saw no less than 5? 6? candlelight vigils on my way home from the hospital and the air tastes distinctly of tear gas about a mile from 26th and Nicollet

they left his belongings in the street after murdering him ALEX PRETTI v n

Alex Pretti and I became nurses the same exact week, we live in the same city, and we both watch out for ICE, although I did not know him the difference between us is Alex is dead and I am not And now I have to go clock in for a hospital shift Just feels like there is no limit to the horror

alex pretti was a registered nurse - I checked the MN BON site myself new layers of feelings and anger for a fellow licensed carer

from peopleoverpapers and mnicewatch instagram, early footage of the confrontation -- this appears to be the man that ICE murdered; typical-looking south minneapolis legal observer white dude

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

indescribable to watch national attention-getting fascist violence play out in these well-trodden personal geographies (including 38th and chicago in that too) like the goofy overpriced rockabilly union-busting donuts next to our regular German spot

when annunciation happened, i wondered if it was two sweet little boys i know when renee good happened, i wondered if it was one of the patrolling moms in my neighborhood i know now that someone has been murdered again less than a few miles from my house, i am back in that mode again

ICE killed someone in whittier south minneapolis a few minutes ago -- confirmed. avoid the video/autoplay today.

finishing phantom thread tonight (weird but I didn’t catch it back in 2017); for me the first half was a straight up horror movie, Hitchcockian woman torture

Gotta remind yourself not to cry when you see the kid's signs. It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"

right which is because about 1/3 of Americans are indeed brain-poisoned ass authoritarian nazis

I mean this non-snarkily, @startribune.com, but you’ll have to update your headline.

went to go buy pan dulce on lake street and so many places are shuttered - those business and workers are going without bought groceries for someone living outside who might die in the cold and who can’t get barrier-free housing services but there’s billions of dollars for ICE

I do not like seeing my house or my neighbors’ houses on the national news. It always about bad things. It’s never about making the golf course a public sex forest, which is what it’d be about if the world wasn’t totally off the rails.

The plot of Blackhawk Down, except it's about the time Greg Bovino had to fight his way through the Wedge neighborhood after using a gas station bathroom.

shoveling my block while patrolling for ICE: the Minnesota multitask

Our city has been over-run by Nazi ghouls kidnapping people to traffic them to concentration camps and other countries. Did you ever think you'd see the day when masked gunmen jump out of moving vehicles and chase families down the street in your own neighborhood? FUCK ICE forever and ever.

we are crawling with ICE today in Minneapolis Amy so please do go fuck yourself and your small-town hockey game

If Minnesota police are accusing you of racial profiling you must really be outta control

all my homies hate January

toddler status: no pants or underwear (it’s -5 out), strumming a toy guitar, watching pingu

it is -10 here today. I was supposed to go do a volunteer shift standing outside loading groceries into people’s cars to deliver to families stuck at home. just got a call not to come in because they have too many volunteers already. if you were wondering if the cold would stop us.

pretty sure i saw two ICE agents driving a car with missing and murdered indigenous relative plates today and that feels like a new low for humanity www.mprnews.org/story/2024/0...

Man what the hell these are high schoolers

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

i could not love these people more and i am lucky to be in community with them sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

a real email i sent today: hey, can we bump tomorrow's meeting back to 10? i have ICE daycare patrol from 8-930 👍😀🆗

oh and having to redesign my course on the fly and create a bunch of alternative options for students who are scared to come to community college in person - also unpaid! and unsupported by college leadership who are basically amy klobuchar but with an academic job 🧟‍♀️🧟‍♀️

in every big city the mayor works for the cops whether they want to or not. and the cops work for trump

This dude rules

love to need clarity about which of our organized criminal state gangs has shot someone

this is Minneapolis: a student attending my community college class remotely just watched an Uber driver get kidnapped on their block and told us in the chat

just added a 'what if ICE shows up' slide to my nursing student classroom presentation and i have the dragon tales theme song stuck in my head aka losing it a little bit

i mean come on

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

watching one battle after another during the 2026 DHS/ICE occupation of my town is … really an experience

weather this weekend/early next week waiting to greet the ICE and border patrol fucks coming up from Louisiana *chuckles in Napoleon*

the democrats are right we should focus on kitchen table issues. for example there is a guy at my kitchen table who wants to shoot me in the face with a gun

my spouse just keeps pacing around the house going "we have to punish outstate MN for this" and he's not wrong

Brian O’Hara on the daily 💩💩 NYT always missing the fucking point

the sheer amount of work being done by individuals and collectives right now across the twin cities with intention, savvy, and heart is fucking staggering. we are going to win and they are going to lose.

FOLKS!

The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.

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dumb nazi bitch lmao 😂