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Willy Lee (they/them)
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Enby 🏳️‍⚧️ learning to free themselves from the patriarchy and getting to know anarchy
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Hey!

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Do you think they’re awesome enough for you to spend a minute nominating them?

I bet they are!

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I Love My Librarian Award
Nominate a librarian you love for the 2026 I Love My Librarian Award - they could win $5,000 and the recognition of a lifetime! Nominations close December 15, 2025!
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November 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Hey twin cities friends!

There’s a new website for the Mn Rapid Response network, now called Monarca.

It has the hotline to call if you see 🧊 activity as well as Know Your Rights information and lists upcoming community trainings.

A great resource. Please share widely!

monarcamn.org
Monarca
monarcamn.org
October 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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I really think if you aren’t coming around in your abolition journey at THIS point, there may be no hope for you. They’re showing up in riot gear to help modern day slave catchers. They’re gassing people who are videoing to make public what they’re up to. They’re all bad.
We have got to collectively help people understand that of course the local* cops are acting as an arm of the machine. That is their purpose.

People need to grow their minds & grieve what they've been conditioned to believe about cops being there to help/serve/protect.

(*wherever you are)
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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I went to a seminar about tear gas. It started as a "terror weapon" for clearing trenches in WW1. Britain didn't want to stop manufacturing it, so they marketed it as a riot control weapon thereafter. The UK remains the world's #1 supplier. It's *really* dangerous if you are pregnant or have asthma.
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Putting on sad Taylor Swift to try to pry myself out of activated and into some fall vibes
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Ice has a legit warrant for the action on Maryland Avenue in St. Paul.

Leave the area. Document sppd action and fight like hell for them not to participate in future federal activities.
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Monarca trainings are a great step if you want to be prepared to respond to ICE in our communities.
More Monarca training in St Paul on Saturday 11/29.

Learn your rights as a legal observer. Join the rapid response network.

Also 12/15 in Uptown.

monarcamn.org/training
Training — Monarca
monarcamn.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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More Monarca training in St Paul on Saturday 11/29.

Learn your rights as a legal observer. Join the rapid response network.

Also 12/15 in Uptown.

monarcamn.org/training
Training — Monarca
monarcamn.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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If you are on site, MIRAC is urging observers not to impede execution of a warrant, which is a crime, and to follow MIRAC member leadership on site.
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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SPPD supporting ICE raid on the East Side of St Paul today.

@mayorcarter.bsky.social, this is NOT what we want.
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Saint Paul police supporting the federal kidnappers. Guess they’re just following orders.
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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WATCH St. Paul police, aiding ICE, restrain a man and spray him full in the face. They are not and have never been on our side.

Credit: @reportermark.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
My USI/Tmobile is sluggish today
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
That "out for delivery" feeling when your new mermaid tail is arriving today #mermaid
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I was not present for this one, but the family lore is powerful: one Thanksgiving in the late 70s/early 80s my great uncle Paul had a little more bourbon than advisable before dinner was ready. He pulled out the brand-new electric carving knife and sliced the entire turkey like a loaf of bread.
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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My aunt who famously can’t cook tried to make a pumpkin pie. She didn’t know what cloves were, so she put garlic cloves in it. Whole.
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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"Fences aren’t architecture, and they’re meant to displace and keep people out, rather than a broader planning and design and artistic opportunity of revitalization, placemaking, and the type of economic and social infrastructure that truly promotes healing in our community" -Sam Olbekson
Frustrations rise along fenced-in Franklin Avenue corridor in Mpls.
Fencing installed by state officials in Minneapolis’ Franklin Avenue corridor to deter homeless encampments is still in place years later. It’s forcing pedestrians to make dangerous choices and hinder...
sahanjournal.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Of all the bad ideas in units of measure, I'd like to the find the person who decided ounces could be a volume and a weight and shove them into a hole
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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"$1,000 a month as part of a state program experimenting with giving homeless youths cash payments for two years with no strings attached."

"Of the 117 youths [..] who completed Oregon's two-year pilot program, 91% reported being in stable housing."
#Oregon #USA #Housing #Nonprofit
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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They gave out about 2,000 whistles today. It was incredible but it costs money.

Please support this work! You can Venmo them @mspwhistles
More than 200 neighbors attended the Phillips community training today!

It was inspiring to see so many people come together, committed to keeping their neighbors safe.

Community members left empowered to organize their building, block, and community.
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Turns out this was all much ado about nothing and Google isn’t using your Gmail to train AI and if wanna turn all that stuff back on you can get your spam filters back
Looks like the article has been updated to suggest maybe they misread the policy.

I see people complaining that this also disabled their spam filters, though I still see new messages showing up in spam so it's still working fine for me after disabling things.
[Correction] Gmail can read your emails and attachments to power "smart features"
Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Our whistle packing event folded hundreds of zines and packaged over 1000 whistles today.
November 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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many of us watched the Frey campaign doing this in real time & made earnest attempts to bring this information to the public, & at great cost to mental/physical health, jobs, relationships, and status within the DFL.

i do not see a difference between the way the trump & frey administrations move.
All Trump wants is to make us think some people don’t have the same humanity as others. The Frey campaign and All of MPLS spent millions of dollars spreading Islamophobia for the last year doing Trump’s dirty work for him and set this up perfectly. They should be ashamed but I’m sure they don’t care
I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay 💁🏽‍♀️
November 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Grand opening, grand closing.

X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM