The people of Minnesota did that. Not Schumer and Jeffries, not Walz and Frey, not the standard-bearers of decorum. The People.

“what’s THAT for?” “i’m coming back from minnesota” [he and his wife both groan and utter apologies] me, brightly: “it’s ok, greg bovino got fired” [literally 5 rows of people eavesdropping on this convo]: “ooo!” “yesss” “really??” me: “we’re going to win” older woman: “that’s right!”

Not declaring victory yet, but breathing a tempered sigh of relief. Keep up the pressure, neighbors!

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

On Friday I'm going to pull the Joshsmut from anywhere but my Patreon. Last call for hot cyborg bumpin'! #book #books #sex

"Every border implies the violence of its maintenance" - Ayesha Siddiqi

I've been a Billy Bragg fan since 1989, and I'm proud he's a fan of my cities!

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

They are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic thinking it'll fix the hole caused by the iceberg. But we are the iceberg.

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

If they're sad, they can just quit.

one of the things about the moment is that 1960s protest songs no longer feel nostalgic but like urgent calls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZl8...

Ten years ago, some people dismissed libraries as "yesterday's" institutions. They are *the* institutions of the moment. And tomorrow. Deb Fallows has ongoing chronicle of them, at Our Towns site. www.ourtownsfoundation.org New dispatch coming soon.

That's what I say! "Good enough" is just fine for the safety of airplanes, cars, and pipelines!

ugh why is everybody calling my masked armed death squads who kidnap kindergartners the gestapo

It is totally fine for people who have been harmed to hear an apology and refuse to accept it. To acknowledge it and never trust the person saying it. To expect more than words. Get comfortable with the uncomfortable because the real world does not function like a sitcom.

A thread of Minnesota's argument in federal court right now that the Trump administration's deployment is violating the Tenth Amendment. (This is a VERY high bar to reach, but read the thread.)

LM: those are not one-offs. those are features of operation metro surge. they choose to do things this way to empower violations of 10th amendment. there are videos of people pulled ovder for wearing hijab. others because they are latino. these are no polite service of papers. groups of agents /16

racially profiling. ... another person has been shot dead ... AG Bondi sent what can only be described as a ransom note ... holding MN hostage ... their message is clear. MN can change its laws & pol.icies or suffer invasion of mass armed forces. [forbidden by] 10th amendment. /11

Bondi’s letter represents a major assault on Minnesota’s sovereignty, demanding that it forfeit its ability to make and enforce its own laws and maintain its voter rolls without oversight from the executive branch, which does not have authority over elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...

Right vs Wrong 101

I have been assuming there was some serious discontent at Target right now, so I'm really only surprised it took this long to come out. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

I keep seeing folks sharing this letter signed by 60 MN CEOs, and here is why I think it’s crucial we don’t share it unless it is with crticism. The words and narratives they are pushing are really critical, and nowhere in them do they stand against ICE and with the people of Minnesota.

I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.

Hey @womensmarch.com: your ads fundraising off what's happening in MN keep popping up in my FB feed. You say contributions "will go directly toward local organizers, legal defense funds, and critical resources on the ground" but the link goes to a generic "support our organizing work" ActBlue page.

The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.

Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont

"I’m only asking for thirty bucks. Is that a scam or a steal? Hey, that’s for you to decide. I’m just an unlicensed, nonprofessional youngster with an inadequate shovel, a mom who says she doesn’t want me sitting around inside all day, and a dream."

It’s the organized resistance of Minnesotans — leaning on mutual aid and community support networks they built in 2020 and have maintained since — that stand between us and a national descent into absolute fascism.

Minnesota‘a big business community: please don’t whine and bleed so much when Daddy hits you Minnesota’s small business community:

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

Longtime #Dinkytown shop owner Greg Ketter is the 70yo you may have seen in a TV interview speaking his mind and walking away into a gas cloud. The September 1985 Southeast (Minneapolis) neighborhood newspaper noted his shop's move from above Gray's Drug to a street level entrance around the corner.

This is Greg Ketter, owner of Dreamhaven Books. I’m doing errands on Tuesday that will involve buying some books there as well as at Tropes & Trifles, Uncle Hugo’s, and Moon Palace to thank our local bookstores for being in the fight with all of us.

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

Please punish me, Daddy, I’ve been so bad; take those hunky ICE guys off my streets and leave me at the mercy of my neighbors whom I love …

Please, don’t throw us into that briar patch!

“Please get the truth out about our son.” Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.

This summer, my family went to My Huong Kitchen on Eat Street and my toddler grandson couldn’t have been treated better by the proprietor. Yesterday, she displayed all her humanity provided refuge and car to teargas victims. youtube.com/shorts/XxFvg... Give her your business! myhuongkitchen.com

Please circulate!! This deserves to be a big story.

@klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov you have the power to shut this down; defund and abolish ICE, break up DHS, and close the camps. The world is watching and history will judge!

One of the best organizers I know in the Twin Cities has a great line, "We can't always take away the hurt, but we can take away the alone."

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My wife and I had this conversation tonight. I told her I'm pausing my practice so I can do community service full time until this is over. She said, basically, nothing can happen to you, I need you to be safe. All I could say back is that nowhere is safe, none of us are safe, so long as ICE is here

Vigil for Alex Pretti on the Aldine pedestrian bridge over 94. Love my neighbors. Photo: @kraftkt405.bsky.social and neighbor V. Fuck ICE.

@governorwalz.mn.gov better respond “Nuts!” in the tradition of General McAuliffe at the Battle of the Bulge when another group of Nazis demanded surrender. Minnesotans don’t give in to bullies, we fight them.

“The federal government is no longer bound by law. If agents of the state may kill people in public without being investigated; if they have—again, per VP Vance—“absolute immunity” from prosecution then we are living in an authoritarian regime.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...