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I have another thing you can do to help people in Minneapolis!
These kids are raising funds to go to Space Camp. It’s a beautiful structure: families pay what they can, then •all• the families fundraise the remaining total for •all• the kids together. Either everyone goes or no one goes.
The ICE invasion really knocked the fundraising on its heels this year: everyone diverted, one major fundraising event cancelled. It’s looking a little dire; maybe no one goes this year. They could use some help.
https://www.mpsspacecamp2026.com
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I have another thing you can do to help people in Minneapolis!
These kids are raising funds to go to Space Camp. It’s a beautiful structure: families pay what they can, then •all• the families fundraise the remaining total for •all• the kids together. Either everyone goes or no one goes.
The ICE invasion really knocked the fundraising on its heels this year: everyone diverted, one major fundraising event cancelled. It’s looking a little dire; maybe no one goes this year. They could use some help.
https://www.mpsspacecamp2026.com
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Please watch their charming video! Watch, and look at the faces: kids of many races and many genders, all different levels of knowledge, every one of them showing this deep-seated sense of agency and ownership about science and about their own learning: “I belong here. This is for me.” It’s everything the fascists fear.
Full disclosure: my kid is one of the kids in the program (but not in the video, sorry!). I can thus vouch for this fundraiser with extra confidence.
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Please watch their charming video! Watch, and look at the faces: kids of many races and many genders, all different levels of knowledge, every one of them showing this deep-seated sense of agency and ownership about science and about their own learning: “I belong here. This is for me.” It’s everything the fascists fear.
Full disclosure: my kid is one of the kids in the program (but not in the video, sorry!). I can thus vouch for this fundraiser with extra confidence.
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@martinvermeer
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I have another thing you can do to help people in Minneapolis!
These kids are raising funds to go to Space Camp. It’s a beautiful structure: families pay what they can, then •all• the families fundraise the remaining total for •all• the kids together. Either everyone goes or no one goes.
The ICE invasion really knocked the fundraising on its heels this year: everyone diverted, one major fundraising event cancelled. It’s looking a little dire; maybe no one goes this year. They could use some help.
https://www.mpsspacecamp2026.com
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@inthehands Thanks for sharing this opportunity. Space Camp was such an incredible experience for me as a young human. I'm happy to contribute to help more kids reach for the stars.
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@inthehands Thanks for sharing this opportunity. Space Camp was such an incredible experience for me as a young human. I'm happy to contribute to help more kids reach for the stars.
People keep saying that about it! It just seems like a really amazing experience.
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Please watch their charming video! Watch, and look at the faces: kids of many races and many genders, all different levels of knowledge, every one of them showing this deep-seated sense of agency and ownership about science and about their own learning: “I belong here. This is for me.” It’s everything the fascists fear.
Full disclosure: my kid is one of the kids in the program (but not in the video, sorry!). I can thus vouch for this fundraiser with extra confidence.
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@inthehands thank you for sharing.
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@martinvermeer
Did you go to space camp?@inthehands No, but I had a telescope - a bit smaller than the one in the pic, but lunar craters, the crescent of Venus, the moons of Jupiter 💚 - and my father was an amateur astronomer too. And Jules Verne was my travel guide during the Apollo Project...
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@inthehands No, but I had a telescope - a bit smaller than the one in the pic, but lunar craters, the crescent of Venus, the moons of Jupiter 💚 - and my father was an amateur astronomer too. And Jules Verne was my travel guide during the Apollo Project...
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Please watch their charming video! Watch, and look at the faces: kids of many races and many genders, all different levels of knowledge, every one of them showing this deep-seated sense of agency and ownership about science and about their own learning: “I belong here. This is for me.” It’s everything the fascists fear.
Full disclosure: my kid is one of the kids in the program (but not in the video, sorry!). I can thus vouch for this fundraiser with extra confidence.
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To be clear: we were able to cover our own kid’s cost; this fundraiser is so •all• the kids can go. There’s a bunch of families who absolutely need community support to go to Space Camp — and unsurprisingly, there’s a large overlap there with the families that the Trump admin is directly targeting.
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To be clear: we were able to cover our own kid’s cost; this fundraiser is so •all• the kids can go. There’s a bunch of families who absolutely need community support to go to Space Camp — and unsurprisingly, there’s a large overlap there with the families that the Trump admin is directly targeting.
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Space Camp fundraising has been hard this year. Beyond the cancelled fundraiser in Jan, people are kind of tapped out with donation requests: there’s been so much dire need for groceries, rent assistance, stuff like that…well, when survival is in question, education and joy become luxuries for the privileged.
That’s what happens in times like these. But I’ll be damned if I let ICE rob these kids of Space Camp without a fight.
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Space Camp fundraising has been hard this year. Beyond the cancelled fundraiser in Jan, people are kind of tapped out with donation requests: there’s been so much dire need for groceries, rent assistance, stuff like that…well, when survival is in question, education and joy become luxuries for the privileged.
That’s what happens in times like these. But I’ll be damned if I let ICE rob these kids of Space Camp without a fight.
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So much of the ICE invasion’s harm here in Minneapolis is going to be diffuse, long-term, things that faded away quietly, things that •didn’t• happen, injuries barely seen and never tallied.
Long after the media spotlight is gone, we’re going to be repairing, rebuilding, trying to catch back up, trying to heal, trying to fill the holes these months left. It’s like a whole second pandemic for us.
