Currently 1 out every 10 CPB *and* ICE agents are flailing in attempt to intimidate an urban area of under 1.5 million people. Minneapolis is suffering horribly, but the lesson isn't be afraid, the lesson is: they can't win. They don't have the numbers. They don't have the power.

we are going to need to do a whole lot more than just vote but we are still going to need to vote

There's a prepper-adjacent mentality on the left that you, personally, knowing in advance that the Götterdämmerung is coming will somehow influence the outcome or what happens to you. I just don't think that's the case tbh.

America has always been an argument. An argument between a wealthy white few ready to kill or control the rest to seize more money & power and the bravest possible people determined to make the promise of life, liberty & yes happiness apply to all, no exceptions.

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There were a ton of people smugly insisting that Trump/Youngkin would simply cancel/override the VA election in November and when that didn't happen they just immediately moved on to say the same about the midterms

If this be terrorism, make the most of it.

They've emptied every dog track and jail cell of guys who can't write their name or do a situp, and they still can't subjugate America's 46th largest city. What you see is all they've got.

🎵Come out La Migra goons In your stumbling platoons Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas Tell her how despite your guns all you ever did was run from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵

People really don’t understand how bad Minnesota is at this point. The news is openly discussing the federal plans to use old Amazon prime facilities in places like Woodbury and other suburbs as fascist detention centers. We are fully through the glass and people need to fully take in that reality

It really is just this. Trump is a rapist who cares about the violation of consent part far more than the actual sex. His appetite has shifted to far grander rapes. He raped the East Wing. He raped the Venezuelan government. He's raping Minneapolis, and he wants to rape Greenland.

If your concern is the rule of law, you should support amnesty for illegal immigrants, so as to avoid the creation of a permanent underclass that is alienated from the protections of law

Someone get this case in front of Gorsuch immediately

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

the apparatchiks of this regime have de facto surrendered their right to share this society with the rest of us. theyre too dangerous to walk among us anymore

I like that they’ve given up on even having immigration enforcement as a pretext for any of this. It’s just purely armed masked goons wandering around in the middle of intersections harassing U.S. citizens as a display of force now.

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

Incrementalism doesn’t work. I used to be an advocate for it. That was wrong. We can’t chip away at the rot in hopes of laying the ground work for big change later. We have to go in blasting now. Abolish ICE. Raze his ballroom. Defund all his shit. Jail the crooks. Restore America.

Going on a hike in mountain lion country but don’t worry I’m being responsible and smearing myself with beef fat first

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

the democrats are right we should focus on kitchen table issues. for example there is a guy at my kitchen table who wants to shoot me in the face with a gun

“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

"...The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over."

Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.

Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.

JUST IN: Judge Mehta rules that Trump/Russ Vought's termination of environmental grants during the shutdown — targeted solely at states that voted for Kamala Harris — violated the 5th Amendment's Equal Protection clause and orders them restored. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

this is a very good sign

Someone sent me this video of Trump’s goons in action today in the Twin Cities. The audio is disturbing.

Every queer person deserves to have all the normal life experiences of their peers, from dating to going to prom to seeing themselves represented in media to participating in sports, and my politics consider this non-negotiable.

He has sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people He has kept among us Standing Armies without Consent of our legislatures For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us For protecting them from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

In this clip from a longer interview, she says while she was in detention, agents called Renee Good a “lesbian b*tch.” This video belongs to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social and I’ll take it down if they want me to. 2/2

Incredible @statuscoupnews.bsky.social interview with Skye, who says she’s a Marine Corps vet and appears to have just been released from Whipple. She says she was trapped by ICE, yanked out of her car and stomped on. 1/2

once again: ICE is operating as if they have a general warrant, the specific type of warrant the founders were most concerned about when drafting the 4th Amendment

this isn't immigration enforcement, this is kidnapping and assault punishable by jail time

there's a desperation to slam the lid shut on our teetering democratic system. theres an urgency because they fear, probably correctly, that their existence has become such that a society of free people can no longer tolerate them. it's their pile of money or us, and they're choosing their money

they've declared war on us. we aren't part of the plan any longer. in their telling this is no longer your country

Somali people are one of the groups of people who make the Cities great. They're kind, friendly, hardworking people who make delicious food. They're the kind of people who built this fucking country, not disgusting little pig men like J.D. Vance.

If we're not going to indict these people, killing members of the public will be all upsides for them

do you guys hear that bell tolling? wonder who it’s for. it’s so loud lmao

For the record: If we invade Greenland to conquer it I am revolutionary defeatist. It's an illegal invasion, a violation of the NATO charter, and a shameful betrayal of a loyal ally.

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE: "No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested". "Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

ICE is not law enforcement. It's an authoritarian gang. They target suburbs, school zones and quiet neighborhoods for the easy targets and avoid actual crime zones or known criminals in order to avoid putting themselves at risk.

Republicans somehow managed to sprint from “we’re trying to protect women in sports” straight to defending a woman being shot in the head three times at point blank range for trying to drive away from a masked thug.

I was thinking today that the USA doesn't patrol itself like England patrols itself. It patrols itself like the Black and Tans patrolled Ireland.

There is no analogue to or even any concept of the Peelian principles in US policing, nor the underlying thesis of UK law enforcement that the legitimacy of the police is derivative of public consent.