The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
You don't have to answer the door for the Feds. Do not voluntarily talk to the Feds. If they have a warrant signed by an actual judge, then they can do precisely what the warrant says. But DO NOT TALK TO THE FEDS. Do not answer the door. If you're arrested, your only words are "I want a lawyer."
C. Robert Cargill@crobertcargill.bsky.social · 2mo agoICE observers in Minneapolis have begun receiving visits from FBI agents sent to intimidate them. A close friend-combat vet, mother, no criminal record-who was a volunteer observer during the ICE crisis, had a visit and was threatened for taking photos and videoed, claiming that filming was illegal.
Europe is going to build camp where they will concentrate undesirables before getting rid of them. I wonder if there's a term for that? This is no different than the MAGA plan for White supremacy. The EU can pretend it's better all it wants. It is not.
Jorge Liboreiro@jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 2mo agoMember states and the European Parliament have struck a deal on the Return Regulation to build deportation camps (aka return hubs) in faraway countries. It’s a turning point for migration policy. The EU migration enters uncharted territory.
I cannot say this loudly enough: we need everyone to know what is happening at Delaney Hall. 300 detainees inside are on Day 7 of a hunger and labor strike as of today. ICE is beating, gassing, tasing and assaulting protestors outside every night, and it is getting worse.
I guess periodic reminder that AFAIK there’s no real evidence grades correlate to learning/knowing/understanding/really anything at all in any kind of meaningfully generalizable way.
I do still think you should vote for me, but also come to my matchup for @anniezaleski.bsky.social’s moving meditation on finding the right guitar and sacrificing for your freedom.
March Xmas 2026@marchxness.bsky.social · 5mo agoNo rest for the dismal! Round 2 games are tipped off! We have Celine vs REM, Gill vs Loeb, Belle vs Hersh, and Sade vs No Doubt on today's slate. Read, listen, vote by 9am AZ time 3/12 at marchxness.com (and get in your votes on today's games in the next 83')
Twin Cities folks, especially UMN: on March 5, with no warning, the U announced it is closing the Boynton Health Dental Clinic, which provides dental care for faculty, staff, and students. Petition to stop the closure can be found here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/um...
UMN: Don't Close Boynton Dental Clinic!
On March 5th, the University of Minnesota announced plans to permanently close the Boynton Health Dental Clinic, which has served the university community for nearly 106 years. This closure will hav...
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As you've noticed we are not tipping off any games this weekend (we're taking weekends off this March), but the first round will resume on Monday with Nirvana vs Sinead, Tori vs Wilco, Cranberries vs Cat Power, and Eric Clapton vs Grandpaboy
Calling all forces of twee-ness, aid me now, sad cute Scots are in need of your votes
March Xmas 2026@marchxness.bsky.social · 5mo agoMARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION DAY 5 SCORES, 3 hours to go: Lauryn Hill 73, Belle & Sebastian 71 Des’ree 133, Goo Goo Dolls 110 Ben Folds Five 112, Skid Row 52 Lisa Loeb 94, Lee Ann Womack 43 Some close ones and surprises this AM. Go read, listen, and vote by 9am AZ time 3/6 at marchxness.com
MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION DAY 5 HALFTIME(ISH) SCORES Belle & Sebastian 51, Lauryn Hill 50 Des’ree 99, Goo Goo Dolls 79 Ben Folds Five 77, Skid Row 29 Lisa Loeb 65, Lee Ann Womack 27 Vote by 9am AZ time 3/6 at marchxness.com
I’m maybe sad because of what I wrote about but mostly I’m sad about being up against Lauryn Hill. But I am still sad around being a teenage Belle & Sebastian fan, so you can read about that too.
March Xmas 2026@marchxness.bsky.social · 5mo agoRound 1, day 5! Listen, read, VOTE! marchxness.com#/1stround-hi...
MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION DAY 3 SCORES, 100’ to play: REM 133, Liz Phair 110 Vince Gill 96, Foo Fighters 75 Collective Soul 151, Michael McDonald 23 Paula Cole 107, Magnetic Fields 68 Read, listen, vote by 9am 3/4 at marchxness.com
March Sadness 90s Edition
A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)
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March Sadness 90s DAY 1 SCORES, 80' to go: Celine Dion 167, Silver Jews 77 Neutral Milk Hotel 152, Annie Lennox 55 Bush 141, Fiona Apple 71 Ani Difranco 143, Wallflowers 69 Read, listen, vote by 9am at marchxness.com 3/2 games will tip off in a bit!
March Sadness 90s Edition
A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)
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Reminder that while we'll try to update the bsky and IG periodically during the tournament, the Xness Substack is THE Official Comms Channel of March Sadness 90s Edition. It's free to subscribe, and you'll receive emails each day with links to the day's games: open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...
