Pam Schmid
@pamschmid.bsky.social
Minnesota transplant. Words are my medicine. ✨️📚 CNF ed., Sleet Magazine.
Find me: Barren Magazine, Belleview Literary Review, River Teeth, The Common, more.
Find me: Barren Magazine, Belleview Literary Review, River Teeth, The Common, more.
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Pam Schmid
@pamschmid.bsky.social
· Apr 3
Pamela Schmid: Together Again One Day – LEON Literary Review
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Excited to have some new fiction out today with @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social
'Together Again One Day'
~about friends, motherhood & yearning ...
Seeds planted in a magical @kathyfish.bsky.social workshop ✨️✨️
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'Together Again One Day'
~about friends, motherhood & yearning ...
Seeds planted in a magical @kathyfish.bsky.social workshop ✨️✨️
leonliteraryreview.com/pamela-schmi...
The view over I-35E in St. Paul on Sunday. The ice sculpture is gone, but the sentiment behind it isn't going anywhere. 🔥 ✨️✨️
February 9, 2026 at 6:14 PM
The view over I-35E in St. Paul on Sunday. The ice sculpture is gone, but the sentiment behind it isn't going anywhere. 🔥 ✨️✨️
In a state swirling with cruelty, you can still find love in so many places. All you have to do is look around. ❤️
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In Minnesota, where is the love?
Even in a place swirling with cruelty, it's everywhere, actually.
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February 9, 2026 at 11:37 AM
In a state swirling with cruelty, you can still find love in so many places. All you have to do is look around. ❤️
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This. Exactly.
Bad Bunny just abolished ICE through relentless fuck you pride and joy
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
This. Exactly.
😭😭❤️
February 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM
😭😭❤️
It wasn't a sign. It was a gorgeous ice sculpture. Here it was in all its splendor -- before it was desecrated.✨️
February 7, 2026 at 4:12 AM
It wasn't a sign. It was a gorgeous ice sculpture. Here it was in all its splendor -- before it was desecrated.✨️
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His enemies spend a lot of time attacking that Mamdani’s a “social democrat.”
What makes him special, I think, is that he’s an authentically moral person with empathy.
That’s sadly rare in politics these days.
What makes him special, I think, is that he’s an authentically moral person with empathy.
That’s sadly rare in politics these days.
Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
February 6, 2026 at 8:31 PM
His enemies spend a lot of time attacking that Mamdani’s a “social democrat.”
What makes him special, I think, is that he’s an authentically moral person with empathy.
That’s sadly rare in politics these days.
What makes him special, I think, is that he’s an authentically moral person with empathy.
That’s sadly rare in politics these days.
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Hey @governorwalz.mn.gov tonight my kid and I escorted a teacher home so they didn’t get kidnapped by ICE.
Then I got home myself to find that my neighbor had *just* been stabbed by a man on the Aldine bridge. That man was holding a sign that said “Come legally or don’t come at all”
DO SOMETHING.
Then I got home myself to find that my neighbor had *just* been stabbed by a man on the Aldine bridge. That man was holding a sign that said “Come legally or don’t come at all”
DO SOMETHING.
February 6, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Hey @governorwalz.mn.gov tonight my kid and I escorted a teacher home so they didn’t get kidnapped by ICE.
Then I got home myself to find that my neighbor had *just* been stabbed by a man on the Aldine bridge. That man was holding a sign that said “Come legally or don’t come at all”
DO SOMETHING.
Then I got home myself to find that my neighbor had *just* been stabbed by a man on the Aldine bridge. That man was holding a sign that said “Come legally or don’t come at all”
DO SOMETHING.
😢😢
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
February 4, 2026 at 5:45 PM
😢😢
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If anyone was wondering, the ~23% reduction in ICE agents in Minnesota apparently doesn't include the ones down the street that are lurking, now as I type this, as vulnerable folks are getting their kids to the school bus this morning.
We cannot rest until ICE is gone, entirely.
We cannot rest until ICE is gone, entirely.
February 4, 2026 at 2:50 PM
If anyone was wondering, the ~23% reduction in ICE agents in Minnesota apparently doesn't include the ones down the street that are lurking, now as I type this, as vulnerable folks are getting their kids to the school bus this morning.
We cannot rest until ICE is gone, entirely.
We cannot rest until ICE is gone, entirely.
🚨THIS🚨👇👇
I don’t believe Tom Homan. I think this is a ploy to get @democrats.senate.gov to fund DHS. They lied about deescalation last week and I don’t believe a word the Cava Czar says.
Trump 'border czar' Tom Homan says 700 immigration officers will be withdrawn from Minnesota immediately.
Roughly 3,000 officers are currently deployed in the state.
Roughly 3,000 officers are currently deployed in the state.
