this is not something away from me that I can ignore,” said Ta’Khya Carlisle, 17, who attends a high school across town from Roosevelt.

04.02.2026 13:33 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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The Salt Cure Fund Launches to Provide Relief for Minnesota Restaurants Minnesota restaurants are, once again, struggling to survive. A new local fund is offering relief.

Not in Minnesota? You can still help our closed restaurants through the Salt Cure. mspmag.com/eat-and-drin...

31.01.2026 18:23 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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29.01.2026 23:59 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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EMERGENCY RENT FUND: Support Workers in Minnesota Rent is due FEBRUARY 1st. Support our Emergency Rent Fund for Minnesotan workers and families facing eviction due to ICE Raids. We are calling for a rent moratorium, but regardless of if that happens ...

Looking for ways to help? Assist our iced-in neighbors in Minnesota make their February rent! chuffed.org/project/1671...

28.01.2026 03:19 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.

27.01.2026 22:52 👍 6890 🔁 2265 💬 76 📌 121
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

Not in Minnesota? Send us some love and support, so we can keep going. Here's some ideas how: www.standwithminnesota.com?fbclid=IwZnR...

27.01.2026 05:31 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control.
This is about total control.
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nursesonja • 7h & Threads Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control. This is about total control. O240 Q5 G34 → 21

The nurses are pissed

25.01.2026 04:48 👍 39709 🔁 10795 💬 661 📌 405
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Also, my father’s final words to me were to continue to fight the good fight. He would be honored in Alex’s sacrifice, and ashamed of this current administration.

In my dad’s words, I encourage you all to continue to “fight the good fight.”

25.01.2026 04:09 👍 1809 🔁 421 💬 35 📌 37
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Agents detain and send 2-year-old girl and her father to Texas despite court order to release toddler Attorneys for the family say they were asylum-seekers who were pulled over without a warrant and did not have a final order for removal.

www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

24.01.2026 01:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This Minnesotan thanks you for seeing us. We are fighting hard every day to protect our neighbors. Please keep sharing accurate information coming out of our state and supporting organizations giving care to those who cannot leave their homes.

24.01.2026 01:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hennepin Healthcare in 'crisis mode', at least $50M in cuts needed by end of quarter Being described as dire, while in crisis mode, Hennepin Healthcare says its system is in jeopardy of closing as it needs to find tens of millions of dollars in cuts in a matter of months.

kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

20.01.2026 17:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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SALT OF THE EARTH, by SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE track by SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE

"In Minnesota we don’t need to be nice / We can get salty on the streets to de-ice / Get loud and observe, be cautious, alert / We melt ice with the salt of the earth..."

@seemore.bsky.social with the anti-ICE anthem I needed in my life right now: "Salt of the Earth"

19.01.2026 14:21 👍 24 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1