He gives a special mention this week to ten dogs who were rescued by a neighbor from empty apartments "after their humans were disappeared by ICE"

I know this is a small thing compared to the cold-blooded murders, but they TOOK HIS LITTLE HAT “He keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

A truly impressive list of Minnesota businesses and organizations that will be closing for tomorrow's anti-ICE strike > bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

A remarkable sign of the times: Legendary nonviolent resistance scholar and trainer @mariajstephan.bsky.social will be on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social tonight to discuss "what nonviolent action is, why it works, and how to take part in this growing broad-front pro-democracy movement."

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

A remarkable sign of the times: Legendary nonviolent resistance scholar and trainer @mariajstephan.bsky.social will be on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social tonight to discuss "what nonviolent action is, why it works, and how to take part in this growing broad-front pro-democracy movement."

Minnesota’s coalition is demanding: 1: ICE must leave Minnesota now. 2: Renee Good’s killer, Jonathan Ross, must be held legally accountable. 3: No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming budget. “These are moral common sense for a state that values truth, freedom, and life.”

A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE. It includes: -Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 -The MN AFL-CIO -SEIU Local 26 -UNITE HERE Local 17 -CWA Local 7250 -Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators -Faith leaders And more. 🧵

It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.

Half the street corners around here have people--from every walk of life, including republicans--standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.

So far this morning, I have swept the Lowe’s and harbor Freight for ICE and stood in the freezing cold trying to get my /Democratic /senator to prevent funding ICE. Lotta ICE this morning!

Why do so many Democratic officeholders, candidates and political operatives keep following the same playbook, the one that says that if they want to win elections they have to raise tons of money, spend nearly all of it on targeted media... (1/n)

DE ICER ICE OUT OF MN Powderhorn Art Sled Rally Minneapolis

I'LL TAKE MY HORCHATA WARM CUZ FUCK ICE Powderhorn Art Sled Rally Minneapolis

Take a moment to enjoy the joyous dream some of us spun out seven years ago, when we went to the White House and handed out an edition of the Washington Post depicting T's downfall after a massive popular uprising. It's a dream with real lessons for today: lakauffman.substack.com/p/on-dreams-...

🧵 Seven years ago today, a small team and I fanned out in front of the White House and distributed copies of the Washington Post with a dramatic headline: UNPRESIDENTED - TRUMP HASTILY DEPARTS WHITE HOUSE, ENDING CRISIS The paper was a work of fiction, created with @theyesmen.bsky.social

🧵 Seven years ago today, a small team and I fanned out in front of the White House and distributed copies of the Washington Post with a dramatic headline: UNPRESIDENTED - TRUMP HASTILY DEPARTS WHITE HOUSE, ENDING CRISIS The paper was a work of fiction, created with @theyesmen.bsky.social

On the dream of bringing him down, and how Democratic leadership keeps serving as a pillar holding him up: My latest, about the fictional WaPo we handed out at the White House seven years ago today, and its lessons for the current moment. lakauffman.substack.com/p/on-dreams-...

Seven years ago today, a small team and I fanned out in front of the White House to distribute a fictional newspaper that imagined Trump’s downfall after a nationwide popular uprising. It was a dream, yes, but one with lessons for our current nightmare: lakauffman.substack.com/p/on-dreams-...

Someone just asked me for a bibliography for people interested in delving more deeply into police and policing. Prof @alexvitale.bsky.social and crew have a comprehensive one that continues to evolve: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

So appreciate this incredible, thoughtful review: "a thought-provoking, polyphonic collage which manages to engage authentically with nuanced issues while also leaving the reader feeling optimistic and empowered." strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Many attending a Chester village board mtg Monday night correctly called it a “concentration camp.” Attention is high and public opinion is shifting rapidly against ICE’s operations and existence. This isn't just NIMBYism anymore, it's fierce moral outrage. (2/2) open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

A report from Chester, NY, where unofficial word that ICE is planning to build a new mass detention center in a former Pep Boys warehouse has turbocharged local activists already more in motion because of Renee Good’s murder and the attack on Minneapolis. (1/2)

Heartbroken? Disgusted? Alarmed? Join your neighbors at an "ICE Out for Good" event this weekend, organized by a broad coalition of groups including @indivisible.org Event list here: www.mobilize.us?tag_ids=2913... #ICEOutForGood

Deleting my last post - I broke my personal rule against arguing with strangers on the internet! But I am so so tired of Serious Thinkers who make confident assertions about protests and activism WITHOUT KNOWING ONE DAMN THING ABOUT THE ORGANIZING BEHIND THEM. /endrant

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

My reflections on this past harrowing year, the fear tax that so many paid -- and the extraordinary rise of nationwide mass noncooperation lakauffman.substack.com/p/what-the-f...

Wonderful year-end read from longtime movement strategist and organizer @lakauffman.bsky.social, introducing the concept of a “fear tax” and uplifting the massive nationwide resistance — “full of warmth and heart and song” — to the regime’s vicious attacks on immigrants substack.com/@lakauffman/...

My reflections on this past harrowing year, the fear tax that so many paid -- and the extraordinary rise of nationwide mass noncooperation lakauffman.substack.com/p/what-the-f...

I refuse to let this era be defined by the sick villains and spineless cowards. We are surrounded by everyday heroes and they will keep emerging.

Tuesday evening I went to a fantastic panel discussion at Booksmith celebrating the launch of We Will Rise Again. Forgot to take a photo. City Lights is doing a zoom event on Sunday the 11th, if you want to get re-energized: citylights.com/events/panel... You can just get the book, too.

This is starting in two hours and it's going to be so cool! Join us! issues.org/event/what-i...

Hey Hudson Valley folks: Next Thurs, 12/11 @ 6pm, I'll be in conversation with Jeremy Varon at @blueheronbooksny.bsky.social in High Falls -- discussing his powerful new book, the first comprehensive history of the Iraq anti-war movement of the 2000s www.blueheronbooksny.com/events/jerem...

Hey Hudson Valley folks: Next Thurs, 12/11 @ 6pm, I'll be in conversation with Jeremy Varon at @blueheronbooksny.bsky.social in High Falls -- discussing his powerful new book, the first comprehensive history of the Iraq anti-war movement of the 2000s www.blueheronbooksny.com/events/jerem...

Honored to have a wee part in this big, wonderful anthology -- out today from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social

Honored to have a wee part in this big, wonderful anthology -- out today from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social

Viruses 👏 spread 👏 through 👏 the 👏 air 👏

Are you yearning for hope? Do you need some friends in the resistance? It's time to pre-order your copy of "We Will Rise Again," a glorious anthology of speculative fiction and essays about political protest and resistance. Coming 12/3! Perfect the holidays! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

My latest -- on the wrecking of the East Wing, the impact and limits of protest, and the power of hyper-local organizing lakauffman.substack.com/p/living-in-...

My latest -- on the wrecking of the East Wing, the impact and limits of protest, and the power of hyper-local organizing lakauffman.substack.com/p/living-in-...

This is gone now. The East Wing lobby two years ago.

Trump's ballroom donors include: -Google, whose CEO thanked Trump for "resolution" of an antitrust case -Palantir, which has lucrative contracts with ICE -Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, who would profit from Trump's regulatory rollbacks for private equity Pay-to-play.

Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).

40+ years ago, a peace initiative from Egypt triggered a sea change inside Israel, led by the Peace Now movement. My new book recalls that history and offers some lessons for today’s fraught conflict in Israel-Palestine. Details here: open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

STARRED review in Library Journal for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @older.bsky.social and me! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...