People freaking out about the insurrection act being invoked need to calm down. Trump is deeply underwater with ICE deployments as it is. Having the military go in and shoot at unarmed protesters in Minneapolis will not go the way he thinks and it will be the beginning of the end for his regime.

Please stop trying to romance the Deathclaws. You can load up Skyrim and marry Shahvee, Derkeethus, or Scouts-Many-Marshes instead. #Fallout #Fallout4 #Deathclaw

Mission failed successfully. #TheElderScrolls #Oblivion

So ~1 week after they killed Renee Good, ICE chased a man, shot and injured him reportedly through the door of a home, then blanketed a majority Black neighborhood in a tremendous amount of chemical weapons and flash grenades in the middle of the night. That's where we're at.

we don’t have an opposition party, we have an accomplice party that says “yes, but with modifications”

Thinking about how incredulous people were back when Saddam Hussein gassed his own people.

The fascist playbook is always the same. Create chaos through targeted violence. Use the existence of that violence as a justification and rationale for implementing autocratic rule to end the violence and chaos they caused.

the american woman yearns for small unit tactics and comprehensive logistical support

Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms. www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

He threw a grenade into a car full of kids because the US does not have a track record of punishing cops who do that. It *does* have a track record of permanently blinding people with point blank less lethal rounds to the head for protesting stuff like that.

Even without the government having *just* dropped their social media post going "remember, you have federal immunity, you can do whatever you want to these people" The ICE guy who threw a grenade into a car full of kids had a full expectation of not being held accountable

Since then, both parties relentlessly expanded police and ICE budgets and power, refused to hold them to account, teargassed people protesting them for killing people, etc.

Holding ICE accountable for literally throwing grenades at babies, would be a hell of a lot easier if the US had a track record of holding cops accountable for throwing grenades at babies. That one case happened in 2014, 12 years of gleefully bipartisan expansion of the police state ago.

bsky.app/profile/pook... In this specific case, of many, the cops told the parents the baby had lost a tooth, not that the baby was *in critical condition*

When people inevitably go "throwing grenades at babies is NOT who we are, ICE is NOT acting like legitimate law enforcement" etc: Cops have a long history of throwing grenades at babies. Without any consequence.

There is quite literally nothing more American than protesting violent "military" occupation by a government that no longer represents the will of the people whom it serves.

Hans Zimmer is doing the score to HBO's Harry Potter show. Another one bites the dust

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.

And zinc chloride gas yikes if it wasn’t already obvious the US government is committing crimes against humanity in the US, it’s hard to see this as anything else

For those if you not from MN, get organized locally ASAP! Whether it's a local mutual aid group, DSA, an immigrant defense network, or even starting with a group chat of trusted neighbors. You need to be ready if and when DHS decides to invade your city

Everyone's like 'Oh Britain sent *one guy* to Greenland - that'll stop the Green Berets lololol'. That dude's there to straight up *die* if shit pops off. He's a landmine that the US can't step on because it will mean war with all of Europe.

Virginia's legislative session only started yesterday, and it was a very big day. The House already passed four constitutional amendments on Day 1: —protect abortion rights —repeal the same-sex marriage ban —allow mid-decade redistricting —greatly expand voting rights restoration. Next: Senate.

In Louisiana, a man drowned being chased by ICE agents. www.nola.com/news/crime_p...

the president has declared war on an american state and the leaders of the opposition wont shut the fuck up about retraining the stormtroopers

Conservatives Say Renée Good Was Brainwashed By Bible Into Loving Thy Neighbor https://theonion.com/conservatives-say-renee-good-was-brainwashed-by-bible-into-loving-thy-neighbor/

This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.

What a fucking clown.

Stage 5 pundit-brain is watching an innocent woman being killed by agents of the state and going, "hmm this says a lot about the urban-rural divide in America."

i think this gets at something important which is that normal people are rightly pissed off that they’re having normal time stolen from them by this ravaging horde of jumped up mall cops. everybody has to work in the morning! why is it THEIR job to hold their community together in such a basic way!

“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”

I feel duped.

Fellas, is it cunty to bleed?

jesus christ even looking at this gives me the Fear

begging people not to preemptively hand Trump powers he does not have and has no practical means of accomplishing the scope of his actual abuses is quite bad enough on its own

Minneapolis, avoid the green gas. archive.is/qKlnw

there's no situation in which this is not a hideous fucking crime no imminent danger no risk to life they are lawless and should be treated as such

bruh moment

“in jurisdictions where it is illegal”

Got booking info forms, DNA request and database forms, the immigration judges, instructions on how to book their hotel I literally im losing it yall this is insans

We called to defund police and y’all called *us* extremists.

I’m serious about this. Please believe me when I tell you, there is ✨always✨ a better option than summoning cops into your home.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

"Nuts!"

Even the questions would tear it apart. "Would you favor firing all of the ICE members who are guilty of crimes, failed exams, part of hate groups, and don't meet any criteria for law enforcement." "Well..." "Because that's all of them."

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

In case you missed it - The awesome @ziibiing.com created a website from the google doc of places in MN that could use help. One stop shopping! ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/ziib...

We are in fact DESPERATE for winter coats, waterproof gloves, and good boots. We get so many wonderful donations but it is so cold and the numbers of unhoused unsheltered people are going up at the absolute worst time for it, and we run out of coats weekly.