“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”

looks like someone finally got around to that WalMart thing www.thewoodstockindependent.com/2026/01/walm...

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice is expressing the highest respect for law. -MLK

I asked my PCP a few years ago to test my titers. She said “I could do that - or I could just give you a Measles vaccine now to save time. It can only help and there is no downside” Just ask for one

The last time Democrats had a filibuster-proof trifecta they enacted the largest expansion of public welfare in half a century through Obamacare. The last time Democrats had a trifecta they spent trillions of dollars on infrastructure to fight climate change and tax credits for families.

“We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, compromise Union Whigs & waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Boston friends:

Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors

YOU - RIGHT HERE ON THE SEA ICE?!

Bluesky discourse pictured

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

This claim by Adam Schiff is simply false: the killings in our streets are not because of new ICE hires. The shooters of Miramar Martinez, Renee Good, and Alex Prett were all agents with 8+ years at DHS. We have to face it: there are longtime federal employees who will shoot civilians if allowed. 1/

The difference between calling for a strike, but not actually organizing one

Don't just read the headline. This essay is my lengthy ode to the hard-fought, hard-won successes of the communitarian movement in the Twin Cities, which has been the scourge of fascists and put the most cracks in Trump's fascist front. Nonviolence has achieved much, and will do more still.

They do NOT look like a pickle. Don't tell them that! It was an accident!!!

"bring back see through cases where you could see the electronic"

They clearly do know who a lot of us are, but they have minimal capacity to do anything about it - both because we’re not doing anything illegal and because there are SO MANY of us. But these agents are violent and undisciplined so any encounter can spill over into arbitrary violence.

No joke, they will even send you surveys to find out what you care about so that they can adjust their platform to better represent what you want!

tfw you get too excited about the first double-digit temps in a few days and underdress for what is, upon consideration, actually a pretty cold day

The blessed day is upon us once again

“Hacking” and “infiltrating” a digital chat in the context of “convincing somebody to add you” are VERY different practices and threat models. It is both irresponsible and stupid to conflate the two.

All wins are partial and contingent, it’s never over and you can’t stop, but I need you all to take the massive win unfolding here. It’s like a snowball. Don’t melt it down, take it and keep rolling it and rolling it

Kent State's student body was fairly conservative, but the presence of troops on campus had radicalized many of them. This is how Ohio's governor described these young people: "We’re up against the strongest, well-trained, militant revolutionary group that has ever been assembled in America."

It’s -2000 degrees below zero. You just flashbanged yourself twenty feet from the front desk. Three hours sleep cause locals who hate you bang garbage cans outside your room all night. The Home2Suits has fallen and you’re not getting that signing bonus for another 4.5 years. Ass. It’s all ass, dude.

No one outside of the government knows when the agents who killed Silverio Villegas González went back into the field because no one outside of the government knows who they are.

if you're keeping score: Minnesotans: bonded stronger than ever Philly: wants this smoke ICE: shook af Normies: flipping FAST Trump coalition: fracturing, huffing that cope Democrats: may actually shut down the gov't Trump: blue hands; brain turning to room temp Clamato

stay warm, smoke weed, abolish ICE

Crowd is massive, now overflowing Congress Plaza and taking up a block-long stretch of Michigan Avenue. Reminder: this event was only announced yesterday.

The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down

dawg they are not grabbing you for being in a chat engaging in lawful and protected 1st amendment speech. They are grabbing you because you are outside and they decided to make an example of you on trumped up charges after brutalizing you in front of your neighbors. They don’t need the group chat.

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

oh man, the Walker Art Center is going to be closed on Friday (If you're not from the Twin Cities, this is like MoMA closing in support of a general strike—a very big deal)

I wish they'd drop this "teen curfew" idea. The city is for everyone who lives here, including [not so subtly between the lines "Black"] teenagers.

We had to take them to court over and over in Chicago, but when it was clear the judge was going to haul Bovino in to answer for the next round of violations, the out-of-town units left. It's slow and infuriating, but it's another lever to pull that can get traction, yes.

Hey you ICE bastards let me draw you a map of your future

Right now in Minnesota schools are canceling all field trips indefinitely because it isn’t safe to take students to science museums and water sanitation facilities with agents of the federal government hanging around

monitoring the public actions of federal agents is legal, it's constitutional, and it's what some of our elected officials have specifically been asking us to do!

It can be hard to see the success of prevention efforts because we can’t see inside the minds of the people who changed their behavior because of those efforts. But there are a lot of reasons to believe ICE watch is working. And it’s also part of why ICE watch is generally safer than it sounds.

"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."

Writing hopeful post-apocalyptic/dystopian stories about how communities come together when things are bleak is somewhat of a niche of a niche, so it delights me when I find one! The perfect story for this moment. If you haven't read, I highly suggest doing so this morning. 💓

Inspired by a trip to Bryce Canyon Utah. Watercolor and gouache. And you might be interested in my online watercolor painting course which is currently on sale. Self study at your own pace, you can jump to it from my page description.

a friend shared a new patch on facebook

The porn aspect of what ICE/CBP crucial. Here's an excellent piece of journalism on how they literally stimulated riots for the camera in Chicago. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

He has sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people He has kept among us Standing Armies without Consent of our legislatures For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us For protecting them from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States

Minneapolis Public Schools canceled classes district-wide for the remainder of the week “due to safety concerns,” following the killing of a woman Wednesday by an ICE agent. The district said it was acting “out of an abundance of caution.”

My 2025 accomplishment: wrote and recorded a solo album as my rap persona young crone

you’re so right, comic from 1925

ain't this that communist video game no one shuts up about

I have not been read this year's Yuletide fics because I've spent the last week or so feeling extremely antisocial but this one is fucking incredible archiveofourown.org/works/73396436