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WCCO looks at one day's worth of petitions for release filed by those arrested during ICE surge. Majority with no criminal record. People were picked up on the way to get prescriptions, going to work, and showing up for scheduled immigration check ins. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

There are 70,000 people in DHS concentration camps. 3000 are children. Close the camps. Being our neighbors home.

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This is a long thread but you should read it. In related news, judges *must* start holding AUSAs in contempt (and then locking them up) if we want this to stop without more bloodshed.

I wrote this poem a few weeks ago, right before the murder of Alex Pretti, but I forgot to share it here until now. It feels dated already, but the defiant hope it expresses is still important. It's called "We Are Not Machines, and We Are Destroying Fascism Anyway."

Living in Minnesota right now feels like being in the emergency room. Literally everyone is suffering in different ways, even if it's "just" a badly twisted ankle rather than a kidney stone or a full-on heart attack. The staff are working as hard as they can but energy and resources are dwindling.

With apologies to our twin and the burbs and greater MN, this is part of why I think it really kicked off in Minneapolis: we knew no one was coming to save us. Statewide liberals find us distasteful. Our mayor all but hates us. We have some strong as fuck council members and state reps and sens, but

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Interesting that the married wife uses the word “wife” in her quote, but the NBC News headline writer uses “partner” like gay marriage doesn’t exist. @erinmayequade.bsky.social

This is something I've been noticing more and more as the weeks drag on here in Minneapolis. Lots of people can drive. I hate driving. But my Spanish is quite good, and I sing well and am comfortable leading/teaching protest songs. So I'm going to focus on what I'm good at. It takes all kinds!

Obviously the layoffs at the Washington Post are devastating to journalism, the media, and especially all the journalists themselves who've lost their jobs. Please, please don't start a Substack. There are so many other options that aren't overrun by Nazis.

caucuses are tomorrow! find your location here: caucusfinder.sos.mn.gov i highly recommend volunteering to be a delegate or alternate to conventions, and i highly recommend volunteering for pre-convention committees, even if you don't have prior experience

For the record, shaming people for being able to eat/keep food down during traumatic events is a really shitty thing to do. Humans deserve to eat, period. And: people who are properly nourished have more energy for activism. And: some of us are in precarious recovery from eating disorders.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

Seeing every rich anti-trans eugenicist - Rowling, Chomsky, Trivers, Christakis, Rowan, etc - appear in the Epstein files really lays bare how nothing is unconnected. These people have class solidarity, yes, but they see a world purged of unhumans (with the rest subjugated) as their overarching goal

It’s SO much fucking worse. But talking about just makes people go, lol no you’re exaggerating. Fuck, I wish I was. 😤

dig if you will this picture

1/x 🧵 ICE has booked at least 3,800 children + (Drawing by a 5-year-old detained in Texas with her mother. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” You don't have to know your Bible to hear myriad echoes here, but phew, those too.)

People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.

The unspoken rules for protest in the US have been, for decades, that if you have a big tame sign-holding march, it's safe to bring your kids. If you're not perceived as threatening their power, they'll leave you alone. Which means they perceive their unpopularity as a threat to their power

Don’t forget the kids who weren’t lucky enough to have a cute photo go viral to get people outraged on their behalf. They ALL must be released.

You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something. Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.

And not to put too fine a point on it, but a president who ran on eliminating “illegal” immigrants created a ton more “illegal” immigrants by canceling a bunch of actual real legal statuses. He took people off the path that everyone says they want people on.

The murders have understandably gotten the most attention but I really want accountability for the assaults as well. I have been thinking about that person who got pepper sprayed directly in the face while being held down and hoping they're OK.

And, of course, calling an entire demographic group sexual predators/criminals/etc is also Nazi rhetoric. Not to mention that ICE is doing roving patrols where they stop and assault anyone they think looks foreign or might be filming them. This isn't about anyone's actual criminal record.

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In Mpls, 3 conventions to elect delegates to: city (school board), state (constitutional offices, legislature, Congress), county (attorney, commissioners, sheriff) I’m backing: - Senate: Peggy over Angie - CD 5: Ilhan over LaTonya - Hennepin: Frazier (Atty), Greene & Fernando (contested commish) 1/

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

The great Alasdair Gray said, "work as if you live in the early days of a better nation" and we try to follow his rule. Sometimes the work means you don't work. Y'all, we do what we can & we will keep doing it.

If you're not from Minnesota this may seem like a solidly-worded firm "no." But you may not realise how MUCH of a no... this is actually the Minnesotan equivalent of yelling "EAT ME" and mooning all the agents. Politely.

The main takeaway for me here is that they cannot imagine doing labor for others without remuneration. They cannot conceive of giving of themselves to their community. And that really says everything about their ideology.

The fact that both Good and Pretti's killers remain at large is in itself damning. On the most neutral, quote unquote law abiding sense, indict them and give them a free trial, as is their right under the Constitution. But even starting that process is something those in power are desperate to avoid

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

remember, you can yell scream and curse at the political fundraising texts, but DO NOT reply with an actionable threat because the US attorney’s office considers the volunteer batch sending them to be a live human recipient of that message. it’s not just a bot. those cases can and do get charged.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

FYI y’all, this is most assuredly not an account with good intentions. Block liberally.

Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times, up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

The last time ICE executed a Minnesotan, they immediately went to a local school and tear-gassed parents and students at dismissal. So folks beware today

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

I am so proud of my city.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

There is no version of medical ethics under which this is anything other than lunacy

Ben Luhmann, who filmed this, is one of the two high schoolers from a conservative Christian family I rode along with in Chicago when they were searching for ICE agents there. When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...

He is a 5-year-old asylum seeker who entered the country legally with his dad. "Liam...is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He comes into class every day and just brightens the room,” his teacher says. Older sibling came home from middle school to find his dad and little brother gone

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