1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration:
Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure.
Its a horrifying escalation.
Renee Good's widow shared this statement with us today. It's absolutely heart-wrenching. 💔
We’re not in the clear. It’s still important to be cautious, careful, and vigilant. ICE vehicles were spotted across Minneapolis today.
Two Latino neighbors were kidnapped by ICE on East Lake Street outside a laundromat. 1/
From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.
From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.
message from MN
So Whipple roads get to be as blocked off as the Feds and HennCo sheriff want to protect evil, but Frey/MPD say neighbors don’t get to do partial blocks of roads at all to prevent evil. Cool.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.
It’s so funny that this guy’s entire thing is “Oh are you triggered by what I have to say about marginalized people” but he loses it when someone more well-liked than he will ever be talks about an actual injustice
I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
The federal occupation of Minneapolis has devastated our small businesses. Particularly, our immigrant-owned businesses.
That’s why I’m working with my colleagues to bring forward a $5 million “Small Business Resiliency Fund” for small businesses impacted by “immigration enforcement”. 1/
How shocking.
The Sunday Herald, 21 May 2000:
![Screenshot of the email from Tina Smith's office. It reads:
Dear [name redacted],
Thank you for contacting me regarding Medicare. I appreciate hearing from you on this issue.
I believe that seniors should be able to remain independent in their communities and get the health care they need without risking financial ruin. Nationwide, 68 million seniors get health care through Medicare, and I am committed to ensuring that these individuals can count on quality, reliable health care. Additionally, more than half of Medicare enrollees in Minnesota choose to get their health care coverage through a Medicare Advantage plan, so it's important to me to make sure this program is meeting its promise to the seniors who rely on it for their care. Minnesotans and people across the country who rely on Medicare Advantage for their health coverage deserve high-quality, stable coverage that is fiscally responsible for both the patient and taxpayers.
I am so concerned with President Trump's ongoing threats to Medicare and Medicaid and efforts to cut millions of Americans' [screenshot cuts off here]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:im2o3v7boj53gqsagm54uvj6/bafkreiaczj77tcj3rnblxtyyn32udc2u2eulqttd5r3cjawkdmh4oxplhm)
Screenshot of the email from Tina Smith's office. It reads: Dear [name redacted], Thank you for contacting me regarding Medicare. I appreciate hearing from you on this issue. I believe that seniors should be able to remain independent in their communities and get the health care they need without risking financial ruin. Nationwide, 68 million seniors get health care through Medicare, and I am committed to ensuring that these individuals can count on quality, reliable health care. Additionally, more than half of Medicare enrollees in Minnesota choose to get their health care coverage through a Medicare Advantage plan, so it's important to me to make sure this program is meeting its promise to the seniors who rely on it for their care. Minnesotans and people across the country who rely on Medicare Advantage for their health coverage deserve high-quality, stable coverage that is fiscally responsible for both the patient and taxpayers. I am so concerned with President Trump's ongoing threats to Medicare and Medicaid and efforts to cut millions of Americans' [screenshot cuts off here]
I rec calling, not messaging. I wrote a very personal letter and got irrelevant replies from both MN's Klobuchar and Smith. Smith's reply also deadnamed me (I used my initials in the submission form). I'm a trans person, on SSDI and Medicare. There was no option for LGBTQ+ rights as a topic.
1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes.
Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants.
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
Ice agent
MPD assisting ICE
MPD assisting ICE
They tried lie about an ICE presence. MPD assisted with closing off the area. This is completely wrong.
yeah it'll come back, can't blame them bee balm is delicious. can use in place of oregano
Today, the Trump administration is releasing a fake "report" about gender affirming care created by quacks so they can restrict access to care. It's going to be completely unscientific and unhinged and shouldn't be a afforded one iota of credibility.
Absolutely fuck everyone involved in this show. They know. They all know. It's impossible not to at this point.
Lithgow had a CLOSE FRIEND reach out and try and get how awful this is through to him and he's more than happy to take the role and is "curious" to meet Rowling.
Absolute fucking scum.
A black dog sits with his head resting on part of a couch. His eyes are wide, mouth slightly parted. He has never wanted a hotdog more in his life. However, he will not move. He knows he cannot have the hotdog. He lays sunken and forlorn. His eyes are wide with desire, but there is also a profound sadness. In silence he waits with a hunger that will never be sated.
profile picture is now my dog Hank Fishbasket noticing a hot dog
It’s so important that this story is being told - a truly terrible thing happened to Becky and people need to know. It’s also important to emphasise that every person who ended up at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, or crossing the Darien Gap, or in a detention centre is somebody’s Becky.
The days of "Don't be evil" are long gone.
Youtube removes "gender identity" as a protected status and allows people to call trans people mentally ill.
At some point in the future (TBD), I have to go to CO for a surgery regarding compression of veins in my neck. I can't fly. We'll have to drive from MN to CO. Last time I had surgery, my carotid artery was severed. I was in the ICU in a medical coma for three days. The travel scares me more.
Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, according to many election analysts.
This after Elon Musk and others poured millions into anti-transgender advertisements in the state.
The anti-trans panic failed in Wisconsin.
This is a major victory for LGBTQ+ people in the state.
updated my bsky picture because I'm visible today. Also it is my second year on t 🎉
you done did it when you make pete buttigieg say fuck
Remember when people used to say the warnings about Trump were alarmist? He’s now explicitly saying US citizens who damage private property that’s linked to one of his oligarch cronies will be sent to prisons in El Salvador.
This guy co-sponsored a bill to have "Trump Derangement Syndrome" classified as a mental illness YESTERDAY.
They’re bombing Gaza again. Horrors upon horror www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
