🚨Ep397 Delaware is Burning🚨 Fire destroys Mother African church, activists confront Mayor Carney, advocates demand funding for homelessness & Rae Krantz @dassie.bsky.social is endorsed by Bernie Sanders. 🎚️🎛️ @karlstomberg.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/158862...

I am honored to have been included in an episode with two such amazing women, and the imprisoned men they are fighting with and for. Give this one a listen. It will be good for your brain.

🚨Ep394 Part of the Solution🚨 Rae Krantz @dassie.bsky.social chats about her RD6 state house race. Then Jennifer Chattin & Heather Christopher give an update on our friends inside prison, Josh & Fenel. Also, big announcements coming 🏆 🎛️ @karlstomberg.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/156974...

Thanks to a FOIA lawsuit from @deportationdata.org, Minnesota is getting its first credible numbers on arrests during the federal government's surge here this winter. About 3,800 Minnesota residents were arrested. Most from Latin America (only 106 from Somalia). (1)

I’m both angry that someone decided to pay MCKINSEY $9mil from a Social Services budget to, idk, make some pie charts? And ecstatic that someone is finally brave enough to cancel McKinsey contracts. What a world!

People shouldn't feel bad about previously admiring someone when they didn't know about the terrible harms that person committed, but we should challenge ourselves to consider how pedestalizing and prioritizing the legacies of charismatic leaders can create harmful dynamics. That can be addressed.

TONIGHT Wed, March 18, at 6:00pm EST, Rural Organizing is holding a training on how to prepare your rural community for an ICE surge us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We need more movements, and fewer idols. More communities, fewer central powers.

Minnesota lawyers: this doc is intended to serve as a living, iterated-on clearinghouse for volunteer opportunities. It's very much a work in progress, but I'll be updating it as resources develop. Everyone has something to contribute regardless of practice area or experience. Let's get to work.

@highlandsbunker.bsky.social @dael.bsky.social GENIUS act passed in 2025, but podcast says it’s waiting on the Senate. Did you mix up acts?

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

I’m at the New Castle County Council final meeting on the ordinance to regulate hyper scale data centers. The main character of the evening is Janet Kilpatrick, an establishment Democrat headed for retirement. She’s fighting against basic protections for people who live near the planned sites.

New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>> floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like: The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/ Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!

So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas? It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death. 18/

See ICE wants these cases in Texas, where Trump-infected courts are more tolerant of their antics, more biased against non-citizens, more willing to let DHS fill up concentration camps. (Not all Texas judges, for sure. Plenty are bravely faithful to the rule of law. ICE is playing the numbers) 17/

A view from on the ground of what’s happening to all the people swept up in raids.

When you look for a Ring replacement, don’t turn to a Google product.

ICE is still in the Twin Cities, and still wreaking havoc on people's lives, even as they move closer to Philly and its suburbs and neighboring city of Wilmington.

The group bike ride for Alex Pretti is about to depart in Minneapolis, stopping at his memorial, then Renee Good’s, and finishing at the VFW. If you can join, hop on anywhere. It’s a warm 17° & sunny! I’ve never seen this many cyclists for a group ride. ⚡️✊🏽⚡️🚲⚡️✊🏽⚡️ #RIPPretti

The Lady in the Pink Jacket is not safe. She hasn't been home, and has not used her phone. Someone else moved her car for her, and someone was there following them.

The only reason Homan replaced Bovino as the face of the occupation is because his lies are more polished and he doesn’t dress like a member of the Third Reich in public. But the policies and the state instigated violence remain unchanged.

If you aren't familiar with what DARVO is, get familiar with it. "Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender." The govt is relying on DARVO as a tactic on a national scale, and it is also increasingly a conservative tactic to attack outspoken critics of their ideas, theories, & renderings of history.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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@dael.bsky.social have you considered

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets. They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Today is #ICEout day in MN with high temps reaching -11°F & masses are protesting at MSP Airport while hundreds are outside the Whipple Fed Building. On one side a blockade prevents ICE vehicles from driving thru while ice balls are thrown at vehicles on the other side. At least 2 arrests so far.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

In America now you can be shopping with your toddler one moment and fleeing with her in your arms from a secret police attack the very next.

This episode is really about how our establishment politicians are slowly folding and collapsing along with the structures they created, and how the rest of us desperately want our world to have a lot more imagination.

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Accurate headline would be "Trump attempts to violate constitution to appease AI investor cronies in the White House" as @nytceciliakang.bsky.social well knows, but NYT editors refuse to accurately headline these stories. The lede should mention regulations are meant to stop kids killing themselves.

This is heartbreaking on so many levels.

Never meet your heroes. open.substack.com/pub/emilyiny...

Just because someone is in a position of power does not make them smarter than even the average person. It does not bestow a magical anointing on them that makes all their thoughts holy and just. It just makes them powerful.

NEW: In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant. She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency. Then she died. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Standing up to corruption and gross abuse of power is painful. It has always required and will continue to require sacrifice. It’s hard. But if we don’t make the hard decisions now, things will continue getting worse until they’re nearly insurmountable.

May we learn from this that someone being rich does not make them smarter, or more noble, or wiser than any one of us. It just means they have more money.

Another example where the default should have been opt-in.

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.” If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.

I agree with the intent of this post but think it’s too limited. ALL Dem Senators sold us out, by keeping Schumer as leader. Schumer orchestrated this deal. The Senators worked together to select people whose elections were furthest away or who are retiring. This was a group project.

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry