Pat Thompson
@pattho.bsky.social
Friends School plant saler, co-op fan, gardener, Transition Town member, recovering grammar curmudgeon. She/her.
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Here's what we know so far about federal enforcement action in 600 block of Rose Avenue, on St. Paul's East Side: www.twincities.com/2025/11/25/p...
Protesters gather near suspected ICE operation on St. Paul’s East Side
One person was removed from the home in a stretcher.
www.twincities.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Here's what we know so far about federal enforcement action in 600 block of Rose Avenue, on St. Paul's East Side: www.twincities.com/2025/11/25/p...
Who to believe, the Farm Bureau, which says prices are DOWN (quoted in this Star Tribune article) or someone with a list of comparison prices for actual things you might buy?
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Who to believe, the Farm Bureau, which says prices are DOWN (quoted in this Star Tribune article) or someone with a list of comparison prices for actual things you might buy?
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🏠Minnesotans need more homes they can afford, and that won’t happen unless we make it easier to build them.
Let lawmakers know that we need action now. Sign the Yes to Homes petition: actionnetwork.org/forms/yes-to...
Let lawmakers know that we need action now. Sign the Yes to Homes petition: actionnetwork.org/forms/yes-to...
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🏠Minnesotans need more homes they can afford, and that won’t happen unless we make it easier to build them.
Let lawmakers know that we need action now. Sign the Yes to Homes petition: actionnetwork.org/forms/yes-to...
Let lawmakers know that we need action now. Sign the Yes to Homes petition: actionnetwork.org/forms/yes-to...
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Reminder: all you have to do is append the code ?utm_source=gift to the url of any Strib story to read it for free
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Reminder: all you have to do is append the code ?utm_source=gift to the url of any Strib story to read it for free
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Want to take a moment to support our Karen neighbors. The Karen are an indigenous population from Myanmar who faced devastating violence at home.
There are now 20,000 Karen people living in Minnesota—most in Ramsey co.—the largest population in America.
www.startribune.com/temporary-pr...
There are now 20,000 Karen people living in Minnesota—most in Ramsey co.—the largest population in America.
www.startribune.com/temporary-pr...
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Want to take a moment to support our Karen neighbors. The Karen are an indigenous population from Myanmar who faced devastating violence at home.
There are now 20,000 Karen people living in Minnesota—most in Ramsey co.—the largest population in America.
www.startribune.com/temporary-pr...
There are now 20,000 Karen people living in Minnesota—most in Ramsey co.—the largest population in America.
www.startribune.com/temporary-pr...
Hwa Jeong is there, live streaming on FB.
Update: more ICE agents are arriving, some wearing gas masks -cars are out front, thinking on the ground is that ICE may make a move soon. If you can go to the address below, go
🚨 Monarca Alert!
Federal activity at 609 Rose Ave E, Saint Paul MN 55117–seems like ICE surrounding a house for a warrant on 1 but 8 others inside who are vulnerable
11/25/25 9:30am
Upstander Legal Observers needed—if you can go, GO
Federal activity at 609 Rose Ave E, Saint Paul MN 55117–seems like ICE surrounding a house for a warrant on 1 but 8 others inside who are vulnerable
11/25/25 9:30am
Upstander Legal Observers needed—if you can go, GO
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Hwa Jeong is there, live streaming on FB.
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Update: more ICE agents are arriving, some wearing gas masks -cars are out front, thinking on the ground is that ICE may make a move soon. If you can go to the address below, go
🚨 Monarca Alert!
Federal activity at 609 Rose Ave E, Saint Paul MN 55117–seems like ICE surrounding a house for a warrant on 1 but 8 others inside who are vulnerable
11/25/25 9:30am
Upstander Legal Observers needed—if you can go, GO
Federal activity at 609 Rose Ave E, Saint Paul MN 55117–seems like ICE surrounding a house for a warrant on 1 but 8 others inside who are vulnerable
11/25/25 9:30am
Upstander Legal Observers needed—if you can go, GO
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Update: more ICE agents are arriving, some wearing gas masks -cars are out front, thinking on the ground is that ICE may make a move soon. If you can go to the address below, go
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Those teevee news stories about holiday travel give the false impression that EVERYONE is traveling. Instead, how about:
* An immigrant/refugee family's 1st Thanksgiving in the US
* A profile on folks who work on the holidays
* What does a pro chef serve on Thanksgiving?
There are other stories...
* An immigrant/refugee family's 1st Thanksgiving in the US
* A profile on folks who work on the holidays
* What does a pro chef serve on Thanksgiving?
There are other stories...
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Those teevee news stories about holiday travel give the false impression that EVERYONE is traveling. Instead, how about:
* An immigrant/refugee family's 1st Thanksgiving in the US
* A profile on folks who work on the holidays
* What does a pro chef serve on Thanksgiving?
There are other stories...
* An immigrant/refugee family's 1st Thanksgiving in the US
* A profile on folks who work on the holidays
* What does a pro chef serve on Thanksgiving?
There are other stories...
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Neo-Liberalism has been a disaster leading to Giant Monopolies like we've never seen before!
Cory Doctorow explains the consequences of 40+ years of Neo-Liberal policies and deregulation of competition law.
Cory Doctorow explains the consequences of 40+ years of Neo-Liberal policies and deregulation of competition law.
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Neo-Liberalism has been a disaster leading to Giant Monopolies like we've never seen before!
