In case nobody has told you yet today: 1. You are allowed to rest. 2. Your pain is real. 3. Wombats are the only animals that poop in perfect cubes and they stack them like little brown bricks to mark territory. 4. You are not a burden.

Juliana Stratton is the obvious pick. I hate even having to weigh in here. It's plain as day, and the frontrunner is so bad. Folks, this needs to get turned around. Like desperately. Phone bank for Stratton, talk to your friends, anything, just please, Illinois, NO.

I’m selling signed copies of Black Arms to Hold You Up on my store at daygloayhole.gumroad.com/l/blackarms. I also keep some mini-comics, stickers and older titles on there. Come through!

Renee Nicole Good. Alex Pretti. Silverio Villegas González. Keith Porter. Marimar Martinez lists the names of people murdered by ICE agents. She was the first citizen they tried to execute. They didn’t succeed. She’s using her voice on behalf of those whose voices were taken away.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

This makes the Jan 23, 2026 action the largest strike in Minnesota History, and depending on which number you use, 3rd in American History after the massive national strikes of 1919, or the Great Railroad Strike of 1922. I note with extreme interest that mainstream media didn't report these facts.

Minneapolis Minnesota Drummers against ICE! Awesome! 😎

Up at Silverwood Park in St Anthony, MN, they built an ice carousel. Drill a hole in the ice, put in an outboard motor, cut the ice in a big circle, fire up the outboard, ice carousel. People do fun weird shit outside in Minnesota all winter long. Park was packed. It’s delightful here.

Full Bad Bunny speech

An automated phone assistant just told me “there have been too many failures” before proceeding to hang up on me 😂😂😂 #Robots #Fuckery

BREAKING: Tenants across Minneapolis and Saint Paul have just launched a Twin Cities tenant union, citing the fact that their cities are under siege, and saying they need to band together to protect one another. linktr.ee/twincitieste...

ICE is hurting/ending disabled families too.

How do you know something is worth going back to revise? #Writing #Writers

From a FB post about Alex Pretti:

I comically shrank a pair of nice wool pants in the wash. I saw the “dry clean only” and chose to ignore it. I knew what I was doing was unforgivable. Now there’s no going back. Any suggestions for how I repurpose this beautiful material so I don’t have to throw it in the trash 😭 #Clothes #Help

yes.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

-5°F in Minneapolis tonight. At the site where feds killed Alex Pretti, the air still smells faintly of tear gas. Hundreds of people still here behind some impromptu barricades. Message spray painted on the road reads, "fuck ICE, love always wins."

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

I think there’s also something going on about the use of power. They don’t like someone using their power to support people with less power. That by itself is so threatening to the hate machine that all they could think to do was shoot at it. Rest in peace #AlexPretti

Just getting hit with a bottomless sadness that comes from noticing how violence despises a kind and gentle person and wants to put them down. It wasn’t about the gun. They hated that he was helping and caring. #Grief #Idk? #Fascism #AlexPretti

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Public officials and news outlets are doing acrobatics to downplay the shooting as the result of “protesters being confrontational with ICE” meanwhile if you watch the video the man was… directing traffic #ICE #Nazis

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

Only speaking personally, but today’s execution isn’t scaring me from protecting our neighbors, as some suggest is ICE’s goal. Nor am I angry with incandescent rage, in that I know such rage is unhelpful. Rather, I feel like it has forced me to truly accept that the same fate might befall me.

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You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

250 cities Friday's General Strike

RIGHT NOW: Huge anti-ICE student walkout in Meadowcreek High School in Norcross, Georgia. The protest is one of many actions across the country in solidarity with the Minnesota general strike.

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

inescapable conclusion is we have no laws, just cops

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

It's -20 in Minneapolis and organizers are in the streets before dawn getting ready for actions related to the general strike. They've had locals training out-of-town volunteers on how to prepare for and endure the cold. AND IT IS WORKING. THE STRIKE IS HAPPENING. THE CITY IS DOING THE DAMN THING...

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

🤌🤌 now it better win 'em

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

During the Holocaust the Nazis put out the word that they were giving dead people’s passports to Jewish families so they could leave the country legally by choice, then they put all the people who signed up for those passports on buses and sent them to camps. Same energy #Nazis #ICE

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.

if you are disabled, and all you do in 2026 is survive it, I want you to know, that’s enough.

It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo

I need to get something off my chest from my 2025 reads and it’s that I did NOT like Bury Our Bones. I don’t even like thinking about it. It made me feel awful on a level I can’t even explain. But this was my first VE Schwab book and I’m hoping I might still like some of her other books? Thoughts?

If there’s an option to betray someone who’s helped me in a video game I can’t do it :(

It blows my mind that some people don’t cry. I cried this week over a really good burger. I love crying.

When you start out strong but then sell out :(

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

Jeff you can pry my eee pc running windows XP and my iPod nano out of my cold dead hands #ipod #vintagetech

the original post behind that quote post I just made about the 1%.