Ethan Pants (he/him)

@ethanpants.northsky.social

East Coast born, Minneapolis living // Ward 1 🐻. Visibly able, white, queer & trans, parent, spouse. John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award® winner. https://www.standwithminnesota.com by @ziibiing.com

I think it's good and cool, actually, that Anders Folk is running to be the guy in charge of prosecuting ICE agents while taking money from the lawyer defending ICE agents.

A screenshot of Anders Folk's campaign finance report showing a donation from Christopher Madel of Madel P.A.

$500 million in taxpayer money to carry out state-sanctioned ethnic cleansing. We’re here because of democrats like Angie Craig who voted for the Laken Riley Act and helped Trump carry all this out. Minnesota can’t send Trump a helping hand in the Senate and must defeat Angie Craig next Tuesday

Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social · 5h ago

Breaking: CoreCivic has announced they've sold the 1,600 bed Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minn., to the U.S. through the Department of Homeland Security for $495.6 million. CoreCivic will still manage the facility, which is expected to start receiving ICE detainees this fall.

Good morning nerds, have you ever felt like everything happens so much, and you would like newer, better things to happen so much? I have a systems-level theory about why the US finds that an impossible goal to achieve. I bet it'll surprise you. www.winstonhearn.com/wrote/2026/s...

Systems Story for the United States

A post trying to make sense of why the US refuses to respond to the climate crisis—which I believe is an existential threat for large portions of humanity, that also provides an explanation for the AI...

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Convinced Kaoly Her is going ahead with this encampment sweep this morning despite almost everyone in the know telling her to delay because she thinks she’d otherwise appear politically weak. It’s awful of the mayor to put vulnerable people at greater risk just to try and save her political career.

MPR News@mprnews.org · 10h ago

Kat Donnelly, a nurse with Healthcare for the Homeless, spent Tuesday scrambling to refill medications and make sure patients knew where to find her ahead of the Pig's Eye Park encampment closure Wednesday morning.

Hey Minneapolis. Can someone explain it to me like I’m an idiot: why is MPD allowed to just spend money they don’t have and then say “we’re over budget.” And there’s never any questions that the city has to pay?

smartphones and the internet, man. they might have destroyed journalism, driven people insane by the tens of millions, fueled a rise in global fascism, and literally touched off genocides, but at least they seem to have caused a global collapse in relationship formation too

Up early with the animals, then slept a bit longer. Long bike ride, gardening, repotted plants, started laundry, picked up doggo 💩. Now shower, weed, and Brasa for dinner with extended family. Red Sox game later? Nice lil Saturgay.

Sun sneaked out for a few minutes tonight in Minneapolis! Lake of the Isles, the new Metro Transit West Lake Street Station and Bde Maka Ska.

Colorful sunset over Minneapolis on July 31, 2026