I do think that one of the things that is happening is this: racists mostly assume that everyone else actually thinks these things, they just have been taught not to say them out loud. So the current regime was liberating for them, because they assumed that everyone thought like that. /1

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do not ruin this for the children this is a tool for children to use it is not for you, an adult, to turn into "the helpers are being shot." genuinely, delete your account.

think about the immeasurable, immense cruelty it takes to pervert advice for children--"when you see people panicking and running around in a disaster, look for EMTs and firefighters so you can stay calm; i know you're feeling afraid, here's how not to" and RUIN IT by giving it a SHITTY meaning.

We sometimes think about the martyrs of the Boston Massacre as the first deaths in the American Revolution. But an 11yo boy named Christopher Seider was killed by a customs informer the week before. Boston gave him a huge funeral. Tensions were snapping. And then soldiers fired into the crowd.

Places Imagine a place. Not a beloved place, Not a home, or a park, Just an intersection. A place where there were roses Twenty years ago, Or a restaurant that closed And was never very good, A place you passed by twice a day For years, in a bus, or in a car, or on a bike, or walked by, 1/4

When the AI bubble collapses, when the fascists inevitably find history repeating, admitting to having voluntarily used generative AI will be about as shameful as having worked in the gestapo. People won't give a single fuck how you justified it to yourself.

Not that we don’t protest too — we do — but Renee Good and Alex Pretti (and those who witnessed and documented their executions) were legally observing ICE kidnappings and alerting their neighbors to ICE presence. It’s not a protest, it’s a public service. It’s how we’re protecting our neighbors.

We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it

minneapolis is doing community care & mutual aid while exercising constitutionally protected legal activities

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I'm not asking for reform because arguing on paper about what ICE has to do is not the fucking point, because--and this is important--they are not following the fucking paper. I said "abolish" and I did not stutter, because if fascists goons can take over every four years, there is no paper reform.

IRAQ WAR VETERAN: “I wouldn’t do that in a war. There are no rules of engagement I’ve ever had that would justify shooting someone in that situation… and he shot an American citizen. This should scare the shit out of everyone.” (From Louis Laurant)

executions in the street.

The nurses are pissed

Pam Bondi's conditions for Minnesota: 1) give us all your state data on your food programs, including SNAP 2) repeal all your sanctuary policies in the state (since it has led to "so much crime and violence") and 3) hand over your state voting rolls. Letter here: www.fox9.com/news/minneap...

I am hitting the rising hysterical laughter stage of dealing with awfulness. Voter rolls? SNAP data? Are they HIGH?

Since @peoplemag.bsky.social is doing such a good job covering this with honesty & the humanity it deserves in spite of this vengeful regime trying to snuff it out, here’s the links to their articles. Give them all the clicks—they earned it.

I am seeing quite a few nurses calling for a nationwide strike over the killing of Alex Pretti. I think we are seeing one of the largest workforces being radicalized before our very eyes.

They shoot the helpers. Cops and ICE, both. They shoot the helpers. "Policing" is a sickness.

From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis

I wrote an op-ed for the Houston Chronicle about Minnesota and you can read it here. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

They shot him 10 times while he was face down. It was a 3rd world style public execution

To those blaming Walz for not mobilizing the Guard, he did that six days ago. I have to say it's disturbing to see people angry at Walz instead of the government agents that just executed a man. As though we should all be experts about what to do when a secret police force invades an American city.

BREAKING: Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul lawyers escalate their request for an immediate TRO to temporarily halt Operation Metro Surge following today's ICE killing of Alex Pretti — noting three shootings by ICE in the past three weeks, after 11 months of no officer-involved shootings in Mpls.

WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."

I really need people who see this to ask themselves what good reform is going to do. Another law on the books? A constitutional amendment? What does that matter when the people in charge of the agency are hyping them up and telling them to do violence and that they are inherently immune if they do?

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

I just want to make it clear that it was *Border Patrol* agents who murdered Alex Pretti, and those fuckers murder people regularly here along the border. Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE). Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Today, I am chopping wood and carrying water as fast and as hard as I can; I am not seeking enlightenment, today. I just want to be warm and hydrated. Fuck ICE, though. Surely that is the path to enlightenment.

More of this, please. This is a good start. Thank you.

Both Philando Castile and Alex Pretti were licensed gun owners. What Second Amendment? At this point, the Bill of Rights only seems to apply to the authoritarians.

When between being pepper sprayed, punched, and pistol whipped was he supposed to calmly provide them with a copy of his concealed carry permit?

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.

If you haven't done it, under "Settings" you can disable Autoplay. I did it a long time ago. My first news job at 19 was reviewing 9/11 and Iraq War Footage to mark what was airable and what wasn't. I don't like looking at this stuff unaware.

Gotta laugh...and we all need a laugh. ❄️🧪💙📚 #scicomm #climate #science God Punishes Trump by Turning US into Greenland open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

This martyr could be any of us. He is doing what so many of us have been trained to do. Standing and recording on his phone, trying to warn his neighbors, and now he’s dead because armed, masked federal paramilitaries are acting with impunity to perform ethnic cleansing.

leftists love to throw "nonviolence won't protect you!!" at liberals. but they misunderstand. nonviolence isn't about protecting yourself. nonviolence doesn't mean nonconfrontational. nonviolence. is. about. winning. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Today, I am chopping wood and carrying water as fast and as hard as I can; I am not seeking enlightenment, today. I just want to be warm and hydrated. Fuck ICE, though. Surely that is the path to enlightenment.

And I will....

Ways to help if you're local, ways to help if you aren't in MN. Also still need support for our unhoused neighbors, especially in this cold. Links in quoted post. www.standwithminnesota.com has links, including a way to send messages to Minnesota.

The cops. Are protecting. The retreat. Of the feds. ACAB. @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social why the fuck are you not protecting your people? Why are you protecting the occupiers?

MPD is blocking off Nicollet south of Franklin Ave

If ICE kills me, avenge my most foul and unnatural murder by feeding people.

If the point was to make us afraid, congrats, you have succeeded. If the point was to make us cower, you have fucking failed. Minnesota Strong.

There was a general strike in Minnesota yesterday. There was minimal news coverage. During an epic cold snap tens of thousands of Minnesotans were out protesting. Today, ICE killed a man.

You watch regimes like that in Iran etc. put down protests violently and I have always wondered who does that? Who attacks their neighbours/fellow citizens on behalf of a corrupt govt? And yet here we are, watching thousands of US citizens in uniforms/masks, violently turn on their neighbours.