(this list is mainly ways non-locals can donate but by extension offers a lot of resources and places to volunteer in the Twin Cities + there are specific ways to donate time under the cut which can be adjusted to your local neighborhood)
full credit to cataloo from r/minnesota [x]
🩵Immigrant support
Immigrant Defense Network – coalition of 90+ groups organizing rapid response and collecting evidence.
Immigrant Law Center of MN – free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees.
COPAL – advocacy, organizing, phone hotline. Focus on Latine community.
Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) – education and protest organizing.
Interfaith Coalition on Immigration – advocacy, aid, events.
Monarca MN – training and phone hotline.
Unidos MN – education, protests, advocacy.
Center for Victims of Torture – advocacy and mental health services for immigrants and refugees.
International Institute of Minnesota – refugee resettlement group that provides support and legal help to vulnerable new-to-country families.
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota – offers services to refugees, including legal aid to non-citizens.
🩵Food support
If local, food donations are welcome, otherwise monetary donations help these types of orgs source what is most needed
VEAP
Second Harvest Heartland
Every Meal
The Food Group
Meals on Wheels MN
Find a local food shelf
🩵Mutual aid funds & community support
Community Aid Network
Twin Cities Trans Mutual Aid
Leo's Tow (Venmo @leostowingmn) is towing cars back to families if a car is stranded when someone is detained.
🩵More links
MN50501 Mutual Aid Linktree – well-organized list of various Twin Cities groups.
Mplsmutualaid Linktree – many neighborhood and individual GoFundMes listed here.
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.
Stand with Minnesota – extensive list of organizations, mutual aid, and crowdfunding campaigns.
🩵Donate blood
Memorial Blood Center declared a blood emergency on Tuesday, Jan 13. MBC is the blood supplier for both tier 1 trauma hospitals in the metro area (Hennepin County Medical Center and North Memorial Health).
American Red Cross
🩵Donate food or other goods
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.
Volunteer your time (under the cut)
🩵Mutual aid
Reach out to your neighbors – especially if you know they are staying home right now – and ask if they need groceries or toiletry items. Offer to pick up prescriptions, give rides, or shovel their driveway. If you know them well, bring them a treat that you know they'll enjoy. Or just ask them how they're doing and let them know you are there to support.
Connect with any of the orgs above and see if they are looking for volunteers.
Connect with a church or mosque in your area. From u/MuddieMaeSuggins: "I know a lot of regular Redditors are not religious (myself included) but like it or not this is a where a lot of community organizing happens, especially in immigrant communities."
Connect with your local school's admin office and/or their PTA. It's ok to reach out even if you don't have kids at the school. PTAs are organizing mutual aid for school families, safe rides, school observers.
🩵Activism
Find an official protest or other event via Indivisible, 50501, FREE AMERICA, or MIRAC. Students at many high schools are staging walk-outs; if your local school is doing this, reach out to school leadership or the PTA and ask how you can support as a community member.
Join the effort to stop Hilton from housing ICE by booking hotel rooms and then cancelling at the last minute. This action can be done from home! The effort is being organized by Sunrise Movement, who are telling activists to target specific hotels one-by-one. More info: SHUT DOWN HILTON
Find people in your area who are actively monitoring ICE and/or stationing themselves in high-traffic areas and ask how you can help. Check for local FB events where people are organizing and just show up.
At minimum, read the COPAL Handbook before you go out to observe. The DFL, Monarca, and other orgs have been hosting online trainings for constitutional observers (though these fill up quickly).
When you see ICE in action, start recording. Be as loud and as disruptive as possible: honk your horn, set off your car alarm, blow your whistle. Let people know that ICE is in the area. If you see someone being detained, try to get their name and a phone number to call their emergency contact.
If you do not feel comfortable observing ICE in person, there are ways you can support from home. Just ask the people who are organizing in your area. I have social anxiety, and I had never participated in any kind of political action before this past Saturday. If I can do it, you can!
