Flashbangs burn hotter then lava. They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed. *That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids. Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com: www.propublica.org/article/flas...

Interview with parents who had a car full of kids, including an infant, tear gassed and flashbanged by ICE last night.

The violence is already in the streets you muppet. The residents of the city are trying to protect themselves from it with zero help from you.

hell is watching the general public rediscover the many benefits of face masks every few months and choose anything but actual PPE

Please stop platforming Minneapolis’ piss boy mayor. Every tragedy, he emerges from some downtown gutter to cry on national television that only he should be able to murder the people of Minneapolis with zero consequences. He alone controls our police force. If he wanted ICE gone, they’d be gone.

I still don’t have words. Minneapolis, I love you so much. We will win but at far too great a cost.

this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test" when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter it's diagnostic

Update: Katie just called me. She is being held by Homeland Security at the Whipple Federal Building down by the airport. They have not told her anything. No word on release, no word on charges. Nothing. Ridiculous. But she is fine and in good spirits. Her attorney is en route there right now.

Between probably losing his tariffs case and the NYC election, I’m mentally bracing for some new and horrifying Trump tantrum

Reminder that in Minnesota, you have the right to vote on the same day you register. We are not a voter ID state. You can vote if you've lived in Minnesota for 20 days and are old enough: www.sos.mn.gov/elections-vo... Your neighbor/friend can also vouch for you.

Does anyone on here have the design skills to turn this into a poster for me that can be printed 8.5 by 11 and also blown up larger? council.nyc.gov/districts/pr... - I need to be able to create a blown up poster version of this for an ongoing organizing campaign.

If you were at the No Kings events, please wear a mask for the next few days. Covid is not over. You can infect others before you feel symptomatic. People are losing their healthcare. They’re losing their food assistance. They’re losing housing. We need to protect each other.

Thread on ICE in holland, Northeast Minneapolis the morning of 10/10/2025.

Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition. A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

Finally made it to an Axe-Man. What a menagerie of odd things and good vibes

Cuomo’s base is the same as Mayor Frey’s. They prioritize corporations over working people. Frey’s campaign isn’t about abundance. It’s about vetoing a historic city budget for workers, disinvested communities, immigrants + BIPOC residents, and unhoused residents. www.axios.com/local/twin-c...

If they’re Christian, they’re “devout”. If they’re Muslim, they’re “radical”.

New: led by Senator @wyden.senate.gov and Rep. @aoc.bsky.social, members of Congress are demanding Palantir answer questions about their federal contracts following our NYT story last month: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/t...

Minnesota Appellate Court Watch: a major tenants' rights decision came down today. In a *precedential* opinion, the Court of Appeals ruled that (1) landlords may not lock tenants out even in cases of damage to a property, and (2) courts may award replacement housing and consequential dmgs in an ETRA

I cannot emphasize enough how brave this small group of protesters was today. ICE showed up at Chicago’s immigration court with more agents, vehicles, and gear than they’ve ever brought in the past—spoiling for a fight.

has anyone else noticed a massive uptick in scammy accounts reposting other creators’ animal rescue content? with paypal links in bio to fundraise for more “rescues”?

The armed, yellow-vested "peacekeepers" at the Utah 50501 protest in Salt Lake City opened fire into a crowd, hitting two people: A Sāmoan fashion designer with two young kids, who died. A second-generation Venezuelan immigrant and antiracist protester who was legally carrying. Cops charged HIM.

This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."

ummmm, sibley county, eagan, and maple grove all under shelter in place?

My local taco truck has been missing and I’m concerned about their employees :(

The discourse about how to protest right is a distraction from what the protests are actually about: SECURITY FORCES CAME IN THE NIGHT AND TOOK 2000 PEOPLE AWAY Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The cost of “less lethal” weapons is written on the faces of so many journalists and citizens in Minneapolis from 2020. Lost eyes, TBIs.

I hope folks in MN recognize that we could very well be included in the scope of this order. Be safe. Speak up.

Now Hegseth is saying that the active duty Marines at Camp Pendleton are on alert to come in if the National Guard isn’t enough. The U.S. government is ready to unleash our own military on civilians. It is definitely time to be frightened about what is happening here.

If you want to show solidarity with Los Angeles, the best thing to do is organize protests against ICE tonight/tomorrow in your own cities. Search the web for ICE rapid response networks in your own city / state and sign up. Help your neighbors.

Video from about an hour ago as less than lethal rounds are being used against protesters in Southern California

The Pencil Sharpening today caused unplanned, chaotic traffic stoppage around half the lake and adjacent cross streets (26th - 24th). No marshals. Cars abandoned in the driving lane. Thinking about Wince Way and how many of the same people condemned us standing in the streets to protest a murder.

Posting for @acatwithnews.bsky.social, who is out in Paramount, CA, where federal agents reportedly are conducting ICE raids, and have completely gassed out the neighborhood Photos from Sean, who understandably cannot post updates right away.

This is exactly why we were saying defund the police. The police are the vanguard of authoritarian regimes.

Happening right now in Southern #California, ICE continues attacking people.

tomorrow!

when you see fences under bridges or iron bars blocking sidewalks or mountains of rubble in empty lots, please remember that someone was surviving there but their government preferred them dead

“nobody wants to have thoughtful discussions anymore” nobody wants to have them with YOU

no acknowledgement or empathy for a people that it was 4 years before to the day that federal police forces (with deputized local police) killed Winston Smith under the guise of some opaque federal operation. - that is not leadership, that is failure. the same repeated failure.

the company line from the Mayor and his dopey police sychophant surrogates, is that misinformation from activists escalated the trauma and panic of yesterday. No. Military vehicles, long guns, covered masked faces and jungle fatigues looking like a junta escalated panic and fear

In the ongoing confusion of what happened yesterday, ICE has released a statement confirming they were there (which was already confirmed by eyewitnesses) and listing "state and local law enforcement" and a host of federal agencies as assisting ICE. (1/2) www.kare11.com/article/news...

This is a particularly important point For further reading on this, consult sources on Foucault's Boomerang, the Imperial Boomerang, etc See also: War is a Racket by Smedley Butler for a critique of the profit incentive of all this, too. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperia...

20+ squads going south on 94 through near north, another squad going south through industrial North 2nd

Mpls isn’t having it. #AbolishIce

Hey Minneapolis, heads up looks like ice is staging near Bloomington and 29th in southside. If you are able go record them let’s see the gestapos faces on film. This is the area near Mercado central and other busy spaces in that area of the city.

My least favorite genre of posts is the "Why didn't they beat his ass" reply to a video of punks peacefully ejecting a boomer wearing a nazi t-shirt from a concert. Second guessing people on the ground is counter-productive. They got him out. The concert went on, no bad optics, no cop raid.

one thing the Dem establishment doesn’t understand is that Rogan is *downstream* of the right-wing misinformation machine. he doesn’t originate reactionary conspiracies, he absorbs them, and that’s why he turned toward Trump