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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/02/2026

when your friends are doing so much rent mutual aid that everyones venmos are frozen and you gotta zelle someone to paypal someone

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Chris Sims @theisb.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Y’know, in case you were wondering how surreal it is to be here in beautiful south Minneapolis.

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Chris Sims @theisb.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

There’s a journalist staying at my neighbor’s Airbnb who came out while I was shoveling the walk in a full flak jacket with the big PRESS patches.

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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 16/01/2026

Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost. Learn more: www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-aroun…

Vehicles abandoned due to ICE detention will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.

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Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Metro Transit drivers are witnessing ICE arrests in the streets, and one operator from Somalia was held for over a month after being detained on his way to work, according to union leaders. Written by Andrew Hazzard.

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Metro Transit workers decry ICE activity at transit stops

Metro Transit drivers say they’re witnessing ICE arrests at bus stops and in the streets of the Twin Cities.

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Jeff Severns Guntzel @forestofthings.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

rest in power and peace vigil at 34th & portland

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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Worth noting that Minnesota Public Radio is NOT doing that. They're interviewing people on the ground, chasing down witnesses and facts, and treating ICE statements with the appropriate amount of skepticism.

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Lady Christy @ladychristyk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Emergency response vigil organized by @miracmn.bsky.social tonight.

ICE shot and killed an observer today in Minneapolis. Say her name!
We witnessed an atrocious attack on our community today. Community members were taken from us and an observer was shot dead. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA NOW!
E 34th St and
Portland Ave S.
Minneapolis, MN
55407
Today, Jan 7
5:00 PM
MIRAC

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John Finch🇺🇸 @jbird1848.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara just announced his police department will not work with ICE and other federal immigration authorities. Local government is standing up to Trump. substack.com/@reallyameri...

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Really American (@reallyamerican)

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Jet Gordon @jetgordonsun.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

There is a lot of talk of legal observer training and not enough talk of dressing for the cold

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/12/2025

Homan on when ICE will make its "presence really known" in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul: "The focus is there. It's coming."

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 19/06/2025

Last Juneteenth I was in a public park in Florence, Kentucky sweating so badly my headphones disintegrated while capturing audio on our last reporting trip for Rebel Spirit. This Juneteenth you can listen to the full run of our incredible, award-winning show. rebelspiritpodcast.com

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freaky court jester @hellionist.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

ICE took a grad student from the University of Minnesota.

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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 28/03/2025

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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Jeff Severns Guntzel @forestofthings.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

In "Journal of an Ordinary Grief" Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish imagines this exchange: Q: "Is there something else you want to say?" A: "I do, but I don’t understand the words." I thought of that as I listened to this beautiful tribute to Refaat Alareer. Thank you @vijayiyer.bsky.social.

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Kite (for Refaat Alareer)

YouTube video by Vijay Iyer - Topic

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Not quite ready for mass production of AI-read books and scripts 🥺

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Jeff Severns Guntzel @forestofthings.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

So grateful for the Trans Journalists Association’s style guide. From the intro: "The English lexicon of gender, sex, and sexuality is dynamic and constantly contested … Where our stylebook is silent, honor the way someone speaks about themself whenever possible, and let that inform your writing."

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Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide

The Transgender Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a tool reporters, editors, and other journalists can use to improve news coverage of trans people and the stories that affect ...

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Alison Malört @alisonmalort.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It has snowed in Chicago and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Time to remind everyone that we light our train tracks on fire to prevent the switches from freezing.

A set of railroad tracks with parts of them set on fire as a commuter train prepares to cross.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Friends remember you’re always 5 min & a good food processor away from wonderful, cheap, genocide free humus. It’s 4:1 chickpeas to tahini, lemon for acid, as much garlic as you like, cumin/paprika & salt. Add ice cubes instead of water to make it creamy. Drench olive oil on top. That’s it!

