Dr AbsP
Former academic, current UX research lead focused on how people communicate online, forever a sociolinguist. Small and loud. She/her
- Reposted by Dr AbsPfundraiser for la mama restaurant in whittier on nicollet & franklin in minneapolis, across the street from stevens square neighborhood. they are struggling to pay rent and the restaurant is the only source of income for the family, who have 5 kids www.gofundme.com/f/help-arafa...
- Reposted by Dr AbsPTonight at 8:30 PM our constituent Ricky was pepper sprayed by ICE on 18th & Polk. 2 agents parked their car, got out and approached observers, started pepper spraying Ricky on public property, and then drove away and left. Nothing is changing on the ground in Minnesota. ICE must be abolished.
- Reposted by Dr AbsPOne reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.
- Reposted by Dr AbsPWorking in coordination with standwithminnesota.com, I’m raising rent funds for Minneapolis immigrant families in need. We now have a $5000 match offer (!) and are going to help as many families as we can to stay housed today. V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Thank you so much! 🌷
- Working in coordination with standwithminnesota.com and with your help, we have now paid rent for four Minneapolis families affected by ICE. Let’s keep it going! Can we make it happen for a fifth family? Their total need is $2300. V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Thank you! 💖
- Reposted by Dr AbsPQuick reminder everything they say is a fucking lie. We are facing a major healthcare crisis due to the occupation. Pregnant people are regularly missing care & do face an impossible choices. Occupying agents ABSOLUTELY enter hospitals for enforcement purposes and have since they arrived.
- Reposted by Dr AbsPJust to throw this in at the end: if you can afford a donation, the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is helping detainees post bond and get them out of custody ASAP. A worthy cause.
- It cost me $66.70 to get this transcript. Money well spent. I don't need anyone to reimburse me. But, if you got something out of this transcript, please consider making a $66.70 donation, or even $6.67, to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund, which posts bond for immigration detainees. mibfc.org
- Reposted by Dr AbsPWestboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af
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- Reposted by Dr AbsPThe headline should be, "DHS to keep 2,000 immigration officers in Minnesota." Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota." This presser worked like a charm.
- Reposted by Dr AbsPSomeone I know in Minnesota, and trust completely, is raising money for someone in a truly harrowing and heartbreaking situation due to ICE. Non-Minnesota people whose networks aren’t tapped out, want to help, and trust me, you can venmo me at @wrigleyfield & I will pass on the donation immediately
- Reposted by Dr AbsPcalling L1 speakers of British English, please help out my student Emilia on her dissertation study! 🐦🐦 it's a short (<20 min) and fun one on voice recognition, please share! lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
- Reposted by Dr AbsPI would add one more, which was my late Arthur: 4. Too Smart To Be Functional
- Reposted by Dr AbsPFolks: This is important. SHEAR—the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)—is tracking examples of the regime erasing history. More at the link below.
- Please circulate and share this important resource: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
- Reposted by Dr AbsPElizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
- We discovered we have a mouse in the kitchen. (yes I know one known one means likely more). Marge is the most useless cat. She just stares at the dishwasher (it hangs out there). Doris would have dispatched it before we knew it was there. Of course she lives upstairs where the mouse isn't.
- Reposted by Dr AbsPSadly, I have a personal ask: ICE kidnapped a staffer who works at my grandson’s daycare this weekend along with two other family members. Can you help the extended families with legal costs & famity support? It would mean a lot to me. I’m just sick about this. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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- Reposted by Dr AbsPi don't know if i've ever seen a chotining where chotiner gives up in the middle and goes "ok buddy. here's your petard." www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
- Reposted by Dr AbsPHappy #BlackHistoryMonth ! Feb 1 You know we always kick off with the Statue of Liberty. This is especially relevant this year, when we're pretending that fascism against immigrants is a new low for the US, by ignoring fascism against Black people. Read the whole linked thread.
- Reposted by Dr AbsPYesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
- Reposted by Dr AbsPI’m trying to help this immigrant family who’s been inside for over a month due to increased ICE presence in our community. Rent and bills are due tomorrow (Feb. 1) so we are really hoping to support them. Let’s make this family happy & prevent their displacement. ❤️ Venmo: @ gretagretagreta
- Only Murders in the Building is unbearably dark. I can barely see anything. It sucks because I enjoy this show a lot.
- Reposted by Dr AbsPLa Palma is a good neighbor and deserves our support if anyone has extra to give!
- I ❤️ La Palma! Many community members are doing our best to support them, but we could all use your help, and we could use your help feeding our neighbors. If able, you're welcome to buy a gift card and get food to families fast! www.supermercadolapalma.com
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- Reposted by Dr AbsPAn amazing MN Librarian assembled us a reading list to add to the website so people can do more than donate, they can learn to organize in their communities. standwithminnesota.com/read
- Reposted by Dr AbsP"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Giving Bernie a yak chew is the equivalent to handing a toddler an iPad.
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- Reposted by Dr AbsPMinnesotans on Lake Bde Maka Ska (formerly Lake Calhoun) in Minneapolis. Jan. 30, 2026. 📷: WCCO-TV
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- Reposted by Dr AbsPWorking in government I learned that 99.99% of compliance is people thinking it’s the right thing to do or being afraid to break the law. Here, the government is threatening to prosecute masses of people for 100% lawful acts, but can only harass a teeny tiny fraction. So do it and don’t be scared!
- Reposted by Dr AbsPShould I apply for this and absolutely fuck up the training
- Reposted by Dr AbsPi once bought a new blazer for a schitts creek panel, and when i walked into the green room, catherine o'hara complimented me on it, and also noted that i had forgotten to cut all the threads off the vents. and then she leaned in and said, "it's because you're going to return it, isn't it"
- Reposted by Dr AbsPCatherine O'Hara? Are you fucking kidding me? Fuck this year.
- Reposted by Dr AbsPI keep seeing posts going "when ICE comes to MY city, we'll be out in the streets even harder" and man, I get that sentiment but I need everyone to understand that the work in Minneapolis is partly confrontational but MORE IMPORTANTLY aaallll the stuff organized in the background to help neighbors
- Reposted by Dr AbsPLaminated notice taped to a utility pole that reads: “ICE KIDNAPPED OUR NEIGHBOR HERE” “AQUÍ LA MIGRA SECUESTRÓ A NUESTRO VECINO.” “HALKAN IMMIGRATION-KA AYAA AFDUUBTAY DERISKEENA.” South Minneapolis, January 2026
- Reposted by Dr AbsPMy friend Jake’s dad got shot in the face with a flashbang by ICE and has to have reconstructive jaw surgery.
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- Bernie is still everyone's favorite and cutest chaos goblin. I'm not sure she's going to grow out of it.
- Reposted by Dr AbsPSPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois deputy has been sentenced to 20 years for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, who called 911 for help.
- Reposted by Dr AbsPSome things to understand about people from Minnesota on here right now, a short thread:
- Reposted by Dr AbsPIn light of today’s ongoing shittery — for example, a legal grocery deliverer detained in St. Paul archive.ph/9hXMT — take this ICE “guidance” as a PR exercise until proven real: www.reuters.com/world/ice-of...
- Reposted by Dr AbsP"We have reports of ICE staging in parking lots or near food shelves, potentially following people who are making deliveries, and so the fear and anxiety is real," she said. www.kare11.com/article/news...
- Reposted by Dr AbsPyes, there are no real signs of any big change in DHS activity here yet. In Chicago there really was after Bovino left and they basically ended "Midway Blitz" not so here so far.
- Reposted by Dr AbsPWe need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
- Reposted by Dr AbsPSignal will never message you like this. If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL. DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.
- Reposted by Dr AbsPit'll be like a fidget spinner and a vuvuzela had a baby. you will be circled by plastic harpies that scream your most shameful secrets. you are huge losers and everyone hates you! be grateful it's just whistles!
- Reposted by Dr AbsPbro whistles are the NICE option. do you really want to challenge 1,000 nerds with 3D printers to invent something louder and more annoying???
- Reposted by Dr AbsPTrump received 13% of the vote in 2024 in the Minnesota district (in St Paul) that held a legislative race tonight, losing it by 71%. Today, the GOP nominee got 4%, losing the race by 91%.
- Reposted by Dr AbsPmy grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt
- Reposted by Dr AbsPDemocrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.
