Two Black electeds attacked in the same week. Seek out and join up with groups in your community that are fighting fascism and racism and xenophobia and hatred. This will be one of our primary jobs for the rest of our lives.

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

I'm relieved that Ilhan Omar is okay and that she wasn't harmed (though I'm wondering how security even let that man get close to her in the first place), and I'm also impressed at how she almost ran up to that man like she was about to give him a two-piece and a biscuit.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Man tackled to ground after spraying unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar at town hall in Minneapolis.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal immigration officers tried to enter Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis but were stopped, foreign minister says www.axios.com/2026/01/28/i...

Holy shit, I made a Downfall meme back when we were renegotiating our CBA that went pretty viral, but this is brilliant. It’s fantastic all the way through, and then the last three seconds sent me into orbit.

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

idk where I just saw the number but they've abducted *hundreds of thousands* of people and it reminded that we still don't know what happened to thousands of the children they abducted during his first term, if anyone else needs to vomit

Congresswoman @ayannapressley.bsky.social has been trying to get qualified immunity eliminated her ENTIRE career. What the fuck is it going to take to get people to listen to her?

Friends in progressive groups, we have GOT to get our organizations to build their presence over here, 'cause Meta's gonna kill their reach on IG sooner rather than later.

2. ICE is buying your private location data from sleazy data brokers through a legal loophole. I've had a bill to stop this since 2021. I'm renewing my push to get it passed into black letter law as soon as possible.

This is your regular reminder that the data broker industry must be destroyed.

What stage of their training course was this?

My apologies for the visual. ICE agent exposes himself to the crowd and then gives them a finger.

P.S. All these fascists bound to lose.

Just deleted my TikTok account. Please note that if you open TikTok on a web browser, it will ask you to accept a new TOS. DO NOT ACCEPT THE TOS! You can click through to settings and delete your account WITHOUT accepting the new TOS.

Last night’s insomnia stitching

I want Democrats to use every lever at their disposal to shut things down. They have the power to obstruct and gum up the works, the only thing stopping them is outdated norms. People are being executed in the streets and if elected Dems aren't prepared to do dramatic things, they can fuck off.

If you want to know what I want Democrats to do, please look at everything the GOP has done to fuck shit up when it was the minority party and copy and paste those tactics.

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

Tear gassing preschoolers is not a training issue, a leadership issue, or a recruiting issue. ICE, CBP, and DHS are rotten from the ground up, they have been from day one, and abolition is the bare minimum.

Crowd has filled up the corner now. At least 200+ people. Lots of unions including AFGE, NNU, CTU, SEIU, and more

"As veterans we know what warfare looks like and right now the United States is against in warfare against their own people"

Now: Small but growing crowd assembling in front of the Jesse Brown VA in Chicago to rally in memory of Alex Pretti and to demand ICE out of everywhere

Minnesotans getting ready for Tom Homan

ICE & U.S. Customs & Border Protection employed at least 30 people with sexual & violent criminal histories in recent years. At least 20 agents committed offenses with underage victims. The bulk of abuse happened within the last two years. This article includes names of the agents.

The right-wing bot brigade on Twitter and in newspaper comment sections has been screaming that Minnesotans defending our neighbors against ICE are defending violent criminals and people who've preyed on children. Once again, every accusation is a confession.

Fellow Olds: Who was your favorite Globetrotter and why was it Curly?

Put this in the Bluesky search bar. (I'm not trying to be cheeky. This is the easiest way!): from:angryblacklady.blacksky.app substack ✊🏾

We desperately hope that in a few months, the need for this level of production will have slacked off. But we all are firmly of the belief that this is the moment to go even fucking harder. Foot on the gas, folks. So if you know someone who needs free whistles (Maine?? Philly??) send them our way!

There is an entire mockumentary called DROP DEAD GORGEOUS about how people from Minnesota are not as nice as the country paints them and you chose to FUCK WITH THEM? I literally have to laugh.

While Jeff Bezos gets ready to dismantle what's left of The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer is thriving and profitable under nonprofit ownership. Since Bezos has obviously lost interest in his newspaper, the decent thing for him to do would be to donate it to a foundation.

FWIW: I *DO* think that reinforcing the requirement of judicial warrants is worth doing. I *DO* think requiring federal agents to identify themselves is worth going for - but no fucking QR codes. Make them register in a public database and wear GIANT NUMBERS on their backs.

This is how ICE will respond to your "restrictions." bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Yes, come stand right in my tiny cubicle and talk to me then half an hour later complain that you're coming down with a cold that you got from a coworker who was inconsiderate and came & stood right in your cubicle yesterday when she was sick. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

Ds could come up with some bullshit like that to force ICE to spend its money on something OTHER than abusing and killing people. They could demand that exact same policy be applied to ICE right now. Yes, they could do more.

Yes, Ds could do more. You know what Rs did when they wanted to defund an agency? They forced the USPS to "pre-fund health benefits for future retirees" - "for the next 75 years, mind you, something no other public or private agency does." business.time.com/2013/02/07/h...

You're dealing with a Klansman-like, extra-legal secret police. It will never be legitimate or reformable. The only acceptable "reforms" are physically removing them from our cities and cutting/redirecting their funding.

Matthew 25 tells us that when Jesus returns and judges between the righteous and unrighteous, he doesn't judge them based on their orthodoxy, their patriotism, or their individual definitions of morality. He judges them based on their compassion towards vulnerable people.

Saw someone also say a change in tone (in how something is being rolled out/talked about) is not policy change, which feels like something to stay vigilant about as well

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

I wouldn't go up against even a single Mainer in a down parka, let alone a human chain of women with nothing but the time for that kind of bullshit

imagine some wrinkled little scrotum pretending to be a big boy thinking they were going to get a bunch of choice memes out of waltzing in to arrest a bunch of people who make and ship literal Union Army fan merch

It's a quote from a history of the 20th Maine, the regiment that not only held the Union's left flank at Gettysburg but, when they ran out of ammunition, fixed bayonets and charged the Confederates. www.mainememory.net/record/11201...

FYI I was curious bc I hadn't heard of the brand before so I went to their website and boy does it look like ICE picked the wrong town. The apparel manufacturer is a union shop that makes the only official USA-made gear for the NWSLPA and sells shirts like this americanrootswear.com/products/sta...

Westbrook, ME community members form a human wall to keep local workers safe from ICE www.mainepublic.org/maine/2026-0...

ICE agents will have a ‘security role’ during the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, U.S. embassy sources confirm Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said that ICE would not be welcome in his city

He was entertaining. Very entertaining. And then the newer Seth Meyers special came on right after and I have laughed so hard in the first 10 minutes.

His command is over. People in a Maine would tell you his blue city crackdowns are over. All they’re doing is turning his into an immediate scapegoat everyone can focus on while they continue these state terror operations.