ariel

@aritalks.bsky.social

Writer, basketball fan, and tea enthusiast. She/her. Minneapolis 💙

Seeing that video of him going onto the court to yell at the players makes me worried for the players. But, fuck, I am thinking about the LGBTQ W fans, especially the trans fans, sitting next to or around these bigoted zealots. What about their safety?

Refs should have awarded Cloud a bonus one-on-one possession vs Enes, so she could score on his slow, uncoordinated ass and shame him out of public life forever

Cathy Englebert is a fucking clown. They would never allow somebody into an NBA game to harass players. Sophie Cunningham should be fucking fined and suspended indefinitely for ushering that bullshit in.

"The truth is, nobody could've foreseen that little dweeb coming back to Minneapolis for a flying tackle by Spider-Man. Therefore we find ourselves another $20 million in the hole on police overtime."

yup. legal observers would drive home to find ICE outside parked at their house. smirking and casually threatening them. I appreciate any and all investigative journalism, and also everyone knew this was happening in real time

Nate Pentz@natepentz.bsky.social · 2w ago

The assumption during legal observer training and rr network was that Feds were already present and assume that they were already there. They were caught on camera going through @lydiakauppi.bsky.social garbage, we assumed they were following people doing grocery deliveries.

the theme of the day is that surveillance is a plague upon society, a fact widely agreed upon across generations but also somehow being allowed to oppress society writ large, I hate how casually authoritarianism has been accepted

the government watch list of Minneapolis leftists gotta be 3/4 of the city’s population lol congrats to everyone on the unamerican activities roster for being the hottest, smartest, most humane people in the country

I feel like this is a pretty cursed question, even when the answer "helps" make the case against mass deportation. We've got to get comfortable arguing from a place of morality & respect for all rather than acceding to the capitalist fallacy that people are only valuable for their economic impact.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2w ago

Do mass deportations help or hurt the economy? A new study from @brookings.edu examines employment data from US cities, those targeted by ICE raids and those which weren't. The study found that cities hit by ICE raids saw significantly greater job losses than the controls.

We compare employment outcomes between cities that experienced a sharp surge in ICE activity in the first half of 2025 and those that did not. This approach isolates the specific effect of enforcement surges on local economies and rules out other potential drivers of job loss, such as tariffs, war, inflation, and AI.

We find that employment trajectories in surge and non-surge cities were closely aligned before enforcement began. They diverged precisely when ICE arrests intensified. The gap widened over time, and the knock-on effects extended far beyond those directly targeted. In surge cities, employment fell most in immigrant-intensive sectors, but job losses spread further. American-born workers also experienced job loss.

The current Lakers owner is being investigated by Trump's government for tax fraud. Today, it was announced that he is selling the team to a member of the Kushner family. A complete coincidence, I'm sure.

The Lakers are now quite literally a mickey mouse franchise and I now get to say it's morally wrong to be a Lakers fan? this is a fantastic day Not for the NBA, this is a horrible day for the NBA, but for me personally? Yes!

FUCK ICE is a winning message. And I don’t think many in the media realized how broad support for that message really is. Like, who did you think the Lutheran ladies holding clandestine no-phones ICE resistance and mutual aid meetings in church basements were gonna vote for???