In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).

so about the relationship between the state and capital

Despite what people are claiming, ICE is still actively threatening the safety and well-being of Minnesotans. Their disregard for the lives of the people of the Twin Cities is evident. These agents are a threat to all of us, and they must leave Minnesota.

the fact that many elected democrats seem intent on convincing the american public they will NOT bring any of those goals closer, that they don’t share those goals at all, is not on me, it’s on them.

my political goals include things like abolishing ICE, crushing american fascism, and jailing these corrupt and evil people who have caused so much pain and suffering. i only care about supporting democrats to the extent i believe their rhetoric or candidates will bring those goals closer.

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

The annual change in GDP topped 15% in only five years since 1929 -- four times under FDR and once under Truman. Conservatives at the time, and since, denounced those presidents for practicing "socialism," which Trump claims is the top problem constricting the economy today.

If you see a politician or a pundit or even a "civil rights" leader who is not talking about clawing back this unprecedented funding for surveillance, militarized invasions, and privatized concentration camps, then you know this is not a serious person. It's an easy litmus test.

now that's the power of a union

From what I can tell based on Bannon's comments, Chuck Schumer's position is now essentially that Democrats should renew the 300% budget increase for ICE so that Trump can deploy enough ICE agents to surround every polling station in the U.S. in November.

Steve Bannon just apparently said on television: "We're gonna have ICE surround the polls come November" and that they are not going to "allow you to steal the country again," and Schumer is gleefully talking about tripling the ICE budget in 2025. www.instagram.com/reel/DUXE5e1...

Most of this is deceptive, unenforceable, snake oil to distract people from focusing their energy on much more transformative change. And don't even get me started on body cams. They think people are morally depraved enough to support most of what's happening and/or stupid. bsky.app/profile/civr...

This document is one of the great political failures of our time. It must be immediately denounced by all people of good will. And it will be a major scandal if any "civil rights" organization gives cover to this capitulation to fascism.

Easy for this to get lost amidst all the horrors, but it was a *long* time coming. The first UAW election at this plant was during the Obama administration. (And the UAW's history of trying to organize southern auto workers goes back many more decades.)

I don't think I could better parody the state of the Washington Post opinions page than an essay from a crypto guy and the legal academy's worst amateur epidemiologist that earnestly argues that "stolen land" rhetoric is misguided because of statutes of limitations on lawsuits to recover property

sunsetting due process because our quarterly human misery goals are lagging projections

The Department of Homeland Security is using administrative subpoenas, a secretive tool issued without a judge's signature, to go after people lawfully reporting ICE activity or criticizing DHS policies. This is a direct attack on our First Amendment rights and we're fighting back.

In the wake of the horrific ICE killings in Minnesota, many prominent Democrats have called for ICE to wear body cameras. Yesterday, @equalityalec.bsky.social talked to @democracynow.org about how important it is that we don't get distracted by meaningless & counterproductive reforms.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Protest music really is back.

Q: So you're not pulling back in Minnesota? TRUMP: No no. Not at all.

In this moment, I cannot emphasized enough how important it is to understand what Democrats and mainstream news media are doing to blunt and misdirect outrage over ICE to "reforms" and talking points that are utterly fraudulent and that will only increase the repressive capacities of the government.

Life in Minneapolis, MN in 2026 by Josh Deek youtu.be/f8A-SDXa8MY?...

I want everyone to understand that Democrats are proposing not one thing that will meaningfully constrain ICE--and several things that will make it worse. But they also have absolutely nothing to say about the massive, daily violence of the DHS bureaucracy. Chris Murphy just ignores this stuff:

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

They took healthcare away from 15 million Americans for this.

This video is one of the most important things to watch to understand our society and the legal system we have created. Two 5-year-olds are confined in a concentration camp because they lack cash assets to pay bond. Just take a look at their drawing. www.threads.com/@maddowshow/...

Chuck Schumer must resign immediately.

Yeah not only are these terrible, they bear little resemblance to other asks that party caucuses are making. I just got a Hispanic Caucus list of "non-negotiables" that has like 20 other things on it. The Senate Dems are squandering the moment in real time.

Think about it like this. This ICE agent was on camera and unmasked — fulfilling one of three "demands" Democratic leader Chuck Schumer just issued in order to agree to save Republicans and give DHS even more money. And he was still threatening to kill someone.

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

The experience of a law student in 2026

Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.

REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

Days after the killing of Renee Good, Stephen Miller and DHS began bragging that ICE agents have immunity from being held accountable. There's a bill sitting in Congress that would end that immunity - and Democrats could right now use their sudden leverage to force its passage. Pass it on.

Last Friday, Minnesota launched a general strike that shut down Minneapolis. On January 30, the movement goes nationwide. No work. No school. No shopping. When we withhold our labor, divest our dollars and stand together in solidarity, the people have real power.

I can't stop thinking about this. Some of the murders are overt. Some of the murders are less direct and are murders nonetheless

ATTN: Judges Raymond Gruender, Bobby Shepherd, and David Stras. www.lawdork.com/i/185892659/...

Federal deployment to Minneapolis "is steady state and expected to continue as planned," per Border Patrol memo leaked to me

If the Democrats approve the unprecedented DHS and ICE funding package (3x 2024’s already record budget!) based on these meaningless and, in any event, unenforceable “reforms,” it will be among the greatest moral betrayals and strategic failures of the modern era.

The “absolutely immune” gang of masked, militarized paperwork enforcers who have extrajudicially kidnapped, trafficked, and executed citizens and non-citizens alike must: - cooperate with states - only do it closer to the border - film themselves doing it (already doing so) - not in church/school

Magnitudes more hostile to the Second Amendment than any elected Democrat ever

ICE actions are directly affecting the safety of UMN students and staff. It wouldn't violate this 'policy'. But using it to justify not saying anything emphasizes that there's nothing neutral about the policy.