This is a global far right power grab, so the sooner everybody realizes that and puts aside their deeply outdated notions around national identity, which got us here to begin with, the better. The only way out is through, but the only way through is all of us fighting these climate warlords together

BREAKING: The Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota has just donated $10,000 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, an essential org working on the frontlines to protect people from ICE's terror.

Thank you @vanhollen.senate.gov for being clear and for committing to voting NO on giving ICE more money.

WE SHOULDN'T USE POLLING TO TELL US WHAT OUR VALUES ARE, WE SHOULD USE POLLING TO FURTHER ADVANCE THE CAUSES WE VALUE.

A few simple steps would make everyone healthier: Clean air in public spaces. Paid time off. Free respirators for anyone who needs them. Mandatory masking in healthcare. Our rush back to “normal” has ensured a never ending cycle of sickness, death & disability. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Israel is a debased and evil state. #FreePalestine #genocide

One thing most people don't understand is that we in the US enjoy greater wealth funded by other countries because they assume we are a stable and relatively friendly hegemon.

I understand recoiling in fear, tuning things out, or retreating — I fully get it, on an emotional level. But I can't imagine not fighting. I simply cannot fathom seeing these forces at work in our world, let alone in close proximity to me, and not saying "fuck that" and throwing down.

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

this is just straight up murder by the regime

“Hmong soldiers died at a rate ten times as high as that of American soldiers in Vietnam.” www.hmongofwa.org/our-history....

Another disabled person grabbed by ICE and denied accommodations. Duglof has Epidermolysis Bullosa, or EB. His skin is fragile, causing it to tear easily. He came to the US for specialized treatment and followed the process. He is not a criminal. It was never about crime.

Also hate "this is not about politics." Sorry people, you have to GROW UP. EVERY DAMNED THING IS POLITICAL. Everything. The word people are searching for is PARTISAN.

All jails and prisons are death-making institutions! Our whole criminal system cages people and shrugs when they die! This is like everything the government does! And yes, abolish it all.

Frederick Douglass was right in his condemnation of 'this' kind of Christianity. (and now Speaker Johnson literally lives in his DC lodgings):

“A pastor here is also director of the field office for ICE… so someone teaching people about God is out there overseeing ICE agents. How dare you.” Twin cities protestors disrupt a church service at an ICE field office director’s church. (H/T @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social )

In a country with an actual free press, the photo of that poor old man would be the cover of every single paper with a headline that reads ENOUGH.

i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.

When white opinion makers regard police power as suddenly seeming suspect because it was aimed at white people? They are casting themselves as stars and saviors, all false innocence. It ignores decades of expertise and analysis from those in communities who struggle against this power all the time.

Corey Booker announcing his legislation to make ICE wear body cameras a week after the entire Republican Party excused an ICE officer murdering somebody by showing the video the officer took with his own cell phone of him murdering them is a testament to how stupid Democrats think all of us are.

It's better if the Democratic Party in DC does NOTHING rather than to give ICE more money for body cams and training. NOTHING is better than that plan. I mean it. DO NOTHING.

Today I was Kidnapped By ICE - Dawokefarmer

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

The ICE agent accused of shooting and killing Keith Porter on New Year’s Eve has a history of racism, homophobia and beating his children. This is who ICE attracts. This can’t be reformed. www.latimes.com/california/s...

So the lesson is that they'll come after you either way, so you might as well put up a good fight. This includes you, Governor.

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

Block instantly.

This man is in charge of people inside a jail, around 900 people subject to his whims every day.

it actions like this that make people, especially gen z, despise the democratic party. what are we doing here

This is why I told y'all that messaging that centers training is/was a mistake. You cannot train away the mission, the racism, or the impunity. This shit just makes the violence more expensive. Also, if this is true, it's a bitch ass move by Senate Dems, and people should be harsh af about it.

Best I can do is performatively stand in one spot and talk for like a billion hours and then vote for exactly what the Nazis want

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

Naaaaaaailed it

"'Abolish ICE' is no longer just a far-left slogan — it's good politics. God knows why Americans reelected Trump, but they clearly didn’t envision masked goons knocking down doors and disappearing people." — @playtyperguy.com

ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid. And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.

We are not “one incident” from Trump invoking the insurrection act. We are one lie away from Trump invoking it

"In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt…" John Reed, “Ten Days That Shook The World”, first sentence of Chapter 3, ‘On The Eve’

Can you imagine being the software engineers, engineering managers, product managers, designers, QA testers, and devops that built and run this? Cashing out your palantir equity for "deportation targets"? Accomplices and ghouls, all of them

In terms of legal authority under the U.S. Constitutional system, Tim Walz is the person most empowered to protect the people of Minnesota from the abuses of the federal government. There has to be more than this. Maybe this is just part of a plan by the Governor — I don't know. 🧵

We don’t have a situation where 2 governmental agencies are fighting each other. One government agency is brutally terrorizing your citizens, Frey, and your agencies are content to stand back and watch.

A few more, including maps of where they're taking the people they snatch, and a hotel receipt.

Screenshots of some of the documents found in looted ICE vehicles from one of the livestreams before it got turned "private" on YouTube (after the other one already was). Share widely and make sure the genie can't go back in the bottle.

ICE agents fled from the crowd and left behind their CONOPS battle plan for Minneapolis, including agent's names, hotel rooms, phone numbers, boxes of license plates, and tac radio frequencies.

ICE agents only do this because they are extremely well-trained and experienced with the situations they are creating

Yep ☹️

It's horrific but also this is pretty much a regular arrest. That's how violent arrests are. I am glad people can see it and be horrified -- that's what police are out there doing every day, legally. Every 3 seconds basically.

South Korea is about to give their treasonous leader the death penalty. Minnesota State and City officials are telling citizens to go home and let the militarized gestapo do their work? Playing the long game against a nascent fascist authoritarian government is certain to fail!

The Minneapolis mayor and police chief do not get it. By admonishing protesters, they are telling the WRONG PEOPLE to de-escalate and remain peaceful. They literally told everyone to go home tonight. This is not going to solve their problem.