Horrible day. ICE is preparing a deportation flight to Laos so some of my former, current, and were-to-be clients are being brought to the Whipple Building and shipped off to Louisiana for final removal. Lots of calls from them, their families, and friends. So much pain visited on our community

NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.

“The researchers struggled to confirm the full scale of the injuries, because ‘visual investigative techniques cannot adequately assess invisible injuries, such as chemical injury or chronic pain or hearing loss’. “‘The true number of injuries is likely far greater,’ the report adds.”

If you're in greater New Orleans, be aware that ICE enforcement activity has increased in recent weeks as the Trump administration has stepped up actions nationwide. New from @veritenews.org. veritenews.org/2026/07/14/i...

ice contractor geo group has officially inked a $529 million deal to reopen a shuttered prison outside denver as an immigration jail. as part of the deal, geo will pay the owner of the private prison, chicago-based highlands reit, $958,000+ per month—a figure that will increase annual by 3%.

fascinating economic discovery from Fidelity: houses actually are cheaper now than in 2020!* * if you denominate them in an arbitrary asset that has appreciated over that time frame

ICE has fatally shot 11 people since Donald Trump's second term began. These are not isolated incidents. They are the predictable result of a cruel, violent system. Abolish ICE.

Let’s not ignore this. Republicans blatantly lying about who is dead or alive, appointing sister senators, brutally killing neighbors on the street, destroying the ICC, bombing civilians. This is us. Don’t look away. Don’t shirk responsibility. Behold, this is me and you, we bear responsibility.

This woman clearly didn’t watch DS9 Season 3, Episodes 11 and 12

ICE killed a Colombian man. He was legally authorized to work. His wife and 3-year-old daughter were in the car when ICE fired at least 5 times. He was not their target. Agents wore no body cameras. This is fascism. Prepare: PAXIS.app Keep it free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS

Justice for Joan Sebastian Guerrero.

So fantastical that Gemini search which is 100% wrong 100% of the time thinks it’s for a game or a story. This is real life Googs get with it!

I got a lot of mercy in my heart for people who commit crime and acts of violence in moments of desperation and weakness. Humans are frail and fallible almost by definition. If you're doing crime with Power and Authority I think the vice should snap shut so hard they find you two pieces.

Bring that animal back here and put his ass in a cage. If the feds don't got the spine to do it: Moriarty does.

the wedge live band of all saxophonists is called george and the michaels and they played the sax part of “careless whisper” under a bridge by the mississippi river after we biked here

The Senator from South Carolina actually died not Kentucky? I did not John C. Calhoun that coming.

Mitch McConnell’s explanation to constituents why he was gone for a month: “Guys it my childhood polio. Get your kids vaccinated. I have lived this nightmare my whole life having poor balance, no one has to suffer this anymore. I know we are all big on vaccines so I know you will all understand.”

Breaking news Mitch McConnell alive, had heart attack, stroke, hemorrhaging and broke bones, did not have pneumonia or had major pneumonia.

Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime must be stopped.

It's telling that even more politically-aligned jurisdictions are getting shut out by federal authorities. In Minnesota, top federal officials said clearly that federal agents have immunity. That logic appears to extend past geographic and even ideological borders.

Just waiting on #$DJT to announce a pivot to data centers to end it.

Two dominant propositions on LLMs in progressive spaces, as I may misunderstand roughly, “they are useless,” and, “they are part of the surveillance state and *they* are trying to rule us all.” These propositions are fairly antithetical to one another, if they are useless they won’t be as effective.

I talked to, “Mitch McConnell,” for 20 minutes this morning and asked how wolfy is doing, he said, “Wolfy’s fine, he’s just fine honey.” I immediately hung up the phone and told my son, “Mitch McConnell is dead.”

ok so Mitch McConnell is actually straight up completely dead then

Ok so Mitch McConnell is actually just straight up dead then

Have they tried bringing Mitch McConnell to a voodoo doctor and then putting a walkman on his ears playing conga music so they can follow him as he dances underwater leading them to a treasure chest containing two million dollars? If not they should because they could use that money to buy a yacht.

