You don't fight this hard to hide nothing

Oh my God this is gorgeous

goddamn, the numbers and sheer scale of the attack on families in this article are just infurating.

the public health response to this has to be “close the camps and free them all” and nothing less

In 1943, musician Woody Guthrie placed a message on his guitar: "This machine kills fascists." I am part of a group that's shipped half a million free 3D-printed whistles to defend against ICE — 200,000 of them in the first week of February alone. This is the story of the "Whistle Crew."

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

the most impactful thing Elon Musk has ever done or will ever do regarding science and innovation in this country is illegally cut billions of dollars of research funds for literally no reason

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

"Tell me you know nothing about the Muppets without telling me you know nothing about the Muppets."

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

Eliminating ICE is the modern equivalent of opposing the Iraq War, and right now there are two types of Democrats: those who can see where the ball is moving and go to it, and those who will be swept away because they refused to do so.

"In Minnesota, a community is coming together to push back against ICE and support their neighbors. It should surprise no one that much of this work is being led by women. Glamour reports from the front lines." www.glamour.com/story/the-wo... @glamour.com

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney. Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social

TWIN CITIES Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action. No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group. Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest." acatusa.com

Everything Is Mechanical Turk

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

“great replacement” is a white supremacist conspiracy theory that has been cited in NUMEROUS mass shootings including buffalo topps and el paso walmart furthermore, what we are seeing in MN is a direct result of that hateful racist rhetoric manufacturing consent and democrats should be saying that

Good piece by my @mprnews.org colleague @jcollins.bsky.social niemanreports.org/minneapolis-...

Everything’s Antifa when you don’t know how to read.

They are worse than we are not

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.

Good. More. Lobby every county and state official you can. Get off the CSAM platform.

This is true, and also the best response to this is organizing the largest voter registration drive this country has seen in years and making plans to accompany citizens of color to the polls this November This is a trial balloon. Pop it, don't ignore it

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

unraveled is *two* people, doing work that much bigger newsrooms aren't

Jacob Frey: "The continued presence of 2,000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not deescalation"

Not enough.

can’t not hear and see:

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

If you are out observing or rapid responding to ICE today, let them know that they’ve lost. Remind them that they’ve failed and they should go home and call a lawyer.

And it’s The Onion

In my opinion these people are the real heroes of the resistance to ICE. There’s no credit, no one can talk about their work (because they directly contact vulnerable families). It’s expensive and dreary and neverending. ICE follows them around. But they refuse to abandon their neighbors

This cannot be accepted. This is a bullshit move to try and keep the status of the occupation basically unchanged but try and play it off as a compromise

If Texas Tech won’t let you teach that slaves and free workers (or men and women) had different labor experiences, it should get its accreditations stripped yesterday. That’s no longer a school if its reactionary board is going to gut education and academic freedom like that.

If anyone was wondering, the ~23% reduction in ICE agents in Minnesota apparently doesn't include the ones down the street that are lurking, now as I type this, as vulnerable folks are getting their kids to the school bus this morning. We cannot rest until ICE is gone, entirely.

ICE hasn't stopped brutalizing people or shredding the Constitution, it's just that corporate media turned the camera as the call for action got too loud and the Democrats stepped in and made sure the issue got changed. If you sit for a second, you'll recognize that's what happened with BLM, too.

The only good thing that has happened in the last year is that we all got a harsh but necessary lesson that resilience doesn't come from having an INDIVIDUALLY awesome resume. It comes from living in communities, where you "pay in" when you can and "make a withdrawal" when you need to.

This is a mask *very* specifically associated with Atomwaffen and Nazi Terrorgram (as OP notes downthread)

My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

ICE detained multiple kids (all under the age of 10!) in the last week alone. Still kidnapping people based solely on the way they look. Still arresting parents at school pick up. Nothing has changed in Minnesota. Nice words from the Admin won’t change that. ICE leaving will.

Stoughton: "We've seen senior officials issue definitive, exonerating conclusions within hours of an incident—far sooner than would be possible with any careful inquiry...These statements signal that any oversight is purely performative, that accountability and outcomes are preordained."

Yup. Yelled at us for saying there were people not from the area causing trouble and were like, "you're believing 'outside agitators'?" - Public defenders saw bookings, they weren't from here - People not from here literally showed up in our streets and told us exactly where they were from+

I frankly don’t enjoy listening to 2 of the architects of the current debacle that is US public health blame each other 🤦🏻‍♂️

Greetings from inside the economic blockade zones of Minneapolis and St Paul! Don’t look away, please. We need you. It’s been a month and they’re trying to destroy us.

"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently"- David Graeber

I do not debate sexual assault allegations with strangers on the internet; I block. Take your devil’s advocate bullshit back to hell where it belongs. As for me and my house, we shall believe survivors.