liam and his dad are home! and someone please get rep. castro a coat!

We don’t usually get this kinda snow, the light and fluffy stuff. And considering the ice-sleet mess from last week is still here we’re pretty frozen. But I shoveled the driveway into a pile and the kiddo made a cave for the cat and we needed this moment of play. Now. Back to quilting.

Email me your receipts by 7pm central on 2/1! Boost please! MplsAngryMittens@proton.me StandWithMinnesota.com Rent funds are the most immediate need. Here is one: chuffed.org/project/1671...

I’ll suggest this rent fund: it’s the end of the month. We need the help! www.gofundme.com/f/75ccxs-nei...

Donate to Neighbors Helping Neighbors in Need, organized by Matt Lang

Your help is desperately needed. We are a collective of three schools, five churche… Matt Lang needs your support for Neighbors Helping Neighbors in Need

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Help MN and maybe win these mittens! I’ll draw a name 2/1, so get me your name by 7pm central tomorrow. Every $5 you give to mutual aid and every phone call to your reps is an entry. Email a pic of your receipt/call to mplsAngryMittens@proton.me

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes. n.pr/4c3cdzs

To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog

Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes.

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Posted on the farm IG, but moving it here also. I made a mini quilt Rebel Loon for @anniekp.bsky.social. I’m gonna make a few more + protest mini quilts to raffle away. Want one? Call your senators. More details below. +

When the group chat with your neighbors is going wild at 9:30pm because you’re all trying to figure out if that frozen-water-covered dead tree in another neighbor’s yard is gonna fall on the power line…it’s leeeeeeaning.

a cat is sitting in front of a laptop with the words when the group chat is lit on the bottom

ALT: a cat is sitting in front of a laptop with the words when the group chat is lit on the bottom

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The most humbling part of my winter-storm-craft is that I, apparently, cannot count to three 21 times in a row to rib the top of this here sock pattern. I’ve frogged it 8 times today. I blame the magic loop. It doesn’t feel very magical. But hey, the power is still on. One more storm band to go 🤞🏻

It's the PTO moms and spreadsheet dads and other random-ass Minnesotans concerned for their neighbors. There is no one central organizing org, just a ton of people who give a shit. It's both beautiful that it's happening and laughable that anyone thinks there's some broader apparatus at work.

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 6mo ago

James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.

a non comprehensive list of things MN are doing right now legal observing in a rapid response group legal observing because they happened to be in their community and came across ICE participating in or supporting rapid response groups safety patroling their schools, businesses, daycares 1/5

We’re about to get smashed with some big winter weather. So I’ve spent most of the past two days getting the farm ready for the hit. The last task was adding some wind-breaks to the chicken cook so the girls are more cozy. We call the motif “random farm upcycled” as it’s mostly scraps and trash.

Minnesota! It’s cold! These don’t have to be pretty and they let you keep your hands in your pockets. Old sheet, old tshirt? He’ll, you could glue it if you don’t have a sewing machine.

Eli's back to talk more about recursion and chaos on Graph Time. In this episode he shows us how to make a Sierpinski triangle with recursion and randomness and then we play around with other shapes! youtu.be/2plWsAPUdR4

Recursion and Chaos with Eli part 2 #desmos #graphing #maths #mathematicalpatterns #iteachmath

YouTube video by Graph Time with Sara & Sean

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Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways

This veteran here in Fairbanks has an important message and mission.

You have another chance! I'm making another pair. Purple for Prince. Email me evidence that you're helping Minnesota at mplsAngryMittens@proton.me SO many ways to help. See next skeets for how to enter to win these.

Annie loves Mpls@anniekp.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Thank you to everyone for helping and congrats to @malmeida.bsky.social the winner of these sweet mittens! We donated to all kinds of immigrants right organizations and are building ties that connect us to our neighbors.

So, a giant winter storm is about to hit us. We will probably loose power for several days. Now taking recs for knitting books I can get on Libby before the storm so I can finally learn how to add/drop stitches, maybe some new stitches, and level up so I can one day knit a pair of socks.

I love that the country is inspired by MN. That’s great. Stop telling me that. We get it. Tell us what you’re doing to help. Are you organizing your community? Sending us lawyers? Pressuring your reps? Boycotting? Who and how? Donating to our very public mutual aid efforts? HELP US.

In an effort to do more creative things with my time, aka be on my phone less, I have gotten back into sewing and have been taking a few online classes. Over the weekend I finished this quilt jacket from an old bed spread. I’ve now got a comfy warm house coat for my remote work life.

If you’re not calling your reps you need to. Over the last week when I say I’m calling about defunding 🧊 the staffers have gone from, to paraphrase, “that’s nice honey, now hush” to “tell me more about why you feel this way” and that’s giving me a lil hope right now in my purple yet red state.

Hey folks! You can still win these mittens! Donate to any org doing good. Send me a picture of the receipt. DM or you can even blank out details and reply with the image here.

Well...this explains why I can't make outgoing calls at the moment... [Insert: This is fine coffee in a burning room gif]

Not here and want to help Minnesota? Read or listen to this story, and then please spread it among your networks. Then call legislators to raise hell. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists

MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advo...

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I cannot stress how important it is that you read all of this. Spread it far and wide. Whipple is the building where people are being taken after being kidnapped in Minneapolis.

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 7mo ago

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

I wrote up a bit about Minneapolis right now, mostly to share with my coworkers and family, but if it works for you, you can share it, too. arbitrarilyclosecom.wordpress.com/2026/01/11/o...

On Minneapolis in January 2026

I have loved this city for a long time, but never as much as I have loved it this last week. This is a long post. I promise that it ends with some hope for all of us. Over the last month, but espec…

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We’re at $440. If you’re outside Minneapolis and you want to help, WE NEED MONEY. And maybe you’ll win sweet mittens! Suggested orgs in next skeet.

Annie loves Mpls@anniekp.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ice sucks! Help me raise money for good things. 1. Donate to an immigrant rights org like www.ilcm.org 2. Send me a picture of the receipt. Every $5 is an entry. I knit these mittens and I will draw a name on 1/17/26 and send these to the winner. We’ve already raised $165! Can we make it to $300?

Ice sucks! Help me raise money for good things. 1. Donate to an immigrant rights org like www.ilcm.org 2. Send me a picture of the receipt. Every $5 is an entry. I knit these mittens and I will draw a name on 1/17/26 and send these to the winner. We’ve already raised $165! Can we make it to $300?