Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

‼️Important Read‼️

The Kansas government made it a crime to drive while trans (with a license with your AGAB). Their goal here is simple. Arrest trans people on technicalities, throw them in prison, deny them gender-affirming care, & make them victims of violence. It’s the next step towards concentration camps.

One way to help is to support trans people escape from states gearing up for anti-trans pogroms by donating to the Trans Continental Pipeline. And, while you're at it, follow @erininthemorning.com & @esqueer.net & support their work covering/defending human rights

As the Twin Cities prepares for an upcoming week of action scheduled to take place from February 25 through March 1, organizers with the group behind the initiative, “Melt the ICE,” shared some reflections and lessons on ICE resistance tactics with Unicorn Riot.

This is a great read. Worth your time today. “You can’t justify policing or surveillance or a federal invasion without scapegoats, without “barbarians” whose alleged choices—sometimes made decades ago—are used as reasoning for occupation today.”

Just coming here to inject some positive vibes by way of a way to support small businesses in Minnesota

A few donations rolled in while I was asleep, bringing us to $1325/3600! We still need $2275 in the next few days to keep this family safe from eviction 💖 Venmo: offalcute

Cedar-Riverside is a neighborhood in Minneapolis heavily targeted by this regime on many, many fronts because it is a cultural corridor for our Somali neighbors.

“A force numbering in the hundreds — several times larger than that initial deployment — is not a retreat. It is a tremendous enforcement footprint in a single metropolitan area, and a force capable of inflicting mass terror, carrying out targeted abductions, and sustaining a climate of fear.”

‼️We can still stop this.

The rebel loon in pie form!

Meanwhile...

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

RIP: Linda Davis, Teacher killed by ICE in Savannah, Georgia. Say her name.

Twin Citizens: If you frequent a small, independently owned restaurant that would benefit from a grant for lost business during the siege, let them know about the Salt Cure Fund. It’s a small ($2500-10000) grant, and the deadline to apply is 2/23. I made a flyer you can share out, DM me for the PDFs

www.commondreams.org/news/minneso... @governorwalz.mn.gov has not implemented an eviction moratorium. I’ve written and called for weeks and haven’t received one response. What is he doing?

🚨"The white community is finally seeing what [Black people] have been saying all along—how government cover ups happen, how those in power lie and manipulate," arrested ICE church protester Nekima Levy Armstrong on Trump cover-ups of Renee Good & Alex Pretti murders.

We continue to see no drawdown today with ICE activity in the Phillips neighborhood, Columbia Heights, and Shakopee. Our pressure is working as the Senate bill to fund DHS did not pass last night. Keep up the pressure by reaching out to your federal representatives.

Please donate if you have capacity. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

This is a carecrow. Do not be alarmed, they’re only here to help

$25/3500 so far. this is an urgent need!!

Obligatory plug for relevant merch i made

From @wired.com: “Federal records reveal ICE is secretly expanding into 150+ facilities across nearly every state — many near schools, medical offices, and places of worship… DHS asked the General Services Administration to hide lease listings and bypass normal procedures…”🤔

Which future will we choose? The Senate votes any day on H.J. Res. 140. This is a critical moment for the BWCA. When we show up together, it matters. Join us Feb 25 at the MN Capitol. Rally at 1:30PM! Be part of the crowd lawmakers cannot ignore. Tell your senators to vote NO. Details in bio.

where is ICE is going next in the US? everywhere if you’re interested in supporting our newsroom so WIRED can keep breaking stories like this, share this video, follow our account, and subscribe www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

United States Customs and Border Protection plans to spend $225,000 for a year of access to Clearview AI, a face recognition tool that compares photos against billions of images scraped from the internet.

Good morning, here’s a cute loon mural from the West Seventh neighborhood

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

Also, this: Cane, by Jean Toomer. bookshop.org/p/books/cane...

For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism bookshop.org/p/books/swee...

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

Hey @governorwalz.mn.gov where's that eviction moratorium? We've helped (some) people for February but I can't imagine March 1st is just gonna magically be OK and this isn't sustainable. Chop chop, let's go!!!!!

love to see it

What is @governorwalz.mn.gov waiting for? Why isn’t he implement eviction moratorium? Even though he’s opted out of running again, I still get emails to donate. NO! Eviction moratorium now. No more unhoused Minnesotans!

dig if you will this picture

Thank you Joaquin Castro!!!

abcnews.go.com/US/5-year-li... Liam Conejo Ramos!!! Unnecessary trauma.

I cannot stress enough to people who are not from Minneapolis that the news you have seen in the past week about things calming, and messaging from our electeds at *every level higher than City Council* that local agencies will protect us... That's all fucking LIES.

On Tuesday I made a video explaining to people why it's important that they read this book, which is a Black-ass love note to trees and the power of reckoning with history. #BookSky Earrings by Crystal Galindo Pillows by Shanequa Gay

PLEASE - eviction moratorium

Ice Out Now MN demonstration at Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis on 1/30/26. 11 degrees with -1 windchills

BREAKING: Tenants across Minneapolis and Saint Paul have just launched a Twin Cities tenant union, citing the fact that their cities are under siege, and saying they need to band together to protect one another. linktr.ee/twincitieste...

The way things are right now in MN the best advertising you can do for your business is doing something like this. (Yeah there are haters out there but they mostly don't actually go here.)

This is so good, and I'm sure applicable to a whole host of situations.

What a wonderful service! gofund.me/930769750

all that talking and shit you've heard from Walz and Frey, all that verbiage on all those centrist and right leaning podcasts and shit, have not heard one thing about helping folks hiding out when that rent is due at the first of the month.