@jonah-a-giese.bsky.social
Minneapolitan who thinks about disability justice, union organizing, and the inherent beauty of the Pick & Roll.
Views are from the otter in the aquarium in my brain.
Views are from the otter in the aquarium in my brain.
RCV thoughts:
- in '21, Frey rcvd 61,468 1st choice votes while viable progressive challengers earned 56,779 (26,444 for Knuth; 30,335 for Nezhad)
- in '25, Frey rcvd 60,735 1st choice votes while viable progressive candidates earned 81,221 (46,131 for Fateh; 19,971 for Davis; 15,119 for Jazz).
- in '21, Frey rcvd 61,468 1st choice votes while viable progressive challengers earned 56,779 (26,444 for Knuth; 30,335 for Nezhad)
- in '25, Frey rcvd 60,735 1st choice votes while viable progressive candidates earned 81,221 (46,131 for Fateh; 19,971 for Davis; 15,119 for Jazz).
Reposting because … 17-hour day. Frey almost certainly wins. Progressives need Osman to keep control; we’ll see. Council control = prog BET control but 3-3 tie at worst to protect the new progressive Park Board. Frey will love vetoing Park Board things, which he can. Where’s Soren’s victory party?
November 5, 2025 at 5:38 AM
RCV thoughts:
- in '21, Frey rcvd 61,468 1st choice votes while viable progressive challengers earned 56,779 (26,444 for Knuth; 30,335 for Nezhad)
- in '25, Frey rcvd 60,735 1st choice votes while viable progressive candidates earned 81,221 (46,131 for Fateh; 19,971 for Davis; 15,119 for Jazz).
- in '21, Frey rcvd 61,468 1st choice votes while viable progressive challengers earned 56,779 (26,444 for Knuth; 30,335 for Nezhad)
- in '25, Frey rcvd 60,735 1st choice votes while viable progressive candidates earned 81,221 (46,131 for Fateh; 19,971 for Davis; 15,119 for Jazz).
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one of the ways you know this is a genocide is that the news is never "IDF wins a battle" or "IDF secures new territory"
it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day
it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day
BREAKING: At least 56 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since dawn, sources at Gaza hospitals have told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n6phyh
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n6phyh
July 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
one of the ways you know this is a genocide is that the news is never "IDF wins a battle" or "IDF secures new territory"
it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day
it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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the fascists will inflict so much unnecessary pain and suffering but they will not win
oh no oh fuck they got me
June 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the fascists will inflict so much unnecessary pain and suffering but they will not win
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Can and WILL join! You WILL become disabled (or die trying, though I hope you don't).
So how do you want your disabled future to look?
So how do you want your disabled future to look?
Disability terrifies people because it’s the only minority group that one can join. People like to stick their head in the sand about issues like their mortality and fragility. We need to get over this and accept that disability is the intersection where most social justice issues meet.
June 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Can and WILL join! You WILL become disabled (or die trying, though I hope you don't).
So how do you want your disabled future to look?
So how do you want your disabled future to look?
[Charania] BREAKING: the New York City Democratic Committee requested permission to speak with @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social, but were firmly denied, amidst news that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has eclipsed Andrew Cuomo in the polls, sources tell ESPN.
June 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
[Charania] BREAKING: the New York City Democratic Committee requested permission to speak with @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social, but were firmly denied, amidst news that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has eclipsed Andrew Cuomo in the polls, sources tell ESPN.
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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
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i was not familiar with your game ken jennings
May 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
i was not familiar with your game ken jennings
Just met a woman on the Amtrak Borealis to Chicago that told me about her 4 raccoons: Petey 1, Petey 2, Petey 3, and Petey 4. Her favorite? Petey 4 - he died too young from feline distemper!
May 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Just met a woman on the Amtrak Borealis to Chicago that told me about her 4 raccoons: Petey 1, Petey 2, Petey 3, and Petey 4. Her favorite? Petey 4 - he died too young from feline distemper!
