Why am I awake and why is it your fault

This is and has always been the minimum wage of whiteness, and there have always been a tragically large percentage of the US population just happy to get paid at all

that crowd doesn’t even include the people actively patrolling, doing mutual aid, and dozens of small protests on corners throughout the city during the march. really cannot adequately convey the size of this thing that is happening

10 minutes later, still going, streamer says "no end in sight" i truly do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Watching a livestream of the main anti-ICE march in MPLS it has just been a still shot on a single intersection and it's just been a full street wide march for 25 minutes

Essentially, what stops abductions is when crowds outnumber the masked kidnappers. When people aggressively follow ICE with whistles and horns, crowds are ready to show up. If they show up fast enough, ICE leaves and a family is not broken. (People here understand the stakes).

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

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They had a network of concentration camps and secret police that ran efficiently in the background of society on a fully racialized and decentralized basis but it wasn't enough for these ghouls and so instead they've destroyed all legitimacy in the name of looking like tough guys

Because I'm not Minneapolis and have no money to send, I'm just doing the stuff I can do locally twice as hard. And I'm talking about it in case it convinces you to join me in filling community free shelves or teaching digital privacy or whatever it is that you're good at.

Reminder: the Dems aren't "doing nothing", they're doing exactly what they want to be doing. They're not failing to be opposition, they're succeeding at staying in power as part of a fascist regime.

I’m not telling folks what to do. But I’ll note that there are certainly ways to defeat facial recognition *and* keep warm in Minnesota. I also will send tacticool neck gaitors to any ICE watchers who wish, thus creating the spectacle of ICE arguing that *other* people wearing their masks are bad.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Anyone who thinks European libs "suddenly now" hate the US is a fucking mark Europe has used USA as a foil to disavow their own European colonial history and racism for decades, European libs and even leftists insisted racism only exists in the US and that USians are *various phobic stereotypes*

“everyone hates you, you fuckin American” idk what you’re talking about, I am a proud citizen of the greatest country in the world: PHILADELPHIA

Don't blame me I voted for Kodos ass discourse

If Ai could replace workers in all industries it already would have. The wage represion possibilities of the tech are exhausted, and while significant they are not worth the cost of the techs maintenance. But the class sector it did help is trying desperately to make the rest fund and sustain it

Well my alarm woke me up, and not the cheers of a million Philadelphians but for a few brief hours, I enjoyed the audacity of hope with you all, and I slept like a baby. Who knows...Maybe if will happen today.

Scolding people on the internet for having fun in 2026 is such a weird hobby

i am GOING TO get my hopes up every single time. NOT because i am gullible or desperate but because it is FUN

i thought the president would do something that would distract people from the virality of Bus Thread but somehow he managed to do the exact opposite

What if he emerged fine and we were all like awwwwww then he tripped and fell down every stair and that's how it happened

Going to bed with a smile on my face cuz i know if it has really happened Philly will let me know from outside my window

Every time there’s slightly irregular news from the White House.

What if Salo was Louis XIV themed

the call was coming from inside the house on participation trophies for millennials

They will fund ICE then they will blame you for criticizing them for their electoral defeats. They justify the fascism while fundraising like gangbusters off the angry and the frightened. They are grifters. They are profiting mightily off this situation. They are living WELL right now

i once read "the rights you think criminals should have are the rights you think everyone should have because the state can criminalize anyone" and it changed how i think about everything

Top of the charts at my house today

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

By the end of 2026 we will not have the same govt in power over the same unified territory it is now. Dunno if it'll be dissolution, the good thing happening, revolution, counter coup, civil war or what. But this governmental structure and state aparatus is on a clock

MN ICE watch is measurably de-escalating violence. Attraction to ICE for newbies is social approval & group power. Now, larger group meets them with social censure. They're using more agents (taken from elsewhere) to conduct relatively fewer arrests, lowering abductions there & beyond.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

You might be having a hard day, but at least you're not a pathetic loser no one likes who agreed to ruin lives, murder strangers, and eat shit over and over again on frozen sidewalks, all in return for a paycheck you'll never be able to spend because you get booed out of any business you enter.

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The level of consistent, everyday organizing and resistance to the state, outside of and beyond any particular movement or flash point, distributed across the entirety of the social landscape, is by far the highest it's ever been in my lifetime

Every Democrat who doesn't, at a minimum, support the explicit and immediate abolition of ICE is an existential threat to human life and should be permanently removed from governance. Period.

I would like to underscore this part: "People are in the streets in greater numbers than the first Trump term." Elite pundits and opinion are extremely resistant to this fact and it has trickled down to regular people. But it is demonstrably TRUE. Ask why they are so resistant? Who does it serve?

Cannot stress enough that you can just do stuff. You don't need permission. You can just do stuff because it needs to be done by someone.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Newsom is positioning himself to be the slick smart Trump who can take the baton from MAGA when tech finally comes around he is straight up running for the position

The Democratic Party is not only not opposition they are in fact a core pillar of MAGAs legitimacy, perhaps the most consistent force (outside of the literally billionaire-purchased media) in normalizing Trumps regime. Schumer and Jeffries aren't "inept", they're collaborators, our Vichy

They were showing each page on the stream lmao

Some ICE vehicles got taken and a streamer is saying that the entire MPLS city wide battle plan, operational overviews, tactical details and agent lists + id info just got found in the car lmao these clowns driving around with hatchbacks full of their whole shit like the villains in an immersive sim

URGENT AID REQUEST A sublet is being held for me(!) but i dont yet have funds to cover rent for it + my storage unit (still applying for jobs) if folks could help & share, it’d go a long way to keeping me housed thru winter! There is an immediate goal (by Saturday) and overall goal (before Feb)💚

Help Sahar please GoFundMe took out her fundraiser and now she's back to 0

Please help Sahar!! GoFundMe has been systematically taking out Gaza fundraisers, now that attention has reduced. Please help Sahar she is having an impossible time right now