Many folks don’t realize that it’s rooted in ableism. To say it’s only dangerous for those who are already sick is to say that we don’t matter. That killing or maiming us is acceptable as long as the non disabled can continue to live life as though we’ve gone back to 2019 /11

Maine's "Secretary of State Shenna Bellows over the weekend suspended the issuance of undercover license plates requested by the US Border Patrol." "You are not welcome here. You will never be welcome here." #Maine #USA #Transportation #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

also when mamdani says affordability he means "your bus should be free and your rent shouldn't be allowed to go up" and when schumer says affordability he means "there should be a means tested tax credit you can get by mailing in the upcs from your cereal boxes"

My governor and federal reps should be holding press confs and going on tv telling people that one of the largest school districts is closed because of a federal gov’t-led ethnic cleansing campaign run by armed, masked goons who are brutalizing citizen observers and disappearing non-white neighbors.

The Daily Tarheel 🔥 www.dailytarheel.com/article/5671...

My teenager and I were one block from the intersection where Renee Good was shot in the face, an hour before it happened. What happens when you love that your kid wants to fight for her community, but you’re also desperate to keep her safe? trib.al/R8akYV2

Reads like the active shooter protocols at public schools across the country. The federal government is triggering lockdowns at schools as it hunts down members of our community.

Thank you so much. Save your spoons. I added alt text.

Who are you talking to here Big Ed? You want me to do it?

We found three cars full of masked ICE agents in a residential car park. Our guide asked them if they had a warrant, they refused to answer. I asked them several questions about what they were doing. They then made obscene gestures at us. Shortly afterwards, a drone appeared circling our car.

I suspect 9 of 10 Americans are unaware that the Hmong are here because they aided the US in the Vietnam war, and then had to flee as refugees afterwards. Quite the “thank you” we’re giving them 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

If you know anything about the Vietnam War, you know why Hmong Americans are here in the US - they were US allies who risked their lives in Laos to aid the US and had to flee at the end of the war when the Pathet Lao won. Infuriating that members of their community are being targeted like this

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

if someone punches your neighbor and you go to protect them, that does not make you a protester. that makes you someone who protects your neighbor.

Twin Cities, 01/19/26-More barricades and some local sherif dept. at the Whipple building. When asking a protester about the sheriff’s presence, they said “It frees up the ICE agents to do more of their actions because these guys (sheriff) have taken over policing us.”

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The political point of all this, in Minneapolis and elsewhere, is to distract the Republican base from the fact that Trump cannot actually deport 14 million people as he promised. Terror and violence against some immigrants and their liberal allies is an entertaining substitute for the impossible.

One of the biggest failures of the American capitalist class is that they didn't seem to understand that the new deal was to protect them from us not the other way around.

Wrote this a year ago, which was Trump's inauguration day. About how Dr. King understood that this was all about systems, interlocking systems of oppression. How fighting them is how we honor his legacy each and every day. How, as June Jordan wrote, we are the ones we've been waiting for. 1/x

You are not imagining it!!! Agents have been more aggressive and more emboldened, quicker to fly into a rage. And the community being more organized/prepared to confront them bc they've seen this play out in other cities = feds know they have even less time to execute a kidnapping

A ProPublica analysis revealed a stark pattern across the Deep South, where about 200 majority-Black public school districts educate 1.3 million students. Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students. (Published Dec. 2024)

We really need those that work at Target Corporate , UHC, Best Buy corporate, US bank, Medtronic, Cargill, Optum, and whatever corporations that have big offices here… We really need you on Friday. Grind it all to a stop. Friday.

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If you're like me, I'm sure you have all sorts of out-of-town friends and family who are asking how they can help. @ziibiing.com put together this site which is so incredibly helpful. www.standwithminnesota.com

MLK was only 39 when he was killed. Growing up, I thought that was old. But I’m 43 now and I’m stunned by the burden he shouldered at such a young age. I’m also a lot more aware of how hard it is, at any age, to carry the hopes and dreams of an oppressed people on your shoulders, as so many do.

Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives

"Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn't radical. It is basic human decency." Read this crucial essay by @victorerikray.bsky.social and @hebagowayed.bsky.social:

Maybe leave your wedding rings or other sentimental/valuable jewelry at home for a bit. Thats where we are at.

I’d take eight thousand verbal assaults over being shot in the face once, thanks for playing

BREAKING: China's economy expanded at a 5% annual pace in 2025, buoyed by strong exports despite Trump’s tariffs.

jesus FUCKING christ They think they're so clever with this bullshit They also think we're so stupid And that alone is disqualifying ISTG, if they don't shut him up and get him off-camera, they're going to lose a generation's worth of elections

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

Those immigrant wives *are* wives PRECISELY because they are controllable and because they are *abuseable*, and they have no recourse. Men like that deliberately seek out wives like that, specifically for that reason.

look he's seen the polling, this is not a statement about what's effective, it's a statement about what they want to be committed to doing with power should they win. if they run on opposing ICE then they'll have to actually oppose ICE. this is ideology masquerading as electoral strategy

Schumer is a liability and must be replaced

ICE agents. are putting. stuffed animals. on dashboards. to fool children. into thinking. they won't be kidnapped.

Activists interrupted the service of a Southern Baptist church in St. Paul, MN, today to protest that one of the pastors is the acting director of the nearby ICE field office: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/protesters...

Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.

A Venezuelan couple came to Jane Graupman’s office sobbing over unknown fate of their son who had been taken away by agents. “They were getting ready for work and all of a sudden their house was surrounded by men with drawn guns saying ‘It’s just some paperwork… www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/5...

There's no return to status quo normalcy the day after Trump (or Vance) is gone. That is only the start of a period, for some years, of reconstruction to establish a new constitutional settlement. And that means, by necessity, extraordinary measures not necessarily intended to be permanent features.

can we just quickly clear up an often repeated idea that Minneapolis is a “small city of 500k” or the “47th largest city in the US”? it is directly connected to st. paul, a city of 400,000. with the suburbs, the metro area is over 3.5 million people. your city won’t be safer because it is bigger.

These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.

I know whistles are much smaller and easier to carry around, but wouldn’t it be great if Minnesotans got out their recorders from elementary school and just annoyed the shit out of ICE by playing terrible renditions of Hot Cross Buns?

The only way Palestinians have been able to consistently get Israel's & the West's attention is violence. Terrible violence. Heinous violence that's killed babies & grandmas & destroyed homes & in 2023, whole communities. And guess what. Humans mostly keep doing the one thing that works. 12/

Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped from Minneapolis. He was my neighbor and he died in an American concentration camp. He was not "illegal," he was a human being made in the image of the divine. May his memory be a blessing, and may the rest of us fight like hell until we stop this brutality.

Tragically, we are still being told to wash our hands only (and yes we should wash our hands, especially as the virus can cause immune dysregulation, opening us up to many other infections) BUT it’s airborne. It was known to be airborne from the outset. No wonder folks thought FRSM (surgical masks)

It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo