Eric Lundgren

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

Reading some J.G. Ballard stories this week. In "The Garden of Time," an isolated count and countess pluck the priceless and irreplaceable time flowers of their dwindling garden to delay the inevitable advance of the masses outside the gates.

I am absolutely gobsmacked. And trying not to pass out from hyperventilating. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social — you just made my secret dream for DATA EMPIRE, spoken aloud to NO ONE, come true.

With immense gratitude to the courageous people of Minnesota for standing up to fascism; and, of course, to all the wonderful contributors to this important anthology. (More specifically grateful to my brilliant co-editor Su Hwang and to the folks @uminnpress.bsky.social)

What an incredible World Cup by the DR Congo team, who overcame a devastating Ebola outbreak and war, and brought unity and hope to so many through dark times. Fimbu!

If you're looking for a (paid) opportunity to start a career in book publishing, I couldn't think of a better place to begin: milkweed.org/the-milkweed...

"They also said the activists were part of a “North Texas antifa cell” This is ridiculous. And scary. And all the stuff. All while the killers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti walk free. And Kyle Rittenhouse walks free. And insurrectionists were pardoned.

At the hearing in the federal courthouse in St. Paul. Fifteen people were indicted on conspiracy charges etc. and are making their first appearances. The courtroom is full, with about 100 people. Five defendants came into the courtroom, a couple with fists raised, which some in crowd mirrored. (1)

Neighborhood movie theaters offering a stark choice tonight, Sansho the Bailiff (1954) or Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) lol

university press editor, indie press editor, big five editor

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Sartre, 15 pages into his preface to Fanon's Wretched of the Earth: "This book had certainly no need for a preface." 🙄

May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.

“But spring is the insidious disease of the North; it rots and dissolves the life that winter has jealously guarded and protected within its prison of ice.” Winter’s austere beauty and the putrescence of onrushing Spring in Curzio Malaparte’s KAPUTT

Author and editor, Zeke Caligiuri, on Minneapolis, home, and the importance of place to a person and community. lithub.com/letter-from-...

2026 basically

Wish I had come up with the name of U.S. freestyle skiier Mac Forehand

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

"It’s not about bravery, it’s about making sure to do the right thing, at the right time, for the other human—because we too are human." Marcie Rendon in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy : lithub.com/letter-from-...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The same guys who leave laughing emoji on ICE articles would have been shooting the buffalo 150 years ago

Books for Understanding ICE in Minnesota: a curated list of titles to aid in understanding the profound and disturbing events that have so deeply affected our communities. www.upress.umn.edu/books-for-un...

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

ICE agents tried to quietly get Mexican food in Minneapolis, local neighbors and protesters found out and shamed then out of the neighborhood!

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

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

New: DHS now says that two weeks of missing surveillance footage from ICE's Broadview Detention center isn't "missing," it was never recorded in the first place and thus can't be produced in an abuse lawsuit. An utter shitshow: www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...

So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

on eat street today, pho 79 was giving out no-cost community meals; luna and the bear had free coffee for folks; cheapo had a sign up encouraging folks visiting alex pretti's memorial site to come in, warm up, and use the bathroom. good city full of good people imo.

This is a win and it's worth celebrating. The Border Patrol thugs we've seen while out patrolling Northeast MPLS and for sure some of the most aggressive and unhinged people I've ever seen personally. Horrific stuff. Worse than ICE, if you can believe it.

The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Welcome to Minneapolis. Our neighbors have witnessed too many war crimes at this point. Federal agents even left weapons on the ground.

ICE is a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanish in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer means anything. The knock on the door is the sentence.

@radleybalko.bsky.social :

Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…