One of the most mundane truths in the world is that the biggest threat to any person comes from their own government, as a simple function of proximity and opportunity, and begging them to protect you from The Foreigners is a great way to increase your vulnerability.

Funeral processions for the 51 people who have died in ICE detention. These are recorded deaths and there could be more. Happened this morning on July 4th, in Minneapolis. @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @mn50501.bsky.social

Based on witness accounts, the use of force appeared to be unprovoked. An ICE agent pulled the vehicle alongside the protest area, rolled down the window, fired the pepper ball launcher, and drove away. Witnesses said there was prior interaction between the agent and protester struck.

Said the Royalist in 1775

Minneapolis is a shining star that reminds us of the reasons our country had a Declaration of Independence 250 years ago. Our opposition to tyranny continues. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

i understand why progressives stayed out of the race (and focusing on flanagan over craig was perhaps the right move) but given how pathetic amy klobuchar’s campaign has been, this could have been us.

NEW: Minnesota 15 Defendant Isaac Sant Speaks Out "It's about quelling dissent in Minneapolis. And it's about coming after the movement that rose up against ICE during Metro Surge in December and January," said Isaac Sant, one of 15 defendants charged with conspiracy for their anti-ICE activism.

ICE's Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota earlier this year left in its wake human rights violations, widespread terror and laid bare the United States immigration enforcement’s volatile and abusive behavior, according to a Human Rights Watch / @hrw.org report published on June 18.

New meme template just dropped, “Yo baby girl twin A your admission has been denied.”

Turnout and enthusiasm inside of the culturally liberal/progressive populous in the United States matters far more than persuasion than it used to in the boomer days, 1980s-2010s because, "truth," doesn't matter as much anymore as much as just pure motivation and enthusiasm.

I met Neal Conan back in 2010-ish and had a conversation going with him on Twitter for a while. Throwback. He was a real one. He knew war and was in war, was captured by Iraqi troops in the first gulf war. What do people who were in war say about war? They hate it. legacy.npr.org/news/special...

If you’re from Minneapolis you’ll appreciate this deeply.

Unsealed court docs spotlight Judge John Docherty scolding federal prosecutors and investigators in Minnesota for failing to meet even the most basic legal probable cause requirements while filing for search warrants of activists and press in the Cities Church case.

You HAVE to consent to have your data shared with Google, Anthropic and OpenAI when you sign up for an account with Dr. On Demand. They claim they have a zero retention policy (though I'm not sure they can really enforce this except through a lawsuit, which they might not be able to afford).

We need independent local businesses. They provide important products and services, provide unique third spaces for community to gather, and critically they provide choice and resilience against growing corporate dominance. 3/

The judge said the tenuous connection between the information sought and possible criminal charges "adds to the overwhelming evidence that these subpoenas were not issued to investigate, but to harass, coerce, and retaliate.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

15 Minneapolis organizers are being persecuted by the federal government for standing against ICE's terror. We should be clear on what this action by Trump's DOJ is -- another attempt to threaten us into silence and complicity. We stand with our neighbors. Donate Now! buff.ly/v4xIgz7

Aftermath of Israeli bombing in Lebanon.

The notion of bombing Mexico may seem unlikely, but it keeps getting revisited. www.latinopublicpolicy.org/2023/08/why-...

Stay strong everyone. Bruce Springsteen just released a song called "Dog Park of Minneapolis." This flight is only just beginning.

Trump, breathing heavily, threatens Mexico: "Now we're gonna go and focus on the land. They [drugs] come through Mexico. Mexico has lost control of their country. The cartels run Mexico. The president is a very scared woman."

Chemical irritants sprayed at protesters outside Warren E. Burger Federal Building