Anya Johanna DeNiro
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Anya Johanna DeNiro
@adeniro.bsky.social
trans woman, mom, writer, Saint Paul dweller. Dismantle ICE and DHS.
OKPsyche (novel, Small Beer Press), From the Yew (poetry, Ethel)
www.anyajohannadeniro.com
if you're interested in speculative poetry from 2025, for whatever reason, I haven't mentioned by experimental queer epic The Shanty at the Center of the Wound for a good while! Please check it out!

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The Shanty in the Center of the Wound by Anya Johanna DeNiro
an experimental queer epic poem
adeniro.itch.io
February 13, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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February 13, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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People on this site are just waiting for the right excuse to become disenchanted with whatever their next cause turns out to be.
February 13, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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Minneapolis was economically devastated by Operation Metro Surge, writes James Beard-winning Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman, suffering $10-$20 million in weekly losses.
"This isn't just immigration enforcement. This is economic sabotage wrapped in racism."
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/congres...
Congress, Don’t Give DHS a Blank Check to Undermine Our Local Economies
This story is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM
I saw a magazine have a ONE HOUR SUBMISSION WINDOW. I'm sorry that is absurd and disincentivizes people who aren't terminally online.
February 12, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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I’ve never felt unsafe in this bougie neighborhood a day in my life. This is a 25 mph zone, full of fancy bars and restaurants, a curling club, salons, boutiques, and one of the busiest coffee shops around. They are doing their damndest to wreck everything here.
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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"EVERY DAY MORE OF THE PEOPLE I LOVE TELL ME THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO KEEP STAYING ALIVE.

I TELL THEM THAT IT IS POSSIBLE."

—Nora Hikari

beestungmag.com/issue18/two-...
Two Poems by Nora Hikari – beestung
beestungmag.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Kid Rock's music sounds like the knife you could buy at a smoke shop.
February 11, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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There's something deeply pathetic & petty about one of the biggest msn papers coming to whine about the percieved unfair treatement in the comments of a small indie outlet that represents the structurally disadvantaged victims of the global hate campaign that the NYT supports.
February 11, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Burn the Whipple of the mind
February 11, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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They crush the local economy, deplete city budgets, illegally withhold congressionally allocated funds. In exchange we get masked Texans running wild in the streets, paid for with tax money that was supposed to be used on our healthcare. Thank you to our federal partners.
February 11, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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So yeah, myself and @thatsrickperry filmed The PriceMaster. Today was the 25th anniversary. I posted this video on the PriceMaster's social media (IG & YouTube) earlier today. Happy PriceMaster Day to those who celebrate!

You can get 25th anniversary merch here > rugmunching.myspreadshop.com/25
February 11, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**

He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
February 10, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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The main thing I've noticed about attempting to participate in protests & demonstrations over the years as an isolated proletarian desperate for class solidarity is that the organizers are always a creepy, highly exclusive clique of occultist-esque "experienced organizers" enforcing esoteric rules.
You're being incredibly cavalier about this Stancil. You should listen to experienced activists and stop broadcasting shit for clout. That is what this looks like, you want clout.
It is also worth remembering that the thing we are doing is figuring out where they are and then following them in our private vehicles. They don’t need to do forensic analysis of a Times article to figure out who we are; they can just turn around
January 31, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Pepperoni balls

Aka manna

www.stanganellis.com/product/pepp...
February 11, 2026 at 1:31 AM
From my poetry chapbook From the Yew from @the-ethelzine.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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I've never posted a GoFundMe before (seriously, not once) but I'll personally vouch for this one. It's a little neighborhood group trying to keep seven Minnesotan families from getting evicted tomorrow. If you can help, please help; if you can share, please share. www.gofundme.com/f/support-sa...
Donate to Support Saint Paul Families Facing ICE Threats, organized by LM Neal
We love Saint Paul. We love it's poetry on random sidewalks, the way every lawn… LM Neal needs your support for Support Saint Paul Families Facing ICE Threats
www.gofundme.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:22 PM
What are we doing here lol
February 10, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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"Bullying creates a moral drama in which the manner of the victim’s reaction to an act of aggression can be used as retrospective justification for the original act of aggression itself." davidgraeber.org/articles/the...
The Bully’s Pulpit: On the elementary structure of domination
David: “(this one was painful to write, made me depressed for a week, but I feel it’s important)”
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February 10, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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Amber Glenn won Olympic gold on Sunday. That same day, she left social media because of death threats. Her offense: she'd told reporters the queer community is going through "a hard time." The headline called it "backlash." www.readtpa.com/p/the-thresh...
The Threshold
The right used to attack athletes who protested. Now they attack athletes who express feelings at all.
www.readtpa.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:17 PM
You all, ICE is everywhere in St Paul and neighboring suburbs today.
February 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
February 10, 2026 at 3:36 PM
How did Kingpin get in here?!?
Me in the Criterion Closet: wow Hollow Man, what a film

Criterion employee: you aren’t allowed to bring movies in

Me in the Criterion Closet shaking my sleeves in an odd way: wow Hollow Man 2, what a film
February 10, 2026 at 1:25 PM