MN Doctor: I learned that Renee Good still had a pulse 8 minutes after she was shot by an ICE agent. Yet the offer to administer aid from a physician on the scene was denied. I can't say how much that stirs the blood of everyone here as we try to fulfill our oath to care for the people of Minnesota

not doom scrolling I just want to be here when it happens alright

@prisonpolicy.org shows that immigration detention relies heavily on local jails, not just standalone ICE facilities. these are the same jails holding people pretrial, cycling them through for short (highly destabilizing) stays, already dealing with overcrowding www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/12...

i think for some there’s a comforting fiction that ICE operates in some separate universe from “regular” policing, but immigration enforcement is tightly stitched into local jails and policing, whether officials admit it or not www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic96...

“These are the domestic weaknesses that helped to make the country susceptible to becoming a concentration camp regime.” degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-a...

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

I think there is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

The original concentration camps didn't start as death camps. But they did kill a lot of people through neglect, malnutrition, disease, and individual murders. There's no distinction between this facility and dachau in 1933.

modern american politics consists of experts patiently explaining why something insane that people are talking about could never happen, followed by that exact thing happening

Police brutality is a disability issue. Here's just one example. www.wowt.com/2026/01/17/d...

Black and brown people famously have never worked

We know that people are being horrendously abused in these facilities. It will take a long time for us to figure out exactly what that abuse looks like. But we can’t say that we didn’t know.

The attached reporting casts the relationship as consensual. But consent is not operative between concentration camp guards and their prisoners.

In Louisiana, an ICE officer named David Courvelle has pleaded guilty on charges related to his monthslong sexual abuse of a Nicaraguan woman held in a detention center. www.wbrz.com/news/contrac...

"…Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical needs is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence. Even the lack of willpower to help humanity is a sick and Sinister form of violence." — Coretta Scott King, 1968

"Poverty can produce the most deadly kind of violence in this society; violence against poor people and minority groups is routine. I remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her child is violence…

Minneapolis AFL-CIO and several Minnesota labor bodies have called for a General Strike on Friday to protest ICE's occupation of the city. Solidarity actions are planned in several cities as the movement could go national. paydayreport.com/minneapolis-...

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

This is very good. And if the presidency doesn't exist, to go along with a Congress that doesn't really exist, & a Supreme Court that no longer exists (in the sense that it no longer follows the law or the Constitution), then we find ourselves with a constitutional order that has totally collapsed.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Tressie once used this fact to explain how "smart" can change over time in a way that my students can easily follow (if I was born in a time before glasses, everyone would think I wasn't smart even though my innate brain chemistry wouldn't change)

Martin Luther King, Jr. National favorable rating via Gallup: AUGUST 1966: 33% 👍 to 63% 👎 AUGUST 2011: 94% 👍 to 4% 👎

Half a century ago, the American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded on Franklin Ave. in Minneapolis in response to police violence targeting indigenous residents. Today, as ICE invades the city, AIM patrols are back, watching over elders, youths and aunties along the same avenue.

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

Many Virginia counties have *local* 287(g) ICE partnerships, and Spanberger cannot end those—except in the sense that the legislature could pass a 287(g) ban, which she could sign. But what she can do (and may yet do) is pull Virginia out of *state-level* ICE contracts. bsky.app/profile/chri...

Abigail Spanberger did not end Virginia’s 287(g) partnership with ICE yesterday, despite reports to the contrary. What Spanberger did do is rescind Glenn Youngkin’s order that required the state police + DOC to sign ICE contracts. She terminated the requirement, but not the contracts themselves.

“Minneapolis learned a lot from the George Floyd protests and it shows. Well before Kristi Noem announced DHS operations in Minnesota, the neighborhood got ready.” New: a dispatch on mutual aid in South Minneapolis. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

At least 16,500 protesters have died, and 330,000 have been injured, in the most brutal crackdown by the clerical regime in its 47-year existence.

"Neighbors in neon vests dot the neighborhood... Information-sharing networks have been built. Residents have connected with non-profits and churches to deliver food to people who are locked in their homes out of fear. Resistance signs are everywhere..." www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...

that’s right

It's kind of incredible how many of these now are pretty clear cut crimes, and not even *that* trivial of crimes, and juries still just totally don't give a shit. Like shining a laser pointer at a pilot is kind of a big deal, and an entire jury is like 'we wish it had crashed.'

On this day in 1834, Alabama expanded its laws prohibiting free Black people from settling in the state and authorized white enslavers to capture and sell free Black people into slavery.

A lawsuit alleges that New York is keeping children in solitary confinement cells without toilets for days or weeks at a time, New York Focus reports.

these fucking ghouls.

Woman Seen Pulled from Car Speaks Out: 'Lucky to be alive' Aliya Rahman "said she was driving to an appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when the incident occurred." She asked for a doctor and was taken to a detention center where she lost consciousness. abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...

“Maybe Mr. Adams was an early Trump supporter because “Dilbert” was itself proto-MAGA. The strip’s everyday resentments and cynicism added up to a now-familiar worldview. “There’s no such thing as expertise. It just doesn’t exist,” Mr. Adams said.”

I feel like a broken record about parallels to 2020 but there are so many direct comparisons. humanrights.berkeley.edu/projects/pol...

Our first feature article, about the presence (and absence) of Long Covid in fiction, explores Will There Ever Be Another You by @tricialockwood.bsky.social (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social), writing by @madelinemiller.bsky.social & more www.whoevenreads.com/canary-in-th... Thanks for reading! #booksky

An underrated factor in "why don't people in wealthy societies have more kids" is changing societal norms that now expect even older kids to be chaperoned by an adult any time they are in public, and to be chauffeured by a parent as their only means of transportation

The level of consistent, everyday organizing and resistance to the state, outside of and beyond any particular movement or flash point, distributed across the entirety of the social landscape, is by far the highest it's ever been in my lifetime

They have quite an operation going. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

USA: Flu, COVID infections lead to school closures in Kentucky. "Officials hope that with the long weekend, with Monday being closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, students and faculty can fully recover and stop the spread." Source: fox56news.com/news/kentuck...

BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car" "His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

Liberal pundits are everywhere in the MSM talking about how MAGA voters are angry because they feel that Liberals do not like/respect them. There is no equivalent version of this where Conservative pundits talk about how the rest of the country feels about whether they are liked/respected.

Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day

Dems won the presidency, the house, and the senate. Maybe the most successful political slogan in modern history