Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

once again when i tweeted this years ago IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

I know there are a lot of people who felt viscerally uncomfortable hearing Palestinians talk about victims of bombings as martyrs, who instantly understood why Renee Good and Alex Pretti are martyrs. I’m not saying that to shame anyone; it’s just worth thinking about.

all power and glory to this lady in particular. may her days be blessed.

Greg Bovino sadly filling one steamer trunk after another with elaborate fashy overcoats, the teargas canisters he always has bouncing around on him like labubus, and dozens of "chest-belts." They will be shipped ahead of him as he prepares to return to his home, which is a men's size 10 boot.

The disparities in these numbers are fucking terrible. A quantification of how much more valuable a white and then American life is than an immigrant POC. Links to fundraisers in thread. bsky.app/profile/last...

I have been reliably informed by members of this government that losing access to twitter is one of the worst things that can befall a human being so this may be the single harshest consequence they have imposed on one of their own

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"morale is a terrain of struggle" has proven true more than any other single thing this last year, speaking of this piece.

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm via hearts530

Okay, since I’m in a mood, do you know what is annoying mild *annoyance* about all this, rather than a gut-wrenching crisis? I’m not a Christian but my sense of fairness keeps requiring me to defend the church because people keep posting shit about “Why aren’t Christians speaking up?!”

This is a clarifying moment: one that reveals the particularly vicious form of authoritarianism taking root in America today www.vox.com/policy/47639...

What if the problem isn’t that they can’t find their spines, but that they are, in fact, standing fully erect, on their ten toes, behind precisely the political project they want, the ideology they believe justifies it, and the means and measures with which they intend to advance it?

I simply can’t see how any conscientious, professional journalist can think what happened in Minneapolis is “a subject of sharply contradictory narratives” rather than a government blatantly lying in order to cover up a murder

If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?

I'm seeing a lot of calls to block/report any and all "Alt" accounts in the replies, but I think it's worth saying that AltNPS is BY FAR the worst, most harmful, and most dangerous "Alt" account. The others are generally pretty harmless, and I don't want to unnecessarily lump them in with AltNPS.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

The way you know We're Going to Win is that we've even got Boston out here admitting that another city is laudable

It’s cold comfort right now but, if past is prologue, spectacles of violence committed by the state against sympathetic civilians—especially when captured on camera—were the beginning of the end for Bull Connor and Jim Crow, too.

Minnesota ICE-watchers did this. By relentlessly documenting ICE/BP/DHS abuses—taking on personal risk to do so—they’ve gotten the horrors into more information streams. Got more people to pay attention, undermined Trump regime lies, and shifted the stances of some Democratic officeholders.

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.

Feels like it should be a pretty big deal that a Trump supporter physically assaulted a Democratic congressman

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.

When liberal politicians frame ICE bloodthirst as a training problem, they are continuing a broader historical pattern wherein righteous political unrest is used to justify increases in police capacity.

A man was choked so hard that his blood vessels burst in his eyelids and his death was ruled a homicide. This is a rogue agency. It needs to be torn down and replaced with a new federal agency that respects human and constitutional rights and has civil rights oversight.

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

“My name is Matthew James! I’m a United States citizen! You’re gonna kill me! Is that what you want?” ICE isn’t about immigration. It’s about violence, fear and control.

I will vote for whichever candidate promises abolition and trials

I was just supposed to follow clergy leaders as they did a pilgrimage from George Floyd Square to Renée Good’s memorial. But then when we got back to the landing spot, we found out an observer had been attacked by ICE agents who had been tailing the religious leaders. From me today in Minneapolis:

Photos from the abolish ICE protest in Union square this evening was enormous, the march up 6th Avenue stretched several blocks of people long

Democrats shouldn't try to close ICE detention facilities but instead focus on fostering a culture of abundance within those ICE detention facilities

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

This is so fucking haunting.

The director of the FBI: "I don't read." His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The neoconservative theory of change is that you can cripple a country's national economy via collective punishment and induce mass protests about the economy which you then in turn use as evidence of discontent with the regime for a casus belli to topple it.

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Great feedback, team. Keep it up.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

We’ll be there . . . will you? ❌🧊 #iceOUT #nyc #handsoff @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @bkindivisible.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social @indivisiblequeens.bsky.social

in the best case scenario (we somehow survive all of this), we will still have had so many years of our lives disrupted by stress and anger and calamity

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.

the minnesota occupation is, i think, already a political defeat for the administration, and i don't see how it eventually ends as anything other than a major political disaster

I think it’s fine to say that someone who has served as a major conduit and creator of fascist propaganda and the wide end of a funnel into fascist thinking and action can never be trusted. If his heart has genuinely changed he should simply shut the fuck up. We owe Hanania nothing.

Yes — New York City is around ten times bigger than the Twin Cities, and by the time they hire enough goons to try that kind of a surge here, we're going to have even more people outraged and ready to face off with them in the streets... Trump might attempt it, but it would be a disaster for him.

This stems from the latent belief that the Americans who matter the most are rural and exurban Americans right of center. This, in turn, is the product of the Senate and the Electoral College.