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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Eric Lundgren @eplundgren.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Reading some J.G. Ballard stories this week. In "The Garden of Time," an isolated count and countess pluck the priceless and irreplaceable time flowers of their dwindling garden to delay the inevitable advance of the masses outside the gates.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I am absolutely gobsmacked. And trying not to pass out from hyperventilating. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social — you just made my secret dream for DATA EMPIRE, spoken aloud to NO ONE, come true.

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Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

With immense gratitude to the courageous people of Minnesota for standing up to fascism; and, of course, to all the wonderful contributors to this important anthology. (More specifically grateful to my brilliant co-editor Su Hwang and to the folks @uminnpress.bsky.social)

Pub Marketplace announcement for AMERICAN OCCUPATION, edited by Jonny Diamond and Su Hwang. Out early 2027 from U. of Minnesota Press

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/07/2026

What an incredible World Cup by the DR Congo team, who overcame a devastating Ebola outbreak and war, and brought unity and hope to so many through dark times. Fimbu!

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Eric Lundgren @eplundgren.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If you're looking for a (paid) opportunity to start a career in book publishing, I couldn't think of a better place to begin: milkweed.org/the-milkweed...

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The Milkweed Fellowship | Milkweed Editions

The Milkweed Fellowship

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Jason Haskins 🙃❄️ @jason-haskins.com · 23/06/2026

"They also said the activists were part of a “North Texas antifa cell” This is ridiculous. And scary. And all the stuff. All while the killers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti walk free. And Kyle Rittenhouse walks free. And insurrectionists were pardoned.

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Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison

Activists accused of being part of antifa face harsh sentences in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At the hearing in the federal courthouse in St. Paul. Fifteen people were indicted on conspiracy charges etc. and are making their first appearances. The courtroom is full, with about 100 people. Five defendants came into the courtroom, a couple with fists raised, which some in crowd mirrored. (1)

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Eric Lundgren @eplundgren.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Neighborhood movie theaters offering a stark choice tonight, Sansho the Bailiff (1954) or Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) lol

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

university press editor, indie press editor, big five editor

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Eric Lundgren @eplundgren.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Sartre, 15 pages into his preface to Fanon's Wretched of the Earth: "This book had certainly no need for a preface." 🙄

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Taint @taint9.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Exactly 💯

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.

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Noctambulate @noctambulate.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

“But spring is the insidious disease of the North; it rots and dissolves the life that winter has jealously guarded and protected within its prison of ice.” Winter’s austere beauty and the putrescence of onrushing Spring in Curzio Malaparte’s KAPUTT

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I know it feels like the day-to-day intensity of the ICE occupation in Minnesota has calmed down, but there are so many lagging problems that need solving, right as people’s attention goes elsewhere. Financial assistance, like help with rent, and legal help for the detained. These horrors persist.

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Steve Morgan @steveve.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Americans rise up against your government.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

There were many aspects of Alex’s film, WTO/99, made entirely of archival footage, that broke my brain. Every location was very familiar, I remembered names of politicians and tv journalists buried somewhere in the deepest recesses of my brain. It was also very prescient. I recommend you see it.

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Twin Citizens: If you frequent a small, independently owned restaurant that would benefit from a grant for lost business during the siege, let them know about the Salt Cure Fund. It’s a small ($2500-10000) grant, and the deadline to apply is 2/23. I made a flyer you can share out, DM me for the PDFs

Money for restaurants impacted by ICE
$2500-$10000 grants for small and independent restaurants
Apply by February 23
The Salt Cure Restaurant Recover fund graphic on a salt shaker
QR code
thesatcurefund.org

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Eric Lundgren @eplundgren.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Wish I had come up with the name of U.S. freestyle skiier Mac Forehand

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

$MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.$

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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Eric Lundgren @eplundgren.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The same guys who leave laughing emoji on ICE articles would have been shooting the buffalo 150 years ago

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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Books for Understanding ICE in Minnesota: a curated list of titles to aid in understanding the profound and disturbing events that have so deeply affected our communities. www.upress.umn.edu/books-for-un...

Book cover for Place-Keepers: Latina/x Art, Performance, and Organizing in the Twin Cities by Jessica Lopez Lyman. Color graphic blending musical bars behind two people smiling and gesturing toward the Taco Taxi restaurant’s marquee over a spray-painted facade.

Book cover for We Miss You, George Floyd by Shannon Gibney. Illustrated cover showing a young black woman in a green shirt holding a sign displaying the title of the book against a purple background.

Book cover for We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, edited by Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura. Title in large sans-serif black font against blue-sky background; in lower third, orange ground serves as backdrop for an upside-down Minneapolis skyline.

Book cover for The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives by David Mura. Image of an extremely thick book that displays the title and author name in black text on white cover. Background is a glaring, solid red.

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

ICE agents tried to quietly get Mexican food in Minneapolis, local neighbors and protesters found out and shamed then out of the neighborhood!

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Ms. Omar, visibly shaken after the assault, insisted to her staff and security that she would continue. She asked for a napkin and told them: "Just give me 10 minutes. I beg you. Please don't let them have the show."
Ms. Omar then turned the crowd. "Here's the reality that people like this ugly man don't understand," she said. "We are Minnesota strong, and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us."
Someone in the crowd later thanked Ms.
Omar for staying and continuing after the assault, which had shaken not only her but the entire room.
"I learned at a young age you don't give in to threats," Ms. Omar said.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 27/01/2026

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

New: DHS now says that two weeks of missing surveillance footage from ICE's Broadview Detention center isn't "missing," it was never recorded in the first place and thus can't be produced in an abuse lawsuit. An utter shitshow: www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...

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DHS Says Critical ICE Surveillance Footage From Abuse Case Was Actually Never Recorded, Doesn't Matter

Court records reveal the incredibly sad state of ICE's evidence retention systems.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

They are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic thinking it'll fix the hole caused by the iceberg. But we are the iceberg.

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em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

on eat street today, pho 79 was giving out no-cost community meals; luna and the bear had free coffee for folks; cheapo had a sign up encouraging folks visiting alex pretti's memorial site to come in, warm up, and use the bathroom. good city full of good people imo.

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 26/01/2026

This is a win and it's worth celebrating. The Border Patrol thugs we've seen while out patrolling Northeast MPLS and for sure some of the most aggressive and unhinged people I've ever seen personally. Horrific stuff. Worse than ICE, if you can believe it.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Bauer, who is 49, struggled to maintain her composure as she described the day early this month when ICE showed up in force outside her school. Agents had been circling the school since December, seemingly learning its routines, and they arrested some parents just before the winter break. But this time, agents leapt out in riot gear and began entering the apartments just across from the school, where many students live.

“We had to lock down and keep the kids inside, and parents linked arms to block the school entrance,” Bauer said. “We had a student who was looking out the window and saw them break into his apartment and just sobbed, ‘That’s my house. That’s my home.’ And we shut the blinds, but it was too late.”

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 26/01/2026

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

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Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

if you're wondering how insane things are here now

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Christopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Welcome to Minneapolis. Our neighbors have witnessed too many war crimes at this point. Federal agents even left weapons on the ground.

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Bill the Cat @billthecat71.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

ICE is a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanish in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer means anything. The knock on the door is the sentence.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/01/2026

Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…

A dark blue mug with an American flag reads “AMERICA 1776 – 2026”

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Tõnu Runnel @runnel.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Knut Hamsun giving his Nobel prize to no other than Joseph Goebbels. History repeating itself today.

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