February 4, 2026 at 5:43 PM
🚨THIS🚨👇👇
I have so much respect and admiration for Ms. Levy Armstrong, arrested after leading a protest at a church only blocks from my home. Grateful to the NYT for calling out out the regime's lies and smears against her. 🔥
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:43 PM
I have so much respect and admiration for Ms. Levy Armstrong, arrested after leading a protest at a church only blocks from my home. Grateful to the NYT for calling out out the regime's lies and smears against her. 🔥
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
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Not another fucking dime for this. Not one single penny. Your body cam BS ain’t gonna cut it, Chuck
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Not another fucking dime for this. Not one single penny. Your body cam BS ain’t gonna cut it, Chuck
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This is a fact
it's grim, but the reality is that Trump wants more innocent people to die here in the Twin Cities and the GOP majorities in both chambers of Congress are either ambivalent about more lives being taken or outright support it
February 3, 2026 at 4:44 PM
This is a fact
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How about running on slippery ground with your finger on the trigger while aiming at someone? bsky.app/profile/thef...
February 3, 2026 at 4:52 PM
How about running on slippery ground with your finger on the trigger while aiming at someone? bsky.app/profile/thef...
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Three rules in FBI firearm training:
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Three rules in FBI firearm training:
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
No words. 😢
"Classes have been called off in the Columbia Heights school district today due to what officials are calling a bomb threat. The closure comes as 5-year-old preschool student Liam Conejo Ramos & his father from Columbia Heights were released from an ICE detention center in Texas and returned to MN."
School canceled in Columbia Heights due to bomb threat
Students and staff are being told not to report to school on Feb. 2.
www.startribune.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:20 PM
No words. 😢
"Nothing is normal, not even things that seem normal. Everything that appears normal is an illusion, a bigger lie than The Big Lie. Normalcy is impossible here without erasure. Normalcy is violence."
Devastating true words from @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social
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Devastating true words from @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social
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Letter From Minnesota: “Normalcy is Impossible Here. Normalcy is Violence.”
One mile south of my street, there is a street where neighbors do laundry for an entire apartment building whose tenants cannot safely do their laundry. I’m told most of the clothes they gather are…
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February 2, 2026 at 1:51 PM
"Nothing is normal, not even things that seem normal. Everything that appears normal is an illusion, a bigger lie than The Big Lie. Normalcy is impossible here without erasure. Normalcy is violence."
Devastating true words from @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social
lithub.com/letter-from-...
Devastating true words from @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social
lithub.com/letter-from-...
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Bad Bunny sticks it to Trump as he says ICE out and 'we are not aliens' at Grammys
February 2, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Bad Bunny sticks it to Trump as he says ICE out and 'we are not aliens' at Grammys
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if you’re tear gassing little kids you lose your job, you get arrested, tried, and jailed
simply no other option in a civilized society, these goons must face consequences
simply no other option in a civilized society, these goons must face consequences
February 1, 2026 at 3:17 AM
if you’re tear gassing little kids you lose your job, you get arrested, tried, and jailed
simply no other option in a civilized society, these goons must face consequences
simply no other option in a civilized society, these goons must face consequences
I wrote about a mysterious tablet of ice that materialized ever so briefly in St. Paul--a frozen monument to bravery that reminds us that beauty is everywhere here, in spite of everything.
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Protections on a pedestal
Amid all the heartbreak, a mysterious and fleeting reminder that ice can still be beautiful
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January 31, 2026 at 4:58 PM
I wrote about a mysterious tablet of ice that materialized ever so briefly in St. Paul--a frozen monument to bravery that reminds us that beauty is everywhere here, in spite of everything.
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And there you have it. The feral government’s violent assault on the people of Minnesota will continue.
January 30, 2026 at 1:16 AM
And there you have it. The feral government’s violent assault on the people of Minnesota will continue.
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This excerpt from @adamserwer.bsky.social's latest points to something that Alex Pretti's vocation as a nurse brought to mind: What we're seeing in Minneapolis is resistance, but resistance based on care.
I've said before that what we need is a care economy. What we're getting is a care resistance.
I've said before that what we need is a care economy. What we're getting is a care resistance.
January 27, 2026 at 7:29 PM
This excerpt from @adamserwer.bsky.social's latest points to something that Alex Pretti's vocation as a nurse brought to mind: What we're seeing in Minneapolis is resistance, but resistance based on care.
I've said before that what we need is a care economy. What we're getting is a care resistance.
I've said before that what we need is a care economy. What we're getting is a care resistance.
My neighborhood rocks✨️
January 28, 2026 at 3:56 AM
My neighborhood rocks✨️
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my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
January 27, 2026 at 2:47 PM
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek