I was reminded, and maybe you need to be too, that the way we used to get out of fight-or-flight mode as a society was dancing and singing and sharing food and drink. So maybe throw a party this weekend. Get a reset from all of this. You can't keep going if you're frozen in fury.

I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota. If you have places for me to add, please DM me.

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

The Republican party is really all in on that policy of giving pedophiles jobs in government.

the only reason "abolish ICE" is seen as radical is that no one will say it but the far left. if every normie Democrat started saying it tomorrow it would move the overton window so far you'd have to squint to find it. my kingdom for leaders who understand they can shape public opinion.

Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations

This is low key very important and you should read about why

Let me give you a thought experiment: Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should. www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...

Frost: People should know that them cutting your healthcare, them cutting nutritional assistance, SNAP benefits, all this stuff—they're cutting that from working people so they can give ICE money to go terrorize our communities.

Can't wait to see all the reporters just as aghast at this use of the word fuck as they were when an official used it to express anger at a woman being shot in the face.

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.

I’m just echoing others who have already said this, but it’s a good thing that it takes so many ICE agents to make a single arrest. It makes the whole operation slower and more resource-intensive.

The success of ICE watch interfering with ICE’s mission is almost certainly why DHS keeps sending more agents to Minneapolis. They used to execute their raids with just a few agents. Now they need 6-12 to even begin to disrupt the social pressure to be nonviolent.

The goal of ICE watch is to surround that second type of perpetrator with people who *disapprove* of their actions. It will make them less likely to be violent and we’ve seen that, in some cases, that includes rethinking their original plan to tear a family apart too.

Among perpetrators of violence, there is a very small share who are independently motivated to violence. But the vast majority of perpetrators commit violence to seek approval and status from others. This is particularly true among men who use violence to affirm their masculinity.

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

Prosecutors around the country who continue to resign to protest the illegal, unethical & immoral actions of DOJ are heroes. For many, these are dream jobs. Highly coveted career positions. They are walking away from them to do the right thing when many would remain silent. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I want these fuckers prosecuted. I will not vote for a candidate who shies away from this.

In timeline-cleansing news, my sweet puppy is dreaming of something so fun she is wagging her tail vigorously in her sleep, making a thwap-thwap-thwap on the edge of the couch.

Corollary to yesterday's World Cup question: are you a ⚽ fan living OUTSIDE the United States who is or was planning to attend a WC match in the US? Have you changed your plans or is it full steam ahead? (Let me know if you're willing to be quoted, and if so, what you would like to be called.)

Someone inside DHS leaked the names of 4,500 ICE and CBP officers to a nonprofit that tracks ICE. About 80 percent of those name are active. www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-d...

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

The complaint is difficult reading, but if you need a condensed timeline of events in Minneapolis... I think I missed this incident entirely: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72132...

Sure sure if he deletes it then it's fine. What is wrong with the @democrats.org. Even the ones who do good stuff are so scared to hold any of these violent assholes to account.

It is always astounding how reliably he admits to what he's doing by accusing someone else of doing it. No bookmaker would even take odds on whether he's high himself right now as he says this. It's absolutely certain.

Jonathan Ross was a firearms trainer and led a team that included multiple federal agencies. All this training didn't stop him from shooting Renee Nicole Good. His training *facilitated* the shooting. No amount of training will solve the problem that ICE is a violent ethnic cleansing squad.

This should be the baseline energy from every Democrat. This should be the least angry they ever get to be. This should be the nicest language they ever use in reference to Republicans. If you can't do *at least* this, retire or get yourself retired.

Callaghan said that he asked if he was under arrest after officers asked for him to hand over his identification and his cellphone. “And then they said to me, ‘Well, you’re white, you won’t be any fun anyway. You can get out of the car.’”

I can’t emphasize enough how shocked my out of state friends and family are when I tell them what has happened in Minneapolis since Renee Good’s murder. Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.

You can't twist your mouths to say you'll abolish THIS??? What good are you? @wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov

These aren't normal times for politics, but even if they were, it's so clear that Democrats either don't know how to do politics or don't want to. Their position on the board is "the president is hated and his goon forces are despised" and they seem at wit's end how to message from that position.

you could see the panic; it was like when a new worker shows up at a job and starts actually doing it, exposing everyone who had just been sitting around

Oh thank god I was so worried about the trucks. It's probably my #1 concern when I decide who's getting my vote.

This is the agency your party wants to give MORE funding to? Be really goddamn sure that's what you want voters to understand. If you vote to give more money to the Gestapo no one's voting for you. @democrats.org

It's not that I'm disappointed Scott Adams has died it's just that I was really hoping for someone else to die. Someone ... bigger.

Before we release Hannibal Lector on bail we need to have a serious conversation about giving him dietary help.

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

This article is wild. The video is wild. The goal is fear and they're mad they're not getting it.

It's such a winning message and the @democrats.org are too fucking cowardly to use it.

The problem is that we have a Gestapo. And the Democrats are saying they want the Gestapo to be better trained. That's the goal? A more effective Gestapo? God I'm so sick of them.

Okay so Minnesota is suing the federal government but I'm not seeing a lot of commentary on here about it. Is this because suing is kind of nothing, practically speaking? Does anyone have someone they're following who understands if this is likely to be effective?

Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."

Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.

Remember when the NYPD officer pepper sprayed the peaceful protesters during Occupy and it was a big deal? ICE daily

There’s no reforming this. There’s no getting local cops to “enforce the law” (whatever that means) against this

they abolished the department of education, we do not need a trojan horse to abolish ice we can just do it

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.