Sara Catterall
@scatterall.bsky.social
Writer. MLIS. So many interests. She/her. Author of Amelia Bloomer: Journalist, Suffragist, Anti-Fashion Icon, out now from Belt Publishing. Blog etc at saracatterall.com
This being a crystal on the tip of this week's iceberg
January 31, 2026 at 5:49 PM
This being a crystal on the tip of this week's iceberg
Reposted by Sara Catterall
All this to say, there have always been a contingent of older white people who helped immigrants integrate and build communities within the Twin Cities. I remember they gave up a lot of time, effort, and resources for us. It’s not super surprising to me that they’re out now, protesting in force.
January 23, 2026 at 9:52 PM
All this to say, there have always been a contingent of older white people who helped immigrants integrate and build communities within the Twin Cities. I remember they gave up a lot of time, effort, and resources for us. It’s not super surprising to me that they’re out now, protesting in force.
Reposted by Sara Catterall
They want you to think that there is nothing in the past but shame so that people flinch away from examining history.
If you examine history, you will find good people. At every time in history, you will find them.
Maybe not enough, but they were there. You can be this generation's good people.
If you examine history, you will find good people. At every time in history, you will find them.
Maybe not enough, but they were there. You can be this generation's good people.
January 22, 2026 at 4:03 PM
They want you to think that there is nothing in the past but shame so that people flinch away from examining history.
If you examine history, you will find good people. At every time in history, you will find them.
Maybe not enough, but they were there. You can be this generation's good people.
If you examine history, you will find good people. At every time in history, you will find them.
Maybe not enough, but they were there. You can be this generation's good people.
Reposted by Sara Catterall
![A data collection team collects anonymized data submitted from Whipple Watch and many of the local rapid response chats, aggregating them into consumable formats, such as interactive maps of hotspots. This team also admins the searchable database of license plates sorted by “confirmed ICE,” “suspected ICE,” “confirmed not ICE,” and other categories.
[Inset pic reads: My parents are in a cafe and hear whistles and honking. Every single person in the cafe stands up and rushes out the door]
Additional place-based chats have emerged around school systems, faith communities, mutual aid grocery deliveries, and the like. Another development was the Neighborhood Networks intake chat, which acts as a clearinghouse for incoming volunteers. New people from anywhere in the city—or anywhere in the state of Minnesota—can be added and oriented to a list of chat options, and admins will add them to the open chats or connect them to the vetting and training processes for the more closed chats.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:auz3hxiuxopb3h3xj6ggydfc/bafkreicx6ujse6ma7gznvvvqtx2tufzmkbmzwvmjiuyebjq4vmwsms77cu@jpeg)