Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry. "They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless…. Remember this. ~ Robert Reich

we've talked a lot about how comparing these guys to slave catchers is more accurate than third reich comparisons are, and this is a big part of it. antebellum slavers broke up enslaved people's families to pacify them, frequently. that is exactly what ICE does.

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

I’m ready for life to get easier

THIS 👇🏽 #SheShed #Voices4Victory

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Just keep on repeating, “I’m very proud of you,” to your inner child until you feel better!

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

I just read this really stupid article comparing the vulgarity of Trump’s presidential portrait to the regality of George Washington’s portrait. GEORGE WASHINGTON OWNED SLAVES, DUDE. Romanticizing America’s blood-soaked past is a MAGA thing, not a progressive thing!

"To truly stop the damage [that ICE is doing] requires going further – it means eradicating the security logic that ever made people think that arming a secret police on an ethnic cleansing mission could ever make them safe." A must-read from @hebagowayed.bsky.social & @victorerikray.bsky.social

What you are seeing here from Booker is the most craven and cynical counterinsurgency designed to preserve the key structures while tricking low information liberals into thinking people in power care and are “doing something.”

Something a little different. Some cartoonists put out a call for comics about local ICE experiences. This one happened a few months ago so it's a little older than current events, but it's a story that I never stopped thinking about. #ICEoutcomics

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

Sometimes the most respectful thing you can do is let someone experience the natural outcome of their behavior without rescuing them.

Also I feel bad for that kid Imagine if your dad is the literal richest man in the world and still won’t speak to you or pay child support That would fuck you up

“We’re going to train the neo-Nazi who joined ICE in deescalation tactics” says the Democratic consultant who is entirely fine with ICE taking your children and putting three in your forehead

When life is difficult just keep repeating, “I am very proud of myself” on repeat

“It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good fortune will start an AI company with a product no one wants.”

Gavin Newsom has never had a homeless, a working unhoused, or an affordable housing advocate on his podcast despite governing California. So yeah I think it’s weird that he’s entertained & platformed multiple fascists while grinning, nodding & relenting to their easily defeatable talking points.

I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.

And the most disappointing part of it is that even people like Tim Walz are preemptively victim-blaming protesters: “don’t allow them to bring in the national guard.” It feels eerily similar to the way people blame victims of domestic violence for provoking their abusers.

They recruit ICE using Halo video game memes about killing insectoid hordes— only give them six weeks of training— neglect reading tests, fitness requirements, and background checks— and perhaps most tellingly, an HR chief for ICE had a stress-related fainting episode. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

this admin is adding a particularly violent misogyny to the wages of whiteness women who don’t comply are not only punishable but killable

As a former advocate for survivors of domestic violence, I cannot describe how much it pains me to hear the Vice President say we owe a debt of gratitude to man who shot a woman in the face and then called her a fucking bitch.

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.

Or, “She was trying to ram us with her vehicle. We only shot in self-defense.” And, “She was a lesbian. She used pronouns. Her life doesn’t really count.”

This is why I feel so strongly about the centrality of building mutual aid infrastructure to leftist movements! Movements should be places where people can go for support, not just places where they are expected to give time and energy.

In 2005 Trump famously said that when you’re a star you can do anything you want. In 2026 Hegseth said America can project our will anywhere at any time. You can draw a direct line from one to the other. Trump told us who he was — a deeply abusive and hateful man. 1/2

You don’t have to want kids or even enjoy being around them. But it’s also worth unpacking why kids simply existing, learning, or having unmet needs reads as “annoying,” “unlikeable,” or “bad behavior.” This collective discomfort with noise, need, & vulnerability is why many ADULTS are struggling.

I‘m discontinuing my social media use for the foreseeable future and I want to explain why. I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.

is a conflation of capabilities that is stomach churning) The job of science fiction readers and writers is not to accept the newest fad of the oligarchs as gospel. It is to ask questions, to poke holes into the narrative (which is quite hole-y already) they serve us.

Usually when journalists claim non bias, it’s because they lean towards whatever powerful interests claims.

Cars *weren't* in fact inevitable! Their mass adoption here in the US was part of a systematic push by the auto industry to frame public mass transport as unreliable and annoying and cars as core to America's ~rugged individualism! V similar to gen AI haters being framed as *luddites* today!

"What the rich won’t say is that one of the most impactful interventions in a survivor’s life is not calling the police — it’s redistributed wealth, and more broadly, economic and housing security for everyone." truthout.org/articles/sex...

Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus. For @reuters.com:

We take your money, Mark. That’s how we do it. And you know it, which is why you are fighting us. We take money from people who bought the legislators who cut your taxes and wrote business laws that made you so very rich while making workers so very poor.

Merry Christmas!

Also, the relative income for Crachitt in 2025 is about $1085/week. It's not a direct conversion bc the relative costs of things have changed dramatically but it's significantly more than minimum wage is today. Just saying.

Pope Leo at Christmas Day Mass: “The Word has pitched his fragile tent among us. How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold; and of those of so many other refugees and displaced persons on every continent? www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

saying fun things at christmas such as "i would love to see a tech ceo hanged in my lifetime"

My TikTok turned into 50% Epstein Files and I had to take it off my phone

Even with broad public support, no major museum has taken up the genocide in Gaza. No large institution I know of has put on an exhibition about Palestinian artists or Palestinian lives. www.equator.org/articles/how...

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How I’m turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party