Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

Yo' momma's in fascism.

Abolish ICE is not a radical demand. It is common sense. What we're seeing can't be reformed.

Kudos to Greg Ketter of DreamHaven Books!

@grissallia.bsky.social the MOVE bombing is another incident that most white Americans don't know about. In 1985, the city bombed a West Philadelphia neighborhood and killed 11 Black people (including 5 Black children) and started a fire that left over 250 people homeless.

I’ve had this up for 4 months and shit just keeps getting worse. We will win. Hope is a verb. Fuck ICE. Fuck all these fascistic fools.

This is the way.

Four months of shootings and deaths. This doesn't even count the neglect and death in their concentration camps. Fuck. This. Shit.

Hey, beloved hometown. Do what you do. Maple Grove.

From a FB post about Alex Pretti:

Oh my God, what an incredibly real and incredibly terrifying story. These grown men were locked inside a restaurant? Wow. It's hard to say where that ranks next to the state-sanctioned murders and the kidnapping of children, but gosh, they were briefly locked inside a restaurant? Heaven forfend.

Warm hands for all! ❤️‍🔥

This is the single funniest excuse he could have come up with for not wanting to be booed in public

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc (GFM in next post) www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.

Steph Curry on watching the protests from his hotel window: "In negative 10-degree weather. It was beautiful to see that turnout. That speaks to how important people felt to have their voice heard. In those elements and whatever streets outside our hotel, they were out, and it was amazing to watch."

signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association

New circle of hell for these folks.

Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in. Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.

This is what I’ve seen, consistently.

I’ve been teaching about fascism for a decade now. Guess I should have waited…🙄

unlike all the strident leftists who were correct too early, i am correct at exactly the right time

Enraging.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.

Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont

What a relief that they’re calling for a general de-escalation of tensions, since it’s hard to tell who’s at fault, the people murdering people or the people who aren’t doing the murdering.

BASH: Where did he assault an officer? It looked to us that he was approached by them when he was helping another individual who was pushed down BOVINO: We don't need a suspect's help in a law enforcement scene BASH: So when somebody is pushed down, you stand back? BOVINO: Follow directions

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

I’m told the detainees haven’t had yard time when the protesters have been out the past few Sundays, making it impossible to get A-numbers in person. That seems to roughly align with the murder of Renee Good, so there’s speculation that CoreCivic is sensitive to the public backlash against ICE.

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

Now that blood is on the street, we still won’t admit you’ve been right all decade long while we scolded and marginalized you. Instead, we’ll declare it’s just now become right to say such things.

Thank you, @gregolear.bsky.social I’m on the West Coast and my brother’s a chaplain at a hospital in the Southwest, but our hometown travels with us.

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

I actually think it's pretty easy to explain. Younger people didn't buy into an older neoliberal elite's prejudices, the older neoliberal elite absolutely lost their shit at the notion that they might be called on to change, and fascists exploited that reactionary moment

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Clarity.

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

1. Wasn’t at a protest 2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down 3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight bsky.app/profile/atru...

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

This is everything I’ve seen, living in a border city for 22 years. We do not have an idealistically humane or effective ICE/CPB. Instead, we depend on immigrants for economic reasons, act like we embrace asylum seekers, and treat them in deeply inhumane ways. CW: violent r*pe & murder

So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?

Buy books from DreamHaven. This man moved so many of us with his courageous rage.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.