Please don't accuse people in knitted hats of only wearing their supposed politics if all you're doing is posting, which is basically just another way of wearing your politics. It's a silly thing to attack people over in any case. Using fashion to signal support for ongoing acts of rebellion is good

My latest at @thebarbedwire.com ... I spent weeks interviewing current and former students, faculty, nonprofits and others about the way queer campus life has suffered over the past 2 years and how, in some cases, community members have stepped up to help.

This was a massive undertaking by @kitoconnell.com, and we’re very proud of how it turned out. There are maps, lists of universities impacted, and tons of stellar quotes.

@ovaettr.gay DM'd you :)

Want to re-emphasize what this bill does. It implements a $1,000 bounty for anyone to sue someone they suspect is trans and using the bathroom.

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Kenneth Zucker, one of the researchers on this study previously published a research paper where he asked adults to rate the physical attractiveness of children. Just to give you an idea of the types of people behind this m

The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization. This is no different. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...

One thing I realized is the timing of the pol board being opened after the Epstein meeting is that it occurred one month into the occupy wall street protests that 4chan played a role in promoting and organizing. It's like the oligarch class wanted to takeover that ability to serve their interests.

“I’m here to raise my voice for myself, for my friends, and all the children that have been unjustly incarcerated. There shouldn’t be cages for children.” Protests of ‘Abolish ICE’ Reach Texas Dems as Trump’s Agents Count the Holes in the Dead via @deceleration.news

wait, so Visa, Mastercard et. al can go after video game storefronts for six fucking months for having porn games but the moment X/Grok starts generating ACTUAL CHILD PORN they CHANGE THEIR POLICIES? dawg,

Are you inadvertently supporting companies that support ICE? Know before you spend: These 10+ companies profit from their partnerships with ICE. spendingspotlight.org/the-spot/pos...

Reminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain “bugs,” dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.

I promise that it's by happy accident that I wrote this after @kitoconnell.com's amazing profile, which you should ALSO go read and share because Kit is awesome: thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/21/b...

I spoke to Waco's Kaleb Blain, a transgender pitmaster working to create space for trans people in Texas BBQ. After being doxxed, attacked online and let go from Terry Black's, he's now forging his own path: "I have to do this for the rest of my life." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

New for @thebarbedwire.com's Big & Bright 🌈⭐👏: Meet Waco's transgender BBQ pitmaster, who's going viral for his outspoken, antifascist TikTok videos. Kaleb told us he lost his job at Terry Black's after being doxed after Charlie Kirk's death, but that hasn't stopped his big smoked meat dreams ...

I'm still researching the effects of Sb17, the college anti-diversity law that closed resource centers for LGBTQ+ people (among others) at Texas public universities. Get in touch with me if you were affected by these closures.

Watching Reddit turn on ICE is interesting. Everything from porn to cute cat subreddits posting anti-ICE messages. Sorry, not sorry to ICE nazis who like to look at cats with curled tails or cuckolding or whatever without being reminded that you're evil.

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

I'm proud as fuck of the people I know here but also miss the days of Norm shitposting and talk of big sandwich parties and it wasn't that long ago we had a chat on my stoop when he brought me Thanksgiving dinner and now . . . this is where so many people are when we'd rather be living our lives.

I am seeing quite a few nurses calling for a nationwide strike over the killing of Alex Pretti. I think we are seeing one of the largest workforces being radicalized before our very eyes.

They've physically attacked, smeared, and antagonized nurses, cooks, waiters, teachers, children, priests, judges, veterans, gun owners, and the police. What's next for these geniuses? Firefighters? Secretaries? The lady in the Elsa costume at Disney World?

“He cared about people deeply, and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset. He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express that, you know, his care for others.”

The officer who fatally shot a Minneapolis man during a protest is an 8-year Border Patrol veteran, federal officials say.

The man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis this morning has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

Dems have to vote this down this might not be the fight you want but this is the fight you have, they’re killing people in the streets and smearing the victims, they are totally out of control meet the moment because it is coming to meet you whether you like it or not

I’m so sick of people throwing their hands up and saying abolishing ICE isn’t possible right now. Abolishing ICE is extremely popular and calls to do so will only continue to grow, meanwhile conservatives manage to do incredibly unpopular things all the time because nobody stops them

The same people who pushed for states to be open carry are the ones saying having a gun on you (if that's even true) is grounds to be murdered by state agents.

ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing? ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW. I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.

Meanwhile, DHS is already formulating the cover-up.

The AP reports that an ICE officer responded to those protesting the cold blood murder this morning by mockingly saying, “‘Boo hoo.’” “Agents elsewhere shoved a yelling protester into a car.” apnews.com/article/immi...

Witnesses are being taken to Whipple. From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”

One day will be the last that they commit an execution in the streets and we can and must bring that day closer however we can

Live on MS NOW: Protesters are clashing right now with federal agents on the streets of Minneapolis. Agents are shooting tear gas. Agents have their weapons raised. Protesters are chanting, "SHAME! SHAME!"

The StarTribune live blog is paywall free: - The man shot by federal agents this morning has died - Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building. - ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

We have a masked death squad wandering our neighborhoods seemingly accountable to nobody but the President

The guy was being held down on the ground by like 6 scumbags and he was shot point blank while doubled over on his knees after the piece of shit pistol whipped him several times. Now you don’t have to watch.

@startribune.com now reporting on the shooting:

Andrea Pitzer, the scholar who wrote an entire history of concentration camps, has been very very clear about how in her literally expert opinion that term is entirely appropriate here

Concentration Camp: a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitation or punishment.

There is video circulating on social media of a group of ICE agents beating a man near 26th and Nicollet in south Minneapolis, then one of the ICE agents shoots the man while he's on the ground numerous times. A witness can be heard yelling that the victim is dead.

the video i just saw from minneapolis is a public execution, full stop.

Videos of an execution in Minneapolis are circulating, so remember to turn off autoplay if that's something you don't need to be watching x

Poster: When the Police Knock on Your Door (h/t @crimethinc.com) crimethinc.com/posters/when...

It's STFU Friday. Refresh the script 👇

I need to try his BBQ next time I go visit the mammoths in Waco.

#ICYMI, my latest for @thebarbedwire.com ...

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