Local organizers are requesting that people who help monitor ICE DO NOT participate in 1-to-1 mutual aid efforts, as these can put the families you are helping at risk.
If you have friends/acquaintances who are sympathetic but not politically active, reach out to them. Show them that they're not alone in feeling helpless. Pick a few low-commitment actions from this list and do them together.
The rest of you can (and really ought to!) reblog, but it's not your turn to talk. Just listen and reflect!
What DOES a good apology for antiblackness look like, to you?
Not a shitty twitter apology that dodges accountability. Not a genuine apology made to white fans to soothe their embarrassment and egos and maintain white solidarity.
What does an ACTUAL apology for antiblackness consist of, to you?
What actions do you need to see from people who claim to be better, to deserve your support despite a history of being unsafe?
Why do you think nonblack people feel they're entitled to grace, and what would actually EARN them your grace? What makes you not want to offer it at all?
I think there's a disconnect between what the group being harmed needs, and what people think the group being harmed should settle for. We've been forced to know the latter. How do Y'ALL feel?
I was gonna respond to this in the replies at first, but seeing discussions among fellow animators and aspiring show-runners made me wanna throw my hat in the ring.
You should be more afraid of being racist than looking racist.
What white/nonblack people need to understand is: it's not about edgy humor, offending people, or getting "cancelled." There is real, tangible impact to racism.
I remember being a teenager in the mid 2010s, hearing people throw the F and N word around like party confetti, then say it was my fault for getting offended. "It's just a word! If you're offended by it, then you're the one giving it power."
To put it into perspective for nonblack people, it's like hearing someone say "I identify as an attack helicopter." Yes, it's a joke, but it signals what kinds of ideologies they accept. It's no accident that people like Pewdiepie amass a huge alt-right audience.
Thus, if you're going to apologize for being antiblack, whether it was yesterday or ten years ago, don't explain yourself. It doesn't matter if it was "just a joke." Nobody cares if you grew up conservative or that it's Tuesday on 4chan. It doesn't make you look better, or make the racism any less hurtful. Saying "I didn't know" is okay, but you still have to apologize.
Secondly, acknowledge what you said or did was wrong. Acknowledge all of it, not just the least egregious examples. Say why it was wrong.
Shame and guilt are uncomfortable, and that's okay. Sit with it. Meditate on it for a while. Then figure out what to do it about it. Don't let people try to comfort you with "No, you didn't do anything wrong! It's them making a big deal out of it," because that creates an environment where black people feel unwelcome and unsafe.
Most importantly, it isn't enough to say "BLM" or "Racists DNI."
Moving forward, will you listen to black people? Will you celebrate black media? Will you make black friends? Will you denounce your favorite creator they've been consistently antiblack?
If your best friend makes a racist joke, are you willing to pause the game and say "Hey, that's not cool"?
Being an ally is inconvenient sometimes. When you dedicate yourself to being anti-racist (especially if you were racist before), you'll probably get pushback from people. Especially your friends. Some might get mad you for harshing the vibe, or being "too woke." Unfortunately, you'll have to get used to this.
TL;DR, everyone get more pro-black NOW ‼
(an addendum, since it'll probably come up: i hope it goes without saying that nobody should be receiving death threats or gore. that is completely unproductive.)
“A coalition of organizations that work with marginalized communities in Lebanon such as migrant workers are raising funds to provide support and assistance (food, medical supplies, pads, diapers) to the various communities. Please share and donate.”
EMERGENCY RESPONSE COALITION: VOICES OF THE UNSEEN As the indiscriminate attacks in Lebanon continue with over 120,000 (Statistics by OCHA)
As of June 2026, Voices of the Unseen are still raising money.
March 2026 update:
Campaign Story: Starting at 42,000 USD (raised in the last war), Voices of the Unseen begins again.... Following the devastating events of 1 March, 2026, and the subsequent heavy bombardment of Beirut’s southern suburbs and South Lebanon in the early hours of 2 March, we are witnessing a terrifyingly familiar cycle of violence. At least 31 people have been martyred and 149 wounded in just the last few hours. Thousands more fleeing their homes under new evacuation orders. The recent escalation has pushed Lebanon back to the brink of a full scale war.
