Str
@esther-author.bsky.social
I write fiction, teach coding, raise children, and take quirky community ed classes. Currently obsessed with late classical Greece, activist lawyers who are fighting fascism and local organizers teaching me how to fight fascism in my neighborhood.
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As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment.
And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.
And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.
June 16, 2026 at 4:06 PM
As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment.
And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.
And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.
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Today at 11 a.m. the DOJ will announce charges against "a group comprised of members from two Minneapolis-based Antifa groups, to violently oppose immigration law enforcement," per a media advisory.
June 16, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Today at 11 a.m. the DOJ will announce charges against "a group comprised of members from two Minneapolis-based Antifa groups, to violently oppose immigration law enforcement," per a media advisory.
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Just so everyone remembers . . . .
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Just so everyone remembers . . . .
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March 31, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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Just so everyone remembers . . . .
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Just so everyone remembers . . . .
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Three countries stood alone as 123 nations voted to formally label the transatlantic slave trade the “gravest crime against humanity” the U.S., Israel, and Argentina all voted no on the Ghana-led UN reparations resolution.
March 26, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Three countries stood alone as 123 nations voted to formally label the transatlantic slave trade the “gravest crime against humanity” the U.S., Israel, and Argentina all voted no on the Ghana-led UN reparations resolution.
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Is Stephen Miller Making Medical Decisions for Pregnant Children in ICE Custody?
open.substack.com/pub/dissenti...
open.substack.com/pub/dissenti...
Is Stephen Miller Making Medical Decisions for Pregnant Children in ICE Custody?
Inside the converted church in San Benito, Texas, where pregnant migrant children have no doctors, no advocates, no choices, and nowhere to go.
open.substack.com
March 24, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Is Stephen Miller Making Medical Decisions for Pregnant Children in ICE Custody?
open.substack.com/pub/dissenti...
open.substack.com/pub/dissenti...
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No more excuses for funding social programs.
March 19, 2026 at 11:27 AM
No more excuses for funding social programs.
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Apparently we’re too broke to address affordability but we have enough money for a shooting range.
I’m a NO.
I’m a NO.
🧵The Frey administration is proposing that the City of Minneapolis spend at least $40 million on a “Public Safety Training and Wellness Center.”
March 17, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Apparently we’re too broke to address affordability but we have enough money for a shooting range.
I’m a NO.
I’m a NO.
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Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.
UPDATE: A tense, day-long standoff outside a South Burlington house ended Wednesday night with federal immigration agents removing three people inside and a series of violent clashes between police and hundreds of activists who tried to impede the apprehension.
www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...
www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...
March 12, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.
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UPDATE: A tense, day-long standoff outside a South Burlington house ended Wednesday night with federal immigration agents removing three people inside and a series of violent clashes between police and hundreds of activists who tried to impede the apprehension.
www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...
www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...
March 12, 2026 at 2:00 AM
UPDATE: A tense, day-long standoff outside a South Burlington house ended Wednesday night with federal immigration agents removing three people inside and a series of violent clashes between police and hundreds of activists who tried to impede the apprehension.
www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...
www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...
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A veto of the 60-day pre-eviction notice tells people that you want them evicted into the cold earlier and that you’re unwilling to protect our immigrant neighbors.
Let Mayor Frey know you want him to sign Pause Evictions, Save Lives.
- Phone: 612-673-2100
- Email: [email protected]
Let Mayor Frey know you want him to sign Pause Evictions, Save Lives.
- Phone: 612-673-2100
- Email: [email protected]
March 10, 2026 at 12:01 AM
A veto of the 60-day pre-eviction notice tells people that you want them evicted into the cold earlier and that you’re unwilling to protect our immigrant neighbors.
Let Mayor Frey know you want him to sign Pause Evictions, Save Lives.
- Phone: 612-673-2100
- Email: [email protected]
Let Mayor Frey know you want him to sign Pause Evictions, Save Lives.
- Phone: 612-673-2100
- Email: [email protected]
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Hot girls call their Minneapolis mayor's office to ask him to sign the Pause Evictions, Save Lives ordinance. I did it while doing my hair for a dinner party tonight.
612-673-2100 and leave a voicemail.
Keep our neighbors safe and home.
612-673-2100 and leave a voicemail.
Keep our neighbors safe and home.
March 7, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Hot girls call their Minneapolis mayor's office to ask him to sign the Pause Evictions, Save Lives ordinance. I did it while doing my hair for a dinner party tonight.
612-673-2100 and leave a voicemail.
Keep our neighbors safe and home.
612-673-2100 and leave a voicemail.
Keep our neighbors safe and home.
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strib has an article on bounty hunters and the hennepin county sheriff's office claims they are investigating this incident in downtown mineapolis and the one on the southside where the man was detained by bounty hunters before they took him to jail downtown
www.startribune.com/as-operation...
www.startribune.com/as-operation...
March 7, 2026 at 4:13 PM
strib has an article on bounty hunters and the hennepin county sheriff's office claims they are investigating this incident in downtown mineapolis and the one on the southside where the man was detained by bounty hunters before they took him to jail downtown
www.startribune.com/as-operation...
www.startribune.com/as-operation...
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There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
March 8, 2026 at 2:12 AM
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
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Gavin Newsom vetoed a 2023 bill that would have stopped the unscrupulous practice of county governments using foster children's benefit checks (e.g. social security survivor benefits) to reimburse themselves.
