“This isn’t a moment, it’s a movement”

This is the Delaware Bay in North Cape May near Harpoons. Not the beach, not sandbars just frozen water for a long way out. Salt water ! Present temp, 18 degrees.

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“We didn’t do all that because we are heroes and saviors. We did it because we understand the meaning of our faith: that we are all connected. We join together. We are a part of a people, a body of humanity that is made in the image of a loving and beautiful God that wants all God’s children free.”

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

www.boggscenter.org/thinking-for... by #SheaHowell BoggsCenter: “For Dr. King, that way toward loving communities begins with a revolution of values against racism, materialism, and militarism…Mutual aid, direct resistance, witnessing of injustice, and reaching out to stand with each other ...”

Robin D.G. Kelley www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

This was a powerful, multimedia, interactive historical exhibit near the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. www.nps.gov/media/photo/...

I opened the Bible at random this morning and came upon this passage, which seems prescient.

AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doors—they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.

So the House is going to vote TOMORROW on the DHS funding bill that includes funding for ICE. There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it. Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance. 24 hours. Go. www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.

Maybe 😻 is reading drafts of poetry while under that paper 💫

Johnny Zokovitch writes, if you’re looking to revive your hope, look at how, over the past decade, the Catholic Church has been more deeply embracing nonviolence. Every day "we are learning that nonviolent strategies work," says Marie Dennis, "and they often work better than armed responses."

"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'" They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

A big thing that was intensely evident while I was reporting this piece: In parts of Minneapolis, DHS/ICE is everywhere. And so, too, are the volunteers pushing back against them — standing on virtually every street corner.

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.

published this and was then immediately without internet for 3+ hours to share it so please read 🙏

Rainbow Sunrise #photography #Iphonephotography #TwinLakes #sunrise #colors #nature #EastCoastKin #trailrun #naturephotography

Yesterday, I wrote about the ongoing resistance to ICE terror in Minneapolis. “With each passing day, networks widen, tactics crystallize, and previously unconnected people find their bravery. […] Yes, we are on our own. But…we are not alone. Take heart, friends. Don't let them see you sweat.”

The First Amendment protects the public’s right to: 1. Film ICE in public 2. Photograph ICE in public 3. Observe what ICE does in public ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.

Think mass protest & non-cooperation doesn’t matter? @jiggygero.bsky.social says: “When researchers looked at 35 cases of democratic backsliding from 1991-2021, only 7.5% were successful with no civil resistance movement while 51.7% were successful with a mass civil resistance movement.” Keep it up!

Break time in between uncle's appointments and this view isn't horrible! #douglasfamilypreserve #santabarbara

“Whenever people ask me: ‘Why didn’t you get up when the bus driver asked you?’ I say it felt as though Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on the other shoulder.” —Claudette Colvin, 1939-2026

This is Minneapolis: Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city. Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.

You can go to there website and print them out or have somebody make them for you like I did. IRLC.ORG

Greenland Kaalallit Nunaat Greenland’s name in Greenlandic means “Land of the People.” Greenlanders are a beautiful hard working people who live peacefully. Greenlanders should not be bullied, badgered & bribed by a mobster who wants their land and resources. #Greenland Land of the People

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

This is a community that cares deeply, spreads kindness, and seeks to build a better world. Today we remembered the lives lost at the hands of ICE. Tomorrow we continue our work to peacefully build safer communities for all.

"Sinners" just won at the Golden Globes for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Thanks to @eyesonice-bmore.bsky.social @freestatecoalition.bsky.social @pslweb.bsky.social Bmore & more who organized speakers/march in 24 hrs to stand up for our neighbors & us all in Bmore, Glen Burnie, DC, Minneapolis, Chicago, Portland, LA, Memphis, NOLA & everywhere @charmcityclfa.bsky.social

Abolish ICE. AALDEF issued the following statement in response to the heinous murder of a woman in Minneapolis by ICE. "ICE is a dangerous, violent agency that tears families apart and kills people.”

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Important words from @bridgettodd.bsky.social www.essence.com/news/money-c...

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality. Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook. Our duty is to stand up to brutality. Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

This is your city. Everyone should be safe in their homes, in their workplaces, and in our community. I’m determined to make it that way. Find immigration response resources at @washindivisble and at bit.ly/IRRP. #thisisyourcity #seattle www.instagram.com/mayorofseatt...

Minnesota Teachers and Grocery Workers: ICE Out of Our Workplaces, Out of Our Communities. New from @workdaymagazine.bsky.social about what unions and community orgs are demanding one day after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good. This is a developing story and will continue to be updated.

Let's be clear: We support the right of booksellers to curate their collections according to any (legal) factors; and we support the right of customers to choose to shop there, or to take their business elsewhere. We oppose book bans. These positions do not contradict each other. (1/3)

#abolishICE #poetrySky cc @thepoetslizard.bsky.social

Time to join yr local ICE Rapid Response Network. ANYONE can help: RRNs have many needs & ways to plug in at whatever commitment level U can make. Find yr local RRN on-line or ask local immigrants' rights groups. None exists yet? Start yr own w/ just 2 othr ppl! Step-by-step guide here:

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

Make it viral.