39 Hours to Tip Off
The Games Go Live Sunday at 9am AZ time
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Fresno Unified student protests continue near downtown ICE office. Police called to break up altercation Students from multiple Fresno Unified schools walked out of school Tuesday afternoon, converging on City Hall in downtown Fresno. According to a student interviewed by Fresnoland, the walkout…
Fresno Unified student protests continue near downtown ICE office. Police called to break up altercation
Students from multiple Fresno Unified schools walked out of school Tuesday afternoon, converging on City Hall in downtown Fresno. According to a student interviewed by Fresnoland, the walkout was organized through an Instagram post that included the names of more than 15 middle schools and high schools. Martha C., a high school junior, took part in the downtown protest. She and three of her peers from Duncan Polytechnical High School caught a central Fresno bus and made their way to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office on L Street.
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“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
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This has become a key part of my classes that include WW2. The Nazis were almost entirely dweebs and losers who were disliked and uncompetitive, unleashing resentment at people who were smarter and more charismatic than they were. The “evil super genius” shtick is all a fiction.
Dave Against The Machine🏴@johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe nazis themselves were not some clever masterminds where everything they did went perfect. They were also comical idiots who did ridiculous things, like invading Russia in the winter. They gained power because the opposition couldn’t understand that the fascists were not rational agents.
Gavin Newsom is an incompetent transphobic centrist who is unfit for elected office. His repeated failures to protect the basic human rights of his own constituents is clear misconduct in office. He should be impeached immediately.
LGBTQ Nation@lgbtqnation.com · 10mo agoGavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85
“Trad cath” is, weirdly, code for “unfamiliar with Catholicism”
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 10mo agoFar-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining. The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?
Just pondering AI-usage/Ozempic/gym-obsession as part of a grand unified psy-op to encourage alienation from self and others, and as a backdoor to introducing far-right self-image to otherwise non-inclined people. Interacting with this stuff feels increasingly out of joint, and that seems telling.
If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.
This is happening Thursday!!! I would love to see folks come out to this
prince egregious, heir apparent@sonofahurricane.bsky.social · 11mo agoTwin Cities! Two FREE abolition related events happening next week/weekend! On Thursday, September 11 at 6pm, the Committee to Free the Mississippi Five is showing Calls from Home, and a panel after w/ Garrett Felber and our incarcerated comrade Loretta Pierre. www.eventbrite.com/e/calls-from...
Twin Cities! Two FREE abolition related events happening next week/weekend! On Thursday, September 11 at 6pm, the Committee to Free the Mississippi Five is showing Calls from Home, and a panel after w/ Garrett Felber and our incarcerated comrade Loretta Pierre. www.eventbrite.com/e/calls-from...
Calls From Home in Solidarity with Free the Mississippi Five
Join Study and Struggle for a night of learning and organizing.
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Wow it’s Fresno and Saint Paul working together
Fresnoland@fresnoland.bsky.social · 12mo agoTrump admin threatens to strip federal money over woke language. Fresno is fighting him in court The City of Fresno filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging its use of executive orders to strip local governments of federal funds over what the White House and others have…
When we were all supposed to support the Ivies as bulwarks of academic freedom despite their elitist disdain for everyone else and then they go full Quisling anyway…almost makes u think that they didn’t care about academic freedom or the purity of knowledge in the first place…
I think about this quite a lot insofar as it gives the lie to two writing extremes: academia on the one hand and social media on the other. Both, interestingly, are supposedly about writing-as-thought, in a mediated way on the one hand and an immediate way on the other.
JP@jpbrammer.bsky.social · last yr.one thing that social media has done to make writing more boring is encouraging people to minimize the ways in which they're inconsistent, unfair, illogical, messy. to be clear, the responsibility of the boring writing this pressure inspires remains on the writer. you gotta just write it anyway
Important to note that this is true at public universities as well. I haven’t met a single non-affiliated Minnesotan who knew how UMN was run, anything about the insanely conservative slant of the Board, or that it had all purposely been constructed to prevent any kind of democratic oversight.
Michael Yarbrough (he/him)@mwyarbrough.bsky.social · last yr.Boards of Trustees ***LIKE*** the Trump demands. They ***AGREE*** with them. They like the idea of putting the screws on activist, lefty, and Muslim students. They like the idea of a whiter student body and conservative curriculum. They want these things and think $200 million is a fair price.
You love to see elite (and elitist) institutions demand support from the larger academic community they actively disdain and disparage and then turn around and flush it all down the toilet in order to preserve a cozy relationship with the ruling power. Almost like it’s not actually about knowledge…
everyone who said we shouldn't abolish ICE should spend some time thinking about the mistaken ideas that led them to that incorrect take