This is a red district in Texas, proving our argument from this story: www.milwaukeebeagle.com/blog/rich-pe...

Mayor Mamdani names criminal justice reformer Stanley Richards as NYC’s new Department of Correction commissioner Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails system @gothamist.com @wnyc.org gothamist.com/news/mamdani...

@davidccrowley.bsky.social David Crowley is the boss of Milwaukee County. His team let county employee healthcare contract lapse, because they were trying to cut costs. Does he still want us to elect him to fix healthcare statewide? Why would we? www.wpr.org/news/lapse-o...

This. Every Republican congressperson has an office. There are 2-3 within an hour drive of Milwaukee. Protests downtown are great, but there are decision-makers who can be directly pressured.

Milwaukee schools are still subjecting students to lead exposure. www.milwaukeebeagle.com/blog/press-r...

Tony Evers is a valueless coward who cannot be trusted to stand up for anything if fascist Republicans convince one or two Democrats to sign on to it so it looks bipartisan. Including restrictions on free speech and endorsement of genocide. This bill is heading to his desk. Demand he veto it!

This is why we donate to legal funds and hire the best possible lawyers. www.reuters.com/world/judge-...

Is it conflictual? Do it generalize?

First, remember @govevers.wisconsin.gov could have closed Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake by executive orders on day one instead of spending millions on new youth prisons. Second, i hope conditions actually improved, but I suspect "federal oversight" doesn't mean very much anymore.

Remember: Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov supports ICE. She recently said some shit to look good in this moment, but we don’t forget when someone takes action to fund the disappearance of migrants from our communities. www.milwaukeebeagle.com/blog/sen-bal...

Trump is pivoting to placate Democrats. Now is an important time. How are your Democratic representatives responding to Trump flinch? Will they de-escalate and comply, or increase pressure to fully destabilize and potentially defeat the regime? newrepublic.com/article/2057...

Milwaukee is holding a bike ride on Saturday, too. They will be doing a Riverwest 24 lap in honor of Alex Pretti, who was a RW24 rider. Alex is from Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Minneapolis ride starts at Washburn Fair Oaks Park at the same time

Every GOP member of the House of Representatives is not in Washington this week. They are home. Use this opportunity to ask them why they won’t stand up to Trump on his tariffs taxes you are paying, the increases in healthcare costs & his misuse of ICE. Make them answer you.

Quit. If you work as an ICE agent (or a cop), you can come back to humanity. After you quit, then you can reflect, heal, and find a way to be trusted again with the help of good people and community. And that’s actual hard work you’ll be able to truly be proud of.

Everyone involved in any part of ICE, including democrats who funded it, and conservatives who voted for it is complicit in the mass torture of children. Small, young children. Do not rest until all are free and all supporting their incarceration removed from power. truthout.org/articles/imm...

Firing Bovino is a first submission in a long line that must include impeachment and conviction of president trump. We can make it so. Never be satisfied.

Protests need a target and a demand. If the goal is impeachment, then the target should be Republicans in Congress. Do we have the numbers and the drive to make every day of Brian Steil’s life feel like the town halls he canceled?

What if all the marches were occupations of Republican spaces? Wherever ICE is: community defense modeled after Minneapolis. Everywhere else, instead of marching around downtown, march from the GOP field office to the GOP politician’s office, to the GOP politician’s home, demanding impeachment.

Question for historians… Trump has clearly been looking for a civil war since last January. How does one determine when it is time to stop thinking in terms of preventing that civil war and begin thinking in terms of winning it?

So I watched the shooting video frame by frame and it looks like: 1) They were beating a struggling man with batons 2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back 3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away 4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back

Spitballing a wild idea… @danshafer.bsky.social in the YouTube here described the challenge of having 7 candidates in the forum. He also predicted that all 7 would stay in till august. What if future forums narrowed the field to 5 or even 3? 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/recombob...

It is local police who arrested clergy in Minneapolis. Not ICE agents. The police will always side with authority. Makes you think different about how much Cavalier Johnson and David Crowley increased law enforcement spending in recent years, doesn’t it?

But… @davidccrowley.bsky.social aren’t you helping rich Republicans dismantle public education by letting voucher schools steal all the resources?

