Flehmen Response @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs@kolektiva.social

I think it's especially relevant right now even more folks (rightly!) not into legislative or bureaucratic politics, bc right now the Mayor, much of the Council, and of course MPD are foaming at the mouth decrying supposed violence against city staff and cops from encampment defenders and abolitionists. The real harm against city staff is coming from their bosses.

For more info follow @ccostaffmpls on bird, and read this among many other testimonials

https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2022/05/toxic-racist-unsafe-work-conditions-in-the-minneapolis-city-coordinators-office/

Many Minneapolis city staff - including those in the Race & Equity division, in which 90% of employees have quit or been fired over the past year - have been organizing around their racist toxic workplace culture, in particular demanding that City Coordinator Heather Johnston (basically the highest unelected city leader) not be re-confirmed to her post.

I'm very very rarely one to give a fuck about city council shit, but would appreciate MPLS folks sharing this:

I’ve lost track of all the places getting smashed up in solidarity with #StopCopCity , but apparently this bank of amerikkka got it in Minneapolis last night:

https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2022/05/20/attack-on-bank-of-america-in-minneapolis-in-solidarity-with-arrested-forest-defenders/

We need a different word than “mutual aid” for “asking the internet for money”

I’m all for surviving in any reasonably ethically way possible but “mutual aid” is not just any ol thing that helps tide over someone else

Hello, scholar social! Here's my #introduction

I'm here from the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology dept at the University of Toronto and the Palaeobiology dept at the Royal Ontario Museum.

I'm a PhD Candidate studying growth and life history in extant and extinct cats, using both observational data (collected by others) and data from the growth record preserved in bone (collected by me)! See below for what a fossil Smilodon bone looks like under the microscope 👀

Via @unicornriot -

"After clearing out the #AtlantaForest from environmental activists opposed to the construction of a police training facility called "Cop City" on May 17, police discussed using “deadly force” against protestors if they used Molotov cocktails."

https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/police-raid-atlanta-forest-occupation/

listening to this scanner clip it's wild to me that atlanta area cops give this much idle chit-chat over a public channel.... have never heard anything like this from minneapolis. talking about movies and shit

@unicornriot

Someone asked me to define #distroism the other day and all I could say was "give me an action and I will tell you whether or not it is #distroism"

I invite you, dear tooter, to do the same

@ghosp not distroism

but a dog walking you, would be distroism

grabbing! someones! mobility! aids! is! assault!

“Cop City” General Contractors’ Offices Attacked https://www.anarchistfederation.net/cop-city-general-contractors-offices-attacked/

Police Raid Atlanta Forest Occupation https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/police-raid-atlanta-forest-occupation/ #Direct_Action #Police #Activists #atlanta #Climate_Justice #Cop_City #direct_action #Environmental_activism #Protest #Unicorn_Riot #Unicorn_Riot