Our ICE OUT: MINNESOTA WRITERS RESPOND TO ICE reading on Friday, March 6 in Baltimore brought 160 people to hear our essential words. Thanks co-sponsors @literaryhub.bsky.social and @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social helping to raise money for MonarcaMN and Pillsbury House! @awpwriter.org #AWP
I'm out of words here
Come hear about the joys, challenges, and freedom of being an mature writer: we promise we will be honest, truthful, and fun. Saturday. Noon. @awpwriter.org #AWP2026 @thesusanito.bsky.social @deniselow9.bsky.social
Just realized that with Abolish ICE at +11, it's polling over 30 percentage-points ahead of Trump approval. Guess that means if the media wants to be representative, it should give at least like 40% more airtime to people who support abolishing ICE to Trump supporters
Sometimes before, but yeah, waiting and waiting.
Notice we are going to be political off-site.
AWPers: Friday, March 6 at Checkerspot Brewing 1:45-2:45 p.m. in Baltimore, MN authors will be reading and raising money for Monarca and Pillsbury House. Beverages and food will be available for order. Sponsored by @literaryhub.bsky.social, @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social, and @kimbiliofiction.com.
From MPR News, photographer Jeff Schafer got a drone shot of this “Kaleidoscope of Love” event in Powderhorn yesterday.
I think the last time the USA created regime change solely through bombing was in Cambodia, when a massive carpet bombing campaign so destabilized the country that the Khmer Rouge came to power and wiped out the Royal government—the American ally. Genocide followed.
Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:
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This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.
State AGs must step in and block it.
Looks like a ship’s hold
@literaryhub.bsky.social's @jonnydiamond.bsky.social is publishing amazing essays from Twin Cities writers. Letter from Minnesota: How We Get Through the Darkest Nights by poet and children's book author Molly Beth Griffin about the strength of chosen family and community. lithub.com/letter-from-...
How very black history month to suddenly discover even more underground railroad
I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Now, I would like the Mpls City Council to look into whether this practice of taking a CHILD to a HOTEL is common in the hotels DHS is staying in here, and I’m grateful they didn’t just rubber stamp renewal of the liquor licenses so they can do so soon!
People Not In Minnesota: The national narrative is that ICE is de-escalating. This is not the case. Many of our businesses are financially in peril, as are thousands of families who cannot leave their homes to work safely. Please send a small donation. Link below.https://www.standwithminnesota.com
A detailed listing of legal resources from Hamline Mitchell Law School in Occupied Minnesota: mitchellhamline.edu/library/fede...
Read @heideerdrich.bsky.social's eloquent essay "Letter From Mni Sóta Makóče: 'No One is Illegal on Stolen Land,'” read @mprnews.org's article about the ice sculptures, then attend the vigil and ceremony at 6:00 p.m. this evening at the top of Lake of the Isles in MPLS. lithub.com/letter-from-...
“That was one of the scariest moments of my life, just knowing that they have no boundaries, and really seeing that this is not something in a movie, this is not something away from me that I can ignore,” said Ta’Khya Carlisle, 17, who attends a high school across town from Roosevelt.
Not in Minnesota? You can still help our closed restaurants through the Salt Cure. mspmag.com/eat-and-drin...
Looking for ways to help? Assist our iced-in neighbors in Minnesota make their February rent! chuffed.org/project/1671...
Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.
Not in Minnesota? Send us some love and support, so we can keep going. Here's some ideas how: www.standwithminnesota.com?fbclid=IwZnR...
nursesonja • 7h & Threads Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control. This is about total control. O240 Q5 G34 → 21
The nurses are pissed
Also, my father’s final words to me were to continue to fight the good fight. He would be honored in Alex’s sacrifice, and ashamed of this current administration.
In my dad’s words, I encourage you all to continue to “fight the good fight.”
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