16-year-old Arnoldo Bazan and his father were getting McDonald’s before school when immigration agents pulled them over. They slammed his father to the ground and put the teen in a chokehold. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” he said. Read the full story: https://propub.li/4qSnVkQ

This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.

Bro, they are closing schools because teachers need time to make virtual options for non-white students because lawless federal paramilitaries are terrorizing them.

Mister Rogers told us to look for the helpers but he also should’ve told us to keep an eye out for weak-ass quisling motherfuckers

Correct my math if I’m mathing wrong but: there were 22 GOP defections, so if all the Dems had voted against this, it would’ve failed, yeah? What the fuck are we doing here??

Elected Democrats are the dumbest people on the planet. Just painfully stupid, self-destructively incompetent.

White supremacy explains many apparent contradictions. Conservative calls for free speech were always about freedom to use slurs without sanction. Calls for small government were always about denying Black folks rights and state protections. This is conservatives achieving their goals.

so much to cover right now, but a thread i just want to throw out there from my reporting is that the car rental market in minneapolis is reportedly totally screwed up right now because ICE has cleared the inventory. rental companies should have to answer for supplying vehicles used in terror.

I implore my fellow Dems not to overthink this. You can just say - I’m against the government shooting people in the face for no good reason. This is not hard. Same with the ludicrous invasion of Greenland. Democrats are anti-invasion of Greenland bc it’s the dumbest thing ever. Be ruthlessly blunt.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Why are elected Democrats like this?

As long as they’re committed to sweeping up random pedestrians, the role of the observers, commuters, and rapid responders is to ensure that it takes as many people as possible to do those sweeps. We can’t stop them from taking folks but we can restrain them greatly by taxing resources

This is not the language of the government of a free country.

Since House Judiciary is unlikely to do an investigation, Dems should start doing Shadow hearings on this and also start doing community based sessions in their districts focused on this and ICE/DHS. Ask directly impacted people to testify, keep a record, start planning for dismantling...

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to

A major population center is literally under siege and this guy wants to put bar codes on the death squads

as if this wasn't bad enough on its face, they didn't search a natsec beat journo like Ellen Nakashima or even defense Dan Lamothe/Alex Horton, it was Hannah Natanson, whose beat has been......DOGE and related abuses of feds guys I don't think they were looking for classified documents

In the last 4 days: -- Elise Slotkin says she's being criminally investigated by DOJ -- ICE illegally goes "door to door" in Minneapolis -- FBI raids the home of a WP journalist -- DHS illegally arrests, detains 100+ Somalians with legal refugee status

The Trump administration is demanding "lists of Jews" from the University of Pennsylvania. The AAUP condemns this as “a profoundly invasive & dangerous demand that intrudes deeply into the freedoms of association, religion, speech and privacy enshrined in the First Amendment.” Read more below 👇

Every single ICE agent in jail. I'm not gonna stop until it happens.

If you cannot make “these people are leaving BABIES in CARS in WINTER and then returning them to their carekeepers with BRUISES” into popular sentiment as a politician, you’re either inept or you want this to keep happening.

WE GOT MORE VIDEO OF ICE FALLING ON ICE

While we're on the subject, the bravery required to stand there as a 5'4" woman protesting an armored, armored, masked ICE agent that likely has a few domestic violence complaints, a restraining order, a hard drive full of rape themed pornography and a promise of total immunity from his bosses...

This is bigger than stopping ICE/ CBP or passing a law. It's about how both parties have allowed law enforcement to run the country, determine every policy, spend profligately, and lobby endlessly all on the taxpayer's dime.

These names should have been public record anyway. A name without some correlating info like an SSN or birthdate or address isn't even considered PII. Yes, there are exceptions, but they're intended for stuff like CIA undercover operatives, not to enable domestic terrorism like this.

Minneapolis unions call for General Strike on Jan 23rd against ICE 5 major unions have joined the call so far & the list is expected to grow. paydayreport.com/5-minneapoli...

Gavin Newsome has a chance to respond and take a real stance against this terrorism. I have no faith that he will.

Horrible violence against a protester in California: www.latimes.com/california/s...

People aren’t talking enough about how the “agents” are intentionally giving mixed directions to people. Go! Get out of the car! Keep moving! I said out of the car! They’re intentionally confusing them so someone can claim they’re not following orders (because they can’t follow conflicting ones) /1

we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.

I argued that communities targeted by ICE should be granted citizenship immediately. This is both a matter of justice and an imperative if we're going to crush fascism. Fascism thrives where there are groups that lack full rights. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/for-immigr...

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

when ICE asks you questions about your neighbors, you've never met your neighbors in your life. you've never even seen them from afar. neighbors? what neighbors?

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...

All of us should join in to the best of our abilities, even outside of MN. No shopping for 10 days should be doable. No restaurants or door dash. No uber rides. No work is harder, but do what you can. I will take time off in this window in solidarity.

I’m actually really quite serious: can sanctuary cities stop sending their taxes to the feds?

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

This is my friend Will. He is an army veteran and Purple Heart recipient. He was abducted by ICE during this same assault on his neighborhood.

“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?” 1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore. 2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions. 3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day.

"The baby was released to her family. Her grandmother says she had a bruised cheek, but is otherwise OK." I'M SORRY, BUT DID YOU NOT HAVE FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS TO THIS???

People don't want to accept that the primary reason that we have Trump today is that the previous administration completely failed. It should have never gotten to the point where it was in the so-called hands of the voters. It was already too late by then.

ICE and assorted other DHS goons are not in Minneapolis to enforce laws. They are there (and before that in Portland and Chicago) to terrorize the population through beatings, kidnappings, and murders.

I want these fuckers prosecuted. I will not vote for a candidate who shies away from this.

Assault. Kidnapping. More ICE violent crimes. At what point is any force acceptable for us to defend ourselves? How many knees can crush our innocent necks before the criminals are put to death for their crimes?

Assault with a deadly weapon. Attempted murder. ICE are violent criminals through and through. They all need to jailed and some need the death penalty.

We must stress: The only violence is coming from CBP/ICE. They are rioting in the face of sustained nonviolent protests by thousands of Americans across the country. They are today’s Alabama State Troopers at the Selma bridge. They are Bull Connor’s police with firehoses in Birmingham.

This poll shows that 74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting getting rid of the agency. Any elected Democrat who wants ICE to exist is outside the mainstream of their party and the people they purport to represent.

Once again, the Dem ruling class are incompetent AS POLITICIANS. They can't even see a parade and jump in front of it. Instead they cluck their tongues and ask to see the permit.

the murderers just need different costumes