The park behind the building on the right was also just as full! Fascism cannot take Minnesota anymore than the darkness can cover the North Star. The darker it is, the brighter we’ll shine

4) Dem voters want to see elected Dems fight ICE. 5) Dem leadership wants to limit blowback from Dem voters. 6) Elected Dems issue statements against ICE to reassure Dem voters that we're all aligned. 7) Dem leadership quietly cuts deal with GOP on funding bills, including ICE.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

This is such an important point. That 5-year-old and his dad should never been detained in the first place! That's because they were already in the system and going through the legal process to seek asylum — and their arrest was seemingly just to juice ICE's numbers.

MINNESOTA SHUTDOWN: Clergy have blocked the road in front of Terminal 1 at MSP while a crowd of thousands sings "before this campaign fails, we'll all go down to jail, everybody has a right to live." Photos are members of UNITE HERE 17 who've been abducted. I'll be updating here throughout the day.

"You want to stay on TikTok? AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS." I'm not your kids, Ellison. I don't get anything from pretending to like you. Bye-bye, TikTok.

Congratulations to the Dems that made this happen and just gave ICE more money

@wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social Vote NO & persuade your GOP colleagues to be brave for once!! American lives depend on it.

DHS funding bill passes: 220 yes / 207 no Seven Democrats voted yes. Do the math, and you’ll see why it matters that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social chose not to whip the vote.

There's nothing "moderate" about voting to give billions more to Trump's lawless and murderous secret police force. This is a morally repugnant and politically reckless vote by members who embarrass and weaken the Democratic Party.

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An internal memo does not supersede the constitution. We need a class action lawsuit on behalf of the American people. But, we also need MASS impeachment. This is intolerable.

This judge should haul Bovino in every time one of his goons violates the order.

So the House is going to vote TOMORROW on the DHS funding bill that includes funding for ICE. There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it. Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance. 24 hours. Go. www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...

I feel like federal-level Minnesota politicians should narrow their focus to the fact that ICE is terrorizing, abducting, and murdering their communities. Hockey games are fun and all, but you should be devoting your social media presence to bringing awareness and calling for an end to ICE terror.

His personal opposition is irrelevant - his actual job is to unite the House Dems. It ain't over til it's over - now's the time to push for a strategy shift. Call your rep and ask them to: 1) Publicly oppose ICE funding 2) Call on Jeffries to whip the vote prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...

Good to see @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social come out against ICE/DHS funding bill. This is important and it means he is hearing the base. Now we need him and his leadership to whip against this bill and urge all Senate Dems to do the same. #NoIceNoWars

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.

If Europe found a way for him to save face and move on, great. But Carney's speech was still spoken and was still true. The bell has rung.

Did I miss this sort of statement from you, @klobuchar.senate.gov?

"We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition."

I wrote about RFK Jr.'s war on moms slate.com/technology/2...

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

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Every time Trump breaks the clear letter of the law, the NYT and WaPo write a story about how he’s “pushing boundaries” or “testing the limits of his authority” He's not Chuck Yeager, guys. He's a crook.

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If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

@wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov @salinas.house.gov @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social @kenmartin.bsky.social @murray.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov This is exactly what it feels like. Please do better

Voters who decide elections will always care about those things, in good and bad times. The Republican Party, under one guy, making it a major policy priority to celebrating killing you if you stand in their way seems to be a relevant factor tho

National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3

We could feed and educate our kids, house our neighbors, live longer, fuller, healthier lives, have time and space to create and rest and dream. It should be this way and it can be this way, but we have to beat the fascists by demanding something better than our old, wretched status quo.

It’s really outrageous that the US national security establishment has so lost its collective mind that our own close allies feel like is necessary. I am so angry at the Trump movement for ruining such a good thing we all had.

BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

The moment we stop asking for things because we don't yet have the votes is the moment we stop moving forward. We didn't have the votes when we first asked for marriage equality. Or the Civil Rights Act. Should we stop pushing for Medicare for All because we don't yet have the votes?

The only way the next democratic administration is going to do anything even somewhat resembling reforming and rooting out lawless thugs from ICE and elsewhere is due to sustained popular pressure. Otherwise, the instinct from the Dem elite to just turn the page and move on is going to be massive

Read this earnest, respectful call for the United States Congress to grow a damn backbone.

Find an event in your area and make your voice heard! What happened to Renee could happen to any of us.

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

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She smiles at the man who shoots her and says she isn't mad at him. Clearly initiates the effort to leave when the aggressive agents arrive. The question now (not that this was in question) isn't who's telling the truth. It's when DHS had this video and knew that what they were saying was a lie.

So, correct me if I’m wrong, but all you have to do to abduct a woman now is dress in camo, cover your face and have a gun and we have to submit or risk death? How are we supposed to know if you’re ICE or not?

It follows that Trump leaked the most market-moving economic numbers that exist. I have no idea how illegal this is, or if the law even matters any more. But I do know this: It's unprecedented. No White House has ever before leaked such important market-moving numbers. No serious country does this

“MAGA never allows truth to get in the way of their self-pitying narrative. “

Thanks @amandamarcotte.bsky.social and @salon.com for this, and for standing up for what's really going on.

Protests in Iran have spread to a further 16 towns or cities since Tuesday. If they can do it, SO CAN WE. www.bbc.com/news/live/cl...