this is why utilities should be publicly-owned. shame on socal edison and councilmember thomas wong.

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I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

how much state violence are we willing to accept?

this is what solidarity looks like

how much state violence are we willing to accept?

“Safety experts and tech critics have long condemned the Ring devices for security risks and privacy violations, not to mention their role in building the largest civilian surveillance network in US history.”

If you want to get a firsthand experience of Trump and Miller's unwarranted invasion of Minnesota, please read this. I think I had to pause multiple times because it was so gut wrenching to read. This is only going to spread into other cities and states if Congress keeps funding ICE and DHS.

Gas now being deployed at Mueller Park on 25th and Bryant Avenue in the Wedge (Minneapolis), maybe a mile away from the below incident. ICE now driving all over Whittier/Uptown and gassing people

On the 20th of January, 1973, Portuguese agents assassinated Amílcar Cabral, the anti-colonial revolutionary who led the struggle to liberate Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. "Either we admit that there really is a struggle against imperialism which interests everybody, or we deny it."

“It is not stalking to follow a law enforcement officer to document what they’re up to — that’s constitutionally protected conduct,” @seth-stern.bsky.social tells @salon.com.

karen bass would never, @raeforla.bsky.social would

Absolutely massive turnout at the ICE Rapid Response training in Pittsburgh tonight, hosted by Frontline Dignity. Over 500 people showed up, including dozens from out of county & out of state.

keep it going, folks!

The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries. prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...

If you're one of the 188 Republicans and 153 Democrats who voted last week to send $3.3B more in military and bombs to Netanyahu as he commits genocide, do not be quoting Dr. MLK this week, who specifically condemned the triple evils of racism, poverty, and militarism. Reprehensible hypocrisy.

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society…

It was inevitable.

From 1961 to 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an annual essay for us. In 1965, he wrote about the power of demonstrations and the "legislation written in the streets." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

King knew our liberation here at home is connected to the liberation of people abroad from US empire. That's actually honoring him to get that connection.

mlk jr would spoken out against the genocides in gaza and sudan

Dr. King suffered many bouts of severe depression. His autopsy found that he had a heart consistent with a 60 year old. He was murdered at 39. Stress, threats and exhaustion will do that to a person. #TheUnSanitizedKing

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It is Love that we're seeing from the good people in MN, and all over this sick and beleaguered nation right now, in those streets, out in the cold. There is no greater love than to love your neighbor... it's love as a verb. And one day, maybe not in our time, but if we do the work... one day...

Even in the depths of colonialism, genocide, enslavement, ethnic cleansing & holocaust, there have been white folks all over who have refused and resisted white supremacy. We get to choose which ancestors we honor. One of my ancestors was an enslaver who sold my foremother. *I don't claim his ass.*

Smart people keep saying that the "military is at least more professional than the police" and, um, during the 1992 rebellion in Los Angeles, Marines shot up a house just for funsies?

periodic reminder that this agency is under siege by a disgraced ex-governor + an oil magnate “Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed the BLM to reconsider the grazing authorization approved by the Biden administration in 2022.”

dems want ice. need new party.

How much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."

this, and the notion that the present is somehow totally disconnected from the wrongs of history (“i’m not responsible for that”) is a very prevalent & even promoted belief. i recently pushed back on this assertion in a group convo by connecting present inequities to the past & it actually landed.

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DAILY MEMO: Ten-Year-Old Child, Gardeners, and Vendors, Among the More Than 88 Kidnapped in SoCal This Week Plus, another death in ICE detention, and Memo breaks down what’s happening with the mask ban for ICE and law enforcement. @eltragon.bsky.social

dem-perialists who just voted to fund israel and the plunder of venezuela include @pelosi.house.gov @gomez.house.gov @chu.house.gov @repluzrivas.bsky.social @rokhanna.bsky.social brad sherman @tedlieu.bsky.social maxine waters @daveminca.bsky.social @georgewhitesides.bsky.social derek tran

Beginning Feb. 1, domestic air travelers will have to pay $45 to use the TSA ConfirmID tool if they are not compliant with REAL ID, which went into effect in May.

Her mother called 911 for help… and got turned into ICE instead. They placed her and her five year old daughter in a hotel and told them not to contact anyone. ICE didn’t want the community fighting for them. Mother & daughter have been deported to Honduras and the local police were complicit.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

Officers in the Minneapolis-area participating in a U.S. immigration enforcement operation can't detain or tear gas peaceful protesters who aren't obstructing authorities, a judge ruled Friday. n.pr/4qPEVYM

sick f***s

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

They have quite an operation going. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

Ordinary Americans are leading the fight against ICE, and they’ll determine who wins. “They are seeing wrong and trying to make it right, even as the wrongs are committed by men with guns.” From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/un4u36i

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JUST IN: New ACLU class action lawsuit in Minnesota seeks to bar ICE from stopping Latino and Somali residents without probable cause. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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published this and was then immediately without internet for 3+ hours to share it so please read 🙏

It has now been one week since a masked man shot and killed an American mother of three in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And for all intents and purposes, the shooter, and his accomplices, remain at large.

said it out loud

Overshadowed by Gaza, Venezuela and Iran but US designation of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon as "terrorist organizations" is one of the more blatant and nakedly antidemocratic actions taken by USG abroad in a while.

Conditions in Gaza worsen as winds and hypothermia kill 5 https://aje.news/23euro

US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks’s similar but more famous act of defiance, died on Tuesday at age 86. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...