“Oh, my brother Won't you stand here beside me We shall carry each other And should your soul grow weary Or the strength leave your bones Oh my brother I will carry you home” youtu.be/uZVtT1jsQN0

We all need to brush up on our strengths and practice our moves. It takes a lot of different skill sets to sustain our communities right now

Not embarrassed to admit that my Kirsten staged her own protest a couple of weeks ago.

Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

“The peasants you kill are your own brothers and sisters. … No soldier is obliged to obey a law contrary to the law of God. In the name of God, in the name of our tormented people, I beseech you, I implore you; in the name of God I command you to stop the repression.” - St. Óscar Romero

bsky.app/profile/heat... ICE has now murdered a poet and a nurse in Minneapolis. They obviously shouldn't be murdering anyone, but there's something telling in the stark difference between their own work and the lives they're taking.

Alex Pretti was a nurse and an an alum of UMN.

The whole of Congress should be descending on Whipple right now.

Body cameras do not fix this. Better training does not do this. Shutting down the agency and engaging in large-scale Nuremberg Trials are the way to handle denazification.

If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.

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

"You should have already received an email as to whether you are on Team Soros, Team Obama, Team Illuminati, Team Secretive Jewish Cabal, The Cheney Family We’re As Surprised As You Are Team, or Oprah’s Very Special Protest Club." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...

Experts who have followed authoritarian regimes abroad can tell you a lot about day-after reprisals to mass movements, which look a hell of a lot like today's killing

I think about this song a lot… youtu.be/0qfJARN1bcs

Trump removing us from the community of nations

“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me"...“We were willing to do for this man, this human, what they were not willing to do for Renee Good,” Zemien said.

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

Once again: none of us can see the future. “We are doomed“ is as completely unfounded as “Victory is certain.” But we do know that there have been long struggles that have succeeded, like the civil rights movement or women’s suffrage. All we can do is try. Assuming we can’t win is just a cop-out.

AYFKM. One of the guys ICE/DHS claimed was living with the innocent US citizen they dragged into the snow in his underwear is currently IN PRISON and already had an ICE detainer on him. It's amateur hour at ICE, and the rights of American citizens are being impacted!

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

Another day, another outrage; ICE under Trump is going to deport dozens of people to Iran, including two gay men previously arrested by the regime who face the death penalty for their orientation, and despite the ongoing crackdowns which have killed thousands. An administration of total inhumanity.

From the Twin Cities Geeks Facebook group, shared by Michael Wallevand: "If you're looking for something more punk to show your solidarity with other humans. I borrowed a bit of the DIY punk ethos and the famous Black Flag logo (and one of their song titles) to create this."

the league tried its damnedest to mess this up, and if rodman didn't have the connection to dc and the community of supporters at audi field, she would be yet another star leaving. they'll tout this as a league-wide win, it is not, the win is the property of the women's soccer community in dc.

"In less than two minutes, they smashed his window and dragged him out of the car." More Gestapo shit in Maine

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.

Ironically, SCOTUS exhibits the same tendency as DOGE did: They're convinced they're so brilliant they can casually override the deliberative conclusions of people much better informed than they are based on vibes, without needing to put in any work or serious thought.

Everyone in America should have to see these cases and think about what they mean for the kind of society we are becoming. They killed a mom in her minivan. And now they have grabbed this poor sweet kid, used him as bait to grab his dad, and sent him to a detention center in Texas.

At a time of unprecedented daily scandals, this this whistleblower complaint, and the memo it reveals for the first time, breaks through for me as beyond the pale. It's the federal government conspiring in secret to subvert the Fourth Amendment. Read it here: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

I have had this stuck in my head for at least a week. youtu.be/g0fxMWbAnPE

Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.

Sheriffs nationwide would be losing their f’n minds if a Democratic presidential administration said this. After Sandy Hook, when Obama suggested gun control, sheriffs wrote public statements threatening to lay down their life against the feds.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

ICE kidnapped an elderly Hmong man in St. Paul, Minnesota. The temperature was sub-zero, and he was taken only wearing shorts and Crocs, and no shirt. (1/18/26)

"Sarah explained how to check if your auto insurance covers windows getting busted out by ICE."

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

I spent seven years in Minnesota and the number of times I heard about this damn blizzard and how it ruined trick-or-treating…

What a life!

boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider

She says ICE agents mocked her: “The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock..." www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

put this DHS post in the evidence file for the Nuremberg trials

Minnesota lawyers: this doc is intended to serve as a living, iterated-on clearinghouse for volunteer opportunities. It's very much a work in progress, but I'll be updating it as resources develop. Everyone has something to contribute regardless of practice area or experience. Let's get to work.

so pretty soon ice will have deployed every officer they have to minneapolis and the thing to do then is cut a huge hole in the ice in a big lake and have bugs bunny dress up like a lady and stand behind talking all "help help rescue me from all the foreigners!"

At Mass today, the priest's homily praised the Woolworths sit ins and basically said that keeping your promises in baptism requires a similar bravery, persistence and acceptance of potential bodily harm to protect our immigrant neighbors today. There was thunderous applause after.

Nellie Wong passed January 2nd of this year. Lifelong poet and activist, rest in power