Throughout the Twin Cities, residents are carrying on the state’s long-standing tradition of solidarity. You can read my latest piece on mutual aid and 'Minnesota nice' in The Conversation. theconversation.com/minneapolis-...
Really appreciate this data reporting from the @startribune.com, which comes with the appropriate cautions about the crowd-sourced data. Looks like the ICE/DHS surge in MN is down significantly, but (a) was HUGE compared to other cities, (b) impacted the suburbs A LOT, and (c) is still happening.
This is so embarrassing. A conscientious decision to withdraw from something is absolutely not "failing to prepare," it's a choice to not participate, and anyone who can't tell the difference should not have a job in writing or editing.
Such as being a newspaper editor.
I’ll be in virtual conversation with the amazing Hank Owings at the University of Pennsylvania’s Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy on 2/24 @12pm est. Zoom link below. Come hear me talk about the far right online and trad worldbuilding. Share widely!
amc.sas.upenn.edu/event/gender...
The most religiously diverse countries
1 Singapore
2 Suriname
3 Taiwan
4 S Korea
9 Australia
10 France
11 Canada
12 UK
16 NZ
20 Germany
24 Japan
32 US
34 Nigeria
78 India
83 Brazil
126 China
160 Egypt
201 Yemen
www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
Our recent article tackles this question directly. TL;DR: Turkey is not secularizing like Europe, where each younger generation is less religious. Instead, religiosity is being reshaped by political polarization, with decline concentrated among non-AKP supporters. A 🧵
A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Social Sciences
7/11
This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us.
Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.
This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how to do news. Data helps, but data doesn’t tell a reporter to spend a years-long investigation into child labor or an editor to place staff in a country on the brink of war. What exactly does Bezos think WaPo’s “journalistic mission” is?
Haiti accepted Jewish refugees during WWII before the US would.
The “Where are the protests?” lament after Trump’s inauguration was always based on a (willful) misperception. Over the past year, protests have been far more numerous, more geographically widespread, and more sustained than what we saw in 2017, for instance.
More than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.
This is Minneapolis:
When we rolled down Portland Ave toward Renee Good's memorial, tons of families (many sheltering in place for many, many weeks) waved & cheered from their windows, porches & front steps.
My kids' classmates. My neighbors.
😭
The end goal of Christian nationalist policies likely aren't greater religiosity, but power.
New research shows laws that support Christianity or restrict non-Christian groups actually incline committed religious citizens to *disengage* from religious & civic participation. doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
All of this!!! For example, Ohio State (not an Ivy but big deal R1) has...
Wexner Medical Center
Wexner Center for the Arts
These are named after Les Wexner, who made his money on Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie, etc. + employed Epstein as his financial manager for 20 years + bankrolled his abuses.
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
3800 kids taken into ICE custody in 2025 (as of mid-December; must be higher now), according to the Marshall Project. 1300 of them held longer than 20 days.
Genuinely monstrous.
The (tiny, scrappy, wonderful) group I was part of under Trump 1 formed specifically to fight family separation. Now the
“Forced adoption.”
Remember: As citizens we always have agency and we can always opt out of this AI bullshit. They might make it harder and more of a pain in the ass but we always have the power.
the people’s mayor
tfw when the imperialism is boomeranging
The beauty of mass nonviolent resistance and mutual aid is that every kidnapping, every murder, every beating, every lie—the only weapons they have—invigorates our solidarity and commitment and weakens them. It turns their violence and propaganda inside out.
We’re winning and it’s not even close.
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
Catholic leaders at the national and local levels are calling for calm, prayer and renewed respect for human life following the Jan. 24 killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis.
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
“They’re taking them to Ft Snelling which was literally built as a concentration camp.”
This photo will be everywhere for the next week. Pls credit prominently.
Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minnesota Star Tribune
Every journalist covering ICE risks their lives.
Tsong-Taatarii has been an NPPA Photographer of the Year, rec'd a World Press Photo award, and was on a team that won a Pulitzer.
I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years
hard to believe that the Charlie Kirk firings / pearl clutchings happened mere months ago but here we are
