This is Minneapolis: In normal times, our kids like to count the # of dogs they see when we travel places. Now they count ICE OUT signs. On our short trip to dinner on Lake St. tonight they counted over 70.

There has been no de-escalation. Case in point: MPS is continuing to offer online learning through April 6. 💔

Check it out #bikesky: Unpaid Agitators Cycling Club tee from Rhythmus. 100% of profits heading to Immigrant Rapid Response Fund to support their work in MN: www.rhythmus.equipment/store/p/unpa...

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

This is Minneapolis: I’m headed to D.C. for work today. On the way to the airport I coordinate rides for 2 neighbors who need urgent medical care but can’t leave their home w/o a white neighbor to look out for them. I’m free to travel while my BIPOC neighbors shelter in place. This is not ok.

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"Alex was one of us, could’ve been any of us, so as we mourn, all of us can come together in unity to remember Alex for what he was." Join us for a memorial ride, 10am Saturday at Rockridge BART. There will be donations requested for local Bay Area ICE defense networks & for Minneapolis orgs.

This is Minneapolis: Thousands of families are at risk of eviction bc they haven't been able to work in weeks & don't have $ for rent. I heard about a family where "the son, who had access to the online account to pay rent, was abducted recently" so they don't have access to their account now. 💔

ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk

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Google DeepMind staffers are pressing leadership on their plans to safeguard the 3,000-person unit from ICE agents. "As we have seen, government agency tactics can change and escalate quite rapidly. With offices in many metro areas across the US, are we prepared?" Scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social

‘I was simply luckier’: Holocaust survivors warn against forgetting Nazi atrocities

Added license plate car reporting to the crowdtalkie.com app. Also re-enabled the Command Center features so that multiple rooms can coordinate.

We've raised a lot of money for my school community neighbors. And I predict all of it will be depleted by the end of this week. If you're in a position to donate, please help: paypal.me/lyndalepto (donations are tax deductible) 3/3

This is Minneapolis: My neighbors are so desperate for food that delivered boxes of food are being picked up by other (presumably hungry apartment neighbors) before the intended recipient can open their door & take it inside. Folks are at risk of eviction bc they haven't been able to work. 1/3

This is happening across my neighborhood (& further). 7 weeks in to this federal occupation, many neighbors are out of food & at risk of eviction. I don’t know how else to sound the alarm. Things are dire. NOW. We need ICE out & eviction moratorium and more support to keep folks fed & housed.

Damn proud of Minnesota.

RIP Alex Pretti One of us. American.

🎁 link www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We were just sent Alex’s GoFundMe.

My mom called me crying about the shooting and said “you don’t become a nurse unless you wanted to help, he just wanted to help people” and my heart broke all over again.

Murder. ICE pushed the woman. Dude tried to help woman, ICE agent came in with pepper spray.

There because of “massive monetary fraud”? It was violent rioters yesterday

Abolish ICE. Get them out of our cities.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

Ben Damberg protest volunteer: “None of us want to be doing this — I don’t, but we simply cannot stand by as other Minnesotans are being hurt — we will march, we will protest, & we will do it all peacefully above all else”

Kayla Harren is an incredibly talented illustrator of children’s books. This one hit me harder than any of her other work. 💔

After reading stories and watching videos in the last few weeks, I decided that I can't sit on the sidelines to wait for ICE to raid my sons' schools. I implemented the features described in the following blog post into the www.crowdtalkie.com site for more secure, more robust communications.

Sacramento: www.mobilize.us/indivisibles...

Getting a new incident command system styled hierarchy in place for larger operations: www.crowdtalkie.com More UI updates and functionality improvements coming very soon.

Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family. gofund.me/be8a1b2ab

🧵ICE's tactics for arresting and holding observers and protestors is ever-shifting, and I'm hearing lots of different stories. Right now, my perspective is that these are your best practices:

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

Demo of the new crowdtalkie.com tool: Use it to help keep protests and other small events organized and safe.

This is Minneapolis: I’m at a major healthcare clinic (just here for a friend) and overheard the front desk staff mention they’ve had 97 missed appointments today. People aren’t getting medical care bc they’re afraid to leave home.

Built a more secure mesh networking communication tool. Trying to help folks stay safe. craigmerry.com/blog/2026-01...

The way he turns and looks at the camera when he says "good luck walking to work assholes"

Ahh much better. Switched from webRTC to a mesh system. Completely decentralized. antifascistfunbrigade.com

This is remarkable (not the hi-vis so much as the post). One of the reasons military uniforms are distinctive is to distinguish them from the civilian population. No matter what the right wants to insist, CPB and ICE are law enforcement and thus, legally, civilians.

Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...

Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

Probably usable now

Trying to tie in geographical location when someone reports certain incidents. Chat/voice still has a few bugs

Still debugging but wrote up why I built the Flash Protest tool: craigmerry.com/blog/2026-01...

Decided to go with a neo-punk aesthetic. Still getting patched up and tested with the new flash protest communication tool.

A few issues that I can probably fix tonight. This is a flash protest communication tool. I saw neighbors and citizens of Minneapolis concerned about their neighbors and want to help them have the tools to stay safe. antifascistfunbrigade.com/flash-protest/