It doesn’t show up in the captions, but she’s also offering them food.

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

Alex Pretti was an intensive care nurse in the Veterans Administration Health Care system. “He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express his care for others,” his dad said. #AbolishICE #ICEOutOfMinnesota #ProtectNurses #HoldHisKillersAccountable

Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end. I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

I know a lot of like, normie lib white parents who never went through a radical protester phase in college or anything, who ever since 2020 have been teaching their kids that making signs and then going out to protest against injustice is a thing we do together as a family. it feels like a big shift

Eating the AI art in protest is ironically more Art than whatever the fuck the ai guy was doing

"after attending economics training, participating judges use more economics language in their opinions, rule against regulatory agencies more often, and impose more severe criminal sentences" academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

I hope people support birchbark books in the twin cities which is run by Ojibwe writer Louise Erdrich. birchbarkbooks.com

A small, ancillary detail in this horror that made me cry

hey has anyone seen my arkenstone

Oh hey it's release day for The Poet Empress by @dragons.bsky.social! I was lucky to receive an e-audiobook ARC. It was an emotional roller coaster with the perfect ending. It balances discussions of empathy, forgiveness, and accountability, with morally compromised main character. I loved it!

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

Since his socialist ideology was written out of the history books.. In his own words: "If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell." Happy MLK Day.

ahh a nice night out at the movies. now time to check my phone and see what our mad pedophile king and his evil scheming viziers are up to

Beyond the fact that this bugfuck insane letter was written and sent to the leader of Norway, the State Dept agreeing to distribute it to other heads of state instead of objecting and honorably resigning or at the very least planning some kind of coverup is a sign of deep institutional collapse.

New year, more reading! One of my favorites so far was Light from Other Stars by @erikaswyler.bsky.social. If you like emotionally devastating family stories, space travel that is horrifying, and lit-fic/sci-fi blends, go get it! It made me cry in public so you know it's good. #booksky

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS BATTER

per the story, the “Abolish ICE is bad” dude is also a “former Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection official”

How much of Trump's Greenland obsession is about wanting to punish Denmark, which possesses Greenland, for not giving him the Nobel peace prize, even though the Nobel organization is headquartered in Oslo, the board consists of Swedish and Norwegian citizens, and Denmark is not a factor

It’s bad enough how many losses there have been in federal jobs, but the private sector should be ashamed of itself for being complicit in this process. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...

Have you guys seen this?????? Acting Director, David Easterwood, of ICE in St Paul MN, is also a pastor at Cities Church

Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...

I'm using the fact that I signed up to nominate and vote in the Hugo Awards to justify buying a bunch of novellas from small presses like Stelliform and Neon Hemlock. Are there any small press/indie spec novellas that you loved and want more people to hear about? Let me know! My TBR is open #booksky

To add to this, almost all of the U.S.’s problems are linked to its hatred of Black people and that it hates Black people more than it loves anyone else. Our laws and policies are largely based on making sure Black people (and sometimes other groups) don’t benefit even at the expense of others.

defend612.com #IceoutBloomington #Iceoutrichfield #Iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics

After a century’s absence, pine martens are returning to England as part of a broader recovery across the British Isles. The species’ comeback is restoring balance to woodlands, curbing grey squirrels, and marking a milestone in UK nature recovery. buff.ly/Qw6k8w8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

How it started/how it's going

The old constitutional order is gone, and we should be straightforward about that. It’s obvious that, whatever else is on the reconstruction agenda, ICE abolition must be included. For goodness’ sake, Bill Kristol is in favor of it. Can you really not get there? trib.al/Au0nOrx

"we don't want people thinking Democrats are for open borders" I am! who gives a shit!!! my life has been immeasurably improved by the presence of immigrants in my community, regardless of their status, there is literally no downside there! why would I give a shit!!!!

Suspiciously asking my wife who's funding her anytime she criticizes me

Thinking it over, I would like him to die peacefully, in his sleep, on camera, during a press conference.

This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could

The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.

It's 2014 and pigs are shooting protestors in the face at Ferguson It's 2016 and pigs are shooting protestors in the face at Standing Rock It's 2020 and pigs are shooting protestors in the face everywhere It's 2022 and pigs are shooting protestors in the face in the Weelaunee Forest It's..

This is stunning

This article made me sign up to nominate and vote in the Hugos! So excited to participate instead of uhhhh being an annoying peanut gallery about it. Time to go assemble a reading list...

Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.

If you wanna understand how hunger in Africa is man-made and a product of western capitalism, white supremacy, and imperialism, watch this video. "They tell you that the best chocolates come from Switzerland. How many cocoa farms does Switzerland have?"

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

I bet you could take a whole herd of ICE guys with a medium-large bag of marbles

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

Revenge is not enough I want to live in a better world Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Once wiped out in the wild, China’s milu (Pere David’s deer) has staged one of the world’s great wildlife recoveries. From just 39 animals reintroduced from British zoos in 1986, the herd at Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve is now 8,500. buff.ly/6JL2X2c #ShareGoodNewsToo

the horror of this is compounded by the fact that the whipple building sits on the same military fort where 1600+ Dakota, mostly women and children were held in a concentration camp in 1863, where over 300 died