Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

This please!

Grotesque. Get off Substack if you can. Let them know how you feel about this, at the very least!

Life tip: do not sneeze while bending down to pick something up off the floor. Owwww

Oh FFS, why do I have to do 2-factor identification every time I open Everand on my computer and every third time on my phone? What exactly is at risk here? Just let me sign in! In fact don't sign me out every time I close the window! Aaaargh!!!!!!

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Skating to Bollywood music 😍 Am now rooting for the Georgian!

Juan Nicolas, a 2 month old being left to rot by ICE.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

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How to write a book with A.I. 1. Don’t

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

We do NOT want common sense reform of ICE. We want ICE to be ABOLISHED. We want CBP to be seriously investigated and reformed.

I'm so damned sad right now. The world's going to hell in a handcart. I'm leaving my home of 10 years & 3/4ths of my favorite people, to go look after my 4th favorite person who is rapidly developing senile dementia. It's going to be so hard, & I'm going to miss my people & my own space so much.

A Meditation on the Lives of Six Famous Black Men During the Week of My 50th Birthday #comicoop 🧵 1/7

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.

I would beseech the national media to stop writing sentences like one I just read that said basically "ICE's time in Minnesota is almost up." That is NOT an established fact. Please do not turn away. Please check the readily available information from people on the ground and local journalists.

I’ve see a couple mentions that both Georgia Fort & Don Lemon are independent journalists without the coffers, status, & lawyers of media companies to back them - with no acknowledgment of Black press being *forced en masse* to leave the field or go indie in the last 2 years or so.

legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards

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

Pro tip for any Hill journos, the Speaker can approve 24hr protection for Members who are under heightened threat. Omar used to have this, but Mike Johnson took it away. You should ask him about that

Here’s what the “demotion” actually does: - stops killing white, American citizens publicly. - goes back to killing Black and brown undocumented, legal immigrants and American citizens privately… but sometimes publicly too. That was “acceptable” arrangement before.

Anyway, I'm going to continue banging pots and pans together trying to draw some attention to this problem in hopes that groups on the left will pay attention to this and invest in a response. Otherwise, the right-wing BS claims about "liberal bias" will successfully be used to reshape reality.

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

Do NOT fund ICE @schumer.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @gallego.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @democrats.senate.gov @rosen.senate.gov @sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us @durbin.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov

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.

When you figure out that everyone is talking about Louise PeRRy not Louise PeNNy:

I've been thinking about Philando Castile a lot today. He was the nutrition services supervisor at my younger brother's school in St Paul, although years after my brother attended. He was licensed to carry, but was killed by police for the crime of owning a gun while Black, back in 2016.

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

Dems have to vote this down this might not be the fight you want but this is the fight you have, they’re killing people in the streets and smearing the victims, they are totally out of control meet the moment because it is coming to meet you whether you like it or not

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

#Tucson #Arizona #Protest #ICE #ICEout #AbolishICE

I do not know who this victim of police brutality is, and essentially it doesn't matter. What I know is that the state should not do this to ANYONE. US citizen or immigrant Parent or not Man, woman, or otherwise Veteran or civilian Innocent bystander or convicted felon This is torture.

National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3

Hey #Petrat friends! Let's say I'm adopting juvenile (2mo) rats from a breeder 10 hours away. What should I prepare/know about for the car ride? I do have a travel cage, but I was thinking of getting something more cozy. Obs we humans will need food/water breaks, so sipper bottle, cucumber 1/2

Pre blocked! Yay, past me!

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

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

The MN Leg could start its own version of these hearings tomorrow. The IL leg too. Months and months and months and months of them. Don't stop.

The Hmong are here because they fought for the US in a war we lost.

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

If you can’t make “maybe we should have a Constitution” popular, fucking resign and make room for those who will.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Just saw someone reference Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley as a "vintage" fantasy (also Patricia McKillip and Ursula LeGuin) Aaaargh. I'm already creaky as heck from schlepping boxes all day. You didn't have to shove the crone dagger in as well! I feel so old

A pleasing coda to this: someone appears to have tracked down the picture in question. I'm delighted by how cheerful it looks. bsky.app/profile/rufu...

The reason you have congressional hearings is so stories like this HAVE to get coverage for the normies. There were TEN Benghazi investigations. Give me twenty ICE investigations, with big damn press conferences.