Sent to me, ICE truck currently downtown Minneapolis 3rd & Hennepin near Gay 90s. I've called Monarca, but putting here as well. Maybe folks that spread news of St. Paul raid today can repost @naomikritzer.bsky.social @mauratwit.bsky.social @unicornriot.bsky.social

seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte

As it turns out solving the first order problem is usually pretty efficacious and straightforward

Neither rain nor sleet nor ICE

I saw screenshots this morning of Trump threatening members of Congress with death for this video but I hadn't seen the video. So if, like me, you've been inadequately online this week, this is what Trump thinks is worthy of EXECUTION.

Minnesota has been shaken to its core by political violence this year. We know first hand that rhetoric like this has real life consequences. Everyone should call this out for what it is - the sitting president calling for deaths of Members of Congress. This is what dictators do.

This is how "fast fashion" works. This is how it has always worked. There is no such thing as a robot sewing-machine. Only women, and starvation wages. This was true 150 years ago. And it's true now.

Hey I just want to remind everyone that even if vaccines did cause autism (they don’t), they also cause ALIVE CHILDREN, and if you don’t think an alive autistic child is something to celebrate, please fuck off into the sun forever

Re-upping this with a link that goes to the upcoming trainings in Longfellow, Kingfield and Cathedral Hill since Naomi's link was for an older training. monarcamn.org/training

So I got the alert this morning and saw that it was nearby, but it still took me a bit to get out of the house and head over. Then I had to find parking, which was also tricky as there's not a ton of legal on-street parking (and most of it was full). I lucked out and saw someone leaving.

If you were exposed to chemical agents today: From Let This Radicalize You

Federal agents caused multiple injuries and deployed tear gas multiple times. The agencies that had a confirmed presence are: FBI, ICE, DEA, and HSI. Federal agents were seen with “police vests” but we have confirmation that SPPD and the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office were not involved or present.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

If there's one thing I would like everyone over 25 to know, it's that way more of the government is run by the people who just decided to show up to meetings than you realize. Attend a couple city commission meetings yourself, and they lose a lot of the mystique.

Government, taxes, & regulation are good actually

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

This, but also proud of retiring @smith.senate.gov for holding strong

San Diego FC, a team that paid $500M to get into MLS share a stadium with another soccer team and college football. And the college football team hosts a game on Saturday. So the MLS playoff game is Monday. What an amateur ass league

Trump is like a toddler: time he spends asleep is to be prized, not resented. Every minute he sleeps is a minute he is not tantruming or breaking things or smearing his own shit on things.

Jesus never said: "For I was hungry and you asked if I submitted the proper work requirements to get access to some food assistance."

if they were smart, they’d realize his victory showed that sincere, Lin-Manuel-esque aesthetics are actually very effective at selling socialist ideas to normie libs. but they are not smart.

“There is no MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner to be hung, no real material change in the world of today versus yesterday. Just the quiet relief of good news that helps us live to fight another day.” What a breathtakingly lovely piece.

This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.

ICE won't allow communion to be given in detention centers because demons quail and shiver at the divine presence in the Host.

The time is NOW to get involved in your local DFL unit. If you want to see change in the DFL, change will only happen from within, not by complaining on social media. At a more basic level, we simply need more volunteers, to run caucuses and conventions, and to win elections.

This person took this when they called the race

Especially for city Council, I think a lot of folks forget the power of good constituent service. And how doing that as a baseline will put you in a good spot if you run a decent campaign.

Seems like a good time for the Speaker of the House to swear in Rep. Grijalva.

9:45pm local kickoff on a Monday is rough for Loons fans, but next year will be worse as Apple and MLS just signed a contract to show a Western Conference playoff match in a pocket dimension outside of linear time. Huge synergy potential, a ton of people in the Twilight Zone use Continental Tires

This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

I can’t stress this enough. They want to do inside the US the kind of extrajudicial murders they’ve been doing internationally. This has always been about normalizing the ability of Trump to smite his personal enemies without suffering legal consequences. Trump’s testing for compliance & resistance.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

children no longer being safe trick-or-treating on american streets because of the president is where we're at

A witness in our case had ICE reject all her documents after using facial rec on her. For her, tho, it seemed like nothing could make them accept that she has a right to be here. Either way, a gov policy of not trusting gov-issued docs is going to violate lots of people's rights.

IBM, 1979 (and they know a little something about using tech in authoritarian climates):

An incomplete list of people my Google doorbell has said are "me": my sister, my mom, my MIL, my daughter's godmother, our mail carrier, at least 2 pizza delivery people. Facial recognition can be a useful tool, but it is not a replacement for actual evidence.

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.

Jerome Corsi, a conspiracy theorist who helped popularize QAnon back in 2018, claims he's involved with creating an upcoming Trump EO involving a "national emergency" targeting voter rolls, mandating voter ID, & requiring proof of citizenship. Corsi's also implied the military may be involved.

Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity. It’s not about the money, Trump just wants Americans to go hungry.

Pet food is usually not covered by SNAP (depending on where you are), but needing to cover more groceries may take up what you would have spent on it. Many animal shelters have pet food pantries, so check your local if you're struggling to feed your pets.

This is lovely, short, and moving, perfect timeline cleanse.

There are 2 winners here: Trial lawyers and expert witnesses. They will ride this gravy train and enjoy the billable hours. Public health, parents, kids, trust: all will be harmed 🤦🏻‍♂️

This got some motion on Facebook, so I am reposting here. xo your friendly hunger relief comms guy

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk. I had it exactly backward.

“What I need you to know is we are organized. What I need you to know is that you need to get organized. What I need you to know is they are coming. What I need you to know is you can stop them.”