This is false. Political things are connected. It’s called leverage. If your strategy is to isolate issues from each other, concede to fascists on each of them, one at a time, and hide behind excuses, then your political strategy is losing. This loser shit is how we also lose the midterms.

Gotta remind yourself not to cry when you see the kid's signs. It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"

Collaborator Democrats out! Remove them from our party.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Anyone else think this is a weird news article written by @maryspicuzza.bsky.social and publishing in Journal Sentinel? A conservative talk show host raises the alarm about how more conservatives need to put funds behind conservative judge, and that's headline news? Objective journalism?

Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come

Hundreds of people are at the fire and police commission tonight denouncing MPD chief Jeffrey Norman’s training in Israel, under a genocidal apartheid state. What will the FPC do about it?

Keep Nazis out. unicornriot.ninja/2026/far-rig...

Tyler O'Ryan Gramlin, 32, of Borden, IN is a Border Patrol Agent who has traveled from state to state committing extreme violence. On Jan 21, 2026 Gramlin emptied a can of pepper spray directly in the face of a prone protester at point-blank range in Minneapolis #MPLS #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE

Sara Rodriguez had a weirdly lot of support in the room. She also seemed as eager as Roys, but, rather than endearing earnestness, it seemed to manifest in visible contempt for the other candidates. Think she wanted this to be a first come first served situation?

Mandela Barnes talked about a Democratic trifecta more than anyone else. Is the implication is he thinks he’s the one who will win it? He’s more likely to fumble it again. It was also funny watching him try to waffle back to “abolish ice” after he betrayed that sentiment in his senate run.

Joel Brennan a few times said that everyone on stage is right and in agreement on something, without explaining why he is on stage with them, rather than agreeing from the audience, and sending his support to someone with a distinct view. His only distinction seems to be he’s the one white man.

David Crowley. If he wins the primary it will be because he has learned the Trumpian art of speaking in such a way that the listeners hear what they want in what he says. Blue ribbon commissions, secret ICE defense plans, anything he can say to reassure people of varied views that he’s with them.

Francesca Hong, best dressed. This was a room full of the most Republican pro-business democrats, but Hong had a presence, got the most cheers, and brought her steady, unflinching confidence. You gotta find the video of her answer on retaining teachers. That felt like highest contrast moment.

Kelda Roys gave off some eager energy. She was WORKING the crowd. First to stand up during introductions (immitated by everyone after her, it became a cute fun thing). She pre-empted the closing statement. It’s earnest, no shade, she just REALLY wants this.

Missy talked about her plan that unlocks Wisconsin for businesses. Very republican coded. Scott Walker called Wisconsin open for business in 2010. If Missy Hughes unlocking it in 2026, who closed and locked it?

Wow, writing all that was exhausting. Sorry if I got vague or incoherent. Takeaways coming…

Forum is over! Watch it on Civic Media alliance YouTube!

Barnes: Every law abiding person should feel safe in our communities. People are not out there in the streets because ICE is present. They are out because someone was killed. WHAT?!? We were protesting ICE long before. When Barnes said abolish ICE and we kept protesting it when he waffled.

Brennan: It takes courage to be up here, and to be in the streets of Minneapolis. Everyone up here supports the first amendment. This is the second time he has talked about how everyone on the stage agrees, rather than what he will do. Curious.

Hughes: I’m a lawyer. Deeply committed to due process. Offer a different perspective. Sat down with local leaders in Eau Claire who were facing reports of ICE coming. Follow the lead of the immigrant community.

Roys: This is the single biggest threat we are facing now. Trump has unleashed a violent lawless force on us. We need to stand with communities. But also hold every ICE agent accountable, civil and criminal liability. People are frustrated with democrats because they don’t see us fighting.

Hong: I’ve been in contact with multiple organizers in Minneapolis. ICE is a rogue agency. ABolishing ICE is a meaningful policy. The plan has to be not just providing resources. Don’t spread panic. In order for us to make sure everyone feels safe. I introduced keep families together act.

Crowley: I’m not going to tell you what I’m going to do as governor. But as county executive, we are having conversations. We are bringing all these people to the table. Putting a plan on the table. We have a plan. Creating a website to understand what you can and cannot do.