Guys the formal training for rapid response says you should always bring your phone and ID, making you trivially easy to identify. (You need your phone to film anyway.) The idea that the goal is to remain anonymous is actually not best practices at all, it’s like a weird inherited social practice

oh hey i wonder who that sign is for www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyran...

They also do not even have the institutional backing to successfully prosecute their chosen examples. Remember that Sandwich guy was acquitted.

I just learned recently that the reason crabs do that is "safety in numbers" and they think the bucket's safe. They're trying to help. I think that's a metaphor

Elon Musk chatting it up with his friend Jeffrey Epstein five years after he was convicted for child sex crimes 👍

skipping straight past "Italians and Irish aren't really white" and going straight for Swedes. lol

If you are truly concerned that armed agents of the state are going to come to your house and indiscriminately kill you, the first thing you should do is log off of BlueSky dot com

Has the organization of Save Our Street, the rich NIMBYs who want to stop the Summit Avenue bike lane, said anything about the church they hold their meetings in being led by the director of the local ICE field office?

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

Of course this fear is what Trump wants

I’ve said it before on here, but once you realize that your fear and your upset are the very things that Trump and MAGA *crave* more than almost anything, including power!, it helps build the resolve to _never_ give them what they want.

i am happy to fight for freedom with the libertarians but also, we don’t really need to *talk*

If you are planning to be involved in political action of any type, they have your name. The thing to do is make their lists useless by having so many names on them.

I’m so glad you went. I had many people ask me - “is it safe? Should I leave my phone and ID at home? Do I need an exit strategy?” We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!

HEY I AM DOING A FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS AND GIVING AWAY A SIGNED ARC (advance review copy) OF OBSTETRIX THAT'S RIGHT YOU CAN HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES AND MAYBE GET A FREE EARLY SIGNED COPY OF MY BOOK

I don’t think this is a particularly hot take. As we keep telling a particular federal agency, wearing a mask generally indicates cognizance of guilt and an intent to do something illegal. Protest works best when done confidently and unashamedly

Listen to me talk Minnesota/MSP on It's Been A Minute: www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...

We've chosen to decentralize leadership and not have a leadership structure. At some point, you have to accept that other people can exercise their judgment. Let me tell you, people are doing all sorts of crazy shit on commuter calls Will having a journalist whom he evaluated is far from a breach.

My position on L'affaire d'Stancil is that if you don't want to work with someone who submits himself humbly as a contributor to the work, then turns around and uses his considerable platform to evangelize for the cause in a way that constantly decenters himself, you aren't serious about the work.

Here’s my advice. Also, if you’re not comfortable or sure, just say no. That’s fine! The problem is people trying to promulgate codes of conduct under which NOBODY is allowed to interact with press. That’s counterproductive - in general, respectable mainstream outlets have a vital role to play.

There are few things that mark a real journalist: they are affiliated with a specific outlet, they will tell you who it is, they have a press card with the outlet’s name (not always), they DO NOT try to hide their identity or use pseudonyms. The last thing is a huge red flag, bounce anyone who does

I think it's bad when people who very obviously committed a premeditated murder get off, and also it's important that, when the state engages in profound misconduct, they do.

They botched the easiest prosecution in history, guys I think the law is effectively suspended

Just did a press ridealong commute in an away-from-home rapid response network with good press disclosure policies, and the world didn’t end, no one was doxxed, no identities were revealed. I did spend a lot of time lost. It can be done!

This happened to me yesterday. Two ICE officers abruptly blocked a freeway entrance, got out and illegally threatened me with arrest. All on video, thanks to a journalist in the backseat filming the entire thing. Press makes us safer.

Can't believe Don Lemon is going to miss Whiskey Friday with Tony Dopoukil sitting in a cell.

"The first rule of organizing is that the first person who makes the group chat makes all the decisions" -- Che "Big Dawg" Guevara

What's funny is that this is like the mirror image of that psychotic Blue MAGA lady who argued something like: incumbents know best therefore you should always defer to them and therefore how dare you undermine him by making demands of your own House representative

I think you gotta just fire him.

anyways. to be a bit more productive, as professor omar wasow notes, "almost no protests are witnessed in person." they are witnessed via images--via media--and, yes, via journalists. that is how information spreads. you want your images to spread. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...

watching the stancil-is-a-collaborator drama play out On Here is the most online I have ever felt (he is not a collaborator, or an idiot... this is stupid)

with all due respect the end goal is not to prove that I am a good activist but to beat ICE. I have resources that are, at least, extremely unusual here in Minneapolis, and I do intend to fully use them towards that end.

Find a way to let the man do his thing (Or else he's coming back online 14 hours a day)

They previously send me media for ridealongs, but then decided yesterday that the policy was “zero press, ever” and I had to go since I’d already broken it

I’ll be frank - I’m seeing a ton of people saying “See? The fact he was kicked out proves he was who we thought he was, and totally unnecessary.” They seem a lot more interested in that second thing than the question of whether or not I was actually endangering anyone (I absolutely was not). A clue.

Awful to even try to catalogue the harm being done here in MN. Educational harms, students out school? At least months. Economic harms, from empty, half-functioning businesses? At least years. Civic and psychic harms, from shattering the basic sense of safety? Decades. Stolen neighbors? Forever.

OUR SAFETY COMES FROM OUR NUMBERS, NOT OUR ANONYMITY

Yeah, the person who acted like we were all going to get rounded up and shot for giving an email to 50501 WOULD also be the one who gets somebody kicked out of a group chat for petty internet drama, that actually tracks perfectly

oh lmao the "street journalist" who regularly lies about the Russian use of double tap strikes is ratfucking Will Stancil? I never could have predicted that one

one journalist I talked to recently said his outlet was considering going to showings of Melania and profiling the two or three audience members but decided against it because they realized they'd all be other journalists with the same idea

my specific case aside, the rapid increase in paranoia across these networks, which I think a lot of people perceive as getting WORSE over time, is a major issue. the most successful (read: largest) networks are the ones that have maintained a lot of openness

guys the thing about being a decentralized leaderless network is that there are really no clear leaders to consult. what we have seen, though, is that careful press coverage of minneapolis community networks has massively benefited their cause, harmed ICE, and seemingly not led to anyone being IDed.

oh its crabs in a bucket time again but they're worried that one of the crabs is being too successful at publicizing their supposedly shared cause.

The fact that Talia thinks this is strong evidence that Will is correct, because she is a fucking moron.

My @mprnews.org colleague & I rode along with observers after the Twin Cities surge at the start of December, well before most national publications came to town. It was really necessary to get at what ICE is really doing on the ground & how people are opposing it. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

trusted journalists need access to be able to show and document what is really happening, while protecting people and important info as well. a good journalist can do both. i think it is imperative to show what these operations are doing, so no alternative narratives can be attached to them.

I did a ridealong today. Journalists and observers have common cause in tracking and documenting federal immigration activity in the Twin Cities — doing it as a group is the safest, most efficient way

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