‘Covid ‘only’ kills the sick the old and the vulnerable’ presented as a net positive is not restricted to RFK jr. And I’m sure I will be unpopular for pointing that out.

And for the teachers in the room, no, your “teacher voice” does not substitute a microphone.

Getting settled in Anaheim for #NSTA26! Who do I know (or want to know!) that's coming?

If you are worried your town is next - start organizing now. Make connections. Talk with five neighbors. Start those signal groups for your school or neighborhood. And know that every bit of organizing you do now will pay off tenfold when ICE comes to your community. 2/2

This is a multigenerational sin that isn’t really reparable

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

speaking from minnesota, weird to see anyone asking about where are student protests in the wake of the most effective protest movements of my lifetime, one that included so so so many college students but not as /college/ protests.

Struggling with this a whole lot, personally. Where do we direct this energy? How do we pivot? I’m taking cues from what leaders of immigration organizations are doing. Mirac and Mn8 featured in this piece.

The past few months have brought out enough Minnesota pride that it's been tough to find state flags or flag poles (unless they come with American flags), but I finally got mine

I'm interested in a short article/video/other resource for teachers interested in learning about using "for every" slope statements. Anyone have something they like? #iTeachPhysics

I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.

Federal agents in MN have yet to slow down using aggressive tactics, racial profiling, and trampling on well-established rights. I joined a group this weekend to make a reminder that as long as our neighbors are threatened by ICE, we will do our best to take care of each other.

This thread is gold.

After 10 weeks of terror and violence, DHS announced it’s ending the surge of ICE agents in Minneapolis. Residents stood strong, protected each other, and the regime flinched. But we know this isn’t over. Instead of relaxing, we're turning up the volume.

PSA for non-Minnesotans: The politicians who are taking victory laps on TV today haven’t been in the streets and don’t know what’s happening right now. Please listen to the public servants who are on the front lines, like @elliottpayne.org @jchavezmpls.bsky.social @doronclark.bsky.social

Please notice the lack of action from her. Scroll to see that at no point at all has she meaningfully engaged. She's said a few things (very late). Proposed no prosecutions, done no fundraising, patrolled nowhere. No legislation to help. No calling in of favors to protect.

If you are wondering how Mpls is, please consider how f***ed it is that "school dismissal is always a peak time for them" We and our schools and our kids are not okay. Our communities are not okay.

Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.

This is true (and not confined to Minneapolis)

Adding radium to the analogy list - alongside lead and asbestosis.

“The majority of violence perpetrated at protests is state violence against often peaceful demonstrators and language used by journalists describing ‘clashes with law enforcement’ or ‘protests turning violent‘ obscure the direction violence is delivered.”

Folks across the Twin Cities have been gathering on their neighborhood lakes to say what we think of the occupation. Yesterday, White Bear Lake took our turn.

If they said 3,000 agents were leaving MN today, I would not fully rejoice. Because those 3,000 would be headed elsewhere. I don’t want them kidnapping ANYONE. I don’t want them breaking up ANY families. I don’t want those 700 headed off to destroy other families! Abolish ICE is the floor.

Not enough. Every single ICE and CBP agent should be out of Minnesota. The terror campaign must stop. ICE must be abolished.

This is a very thorough article worth reading

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

I get why yall say it, but it’s not “ice out of mn” it’s “ice out EVERYWHERE” It’s not okay for them to pack up and just go somewhere else with this. No one deserves this, so we need to stop it here completely. That’s defunding, demoralizing, abolishing. That’s the goal.

There are four more students from Liam's MN school district in federal detention in Dilley, TX, two of them from the same school as Liam. A second grader, a fourth grader, a fifth grader, and a high-schooler.

DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold. It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.

Kao Kalia Yang at @literaryhub.bsky.social - "If they take me and leave the children." One of our great local writers at this moment of crisis.

A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all. Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

AND we don’t just want them bringing this elsewhere. It’s not “get out of Minneapolis” it’s “get out of everywhere, get prosecuted for the crimes, and then we salt whatever ground made this happen don’t doesn’t happen again to anyone anywhere” Won’t fit on a poster but that’s the demand.

It better not stop here. Dems better not use this as an excuse to bury their heads in the sand. ICE still needs to be abolished no matter who at the top gets replaced

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

The Supreme Court forced schools to educate Black children. Education has always been political.

People aren't just being released out the door like this. Volunteers drive around and check the parks and areas around Whipple because ICE is just dumping people hoping no one sees

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc (GFM in next post) www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

a non comprehensive list of things MN are doing right now legal observing in a rapid response group legal observing because they happened to be in their community and came across ICE participating in or supporting rapid response groups safety patroling their schools, businesses, daycares 1/5

Asking people how they are and getting a vague, but generally positive response is a deeply ingrained script in MN. It's been striking to me the last few weeks how many people, whether a stranger or a friend, break that script with a sigh or other response that hints at struggle.

Not that we don’t protest too — we do — but Renee Good and Alex Pretti (and those who witnessed and documented their executions) were legally observing ICE kidnappings and alerting their neighbors to ICE presence. It’s not a protest, it’s a public service. It’s how we’re protecting our neighbors.

We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

I truly understand the pleas for ICE to leave Minnesota. But leaving MN to go terrorize other states isn’t what anyone wants. ICE/DHS is kidnapping and murdering people in the streets AND IN DETENTION CENTERS. Abolishing ICE - and holding its leaders & agents accountable- is the absolute minimum.

A migraine means I can't join the vigils tonight, but we've got a candle out for those who've experienced violence from ICE. Abolish ICE.

In 15 min if you’re snowed in on the east coast

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.