So here is our modified template for the 12 month exam. Updated to reflect what RFKj hath wrought.

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats

Not sure who needs to hear this, but the Insurrection Act isn’t the same as “martial law.” It authorizes the molitary to engage in civil law enforcement. And not clear that even then, whether they can enforce state criminal laws

This dude rules

Putting "cos-playtriot fuck" in my back pocket for future use.

This dude, indeed, rules. I guess he’s an influencer of some kind, but I feel like so many people are, more or less. out there yelling “shoot me, bitch.” Every single threat and warning from an ICE agent is just met with greater disdain and more people in the street telling them to fuck off.

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Trump's ability to dismantle federal agencies and departments. A future Democratic president should use that precedent to do the same to ICE. newrepublic.com/article/2053...

Also cheerfully describing Trump as "a rapist, pedophile, thief... what else can I say?" And about Frey: "Honestly, he can go fuck himself."

Props to the lady giving an interview in her pink UFFDA hat and saying, "well, gosh, I've never had tear gas and flashbangs shot at me, but I'm happy to take it so my neighbors are safe."

this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"

The word for that is "invasion."

BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.

PPE, you are looking for FUME respirators. You want P100s, N95s will work in a pinch. bsky.app/profile/geek...

The green gas looks like this. bsky.app/profile/notu...

Symptoms look like a weird flu you just can't shake off because it has fucked over your cells. my.clevelandclinic.org/health/disea...

I was supposed to be in bed an hour ago but sending links and videos to people so they know to avoid the green gas (zinc chloride). Once a lab steward, always a lab steward. Seriously, I was a chemist twenty years ago, you do NOT want heavy metal toxicity. It fucks you up in weird ways.

Overcompensation - by power mad white men in this case - can take other forms besides guns and trucks so huge they need steps to get in them.

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

This is a critical point. What we're really witnessing is the *collapse* of law and order, brought about by Trump's lawless thugs. I think a lot of ordinary people intuitively understand that this is what's happening.

Page One in Detroit: Sabula. @freep.com

@laurajedeed.bsky.social embarrassed ICE by attending one of their job fairs and being hired with little to no actual vetting. Then they decided, rashly, to come for her ... and got a fistful of receipts. newrepublic.com/post/205300/...

We need a link to training protocols.

No! The criticism of the Dems isn't that they never win elections, it's that they don't use power to solve the problems that got us here. Elite impunity, concentration of wealth, the unitary executive. Winning is only step 1

We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol. It’s worse than you thought. Check it out, first in Inside Medicine… with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...

And on flash bangs: bsky.app/profile/eric...

Just searched duckduckgo for this story and got the following results. The story on the right using passive voice is still available (9hrs old). The one on the left (4 hrs old), with an accurate and active voice, takes you to the result in the screenshot on the right. Looks like censorship to me.

On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.

For non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

The reality is that ICE and DHS actually CAN and ARE attacking people who are exercising their rights. I say this NOT to dissuade anyone from exercising those rights, but to challenge @tedlieu.bsky.social and other politicians to do more to protect those rights than post this kind of thing.

Everything going on in Minneapolis is horrific and there need to be trials and people going to prison when we can get ahold of it. But I would also note that it is kind of a demonstration of how stretched thin the feds are that -one- moderately sized urban area requires this level of resource.

THEY DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH BIG STUPID BOYS

Marisa, if you could share the DEICER app (which the govt got pulled from App stores, but it’s now a web app). It has a great reporting/warning feature, your rights & other features. It’s in Somalian as well as 4 other languages. (I wrote a little thread about it here…) bsky.app/profile/stef...

This app is anonymous. You are not required to create a login. My good friend Rafael Concepcion, a professor, created it before he lost his job at Syracuse University due to DEI. When you first hit the site, it will ask you to share your location. This lets it know what city and area to show you.

People heard that the DEICER app was removed from the app stores a few months ago. It was removed, but it’s not gone! You can't get it in app stores, but you can download a web app that works on both platforms here. deicer.org It seems important, with the recent escalation, to share information!

Portland Public Schools published this notice in their community newsletter yesterday as rumors of ICE coming to town began to circulate: www.portlandschools.org/calendars/pp...

BREAKING — Mark Dion, Mayor of Portland, Maine just released this media statement re: ICE coming to the Portland and Lewiston. He says "While we respect the law, we challenge the need for a paramilitary approach to the enforcement of federal statutes." Full statement shared with me:

BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally. Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.

99% chance this is what they mean

Quinnipiac gave me unpublished data from new poll and it finds huge, huge, huge percentages of young and working class voters have seen video of Minneapolis shooting. Majorities of both disapprove of ICE. Pundits are getting the working class/immigration wrong: newrepublic.com/article/2052...

He didn't suffer shit because no car ever touched him, but you know who likely suffered some internal bleeding after he shot her 3 times and called her a "fucking bitch?" Renee Good.

you know, it feels eerily similar to when the germans came for my great-grandpa because he wasn't "aryan" enough and took him straight to the nearest arbeitsamt. next stop was deportation to a slave labor camp in germany. that's how ICE looks like from my across-the-ocean perspective.

scitechdaily.com/scientists-d... 🔥 very interesting new development 🔥

I don't like to recommend a lot of Minnesotanisms to the greater world, but this one they have figured out

Whenever I am bleeding internally after being hit by a car I keep filming on my cell phone while briskly walking away from the scene without waiting for medical attention. What about you guys?

It used to be that victims of murders in the U.S. would be smeared by InfoWars and Gateway Pundit as a way to fetishize guns and violence for ad dollars and supplement sales, with the added benefit of cozying up to far-right politicians. Now that work is done by CBS News.

FWIW, when I got my meningitis vaccine renewed last week, the pharmacist asked why I was getting it. I said "I work at the university," she said "Good enough," I got the shot.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...