The mutual aid networks that keep people safe in South Minneapolis were forged across decades of organizing, uniting activists through expansive visions of community care. This work — of showing up for others, defending neighbors from violence + dispossession — lies at the heart of queer abolition.
The Long Fire at Lake and Minnehaha: Sexual Policing, Settler Colonialism, and the Minneapolis Uprising
An Arcus/Places Prize Lecture from @myrlbeam.bsky.social, on building a queer abolitionist politics in South Minneapolis.
📅 February 25, 2026 6:00pm PT
📍 Bauer Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley CED
I'm something of a supply chain risk myself
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“This is my praise song for Farwell Canyon—that glorious Coyote-blessed and bewitched cathedral of salmon—for my enemy who is also my relative, and for the fish we love and share.”
Unmissable Julian Brave Noisecat essay on rivers, memories & imagining otherwise.
placesjournal.org/article/farw...
You’re laughing. The Mellon foundation is providing grants to gender and area studies programs and you’re laughing.
In the birthplace of Ghana’s cocoa industry, neighbors negotiate the expansion of a harvest path — and with it, an alternative model for development in the populous West African nation.
A new essay in Places by Ghanaian architect and researcher Courage Dzidula Kpodo.
One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle.
But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.
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whatever it may be, your movement needs poets (don't always look like Poets), not grifters, because every movement needs people who patiently examine, life long, how language pricks and punctures and grazes and warms and holds and pushes us toward what we don't know yet how to say--world in process
Really, truly an incredible feeling to read a review of your book that not only Gets It but has devastating reporting of its own — sordid tales of landlords chopping down trees "to reassert control, to unsettle tenants, and to make us leave"
averyreview.com/issues/74/sh...
“These political parties, they’re like shipwrecks: metal structures, they’re dead. Street protests, youth politics come into them like shoaling fish, to turn them into living reefs.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Texas Department of Transportation is annexing properties along I-35 in Austin to make way for an expansion of the interstate. Here are some of the people and businesses being displaced:
People attributed ludicrous censoriousness to “political correctness” and wokeness but here’s the University of Alabama literally prohibiting student publications because their intended audiences are women and Black students - far more absurd and restrictive than any rules at the imaginary PCU
Quote from a NYT article: "Generally a military cannot deliberately attack civilians, *even suspected criminals*, who do not pose an imminent threat. The administration has argue the strike are nevertheless lawful."
What is the point of this clause: "even suspected criminals"? Why is it in the sentence? @charliesavage.bsky.social @julianbarnes.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social
5 immigration judges were summarily fired in San Francisco today, the largest such firing in the city all year.
It continues a trend of the Trump admin. targeting immigration judges nationwide. In San Francisco, at least 12 have been sacked this year.
missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-i...
I want to uplift again this brilliant piece of writing and thinking by @shannonmattern.bsky.social - placesjournal.org/article/extr... - I think that everyone who is interested in libraries would benefit from reading it.
Estimates vary, but Muni is currently running between 80% and 90% of pre-pandemic service. We're seeing crowding and pass ups again. Muni needs to be able to respond as demand grows. Passing a measure that does not allow for growth is a bad plan. We'd have to go back to the ballot again in 2028.
@rollovereasy.org Gooooooooooood morning from Dogpatch! Yesterday I met Emily Sneddon, creaton of Fran Sans, a tyoeface based on the destination display signs on the Muni Breda Light Rail Vehicles, which are, as of today, retired. emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-es...
sometimes the word community is used but the word workers would be more accurate
I think often about those pebbles around the stacks at the Poetry Foundation.
man, it sure looks like republicans are using threat of federal government force to try and silence journalists
Careful out there folks! This article comes with risk of electric shock.
"Societies are defined by their libraries — by what we hold, what we lend, what we borrow and return, the knowledge we create, the values we defend."
I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
