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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There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.
February 15, 2026 at 2:56 PM
There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.
How many ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota right now? We deserve to know. How many will be here as of Tuesday? Thursday? We deserve to know.
February 15, 2026 at 9:03 PM
How many ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota right now? We deserve to know. How many will be here as of Tuesday? Thursday? We deserve to know.
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City limits sign
University Avenue, Saint Paul
April 19, 1929
Detail of image via Hennepin County Library; digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/coll...
University Avenue, Saint Paul
April 19, 1929
Detail of image via Hennepin County Library; digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/coll...
February 15, 2026 at 5:27 PM
City limits sign
University Avenue, Saint Paul
April 19, 1929
Detail of image via Hennepin County Library; digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/coll...
University Avenue, Saint Paul
April 19, 1929
Detail of image via Hennepin County Library; digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/coll...
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Another AI bot scraping event causing my nonprofit’s digital archive to fail. I am so angry at this industry and its complete abdication of any responsibility to the internet community from which it draws its value.
February 15, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Another AI bot scraping event causing my nonprofit’s digital archive to fail. I am so angry at this industry and its complete abdication of any responsibility to the internet community from which it draws its value.
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Non-Minnesotans, be clear on this: the *one and only* thing they do is racial profiling. The *only* thing. Ask anyone here! If you look nonwhite, Latino particularly, ICE will target you. It’s really as simple as that
Homan: "When they say 'stop racial profiling' -- that's just not occurring. ICE will briefly detain and question somebody based on reasonable suspicion. It has nothing to do with racial profiling."
February 15, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Non-Minnesotans, be clear on this: the *one and only* thing they do is racial profiling. The *only* thing. Ask anyone here! If you look nonwhite, Latino particularly, ICE will target you. It’s really as simple as that
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What did Operation Metro Surge accomplish? Feds say 4,000 people were detained -- but many, if not most, were later released. We now have fewer fraud prosecutors than ever. State prisons/county jails say no holding policies have changed. More from Pioneer Press: www.twincities.com/2026/02/14/o...
If Operation Metro Surge is over, did it accomplish its goals?
Border czar Tom Homan said the federal law enforcement presence in Minnesota would be scaled back as its multi-pronged mission had been accomplished.
www.twincities.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:19 PM
What did Operation Metro Surge accomplish? Feds say 4,000 people were detained -- but many, if not most, were later released. We now have fewer fraud prosecutors than ever. State prisons/county jails say no holding policies have changed. More from Pioneer Press: www.twincities.com/2026/02/14/o...
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I wonder when we'll be ready to talk about how schools are now full of gameified dopamine slot machine apps for learning times tables, science, even reading itself, that are priming an entire generation for gambling and gaming addiction.
A book I highly recommend on electronic slot machines—which fully convinced me they should be illegal for how they systematically mislead our brains—is Natasha Dow Schüll‘s ADDICTION BY DESIGN
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
February 15, 2026 at 8:20 AM
I wonder when we'll be ready to talk about how schools are now full of gameified dopamine slot machine apps for learning times tables, science, even reading itself, that are priming an entire generation for gambling and gaming addiction.
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Disband ICE and give their budget to the IRS Criminal Investigation branch. Surging these guys in the Hamptons and Palm Beach would reap the greatest benefits for the American public of any law enforcement action.
February 14, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Disband ICE and give their budget to the IRS Criminal Investigation branch. Surging these guys in the Hamptons and Palm Beach would reap the greatest benefits for the American public of any law enforcement action.
It was plenty busy on Wednesday morning right when the museum opened!
Everyone is here at the Dyani White Hawk exhibit at the Walker. Last weekend, free admission today. It’s like the State Fair in here.
February 14, 2026 at 9:32 PM
It was plenty busy on Wednesday morning right when the museum opened!
Riding the E Line for Valentines Day!
February 14, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Riding the E Line for Valentines Day!
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"One of the uniting factors that binds together the six states in our immediate inquiry is that none of them have Native American reservations. That big blob of states in the middle of the country with zero Native reservations? That’s where the American cross-dressing ban was born." -Bethany Karsten
The Birth of American Anti-Trans Law – A Brief History of Transfeminine Literature, Pt. 4
A hyperbolic descent into the Antebellum period in search of the origins of American anti-trans law.
thetransfemininereview.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:54 PM
"One of the uniting factors that binds together the six states in our immediate inquiry is that none of them have Native American reservations. That big blob of states in the middle of the country with zero Native reservations? That’s where the American cross-dressing ban was born." -Bethany Karsten
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You know who doesn’t get mistaken for being an ICE agent?
People wearing overalls.
People wearing overalls.
February 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM
You know who doesn’t get mistaken for being an ICE agent?
People wearing overalls.
People wearing overalls.
Meanwhile, the Small Business Administration will no longer give loans to green card-holders.
If we were a healthy society looking toward the future, we'd be giving out work permits to undocumented folks instead of terrorizing and deporting them.
Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data.
Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
February 14, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Meanwhile, the Small Business Administration will no longer give loans to green card-holders.
