kate
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fwiw (which is not much) my perspective as an observer from the other side of the country who is taking notes, trying to prepare for my community’s turn in the crosshairs is: we should be looking for outlets for people’s heroic impulses.
Seeing all the “professional” activists go after Stancil is negatively polarizing me into a stance that Minnesota is winning because it’s normal people rising to the occasion and pushing a lot of activist nonsense out of the way by doing it
February 2, 2026 at 11:43 PM
fwiw (which is not much) my perspective as an observer from the other side of the country who is taking notes, trying to prepare for my community’s turn in the crosshairs is: we should be looking for outlets for people’s heroic impulses.
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Just heard about this book drive at The Red Balloon to get books to kids who are at home right now:
redballoonbookshop.com/can-mn-and-l...
redballoonbookshop.com/can-mn-and-l...
CAN MN and Local Schools Book Drive
Red Balloon is gathering donations for Community Aid Network MN and a few local schools who will distribute the books to kids who are currently staying home due to the actions of ICE. We are asking for mostly Spanish titles for ages 0-11. Books can also be purchased online or in-store and donated using the code CANMN20. Monetary donations will be used to purchase books. Community Aid Network MN serves between 200-300 families each week with free food, diapers and supplies, distributing 1,000 items every distribution day. They started during the George Floyd Uprising and are one of the only mutual aid sites still in operation. Their mission is to organize volunteers, redistribute resources, build mutual aid bonds with their neighbors, and ensure everyone has the means for dignified survival.If you would like to add your school or organization to our book distribution list, please email us at info@redballoonbookshop.com Click here to make a monetary donation!
redballoonbookshop.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Just heard about this book drive at The Red Balloon to get books to kids who are at home right now:
redballoonbookshop.com/can-mn-and-l...
redballoonbookshop.com/can-mn-and-l...
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You are allowed to peacefully protest against the government. The government cannot really impose any serious burden on you for being one of hundreds of thousands of people peacefully protesting against it. But you can impose a serious burden on yourself, and fellow protesters, by worrying too much.
February 2, 2026 at 3:03 AM
You are allowed to peacefully protest against the government. The government cannot really impose any serious burden on you for being one of hundreds of thousands of people peacefully protesting against it. But you can impose a serious burden on yourself, and fellow protesters, by worrying too much.
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We really, really need to squash this idea that the first step in effective protest is ensuring that nobody can ever identify who you are or distinguish you in any way
February 2, 2026 at 2:59 AM
We really, really need to squash this idea that the first step in effective protest is ensuring that nobody can ever identify who you are or distinguish you in any way
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Happy abseiling lesbians day to all who celebrate!!!
#OtD 2 Feb 1988 4 lesbians abseiled into the UK House of Lords in protest at the homophobic section 28. In 2017, 4 other lesbians climbed onto the Houses of Parliament in order to put up a blue plaque commemorating the 1988 action stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9181...
February 2, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Happy abseiling lesbians day to all who celebrate!!!
Birder friends, any idea on what this is? Looks like a raptor, but idk any more. Sorry about the blur, this was through a window and with a lot of zoom.
February 2, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Birder friends, any idea on what this is? Looks like a raptor, but idk any more. Sorry about the blur, this was through a window and with a lot of zoom.
despite the papist overtones, i'm deeply considering requesting that my future funeral provide in memoriam prayer cards. i realize this is probably partially the ADHD of it all, but i really like having those little funereal pokemon cards. they help my memory a TON.
February 1, 2026 at 8:22 PM
despite the papist overtones, i'm deeply considering requesting that my future funeral provide in memoriam prayer cards. i realize this is probably partially the ADHD of it all, but i really like having those little funereal pokemon cards. they help my memory a TON.
MISS LOIS why must you investigate the closet so thoroughly.
February 1, 2026 at 4:22 PM
MISS LOIS why must you investigate the closet so thoroughly.
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The Honolulu cycling community also had a ride to honor Alex Pretti.
Honolulu biking community joins national unity ride in honor of Alex Pretti
Members of Honolulu’s riding community rode from Kapiolani Park to Iolani Palace and back to show solidarity in Pretti’s honor.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:58 AM
The Honolulu cycling community also had a ride to honor Alex Pretti.
I got out of bed with BIG PLANS for breakfast, then drew back the curtains and realized how much snow i was going to have to shovel, and just ate three pffernuse cookies, four string cheese, and drank a monster.
February 1, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I got out of bed with BIG PLANS for breakfast, then drew back the curtains and realized how much snow i was going to have to shovel, and just ate three pffernuse cookies, four string cheese, and drank a monster.
