"diversity " meaning anything that helps women with anything www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Criminal tribunals will be the bare minimum, and are the modest response under the circumstances

The GOP are going to live to regret that they successfully trained Americans not to be all that afraid of guns.

it doesn’t matter to them it doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or if you were born here or if you have your certificate of naturalization in your back pocket or if you never committed a crime they are shooting whoever they want to

All we do is model fierce love and a mountain of restraint in the face of their hatred and they just keep murdering our neighbors.

If you have any info about the Minneapolis shooting (or the federal reaction), text me via Signal at 202-510-1268

Very cool that Congress just renewed ICE's budget with absolutely zero concessions

General guide on how to help from outside Minnesota: naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h... Places to donate: www.standwithminnesota.com

MS NOW news crew capturing ICE/DHS agents firing pepper balls, flash bangs, and tear gas at non violent protesters. file:///C:/Users/Nikki/Downloads/Velshi-2026-01-24.mp4

in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

A lot of the media has messed up in describing all of these folks who are observing as protesters, they’re neighbors who quickly come out of their homes to document ICE presence knowing that their privilege is the only thing possibly standing in the way of a neighbor being disappeared or brutalized.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

There is video circulating on social media of a group of ICE agents beating a man near 26th and Nicollet in south Minneapolis, then one of the ICE agents shoots the man while he's on the ground numerous times. A witness can be heard yelling that the victim is dead.

Live on MS NOW: A man being pinned down by multiple federal agents. He is shouting that he's a U.S. citizen and adds: "I have done nothing wrong." To the side: A woman sobs on the street. She says she's the man's wife. She says they were just running away from the tear gas when he was taken.

Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*

Yep. There are split duties here. Miller broadcasts undisguised bloodlust to the base, openly relishing the sadism and cruelty of ICE's paramilitary warfare against Americans on Fox News. Vance sells it to non-MAGA Republicans and independents by speaking piously about law enforcement under siege.

Incredibly horrible

At a demo for the Strutt "smart powerchair" at ILRCSF. you can set it up with fencing at your home or office, like a fancy Roomba, and it can autodetect people or obstacles to stop or navigate around them #wheelchairs #powerchairs #strutt

Map here of 215 solidarity actions with the Minneapolis General Strike paydayreport.com/donate-to-tr...

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.

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

how dare the man who hangs out with his mom and grandmother type in a pink skin tight shirt and enjoys a fancy royal life by day, to wrestle with a skeleton at night in a metal harness and furred briefs, and calls himself HE-MAN dare use pronouns.

No one tell these guys about Fisto.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

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I spoke to a friend on the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota board. They need financial donations to keep up with the heightened demand for their services: www.ilcm.org ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND

Is there any hope of impeaching Trump? Even if not the Dems need to be trying over and over. This is insanity

My sleepy cats #Caturday #CatsOfBlueSky

Nothing to see here folks, just a sitting president investing in two companies whose merger he claims sole authority to approve or reject. Totally normal! 🙃

When sitting Governors and a Mayors talk about what the federal government is doing, that's of course a felony. But when the outgoing President conspires for weeks to overturn an election he lost then tells a crowd to storm the Capitol, that's of course a sacred and protected "official act." 🫠

I wonder why this is happening.

"Worse than Bush after Katrina" is a polling benchmark that I thought that partisan polarization had made impossible

This is exactly what is happening we are in a hyper normalizing environment for the fascists and they are doing all they can to reset the levels of acceptability to include murder and firing live ammo into crowds of unarmed protestors. They are building the infrastructure needed for bloodshed.

this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.

Trump thought he could intimidate Minnesotans and that we would react with riots. Instead, we showed up with compassion, resilience, and strength. We showed the country what real resistance looks like.

“I am not scared, and we will not be scared. We know our rights. We’re U.S. citizens and we’re going to continue to show up,” Halimo said. Amazing story.

Positively shocked that the house magazine of the Manhattan Institute is upset that my book refuses to attribute America's record-high homelessness to "personal choices"—rather than, say, rents outpacing income gains by 325 percent since 1985.

Minneapolis authorities and neighborhood groups are bracing for a demonstration Saturday led by a right-wing provocateur who was among the pardoned Jan. 6 rioters.

Every time I see this man, I wish all the more ardently that we were subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC. I have never shipped a man harder with The Hague.

This is good! I hate that it even has to be ruled on in the first place, but this establishes future legal grounds for cases against these mfers as well as strengthens observers rights. This kind of stuff isn't a fix when ice acts like lawless heathens, but it can still be powerful stuff.

Who’s going to enforce the ruling

A federal judge has prohibited federal immigration agents in Minnesota from arresting, detaining, retaliating against or using force and chemical irritants against peaceful protesters and observers.

I went on a ride along with Will today because I was trying to understand how a mobile patrol works. If you've ever fantasized about being either Spider-Man or Ned Leeds I would recommend going to Defend612 to volunteer. (Spider-Man: patrol. Ned Leeds: dispatch/notetaking/plate checks.)

The South Carolina measles outbreak is growing at an astounding speed More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are "actively infected." The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states

ICE seems to get completely flummoxed when they’re being yelled at by white men over 35. They kind of put their heads down and shuffle their feet. It’s like their kryptonite.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.