@evanryt.bsky.social here is a screenshot of a Reddit post containing your tweet that I just saw so now it can be on BlueSky too 😆

3 titles in 4 years and 5 in 7. Absolute dynasty and by all accounts, good humans too. On, Wisconsin!

my favorite nom de guerre in my neighborhood signal patrol group is a dogged patroller who goes by The Ghost of Kristi Noem's Dog. I hope that person is having a really good day because they deserve it.

Then the AP has shit editors because that last paragraph is particularly bullshit.

"I regret my vote, which at the time I thought was politically expedient but turns out to be politically inexpedient. As someone committed to the principle that I should be elected higher office, I regret my vote."

I've been really struggling to write about space while living through the ICE occupation in Minneapolis this winter. I was shocked to find myself thinking, "Who cares about sending people to the moon?" That feeling is more historically resonant than I thought. 🧪🔭 www.sciencenews.org/article/moon...

We are just over $1,000 to go here on our last day of the February campaign, supporting a dozen families in the Northeast-most corner of Northeast Minneapolis! We appreciate your support!

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

He was the first Hispanic NHL player! He is the son of an immigrant!! I don’t understand people sometimes. Why are you the way that you are, Bill Guerin?

We are just $2,500 away from covering rent for another month for a dozen NE Minneapolis families. Your support is truly appreciated.

MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.

My Minneapolis neighborhood mutual aid fund needs a bit over $11k in the next week to allow us to help cover rent for families we’ve been supporting. Every bit helps: givebutter.com/waiteparkNE

still looking for those photos of amy klobuchar on the streets standing up to ICE like we saw from jason chavez and elliott payne and doron clark, to name just a handful of electeds who are out here protecting people

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

message from MN

I would also add it’s going to get increasingly tough to meet the mutual aid demands (covering rent, chiefly) without continued wide support that national coverage can help generate.

“She can’t appeal to a broad electorate — that is the problem,” said Xochitl Hinojosa, a former senior official at the Democratic National Committee. Mmm. Like Mamdani? Can't wait to see how this take ages for you @xochitlhinojosa.bsky.social. Let's check back in 2028.

Giannis Antetokounmpo and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It's bigger than basketball.

World's least surprising stat, now with alt text:

A List of Complaints from 1926 🧵

Literally yesterday I discussed how much more ground around the school and park I could cover in our cargo bike. If it would warm up a little bit I could do it now, we have studded tires.

one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Stalminngrad

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

The whole interview is worth it

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

I wasn't sure what to expect from a group of Democratic state AGs, but I definitely was not expecting a long monologue about Ruby Ridge and the Boston Massacre www.theverge.com/policy/86588...

Most days I do just text STOP. Today was apparently not one of them.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

What ICE is doing here is NOT LAW ENFORCEMENT. You useless coward.

It is tough here right now in Minneapolis but Greg Bovino crying to the paper about how he’s getting his ass handed to him by plant sale moms has been a real pick me up

What ICE is doing is terrorizing an entire community to rid it of anyone who is not white. They function like a modern day slave patrol, run by the federal government.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

So, uh, is anyone going to actually fucking run for the fucking governor of Minnesota this year from the fucking left side of the fucking aisle? fuck.

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.

I tried to do rapid response today for the first time, because the call for presence was less than a mile away. Wanted to show up to be visible, to maybe take a helpful video. I knew where to go, I left as fast as I could. It was nowhere near fast enough. They work so damn fast.

wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

Been thinking about this all day.

On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.

THE VIOLENCE IS ICE THE TERRORISM IS ICE

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

Quick question: do you usually send multiple rounds of reinforcements to a conflict you're winning? Asking for my friends. www.fox9.com/news/sec-noe...

The rage that has to exist in the average Minnesotan to watch someone stuck on an icy hill and STAND BY AND TAUNT THEM