The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

All of this happened with basically no help from elected officials of the opposition party. This was entirely the people.

im sorry but how fucking stupid are you to try and say both "this is a police state" and "i want to continue funding the police state." how are voters supposed to interpret that other than that you're a spineless idiot. stupid hair twat

Didn't realize the extent to which ICE are "content creators first and Gestapo second," as @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social is reporting. A paramilitary force whose violence is shaped by what will produce the highest-engagement Instagram Reel. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

it's macabrely interesting, and I wonder if anyone has written something on it, how Kirk's image has got to be one of the most desecrated in recent history? it feels an important American artifact to record but it's of course icky to wade into

NEW: There are 2,400+ elections for DA & sheriff this year. These matter hugely to criminal justice & policing—including: *these are often officials who decide ICE collaboration.* So I took a dive into these 2,400+ races to identify early hotspots and battlegrounds. Read, & check out our maps:

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.

I wonder if it has occurred to anyone at the Atlantic in this moment, that perhaps spending the past decade creating false equivalency between the avowed fascist movement on the right, and the college kids protesting fascists on college campuses was a mistake?

new alex pareene and ta-nehisi coates articles on the same day. the long 2016 finally throws us a bone

The Democratic U.S. Senate candidates weighed in on another fatal shooting involving federal agents in Minneapolis, as well as recent U.S. military actions in Venezuela and healthcare costs.

You might think a nominally centrist govt, faced with an impending fascist capture of the machinery of state, would be doing *everything* to impede their ability to pursue fash policies in power. Instead, Lab has been est mechanisms & norms that Reform will be able to immediately exploit & build on

Never forget Minneapolis.

This church is extremist even by MAGA standards.

so chris madel was providing legal advice to ICE agent jonathan ross after he killed renee good in minneapolis, but after alex pettri gets killed by border patrol, madel is out of the governor’s race because the federal government is going too far? www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...

Well said.

Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

Spoke to Greg Ketter, owner of DreamHaven Books, just now. He’s grateful for all the book orders & knows the store’s site is struggling w/ the demand. Employees coming Monday to reboot the site & pack orders. There are so many that it may take a few extra days so please be patient & keep fighting. ✊🏽

The altnps account is the 13th most followed account on Bluesky and has more followers than every single news outlet other than the NYT, NPR and Meidas Touch on here. They actively spread misinformation and exploit gullible old people for cash. Accounts this unethical do not deserve to exist.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

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.

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

I am old enough to remember the last republican president famously deploying "You're either with us or against us," and calling Americans opposed to his disastrous foreign policy decisions "terrorist sympathizers." But sure, man. This is Putin.

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

WOW

Minnesota's state FBI-like bureau is suing Noem. It says before pre-emptively declaring the killing righteous and abandoning the crime scene, feds took exclusive custody of evidence, including "apparently seized cellphones." MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.

"Carpetbagger" and "scalawag" remained vocabulary words taught in US history because the Dunning School's Lost Cause ideology was able to demonize for over a century the notion that Reconstructionists were an externally imposed element, rather than new and old locals conspiring together.

Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.

Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)

Worth remembering that they all lied in their original reports because they had no idea Holliday was filming them

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Our elites decided Charlie Kirk was a watershed event that changed politics forever, but the repeated murders of people who weren't in their contacts is a point of debate they grudgingly have to concede might be an issue

democratic commitment to preserving and reforming a nightmare state security organ that’s less than 25 years old *even now* is both craven and betrays such a profound impoverishment of ideas beyond a nonnegotiable given of a withdrawing state where only a giant repressive apparatus can and must grow

load bearing tweet for a settler colonial society

It feels like Groundhog Day. Going back to 2014.

Sen. Dick Durbin, another one of the 8 Democratic YES votes on Nov funding bill, is a NO on this DHS measure: “I will not vote to fund the illegal DHS and ICE operations that terrorize Chicago, Minneapolis, and many other communities.” This bill doesn’t have the votes.

Monstrous acts and crimes are being committed right now, in our names, with our tax dollars: -Renee Good - murdered by an armed agent of the state for protesting -Alex Pretti - murdered by an armed agent of the state for protesting -Liam Ramos (5) - used as bait to lure his father out of the house

Kyle Rittenhouse was on Infowars the day after the Renee Good shooting saying he had heard on X that Renee was putting cigarettes out on her kids. This wasn't true. This is a government by and for school shooters and their apologists.

Not untrained, not inexperienced.

Remember last week when there were people dismissing the idea they could do illegal things to mess with elections? Days later the administration is using violence from federal agents in the streets as a tool to try and access voter data.

The man appears to have been trying to protect two women, at least one of whom a federal agent clearly shoves to the ground for no reason apparent in the video other than rage and arrogance

Gov. Walz’s office tells @zeteo.com: “The Governor has activated the State Emergency Operations Center. He is meeting with public safety officials now and will hold a press conference at 1:30 CT to address the shooting in Minneapolis.”

Sayre: My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones …Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there, a powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people….

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

I do not understand why the Democrat establishment is not calling for national mobilization. Everything the government is doing is unpopular (poll-tested), Americans want to fight for their rights, and for their neighbors, and for NATO, all of it. Democrat leaders are failing and I don't understand

"Just stay cool and don't make trouble until the midterms" is not going to cut it as an opposition response to a murderous regime whose masked thugs are killing people in the streets and then attempting to round up witnesses and destroy evidence.

ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.

hey kids let us all read the imprecatory psalms, here is Psalm 69: 20-28.