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

"For Palestinian parents, the natural act of loving one’s child is done in the unnatural conditions of occupation, apartheid & genocide. In these conditions, love fuels resistance." -@hebagowayed.bsky.social in "We Grow the World Together" (Earlier version appeared in @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social)

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they were all gone, too? The massacre in Gaza is so much more than an aggregate count of lives. It is the loss of collective memories held in those lives—of events, of people, of places. A loss for which gener- ations and generations to come will continue to pay the price.
In the face of a colonizer intent on the destruction of their nation, of seventy-five years of unrelenting violence, Palestinians have insisted on sumud, unwavering perseverance. That they will be free in their land. That they will grow and bear fruit like the olive trees that they plant.18
Gazan children deserve more than survival. They deserve more than to simply be unmolested by the whims of tyrants. They deserve futures, joyful futures. They deserve to babble and giggle with their parents. They deserve to live free, from the river to the sea.
For Palestinian parents, the natural act of loving one’s child is done in the unnatural conditions of occupation, apartheid, and geno- cide. In these conditions, love fuels resistance. To care for a Palestinian child is to abhor that they have to play under the buzzing of drones. To worry about them is to fight for their right to walk to school unthreat- ened by Israeli bullets and bombs. To dream for them is to topple the borders that confine them, that cut through land that should be theirs to freely roam. To be Palestinian is to be an abolitionist. And to be a Palestinian abolitionist is to fight for us all. The technologies that police, incarcerate, and kill the children of Palestine, the children in Gaza, are exported globally to kill migrant children at the techno- logical fortresses that make up the borders of nation-states, to spy on dissidents who fight for better tomorrows for us all, to police student activists at places of learning everywhere. None of us are free until Palestine is free.
The earlier, original version of this essay appeared in In These Times magazine in January 2024.

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Jeff Severns Guntzel @forestofthings.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

For the second night in a row, I’ve walked up the stairs to an empty second floor, followed a buzzing sound that led to the bathroom, and found an electric toothbrush buzzing in the darkness. This is the ghost I’ve always wanted. ✨

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Jeff Severns Guntzel @forestofthings.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

"If Fortran is the lingua franca, then certainly it must be true that BASIC is the lingua playpen," said Kurtz, approximately four centuries ago.

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Jeff Severns Guntzel @forestofthings.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The prison's website, describing an event called "Convict Poker": "Four inmate cowboys sit at a table in the middle of the arena, playing a friendly game of poker. Suddenly, a wild bull is released with the sole purpose of unseating the poker players. The last man remaining seated is the winner."

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Grandma Angie 🇦🇺🇨🇦 @sunvsice.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Language matters.Indigenous people and communities are rights-holders rather than stakeholders. 👇

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Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Fox is playing at every bar and airport in America meanwhile every major newspaper is behind a paywall

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/11/2024

Anyway since we are talking about #reading, a reminder that this time of year is ESSENTIAL for indie booksellers and you should give BOOKS as holiday gifts. Let them read books! I’ve made a shopping list for you to use at your local indie. 📚💙 bookshop.org/lists/2024-g...

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2024 Gift List

Check out this list on Bookshop

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Jeff Severns Guntzel @forestofthings.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I'm blessed to have a great machining mentor. I had him over for takeout and an evening (successfully!) problem-solving the disassembly of a century-old machine. Both of us full of wonder. Growing up, I stayed away from this stuff because, well, dudes. I’m so glad I overcame and found my people.

Workshop with takeout food on the work table, next to the parts of a 100-year-old Rockford lathe.

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Jeff Severns Guntzel @forestofthings.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

A dispatch from the before the before the before times when COUNTRY COMFORTS RECORDS AND WATER BEDS was a place you could go.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 07/05/2023

Doing and promoting creative work in the midst of the fracturing of social media is hard as fuck.

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Jeff Severns Guntzel @forestofthings.bsky.social · 06/05/2023

I *do not* have time for this sort of trolling.

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