Someone today made a "they must be paying protestors" comment (hoping sarcastically but not clear) And my boss goes "Sam would have quit 2 months ago if they could spend the day yelling at ice and still pay rent" I like having a boss who gets me, as this was said with appreciation lol

ICE has shot a mother in the face, put a 16-year-old in a chokehold, and permanently blinded at least two protestors — and that’s just some of what we know. And now this. Despicable.

NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend. This is Alice's story:

ICE arrested someone at gunpoint today right outside of where I went to college in St. Paul. It's crazy how many incidents there are like this in the Twin Cities every day that you can monitor on Ice Out.

At this stage I would rather support the woman doing Gavin Newsom’s social media for him for president

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

this is an unbelievably good story (read and support local reporters)

We document how the growth in ICE detention has been driven by a huge increase in the number of people arrested by ICE and held in detention who have no criminal record at all. We also explain how new detention policies are keeping people locked up with no ability to seek bond — making many give up.

These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country

Despite years of "economic anxiety" discourse, the core drivers of Trump support have always been bigotry and misinformation. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If you’re worried that “protesters getting out of hand” will give the President a reason to implement martial law in an American city, what do you think is happening now? They’re kidnapping and murdering people and the cops are being sent in to arrest people for noise complaints?

Just an observation that while the MAGA camp claims any protest against ICE is a paid professional op, on the other hand, Frey, Walz, and other local leadership who regard protestors as dupes who are merely "taking the bait" are assigning them only marginally more agency

When the government is low-key occupying your twin city but you have Walmart delivery coming and need to focus on doing laundry because we are still expected to keep existing under capitalism and I have people to feed to rent to pay. This is not how we are meant to live.

The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

The guy who shot Marimar Martinez, which resembles Renee Good's shooting in many ways, shouted "Do something bitch" as he shot her. He is also a weapons instructor.

if it took "oh god, they could come after someone like me" to finally get you to a place of action, welcome you are going to be asked to sit with that and reflect, and that's okay! it shouldn't offend you. it should motivate you to expand your analysis on other current events as well. that's good!

They already fired the last BLS director when bad numbers came out. At some point these liars have to admit that the problem isn’t with the civil servants compiling the data. bsky.app/profile/atru...

"Federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, authorities said."

Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE: -Amazon -AT&T -Booz Allen Hamilton -Caci -Charter Communications -Comcast -Dell -Ecolab -FedEx -General Dynamics -L3Harris -Motorola -Thermo Fisher -UPS Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.

One of the core purposes of right-wing media is to rewrite your memory and reprogram your moral response to an event you saw with your own eyes. George Floyd died of a heart attack. Jan 6 was a peaceful picnic. This process has already begun

I don’t know what to say except that human beings deserve better than whatever this is

They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal

"Give Infinite Money To Even Worse Police" has worked out very badly for us as a nation.

“We will invade your city without permission, we will taunt you, we will kidnap and harass citizens, we will smash our way into schools and shoot tear gas at students, and if you stop to film us and we don’t like it, we will shoot you three times in the face.” Tyranny

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

Make it viral.

…it should break your heart to kill.

Don't let the fact that ice murdered a woman yesterday overshadow the fact that they also tear gassed a bunch of high schoolers during their dismissal

the nyt says that no version of events in minneapolis can be "verified independently." but that's not true! there are multiple videos proving that the ICE version of events is a total lie. maybe the nyt can, y'know, watch one of them? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

I put on a Jarvis Johnson video and said loudly "yes please nerd boy info dump at me for 22 minutes!" in completely unrelated news I'm getting better at unmasking when alone at home!

sex criminals stick together

You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned. archive.ph/Tmthz

Wrote a little bit

Today is a very frustrating day at work. How much of my time and energy goes to cleaning up be at a job I don't care about or like. And then I have no energy or time to work on what I actually care about and trying to get my own work off the ground. Capitalism is really grinding me down today.

God damn STOP TEXTING ME MARK KELLY

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Nothing like typing my little inconsequential work emails while listening to the news to really make you understand "despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage"

I don’t know about you, but every day I’m gobsmacked by how many people are surprised at what’s happening even after Project 2025 put it all in writing.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

Idgaf I’ll say it. I love socialism because it works. And it’s what capitalism reverts to any time we need temporary relief.

I think Dick Cheney’s death today highlighted this divide. The Democrats who still say shit like “reach across the aisle” and praise evil people are playing to a political audience that no longer exists. Mamdani wasn’t cruel to Cuomo in a Trumpism style, but he didn’t concede anything either.

At the risk of sounding petty, calls for Democratic unity going forward are all well and good, but let’s not forget that the reason Cuomo ran against Mamdani in the first place was a last-ditch effort by the New York Democratic Party to ratfuck their duly elected nominee.

There needs to be a study done on the people who take work calls on speaker phone to management pipeline. Why can none of y'all wear a damn set of headphones??!?