In 2024, we saw firsthand the systemic failure of the state. As bombs fell, the state offered no safety net for those most vulnerable:
Migrant Workers: Still trapped under the Kafala system a form of modern day slavery, many are being abandoned by employers fleeing the violence, left without papers or safe passage.
Syrian Refugees: Already displaced by over a decade of war, we are once again facing the trauma of being uprooted with nowhere left to run.
Palestinians: Facing an ongoing struggle for survival as the violence in Lebanon mirrors the aggression they have endured for 78 years.
Marginalised Lebanese: Families in the South, Bekaa, and Beirut are losing their livelihoods and homes, watching their society be torn apart once more.
When the state failed, organisers from these communities built critical safety nets. This was done with your help. Last year, we raised $42,000 (USD) that went directly to community organisers from these communities. Now, we must do it again. Our current efforts are being channelled through a core group of trusted community groups: Tres Marias, Reman, Syrian Eyes and DoWAN. We are building community led solutions to a systemic collapse. We are calling for immediate financial and in kind donations to support emergency housing, healthcare access and basic survival needs.
Being queer is. such a funky experience to me. I think when I realized these parts about myself a while back I just accepted it and was fine with being open about it with my friends. But that weird floaty and giddy feeling I got whenever I was either called the correct pronoun or when someone was fine with who I was just,,, stuck with me. for like. a long time.
I love being me. and i love being open about being my most authentic self with the people I love, but the more I look at the news and all the new FUN things that end up happening that'll negatively affect queer people (especially trans!!), I feel more inclined to hide and to trust less! and that sucks a lot!!!
I really want to say something huge and meaningful, but I suck at words. But please always remember, you will always be valid. You deserve to be your most authentic and wild self you can be, and no matter what you will always be loved.
You are awesome and WILL do awesome things. I believe that you are all capable of badass things and I know you can get through these tough times.
Please remember to drink water and take care of yourself, happy pride <333
Also here's the silly comic about how I just. ended up finding out I was non-binary a while back lol
Both of them couldnt sleep after Aunt Artic and Sensei's deaths, so they decided to have a sleep over. Singing the lullaby intended for the puffles calmed both of their nerves down.
However, Paige, despite this tender moment, could not sleep. And stayed up the entire night wondering if the Puffles in the new world are even safe.
In the early morning (before Agent woke up), an annoyed and concerned Dot finds a terribly sleep deprived Paige who explored at least a majority of the island of puffles.
PH: Crikey! I've tried mate! But not a single bloody puffle on this island! And I can't even get in the pet shop!
DOT: (Teasing) If it makes you feel any better I could try to dress up as a puffle.
PH: Mate. No. I want the real deal. A REAL puffle.
DOT: But monobert already established that there are only about 14 of us penguins, 1 crab, and 1 black-and-white questioningly murderous polar bear!
PH: That crab...
PH's expression sours at the thought of that crab. Sure, maybe PH does feel a little bad about that crab, knowing monobert's unrelenting cruelty towards his one and only henchman, but he is still in some sort of cahoots with monobert! And the fact that AGENT of all the people in the EPF is close with that thing- right after the deaths of Aunt Artic (THE DIRECTOR MIND YOU!!!) and Sensei!! Just makes her so... So...!!!
DOT: Don't get your whistles in a twist Paige. Lets get you some rest back in the igloo, we'll have some coffee later, okay?
PH: And THEN we'll look for more puffles, right?
DOT: Whatever you say Paige.
......Meanwhile:
PH: (In the monitor) Come on! There's gotta be another puffle somewhere!
MONOBERT: JUST KILL SOMEONE ALREADY!!!!!
Unfortunately, this gives Monobert a nasty, nasty idea to use against Paige.
