The ACLU is raising alarm over a facial recognition app loaded onto the smartphones of immigration agents to identify and arrest people. "It's being used on the street in ways that are dangerous, that are totally unprecedented in this country, and that are, frankly, blatantly illegal."

“Reform is inadequate. It just needs to be shut down.”

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

From Mary Oliver's "Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems."

"If I hear one more people say the gestapo—I'm like "who do you think they learned from?? The Nazis studied american racist practices! They're slave catchers."" @theferocity.bsky.social on Vibe Check telling the truth about ICE, cops, and the Minnesota National Guard. www.vibecheckpod.com

I'm like the opposite of a renaissance man, a redeath woman.

Lately I've been thinking a lot about Narciso Barranco. Kidnapped on the clock, with his weed whacker laying nearby as he's pinned down and punched over and over again by state sponsored terrorists. abcnews.go.com/US/santa-ana...

I just @warren.senate.gov a voicemail imploring her to defund and abolish ICE. If you're a fellow constituent you can do the same! (If you're not you can call too, but it's far more useful to call your local politicians.) Call her here: 1-202-224-4543.

There are so many lives to honor and grieve and name. An abundance of them are here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

🕊️ “I’m Not Mad At You” by Harry Welty This snow sculpture by Harry Welty in Duluth is a memorial for Renee Nicole Good, who was tragically killed in Minneapolis earlier this month. The sign on the snow-car features her own words: “I’m not mad at you.”

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

There was a protest yesterday at ICE’s children’s detention center: “He heard what sounded like ‘hundreds of children’ shouting, with voices he described as ‘high-pitched’ and ‘urgent.’ He said he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting ‘Libertad.’”

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Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

With the current situation in Minneapolis, let’s not forget the Prairieland Defendants who deserve more eyes and support. They’re facing decades in prison and a hostile judge over holding a noise demonstration outside of a detention facility. www.givesendgo.com/supportdfwpr...

Chicago!!

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Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."

Timeline cleanse? Sorry, all I got is this soothing shot of the sun setting above elk antlers.

Don't forget about Keith Porter abc7.com/post/keith-p...

70 years after the 1936 Berlin Olympics

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION (NBPA) AND ITS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON THE FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS BY ICE

🎶 People in the United States have been getting treated this way the whole time 🎶 It’s not a boomerang, it‘s an expansion

Here is a drawing I did, color pencil on cardboard. Abolish ICE.

I have never witnessed such a spiderweb of collective action, just average everyday people showing up. Not the heroism we’ve been sold by the movies but collective heroism, a fabric of care and resistance to fascism.

if you read enough history you understand that the very best people, following their instincts, tend to make themselves targets in times like these.

“Please get the truth out about our son.” Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.

DANCE MUSIC IS PROTEST MUSIC

Live music is medicine. Bless LaMP and The Sinclair and the gift of a body that can dance its ass off.

One of my fellow observers invested in a GoPro and body mount which is very smart. It's not just about ease/safety of recording, but it also lets her have free hands for messaging and coordination. Not feasible for everyone, but I have to think we'll see more folks taking the same approach.

YOUR PHONE CALLS TO THE SENATE ARE WORKING. KEEP CALLING. 202–224-3121 Three Democrats who previously broke with the party and voted with the GOP are now saying they will not vote for the bill. That’s enough for the bill to be unpassable right now.

THIS IS TRUE.

Huge vigil for Alex Pretti in south Minneapolis right now. Thousands calling for ICE to leave the city. “This is not another damn vigil yall. This is a turning point.”

Q: They defied a search warrant this morning. Do you think they'll abide by a federal court order? FREY: Everybody listen to that question. The question is 'will this administration abide by a court order.' These are the underpinnings of our democracy and Constitution. The answer better be yes.

We are not going to let them pull a "this person was no angel" when it turns out the next person they kill was maybe kind of a jerk, or used drugs, or had a violent past, or wasn't loved by all who knew them. You don't have to be perfect to deserve to live.

It's always a good time to listen to this song. youtube.com/watch?v=E-z9... #nowlistening

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

They're going to keep shooting nurses and poets, parents and neighbors dead in the streets, and every single time they do it they will concoct a lie to justify what they've done. The fact that people know this, and still stand up to them, scares them absolutely shitless.

every single one of them should spend the rest of their fucking lives looking over their shoulder for the guy who's coming to kidnap them and drag them in front of a tribunal.

Seth Moulton is calling for ICE to be prosecuted in no uncertain terms. This is becoming a foundational political agreement for anyone seeing to oppose the regime. We need the broadest possible coalition all united about the necessity of caging these fucking monsters.

Really sick of the armchair communists complaining that folks in MN aren't mowing down ICE agents with machine guns. They're doing more for their communities than some random dweeb who fantasizes about some kind of Bolveshik-style revolution. Shut the fuck up.

With the video of ICE murdering Alex Pretti circulating, and constant updates that don't actually provide any information, it's useful to remember: Look But Don't Stare Being informed and aware is important. Being traumatised by footage of a murder isn't. It is okay to not absorb everything.

It is time we lead ourselves into the well It is time now, and what a time to be alive In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love youtu.be/k4xhQcgyoLk?... #nowlistening

Minnesota nice (except for ICE).

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...