MPR News: Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans trained as constitutional observers

“A lot of us are tired, but we know that in this moment we need to keep defending and protecting our neighbors.”

#Minnesota #MutualAid #resistance

Little Free Libraries are also known sometimes to include dog treats, notes Pepper, the black, tan, and white Australian kelpie I borrow from friends.

One of Pepper the borrowed dog's neighbors offers free whistles in a Little Free Library.

Tucked inside a sandwich bag are the whistle and lanyard, along with signal protocol documentation and a wallet-card list of constitutional rights.

"GIVE THIS CARD TO THE AGENT."

#Minneapolis #resistance #whistles

Hundreds of people attended the ceremony in south Minneapolis, many in ribbon skirts and regalia.

“The dress came to our people when there was a time of sickness. And so that's what we do. We show up when there's people suffering,” [organizer Star] Downwind said.

Jingle dress dancers hold healing ceremonies at memorial sites in south Minneapolis
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/02/jingle-dress-dancers-hold-healing-ceremonies-at-good-pretti-memorial-sites-in-minneapolis

#Minneapolis #JingleDresses #regalia

Good morning from Minneapolis, where it's starting to warm up. We might even approach the late teens Fahrenheit by afternoon.

Quite early Saturday morning it's 1℉; fair skies; light winds; barometer reads Very Dry; and visibility is 10 miles at the airport.

- Light snow tonight into Sunday. Accumulations of 1 to 2.5 inches are expected. Some brief periods of freezing drizzle may occur.

- Temperatures warm to near/above normal values this weekend and into next week.

To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist
much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever
afterward resumes its liberty.

—from Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"

#mnwx #DogsOfMastodon #poem