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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The MN GOP is proposing a law making "residential protest" a crime, and they want to backdate it to August 2025. This would effectively make thousands of Minnesotans vulnerable to criminal charges, and would probably let Feds say Renee Good and Alex Pretti were engaged in "criminal activity."
February 17, 2026 at 2:24 PM
The MN GOP is proposing a law making "residential protest" a crime, and they want to backdate it to August 2025. This would effectively make thousands of Minnesotans vulnerable to criminal charges, and would probably let Feds say Renee Good and Alex Pretti were engaged in "criminal activity."
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Ah yes, the usual threat of businesses fleeing the city if their hostage demands aren't met. But it would behoove the Council to consider whether drive-thru restaurants are really what we want to be courting? Encouraging more car-dependence and VMT? And largely within existing food-deserts?
February 18, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Ah yes, the usual threat of businesses fleeing the city if their hostage demands aren't met. But it would behoove the Council to consider whether drive-thru restaurants are really what we want to be courting? Encouraging more car-dependence and VMT? And largely within existing food-deserts?
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**RETHINKING I94 MEETING** I-94 neighbors: public comments are open and many are requesting a pause in MnDOT's planning timeline because *how can we focus on a highway when we're under siege?* Need context, have questions? Join us, 6:30 p.m. tomorrow (Feb. 18) at the Merriam Park Library.
Public comment period
The official public comment period for Rethinking I-94 is now open until March 9.The Scoping Document / Draft Scoping Decision Document (SD/DSDD) and the state Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW)...
talk.dot.state.mn.us
February 17, 2026 at 10:04 PM
**RETHINKING I94 MEETING** I-94 neighbors: public comments are open and many are requesting a pause in MnDOT's planning timeline because *how can we focus on a highway when we're under siege?* Need context, have questions? Join us, 6:30 p.m. tomorrow (Feb. 18) at the Merriam Park Library.
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MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.
February 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM
MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.
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February 17, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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Blue Owl is the private equity fund that owns part of the Timberwolves & Lynx AND in invested in the new ICE concentration camps. My guess is they are going to have to pick one or the other!
Minority owners of FOUR NBA teams are profiting directly from business deals with the DHS concentration camp industrial complex.
Those teams are Atlanta, Sacramento, Charlotte, and Minnesota.
www.readeyeblack.com/p/an-nba-inv...
Those teams are Atlanta, Sacramento, Charlotte, and Minnesota.
www.readeyeblack.com/p/an-nba-inv...
February 17, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Blue Owl is the private equity fund that owns part of the Timberwolves & Lynx AND in invested in the new ICE concentration camps. My guess is they are going to have to pick one or the other!
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The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...
Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...
Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:09 PM
The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...
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Complaining about fraud while flying around in a private jet with a bar and private Love Nest cabin is just the sort of leadership I would expect from Krist Noem.
February 17, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Complaining about fraud while flying around in a private jet with a bar and private Love Nest cabin is just the sort of leadership I would expect from Krist Noem.
In that podcast Obama did last weekend, he described the Brass Solidarity Band, as told to him by Michelle Norris.
February 17, 2026 at 3:49 AM
In that podcast Obama did last weekend, he described the Brass Solidarity Band, as told to him by Michelle Norris.
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This bill, introduced by the GOP, criminalizes protesting in front of a residence. Pretty sure it won't pass. However.
FYI, many many businesses here have apartments above them.
This criminalizes protest.
Keep an eye out for this shit coming to YOUR town.
As OP says, FUCK you, GOP.
FYI, many many businesses here have apartments above them.
This criminalizes protest.
Keep an eye out for this shit coming to YOUR town.
As OP says, FUCK you, GOP.
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU!!!!
www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/202...
www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/202...
HF 2809 Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)
www.revisor.mn.gov
February 17, 2026 at 12:59 AM
This bill, introduced by the GOP, criminalizes protesting in front of a residence. Pretty sure it won't pass. However.
FYI, many many businesses here have apartments above them.
This criminalizes protest.
Keep an eye out for this shit coming to YOUR town.
As OP says, FUCK you, GOP.
FYI, many many businesses here have apartments above them.
This criminalizes protest.
Keep an eye out for this shit coming to YOUR town.
As OP says, FUCK you, GOP.
Trump prison camps.
February 17, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Trump prison camps.
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If you only read one thing today, let it be this. ICE is not in retreat. What we saw in Minnesota is going to spread everywhere. Get ready, friends. Take a training. Connect with your neighbors. Find out which groups are already doing prep work and volunteer. Lock arms and love on your community.
February 16, 2026 at 2:08 PM
If you only read one thing today, let it be this. ICE is not in retreat. What we saw in Minnesota is going to spread everywhere. Get ready, friends. Take a training. Connect with your neighbors. Find out which groups are already doing prep work and volunteer. Lock arms and love on your community.
“When Musk & Hegseth argue that a racially diverse nation is inherently weak, they're not returning us to some long-established American tradition from which we've recently strayed. They are, instead, parroting the exact same propaganda Nazi Germany promoted against America during World War II.”
Elon's racist little post made me mad enough to write about it at CAMPAIGN TRAILS.
Diversity Is Our Strength
This morning, Elon Musk – the world's richest man and a key ally to the president of the United States – posted the content below to the white nationalist chat room and CSAM emporium he owns
There's ...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
February 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM
“When Musk & Hegseth argue that a racially diverse nation is inherently weak, they're not returning us to some long-established American tradition from which we've recently strayed. They are, instead, parroting the exact same propaganda Nazi Germany promoted against America during World War II.”
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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.