The people who are saying that leaving X means abandoning the fight for liberalism are the same people who say that we shouldn’t abolish ICE.

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The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

There hasn’t been any violence by the protestors. Why are you admonishing them

democrats are scared people will think theyre against this

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

All I have ever heard about every news story from Bill Clinton to drag shows is “it’s awful, parents have to explain this to their children, why can’t we just let kids be kids?” Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt

The argument against ICE isn't an especially difficult one to make politically in this moment. The issue is that people who substantively disagree with abolishing ICE prefer having a proxy fight about strategy to discussing that stance. Many such cases.

"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'" www.startribune.com/preschooler-...

If you know anyone who still supports this one or doesn't think it's that bad in MN, please send them this. People need to know.

Border Patrol agents are very sad that everyone in Minnesota hates them. “At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”

If ICE is now training new officers that they can forcibly enter residences based on an administrative warrant, "more training" is not the solution to our ICE problems.

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

state-sponsored child trafficking

I think centristy types have more issue with the word "abolish" than they do with the concept of abolishing ICE. I don't think the centrist liberal wishes to abolish

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

This judge should haul Bovino in every time one of his goons violates the order.

I am not a social media influencer I am just a regular Minneapolis dad trying to do a kid pickup this morning and get some gas. What do I find but that one guy and a bunch of bortech (whatever that is) blocking the station for a glamour shot. I stood right where I wanted to stand this is my town.

This is why calling them weird creeps was so effective, not just to damage the leadership psychologically, but to make it extremely socially embarrassing to be a known supporter of them in the general public. The point is to make society at large view them as they are, not the force they wish to be.

This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

The basic premise of centrist advice urging Dems to stand down on immigration has been the idea that Trump was *in some sense or other right* about the issue, but he was not and is not in any sense right and the public is recoiling in horror at what they're seeing

The right wing, whose leader called for the execution of members of Congress a couple months ago, is filled with trepidation over “verbal assaults,” also known as yelling at someone.

ICE agents when a guy in a bathrobe standing out in -20 weather tells them to each shit

CONFIRMED: Earlier today Don Lemon reported a protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, MN where they said pastor David Easterwood is Acting Director of the ICE Field Office. They were 100% right. https://www.c-span.org/program/news-conference/homeland-security-secretary-noem-on-ice-operations/667821

Easterwood:

Jesus fucking Christ.

even moderate members of congress are finally realizing that the BS they've been sold about centrism from the democratic consultant industrial complex fails to account for uncertainty or shifting public opinion, and thus has zero external validity here in the real world. let me just say: welcome!

Gallego ("moderate" Dem) is going with "ICE needs to be totally torn down" (not "reform and retrain"). This is a pivot point for the country on immigration. You have been seeing this in the data for a while, and now officials are snapping to the public opinion www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ice-is-a-7...

A follow-up reminder, for folks who might have forgotten how virulently racist Richard Hanania is on the main.

Come to think of it it was a bad idea to put the woman who oversaw Covid policy in a state where seven people live and 3 of them somehow managed to die from the virus in charge of Trump’s hyper violent gestapo

A metric shit ton of Americans are being attacked by ICE agents and you voted to continue to fund them and the military industrial complex. clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...

ICE actions are not a radical break but an intensification and extension of bipartisan consensus on the need for punitive immigration policy. Since its post-9/11 creation, people have warned that the tools given to ICE would eventually be turned on citizens.

I'm sure everyone will be SHOCKED to hear that the videos do not show the whole "people came out and attacked ICE with snow shovels" thing that ICE claimed was what happened. This was not a remotely defensive gunshot.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

The point here is to believe people when they tell you who they are. Gavin Newsom hangs out with Republicans because he likes hanging out with Republicans. This isn't 4-D chess. He wants to hang out with Ben Shapiro and Steve Bannon. When he says he agrees with them on things, it's because he does.

Gavin Newsom has demonstrated that he will throw members of the liberal coalition under the bus at a drop of the hat.

I am going to be honest that if you aren’t sure whether or not it would be good if the fascists kill a prominent anti-fascist activist with whom you have developed an inscrutable parasocial antagonism, I really doubt the sincerity of your commitment to leftism or anti-fascism

DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account. Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.

that's weird, i donated money to a group that buys coats for unhoused people in minneapolis, a group that buys diapers for babies in the twin cities, and a group that buys food for hispanic families in st paul. no consultants necessary.

wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

The truth doesn't seem to be even slightly more complex.

these people got annoyed by some grad students on the internet in 2020 and projected it on to joe biden for some reason. bizarre behavior.

UATX faculty members left universities that actually value academic freedom, but where they sometimes experienced the disapproval of their colleagues and students. And so they left for a fake university where they get yelled at like minions of a tech overlord. Which, it turns out, they are.

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