Has a marvelous walk with author, mom, and Minneapolis School Board candidate @shannongibney.bsky.social today. Since she’s running unopposed, let’s support her colleagues Becca Dryden and Christin Crabtree. Links below!
Kathryn Kysar
@darklake.bsky.social
Writer. Editor. Professor. Friend. Proud Minnesotan. She/They. Poetry Books: Pretend the World, Dark Lake. Recent words in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Mollyhouse, Voicemail Poems, Water~Stone Review.
Honored to have three Lake Superior poems in @raymondluczak.com’s marvelous new anthology FEET IN THE WAVES from Modern History Press. It features work from @sheilapacka.com, @paulacisco177.bsky.social, Margaret Hasse, and many others. Look for upcoming readings in Michigan and Minnesota!
Thanks to @major7mag.bsky.social for sharing my poem “Smoke”! Grateful for their fun publication.
Major 7th Magazine@major7mag.bsky.social · 2mo agoInhale deep to "Smoke on the Water" • Deep Purple by Kathryn Kysar and feel the wild desperation between girlhood and what we believe we should become when we leave it. 💜 @darklake.bsky.social www.major7mag.com/post/smoke-o...
This is a devastating interview. Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good. Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.
Unbelievably chilling, shameful collaborationist behavior by a medical association Ta-Nehisi Coates: “We'll come out of this. And let me tell you something: If none of us are here to see it, tell your children who the cowards were.”
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is an example of a scientific association censoring its members, real scientists, for defending attacks on science. The police were called to remove the scientists for handing out hard copies of this editorial. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
I support the people of New Jersey and those in need at Delaney Hall. Perhaps you can help them out?
Staciaann, Esq.@staciaann.bsky.social · 2mo agoHey Minnesotans - time to Stand with New Jersey! They’re going through what we did with Whipple. Info on how to help here: www.standwithminnesota.com/jersey Thanks to @ziibiing.com!
BREAKING: A Russian attack drone has struck a residential building in Galați, Romania, according to reports from the scene. Romania is a NATO member state. Initial reports indicate multiple people were injured.
Zohran Mamdani: "We will protect tenants from bad landlords block by block. We will support tenant unions block by block. We will deliver some of the strongest and most expansive tenant protections in the United States of America block by block."
Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com
@shannongibney.bsky.social’s important new picture book WHERE IS MY SISTER was released this week by @uminnpress.bsky.social. You can find the book at @redballoonbookshop.bsky.social and other independent bookstores!
Minnesotans have said enough is enough. We are demanding action to protect our kids. House Republicans need to show some courage and tell Minnesotans where they stand.
GIFFORDS@giffords.org · 3mo agoToday, Minnesota students and gun safety advocates delivered 8,000 signed letters to House Speaker Lisa Demuth demanding action on gun violence prevention.
'Monstrous' Trump Rule Change Could Slash Benefits to 400,000 Adults With Down Syndrome and Other Disabilities "As they push to build a $400 million ballroom, they are stripping disabled Americans of their meager benefits."
'Monstrous' Trump Rule Change Could Slash Benefits to 400,000 Adults With Down Syndrome and Other Disabilities
"As they push to build a $400 million ballroom, they are stripping disabled Americans of their meager benefits," said one congressional candidate.
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New mixtape up for you! It will be one of our last. Details in my editor's letter Now playing: Volume 27 www.major7mag.com/post/literar...
Literary Mixtape Volume 27
On folding.
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Thank you Henrick Karoliszyn, @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, Casey Jo Graham Welmers, @jeremymauser.bsky.social, Lizzy Turner, Colin Brightwell, @darklake.bsky.social, @joshshepard.bsky.social for your lovely work Their songs are up on the master playlist, give it a follow: t.co/sIV6Q5IKRO
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Seems to me like Trump is desperately begging Iran to sign a replica of the Obama JCPOA he tore up. All for the low low price of thousands dead, global instability, high energy prices, and a toll on ships through the once-free strait of Hormuz.
Join us on SUNDAY, April 19th at Icehouse in Minneapolis to celebrate Truartspeaks with performances by Douglas Kearney, Desdamona, Valerie Deus, @seemore.bsky.social, and many more. Doors open at 3:00 and show starts at 4:00. Hope to see you there!
Time for Canada to save Minnesota! www.savetheboundarywaters.org/updates/what...
What about Canada?
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NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)
Combining two of today's topics with this video of Bruce Springsteen at a No Nukes concert in 1979 in NYC. #BruceSpringsteen #nonukes www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVfh...
Bruce Springsteen - The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts - Live In New York 1979 - Full Concert (HD)
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In his later years, Hertzel remembered, her father confided, "'There were just so many of you. There wasn't enough love to go around.' I thought that was heartbreaking. It's wrong. There's always enough love."
'Ghosts of Fourth Street' recalls a 1960s Duluth childhood
Laurie Hertzel's memoir, describing her early family life and the untimely death of her brother, captures a small world that turned on its axis in 1966.
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Author, activist, parent, and educator @shannongibney.bsky.social's important oped on the current funding crisis for Minneapolis Public Schools: racketmn.com/after-the-ic...
After the ICE Invasion, We Must Invest in Public Schools - Racket
The priorities of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and MPD reveal 'a kind of moral rot that must be addressed head on.'
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Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.
That Librarian: Amanda Jones@librarianjones.com · 4mo agoThis is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance. gofund.me/f7704eb98 Read what happened to this hero: www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...