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I guess we're going to have an in-real-life study of how terrible measles actually is and why we need the vaccine. 🙃

Everyone needs to mention this when they contact their electeds about not voting on the DHS bill.

one way or another, your brain and your body will take breaks. you can do this intentionally, through planning for it, sharing skills, and passing things off… … or unintentionally, in ways that are more disruptive to you and others. you can take regular, shorter breaks, or burn out entirely.

I paid my therapist a zillion dollars to tell me this, so I’m passing it on to anyone else in MN who needs to hear it: Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted

Please note this is only the deaths we have been told about - and does not include however many people have died in overseas gulags.

Congresswoman @ayannapressley.bsky.social has been trying to get qualified immunity eliminated her ENTIRE career. What the fuck is it going to take to get people to listen to her?

[hushed david attenborough voiceover] watch closely for a rare sighting of the elusive head of the Leopards Eating Faces party

The aggregation of 22 separate federal agencies, most of which had nothing to do with each other, into DHS was the second most corrosive post-9/11 action taken (after the passing of the PATRIOT Act) and I will die on that hill

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

Her name is Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellano

Feels like ICE is trying to use Ye Old 20th Century Death Squad techniques, except they totally failed to account for the fact that social media is ubiquitous now and the regime still has basically 0 effective control over "bystanders posting constant video online of death squad movements."

When you need a legendary rock star to do the absolute weirdest thing, accept no substitutes: make it Neil Young. bsky.app/profile/raws...

This mid-afternoon Alex Pretti vigil at the Portland VA was not heavily promoted. But the crowd probably stretches a quarter mile or more. Americans are galvanized and grieving.

This thread is 🔥

ICE in minneapolis are causing international incidents because agents don’t understand what a consulate is and tried entering ecuador’s the country has put out a statement in spanish

Please examine what body cams *didn’t do* to stop police violence over the last decade plus since they were initially touted as a solution and understand that some of you are now rallying behind a false solution that will be a tool of criminalization more often than anything else.

All so that Acting Director Lyons doesn’t have to appear in person before Chief Judge Schiltz on Friday…

To be clear: I'm glad she's throwing him under the bus, but it doesn't fucking excuse her. She's an adult who is literally the secretary of homeland security. If she can't say no to murderous, unconstitutional orders given by someone who isn't her actual boss, she should be impeached.

When two police officers were shot in NE Portland last week, Oregon's right wing influencer sphere was convinced that this must be some radical leftist who did it. Instead, it was someone many of those folks had previously attended MAGA flag waves with. leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/por...

People should be as free to move as capital. Make it easy to immigrate and become a citizen. EASY. Borders should be just for dealing with dangerous contraband(& that should be just dangerous stuff & counterfeit or adulterated drugs) and actually dangerous people, like, y’know, keeping NAZIS out.

La Migra have always been monsters, be they INS, ICE, CBP, HSI or any other weird slush fund org. Just nobody heard the brown people who were their primary prey when they told you. immigration isn’t a problem in need of violence. It needs more paths & access, open doors. All else funds cartels.

Fuck any unamerican motherfucker who cannot, with pride, agree with the Mother of Exiles: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Someone not on site. Someone who’d done no investigation. Someone who only wanted a divisive political narrative to justify the cold blooded killing of an American citizen, but had no remorse for his death. Someone who doesn’t belong in a powerful position in our government.

ICE has killed 9 folks in the first 26 days of ‘26: • Alex Pretti • Renee Good • Keith Porter • Heber Sanchaz Domínguez • Victor Manuel Diaz • Parady La • Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz • Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres • Geraldo Lunas Campos They all deserve justice. And for us to remember their names.

HELL YES FUCK UP OUR TECH COMPANIES MONEY TALKS

BREAKING: In a loss, a Virginia court blocks Democratic lawmakers’ push to redraw the state’s congressional map aimed at countering GOP gerrymanders nationwide. Unless overturned, the ruling will keep Democrats from flipping as many as four seats before the midterms.

oh they are going to rip each other to shreds as it becomes clear that the country has decisively turned against them

*lips to mic* Do You Like Bluebirds? 🧵

These might be my favorite batch of bluebird pics I took yesterday.

😳 Welp. It’s one thing to know that Congressional Republicans are just parroting whatever Trump tells them to say. It’s something else to discover that they’re LITERALLY just parroting whatever he tells them to say.

Explosive WaPo article Since July, DHS has fired shots at 16 people; has hit 10 , including 4 US citizens. 10 victims charged, but 4 cases later dismissed. No agents charged. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

lmao, land-speed record for fastest leaked audio

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Always the minimalist.

DAMN good question, Lori. Why HASN'T Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke made any effort to investigate the CBP killing of Silverio Villegas González in Franklin Park on September 12, 2025?

Considering there are over a thousand accounts of sexual assault by ICE, women defending themselves from ICE "agents" by whatever means at their disposal falls squarely in the justification of "self defense".

Family members of two Trinidadian men killed in a U.S. military boat strike have SUED the Trump administration, accusing it of wrongful death and extrajudicial killings. Their families say they were fishermen and farm workers simply returning home. (via NBC News. Link in reply.)

I heard someone say it was “extreme” to demand the names of the ICE agents who murdered Alex Pretti. No. Demanding government disclosure of the names of government agents when they kill Americans is moderate. Wanting to read the names off the plaque at a mass grave would be, perhaps, extreme.

@booker.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov

Corporate Democrats don’t want to abolish ICE because they helped make it what it is today and they focus on training because they want to retain a robust force but would rather they weren’t so openly fascistic We’ve been in a good cop bad cop situation our entire lives and it’s past time to see it

"CBP stays at the border" might sound like a win, but keep in mind that this is what "the border" means to them www.aclumaine.org/know-your-ri...

ICE is already not supposed to be doing like 90% of what they’re doing, “restrictions” means jack all to these people. Defund, TO START

As I said yesterday, CBP believes ANY international entry into the United States is a border and that they can operate within 100 miles of borders. This is NOTHING. You can never do a bad idea well. Gut DHS or get the fuck out of the way

so do we think the USA government just like... thought they could do that? did they just unilaterally decide they were doing that and didn't think it would be an issue? the plot THICKENS

The reality of the situation is that whatever Trump personally thinks about anything, he is allowing Stephen Miller to run his administration because he is lazy and stupid, and the entire decision-making apparatus on immigration has been infested with Nazis.

Can’t wait to never call it that, just as we never call National “Reagan”

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

No policy change or tone shift brings back Renee Good / Alex Pretti/ Keith Porter Accountability requires Justice