Zoë Bird
@zozettebird.bsky.social
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There is no circumstance in which MPD should cooperate with ICE. In the eyes of many, Minneapolis has one of the strongest Separation Ordinances in the country. But yesterday, we saw its weaknesses: a close reading of our Separation Ordinance still allows collaboration with ICE.
June 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
There is no circumstance in which MPD should cooperate with ICE. In the eyes of many, Minneapolis has one of the strongest Separation Ordinances in the country. But yesterday, we saw its weaknesses: a close reading of our Separation Ordinance still allows collaboration with ICE.
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"Powerlessness is an alibi. Hopelessness too. I want to ask, what specifically are you going to do? What’s your 'I am Spartacus' move to protect the more vulnerable?" writes Kaveh Akbar.
What Will You Do?
What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?
www.thenation.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"Powerlessness is an alibi. Hopelessness too. I want to ask, what specifically are you going to do? What’s your 'I am Spartacus' move to protect the more vulnerable?" writes Kaveh Akbar.
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March 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
🌿TRANS PLANTS:
A Plant-Sale and Fundraiser directly benefiting grants distributed by Outfront Minnesota to help Trans folks relocate to Sanctuary States -
Let’s get our siblings to safety! 🏳️⚧️💪🙏
FUNDRAISER EVENT-
Saturday April 26th 12-5pm
at @umbra.urts.mpls
A Plant-Sale and Fundraiser directly benefiting grants distributed by Outfront Minnesota to help Trans folks relocate to Sanctuary States -
Let’s get our siblings to safety! 🏳️⚧️💪🙏
FUNDRAISER EVENT-
Saturday April 26th 12-5pm
at @umbra.urts.mpls
March 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
🌿TRANS PLANTS:
A Plant-Sale and Fundraiser directly benefiting grants distributed by Outfront Minnesota to help Trans folks relocate to Sanctuary States -
Let’s get our siblings to safety! 🏳️⚧️💪🙏
FUNDRAISER EVENT-
Saturday April 26th 12-5pm
at @umbra.urts.mpls
A Plant-Sale and Fundraiser directly benefiting grants distributed by Outfront Minnesota to help Trans folks relocate to Sanctuary States -
Let’s get our siblings to safety! 🏳️⚧️💪🙏
FUNDRAISER EVENT-
Saturday April 26th 12-5pm
at @umbra.urts.mpls
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Ballal helped make a work of art that has smashed through the sociopathy and contempt for Palestinian life that runs through ordinary political discourse. That is why Israel is didn’t rely on “discourse” to silence Ballal—it relied on violence.
By Targeting Artists and Journalists, Israel Is Trying to Kill the Truth
The recent targeting of Hamdan Ballal, Hossam Shabat, and Mohammed Mansour shows that Israel sees the truth as a threat to be eliminated.
www.thenation.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Ballal helped make a work of art that has smashed through the sociopathy and contempt for Palestinian life that runs through ordinary political discourse. That is why Israel is didn’t rely on “discourse” to silence Ballal—it relied on violence.
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
Violets are blue
March 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Violets are blue
Twin City-area friends, join me tomorrow at the MN State Board of Investment mtg to demand that Walz, Ellison, & the rest of the board finally listen to their constituents & DIVEST MN FROM APARTHEID ISRA🚫L. Fri., 3/21, 9 a.m., 60 Empire Drive, St. Paul, Rm 106. DM if you need a ride. ❤️🇵🇸
March 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Twin City-area friends, join me tomorrow at the MN State Board of Investment mtg to demand that Walz, Ellison, & the rest of the board finally listen to their constituents & DIVEST MN FROM APARTHEID ISRA🚫L. Fri., 3/21, 9 a.m., 60 Empire Drive, St. Paul, Rm 106. DM if you need a ride. ❤️🇵🇸
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Yes. That is in fact what just happened.
March 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Yes. That is in fact what just happened.
American Obscenity
In a snuff film that unreeled for a hundred years
white settlers piled buffalo skeletons
into great heaps on the prairie
thousands of ghoststacks
millions of skulls
crushed countless centuries of symbiosis
for bone [china]
for white ladies’ plantation tea parties.
In a snuff film that unreeled for a hundred years
white settlers piled buffalo skeletons
into great heaps on the prairie
thousands of ghoststacks
millions of skulls
crushed countless centuries of symbiosis
for bone [china]
for white ladies’ plantation tea parties.
March 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
American Obscenity
In a snuff film that unreeled for a hundred years
white settlers piled buffalo skeletons
into great heaps on the prairie
thousands of ghoststacks
millions of skulls
crushed countless centuries of symbiosis
for bone [china]
for white ladies’ plantation tea parties.
In a snuff film that unreeled for a hundred years
white settlers piled buffalo skeletons
into great heaps on the prairie
thousands of ghoststacks
millions of skulls
crushed countless centuries of symbiosis
for bone [china]
for white ladies’ plantation tea parties.
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I recently called this phenomenon ‘un-documenting’, but what is happening is well defined here by M. as denationalizing.
It is already happening, and you are not nearly outraged enough.
It is already happening, and you are not nearly outraged enough.
Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing
The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I recently called this phenomenon ‘un-documenting’, but what is happening is well defined here by M. as denationalizing.
It is already happening, and you are not nearly outraged enough.
It is already happening, and you are not nearly outraged enough.
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It’s time to realize that @amyklobuchar.com is a collaborator with fascists. She posted this on the very same day that she voted YES on Trump’s labor secretary. #kkklobuchar
We need to expand access to good-paying jobs that require training and credentialing.
My bipartisan legislation will allow Americans to use their “529” educational savings to pay for training and certification outside of a four-year degree.
My bipartisan legislation will allow Americans to use their “529” educational savings to pay for training and certification outside of a four-year degree.
March 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It’s time to realize that @amyklobuchar.com is a collaborator with fascists. She posted this on the very same day that she voted YES on Trump’s labor secretary. #kkklobuchar
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California Governor Gavin Newsom took Trump's side on trans-sports bans. Too often, the conversation about trans participation in sports ignores what trans activists, sports journalists, and athletes think, so @edgeofsports.bsky.social asked them.
Don’t Listen to Greasy Gavin Newsom. Listen to Trans Athletes.
In a podcast with Charlie Kirk, the California governor put his electoral ambition ahead of trans people. But what do trans athletes themselves have to say?
www.thenation.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
California Governor Gavin Newsom took Trump's side on trans-sports bans. Too often, the conversation about trans participation in sports ignores what trans activists, sports journalists, and athletes think, so @edgeofsports.bsky.social asked them.
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To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.
Only saying once on bsky b/c I know it is not entirely useful, but it is totally exhausting that in 2016 some of us said “they’re Nazis,” some of us screamed “they’re segregationists,” and a whole lot of very serious people now posting about them being Nazis and segregationists gaslight us for years
January 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.