I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM THIS THREAD IT WAS WONDERFUL

Once my then-4yo described to me an elaborate nightmare in which a Bad Guy stole his parents and he had to go buy new ones by himself. It broke my heart listening to him tell it I can’t bear to think of the little kids dealing with a real “someone might come steal my parents any day” threat

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY

people not in MN cannot comprehend how hating ICE is now a core cultural component of being Minnesotan. it’s babe the big blue ox, loons, hot dish, and ICE OUT NOW

Well look at that! The 700 officers that were supposed to have left will definitely start leaving soon! I'm so angry about everyone who reported on this so-called drawdown. When this administration tells you something: Verify before parroting. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

Wait hold up... Did Bad Bunny just give his Grammy to Liam Conejo Ramos the poor kid who was kidnapped by ICE? If so amazing The sign beforehand said "Conejo" on it too

thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...

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This thread is wild and wrong. If you want proof ICE is still highly active abducting people, check out @elliottpayne.org's daily update videos, which cover just one of the immigrant-heavy city corridors. And follow local outlets @mprnews.org @sahanjournal.bsky.social for continuing coverage.

Step 1: feed gullible press statements indicating ‘moderation’ Step 2: wait for gullible press to move on to racist meme coverage Step 3: crackdown on observers to reduce chances of embarrassing videos of brutality

Spending the weekend in bed with a cold (timing could be worse, Olympics are on). Shoutout to husband and teenage son for going out and bringing back donuts from Bogarts. Vanilla bean cream filled is healing me.

Counterpoint: no serious person in the Twin Cities is worried about any meaningful amount of "destruction" by observers/protestors. Get real.

Baselessly including "destruction" here is pretty telling, imo. It invokes the uprising in a way that is unhelpful and ignorant of what is happening on the ground. The only people destroying property are ICE agents who have been breaking windows and crashing cars.

Hi all, there are a lot of things to be said about the chaos, kidnapping and murder, that is happening in the state I live in right now. I want to highlight some things I have personally seen in the last month or so out on the streets in Minneapolis. 🧵

We can simultaneously say Bad Bunny is a citizen of the US and denying the existence of his citizenship is racist and xenophobic AND we can point out that his citizenship, and that of every Puerto Rican, is essentially a second class version as a result of colonialism and oppression to this day.

IF THIS WORKED, SHE WOULDN'T NEED TO SELL THE TECHNIQUES TO YOU

Repeating a weekly question that interests me: Where are all the Christian federal agents going to church this morning? Particularly, where are the Catholics going to Mass?

Nothing has changed here. So you might ask - how will we know when things have changed? For me it’s all the kids back in school.

This is how 99% of bullshit charges go, which is important to remember: felonies sound scary and they won’t stick. They know this too. They’re trying to get people to plead guilty to lesser charges, which they don’t have enough guys to fight at trial. If they do go to trial they won’t stick either

Where is Jonathan Ross? A month ago he killed Renee Good. Is he on the streets, armed and ready to take more lives? Is he in a cushy office somewhere, living a good life off the taxpayer dime. Is he at a training facility, teaching feds to step in front of cars, kill, and say they were afraid?

It is really interesting me how many people have, while reading the Epstein emails, intuited that there is something very weird about how he and the people around him use the word "cute" because it's clearly not the usual meaning of the word, because they are correct

Love that Tom Homan’s public strategy is essentially if you sell your neighbors out, we wouldn’t need so many agents. How about you fuck off?

Also, disappointing that @kstptv.bsky.social describes this as a "pedestrian crash".

The federal government is stealing our neighbors and then slandering them, telling us our neighbors are dangerous criminals. They hate our neighbors because our neighbors aren't white and they want to cleanse the country of them, and then the monsters don't even have the guts to be honest about it.

reading the US State Department travel advisories to Burma and struck by how many of the factors cited in the "Do Not Travel" rating apply to Minnesota, USA

any opening ceremony featuring Prisencolinensinainciusol is an immediate 10/10 no questions asked m.youtube.com/watch?v=KvEW...

I know everyone here knows it but just to repeat for everyone *else*... Nothing has changed on the ground. It's still as awful as before. Don't believe this man. And we won't stop protecting our neighbors.

Hours later I am still moved that the crowd in the Olympic stadium cheered our athletes even as it heartily booed Vance. I would have understood if the crowd had booed our flag and athletes, honestly. Wouldn’t we all have? But it didn’t. Just Vance.

DHS went into this quagmire with a blank playbook and in the subsequent weeks they’ve done nothing but flail around waiting for people to be afraid of them. Or, in other words: any federal agencies born after 2001 can’t cook. all they know is wear mask, drive badly, make martyrs, do racism and lie

Do I hear boos for USA?

Jake Lang has been ordered to stay away from the Minnesota State Capitol.

So many cheers for Ukraine I’m gonna cry

The (Episcopal) Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania

I love all the sweaters on the countries that have sweaters

New favorite Olympic outfit: Colombia

Homeschooling perk: geography and Italian-language lessons can be accomplished today by watching the Olympics parade of athletes Arabia Saudita! Cile! Repubblica Popolare Cinese!

I love Canada’s maple leaf coats

Watching opening ceremonies and unbelievably pissed that we’re not all skeeting about Mariah Carey and the Parade of Athletes instead of fascism

I just checked to see when my WaPo subscription would run out, to find out how much time I have to evaluate it before canceling. Turns out it was scheduled to re-up in 11 days. I guess that’s that then. *pulls metaphorical trigger*

I expected trump to go that low with his childish video. Wosre than his demented mind are those without dementia surrounding him and posting these things for him. Pathetic.

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.

One ICE guy stopped in the middle of a road in the middle of a block and turned on his lights, and it was thrilling to watch a whole fleet of commuters pull up one by one, parking at the top and bottom of the block, ahead, behind, covering all the exits, a kind of police standoff in reverse

They absolutely are.

Anybody else feeling like the federal occupation of Minneapolis and the Epstein files are the same story

I particularly enjoyed the Target posters (below), but everything here is great. racketmn.com/the-art-of-t...

Christ this is chilling they really do think it's like omniscient???????????????

You know what they say about letting just one nazi drink at your bar

Pointing a gun at a person is assault. You don't have to pull the trigger. Self-defense is a justification for assault. But when ICE agents point guns at unarmed people who do not pose an imminent threat, and are not committing any crimes, the ICE agents are the ones committing the crime.

Go for it! Here’s what I’m doing: -looking for federal agents -following them on public roads -blowing a whistle to alert people they’re there -checking their cars against a known list of plates -filming them -sharing this info with neighbors Arrest me and let’s find out if it’s illegal!

Just like with Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the biggest sin any targeted immigrant can commit is winning battles — legal or PR battles — against the government, and they just won’t let those losses go