I don’t believe in hell but these people really make me wish I did.

this conceit that democrats are held hostage by polling is totally fucking bullshit and i never want to be led by someone who cares more about polling than, idk, stopping things like genocides and state violence

Our community is in peril. Our neighbors need our help in this time of ICE presence and subzero temperatures. Mpls has a shortage of available shelter for residents, and our city govt has not developed adequate resources to humanely house people. Please support MIWRC in this time of emergency.

Important to know that Armstrong is a reverend and that she and the protesters felt compelled by faith as well their commitment to civil rights. This is the state choosing which Christians they will support and which part of the 1A they will defend. Christian nationalism in action.

Every single day, Donald Trump and his army of dull-witted bigot pedophile freaks do whatever the fuck they want and nobody stops them no matter how much it escalates or how many norms it violates, but we're also supposed to believe that he needs someone to "take the bait" to trigger martial law

The cognitive dissonance of getting an amber alert for a missing white child as the state kidnaps, brutalizes and disappears hundreds of black and brown folks…

It’s kind of wild that not only should the government NOT be doing evil shit, they should actually be doing GOOD things for us because we pay them lots of money in something called taxes

I last week I joked that my CM might be working with ICE and every day there is less joke in this statement and more "No, I need definitive proof she's not" Also, she drives a cybertruck and should not be trusted off that alone

I'm rarely surprised by elites (political, economic) foregoing morality, or even a simple sense of strategic opportunity in their inactions. However a lack of common sense towards basic self preservation? That actually does continue to blow my mind.

They do this because they are irritated by people blowing cheap plastic whistles in the streets

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.

I love North Minneapolis

'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'

4th estate found dead in a ditch

He needs It to not happen every second of every day, but we only need It to happen once

Imagine worrying about how it's disrupting law enforcement rather than how it's brutalizing residents. This is not what I want from an elected leader.

If Minnesota police are accusing you of racial profiling you must really be outta control

Democrats celebrating getting body cams for ICE is wild. One of the main reasons they exist is to create content of themselves punishing the foes of their racist, pedophile leader. Now my taxes are gonna pay for that too. Thanks!

mood tbh

Pretty clear to me that if Vance is coming to prance in front of the ICE church, savvy folks should organize a news conference of all the faith leaders whose houses of worship have been surveilled & parishioners too scared to attend. At least the ICE church folks could worship where they wanted.

This is a really important story, and one that explains the place of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities and why this entire occupation is really just ethnic cleansing (my words). Also, props to Marisa for doing the work to get this story right when so many out-of-town journalists have failed.

The consistent pattern of Republicans feeling no obligation to tell the truth and Democrats feeling even less obligation to call out that the former is lying has truly doomed us in ways that are hard to quantify.

People have agency, and pretending that people inside institutions have somehow surrendered that agency and are incapable of independent thought or action is both ethically nonsensical and reinforces the permission structure for doing terrible things.

I'm sorry, doing the right thing is going to require a modicum of moral courage, and these motherfuckers manifestly don't have it. You don't need to feel bad for them. They can all eat shit, and I hope they have nightmares about what they're doing until their dying day.

...it's January 16th

The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas

I'm not sure the author of this piece ever worked a service job before, because getting the authority to say "get the fuck out right now" to a visitor that's annoying the shit out of people is one of the rare joys of a service job

yeah i'll vote for gavin newsom under extreme circumstances. like say we're on a life raft and need to decide who to eat first. or our plane crashes in the andes and we're figuring out who to barbecue for dinner. or if we're wagon-bound and stranded in a frozen pass over the sierra nevada mountains,

I know it's small potatoes in comparison to everything else, but I am getting increasingly angry that this is turning my job, which I usually enjoy and find meaning in, into 8 daily hours of feeling resentful that I have to be here instead of doing like 5 other, more vital things

In addition to abolishing ICE and criminal investigations, we need to think about reparations for those who survive being brutalized by the regime. I would suggest, at a minimum, permanent legal status for anyone injured or detained for more than 24 hours regardless of criminal background.

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

Hi, I wrote about Walz and Frey and the exhortations to remain calm in Occupied Minnesota. wburdine.substack.com/p/turning-do...

they are not mad about losing political power, they are mad about losing cultural power, and the cultural power they want back is "I get to be racist and homophobic and everyone still likes me"

friendly reminder The things you believed were right yesterday are still right. They'll be right if they put you in jail. They'll be right if they shoot you. They'll still be right when these people are dead and dusted and gone. which they will be

Mayor saying the federal agents too scawwy to do anything :( sowwy evwybody :( federal agents pls be nicer to us :( if you are publicly mad about this he will immediately crush you under the weight of a militarized police force.

When you tell angry protesters that they're not helping... my weak ass brother in Christ, what are you gonna do instead? You can say all cuss words you want, but it's still parents out there putting THEIR bodies on the line and you're on talk shows. Get your ass on the streets and maybe I'll listen

mentioning snowballs as if they are the same as chemical weapons and flashbangs fuck OFF

it's so funny to put this off a week or so. yeah man there's just a lot going on. will get to it soon tho

You know, I don't love hearing a reporter talk about "no violence yet" when the federal government just shot someone, then tear gassed everyone and continues to tear gas everyone.

Don Quixote-ass headline

why is this making me emotional (rhetorical, obviously)

Think you have to retire the phrase “immigration crackdown” when every major violent spectacle — at least those the news is choosing to highlight — involve US citizens screaming “Check my ID!”

Well, let’s hope it really does happen in threes

I would settle for it becoming shameful to drive like an asshole, tbh. (though I will say I've never had a gut reaction flip faster than seeing an asshole driver has blackout plates. from "of course *jerkoff motion*" to "thank god" basically overnight)

At least from a lived reality on the ground, I don’t know what this “resistance libs were right” is all about. That they thought Trump was bad? They didn’t have a monopoly on that take nor did their actions rise to meet the moment so I’m struggling to see the case here

Let me give you a thought experiment: Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should. www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...

(judson had the best land acknowledgment statement I've ever heard when we played there this summer. so obviously written and said with so much care and love and respect. they're good people)

They expect us to hold their hurt feelings as more pressing than our very lives. They’re not unclear about Ross killing Good. They’re trying to “but technically” their way into publicly saying she deserved to die like that.