hennepin county sheriff’s office ramped up their work helping ICE even as dawanna witt announces her campaign kickoff. reports from whipple say they are acting as crowd control they’ve created a barrier and ICE are barely guarding the gates now because HCSO are doing it for them. this frees up ICE

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

I used to be an editor

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

This from @andreapitzer.bsky.social is key. “nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training.”

BREAKING: Israeli crews bulldoze a UN headquarters in east Jerusalem as Israel tightens restrictions on humanitarian groups.

State wrestling with _______________ - gun violence - police violence - murderous federal agents - massive fraud - media complicity - extreme cold - shitty baseball team owners - 494 construction woes - its image? OK sure

I think it's very fitting that the Revolutionary HQ of Minneapolis is a sex shop (that DOES NOT have a glory hole) and Revolutionary HQ of Saint Paul is a toy store where you can get Settlers of Catan.

Oh man I was wondering if there were concerns to be raised. And now they have mistreated A TROOP?!?!?!

The American Psycho business card scene but it's just people in Minnesota comparing their whistles

🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️

per the story, the “Abolish ICE is bad” dude is also a “former Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection official”

Only 8000 verbal assaults?!

I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE (1982) — 8:00 pm ET — 1h 35m (TCM Premiere) (TCM Primetime: MLK Day) James Baldwin, David Baldwin; directed by Dick Fontaine, Pat Hartley James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement. #TCM #TCMParty

Sir please call the emergency doctor I got salmonella from my rent

Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…

They took a Vietnam Vet, US Citizen from his house in his underwear because they're not just incompetent but evil.

Hi this is a concentration camp. Looks like one, functions like one, is one.

Tim Cook donates a million dollars to Donald Trump, has an ICE tracking app pulled from their App Store last Fall and then thinks they can put Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. up on their website and pretend like Apple gives ANY fucks about social justice. Stop disrespecting this man's legacy.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Friday afternoon, ABC News ran an interview with one of Mischief Toy Store's owners about the store's practice of giving away free whistles. Hours later, ICE agents showed up at their door. Here's my story (gift link):

“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency. This granular location information paints a detailed picture of who we are, where we go, and who we spend time with.”

Movie theatre marquee and display for Alfred Hitchcock's THE BIRDS (1963) (theatre location unknown) Happy Birthday to Tippi Hedren!

The trans woman who rescued Jake Lang yesterday/whose car he ran into said in a video about the incident that she and her friend in the car thought he was being beaten by ICE. They kicked him out of the car after they found out who he was, lol

It can never be overstated that I think about this panel every day of my god damn life

To paraphrase Polanyi: the ICE assault was planned, massive resistance was not. That the social fabric—the relationships and ongoing patterns of interaction that get us through our lives—should be reliable is a broadly shared moral conviction. Not only markets provoke protective. countermoves.

ICYMI

Don’t listen to this political strategist. There are literal families who are starving, people who do not have enough for rent, businesses with eviction letters, and neighbors who are hiding. Help communities out instead and it will actually have an impact.

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

Amending this opinion after a visit today: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts/Art is the best place in Minneapolis. I realize there are other opinions. That is mine.

I think I just found my kink.

When you run a fascist out of Minneapolis, you are entitled to a traditional feast that honors your Minnesota ancestors.

the @bentonville.bsky.social School Distrist (home of Walmart and until a few years ago a Confederate solider statue in their downtown square) has an update on their grade school field trip to ICE detention centers from their Superintendent.

I don't have a car, but I've travelled to another COUNTRY to see a movie, more times than I can remember. Only last month I had to go all the way to the fucking Netherlands to see FRANKENSTEIN because fucking Netflix didn't release it in Belgian cinemas. Which is YOUR FAULT. Fuck you.

Doo dah Doo dah

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

Coordinated a beer drop by a white friend to deliver a 30-rack of Hamm’s to a Hispanic friend’s doorstep because his wife wouldn’t let him leave the house to go buy more beer for fear he’d be brutalized by lawless armed masked federal paramilitaries. This is Minnesota community. We take care of us.

Yesterday, these incompetent fucks were just going door-to-door in a neighborhood near my house at 8:30 in the morning. School buses were driving through trying to pick up kids, people were out walking their dogs, and people were taking out their trash cans.

DAILY MEMO: Ten-Year-Old Child, Gardeners, and Vendors, Among the More Than 88 Kidnapped in SoCal This Week Plus, another death in ICE detention, and Memo breaks down what’s happening with the mask ban for ICE and law enforcement. @eltragon.bsky.social

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

what the hell is this revisionist nonsense? This *did not happen*—except in the minds of the far-right. You're buying their bad faith bullshit. MAGA called for and now is building a white ethnostate b/c *they are white nationalists*. That's what they do. FFS

Here's a positive message about a politician: Council President Elliot Payne has been in the streets every single day working for his community. ICE even assaulted him for it. He leads by example, putting himself between ICE and the people even though he's at particular risk of harm as a Black man.

🙃 This FB post is public.

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

well well well, hello US Bank

the wildest thing is right-wingers acting like minnesotans in videos must be outside agitators when we can all hear their accents. i don't think i could do that accent convincingly if i spent a year practicing. and neither would i wish to. have you heard that shit? craziest american accent

i don’t think its possible to reform a paramilitary organization that considers queerphobia a core value, and queerbaiting a key mission

if you think the President will invoke an act that allows him to send in the military to quash rebellion because some people are blocking cars and also think SCOTUS will let him do that—my brother in Christ, you already live in the future you fear resistance will bring