BREAKING: Judge enters TRO blocking feds from interfering with or arresting peaceful protesters in Minnesota. Judge Kate Menendez, Biden appointee. Order: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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 had the pleasure of touring the area with Jim Bear Jacobs a couple times, learning about the sacred sites in and around the area where the Whipple Building now stands.

God I wish they were conspiring to prevent ICE from doing their job

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.

Silence is collaboration, fuckers.

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.

The thing about carceral thinking is that people foreclose their imaginations and think the only thing we can *do* is arrest, prosecute, imprison bad actors. Meanwhile progressive Minneapolis council members and organizers got an eviction moratorium resolution passed unanimously yesterday!

Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed a resolution asking Gov. Walz to enact a statewide eviction moratorium. Resolution text: lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/Fil...

There are 600 Minneapolis police officers. There are 3000 federal thugs in the Twin Cities. There are probably 5000 people plugged into one of the nested rapid response networks FOR MY NEIGHBORHOOD ALONE. Across the region, the number is probably 50,000. THAT'S how you beat them. Build that.

Please read and share with anyone who might be planning on counterprotesting in Cedar-Riverside this weekend

The fact that ICE thugs aren't being lit up by everyone who's got their granddaddy's 30-06 leaning in the corner of the coat closet is a testament to how basically law-abiding almost every Minnesotan is. And even our tolerance is starting to slip.

i feel like few people understand how much restraint minnesotans are showing a lot of people armed themselves after 2020. a lot.

“Defund the police”and burning the police precinct here in Minneapolis both have higher approval ratings than any elected democrat because the Democratic Party helped create the fascist police state we are currently in and people want a party that actually fights back against fascism not become it.

We’ve been on the scene all night in North Minneapolis. While we don’t know all the details, we know that ICE shot another person in our City. We also believe a family is still trapped inside and hasn’t been able to talk to anyone, including an attorney.

I'm talking to Canadians, conveying what I can about the situation in Minnesota, holding the contradictions of "all love either side of the border" plus "I respect the fact that you're boycotting the U.S. economy atm".

After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas. ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.

The silence is deafening.

He spoke to Tim Walz, and issued a statement: www.facebook.com/watch/?v=153...

Does anyone have Winnipeg connections? Particularly in news/politics/community circles?

Let’s talk about abolishing ICE. Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.” /1

Even just a name can put in motion efforts that get someone released. If they're a citizen, we can get them jail support. If they're an immigrant, there are groups working overtime to file habeas petitions before they're whisked out of state. But it starts with a name.

Together, we can make the Twin Cities this administration's Stalingrad.

It's pretty interesting that the 1% slice on the venn diagram of people who believe ICE is making Americans less safe but that it shouldn't be abolished includes 90% of democratic politicians. A leadership cadre with no constituency!

Yeah sure it's fine your honor. WTF?!

UPDATE: Judge Menendez makes it clear she intends to rule on the emergency motion by protesters — seeking to halt key police tactics by ICE in Minnesota — by Thursday afternoon.

Centrists: “Defund” is a terrible slogan! We must fund, support and reform our law enforcement institutions Centrists: how did all these ICE agents get here, I want them “the fuck out” the Left: ah shit, here we go again

Stancil is doing the work and if you are sitting around this site whining instead of putting in work, kindly make yourself useful or get out of the way

My partner @jasoncapsaicin.bsky.social made a step by step guide on how to break up ice in your neighborhood in Minnesota. Enjoy!

MN should reinstate the State Defense Force. Police won't uphold the law. National Guard can be federalized. But, ordinary people proved they are ready and willing to protect the law and their communities. Give them the legal and state power to do it. The SDF would get 100k volunteers in an hour.

Relatedly, when I taught infosec basics a decade ago, one of the heuristics was "are you trying to defend against a state actor, y/n?". Many (not all) infosec/opsec rules that make sense as civilians and consumers do not hold up robustly in the face of the state.

The running joke with my cofounder is that as of 2005 I must be on some kind of list, so I just own it now.

"It is intolerable to a Pelley or Smith or Trump that a city that was once nearly entirely white, Protestant, and Northern European could transform into a polyglot hub with large Somali, Mexican, Hmong, and Vietnamese populations." 1/

There is so much love here.

Three eyed monster says "Fuck ICE! go home cowards."

Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon. Agents drop a gas can at the end and someone kicks it back at them.

Gotta be the Mackenzie

AG Keith Ellison, Minneapolis and St Paul mayors announce plan to sue federal government. Ellison: "This is in essence a federal invasion of the Twin Cities." www.youtube.com/watch?v=u17g...

“Clearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors” is mplsmutualaid, lots of good links: linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid

This. One of the highest-value things our community did during the uprising after George Floyd's murder was to vet information that people were hearing and sort it into confirmed/unconfirmed/untrue buckets.

Everything you can do to slow down ICE's ethnic cleansing pogrom will save lives. If you make it so it takes 12 goons to do a 6-goon job, you're saving lives. Every minute they spend in location 1 is a minute they can't spend in location 2. Every squad they deploy to your city saves another city.

always anti-fascist always anti-ice

Back in June, I organized the inaugural Imagination & Liberation Fest, dedicated to uplifting local activist orgs, getting people involved, and playing tabletop role-playing games that exemplified themes of community, solidarity, and resistance. The final game was Rosenstrasse, by Unruly Games 1/

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

This has been prominently placed in our kitchen for eight years now.

They won't have the numbers to occupy the nation and force everyone to comply, and that's why they're engaged in such an aggressive show of force. They're hoping we all get cowed into submission and do their work of suppression ourselves. Once again, no. The mantra remains "fuck you, make me."

Lemme see if I can turn this in a constructive direction. You can certainly post when/where flyers on SM. Please do as you feel called to do. Do NOT put that info behind a sign-up with people’s data. Especially not from orgs who have already been compromised or willingly cooperated with cops.

I run roleplaying games professionally. A huge part of that is empowering people's imaginations, giving them agency, and helping them model complex systems and consequences. And some of it is also catharsis.

GTFO

If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.