The german etsy store i got my antifa moomintroll sweatshirt from is gone... sad
January 31, 2026 at 2:22 AM
The german etsy store i got my antifa moomintroll sweatshirt from is gone... sad
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There isn’t any indication that immigration activity has changed in Minneapolis. In fact, this afternoon, federal immigration agents began staging at Holy Rosary Catholic Church located in East Phillips. This activity is disgraceful and creates an unsafe environment for our neighbors. 1/
January 29, 2026 at 1:44 AM
There isn’t any indication that immigration activity has changed in Minneapolis. In fact, this afternoon, federal immigration agents began staging at Holy Rosary Catholic Church located in East Phillips. This activity is disgraceful and creates an unsafe environment for our neighbors. 1/
Oh right. I blogged about how to KEEP WARM OUT THERE.
https://awningfawning.xyz/keeping-warm/
https://awningfawning.xyz/keeping-warm/
Keeping Warm
I have seen so many people out at protests recently who are clearly New. This is WONDERFUL. It genuinely warms my heart to see Minnesotans turning out to protest the injustice and illegality that the federal occupation is perpetuating in the Twin Cities and the larger state.
That being said,
awningfawning.xyz
January 29, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Oh right. I blogged about how to KEEP WARM OUT THERE.
https://awningfawning.xyz/keeping-warm/
https://awningfawning.xyz/keeping-warm/
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I liked it better when songs about Minneapolis were about finding queer love in the northeast minneapolis arts district (and making it scan!)
I like it better when songs about Minneapolis were about not moving here even though the cutest boy you even saw asked you to.
I liked it better when songs about Minneapolis were either "I'm a sex freak (complimentary) and so can you" or about doing molly with your bad cool girlfriend
January 28, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I liked it better when songs about Minneapolis were about finding queer love in the northeast minneapolis arts district (and making it scan!)
The thing is, Minnesota holds a GRUDGE. the wild's alt uniform still has multiple north stars references.
January 28, 2026 at 3:16 AM
The thing is, Minnesota holds a GRUDGE. the wild's alt uniform still has multiple north stars references.
homofederalism :rainbow_gritty:
January 27, 2026 at 3:52 AM
homofederalism :rainbow_gritty:
i made a new to me recipe for pfeffernuse that has you warm honey, butter, and sugar together. i used the end of the weird buckthorn honey, and it tasted DELICIOUS. hate that i have to wait a day for the dough to chill. ;_;
January 27, 2026 at 1:58 AM
i made a new to me recipe for pfeffernuse that has you warm honey, butter, and sugar together. i used the end of the weird buckthorn honey, and it tasted DELICIOUS. hate that i have to wait a day for the dough to chill. ;_;
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Bike friends: This is something you can organize wherever you are, in solidarity with us in Minneapolis.
Plan a unity ride for this Saturday. Bring your community together.
Plan a unity ride for this Saturday. Bring your community together.
On Saturday we ride for Alex Pretti
1:00pm at Washburn Fair Oaks Park
From Angry Catfish:
“We're asking folks to host rides and come together. Bike shops and non-profits, cycling orgs and alt cycling collectives, city and rural. We are many but we stand together as one.”
1:00pm at Washburn Fair Oaks Park
From Angry Catfish:
“We're asking folks to host rides and come together. Bike shops and non-profits, cycling orgs and alt cycling collectives, city and rural. We are many but we stand together as one.”
January 26, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Bike friends: This is something you can organize wherever you are, in solidarity with us in Minneapolis.
Plan a unity ride for this Saturday. Bring your community together.
Plan a unity ride for this Saturday. Bring your community together.
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I want you to stop and think about what kind of country we're living in when a major metropolitan paper is publishing this story. Is that the kind of country you want to live in? I sure hope not.
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 9:07 PM
I want you to stop and think about what kind of country we're living in when a major metropolitan paper is publishing this story. Is that the kind of country you want to live in? I sure hope not.
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The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.”
The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
January 26, 2026 at 7:28 PM
The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.”
The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
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This should make it painfully obvious that this all just a white supremacist terror campaign
Six. Six Indigenous people have been kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis in less than 3 weeks. And that's just the ones we know about. Three of them have not been released.
Standing Rock and Sisseton Wahpeton Tribal Members Arrested as ICE Terrorizes Minnesota
Censored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
bsnorrell.blogspot.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:19 PM
This should make it painfully obvious that this all just a white supremacist terror campaign
I feel half like im getting the hang of how to think about inking
January 26, 2026 at 3:16 AM
I feel half like im getting the hang of how to think about inking
Damn, WoW really did my girl dirty in the ... /checks calendar, uh, 10 years since i last checked in on her...
January 26, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Damn, WoW really did my girl dirty in the ... /checks calendar, uh, 10 years since i last checked in on her...
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Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
January 25, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.