Gaza before and during the ongoing genocide.

It’s #Friday folks. Have the best #weekend you can. You know the drill: Be #kind Be #gentle Be #true Be like #bees Be defiant. Be vigilant. Be together in facing down those who would tear apart your community, your country, your planet and your life at the behest of monied psychopaths.

ICE agents at a hotel in St. Paul woke up this morning to news that they’re getting kicked out of their hotel today at noon.

According to DHS, about 3,000 ICE and federal agents are operating in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. THREE THOUSAND! The entire Minneapolis Police Department only has about 580 officers. This is outrageous and unnecessary. Our tax dollars are funding this abuse, so it’s happening in our name.

NOEM IS LYING. I have seen people get taken! It was the same each time: armed men racing out of a blacked-out SUV, seizing a screaming or fleeing pedestrian, and pulling them into the car without any attempt to even learn their identity. Always a person alone on the street. Always a person of color.

🪧💚 ‘The world needs more people who see wildlife as neighbors, not nuisances’ (Reminder: the leading driver of biodiversity loss & species displacement is animal agriculture) ⚖️ HowDoIGoVegan.com

Livestock grazing is allowed across 240 million acres of federal land. Our investigation revealed the subsidies propping up ranching, its impact on the environment and the politics underpinning the system.

Should have clarified the map above is the immediate post WWII era when American military bases became common. Here is a more contemporary version.

Giraffe. "A giraffe's tongue is a remarkable tool, long (18-20 inches), dark (bluish-purple), prehensile (grasping), and tough, allowing it to navigate thorny acacia." Great fact and photo taken by Ann Warner at Mukuvisi Woodlands in Zimbabwe. #giraffe #wildlife #zimbabwe #nature🦒

A civilisation that has passively surrendered to the idea of sinking into its own toxic waste is a civilisation that was never meant to last

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

Eric Swalwell answering a question on how the next governor of California will protect Californians from ICE. “They're going to lose their immunity. They're not going to be able to drive. I will take your driver's license. Good luck walking to work, assholes.”

Wired Magazine has apparently removed the paywall from this important article: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

I have some bad news. One, if you need to use ChatGPT for your graduate application letter, you are not ready for graduate school. Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.

I have some more bad news. If an admissions committee even suspects you used ChatGPT for your application letter, they'll almost certainly decide not to waste a precious admissions spot on you. Instead they'll give it to, you know, someone who actually likes to write and knows how to do it.

Yes in thunder. My syllabus statement:

It's a shame more white men over 35 aren't yelling at them then. Get to work.

impressed by Spanberger thus far, ngl

"I stopped eating meat some 50 years ago," wrote Jane Goodall, "when I looked at the pork chop on my plate and thought: this represents fear, pain, death." Best as I can tell, not one obituary or article on her passing mentions this fact. It's worth knowing. news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...

I find it relatively heartening, though, how they came in with “We can kill you at our whim” and have been forced to pivot to “Our widdle agents are so scared :( they’re bleeding internally :( this is just self-defense” Like say what you will about the Gestapo but they didn’t whine like this

I’m physically following them around using my government name telling them to arrest me and they haven’t bothered to arrest me. Also half the US Attorney’s office here in MN just resigned! They do not have a case and they do not have manpower, but their only tool is trying to be menacing.

This is going exactly as predicted. “That all staff and faculty of UATX must subscribe to the four principles of anti-communism, anti-socialism, identity politics, and anti-Islamism . . . and that he, Joe Lonsdale, would stay on the board for fifty years" www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2053...

Officers in the Minneapolis-area participating in a U.S. immigration enforcement operation can't detain or tear gas peaceful protesters who aren't obstructing authorities, a judge ruled Friday.

“Maybe DHS was a bad idea” A quarter century ago in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party” The folks who correctly said, 25 years ago, that this was a grave mistake were correct & ignored or shouted down No one listens to Cassandra

block immediately everyone

Read this if you want to feel really good about the bravery and decency of regular Americans slate.com/news-and-pol...

Yes. Do you know how many families are being supported by their neighbors right now? Families afraid to leave home being fed by their neighborhoods; immigrant communities feeding the old hippies standing on their street corners with whistles in 10-degree snowstorms. They cannot break us

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.

a few things I want people to get from this: -how tense it is here. I was death-gripping the steering wheel during this, even watching it makes me tense up -how organized the community is. the rapid response networks are ENORMOUS and highly effective -how completely the city is united against ICE

should I post the full 8 minute video of a bunch of commuters, observers, and one insane e-biker running an ice convoy clear out of uptown, or is that excessive

When the racist meme becomes national policy

"Vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval." www.ms.now/opinion/minn...

A few of the major immigrants rights groups in Maryland released a joint statement asking people *not* to use ICE whistles in Maryland www.instagram.com/p/DTlUAariXnU/

I find it deeply shameful to be a member of the species that invented the "porta-potty magnate."

This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...

I was just today reading Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" for the first time. Anyway, the future's turning out to be much, much worse than I could have imaged.

“don’t GIVE him what he wants just let him DO whatever he wants!” - half the Democratic Party and also the ghost of Neville Chamberlain, probably

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

Roundup of the insane rhetoric coming from the right at the moment. It's remarkable how *little* violence we've seen from protesters, given the feds' aggression. Maybe I've missed something, but the worst I've seen is people throwing snowballs. The MN weather has injured more cops than protesters.

Tear gas — currently being deployed in Minneapolis — can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses. The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. From our 2020 investigation:

Lets start with DOGE's stated goals: Did it cut $1 trillion in spending and halve the deficit? No. Looking at aggregate spending patterns, you would have no idea that DOGE existed.

"ICE is out of control and beyond reform. We must fundamentally change the way we approach immigration: it’s time to abolish ICE." See, Dems? You can actually say it, and even draft legislation about it! It's possible to do!

So far today Israel has murdered a Palestinian woman & child. Yesterday they murdered at least 10 Palestinians The point of the 'ceasefire' isn't to stop Israel killing Palestinians but to allow countries to more easily resist calls to put pressure on Israel & to reverse any actions already taken

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

Ongoing and obvious reminder that firing chemical weapons directly at people's heads like this *is* deadly force.

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

When a wildlife agency starts asking which refuges “no longer align with the mission,” it’s preparing to liquidate. Habitat doesn’t fail a mission. Missions fail habitat. www.cpr.org/2026/01/11/u...

Seriously though, these twerps are living in hotels. If they can’t get door dash delivered and they can’t go to restaurants…that might become a problem! Make them have to get shipments of the shitty prepackaged cold sandwiches and bottled water that they serve on long-haul ICE flights.