for those who don’t know the lore (though i suspect most of you are here because of it)

Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

i mean, if your starting position is “they will not adhere to any restrictions on them whatsoever”, then i have some bad news about the process of abolishing ICE

It's not the most important part of this obviously but I find it really funny that elected Dems are always talking about how lefties don't know how to connect with the average American and then their messaging includes shit like "this must end forthwith."

peaceful resistance! Bravo! German soccer players, you're up! Ihr haettet Qatar schon boycottieren koennen - aber die naechstbeste Gelegenheit ist JETZT!

i mean, if there are weaknesses or fears they can take advantage of, they should do that, but there’s no fear great enough to get senate and house republicans to dismantle ICE as an agency, that’s a demand they’ll just ignore, may as well attach M4A to it, too

Ah so the people with guns get to be anonymous but the people actually protecting others get fed to the right wing harassment machine, is that it? bsky.app/profile/dbra...

Again, their actual position is “if you disagree with us we get to kill you”

a year ago today. the memo that changed everything.

Stop what you’re doing and read this piece, which is as powerful as you’d expect from @adamserwer.bsky.social witnessing the events of last week on the ground in Minnesota. “The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.”

a political party that had responded in 2024 to “mass deportation” calls by proposing an alternative humane path to citizenship sure would be well-positioned right now huh? theyd probably look really smart and empathetic. would look like the only party who lived in reality and know whats going on

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Resign. Retire. Rfuck outta here.

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I maintain they are all very stupid because Trump tried to murder them and this is how they behave.

100% this, it is about a new approach! We can’t keep asking for change and doing the same thing over and over again! Change is HERE!

If only there was some kind of history in America of a band of underfunded rebels taking on the oppressive system and winning.

A couple years ago I wrote a story noting that competent military commanders actually think diversity is good for the armed forces because a wide variety of eyes at the table helps to identify gaps that monoracial groupthink can miss. Anyway the anti ICE coalition in Minnesota is beating MAGA.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This is not leadership. This is ignoring demands from the public so that death squads can still operate under the phony veneer of law.

Good for her. It isn’t every day you get the chance to tell a SCOTUS justice that he’s full of shit.

Until observed, Schumenger’s Cat exists in a quantum superposition; simultaneously blocked when in the majority by the actions of a minority opposition party, and also blocked when in the minority because there are no available actions for a minority opposition party to take.

as was a man who chose to be a nurse

A big part of the story here is that women like Renee Good are braver and stronger than they could have ever imagined and that just doesn't fit with what MAGA men tell themselves about how gender works. It just does not compute.

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

The toughest people these ICE/BP guys have ever encountered are a male nurse, a lesbian poet, some grandmas, and folks in little cars like a Honda Fit. It's shattering their worldview and sense of self. Wasn't supposed to be this way. The podcasters and X posters and supplement sellers said so.

Remember that the United States is now "running" Venezuela? How's that going?

MAGA has been trying to meme its way to consolidated authoritarianism, relying on images, bluster, and voluntary compliance to make up for the Trump regime’s insufficient capacity. They’re not done, things will probably get worse, but one of MAGA’s main tools just faltered. Yeah, that matters.

We are at a tipping point on ICE and immigration enforcement. The shootings are so unpopular that Trump appears to have lost his edge on both deportations and immigration more broadly. Abolishing ICE is net popular with independents. & Bovino is out! 2026≠2024 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...

The Trump administration has arrested and detained a former Venezuelan mayor who fled to the U.S. after Maduro had him removed from office for supporting anti-Maduro protesters. He was seeking asylum here. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chris Murphy helped draft one of the most fascist immigration bills in the history of the United States. That he appears to be the Democrat lead on what to do about ICE is immensely disturbing.

It's so crazy that the Democrats can't do anything when they are in the minority to the extent that they may as well not hold office at all, and then, as soon as they have the majority, they can't do anything because they are being procedurally blocked in ways that leave them just as helpless.

NEW: Minnesota's top federal judge says ICE has been violating court orders repeatedly — detaining noncitizens or rushing them to Texas despite judges' commands. He wants ICE's director to answer for it "personally," and could level contempt sanctions. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Well I would love to hear one day :) It is 100% true. The rank and file have the power to demand whatever they want. That they do not speaks volumes.

I had this exact argument with my caucus leadership DOZENS of times when I was in the state legislature. Especially on things like the state budget. They use their compromise position as the starting point in negotiations, then wonder how they got played. So damned frustrating.

New in PN: Federalism can protect Americans from tyranny "The question we face is whether the nation’s sovereign states will use their constitutional authority to protect the rights of citizens against a tyrannical federal regime, including by holding federal officers responsible for their crimes."

So if you look closely at what he says, he genuinely seems to think they will stop getting involved. Like he thinks the protests are because they are showing leadership as opposed to the exact opposite.

There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.

correct

This is my favorite part. He thinks that if they don't do anything everyone is going to stop protesting lmao.

Trump is trying to give Russia exactly what they want & call it a ‘peace deal.’ It’s in fact a guarantee for a bigger war. Donbas is Ukraine’s main line of defense. The region is heavily fortified & holds Russia back from attacking the rest of Ukraine, & from there the EU.

They’re gonna blame everything on Greg Bovino, leave Minneapolis, and hope we forget. It won’t work. They declared war on the American people. They’re terrorizing our communities. We will hold them accountable in November.

just a reminder that when we say "ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis," Minneapolis is a synecdoche for America

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

CNN calling Tom Homan "well respected" and "not as hardline as Bovino" is an interesting choice. The dude took a $50,000 bribe in a fucking Cava bag and says all the same fascist shit as Bovino and Noem.

ICYMI: Following Renee Good’s murder by ICE, her son’s Minneapolis charter school was forced to go fully online due to right-wing attacks sahanjournal.com/education/mi...

I wonder if it has occurred to anyone at the Atlantic in this moment, that perhaps spending the past decade creating false equivalency between the avowed fascist movement on the right, and the college kids protesting fascists on college campuses was a mistake?

Again: the job of most the British press is to recruit useful wingnut cranks and use them to promote the crackpot causes both the papers and the cranks hold dear.

If Murphy thinks as he indicates in this interview, that he expects this to make people thankful how the Democrats are fighting on their side, he has another thing coming.