A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:

The standards and expectations of what resistance, protest and daily life look like have shifted definitively towards mutual aid, community orientation and militant struggle for so many people in the US. Keep pushing, building and fighting. We are going to win 😘✌️

The level of consistent, everyday organizing and resistance to the state, outside of and beyond any particular movement or flash point, distributed across the entirety of the social landscape, is by far the highest it's ever been in my lifetime

Yes. I’ve read this way for so long now that I can’t really imagine reading books a different way.

ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings

These are the arrests you’re not seeing minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/t...

And I would say that it's *far* more amongst the biggest publishers — this average is just being offset by the smaller SEO shops who haven't been decimated. Folks who do original content are being strip-mined.

They have quite an operation going. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

New poll from Navigator also with an incredible result; the largest drop in support for ICE since June was actually among *Republicans*, 25% of which now say they have an unfavorable opinion of the agency.

Evelyn Normielib (D-MN) has arrived at the scene of the ICE shooting in northern Minneapolis

Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats

I think Dem electeds should take moral stances & then work to change public opinion. But it's notable that another centrist Dem group has a memo that 1) contradicts Third Way's "don't say 'Abolish ICE'", 2) is based on actual research, 3) didn't get an NYT story. newrepublic.com/article/2052...

The woman who said she was autistic as ICE dragged out of her car is named Aliya Rahman via this statement: "Masked agents dragged me from my car and bound me like an animal, even after I told them that I was disabled." It happened two blocks from where Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good.

what a legend lmao

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

What a fucking disaster. Wikipedia is one of the only good web sites on the internet (sounds like I'm being hyperbolic, but I'm not!). No way I imagine this will end well, and as someone who used to edit/work on Wikipedia a lot, it's just maddening.

I cannot overstate how lawless and cruel this is. How exhausting. These mercenaries are terrorizing an American city at the president’s pleasure. There is no law enforcement going on in the Twin Cities. We have never been more lawless than we are now, and that is entirely attributable to ICE. 5/5

Finally some good news!

We shouldn’t be allowed to have the World. Cup, nor participate The 2028 Olympics should be moved and the US barred from competing. Any athletes need to compete under the Olympic flag. The world needs to punish us for what we’re doing, and this is just the tip of the iceberg

Is ICE going to deport Native Americans now? What a bunch of clowns.

WHY are news stations reading DHS statements out loud as if they have ANY credibility at all? They literally murdered a woman in cold blood LAST WEEK and are still lying about what happened, even though we can see what happened. That any credibility would be given to their statement is insane

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

At 25th and Lyndale Ave N., Minneapolis, the very residential scene where an ICE agent shot and wounded a man last night. Smells strongly of tear gas. I started coughing as soon as I got here. Police tape everywhere. A CS gas canister and smashed computer on the ground.

South Minneapolis, I just woke up with my eyes burning, from all the gas on the other side of town, so we need to be paying attention to this too

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Trump threatens to use the Insurrection Act, allowing him to deploy troops, to 'put an end' to protests in Minneapolis.

Minneapolis tonight.

The federal government has occupied Minneapolis. And everyone can see the abuses that come from this situation day in and day out. Even people not protesting cant keep their kids safe. Now imagine 77 years of this.

Let’s help our Northside neighbors clean up after the federal attack last night. I’ll add wear a respirator or gas mask. It’s still in the air.

Please contact Governor Murphy's office and urge him to sign the immigrant protection package into law immediately. Call: 609-292-6000 Text: 732-605-5455 It doesn’t matter if you don’t live here. These bills have drawn national attention and codifying them into law will give other states a roadmap

A week ago I think I knew maybe 3 parents at my kid’s preschool, and now I know almost all of them, and have steeled myself to give my life for their kids and their teachers if I need to.

We are in fact DESPERATE for winter coats, waterproof gloves, and good boots. We get so many wonderful donations but it is so cold and the numbers of unhoused unsheltered people are going up at the absolute worst time for it, and we run out of coats weekly.

Wednesday phone zap time! Join NYC PLAN in calling our city council members every Wednesday to demand at least %0.5 of the city budget be dedicated to our NYC library systems. Find your CM and a helpful script here: nycplan.org/actions/call...

The Powderhorn Park neighborhood has been the biggest target of immigration enforcement in Minnesota. It’s home to a large immigrant community who is now struggling to pay rent. Kidnappings are on the rise because people cannot stay home. Please help us out. Link is in my bio. gofund.me/350c67697

It is time to eradicate AI from all educational environments. Find another way. Maybe teach kids about AI like when we learned about drugs in middle school. “The risks of AI outweigh the benefits” - new report about AI in elementary schools.

It's incredibly trivial amidst everything else, but as a Trekkie it rather rankles that Elon and his ilk could seriously believe that *the shit that they are doing right now* is positioning us to "make Star Trek real." Star Trek disagrees, Nazi Dickhead!

This visibly gets to him so people should keep doing it.

To any ICE agents reading this who are from down south—you have never experienced anything like this cold. Our European climate equivalent is literally Stalingrad. It will hurt to breathe. You will be outside in it. So will we, but we are used to it. Next week is what will break you.

Nurses are out in force on Day 2 of the #NYCNurseStrike shout out to all the nurses on this picket line early morning! #WhenWeFightWeWin

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

this is just my news diet now the other day a friend of mine texted me that she was trapped in a car with another observer by seven armed ice agents who demanded they unlock the doors, intending to spray or arrest them. they used the full name of the observer who owned the car to intimidate them.

I've shared it before, but this is a really good article on the state of things in Massachusetts courthouses with regard to ICE. This is one area where the Massachusetts legislature could absolutely take action to make courthouses safer for immigrants.

I think it's fair to say that X's integration of an abusive nudify app that includes children as victims of its users is not really going to have any sort of material dent in the volume of people contributing their labor to ensuring there is a broad hesitation to quit the app. So: now what?

it shouldn’t be surprising, but it still is, when major news outlets, even as they report about MN suing the government for this ICE invasion refuse to mention: -ICE going into homes without warrants -Randomly stopping people based on skin color -Detaining citizens -Harassing schools and churches

I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota. If you have places for me to add, please DM me.

If you don’t know, I am not sure I can fully describe the entire universe of losing a Torah — the spiritual injury, the communal injury, the stress and financial strain of acquiring a replacement for this extremely expensive and difficult-to-ensure holy ritual object…

If folks want to donate. The synagogue is historic - it was bombed by the KKK in 1967 for its civil rights activism. It is the only synagogue in Jackson and is in a majority Black community. Two of its torahs were destroyed along with its whole library. checkout.square.site/merchant/P9T...