A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

I wrote a quick piece about what it would really mean to abolish ICE

This is genuinely one of the best show hype ups we've ever gotten! Which makes it even more sad to say as of last night, we're postponing this show until further notice! Keith - you're an icon! See you all in the near future!

Two people were killed in your state. Numerous people were kidnapped. You stood by and let it happen. You asked ICE to 'leave.' You are governor. You used NONE of your powers against ICE. Instead, thousands of Minnesotans had to put their bodies on the line. What are you proud of? Your tweets?

I wonder if it has occurred to anyone at the Atlantic in this moment, that perhaps spending the past decade creating false equivalency between the avowed fascist movement on the right, and the college kids protesting fascists on college campuses was a mistake?

HEY PEOPLE IN 64A and 47A YOU HAVE A SPECIAL ELECTION TOMORROW. naomikritzer.com/2026/01/26/s...

Another murder in Minneapolis at the hands of the federal government. ICE needs to leave our City, and then be abolished immediately.

If pressed, I will do the heroic mayoral profanity thing where I tell ICE "get the fuck out of Mueller Park."

i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.

ICE may be shooting people in the face, sending people to concentration camps, and illegally occupying our cities but, apparently, the Democrats think saying, "abolish ICE" is "emotional" and politically "lethal."

More than 5,000 people here in Powderhorn Park protesting ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis. #FuckICE #iceout #mpls #FuckTrump

This has to be done at the state level. Local ordinances can't preempt state law, and it's state law that governs evictions. Governor Walz has the power to declare a state of emergency and issue an executive order pausing all evictions in Minneapolis, St. Paul, wherever. We did it during COVID!

Ellison and Walz should be in front of the cameras right away, making clear that FBI agents will be indicted on state charges if they destroy evidence or sabotage the investigation in any way.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

man fuck ice FUCK ICE!!!!!

Minnesota elected officials can either arrest this ICE-uniformed killer, in which case they are on the side of their murdered people, or they can choose not to arrest him, in which case they are not. I don't think it's more complicated than that. They have already waited an hour.

yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.

“I can see it now. Blue. A blue blue. A blue that makes itself clear.”

Cities97 has been playing the last two bars of the @maxmcnown01.bsky.social song “A Lot More Free” for over 7 minutes. lol methinks this is in error

lmao

Groove is stored in the heart

A song I produced just got reviewed! Check out No Promise (I'll Be Fine)!!

Listened to a lot of decemberists this week 😬

I think Minneapolitans gravitate to this kind of analysis because it inoculates them from their cognitive dissonance, easy to blame the far left, but having Fateh as an option did not force anyone back in the arms of Frey.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Thanks to everyone who came to our residency last month! 🦇❤️

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2021 was the year Jacob Frey learned the secret to his political success wouldn't be acquiring love or respect, it would be implementing the strategies contained in the classic thread: "Reddit, what's the best way to blame your farts on someone else?"

MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail was essentially written to Elizabeth Shaffer. "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

define your musical taste in eight artists 1 of Montreal 2 The B-52's 3 Laura Nyro 4 David Bowie 5 The Fiery Furnaces 6 Herbie Hancock 7 Fela Kuti 8 Jane Siberry

We have night 3 of our residency tonight and we'll be doing a brand new song!!!!

melting my mind with the new breakup tour album!!!!

OUR ALBUM IS OUT AT MIDNIGHT WTF

I'm happy with how this poster turned out for our october residency!

The moderates of this city really want to deliver a Republican legislature next year. And corporate democrats are giving them the lay up. It won’t hurt progressives. But it will hurt the top of the ticket next year.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

We’re band married!

We deleted our music off Spotify today and it feels like we left a toxic relationship 🥰

It’s really that easy. You can’t outsmart ranked choice voting. People think you can, but you can’t. I see two versions of wrong thinking about RCV. The first is people just refusing to rank multiple people, and the second looks like this.

My fave band is droppin TUNES this fall!!!

What tools, Ross? Campus opinion pieces about sandwiches?

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

The worst part is, we all know this is preventable. Decades of politicians caring more about people being able to own guns than the safety of kids made it so anyone can go around doing this. We can look to any other country in the world and see the solution, our leaders just don’t have the will.