it feels like a small thing in context of all of the other things but it is a piece of the larger authoritarian project that there are fewer places to publish essays now and the carefully edited essay as a public form for thinking and responding and criticizing and analyzing is in trouble, i think

Angel De Cora (1871–1919) artist of the Winnebago people, forcibly taken from her family by US authorities as part of a programme to assimilate Native American girls into white society. De Cora later became a Native American rights advocate #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f... ‘We’re losing accessibility’: America says goodbye to the mass-market paperback

“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again.” - Toni Morrison

But did you apologize?!?!! Mortified is not apologized?!?!?!?

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

He has an account here.

This is ok tho

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

This is what police have been doing to black Americans since forever. Enough of the "this isn't who we are." You're now noticing because it's white people.

THIS RIGHT HERE: Disgusting to the core of their beings.

Numerous videos support this. And if you think this is the price of legal protest, f*ck you.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

If the sole purpose of ICE were to instigate a civil war, they would behave exactly like this.

Per @ericblanc.bsky.social: ICE can't function without their top corporate collaborators: Amazon/Whole Foods Target Palantir Every major hotel chain Home Depot Lowe’s AT&T Aramark Eastern Airlines Global X Omni Air Flock Systems Dell UPS FedEx Motorola Solutions LexisNexis Thompson Reuters

The facts simply contradict the lies put out by DHS.

General strike is where citizens have power.

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

America enabled wanton killing over there. Now wanton killing is happening over here. They unloaded 355 bullets into Hind Rajab, and then they trained the people who unloaded their clips into Renee Good and Alex Pretti. So look alive. Starting now. Protect your neighbors. General fucking strike.

“Say his name!” “Alex Pretti!”

This.

They use these on ICE flights, too.

“If one is honest about the history of the United States, it prominently features white violence, terrorism and revanchism, particularly toward Black people, Indigenous people and women.” — @sorayanadiamcdonald.com andscape.com/features/cap...

This is how you make change. YOU take the lead. You don’t wait for lawmakers to LEAD YOU. www.fox9.com/news/mn-lawm...

On patrol with Ice-spotters in Minneapolis Lewis Goodall in the diary

I’ve been successful enough in my career to buy bidets, and recommend them. Usually we get this one, which is $40 and installs easily on any toilet. a.co/d/9KQdXzm Pays for itself in TP in no time.

NEW from me: Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE —> religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

TODAY IS THE DAY!!!! Minnesotans are bringing a halt to business as usual - no work, no shopping, no school - to demand ICE OUT. If you're not in Minnesota, support their demands and find an event near you here: iceoutforgood.org

I can’t wait to see how the general strike in MN is covered and what the reaction is for the rest of the country. If this works and spreads it will be a fucking game changer.

It’s really this simple… all we are getting is cops

“this isn’t who we are” and yet “we” keep ending up right back here, pretending it’s some other country

They know their audience has an insatiable appetite for seeing black women humiliated for exceeding their station, so when it didn’t happen they used AI to complete the fantasy bsky.app/profile/nyti...

It's -20 in Minneapolis and organizers are in the streets before dawn getting ready for actions related to the general strike. They've had locals training out-of-town volunteers on how to prepare for and endure the cold. AND IT IS WORKING. THE STRIKE IS HAPPENING. THE CITY IS DOING THE DAMN THING...

Can you imagine if colleges had resisted this admin from the start as we recommended almost a year ago? If instead of obeying in advance & dismantling their DEI programs, universities had said, "the opposite of welcoming diversity is supporting segregation." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

oh man, the Walker Art Center is going to be closed on Friday (If you're not from the Twin Cities, this is like MoMA closing in support of a general strike—a very big deal)

ICE’s new policy directing agents to ignore the 4th Amendment is one of the most frightening things we’ve seen yet. And there’s no telling where it could end up. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

"Because art won’t be enough to win, but we won’t win without it." @guante.info

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?

For those outside the Twin Cities, the person posting this GoFundMe is a member of Minneapolis city council (and among the many locals doing absolutely heroic resistance to ICE), so it's legit.

Liam is one of four Columbia Heights, MN school district students who have been taken by ICE in the last two weeks, the school district said. Liam's teacher: “He is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He ... just brightens the room. All I want is for him to be back here and safe.”

Abolishing ICE is not enough.

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'" www.startribune.com/preschooler-...

We’ve seen this act before. The Democratic Party needs new leadership. Jeffries and Schumer are not up to the challenge. They’re too afraid, bought, weak, whatever. It doesn’t matter why at this point. It just matters that they aren’t the people for this moment and need to get out of the way.

The "guardrails" are also FAKE IN AND OF THEMSELVES.

This storm has its own PR team and honestly they're killing it

Makes sense. www.huffpost.com/entry/nfl-fi...