Two Black electeds attacked in the same week. Seek out and join up with groups in your community that are fighting fascism and racism and xenophobia and hatred. This will be one of our primary jobs for the rest of our lives.

My God am I tired of being angry and sad

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.

nice piece about the early #trans internet and community making back in the day. i'll always be proud of the communities we created with the Betty Boards, providing space for trans people to talk about family and relationships. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new... thanks @assignedmedia.org !

NEW: One of Pope Leo XIV’s top U.S. allies, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, is calling for the defunding of ICE. Tobin says the “lawless organization” is a “machinery of death.” This marks the first time a senior Church leader has called for ICE to be defunded. More are expected in the coming days.

Boohoo Bovino

Salvatore's book on Eugene Debs, among others, was assigned to me by Jewel and Bernard Bellush, who told me to keep my copies safe as eventually someone would want to make them illegal. i still have mine. highly recommend. RIP to yet another of the citizen-scholar-journalists who raised me.

really good thoughtful thread about the impossibility of Pretti.

Appleton, WI today. It's 8 degrees and this was only called yesterday.

Reminder: DHS legislation that funds ICE at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate and needs 60 votes to pass. Deadline is next Friday.

It’s -9 degrees in Minneapolis right now. This is now Ground Zero of the resistance. Inspirational. (📸 Max Nesterak)

In honor of the strike in Minnesota and hopefully nationwide, let's learn about the impact of general strikes and why we need more of them now, shall we?

when the RealFeel is -40, like - why bother telling me that? telling me it's actually -11 is just fine.

Minnesota nice means prosecute ICE. very good stuff.

we leave our garage open all the time and have a lovely family of these goobers living there. they have a fantastic waddle.

From a follower in Minneapolis: "Today is our big day here. Currently -20 and -45 windchill. Frost bite can occur in 10 minutes and it is a decent walk from Portland Ave to the Target Center. So those who cannot risk attending and to the rest of the country we are asking for your help."

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come

every single one of these GOP dudes gives me flashbacks to graded discussions in HS, and i still regret not punching those assholes who scored points with no intent to get to the truth. ugh, sickening.

What is it with fascists and always making that same old mistake of fighting winter people in a winter place during winter

Jack Smith: "President Trump was charged because the evidence established that he willfully broke the very laws that he took an oath to uphold. Grand juries in two separate districts reached this conclusion based on his actions, as alleged in the indictments they returned."

When things are falling apart ... Who surrenders? who was the first to fold? The billionaires, the institutions, the powerful Who was the first to organize? the marginalized, the queer, the sex workers, the single moms, the old punks, the three sisters

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

really good stuff in this. www.laborpolitics.com/p/who-taught...

when economists are quote Havel, pay attention.

Absolutely essential reporting from @marisakabas.bsky.social www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-st-pau...

"You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums.... Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism." ––Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1966 #MLK #MLKday #quotes

It's striking that the federal line is now simply that there is no justifiable or legal means of resistance, defense, or protest, against ICE period. That seems to me like a change/escalation (though I know it's not unprecedented). Either assist ICE or comply with them, or be attacked and slandered.

This shit is awful and terrifying, if you needed someone to validate that. I'm 56 and I've lived through some shit and this is worse than anything. Take care of yourselves and take care of each other.

To every American who either didn’t bother to vote in 2024 or voted for Trump bcuz “price of eggs” or “Dems too woke,” we told you he was going to do this. We told you he’d try to turn America into a fascist dystopia. You laughed & said it could never happen here. Well…it’s happening here.👇

Rest in Power Claudette Colvin. Thank you.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Dear neighbor, I am concerned about the comments made by JD Vance about immigration enforcement going door to door. I want to let you know that you have rights that you can exercise to protect yourself and your family. According to our partners: 1/

this is not easy to see. they had no idea. that man murdered her.

hold steady. ❤️‍🩹 - we know what to do, even now. www.lifeisasacredtext.com/p/bc32ac20-d...

Just realized (forgive me) that Bowie was born on 1/8 and died on 1/10 so we're in the high holy days for all freaks and weirdos. Honestly, a trifecta of days devoted to weird art seems exactly right.

Hold tight, Minnesota.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Probably one of the best road safety adverts from TfL. If you've never seen it before - I can guarantee you will watch it twice.

May this horrific ICE execution captured on video cause such outrage that there’s a sea change. We don’t have to stand for this. ICE, get the fuck out of our cities.

What ICE was up to in Minnesota before they murdered a woman

Evergreen: The first thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.

important message to all bluesky users

Can I write a dissertation on the first five years of Law & Order because I want to. (Nevermind how I wound up here.)

I hope Mark Kelly eventually kicks Hegseth right in the teeth.

Here are some choice quotes from Jack Smith’s testimony about the conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “..the evidence made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy.”

Veteran corruption prosecutor Jack Smith, speaking September 16 at George Mason University’s annual Wilkins Lecture, presented overwhelming evidence that the rule of law in the United States is under serious threat. “The DOJ was my home for many, many years. That home is now on fire.” - Jack Smith