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Look at this video: a *huge* crowd of Vermonters swaying alongside Mohsen right after he was freed, singing "We Shall Overcome"
Signs reading "Hands off our students" & "free speech" are peppered in between large Palestine flags
Signs reading "Hands off our students" & "free speech" are peppered in between large Palestine flags
April 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Look at this video: a *huge* crowd of Vermonters swaying alongside Mohsen right after he was freed, singing "We Shall Overcome"
Signs reading "Hands off our students" & "free speech" are peppered in between large Palestine flags
Signs reading "Hands off our students" & "free speech" are peppered in between large Palestine flags
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A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
![In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreie3gc6fndj7mtotijddm4eg264zgsqxpn4nbekb3xq5ubdmskvr6u@jpeg)
!["You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreiensu64iobo4ftuqeaighf2p5k745uzdnmhcecugsi4ec74dnqse4@jpeg)
April 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
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When my garage was emptied by thieves, a total loss of more than the $20,000 quoted below, we called MPD and were told to fill out an online report. MPD never contacted us after we filed the report.
My insurance company asked if the police had any leads I had to stop myself from laughing.
My insurance company asked if the police had any leads I had to stop myself from laughing.
Nobody should be out vandalizing anyone's property. It's good that anyone keying a car will be made to pay restitution by the county attorney's office. But how does Chief O'Hara have so much time for press conferences and catty press releases about the Tesla vandal?
April 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
When my garage was emptied by thieves, a total loss of more than the $20,000 quoted below, we called MPD and were told to fill out an online report. MPD never contacted us after we filed the report.
My insurance company asked if the police had any leads I had to stop myself from laughing.
My insurance company asked if the police had any leads I had to stop myself from laughing.
Very important event: theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/m...
Moonstruck (1987) with pre-movie trivia hosted by Josh Carson!
No sooner does widow Loretta (Cher) accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny (Danny Aiello), than she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny (Nicolas Cage).
theparkwaytheater.com
April 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Very important event: theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/m...
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honestly that must feel so good for the retention pond. like when a doctor cleans your ears out for you
Prescribed burn going on at the retention pond by the Say Their Names Memorial at George Floyd Square.
April 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
honestly that must feel so good for the retention pond. like when a doctor cleans your ears out for you
Prescribed burn going on at the retention pond by the Say Their Names Memorial at George Floyd Square.
April 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Prescribed burn going on at the retention pond by the Say Their Names Memorial at George Floyd Square.
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Freshman Rep. Anquam Mahamoud is congratulated by Rep. Julie Greene following the passage of her first bill during floor session April 3.
📸 Michele Jokinen
#mnleg
📸 Michele Jokinen
#mnleg
April 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Freshman Rep. Anquam Mahamoud is congratulated by Rep. Julie Greene following the passage of her first bill during floor session April 3.
📸 Michele Jokinen
#mnleg
📸 Michele Jokinen
#mnleg
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Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”.
He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.
The job was helping people with disabilities.
He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.
The job was helping people with disabilities.
April 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”.
He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.
The job was helping people with disabilities.
He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.
The job was helping people with disabilities.
Attending my first (of many) Day on the Hill as a member of AFSCME Council 5
April 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Attending my first (of many) Day on the Hill as a member of AFSCME Council 5
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Reminder that when you post that Studio Ghibli AI slop that former union organizer Hayao Miyazaki thinks it is "an insult to life itself."
March 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Reminder that when you post that Studio Ghibli AI slop that former union organizer Hayao Miyazaki thinks it is "an insult to life itself."
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A Minnesota State University, Mankato student was detained by ICE on Friday “for reasons that are unknown to us,” said President Edward Inch in a letter to the campus in Mankato.
Second Minnesota university student detained by ICE
A Minnesota State University, Mankato student was detained Friday, and a University of Minnesota student was detained Thursday. Reasons for both arrests are unclear.
www.startribune.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
A Minnesota State University, Mankato student was detained by ICE on Friday “for reasons that are unknown to us,” said President Edward Inch in a letter to the campus in Mankato.
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Today I learned that a graduate student at the University of Minnesota was abducted by ICE yesterday. We need a rapid response from leaders at all levels on what we can do to protect everyone in our community. I will keep working on this issue and update as I learn more.
March 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Today I learned that a graduate student at the University of Minnesota was abducted by ICE yesterday. We need a rapid response from leaders at all levels on what we can do to protect everyone in our community. I will keep working on this issue and update as I learn more.
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They fucking disappeared Hamdan Ballal. Sheer impunity, knowing the US isn't going to say shit.
"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."
"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."
Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Jewish settlers and detained, activists say
Activists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military.
apnews.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
They fucking disappeared Hamdan Ballal. Sheer impunity, knowing the US isn't going to say shit.
"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."
"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."