Folks, every single video you've seen on here (or anywhere online) of local law enforcement arresting ICE is fake. They're all AI-generated. They're not real. I know they may look real to you, but they're not. Please, for the love of all that's good, stop sharing these videos.

ICYMI, Gai*man is slinking out of the shadows and posting again, trying to scuttle his way back into the public's good graces. Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.

“Defund ICE or we’ll close the airports and the coast guard” is a better rallying cry than “Defund ICE or we’ll starve disabled people and kick patients off life saving clinical trials.” That’s why separating DHS out is important.

Instead of listening to internet grifters (whether it's a grift for money, attention, or some weird sort of social cachet), check out orgs like the EFF: people who have been doing the work long before the troubles and will continue after.

Do not do this, holy shit lol.

Responding to "And more immigration judges," which is the exact opposite of what I said. (And then blocking said commenter, b/c I'm begging you all to start reading the words on the page, instead of trying to find some convoluted rationale behind why you needed to Reply Guy. ob-fucking-noxious)

Extremely popular opinion, but I don't think we need immigration enforcement. I think we need customer service workers at entry points and free checkpoints for Americans to make sure our passport wasn't invalidated with the DOGE infiltration.

this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming. no, those people shouldn’t get a break.

Absolutely right. There have been protests, but the vast majority of people’s activity here in MN is better described by one of Ian’s terms. ⬇️ And that work is vast, ongoing, every day, by a truly amazing amount of people.

You do not have to watch the videos and here's why: You know what happened. You've read the accounts from trusted resources (people on the ground). You 100 percent believe the cruelty. Nothing can be solved by exposing yourself to a snuff film. Unless your goal is different... 1/?

Oopsies, caught making shit up again. I think maybe it's best to follow news sources, instead of some guy... IDK... Overseas or something. #altNPS #altgov

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs Turn it off, now.

I'm not going to link the post, but holy shit, it's not "victim blaming" to hold elected officials accountable, even if they're--like--having a hard time. What in the inability to analyze power dynamics is going on in some people's brains, holy shit lol

Francesca Hong is running for WI governor, and this is exactly the energy we need. And she's the only one bringing it.

Photo stolen from the Minnesota Star Tribune. Photographer Alex Kormann.

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Jesus Christ, he's a baby. At five years old, you're still working out your home phone number and the fact that Mom has a full government name. He probably needs his favorite stuffie to fall asleep, and he's now in a concentration camp.

Is it @startribune.com policy to refer to anyone confronting ICE as a protester? This obscures the nature of what people are doing. We're not protesting ICE. We're constitutional observers documenting human rights abuses by agents of the state.

If you're interested in WHICH businesses are standing in solidarity with the Twin Cities and how to support them (AltNPS apparently isn't), you can find a comprehensive list here: www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...

my entire adult life i have seen protests in the US be either ridiculed, downplayed or just ignored by our news media and i guess it's an international phenomena unfortunately the most effective propaganda is when you don't realize its propaganda

I love it when we all stay up late having fun together in our jammies with our little snacks

Oh my god if only

Call me fake, but I'm staying incredulous of the accounts that are like, "I'm def from Greenland, and the only way for us to have solidarity and be buds is if you pull a JW Booth. You need to do it. Go do it. Do it now. It's cool and worldly and fun. Let the voices win." Esp. on Reddit. C'mon guys.

Primary them out of power so hard their own children forget their names

For Love, Things I'll Do: - anything - but not that

I've been hoping a lot of these accounts are bots, b/c they seem to have huge following and follower # and keep advocating for shooting a cop. Which isn't super wise for a number of reasons, obv. If not... I mean, send troops, then. Or aid. We're obv being terrorized by hostile forces.

We need the GOP to writing on the wall. Sociopaths can't comprehend large scale consequences, so here's the small scale: your wealth means nothing when we're sanctioned and at war with the entire world.

Thanks. We have folks in our community giving vulnerable students rides to school, and a teacher shared that they were putting small stuffed animals on their dashboards to help kids identify safe cars. ICE picked up on it and started doing the same. Horrifying.

Milwaukee and Madison need to keep heads on a swivel, because that's where they're going next, and we can't let them retreat and regroup.

I'm not sure if this is a joke, but it is literally what it's like to talk to people from my hometown. It's not an education thing, either. Schools are decent. They're just assholes.

She is an expert on authoritarian regimes, in case you're wondering whether peaceful protests matter.

You can't comply your way out of fascism. The dice are loaded. Remember?

Will Walz finally see what we mean when we say "don't take the bait" is dangerous, patronizing nonsense, and it's up to him to take concrete action?

I love when you tell people how terrible Newsom is, they're always like, "Well, it's nice to have ideals, but if it comes down to him or the Nazi in the general, *I* am going to vote for him" WE'RE TELLING YOU HOW TERRIBLE HE IS NOW SO IT'S *NOT* A CHOICE BTW HIM & A NAZI, CARL. THAT'S THE POINT.

This is literally the only take I want to hear from elected officials. Abolish ICE. That's it. None of that "what we actually mean is a more complicated..." like y'all did for the other police. No. Abolish means get rid of, prosecute, punish.

And cue the dumbest cunts in the universe to say "what midterms," like they're not the ones directly responsible for all of this.

"I know gassing babies isn't ideal, but it's important that you remain civil." Part of what makes this administration so sure of its choices and so easy with its abuses is that it knows Democrats will lie down for it, and softly rebuke their own voters for not taking abuse with greater equanimity.

I will start to take our leader’s resolve seriously when they start shouldering the burden of courage they are demanding of us.

They flashbanged a baby last night.

The complicated reality is there are 3 things happening simultaneously: -Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it -His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate -Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent

frankly a lot of stuff you can be doing right now you shouldn’t throw online

Died by trying to treat his cancer with an anti-parasitic, and when that didn't work, he used his immense privilege to bump himself up the transplant list, because fuck, he might actually die! It's a very long road from normal to horse dewormer, and it's almost always steeped in white supremacy.

When Trump was first running, local people said "don't give him any air. He's bad news. Pick anyone else." We clowned him, gave him air, he became president. Local people are saying the same things about Newsom, and we have to listen this time. Guy's a conservative idiot. We need a Dem.

Anyone who pointed out that Jesse could stop using X at any time was blocked, b/c for a certain brand of liberal, politics is less what you do and more what you profess a belief in, much like evangelical christianity.

Participating is still participating, and everyone's got their own risk calculus, but I find it interesting when men particularly "speak up" on violence against women, only to talk about how they refuse to do anything of consequence about it--esp. when the only risk is a light inconvenience.

A story in two parts:

Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R