Pale Blue Dot day so here's the whole thing. (thread) 1/9 "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives...

A related clarification: Mobility devices do not need be reserved for when you absolutely cannot accomplish the task without them. You should not be incapacitated before you are willing to make adjustments to support your health and functionality.

He fucking warns him, and then claps to charge up that wallop. Absolute fucking cinema.

You need your day brightened? Read this:

"It’s not hard to see why ICE has expanded its reach beyond the Twin Cities. The qualities that have hindered ICE’s operation in Minneapolis and St. Paul — density and walkability; a large, almost exclusively left-of-center population — are absent here." www.theverge.com/policy/87871...

ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week. Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.

something from minnesota that i would like people to learn, that i don’t think is hitting people yet: helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis. and you can help.

Funny, I’d think the biggest threat would be the information remaining secret and therefore viable to use as blackmail.

“Once pregnant children are placed at the San Benito shelter, the new regulations could mean they cannot be moved out of Texas to get abortions - even if keeping them there puts them at risk. “It's so elegant and simple,’ White said. ‘All they have to do is send them to Texas.’”

"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said."

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished. I have neighbors everywhere.

I'm not believing this until I hear from people in the streets of MN and neither should you

I’ve seen this shared multiple times now, so I did a quick fact-check Google. While yes it’s true, and yay for it working, what’s absent from the celebrations is that every Google search result is about the movement to repeal it.

I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

F'ing AMAZING #thread from someone doing the needed work in the face of blatant government overreach. Please read to the end.

My sense of Minnesota today is that there’s less tear gas and the same amount of unlawful detention, destruction of families, loss of livelihood, people in hiding. There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.

ICE and CBP haven’t withdrawn from a single fucking U.S. city that they’ve occupied.

Hey, remember that time last month our government abducted a foreign head of state? Whatever happened with that?

This is the kind of plan you would develop if you wanted to intentionally kill thousands through neglect and disease. Which, if you know history, was how large proportions of people in concentration camps died The malnutrition and disease killed millions.

These buildings do not have the infrastructure to hold this many people. They are not built for this. From plumbing to HVAC to electrical. This is going to be a humanitarian disaster. One must assume it's intentional. They have no plans for sewage, showers, clean water, or even basic food.

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen: "We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."

Annual MMIR March being held again on Valentine's Day, Minneapolis.

I arrived too late to an abduction yesterday. Ice vehicles boxed in a food delivery driver on the highway. They took him, and when I came on the scene (with a few other neighbors in cars), his keys were still in it. We found his phone, a debit card, his car title and registration.

Sorry I’m late to work, boss. I foolishly went to Minnesota in February, so this morning I had to spend 45 min applying and reapplying lotion to my hands in a vain attempt to keep my knuckles from splitting back open.

why are ppl still bringing tweet screenshots here to show off racist stuff said by the best-known-racists on the planet? it's like y'all WANT them to have influence bc not a single soul needs 'evidence' they are racists; again, they're THE BEST KNOWN RACISTS ON THE PLANET

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

This is an incredible thread

The US is traumatizing thousands of kids in detention camps. But we are also traumatizing *millions* of kids who are in hiding or fear their parents being snatched. Like how we have tens of thousands of kids who have survived school shootings, and a whole generation shaped by active shooter drills.

He's disabled. They're going to murder him because he's disabled.

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

ICE is still in Minnesota. ICE is still breaking down glass windows and doors. ICE is still separating families. ICE is still targeting our neighbors who need to go to work because they cannot afford food, rent, and basic living expenses. 1/

NEW: The DHS arrest records make no mention of the Tren de Aragua gang even though officials repeatedly cited its presence in the building as motivation for the raid, in which agents descended from a Blackhawk helicopter and zip-tied U.S. citizens.

stephen miller told me woke 2 keeps eating his prosecutors so I asked how many prosecutors he has and he said he just goes to twitter and begs people to apply to become federal prosecutors so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding prosectors to woke 2 and then kristi noem started crying

when i say bring that baby home i mean EVERY BABY

starting to feel like the country is taking a Too Big To Fail approach to the Epstein files and paired with all the fascism and Horrors it kind of feels ripe for major systems change and I think we should discuss that more openly tbh

They're pushing Newsom super hard hoping you forget there is still plenty of time to find a good candidate that doesn't throw trans rights into the garbage, because fuck voting for that piece of shit. THERE'S EASILY TIME. We can do better. You don't get to throw people's human rights & dignity away.

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser. What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

USian trans people aren't telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom to cause you distress and despair. USian trans people are telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom so you don't vote for his transphobic ass in the primaries. They are giving you actionable information.

Please get involved and share. Springfield is a fraction of the size of Minneapolis, politically blended, with 1/4th of its whole population under threat of deportation all at once. It will take everything to fight this. 9/9

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

I finally read the ACOTAR series recently and decided that the “faerie” aspect of it was fundamental not bc of the magic but because it allowed for the possibility of men in positions of power that weren’t awful. Because that feels genuinely impossible in even a fictionalized version of reality.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30. 📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad

Starting to realize that everyone was in on this and Epstein having all these people by the balls (Dems and Dem donors, etc too) changed the course of history and is responsible for every life lost under this administration, the ones cut off from USAID and the terror here at home. Unbelievable

The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.