Cory Doctorow explains the consequences of 40+ years of Neo-Liberal policies and deregulation of competition law.
Cory Doctorow explains the consequences of 40+ years of Neo-Liberal policies and deregulation of competition law.
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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If messaging out of Minnesota’s GOP to Congresspeople is any indication, our state is going to spend 2026 drowning in messages targeting Somali community, immigrants, and trans folks.
These aren’t “distractions” they’re active attempts to scapegoat anyone seen as “other.”
We must stand together.
These aren’t “distractions” they’re active attempts to scapegoat anyone seen as “other.”
We must stand together.
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
If messaging out of Minnesota’s GOP to Congresspeople is any indication, our state is going to spend 2026 drowning in messages targeting Somali community, immigrants, and trans folks.
These aren’t “distractions” they’re active attempts to scapegoat anyone seen as “other.”
We must stand together.
These aren’t “distractions” they’re active attempts to scapegoat anyone seen as “other.”
We must stand together.
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"The goal is not to punish drivers, but to make roads less forgiving of distraction by aligning human psychology with physical design... policymakers must embrace the same logic — insist on streets & communities that demand cognitive engagement behind the wheel." www.startribune.com/mn-car-accid...
www.startribune.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
"The goal is not to punish drivers, but to make roads less forgiving of distraction by aligning human psychology with physical design... policymakers must embrace the same logic — insist on streets & communities that demand cognitive engagement behind the wheel." www.startribune.com/mn-car-accid...
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Don't miss this Saint Paul history variety show! Residents from Saint Paul who live near the I-94 corridor will share stories and creative presentations that convey their experience with the built environment of their neighborhoods. www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/94-sto...
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Don't miss this Saint Paul history variety show! Residents from Saint Paul who live near the I-94 corridor will share stories and creative presentations that convey their experience with the built environment of their neighborhoods. www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/94-sto...
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The bottom line: Rad customers need and deserve a clear resolution. Even if Rad disagrees, asking their customers to keep using batteries that the CPSC says could explode is simply not acceptable.
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The bottom line: Rad customers need and deserve a clear resolution. Even if Rad disagrees, asking their customers to keep using batteries that the CPSC says could explode is simply not acceptable.
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"Proximity trained us to be citizens." Inspiring @clmarohn.bsky.social piece on how car domination deconstructed American citizenship, and how people are working to get it back. www.panoptica.ai/the-gutenber...
The Gutenberg Moment
Every communication revolution births chaos before it births order. Gutenberg's press collapsed the gatekeepers of knowledge in the fifteenth century—and it took centuries of war, displacement, and in...
www.panoptica.ai
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"Proximity trained us to be citizens." Inspiring @clmarohn.bsky.social piece on how car domination deconstructed American citizenship, and how people are working to get it back. www.panoptica.ai/the-gutenber...
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I have never seen any literature to back up this assertion.
Nor have I seen any acknowledgment of the primary trade-off, namely crashes occurring when one party mistakes a two-way stop control intersection for a four-way, which seems to happen quite frequently.
Nor have I seen any acknowledgment of the primary trade-off, namely crashes occurring when one party mistakes a two-way stop control intersection for a four-way, which seems to happen quite frequently.
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I have never seen any literature to back up this assertion.
Nor have I seen any acknowledgment of the primary trade-off, namely crashes occurring when one party mistakes a two-way stop control intersection for a four-way, which seems to happen quite frequently.
Nor have I seen any acknowledgment of the primary trade-off, namely crashes occurring when one party mistakes a two-way stop control intersection for a four-way, which seems to happen quite frequently.
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The entire practice of sprinkling two-way stops into a network of four-way stops is based on a traffic engineer myth that drivers experience so-called "stop sign fatigue," and that reducing the number of stop signs increases compliance.
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The entire practice of sprinkling two-way stops into a network of four-way stops is based on a traffic engineer myth that drivers experience so-called "stop sign fatigue," and that reducing the number of stop signs increases compliance.
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I LOVE MY SOMALI NEIGHBORS. THEY MAKE THIS COMMUNITY BETTER.
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I LOVE MY SOMALI NEIGHBORS. THEY MAKE THIS COMMUNITY BETTER.
“We went from ‘the meek shall inherit the Earth’ to ‘the meek shall die of cholera”
Rightwing MAGA Christianity has about as much relation to the gospels as MAGA politics does to the Constitution.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“We went from ‘the meek shall inherit the Earth’ to ‘the meek shall die of cholera”
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Airstrikes don’t “test” a ceasefire. They break a ceasefire. Language isn’t that hard, media. Neither is professionalism and bravery.
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 20 killed
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on October 10.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Airstrikes don’t “test” a ceasefire. They break a ceasefire. Language isn’t that hard, media. Neither is professionalism and bravery.
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Funny how that happens when they don't investigate any fraud of GOP programs like banking fraud, small business fraud or even big subsidies to farms or mining.
Star Tribune thinks fraud scandals may hamper re-election bid for candidate seeking third term? Curious.
Publicly and privately, a number of Democrats are questioning whether Walz’s attempt to become the first Minnesota governor to win three consecutive four-year terms could endanger their party’s hold on the office.
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Funny how that happens when they don't investigate any fraud of GOP programs like banking fraud, small business fraud or even big subsidies to farms or mining.
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As someone who only played sports through school, the whole youth sports situation feels like such a grift
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
As someone who only played sports through school, the whole youth sports situation feels like such a grift