Yessir that's my colleague Jorell Meléndez-Badillo (@jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social) and here's his history of Puerto Rico - available in English and Spanish press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

My commute home from work is littered with abandoned cars. Just sitting there, in the middle of the road. Windows broken out. Lives scooped up and taken away. Just like that.

In my own neighborhood yesterday it was only because observers, who were just out to walk the dog, reported an ICE abduction that police were able to arrive to remove the car that ICE left in the middle of the street, as they always do.

time to go play in the old man futsal league, have fun with your endless series of commercials before the Bad Bunny concert

It's always interesting to see which Super Bowl team Jesus punishes.

There is so much evidence that, in addition to being pointlessly violent, ICE also deliberately tries to trick people who have been following the rules.

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

The "Jesus was a protester" point misses how different that world was. Way back in AD 30 the empire was ruled by a disgusting old man who hung out on an island where he could have sex with young people, with real power held by an upstart who controlled a private army. (Tiberius+Sejanus, obviously)

Everything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began. Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.

Great, who can we get rid of next?

The Trump administration's detention camp at the Whipple Building needs to close and ICE needs to leave. Nobody deserves to be treated this way.

I will believe that ICE enforcement has changed on the ground when I stop getting daily notices that armed, masked goons are circling my kids’ schools and trying to sow fear in the parent patrols.

There isn’t any indication that immigration activity has changed in Minneapolis. In fact, this afternoon, federal immigration agents began staging at Holy Rosary Catholic Church located in East Phillips. This activity is disgraceful and creates an unsafe environment for our neighbors. 1/

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

On the radicalization of the attacker of Ilham Omar yesterday. I scrolled through these accounts last night and it was sad: he seems like a common MN type, likes football, hunting, his kids. Not great at spelling, pro-Ukraine in 2022, briefly a black gf. Then increasingly trump, guns, racism, etc.

"Crackdown"

One precinct was 501-14, or 97% to 3%. Even considering that there was no reason for any republican to show up to the polls and vote for someone who had zero chance and a tiny appeal, that's pretty amazing.

It's still early, with just 58% reporting, but I feel like the current 95%-4% lead is going to hold up.

"One person, a little bit wrong" would be a good name for a list of the children, citizens, refugees, and other perfectly legal or vulnerable people unreasonably detained by ICE, plus the violence, destructiveness, illegality, and lies used in their detention.

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

The president explained that he has never heard of this so-called musician and has always found him overrated and bad.

[every Minnesotan standing one by one]: “I am Kent Hrbek 420.”

Excellent article, combining real reporting and information with the intellectual training to give shape and meaning to events. Exactly what such writing should do, and exactly what both-sidesism and vapid op-eds don't do.

This will be a fun election tomorrow because she came through a really stacked primary, defeating several highly-qualified people, and tomorrow just has to get past some guy who wishes it were 1980. If you want a labor lawyer in a state legislature you can celebrate this one.

Ice luminaries on Lake Nokomis, which is on a flight path from MSP airport. #ICEout

Six tribes have issued a statement telling the feds to stop detaining their members. The gov’t “carries a duty to Tribal Nations. This duty includes safeguarding constitutional rights, ensuring due process, and preventing unlawful detention or harm to tribal citizens, regardless of where they live”

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Minneapolis: urban hellhole, chaotic land without laws, no-go zone

Good! We're at the "evil counsellors" stage. What happens next, according to the playbook of European history that the authors of the constitution sort of knew, is that either the leader lets the top advisor take the blame, or he supports his minion and reveals that actually it's all his own fault.

Thoughtless of this entire mob to have all forgotten their phones, otherwise they would have filmed this totally real time when they had their enemies cowering.

Among the more obviously absurd and unhinged aspects of this: what "bleeding the stronger force slowly"? What is this broader discourse of ICE officers facing risk and danger, of protesters "needing to avoid violence"? There has been *zero* violence from anyone but them!!!

Marxism-Leninism, famous for producing governments vehemently opposed to unaccountable secret police forces, sending people to camps, the forcible removal of unwanted nationalities, and elevating the political convenience of the leader over truth.

There are over 10,000 lakes, so . . .

Again and again, ICE agents show pointless cruelty, bullying, and vindictiveness, hurting the most vulnerable for no reason.

Which words do you need to hear to leave town, and then resign? I am in contact with a community leader who is prepared to attest that he loves you, that you are smart and strong and tall and funny, that you look more like 27 than 57 years old, and that you probably get hot girls. DMs open.

Good! We're at the "evil counsellors" stage. What happens next, according to the playbook of European history that the authors of the constitution sort of knew, is that either the leader lets the top advisor take the blame, or he supports his minion and reveals that actually it's all his own fault.

"It's high time for Trump and his team, for the first time in their entire lives, to work constructively to solve difficult governance problems" is my favorite genre of centrist democrat pronouncement.

This thread is several cases, each one the most infuriating pointless cruelty, each one worthy of being a major scandal that gets powerful people fired and changes policies.

The point isn't that this is "demeaning," it's that he's showing that he understands the federal government to be opposed to its own people.

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The minimum moderate position is not abolishing or defunding ICE, it's Trump's removal. He is a tyrant, he has declared war against peaceful people, he is a criminal, he is corrupt, and he has violated his oath of office innumerable times.

They'll call it "unrest" but it's just executions by a military occupation.

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

Is there any Republican leader anywhere in the country who is not entirely on board with declaring war on a peaceful city for no reason? Anyone want to put on record that they like low taxes but not death squads?

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

Local police in MN have arrested priests for praying, they have provided security for Vance lying to cameras, they have kept people away from ICE, but they have not arrested a single federal agent for any of their endless stream of crimes.

The Trump regime is lawless. It spouts an endless stream of lies about the American people, about other countries, about history, about nature, about human health, about everything. It has no legitimacy.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...