A Minnesota defendant warns that authoritarian governments can criminalize effective, lawful organizing, as prosecutors cite meeting moderation, fundraising, social-media posts, and Signal chats as conspiracy evidence.

Authoritarians Will Target Effective Legal Organizing, Minnesota Defendant Warns

Minnesota defendants charged with conspiracy are alleged to have moderated meetings and posted on social media.

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This is the way. We cannot have a Republican governor. Do whatever mental gymnastics you need to make it okay for you to fill in the box next to her name on the ballot. November is not the time for a protest vote.

Naomi Kritzer@naomikritzer.bsky.social · 7h ago

Amy Klobuchar is frustratingly centrist but I hope people will join me in November in voting against Lisa Demuth. I want her loss to be historic. We'll all know why.

FUCK ICE

Becca Patterson@mreauow.bsky.social · 17h ago

FUCK ICE

That sound you hear is Minnesota loudly saying FUCK ICE

let me paint a picture for you. imagine angie craig is james longstreet's rebs streaming into the gap in the union line foolishly left by dan sickles the useless wastrel. now imagine peggy flanagan is the men of the first minnesota

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 18h ago

is peggy doing well

I've done my part (#363 at my polling place), have you done yours?

Minnesota primaries are today, and YOU should go vote if you haven't already cast a ballot! Not sure what's on your ballot or where your polling place is? Find out here! myballotmn.sos.mn.gov Don't recognize the names on your ballot? Find out more here: naomikritzer.com/2026/08/06/p...

81 years ago today, on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped upon the city of Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States. This was 3 days after the first atomic attack on Hiroshima.

Little penguin couple holding hands at the beach in South Africa Original post

this print is making me feel a little weepy

🧵 A few thoughts on the geography of #SaintPaul 's shifting homeless encampments. The Fish Hatchery camp that Mayor Her forcibly cleared this week was on some of the most isolated land in the city, over 2 miles from downtown StP, surrounded by RRs, river, highways, & cliffs.

Media hasn't caught up yet but a "moderate Democrat" everywhere other than Washington is someone who only wants to put this administration's leaders in jail

Any particular reason @kobey4governor.bsky.social wasn't invited?

MPR News@mprnews.org · last wk.

Democrat Amy Klobuchar shared a debate stage with Republican governor candidates Lisa Demuth, Mike Lindell and Kendall Qualls to discuss rural policy and what they’d do if given the title by voters.

"Every Flock license plate reader camera operated by the Winona Police Department has been sawed off and stolen in what investigators believe was a coordinated [act of civic duty]." Blinding the cyclops, wrecking the panopticon. crimethinc.com/blindingthec...

All of Winona Police Department’s Flock cameras cut down and stolen

Lost cameras valued at about $24,000

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Me at midnight- I'll read a few more pages on @naomikritzer.bsky.social's latest before calling it a night. Me at 3:00am- That was a fun read! :checks clock: Oh, crap....

I just had to

Chloé Stawski@chlowski.bsky.social · 3y ago

I had a silly idea, I have to draw it and I apologize in advance

I need y'all to hear my thoughts. Being poor is not a moral failure. Being unemployed in an economy where there are no jobs to be had is not your fault. Being considered a cog in a machine by billionaires instead of real flesh and blood is a problem when they keep telling you "life is precious."

I just learned that a group of Narwhals is called a ‘blessing’, and I like this!

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

People say you can’t love others if you don’t love yourself, but that’s not true Everyone has times when they can’t love themselves. Even then, you can still love someone else deeply If you can’t love yourself right now, please don’t worry One day, you’ll be able to love both yourself and others🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Mendeia@mendeia.bsky.social · 2w ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

If you do not fight at the barricade of trans healthcare you will fight at the barricade of the most stigmatized medication you are on and you will do it with fewer experienced allies because you left trans people to die.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 6mo ago

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Peter O'Toole for "Lawrence of Arabia"

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 3w ago

Name an actor/actress that should've got an Oscar.

#OnThisDay July 20 1934: "Bloody Friday" in Minneapolis, as 45,000 workers are on strike. Without warning, police open fire at unarmed Teamsters trying to prevent trucks from moving in the Warehouse District. 67 picketers are wounded, most shot in the back, and 2 are killed.

AI is a bubble and it's going to burst, catastrophically. Good thing corporate stooge Mark Carney has invested Canada's entire future ecology & economy on a vapour industry doomed to failure. And get @doctorow.pluralistic.net's "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI" from @versobooks.bsky.social.

Solidarity forever! The 15 have a long road ahead of them, and they're going to need a lot of money for their legal defense. If you can, please donate below: chuffed.org/project/1865...

Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers

On the morning of June 16th 2026 fifteen anti-ICE organizers were indicted on federal conspiracy charges in Minnesota, 12 of whom were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities. This fundrai...

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taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3w ago

emmett doyle, part of minnesota 15 indicted for resisting ICE, joins brass solidarity band - formed by community members around george floyd square - to play “solidarity forever” at the annual memorial for the 1934 minneapolis teamsters strike we have such a special and strong community here

@naomikritzer.bsky.social called this in "Catfishing on CatNet," only the topic was sex ed. This will end exactly as badly as she predicted, only not nearly as funny.

Mashable@mashable.com · 4w ago

AI company Realbotix is piloting STEM robots for rural schools.

Prosecute the ones who pulled the trigger. Prosecute the ones who gave the orders. Prosecute those who cover for the above. ABOLISH ICE

Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · last mo.

Authorities say ICE shot and killed a person this morning in Maine. www.wmtw.com/article/signific...

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Unacceptable ways to mock Lindsey Graham in death: -"He was gay lol" Acceptable ways to mock Lindsey Graham in death: -Literally every other possible insult