I truly understand the pleas for ICE to leave Minnesota. But leaving MN to go terrorize other states isn’t what anyone wants. ICE/DHS is kidnapping and murdering people in the streets AND IN DETENTION CENTERS. Abolishing ICE - and holding its leaders & agents accountable- is the absolute minimum.

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

You have to understand that "well, now..." (sometimes followed by "I don't know") Is about the most aggressive disagreement I've heard from a native Minnesotan in the decade I've lived here. The casual use of an f-bomb in public conversation is unheard of from anyone over swear-experimentation age.

One thing you may not recognize if you’re not from here: This isn’t a puritanical town, but casual swearing in public is much less common here than elsewhere. Now? Now, pretty staid folks say “FUCK ICE” like it’s a greeting and it’s on signs everywhere. The unofficial motto of Minneapolis.

Mood in minneapolis right now

From an email from @lydamorehouse.bsky.social, after I joked that we'd read the whole poem: First they came for our neighbors, so we trained as observers Then they murdered our observers, so we formed patrols and trained more observers

again: utterly, mindblowingly absurd that this is what they’re going with when you can see from angle after angle that Pretti did not have his gun out and was in fact restrained on the ground when they disarmed and then shot him these are bad lies and they’re going to backfire horrendously

I’m completely fed up with elected Representatives saying shit like, “Republicans will tell you behind closed doors that they don’t agree with what ICE is doing”. Playtime is over. Professional courtesy no longer exists. Name them, record them, and make it public.

“ICE > MN” is impeachable by itself.

Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end. I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.

Reporter: "How long will you be out here?" random minneapolitan: "till my balls get cold"

Our country was founded on protesting unjust laws.

who the hell even needs to "walk out on the street" for this? my guy, I never want to give Bezos any more dollars, and always vote to shop local...but when you don't know where else to find your random thing...Amazon delivers to your doorstep.

this means you @schumer.senate.gov , you're my Senator whether I like it or not, so step the hell up and call for abolishing both ICE specifically and all other federally-funded terrorism LARP squads.

The goal of nonviolent civil resistance is not to convince the regime they're wrong. The goal of nonviolent civil resistance is to convince the people to work together to make it impossible for the regime to sustain itself. We aren't nonviolent for the regime. We're nonviolent for each other.

A vlog brought us here

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

This is why you HAVE to have at least some sort of symbolic attempt at justice by local or state authorities. If the prosecution fails, it fails. But there HAS to be something for people to grab onto right now. Some sense that justice is possible to avoid a worst case scenario.

been reposting a bunch but I want to make it abundantly clear in my own words: - fuck ICE - abolish ICE - trials for everyone who has worked for ICE or associated portions of terrorist agencies (combat-style portions of Border etc.) - trials because that's how justice SHOULD happen, not executions.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

Guys, ICE is attacking and harassing ANYONE WHO IS NOT WHITE, HAS A FOREIGN-SOUNDING NAME, OR HAS AN ACCENT. When they jump out and grab you, and carry you off screaming, it doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or not! They’re not asking! I’ve seen it happen multiple times with my own eyes.

Really, really recommend that Minnesotans in particular disable autoplay, I know it's annoying to have to click to see a GIF but it's not worth the mental health costs of seeing the first seconds (before you scroll by) of murders in our city over and over and over.

I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street. If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.

Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs Turn it off, now.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

Flashlights (not candles). Smoke/carbon monoxide alarms. Knowing where the vents to your home are so you can clear them of snow. Do it all. We're being given so much time with this storm.

joked on the Lolibrary Discord tonight about putting up a cash bounty for documented evidence of ROLLING WEST BABY items ever actually being for sale haha...jk...unless...?

Fantastic article! Written with menswear examples, yet solidly applicable to all kinds of fashion. I've often thought about how easier to make good-quality lolita in Japan on a small scale when the fabric and lace are also made there. Paying tariffs and handling on raw materials adds up a ton...

A dad on patrol this morning is showing off his new egregiously expensive ice-fishing boots that he justified “because I’m standing out here all the time.” Dudes are going to continue rocking until morale improves

it is increasingly obvious to me that there are quite a few americans (surprisingly diverse) that are unaware of the history of the Chinese Exclusion Act and/or Japanese internment

my partner called the town hall "a reverse letter to the editor" and he was right

I went to pick up a prescription at a pharmacy that's barely a mile away - and in doing so, I passed *two* protests with anti-Trump sign-wavers flagging down traffic in the middle of lunch rush

pepper spraying someone in the face from inches away while they are already restrained on the ground should get you fired and land you in jail, no exceptions

lol BlueSky launched me two weeks back in my following for some reason? Pretty sure I didn't scroll that far manually, but I got to see some good posts regardless so I guess that was nice

I want to do a thread on "Small Press Red Flags" brought to you by years in the trenches combined with some issues I’m seeing pop up again in writer circles. Note: an isolated incident might not be a red flag, but cumulative flags are always worth examination. First off: Let’s talk about money.

I am not feeling the whimsy.

Jesus famously did not disrupt proceedings at a place of worship and call out religious hypocrisy

A lot of good businesses are closing on Friday to participate in the ICE Out General Strike. But make sure to support these places on the other days. A lost Friday is a tough thing for a restaurant or bar. Also use this as a barometer for the types of businesses you want to support.

That money could’ve ended homelessness in the US, or established UBI for every American, student loan erasure, or supercharged every creative industry in existence to pay artists better, instead of, yknow, blowing it on dead malls full of Elegy of Emptiness statues for rich people I hate it here

Verbal assault or, as it's legally known, "not assault"

That's it, I'm upgrading from my safety whistles to my safety recorder. A little bit more bulky, but may have the effect of working as a snake charmer on ICE.

Can I get a fuck you Hanz Zimmer?

I know facts don't matter anymore but there's only 15-20 thousand Inuit in the United States. ~90 percent of the people in Greenland are Inuit. Paid American protestors would stand out. Just a bit.

And if you truly have none, you can be the person you wish your ancestors were

There's a reason why every fascist movement tries to destroy artists (this time it's via the enshittification via AI slop). Art and creation are the opposite of hate and destruction. Art reminds us of our joy, our individuality, our history. Art always has value, but especially now.

Lady knight lineart:

Dems need to stop acting like what ICE is doing is an accident, or a failure of policy, or a tactic of distraction. It's the policy. And that's fucking terrifying, because it means that there's no negotiating with it, no ameliorating it. There's only defeating it, or being defeated by it.

Hey visual kei fandom— This is a lot of our bands. I get it. Getting CDs is hard and all big tech companies are bad. But if you can stream through a platform that isn’t Spotify, it’s marginally less bad. And if you can, support bands by buying merch, physical media, and seeing them live.

someone said "hey i think pics of this dress are actually this other dress" and i said "cool lemme do some research", seems Dress A's colorways are 2/3 different from Dress B's. one has a weird name. googled to see if i could find other things in that color. anyway now i have 4 colorways of Dress A