ICE Watch does not spur violence; it reduces it, says sociologist @nbedera.bsky.social Keep patrolling. Keep whistling.

I do think when we make the mistake of thinking some crazy move -like invading Greenland- will be too far for even Congressional Republicans, it’s possible we’re not accounting for how much richer our rich weirdos with Bond villain plans are now and what the ROI is on buying politicians these days.

A thread of things you can do to help folks in MN. If you've got funds to throw our way, the below website is a great place to start. I also repost fundraisers regularly as do other people on the ground. 🧵 www.standwithminnesota.com

This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING wat CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This is turning out to be an okay day

okay ...okay.

I’m sorry but what we’re not gonna do is sanitize traditional conservatism which, in practice in the US, believes women should be forced to give birth to their rapist’s child, that gay people are a scourge who deserve to die of AIDS, and that corporations should exist without any regulation.

damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors

haha holy shit this entire thread tho

GENERAL STRIKE! If you can safely take time off, please do. If you can STOP spending (be ready to stop for a few weeks), please do. If can CUT spending (like, by more than half; and again: be ready to do that for a few weeks), please do. If all you can do is raise awareness, that's not nothing --

Oh, no Did they suffer any internal bleeding

Meanwhile, over on the book of faces I've been served ads from FORTY-THREE DIFFERENT Congressional Dems so far today asking for donations. It's good to know they're focused on protecting us www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGvW...

Your regular reminder that there is no legal path from martial law to suspending elections in this country. That doesn't mean there is no path. It just means that we need to reject the framing that the federal government has any legal authority to cease elections.

From ever-brilliant @rubenbolling.bsky.social another great cartoon. See original here bsky.app/profile/rube... And reminder that a certain SCOTUS member will be immortalized for something other than "I like beer!" We should use his name in every account of these skin-color-based roundups.

FUCK that.

...someone please set this to Yakety Sax

Here's more, with details. Share widely, streams got taken down, make sure they cant put the genie back in the bottle or go after a handful of people. bsky.app/profile/adap...

Walz and other governors must call the National Guard to protect the citizens against ICE They will do this, or eventually the people will take matters into their own hands This is not a statement about what should or should not happen, it's a statement of fact

They hate us so much but we love each other more

He'd have a lot less time for these shenanigans if they'd release the full, minimally redacted Epstein files

Want to help folks being terrorized by ICE in Minnesota? Well look at this google doc someone made. Lots of GoFundMe's that haven't met their goals yet. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

fuck NO I haven't "Everyone does"?? My throwing arm is tired, kindly yeet your own ass into the sun

One of the shitty things about the racist and anti-lgbtq extremist direction of this administration (and all those like them) is people and corporations quit celebrating, or even supporting, marginalized people to avoid 'trouble.' Fuck trouble. Fuck bigots. Raise your voice.

Please consider helping me to get my phone service turned back on + eat. I am currently $44.55 behind on my phone bill (assuming no more bills come out before I can pay it) and am always trying to stay ahead of food costs. Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/epistemophagy PayPal: paypal.me/epistemophagy

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Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

I haven't trusted @cnn.com since they helped put this grifter in the White House the first time

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

On one hand, very lmao. On the other hand “please send us your most bloodthirsty volunteers so we can rain revenge down on Minnesotans with whistles” is… less lmao

Looks like Target is at the "fascists welcome here" level of desperate to get people into their stores. Keep that boycott going, y'all

This is amazing. Everyone should have such a helpful corner store guy in their...well, corner

This guy is grossss and AFAIK he's never even tried to properly apologize to his victims. Blocking & blacklisting

A whole squad of Border Patrol needs to take over a Target just so Bovino can have a pee. (Community chased them off fast.) Anyway, word is that Target is allowing them to be there. Keep up that Target boycott, folks.

On the phone with them right now. You can host the armed goons terrorizing our families, or you can host us.

The DAY before

There's no statute of limitations on murder OR kidnapping.

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Last spring, I encouraged folks to channel their fears and anxiety about the state of the world into being prepared. The guide is still completely free to access. Large parts of it involves you organizing what you have, and not spending money. There's also a "I'm overwhelmed" section.

The ICE agent who shot Marimar Martinez in Chicago tried to goad her out of her car. He said “do something b*tch” and shot her 5 times. The ICE agent who shot Nicole Renee Good did the same thing. Stood right in front of her vehicle and yelled “f*cking bitch”. They hate women & it shows.

You notice that whenever a powerful person flagrantly commits a crime, legislators always go "we need to make a law against this" as if it's not already illegal according to laws that already exist? What Elon's doing is already illegal, and has been illegal longer than ICE has existed.

It's shameful that I first heard about this yesterday. All of our major media outlets are complicit in this racist, fascist regime

The resident dean who was fired was given only ten days to vacate his housing. @harvard.edu is putting a Black family — with a newborn baby — out on the street because of comments opposing white supremacy. Please donate to their gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @peters.senate.gov @slotkin.senate.gov -- THIS is how it's done

I was first unsettled, then increasingly furious at the New York Times' coverage of the death of Lia Smith. Here's a thread sharing some trily despicable choices made by @julietmacur.bsky.social in writing about this young woman's suicide.

You'd think a Marxist would understand the power of language and the harms in misusing language, but then you'd remember that it's surprisingly difficult for some Marxists to know when to just shut the fuck up

John Jacob Olivas, 48, an ICE agent from Riverside, CA, was sentenced in 2023 to a life sentence for rape and “systematic torture of women”. He repeatedly brandished his ICE credentials to assert to his victims that he was "above a cop" and "invincible" and threatened to have their children removed.

better way to think of this is “20,000 of the dumbest, most violent people in the country currently receive government subsidies for their stupidity and violence. should we continue doing that?”

ICE has been beating people in the street for months. Half the country's out of work, living in terror, or both. One of my senators is completely AWOL & this one's out here cherry-picking easy wins. If the Democrat Party is a garbage fire, Senator Peters is the most melted tire on the pile