Baptists split over slavery in 1845 & theological divide still exists. American (Northern) Baptist pastor @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social has been on front line of protests against ICE in IL (publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/baptist-pa...) while a Southern Baptist pastor is an ICE leader in MN:

My mayor told me police keep killing his constituents so I asked how many constituents he has and he said he just gives the police more money for training afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just paying the police to kill his constituents and then Matt Yglesias started crying.

This is probably the most accurate description. Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.

We are at the part of fascist consolidation where maddow is sharing crimethinc on Main. Which is massive. The Neoliberal establishment has no idea how how fast people are radicalizing away from neoliberal status quo compared to where they were even a month ago. This is a major sign of things.

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ICE agents at a hotel in St. Paul woke up this morning to news that they’re getting kicked out of their hotel today at noon.

one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen

"I have successfully reconstructed the historical Jesus' physical appearance. By feeding available data into generative AI models..."

They do all this shit in part because they are insecure men trying to prove their masculinity to other men. They have convinced themselves that the only opposition to their worldview that exists among men comes from feminine men, and seeing regular ass dudes screaming at them ruins the fantasy.

MAGA are traitors and one day they will know a traitor's fate 🤷‍♀️

The level of consistent, everyday organizing and resistance to the state, outside of and beyond any particular movement or flash point, distributed across the entirety of the social landscape, is by far the highest it's ever been in my lifetime

Important shit that I’m still trying to learn.

“Defeat is a psychological state.” When you feel like their victory is inevitable, we inch closer to defeat. When we return their brutality with resolve, they inch closer to defeat.

All the other regime accounts they started barely post or get much engagement. The white house account hasn't posted in 2 months. They want to troll but the blocking here disincentivizes that. Keep it up.

Block block block.

Go back to Yuma, fuckface #mpls

“don’t take the bait!!!” THEY’RE PEOPLE BEING TERRORIZED BY ARMED FEDERAL AGENTS, NOT TROUT

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

Katherine Applegate’s book has a controversial protagonist: a tree named Red. Red is both male and female, which trees often are — but the detail has still led to the cancellation of two community-wide readings of the book. Read our interview with @kaaauthor.bsky.social at: pen.org/katherine-ap...

ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings

This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.

We can build the better world we want, and if nothing else this city is going to embrace its radical history and roots in a way that I don’t think people are prepared for The political elite of the state fundamentally don’t understand what is happening on the ground. 

Rapid response networks have evolved swiftly over the past few months. Besieged by 3000 federal mercenaries, volunteers in the Twin Cities have updated their rapid response model, developing a dynamic and resilient system. This report explores how you can learn from their model to build your own.

After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas. ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.

On January 14, after ICE carried out yet another shooting in Minneapolis, a crowd chased them out of the neighborhood and gained control of their vehicles. In this firsthand account, an anonymous participant describes what took place.

ICE agents fled from the crowd and left behind their CONOPS battle plan for Minneapolis, including agent's names, hotel rooms, phone numbers, boxes of license plates, and tac radio frequencies.

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

If you’re anti-ICE but not anti-cop you are missing the whole entire point.

I can tell you this: By only attacking one city at a time, the Trump administration's effectiveness will degrade with each successive occupation. Activists, protesters and resisters are learning tactics every day and they're spreading ahead of federal agents.

The republic may have fallen but the population still wants to fight for democracy and the world struggling to be born.

just a little more training bro then ice will be okay, i swear just some more training bro i promise, we can reform this

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

Slop enjoyers pretending not to understand the difference between Luddism and anarchoprimitivism 🙄

Start calling it what it is folks. It’s martial law and the imposition of a police state. They are saying it clearly now.

I'm sorry but humanity only deserves to move along the x-axis and the y-axis. We have proven we simply can't be trusted with the z-axis.

When the meme page I've been stealing from starts stealing memes from me

There’s a big difference between ICE, which shoots people in the street, and the regular cops, who shoot people in the street

these people know that what they're doing is seen as evil by their peers.

Some of the biggest fascist enablers will talk about the 3.5% "rule" in one breath and then say impeachment is impossible because we don't have the votes.

white people desperately trying to protect policing as they notice the rising consensus for abolishing ICE

Me and the guys are gonna put our bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and make it stop later if you wanna roll through

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

I can’t emphasize enough how shocked my out of state friends and family are when I tell them what has happened in Minneapolis since Renee Good’s murder. Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.

US Border Patrol defenders like "oh yeah I love the Chinese Exclusion Act"

Reminder that U.S. Border Patrol was created over a century ago but for the purpose of excluding specific nationalities from moving freely—attracting Klansmen to become some of the very first Border Patrol agents