The Yellow Economic Circle appears in Minnesota!

free them all

when people say that all these evils are connected it's because all these evils are connected

Reporter @shoton35mm.bsky.social, on assignment for @lataco.bsky.social, was pepper-sprayed by DHSG and pushed by LAPD officers while covering a protest against immigration raids Jan. 30 in LA.

Also in LA and NYC, Yorgos Lanthimos has personally bought and is paying for tickets to two screenings of The Voice of Hind Rajab just signup here bit.ly/hind-yorgosl...

There's a grim irony to the LA Times breaking this story about Karen Bass' inexcusable alterations to the Palisades fire reports, on the same day as the WaPo cuts. It’s a case study for why cities need healthy newspapers staffed by well-sourced and experienced Metro reporters.

Some of us independent journalists and newsletter writers were talking about the devastating Post layoffs and were thinking-- would folks find it useful at all if we held a little information session on the ins and outs of going indy, starting + running a newsletter or website, etc?

Journalism literally dying in darkness

FUCK. Thinking about Jacob Brogan, Becca Rothfeld, and all the other good books people at WaPO as its Books coverage shutters www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...

we need every grain of sand in the gears. every single one.

A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

A record number of people are in immigration jail AND most of these detentions are probably illegal. I think a good demand is to end immigration jail. If there is nowhere to jail people, they will be forced to arrest fewer people. This scheme is working bc of warehouses full of humans.

THREAD. ICE is in the news, and rightly so, but a lot of the commentary fails to see how the underlying surveillance tech, militarization, infrastructure, policies/practices/training, and corporate profiteers are shared by other domestic agencies and repressive bureaucracies in other countries.

This is the only thing AI dorks are talking about on Twitter. They will read sentience into anything before pausing to engage in critical thought.

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Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

Good. Good news. They'd better release Liam and his father. And every single other person they've abducted. Free them all.

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

I wanted to shout "Yes" and "Amen" at virtually every line of this @volts.wtf and @michaelhobbes.bsky.social discussion. I flagged one particularly important section, but the whole thing is essential. www.volts.wtf/p/all-about-...

LASD hasn't posted any new 1421 releases (deputy disciplinary files) to its online portal since before christmas :( :( :(

Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

summer 2023, back in beijing after covid absence, nearly all taxis and a great many private cars had gone electric—comfortable, quiet, often cheap. if there was a race, its long over.

Minami Tamaki LLP represented Mr Korematsu to the end. US law firms could learn something.

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

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Follow the money! This is what has been particularly disgusting me lately. It’s not just the cruelty of inflicted suffering that is happening right now, but that people are getting rich off it!

To understand the logic behind these warehouses and this new horrific carceral regime, you can’t do better than Ruthie Gilmore’s The Golden Gulag.

New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.

Yes. Like Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, "At stake is not only how we fight to win, but also how prepared we are for victories. Prepare to win means be ready for the morning after."

Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go. Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go. Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go. As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

...and if it's the same "prison" or detention center in Texas where ICE has been sending people, there isn't enough food, and everyone is crying and screaming, and people can't get their medications, and no one can get in to help them. A FIVE YEAR OLD.

I thought about this a lot when we were all pushing to get kilmar abrego garcia released. I'm glad we got him back but literally NO ONE should be sent to CECOT. They should have ALL been brought back. Never accept an inch. Never accept their framing. Bring everyone back and abolish DHS.

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

Our event was so fucking cool. This is a reminder that you can just, like, do stuff. Like a ton of people can just decide to give away a bunch of stuff—food, clothes, medical supplies, haircuts—to people for free. You can just get a group together & do it.

If you know anything about state prisons, this is the kind of thing to blow your mind. They are generally not the type of institutions to do something like this. But the Trump admin just keeps lying and lying and lying so they clearly felt they had to. mn.gov/doc/about/ne...

Farm workers in solidarity with Minnesota #IceOut

A year after the Palisades fire, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is fighting dense new housing near transit that would make the city more climate-friendly, claiming it would cost too much. Meanwhile, she's happy to toss more money at the Olympics: www.torched.la/burn-scars/ via @awalkerinla.bsky.social

I made an 11x17" double-sided poster version of "Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents?" Please DO NOT edit anything on it, but print and distribute freely! I'd love to see it in windows, bookstores, schools, taped up in public, rolled and rubber banded, etc. tinyurl.com/WhoSharesWit...

you’re already ahead. stay with it. minneapolis stripped these forces of legitimacy (a battle other cities won’t have to repeat). remember they are completely outmanned. their only real advantage is their organizational capacity. out-organize them & the illusion of control will collapse.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Well, that's a stark admission.

A Red Lake Ojibwe descendant was snatched by ICE in Minneapolis, and a Plains Cree woman was questioned. This is in addition to the four Oglala Lakota men who reportedly were grabbed by ICE. ictnews.org/news/i-felt-...