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What we stand for now. A new Melian Dialogue: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

STORY + DATA: The scale of Canadian efforts to boycott US goods is becoming clear. New border data shows crossborder traffic has utterly plummeted in the last month. Southbound traffic during the recent holiday weekend dropped by more than 40% from last year. fvcurrent.com/p/border-tra...

Just got an email that a peer-reviewed academic paper that was originally supposed to be published in 2012/13 will in fact finally be published in 2025.

Biweekly on Fridays, session zero this Friday, at the Badwolf Adventure Studios in Coon Rapids. 1 seat left! badwolfadventurestudios.com/campaign/the...

Recent reporting from the Star Tribune shows that the Neighborhood Safety Department (NSD) is in absolute disarray. But one character is missing from this story. Only one person has complete authority over public safety in Minneapolis: Mayor Jacob Frey. https://buff.ly/4hLIDik

Thank you to all of our players and to Bad Wolf for a fantastic Con of the North 2025. See you all next year!

The Koski mayoral campaign is coming out with some strong shitposting. This video is asking U of MN students if the things Mayor Frey has done in office would be a red flag in a relationship:

The position I'd like to see House and Senate Democrats take is pretty simple: We refuse to cooperate with Republicans on anything until they stop breaking the law and trashing the Constitution. We want Musk out, DOGE dissolved, and the Trump administration complying with federal court orders.

Minneapolis History Facts: The creation of an entirely new role in 2022—Commissioner of Community Safety—came about because our city's troubles were so great that relying solely on a single police chief wasn't enough to handle the job of attacking the mayor's political opponents.

In our Daggerheart campaign of Descent into Avernus: one character is a sorcerer whose powers come from Tiamat; one is a contract lawyer currently working for Baphomet, Gargauth, and a third employer; one is an acolyte of Selûne, and one is a Hellrider wondering what the heck she got herself into.

💥First Avenue workers across all 7 venues voted UNANIMOUSLY to ratify their groundbreaking union contract!!! Workers won: -Big raises, longevity pay that respects years of hard work -improved scheduling, training and safety policies -protections for LGBT+ workers & more!

kendrick lamar and sza performing "luther" at the #SuperBowl .

It took years but finally found the Nerves LP; it's punk, it's technical, it's utterly captivating.

The policy starts Monday and applies to already awarded grants. The UofM received a $59.2 million grant in *December*. Republicans just defunded cancer research in MN and blew a huge hole in our state budget. This isn’t a potential future problem. It’s here, now, and devastating.

Last week, the Council unanimously passed a resolution supporting the Neighbors not Enemies Act by @ilhanmn.bsky.social to combat the Trump administration’s executive orders that endanger our immigrant neighbors.

In some GREAT FUCKING NEWS, an Indigenous unhoused community is 3% away from being able to purchase land to help their community avoid brutal police evictions!!! If you can drop even just five dollars towards this fund, you will be helping to save lives. givebutter.com/NenookaasiOz...

Grateful to be volunteering with people in my community who care about making sure all our neighbors are informed, fed, and welcomed.

Coercive, extractive, untrustworthy: I don't think the tech industry appreciates how deeply it has alienated the public. Where they might have been given the benefit of the doubt in the past, prevailing attitudes now are deeply cynical, and (largely) correctly so.

This was an excellent program. The Minnesota Orchestra gave a wide-ranging tour of American, and particularly black American compositions, and have useful context for each piece and how they related to each other.

Make Billionaires Unsafe Again

Y'all pick a lane. Then make a little progress in your lane each day. Every serious, experienced organizer I know is Doing Their Thing. Instead of freaking out about each bit of bad news, we're in our lanes rapidly building dual power infrastructure and networks that don't rely on the goverment.

Canada is part of NATO.

When the flames engulfed the home of the brave The stampede toward the border was in vain Faces palmed, faces paled As the wall they said would make them great could not be scaled

Make American oligarchs international pariahs. Freeze their assets. Seize them if needed.

I became a citizen in 2017, so assuming that we're still doing elections and all, and that citizenship hasn't been retroactively stripped, I'll be eligible to be a U.S. Senator with a backbone in 2027.

The thing about the fascism debate is that Moyn et al were correct that centrist institutionalist were cynically using the fascism label to mobilize support for defending the status quo and did not actually believe it themselves. The problem is that MAGA actually *is* fascistic!

California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order: "It does nothing" "It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach" Will not comply.

Went to Build-a-bear at MoA for the 1yo, and 3 of the older kids decided to bring theirs with as well. It was charming.

We're 1 player shy of kicking off this campaign, biweekly Monday nights. You will play as Heralds of Mithras, entombed in the 40s and seemingly lost forever until you were reawakened in 2012 to a greatly changed world. Inexperienced players very welcome! startplaying.games/adventure/cl...