We just donated $1000 to the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center’s warming shelters. It’s currently 7*F and snowing. Can you join us in helping? givebutter.com/KBNd5w

Make their lives fucking MISERABLE every change you get. They deserve not a single moment’s peace, quiet, or happiness.

Feeling more and more true by the day. Also, season 5 of Fargo was cooking something fierce with this.

These powerful pics are really, really good reminders of why it makes sense for those opposing Trump to reclaim ownership of the American flag. If your audience is the giant lower-info middle of the electorate--and it should be--this seems like a really good way to get to them.

Cassidy sentenced countless children to death, knowingly, by confirming RFK and Trump stabs him in the back anyway I hope it eats at him every miserable day of the rest of his life

i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.

An extremely expensive lesson that could have been avoided by paying attention when it said there are 2 R's in strawberry... Evidently sense goes out the window when they're salivating over shafting staff for more money 🤷🏿

Chuckling at the Nazis being hit with water balloons and then crying 'please stop'

Its okay if you’re scared right now. Theres no shame in that. You’re not alone. Many of us are. Being brave in the face of adversity doesnt mean a denial of how you feel in the moment. Being brave in the moment is an acknowledgment that you ARE scared & you NEED to do something about it. ❤️

Something that often gets lost in the noise is that as of right now people like Gavin Newsom and Cory Booker are on the back-foot on this issue, other leading Democrats have already inched to the left or have conceded that their old framework for addressing the issue no longer works

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

haha

More public restrooms across our city? Relief for all New Yorkers.

And here's a thread with the "Find Your Organizing Home in NYC" zine right here for your reading pleasure on the internets!

I've finally put my "Find Your Organizing Home in NYC" zine online in readable form with clickable links - check it out and GET HOOKED UP and ORGANIZED, friends! gregpak.net/2026/01/17/f...

The point here is to believe people when they tell you who they are. Gavin Newsom hangs out with Republicans because he likes hanging out with Republicans. This isn't 4-D chess. He wants to hang out with Ben Shapiro and Steve Bannon. When he says he agrees with them on things, it's because he does.

Go back to Yuma, fuckface #mpls

will is right, ICE and the entire trump administration is acting aggressive in hopes that it will silence opposition into submission and it’s important to not give them that. what’s happening in minneapolis will sadly come for us and we need to be ready

They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

once again saying: our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse.

And they didn't just believe, they worked towards that end.

People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.

"This is a verified page fundraising support for the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO and Working Partnerships' 2026 rapid response effort to meet the needs of impacted union members, worker center members, and their families..." workingpartnerships.betterworld.org/campaigns/su...

Important shit that I’m still trying to learn.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...

The Virginia legislature today passed four constitutional amendments, all by day 3 of 2026 session: —protect abortion rights —repeal the same-sex marriage ban —allow mid-decade redistricting —greatly expand voting rights restoration. These will all go to 2026 referendums.

The thing re: LaMonica McIver is that they went after her & Ras Baraka first. Dropped charges against Baraka and are prosecuting her. I heard her talking about the toll that this prosecution is taking on her and her family. Also, apparently because she's an elected officials can't raise legal funds.

It REALLY frustrates me that everyone always forgets LaMonica McIver.

Very little discussion about this but 153 Dems joined MAGA to vote for HR 7006 to: •Advance abortion restrictions •Send $3.3B to Israel as they commit genocide •Crushes Palestinian autonomy •Ignores our healthcare Here's who voted YEA & a script to call them out: www.qasimrashid.com/p/153-democr...

FOR EMPHASIS: the family was trying to get out of the way of ICE with SIX children in the car. The oldest was ELEVEN. And as the mother pleaded with ICE to allow them to leave, they rolled a gas grenade under their car, along with nearby flashbang grenades. ALL SIX KIDS HAD TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL.

Democrats must refuse to vote for any funding bill that increases ICE’s budget and refuse to fund DHS until ICE’s abuses of power are stopped. The government funding deadline is January 30th. Call your reps today: (202) 224-3121 https://indivisible.org/campaign/how-rein-ice-now

General Strike Jan 23

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

better training

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

"ICE is out of control and beyond reform. We must fundamentally change the way we approach immigration: it’s time to abolish ICE." See, Dems? You can actually say it, and even draft legislation about it! It's possible to do!

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

Get the fuck off of X. No money for Musk, ever.

No act of protest is peaceful enough to an authoritarian regime. Never has been, never will be. Their agents brutalize and kidnap our people in the streets, damage our neighborhoods, terrorize us, and they want to police the tone into silence. Fuck all that. Be seen, be heard, do the right thing

“I will be blind for life. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, plastic in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.” Kaden Rummler was shot in the face by Trump’s ICE goons, then dragged

We shouldn’t be allowed to have the World. Cup, nor participate The 2028 Olympics should be moved and the US barred from competing. Any athletes need to compete under the Olympic flag. The world needs to punish us for what we’re doing, and this is just the tip of the iceberg

the people of MN have been murdered, brutalized and kidnapped for weeks now and have remained *amazingly* peaceful in the face of it. lecturing citizens to not “take the bait” etc is pretty disrespectful after a point and avoids the real question: how long are they supposed to take this, undefended?

This dude is intense and correct

"I gotta work in the goddamn morning like everybody else"

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.