The bill was sponsored by @ib2real.bsky.social, himself a former foster child.
The bill was sponsored by @ib2real.bsky.social, himself a former foster child.
March 7, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Gavin Newsom vetoed a 2023 bill that would have stopped the unscrupulous practice of county governments using foster children's benefit checks (e.g. social security survivor benefits) to reimburse themselves.
The bill was sponsored by @ib2real.bsky.social, himself a former foster child.
The bill was sponsored by @ib2real.bsky.social, himself a former foster child.
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laamar closing out his set at the abolish ICE festival in minneapolis in the rain with a new song about how we came together to take care of our neighbors during the ICE siege
March 7, 2026 at 1:20 AM
laamar closing out his set at the abolish ICE festival in minneapolis in the rain with a new song about how we came together to take care of our neighbors during the ICE siege
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our government is the abusive boyfriend i got away from but now he’s everywhere
March 6, 2026 at 11:41 AM
our government is the abusive boyfriend i got away from but now he’s everywhere
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Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
March 2, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
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90% of evictions in MN are for nonpayment of rent. I did a sample a week ago and found the avg nonpayment eviction in Hennepin County would take $5,122 to stop. Studies (before the high inflation of the past few years) suggest stopping an eviction saves $6,832 in public costs. It just makes sense
![See The Cost of Displacement, Inclusive Action for the City (July 31, 2020), https://www.inclusiveaction.org/blog/cost-of-displacement [https://perma.cc/8DL2-HWKY] (finding that evictions cost families between $7,000 to $11,000).
[25] See Ashley Meeder, Guilty Until Expunged: How Minnesota’s Public Records Policies Needlessly Burden Renters, Minn. L. Rev.: De Novo (Nov. 23, 2020), https://minnesotalawreview.org/2020/11/23/guilty-until-expunged-how-minnesotas-public-records-policies-needlessly-burden-renters/ [https://perma.cc/6X2R-562C].
[26] See Kshama Sawant, Reply to Mayor Durkan’s Letter RE: Winter Evictions, Seattle.gov: Kshama Sawant (Feb. 6, 2020), https://sawant.seattle.gov/reply-to-mayor-durkans-letter-re-winter-evictions/ [https://perma.cc/XVG2-MTGT] (suggesting that a moratorium might encourage tenants to “work out agreements with their landlord or access rental assistance programs.”).
[27] Compare Stephen Averill Sherman & Carlos Villegas, Update: Evictions Cost Harris County Over $240 Million a Year — That Was Before COVID-19, Rice Univ.: Kinder Inst. for Urb. Rsch. (Sept. 16, 2020), https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2020/09/16/evictions-cost-harris-county-over-315-million-each-year-housing-crisis-COVID-19 [https://perma.cc/QVL6-HAT2] (finding that 35,335 evictions cost Harris County’s public and private sector entities $241.4 million), with supra note 11 and accompanying text.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccm7gttkbfs2eyyrlpshmeun/bafkreidmy4bizxcfeohb4gt2n5ixwi5jszm5okhnul27mjcryf22gofn3i)
February 28, 2026 at 7:35 PM
90% of evictions in MN are for nonpayment of rent. I did a sample a week ago and found the avg nonpayment eviction in Hennepin County would take $5,122 to stop. Studies (before the high inflation of the past few years) suggest stopping an eviction saves $6,832 in public costs. It just makes sense
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It’s sad that this is the reality.
March 1, 2026 at 1:00 AM
It’s sad that this is the reality.
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Get a query critiqued by an agent and support a St. Paul mutual aid group that's delivering groceries to thousands of people!
Here's how it's going to work:
Send $ to us, along with an email with your query, and we'll critique it via track changes!
$100 for one round of critique
$200 for two rounds (we send notes back, you make changes, we make notes again)
Paypal: [email protected]
Venmo: Laura-Zats
Send $ to us, along with an email with your query, and we'll critique it via track changes!
$100 for one round of critique
$200 for two rounds (we send notes back, you make changes, we make notes again)
Paypal: [email protected]
Venmo: Laura-Zats
February 26, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Get a query critiqued by an agent and support a St. Paul mutual aid group that's delivering groceries to thousands of people!
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we’ve knocked $10,000 off this need.
please keep sharing!
please keep sharing!
the rent fund for students at my alma mater has $36,000 in rent requests for tomorrow and only $7,500 in the bank
if we raised $10,600 with a crystal shrek what kind of crazy thing do i need to do to raise $28,500?
if we raised $10,600 with a crystal shrek what kind of crazy thing do i need to do to raise $28,500?
Donate to Support South High School Families, organized by R S
South High School (Minneapolis, MN) parents are holding a special fundraiser specifically for S… R S needs your support for Support South High School Families
www.gofundme.com
February 27, 2026 at 1:13 AM
we’ve knocked $10,000 off this need.
please keep sharing!
please keep sharing!
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Back in 1977 at Minicon, a group of fans did a spoof of West Side Story (Midwest Side Story). This was filmed at the time, and the digitized, restored, subtitled and edited film was uploaded this week to YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c745...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c745...
Minicon 12 (1977) – Midwest Side Story
YouTube video by FANAC Fan History
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February 27, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Back in 1977 at Minicon, a group of fans did a spoof of West Side Story (Midwest Side Story). This was filmed at the time, and the digitized, restored, subtitled and edited film was uploaded this week to YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c745...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c745...