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As we know, I sometimes do a (very quick and dirty) family tree for some of the most ardent and loud white supremacists of our time. It’s a quick tree, because I don’t want to spend more than 20-30 minutes on it (while also making sure I’m correct). So about Megyn Kelly…
February 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
As we know, I sometimes do a (very quick and dirty) family tree for some of the most ardent and loud white supremacists of our time. It’s a quick tree, because I don’t want to spend more than 20-30 minutes on it (while also making sure I’m correct). So about Megyn Kelly…
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This is what Republicans want. Vote every last one of them out, no matter the office. Don't let these monsters anywhere near government again.
In the early morning, ICE raided the elementary school bus stop during the pick-up time, causing panic among the 4th and 5th graders. This unfortunate event took place outside the Woodland Village Apartments in Lindenwold, New Jersey.
February 14, 2026 at 5:49 PM
This is what Republicans want. Vote every last one of them out, no matter the office. Don't let these monsters anywhere near government again.
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Exactly this. We worry about ppl stealing from government in MN but are we worried about grasping businessmen inventing all the new ways to profit from 9/11?
DHS is just a relic from the overreaction to 9/11 and all the opportunistic skullduggery that took advantage of it. There was never any need for it. Let it be dead. Its abrupt dissolution will be a bit chaotic but fuck it we ball.
February 14, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Exactly this. We worry about ppl stealing from government in MN but are we worried about grasping businessmen inventing all the new ways to profit from 9/11?
This so perfectly describes elected Minnesota Republicans in this moment.
The vast majority of Republican politicians would rather be officeholders in a dictatorship than citizens in a democracy. They have chosen to be traitors.
February 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
This so perfectly describes elected Minnesota Republicans in this moment.
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Doug and Josh. You lit a fire in me with your song collaboration. I just did a collaboration with my brother and this is what we came up with. I wrote the song. He sang it and played his guitar. youtu.be/wl6BX11WEYY?...
ICE Out Of Mnisota
YouTube video by North of Zero
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February 14, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Doug and Josh. You lit a fire in me with your song collaboration. I just did a collaboration with my brother and this is what we came up with. I wrote the song. He sang it and played his guitar. youtu.be/wl6BX11WEYY?...
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“Don’t fund concentration camps” is a good policy position to stand on.
February 14, 2026 at 1:04 PM
“Don’t fund concentration camps” is a good policy position to stand on.
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BEWARE!
Two female ICE agents pretend car trouble outside a home. A half dozen ICE thugs then roll up to arrest the man who they sought assistance from at the residence.
www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
Two female ICE agents pretend car trouble outside a home. A half dozen ICE thugs then roll up to arrest the man who they sought assistance from at the residence.
www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
From the Minneapolis community on Reddit: Video from Brooklyn Park, MN - Witness Reports ICE Agents Staging "Car Trouble" to Entrap Good Samaritan
Explore this post and more from the Minneapolis community
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February 14, 2026 at 1:33 PM
BEWARE!
Two female ICE agents pretend car trouble outside a home. A half dozen ICE thugs then roll up to arrest the man who they sought assistance from at the residence.
www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
Two female ICE agents pretend car trouble outside a home. A half dozen ICE thugs then roll up to arrest the man who they sought assistance from at the residence.
www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
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The bill cuts the stretcher requirement in small bldgs at risk of having no elevator at all (up to 6 stories, 24 units), as well as ordering the building code council to reconsider the issues of elevator hoistway opening protection and two-way visual comms. Tens of thousands in savings per building.
By a 41-7 vote, the Washington Senate just directed the state's building code council to adopt updated regulations for elevators in buildings with up to six stories or 24 units, "minimally sized to meet federal accessibility requirements."
The final version:
lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/202...
The final version:
lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/202...
February 13, 2026 at 11:55 PM
The bill cuts the stretcher requirement in small bldgs at risk of having no elevator at all (up to 6 stories, 24 units), as well as ordering the building code council to reconsider the issues of elevator hoistway opening protection and two-way visual comms. Tens of thousands in savings per building.
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This is a great example of something this administration does that is so unbelievable, it undermines your credibility to report it. They couldn't have done this, could they? Could they? Could they?
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 9:32 PM
This is a great example of something this administration does that is so unbelievable, it undermines your credibility to report it. They couldn't have done this, could they? Could they? Could they?
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do YOU have any experience in art, social, organizing, fundraising, comms, graphic design, & want to help us try to raise an insane amount of money to keep immigrant families in MN housed?
I am looking for folks who would want to throw down. having a meeting monday evening. DM me if you're in.
I am looking for folks who would want to throw down. having a meeting monday evening. DM me if you're in.
February 13, 2026 at 6:18 PM
do YOU have any experience in art, social, organizing, fundraising, comms, graphic design, & want to help us try to raise an insane amount of money to keep immigrant families in MN housed?
I am looking for folks who would want to throw down. having a meeting monday evening. DM me if you're in.
I am looking for folks who would want to throw down. having a meeting monday evening. DM me if you're in.