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So much of the ICE invasion’s harm here in Minneapolis is going to be diffuse, long-term, things that faded away quietly, things that •didn’t• happen, injuries barely seen and never tallied.
Long after the media spotlight is gone, we’re going to be repairing, rebuilding, trying to catch back up, trying to heal, trying to fill the holes these months left. It’s like a whole second pandemic for us.
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There’s definitely a hopeful feeling in having room to worry about Space Camp fundraising right now, instead of, say, ICE staging at the local Target parking lot yet again (with Target’s tacit blessing, damn them). It’s been quiet in the city these last few days. Fingers crossed.
Hopeful, but also melancholy: even if ICE does in fact draw down to pre-Dec levels, our “after” is not really going to come for a long time — and when it does, it will feel more like a scar than a sunrise.
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So much of the ICE invasion’s harm here in Minneapolis is going to be diffuse, long-term, things that faded away quietly, things that •didn’t• happen, injuries barely seen and never tallied.
Long after the media spotlight is gone, we’re going to be repairing, rebuilding, trying to catch back up, trying to heal, trying to fill the holes these months left. It’s like a whole second pandemic for us.
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This is the way of the current administration, things are broken quickly and LOUD, and then the repairs are quiet and hidden. But we will rebuild.
This is the problem with an administration centered on the "move fast and break things" crap of the rapacious Wall Street junk bonds, hedge funds, and Silicon Valley "disruptive capitalists". It's a terrible way to live and a terrible way to actually get anything done.
I wish we could celebrate (and reward) the rebuilding rather than the breaking.
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There’s definitely a hopeful feeling in having room to worry about Space Camp fundraising right now, instead of, say, ICE staging at the local Target parking lot yet again (with Target’s tacit blessing, damn them). It’s been quiet in the city these last few days. Fingers crossed.
Hopeful, but also melancholy: even if ICE does in fact draw down to pre-Dec levels, our “after” is not really going to come for a long time — and when it does, it will feel more like a scar than a sunrise.
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great to see you keeping track of what's really important at the same time that you're fighting against the evil folks that don't get what life is really all about.
🙏 ❤️ 🙏 ❤️ 🙏 ❤️ to everyone there.
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There’s definitely a hopeful feeling in having room to worry about Space Camp fundraising right now, instead of, say, ICE staging at the local Target parking lot yet again (with Target’s tacit blessing, damn them). It’s been quiet in the city these last few days. Fingers crossed.
Hopeful, but also melancholy: even if ICE does in fact draw down to pre-Dec levels, our “after” is not really going to come for a long time — and when it does, it will feel more like a scar than a sunrise.
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@inthehands this is a great fundraising model. Happy to donate and spread the word. Kids need opportunities to learn about science!
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There’s definitely a hopeful feeling in having room to worry about Space Camp fundraising right now, instead of, say, ICE staging at the local Target parking lot yet again (with Target’s tacit blessing, damn them). It’s been quiet in the city these last few days. Fingers crossed.
Hopeful, but also melancholy: even if ICE does in fact draw down to pre-Dec levels, our “after” is not really going to come for a long time — and when it does, it will feel more like a scar than a sunrise.
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@inthehands happy to support Space Camp! That is awesome!
The kids would also be welcome at any of our low and high power rocket launches up in North Branch. They could bring Estes rockets, if they have them, or we could do a rocket build with them.
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I have another thing you can do to help people in Minneapolis!
These kids are raising funds to go to Space Camp. It’s a beautiful structure: families pay what they can, then •all• the families fundraise the remaining total for •all• the kids together. Either everyone goes or no one goes.
The ICE invasion really knocked the fundraising on its heels this year: everyone diverted, one major fundraising event cancelled. It’s looking a little dire; maybe no one goes this year. They could use some help.
https://www.mpsspacecamp2026.com
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Donated and boosted!
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Space Camp fundraising has been hard this year. Beyond the cancelled fundraiser in Jan, people are kind of tapped out with donation requests: there’s been so much dire need for groceries, rent assistance, stuff like that…well, when survival is in question, education and joy become luxuries for the privileged.
That’s what happens in times like these. But I’ll be damned if I let ICE rob these kids of Space Camp without a fight.
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@inthehands I missed this when you posted it yesterday, thank you for bumping it again!
I used to work at Space Camp many years ago (and have a sister in MPLS) so this is all very near to my heart. 🚀
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I have another thing you can do to help people in Minneapolis!
These kids are raising funds to go to Space Camp. It’s a beautiful structure: families pay what they can, then •all• the families fundraise the remaining total for •all• the kids together. Either everyone goes or no one goes.
The ICE invasion really knocked the fundraising on its heels this year: everyone diverted, one major fundraising event cancelled. It’s looking a little dire; maybe no one goes this year. They could use some help.
https://www.mpsspacecamp2026.com
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@inthehands Thank you for letting us know about this. I’m from Huntsville AL and Space Camp is amazing. Donating to this makes me feel really good, on so many levels.
Fingers crossed they get everything they need!
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Consigliatemi un'istanza! Vorrei creare un profilo sul Fediverso per i Gom Jabbar, la nostra nuova band.
Visto che parleremo principalmente inglese e l'account servirebbe per comunicare fuori dall'Italia, pensavo a un'istanza anglofona.
Ne conoscete di valide, ovviamente non giganti, incentrate sulla musica e/o sulla roba riot?
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Iscriviti o rinnova l'iscrizione per il 2026.
Più saremo, più avremo forza e capacità di incidere! 👇
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