“What if we simply ignored both the racism and the violence against women” is a very popular approach to a lot of things, and I think one has to wonder both why that appeals so strongly and also, once that desire is fulfilled, what’s left.

Very grateful Elder Gilbert gave me his personal email the last time we spoke in person!

It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag

If a groundhog gets a day to predict the future, New Yorkers deserve a city that plans for one. Affordable housing, good transit, real public space — all year long.

Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room

I write about Alex Pretti and the power of witness as ICE targets legal observers. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.

Feels like ICE is trying to use Ye Old 20th Century Death Squad techniques, except they totally failed to account for the fact that social media is ubiquitous now and the regime still has basically 0 effective control over "bystanders posting constant video online of death squad movements."

It can get lower!

Continually impressed by the courage, scale, and beauty of what people in Minnesota are doing.

an administration that understood it needed at least *some* public opinion on its side would dump bovino immediately

Pretty much everyone on IG who has been carefully quiet about politics is speaking out. It’s. Weird. I’m not on there all that much, but I think people have finally been given social permission to say the uncomfortable thing. I think they realize not speaking up will be read as acceptance.

No. They are not planning to ever relinquish power. It's the Putinisation of America.

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

We had to put up with school shootings because "the 2nd Amendment" But watch ICE eliminate the right to bear arms by executing anyone they find with a gun and to hell with the 2nd Amendment. ICE will soon be killing citizens in their own homes because they're scared there might be a gun inside.

So. To date, I have seen ONE Dem Rep in Congress call for ICE to be abolished. Ilhan Omar. Not defunded. Not trained and restrained. ABOLISHED. Are there any others? If so, post them and let's get a count on the number of Dems in Congress.

I’d vote machine guns because they are made out of pure, glossy, hardened evil. That still should not stop us. I’m damn near 67 years old and have lived a great life for the most part. If getting shot in the street is the last thing I do it’s worth it if it saves our republic.

i honestly don't know what this administration would do if confronted with a national mass movement would they get scared and back down? would they pull out machine guns?

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

I cannot stress enough that you SHOULD NOT DO THIS. Stop peace policing. Kill the cop in your head. They have already killed multiple people ON CAMERA. They don’t need an “excuse.” Don’t be a snitch.

Minneapolis, MN - A view from the inside entrance to the lobby of the hotel where the noise demonstration against ICE is happening.

"behind the violence in Minneapolis—captured in so many chilling photographs in recent weeks—is a different reality: a meticulous urban choreography of civic protest." from Robert worth, @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

You have lived long enough to see a French anti-fascist organisation (a traditionally very anti-US milieu) organise a ‘rally in solidarity with the American people’.

Looking through my phone at saved poems, searching for one appropriate to these hard days Found this one, but without attribution. Thankfully Google reminded me that it's one from @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Oh. Yes. Plague Poems. of course 💔

If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.

part of why we are driving ICE absolutely mad is that we are using tactics that do not really permit them to legally arrest us. they cannot operate the way they want to operate when we have eyes on them. they want to be a secret police and we simply will not let them be secret

the woke mob is giving He-man pronouns

I do not want Luigi Mangione to go to prison, I want him to play the next Batman.

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

If you are wondering why ICE are attacking and arresting Native Americans who are obviously not migrants, it is because it was never about whether you are a migrant or not, It was about whether or not you are part of the Herrenvolk.

No, Trump can't legally cancel the midterms. Does this still seem to you like a regime that's concerned with legality? We--everyone who doesn't want dictatorship, for whatever reason--can simultaneously articulate often & loudly rule of law *and* think through its collapse and possible responses.

they’ll blame you for being in their way even when they’re the ones who invaded the neighborhood where your baby was sleeping inside your home

This has been true for some time. They don't carry themselves like people who are winning. If they were a baseball or football team I'd worry.

In light of today’s conversation on academic accommodations, I’m going to revive a thread lost to time when I deleted my Twitter profile. It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵

This is true across the board for men committing violence in our society. They are mostly men who just couldn’t figure out how to access power via merit. They turn to violence instead because our patriarchal culture will offer them power that way too.

I keep seeing posts about how we wouldn’t have MAGA if these men had fathers who loved them. But I think it’s more true to say we wouldn’t have MAGA if these men had been taught all their lives to value their mothers.

The “if these men had loving fathers, then they wouldn’t be so violent” thing is another version of the “hurt people hurt people” trope that is fundamentally victim blaming and pro-violence. They aren’t violent because they were hurt. They are violent because they want to dominate.

This interview is really good. Two main takeaways: 1. Someone loudly declaring their power has less than they say. 2. Taking risks in the short term is the path to safety in the long term. Especially since the risks aren’t as risky as those in power want us to believe.

I can’t emphasize enough how shocked my out of state friends and family are when I tell them what has happened in Minneapolis since Renee Good’s murder. Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.

This is why they hate teachers too. They never forgave the first person who told them "no," and made them follow the same rules as everyone else.

this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.

"why won't liberal women date us?"

There’s a bitter irony in these headlines.

i think powell's response here is a demonstration of the folly of the idea that democratic accountability requires presidential control. what if the president is not acting in the public interest? you want independent agencies to be able to push back and pursue their *congressional mandate*

This is what Dem leaders need to understand. The murder yesterday and the shootings today in Portland are the result of POLICY. This is exactly what they intend. If you collaborate with the GOP in any way, blood is on your hands too.

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.