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.

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

we have paczki!

I see that while we've been getting ready for the winter storms (🤞🤞🤞🤞don't let it be an icepocalypse🤞🤞🤞), the horrors continue. We're stocked up to be stuck at home & to keep warm/keep pipes from freezing if we don't lose power. If we lose power...😬

Milhoan: Let’s do a little experiment to see how many people die when they get this disease that is preventable with a safe and effective vaccine This is grim beyond words. This is the chair of the CDC’s immunization advisory board

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

The photo of the camera flying through the air is such a powerful symbol of the efforts to document the atrocities. I usually am dim on sofa activism. But when you share people's efforts to document the Minneapolis situation, you are helping. Share. Widely.

It's apparently time for Mosaic to get belly pets again!! She squeaked at me in protest when I stopped 😆

In his last speech, Dr. King reminded us that the greatness of America is the right to protest for rights. His words are as relevant today as they were then. In the face of authoritarianism, we'll always remain active, engaged, and relentless in our pursuit of justice.

Sunday suncat Stella bringing the goth vibes like she's gonna put on her best late 90s goth gear & head out to The Church later

There’s power in saying that true things are true, even if it can’t stop terrible things from happening

It’s why groups are still holding “know your rights” training sessions. It’s not that they think that DHS agents will respect rights or care when they violate them—clearly they don’t give a shit—but so that *people can recognize when their rights are being violated*

I will die on the hill of it being worth saying that unlawful actions by the regime are unlawful, of it being worth understanding why that’s the case, not because it will stop them but because it’s worth understanding the dimensions of *what they’re doing*

I’m physically following them around using my government name telling them to arrest me and they haven’t bothered to arrest me. Also half the US Attorney’s office here in MN just resigned! They do not have a case and they do not have manpower, but their only tool is trying to be menacing.

They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.

"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.

omg, f*** "Ai"--I want to find garden flags & some vinyl stickers/other stickers for my journals, but it's everywhere! 🤬 I don't want to give lazy thieves money. I want to support actual human artists who design things themselves.

I don't see "we're going to win" as not acknowledging the cost. I think the problem is that a lot of people's idea of winning is from pop culture: a montage in which sacrifices are dulled & muted. Civil rights, WW2, etc...

the first song of thea gilmore's new project, the echo line, is up but don't wait to listen! the song is not in streaming or for sale and is only around for a week and then it's gone! more details at www.theagilmore.net/theecholine

Oh, feline fortune is smiling on me this night! Mosaic is asking for belly pets! Gotta make this quick--she's purring & waving her forearms in the air because I stopped petting her belly to post this

If you need a break from the horrors Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore have teamed up to release an album that sounds like lying in an enchanted garden surrounded by fairies and woodland creatures youtu.be/KPEXlMIcFBs?...

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

The DOJ is no longer legitimate on any level. It’s just a goon squad. This has enormous implications for the country long after Trump is gone.

If I try to take a picture, she'll notice & move, but I am trapped under an extremely cuddly, needy Stella cat. I'm almost afraid to celebrate her ceasing her criminal cat activity to snuggle with me...I don't wanna jinx this

Don't fight them. They want us to fight them. They want to troll us. They came over here because they're sad they can't taunt us. Nothing will make them more angry than becoming the most blocked account on this site and hearing the wind whistle by as we consign them to invisibility.

So, I got some of the emotions out playing some (very simple) moody classical guitar on the Jag. Minor key relentless 8th note stuff. Sometimes you feel punk, sometimes you want to slay things with busy baroque figures on misunderstood guitars. Now, to do a little artsy-crafty stuff in my journal...

This. Concede nothing. Whatever they try, this is not going to be fun or easy or quickly resolved, so we need to accept that & do whatever we have to do to be in it for the long haul. We outnumber them. We can do it.

Hard to plan the future as they stomp on the present but if we don’t they will

NEW: The neo-fascist group Patriot Front is building a network of business in North Texas in an attempt to create a parallel, self-sufficient white nationalist economy. @stevanzetti.bsky.social, @wileydcope.bsky.social and I identified the men behind 4 of these companies.

New from me and @tristanl.ee with a bit of help from @wileydcope.bsky.social: We identified companies in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that are operated either by members of Patriot Front or individuals with multiple connections to Patriot Front www.texasobserver.org/revealed-fou...

We love to see it 💖

I've seen many talking about this, but here's a link to reporting on ICE throwing flashbangs & tear gas at car with 6 children in it. It talks about how the 6 month old stopped breathing, needed cpr, was hospitalized along with 2 of the other children. Abolish ICE. www.fox9.com/news/childre...

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...

The First Amendment protects journalists who receive and report information of public concern even if the source broke the law. Raiding a reporter’s home is an extraordinary step that raises serious press-freedom concerns. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

this is a small thing, but we’ve seen it in a number of videos and “first and final warning” is so revealing. no second attempt in case you didn’t hear, or don’t speak English, or the orders were confusing. just bare min CYA so that later when your widow sues they can say technically they warned you

We’re going to need a new word for doom scrolling.

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

Miller just saying that the constitution no longer applies. I looked at it myself. Apparently, some of the context here is Miller talking to the fascists on Fox about glorious oranges potentially arresting Pritzker. It wasn't just a tweet, but a transcript of him talking on TV.

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.

We need a master list of all of these cases/stories, because there are so many. All deserve justice.

These people need to be charged. You can't train this or rehabilitate it or give it more money. This is unconstitutional. It's fascist. There has to be accountability. Every Texas Dem should be running on this, on stopping this from happening, on holding those responsible accountable, on justice.

in the fiona apple catalog i feel like not enough buckaroos talk about FAST AS YOU CAN. that song is just so ridiculously good. probably my favorite song of hers

NEW: Police—sheriffs, Texas state cops, and even ICE—can follow the location of your smart phone without a warrant. Yet, we know little about how this software has been used. via @texasobserver.org + @pulitzercenter.org www.texasobserver.org/texas-police...

The regime's paramilitary giving contradictory commands so that they can terrorize people just trying to live their lives...in hopes that the rest of us see & succumb to doomerism. Don't. Bear witness & remember, so that we hang onto democracy, reinstate civil liberties, & hold them accountable.

Mosaic is hanging out with me, but deems my skritches inadequate. She requires ALL the skritches.

It's Sunday night, so you know what I'm listening to & putting in requests to! Support local NPR music stations, since the regime cut off funding! kxt.org/the-paul-sla...