Sigrid Ellis

'This isn’t over': MN leaders say federal agents still causing chaos, economic disruption statewide Minnesota leaders on Friday said federal agents are continuing to cause daily, lasting harm to communities around the state, despite promises of a retreat from DHS.

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

I yearn to be able to know whether a particular instance of feeling awful would be improved by rest or improved by activity.

Yearn.

A collection of candles, flowers, and painted stones are set on a tree grate. The stones say things like "Roll on like a river" and "Love" and "Hope"

I'm at the Dropkick Murphys concert.

I'm at the matyr's memorial shrine.

I'm at the combination Dropkick Murphys concert/martyr's shrine.

On Eat Street.

I love my city.

If you want to have that slightly uncertain feeling of knowing you do not know what you have given away, but, like, the roller coaster version and not the airplane crash version, I highly reccomend this modern fey bargain.

ICE Hurts Animals, Too

Personal Me: this Minneapolis fundraiser has stalled again - it’s run by people I know and I will vouch for them. Boosts appreciated too! www.icehurtsanimalstoomn.org

When the retaliation happens I won’t even be shocked. My god.

How can we take military action against one of the most despicable regimes on earth and STILL wind up as the bad guy?

Yet here we are.

I hope every copyright owner sues the fuck out of them.

I know most won't. But I can hope.

(This was a big thing in comics. Rucka, Fraction, Bendis, all using their power to make the door wider.)

A number of projects from that time have NOT aged well! But they did the job! They made greater representation in creators and characters possible!!

I feel STRONGLY that this applies to the entire media era I call "white men using their clout feature marginalized characters in their work and also hiring marginalized folks to work on successful projects, and those choices show in the finished work."

Ungainly title, I know.

I completely concur. It was important, it was meaningful, it had some large problems, and those problems have soured like milk at midsummer.

But the good stuff was very good and it was important in that time.

Book table with Michael and Catherine

#Booksky Look for Catherine Lundoff and Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social at MarsCon in Minneapolis this weekend! 2, count ’em, 2, former GoHs, one table! They’ll be working our table in the Makers Mart and will be on programming.
marscon.org/sides/26sche...

This is what is disturbing my days and giving me sleepless nights. What we are doing is so evil AND so very stupid.

EXACTLY

Absolutely

Paging @jessnevins.bsky.social

Like, you know what I mean?

Metro Surge
Shield of the Americas
Board of Peace
Department of War

Like. These are names of things Sinestro or Mole Man should be discussing.

Everything these people do is named as if it's in a Silver Age comic book.

A sheriff wrestles with a protester wearing a helmet, goggles, and a mask for control of a shield in the street outside the Whipple Federal Building outside the Twin Cities.

Protesters wearing helmet, goggles, and masks carry shields outside the Whipple Federal Building outside the Twin Cities.

On March 1, demonstrators converged on the Federal Building outside the Twin Cities, temporarily blockading ICE inside it.

On one side of the building, fifty people established a shield wall. Sheriffs attacked immediately, but they held their ground for almost an hour.

crimethinc.com/BlockWhipple

Oh EXCELLENT

We yearn for sticky clothing!! YouTube video by The Iron Snail

A waxed cotton chore jacket won the blue ribbon at the Minnesota State Fair this year, ijs.

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A card in the game Bloc by Bloc, reading Chief of Police Fired —Reshuffle all other police ops cards —Then place this card as the first in the discard pile

In the game "Bloc by Bloc," which dramatizes the experience of participating in an insurrection, there is a "chief of police fired" card. When you draw this card, you gain nothing—you simply reshuffle all the cards in the police strategy deck and continue playing.

crimethinc.com/blocbybloc

In short, Kristi Noem has not succeeded in achieving dictatorial control of the population of the US via DHS. Trump is trying a new strategy aimed at the same goal.

Thanks to the brave people of the Twin Cities and everyone all around the country who is fighting back.

This fight is far from over.

Los Angeles.

This false-spring here in MN is filling the air with mold.

Solidarity.

This is in Texas.

Phoenix, AZ

HERO

Yeessssssss

Solidarity.

Also having a really hard time.

Spent my therapy call yesterday yelling about cognitive dissonance and moral injury.

Lindsey Graham is never going to hear you calling him a worn out pillow queen. Noem will never hear you calling her a manipulative homewrecker.

But everyone else will.

Just, I wish there was tighter focus on the CORRUPTION and abuse of the Constitution.

I know the real issue is corruption, but the way folks SHAME Noem/Lewandowski for their sexual life (maybe adulterous, maybe open marriage) chafes me.

It's the same vibe as shaming hypocritical closeted politicians.

Corruption and hypocrisy end up excuses for slut-shaming and homophobic remarks.