I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

state-sponsored child trafficking

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

A five-year-old boy seized on his way home in Minnesota and now locked up in Texas. His family didn't know where he was for 24 hours.

I'm sorry if this sounds radical, but I don't think Dems should be voting to give this deeply unpopular, lawless, fascistic secret police force billions more dollars.

1/21/2026 - Minneapolis Federal agents abduct two teenagers (15 & 16) from a doctor's appointment At one point, it appears an agent tases one of the children

Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader

Minneapolis residents have joined a church-run effort to donate groceries to immigrant families who fear being caught in public by federal agents. What started with a couple of hundred deliveries a week has quickly swelled into a vast operation involving thousands of volunteers. trib.al/1qT1xMw

You basically have to wait for an algorithm to show you a local weather influencer because the media ecosystem and global apps are that degraded

7 months ago

A year into Trump's mass deportation effort: At least* 10 faith leaders have been shot with pepper balls/rounds/spray or tear gas and 8 others have been arrested** while protesting DHS, and DHS has conducted apparent immigration enforcement on or immediately near church grounds at least 10 times.

look how easy this is

people are dying in ICE custody because their concentration camps are like concentration camps always are

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

Only just became aware of this tribute illustration that Katsuhiro Ōtomo penned for last year’s Masamune Shirow exhibition. So freaking good. 🔥

I've been working on a secret project since October which is now ready for the world to see: an #OpenAccess book collecting most of my posts for the old Finite Eyes blog, called [drum roll] FINITE EYES: ESSAYS ON EDUCATION AND ACCESS. matthewcheney.net/books/finite...

The original concentration camps didn't start as death camps. But they did kill a lot of people through neglect, malnutrition, disease, and individual murders. There's no distinction between this facility and dachau in 1933.

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The black and white pictures are meant to deceive you. It was not long ago. #MLKinColor

Not just Mexican restaurants. Many places are doing this, including some McDonald’s and supermarkets.

ICE are nasty ass child kidnappers, like after school special style

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People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

In the old days I used to have to mail a family photo to Papa Johns with "make us this many pizza" written on the back

The ground zero guy for hecking doggo social media gaming is talking like this now

On this day one year ago, #DavidLynch left us for places wonderful and strange. Rest in Peace.

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Murder. And not just the one who pulled the trigger.

Breaking news: An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner said it is likely to classify the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an ICE detention center as a homicide. A detainee says he witnessed Campos being choked to death by guards.

News from Japan of a completely new Votoms anime project is long overdue and very exciting. I'm definitely looking forward to whatever Mamoru Oshii is cooking up. BUT...it's only the tip of a VERY large iceberg, which I've been chipping away at for many years: timeldred.com/votomshub/

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

A buddy in MN shared a drawing a classmate of his kid made. They've been making thank you notes for parents who have volunteered to carpool them to school so their own parents don't have to risk waiting out by the bus stop.

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.

Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Read your comment section, NYT.

The next Democratic president has a model for what to do with ICE----what Trump has done to USAID, the Ed Department and other agencies, writes @mford.bsky.social. Trump has dismantled agencies he disagrees with, and Dems can do the same. newrepublic.com/article/2053...

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

like yeah on this basis I am forced to conclude I am in fact a harder fucking operator than a strapped 6’2 guy from Dallas who shits himself with raw terror when he sees a Ethiopian restaurant

"Like an elderly man whose powers are failing, the Habsburg Monarchy sought to recover its youth by a display of vitality...internal action had come to nothing; action in foreign affairs had to take its place."

every accusation...

Art by Syd Mead for U.S. Steel, 1969. The direct influence on the walker designs for The Empire Strikes Back is well documented. #starwars

peeschools! fucking preschools! I hate these people down to my bones

Can confirm. My brother's boss had to leave a meeting because they're terrorizing her kid's daycare. This is just what passes for normal now in the cities.

“Tell us where the non whites are so we can kidnap them at gunpoint” sounds like a free country to the Roberts Court

fascists are sniveling cowards. it's a necessary qualification for being on their side: you have to be a coward