why’s is everyone nostalgic for 2016 are you crazy

My current big politics hot take is "the Wide Awakes should come back"

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

This dude is intense and correct

today's spectacular violence seems an attempt from the right to content farm their way out of this plain reality: "Four recent polls...suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated in demonstrations" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

from a thread by a historian of Reconstruction. this bit seems key

Deine Papiere, bitte

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

this is war. I don't know why this isn't the language that everyone uses. The Feds are waging war on civilians.

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

there's a desperation to slam the lid shut on our teetering democratic system. theres an urgency because they fear, probably correctly, that their existence has become such that a society of free people can no longer tolerate them. it's their pile of money or us, and they're choosing their money

no longer content to just take your money, a handful of oligarchs, many of them immigrants to these shores, are now taking whats left of your freedom and political power. the very idea that you might have a say in your local government or sit unmolested in your home is offensive to them

Zac Kinney shared this photo from the second of two ICE deportation flights at MSP today - one of the 47 deportees was still in their Amazon uniform. (I counted 127 deportees on the first flight)

my man, you’re talking about the people who killed George Floyd

Renee Good, by all accounts, was a radiantly compassionate person who believed deeply in cultivating care for ourselves and others. Honor her memory by reading her wife’s remembrance of her life, and by not letting jackboots menace or terrorize you with footage of her death.

"To understand why Healey is praising Trump, you need to understand that she is not a liberal or progressive—she is a cop....Her ideology is cop." - @andrewqmr.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/maura-healey...

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.

they have plenty of goons unless people decide to make that number insufficient but right now? they have all the goons they need

Every single one of them, cowards wearing plate carriers when facing people holding nothing more than snowballs.

Portland Police Press conference on the shooting of 2 Portlanders: -DHS said the victims had been involved with a shooting. Nope! -But they were def part of Tren de Aragua -actually no -But TdA is real and active in Portland -We can't name single crime TdA has been involved with in this city

ICE Out of Massachusetts Protest. This Saturday, January 10. 2 pm. JFK Federal Building (next to Boston City Hall). www.lucemass.org #JusticeForReneeGood

I share the fury @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social expresses here at Biden and other centrist Dems for squandering the best opportunity we've had in decades to weaken police power in America. And all the pro-police rhetoric didn't help electorally either. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-conseq...

I’ve heard from multiple friends today about daycares being raided and parents being ripped out of cars (in one case with a child left behind in the backseat). Grim times here.

wow really helpful, thank you new york times

Next commenter remarks on the kidnapping of an 11 year old in Little Village and how no parent can rely on the police to protect their children. Crowd is uproarious. Chanting, "who do you serve? Who do you protect?" Two CPD officers are watching from behind the bar in the back.

Do not post about crimes you plan to commit or post suggestions for crimes you want other people to commit

there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school

A Minneapolis pastor of an MCC church — a denomination rooted in LGBTQ equality — recounts being detained by ICE. Says an ICE officer walked up to him as he was chanting “we are not afraid.” The agent, he says, raised his gun and said “are you afraid now?” m.youtube.com/watch?v=lcSO...

What a beautiful life snuffed out for the absolute worst reasons. How many more? What’s the limit of our patience, our indifference, our cowardice, our complacency? Who will answer for the stolen years, parents, children, lovers, the gaping wounds left in our communities by these butchers?

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

There are no short cuts. I'm sorry. There is only long term, consistent, and disciplined organizing.

Minneapolis Public Schools on Wednesday canceled classes for the remainder of the week “due to safety concerns” Why? Reported use of chemical munitions and alleged wanton use of brute force Via @mprnews.org

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning. “SAY HER NAME!” “RENEE GOOD!”

Renee Nicole Good was identified as the woman murdered by ICE. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."

it is wholly in the best interests of power if you’re so weary of your endless misery scroll that your nerves are numbed, they want you to experience the video of the killing as a roughly equivalent nuisance to their AI slop posts jeering about wokeness

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

MPR playing an eye witness account right now of ICE shooting directly through the windshield at her face and not giving her medical care for 10 minutes.

FYI: The Star Tribune's live coverage of the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE agent Wednesday in south Minneapolis is outside the paywall and free for all readers www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

We don't have to live like this.

The design of this bumper sticker, which you can see all over the bay area, hasn't changed in over 30 years, because unfortunately it has never not been relevant.

The Canadian government celebrates the US committing the crime of aggression against Venezuela, in violation of international law and the UN Charter, even as it calls for respect for international law. I’m not surprised: Carney took a similar approach when the US illegally attacked Iran last year.

Demonstrators set US flag on fire on Place de la République in Paris during the rally against the American military intervention in Venezuela.