This is how most Black, Indigenous, POC, Immigrant, & other marginalized people have to move through the world anyway. Constantly keeping mental rolodex of places that are truly safe/ unsafe/ shades in between. Everyone ought to take note & demand better from places who aim to serve/profit from us.

Today would be an absolutely PERFECT day for it to happen. Come on everyone, get your energy behind it!

This whole thread is 🔥🔥🔥

Some days you know you can fight & win. Some days you don't know you can win but you can fight anyway. And some days are the fight has gone out of you. But it's okay to take a day off to cry instead. It's okay to take a break to build back your resilience. Its okay. It's okay to come back tomorrow

HARD SAME

4yo and I are watching the Nelvana animated Redwall, and when Cluny the rat and his army are marching on Redwall, young Cornflower mouse keeps washing dishes in the abbey kitchen because “I didn’t want the others to panic … they’ll feel better if everything seems normal.” Hashtag Siege Wisdom

We’ve literally lost habeas corpus. An English common law right that has only been suspended 3 times since the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215.

People keep asking what it's like living in Minneapolis right now. The best description I can think of is this: imagine any dystopian movie or book, except the resistance all have day jobs, snow to shovel and kids in sports.

Hooooooly shit this whole thread

I need a national political party with the following policies: Abolish ICE Abolish DHS Go after all crimes ICE committed Go after all crimes this administration has committed Charge everyone on the Epstein List Defund the police Reform the court system Fix the Supreme Court 1/2

Somehow all my feelings come out in the middle of the night -- it seems to be the only time I can really sit with them and express them. If you're feeling this way, you are very not alone.

THEY HAVE MISJUDGED THE GROUND BENEATH THEIR FEET

I feel like I have been scraped clean, hollowed out like a pumpkin at Halloween. Knives and spoons ripping away my insides, my future, my wholeness. The emptiness dries me out, turns me fragile and weakened. Leaving only scars crisscrossing inside and the rictus of a grin on a face cut into my skin.

This resonates so much with me today.

Listen: because I am hearing this a lot from folks who are in caregiving roles with disabled, sick, dying folks, elders, or children in their care: You are not unable to do anything or unable to take action. Care work IS justice work

Can. Fucking. Confirm.

RIGHT.

That’s it. We’re neighbors looking out for our neighbors. We do it when we shovel each other’s walks and push each other out of snowdrifts and we do it when there are snatch squads roaming the streets. It runs deep in Minneapolis: we all have to band together to survive the winters.

Again, these people cannot imagine doing this work and taking these risks without a big paycheck. They don't actually care about anyone or anything. We are strong because we care. Because our neighbors matter to us. They will never stamp out our humanity and our empathy and that's why we will win

So, like, if we get attacked by paratroopers, I really hope the rest of you know we tried our best. And I hope you impeach the motherfuckers who thought it was okay to even consider this. In a just world even the consideration of an attack your own people should be grounds for impeachment.

Apropos of nothing, obviously, I think there are quite a few armchair activists who are looking at Minnesota right now and feeling shame. Because there are so many ways to do the work (commuting, printing whistles, supplying groceries, providing rides, mocking ICE) and they're not doing anything 1/

A summary of my local Bsky feed: - Go look at the sunset! - Water balloons defeat Nazis - Ways to help your neighbors - Fancy sledding in Powderhorn - Fuck ICE - I love Minnesota Love, Joy, Solidarity, Community That’s MY Minnesota. And I will share it with anyone who also loves their neighbor.

“[T]he vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of—and reward them for—that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval.”

Greetings fellow Russian bots!

I love this goddamned town

Really not beating that reputation that all Nazis are worthless losers here

#TheOccupation #Minnesota

It is NOT just brown, black people targeted. This is also why #Minnesota was targeted. This is a key part of the story. DO NOT IGNORE IT. #LGBTQIA+ people are just as much a part of our community as immigrants from other countries, sometimes they are the same. #TheOccupation

Seriously if you somehow haven't read this story yet, now's a great time for it. (That picture that pops up is not for the story. The story is set in Minneapolis. Blue sky plays a role, actually. Let's fucking go . . . take care of our neighbors.)

Man it's weird being kept awake rehearsing what to say and do if ice comes in my building and tries to take my neighbors.

I went to a training the other night and one of the people there was a quite elderly woman who… volunteers with hyperlocals 7!!!! days a week. For hours. Because fuck ICE so much it brought her out of RETIREMENT

Remember, stupidity in your opponents is a virtue. Learn from Bugs Bunny and exploit it, don't fix it!

You have duty not to comply.

Dangerous talk. The folks of Minnesota are not insurrectionists. We are neighbors wielding whistles to protect our neighbors from unconstitutional violence by masked men.

This is really good and well worth your time.

I mean…let’s hear this idea out.

Yes this is the problem with @repangiecraig.bsky.social @amyklobuchar.com @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov and the rest of them. The first politician who steps out and FIGHTS ALONGSIDE US is the one we will believe. The rest of you are no better than the GOP who are hurting us!

I just want it to be really clear, to people from out of the area, if they see pictures of fires in Minneapolis: THEY WERE STARTED BY ICE. NOT BY PROTESTERS. NOT BY RESIDENTS.

Relevant here, I think. “During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.” - Dan Savage

Fuck yeah. Let's go!

People outside of Minneapolis should know they have turned historic fort snelling into a police state black site

The fuck he did. This chickenshit ass doesn't have enough red blood to bruise. His veins are full of piss to match his cowardly heart and empty brain and withered soul. Yes I'm getting angrier everyday why do you ask

We are not kidding or being dramatic when we say this shit. Minneapolitans and St Paulites are making their peace with death this week. How’s your week?

Boosting again, with the note that we feel so lucky to have relationships and to know people who have relationships with people who are hiding, so that they can still receive life saving help. People are regularly choosing between necessities and safety, and everyone deserves both.

yeah, folks, if they start ww3 please make sure you text your Minnesotan friends. we're distracted with the other horrors

It seems a lot of people think they know Minneapolis now. Our flaws. Our faults. I hope my neighbors join me in reclaiming the narrative. Minneapolis, through the eyes of someone who actually lives here:

Things like this keep reminding me that the reason we are being invaded only by the pettiest, stupidest, most cowardly, worthless, incompetent thugs is because the people of quality or skill or or integrity or fucking common sense are all on our side.

This gave me so much joy