I was out for a walk today, and someone confirmed that ICE was spotted disappearing everyone in a house in this area (it's now empty), and separately, a bunch of unmarked vehicles surrounded another house in this area. If you think 'sanctuary city' means ICE isn't here, you'd be wrong.

I’m a leftist.

Every big police union endorsed him, and he saved some of his most violent rhetoric for appearances in front of law enforcement.

We get to write what that future looks like. Dreaming is critical resistance.

No.

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

While Mayor Frey and Chief O’Hara have attempted to claim that MPD only showed up at the ICE action on June 3rd to assist with crowd control, ICE agents certainly saw MPD’s actions differently. In fact, the ICE Special Agent in Charge emailed O’Hara to say thank you that same day.

Pritzker is offering the following at the moment: 1. Trust the courts. [not a viable strategy] 2. "Film the cops" 3. Vote in 2026 4. Protest [peacefully] And he knows this is not sufficient. Everyone does. He will not address the local cops angle because he might be deposed...

Alrighty, Antifa regulars. I'm not a tactician. I'm not anyone, really. But I am a generalist: I know enough about just about everything from the banal to the arcane to connect a lot of dots.

Well fuck them then.

This is not okay. Everyone should be standing against the intense islamophobia and anti Somali hate we are seeing in our city. Please speak out and stand against the fomenting of hate. Thanks CP & Senator for taking action.

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100% THIS!

Folks who tell you that it’s okay to temporarily sacrifice a marginalized group in order to win Do not care about the marginalized group

Reminder that "criminal" is a meaningless category. Some of the best people I've ever known have been "criminals" and "felons." Donald Trump is a shitheel because he's a lying white supremacist queerphobic ableist neo-confederate scumbag, not because he's a criminal.

Fuck no. That was horrific.

Deeply examine your definitions/understandings of "violence" & who you allow to enact violence VS who you vilify for resistance. Because striking back at systems isn't violence, it's resistance/defense. DEFEND ONE ANOTHER.

#WholeFoods #Amazon #ICE Let's be sure the appropriate corporations get credit for funding this.

The politicians are not on your side.

It's a battle of wills with a dude in a frog suit doing pelvic thrusts. Do you know how much psychic damage that does?

Doing this is a form of complying in advance. You're already spreading fascist narratives about who resists & how + actions taken by the fascists. Stop.

Yes, they'll use whatever they can. They'll also say a nonviolent protest was violent. They'll also beat you and arrest you and then say you hit them first (as police traditionally have at protests). I'm not saying some actions won't be used against people, I'm saying that narrative happens anyway.

Fuck Gavin Newsom. No I'm not voting for him.

Glad to be working with UMedics on a protester health and safety training tomorrow. We need more of these around the city. We’ve got great street medics in Chicago, but we’ve learned lately that we need more people to know the basics of how to care for each other in protest scenarios.

Walkable cities are perfect for busy people/families. I had a 45 min break between work calls & wanted to fit in a quick walk. My wife pointed out we still needed a grocery item for dinner. I walked 10 mins to the co op and took the long way home. And I got to pet a cute dog on the walk home!

If you’re a Wells Fargo customer, maybe you shouldn’t be.

Minnesotans 🧵

anyway I shouldn't have to be yelling at the fucking Democratic party in my state to pull their heads out of their asses while the Supreme Court is hearing arguments about whether or not it's legal to psychologically (and sometimes physically!) torture people like me! What the fuck are we even doing

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

So Kare11 just walked by and it appears someone is distributing racist flyers and that’s the important news story in and around Merriam Park. Just… what the hell.

i’m gonna say it it’s extremely antisocial to post ”OH MY FUCKING GOD” “NOOO” etc with no context in this time. you are grandma texting all of us (”call me, we need to talk”). and you don‘t have age or tech literacy to excuse you. cut it out.

Now apply this reasoning to the police, and look at how many people they put in cages.

Colorblind is literally a racist dog whistle.

If I was the Minnesota DFL, I would simply not kick myself in the nuts repeatedly for no reason

Yeah, it’s almost like all of the media language about protests becoming violent is absolute bullshit, and the government is the real instigator of said violence.

When an email starts out like this, there’s no way it’s going to be good

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

I'm off the frontline of protest for a minute, so I will be doing ICE patrols this week. There is always something to do, always a way to plug in.

Being cruel and bulldozing encampments does not help people. It just disperses them and forces them to start over with gathering needed documents and makes it harder for social workers to find them to actually help. Frey's policies are simply cruelty for cruelty's sake.

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Theory: they’re complicit in fucking over working Americans while pretending to have their backs.

Remember our "Free Speech Zones," Minneapolis? & curfews?

Pay attention please

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MN DFL doing everything they can to ensure red minnesota in 2026 because they hate DSA so much. seems bad to me but what do i know

Funny how antifa is a terrorist organization now.🤔

ICE pepper spraying the Chicago PD should be a wake up call, if it isn’t, you’re willfully ignorant at this point.

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Back Marvina if you can. I want to see what she can do with proper resources.