Today's newsletter: there's a new video from 11 days before Alex Pretti was shot to death. Some people refuse to believe it's real. I wrote about why that's going to be a problem moving forward: www.readtpa.com/p/thats-ai-i...

ICE knock on glass door to bakery with barrel of guns—employee "almost got killed by ICE tonight." As one of only white people in store—manager hid Korean immigrant coworkers in freezers "World War II style." Agent told him they "didn't need" and "didn't care" about a warrant. Minneapolis, MN

They really have no fucking idea what is coming. No fucking idea.

I saw a critique of Springsteen's new song, it being too earnest and cringe, and if I could just take a second to introduce you to the entire Bruce Springsteen catalogue we could settle this in a heartbeat.

I don't know if I've ever realized this before, but this might actually be my very favorite song of all time

Moving and heartbreaking piece from @marisakabas.bsky.social www.thehandbasket.co/p/crackdown-...

minn-e-a-pol-is and phil-a-del-phi-a have the same number of syllables with the same emphasis so I'm honestly impressed Springsteen wrote a whole-ass new song instead of just new lyrics for Streets of Philadelphia

Joy keeps a movement going. Never let them take it - and remember that it is a weapon in its own way - b/c it reminds the fash of real human emotions rather than the cheap facsimile fueled by cruelty that is all they got, and that undermines their commitment bit by bit.

very manly and alpha

one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”

Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.

ICE kidnapped 5 people from my community this morning. I don’t live in Minneapolis. I live in LA County. They’re still here and their still brutalizing.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

I forget who was it that said police in the US are talked about like a temperamental, easily-spooked large animal

I cried for an hour this morning playing a *mobile video game* and I feel so much better now Crying is good for you. That weird strain in your shoulders? That mild headache you've had all year? The upset stomach, the low-grade bad mood, all of that... crying really does help. Get that cortisol out

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

This is Minneapolis. Collective trauma, and neighbors helping neighbors. This is our 24/7 every day lives right now, not just a 10 second news clip.

A “domestic terrorist” helping “suckers and losers”.

You can tell a lot about which strategies work by what your opponent classifies as cheating

Trump’s reaction to the attack on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar

Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent

Frank scales got his shit rocked

it's also a demand never made of, say, rural people who won't go into the city because they think they'll be murdered.

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

I still stand by this statement. Anyone who didn't see this coming wasn't looking at the forest for the trees.

"They told us what they were going to do. They published it. They put it on a website. And when it happened, the press was surprised." Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.

my perhaps puritanical opinion is that this stuff is brain poison and exposing yourself to it makes you stupider. I'm sure there are right-leaning historians and classicists who contribute worthwhile research to the commons but right-wing political theory is ex post facto practically by definition

You can't reform this. It must be abolished.

"'I don't know what to think,' she said softly, 'except I don't like any of the things that have been happening.... Sometimes I think the superflu left us alive but drove us all mad.'" Reading The Stand for the first time, post-pandemic US amidst a dozen different generational disasters, is wild

This is… ✨incredible✨ Watch the whole thing. Stop what you’re doing.

Love my niche timeline

The fact that they are making Bovino the fall guy shows that they are worried, but it does not mean that any policy changes. It's a signal to increase the pressure even more, not back down.

Trump is nothing if not ready to sacrifice anyone and anything in order to save his own ass and the single most important thing that could happen right now is someone convincing him that the biggest driver of his unpopularity is not just Bovino and Noem but Stephen Miller personally

lol. lmao, even.

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

what will likely be my final words to greg bovino

Found on Reddit: street art in Seattle

for Alex Pretti

if we ever lose hope, may we never lose our humanity

This is incredible

Grieve the version of humanity you believed in, the one where everyone wants good things for everyone else. It’s a beautiful vision for the future, but a fantasy of the past and present. We will never get to a future we’ve dreamed of if we won’t admit we’re not living in that dream right now.

You see what them lying to themselves has done to their minds and hearts and souls? Do whatever you have to not to become that. The worst person you can ever lie to is yourself. It’s trading all your real agency for the myth of perfect safety.

If we accept that people believe what they think they need to believe and mostly do what they’ve been told to do, you can maybe change things with the foundation of reality. And the reality is that NOT ACCEPTING REALITY is what makes them act like that. Don’t follow those footsteps down that road.

You’ll feel less confused if you admit to yourself that some people don’t care about the suffering of others, and some people like it.

Did you miss out on your last opportunity to bankroll the fully stocked pop-up leftist supply depot?? Do you want to send free hand warmers, winter gear, first aid supplies, YOU NAME IT, to the Twin Cities? This is your moment. Let's ride. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... (non 'zon in follow up!)

This was one of the most chilling moments of the election year and I still think about how ominous it was. I also knew it was naive to assume the America I know would allow it to be. It was a promise of bloodshed.

The nurses are pissed

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

Why is Ali Velshi talking to the Maine Nazi tattoo guy about Minneapolis