Journalists often go on hand-fed ride-alongs with agents. Seldom, though, do they get into the cars of everyday people protecting their communities from those same agents. We just did exactly that, in ICE-occupied Minneapolis:

Two truths I'm holding, trying to coach and support activists on the ground in MPLS: 1. Everything they're doing to love their neighbors is beautiful and brave and exactly what we need. 2. It is even more terrifying and exhausting than folks outside can imagine. They/we will win, but it is so hard

this is war. I don't know why this isn't the language that everyone uses. The Feds are waging war on civilians.

One thing about Minneapolis is most everyone knows where to go and what to do. I don’t generally see locals doom-posting. They’re out at vigils and protests or running mutual aid. My block leader and neighbors have already disseminated information about where to direct resources, effort, and energy.

Please understand this is happening in literally dozens of locations around the city simultaneously. If an ICE vehicle stops, community members materialize in seconds and do everything they can to stop the kidnappings. We are under siege and using every tool to fight back.

Couldn't sum up the mood in Minneapolis right now any better than that.

Hi, I'm a freelance Democratic party strategist in your mentions. After we protect trans rights by banning them from sports, we should move on to protecting abortion rights by restricting bodily autonomy. Next, we'll reign in ICE by getting tough on the border.

One thing that gave me hope today was seeing flyers in the lobby of our vet’s office with immigration resources. Over the past few months as I’ve visited local bakeries, my favorite comic shop, sports bar, library, church, and now the vet, I have seen whistles and resources for community organizing.

This is horrific and barely being reported on in the UK media. Shame on the British government. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

is anyone checking in with universities to ask if they're still welcoming ICE to career fairs?

I have verified that Keith Porter Jr’s father created this GoFundMe and is asking to support his grandchildren

Let’s go California!!!! The DELETE Act just passed, which will help many Californians to secure their data and defend themselves from data broker exploitation. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Stitch this onto a sampler and hang it over your bed if you have to.

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

It's rare that LinkedIn serves me a gem but it did today via @pdan.bsky.social

I teach bystander intervention for a living and the audio of people yelling 'MURDERERS! DO YOU HAVE A CONSCIENCE?!' while they record the carnage, made me weep. There are millions of people who support fascism but there are also countless others who are standing up for justice, despite huge risks.

You just saw a state actor assassinate an innocent woman in front of you and you run towards the vehicle to help?! You heckle the people who are trying to intimate you?! You pull out your phone and record them?! These people have more courage in their baby toe than all the fascists combined.

I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement. Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.

Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE: -Amazon -AT&T -Booz Allen Hamilton -Caci -Charter Communications -Comcast -Dell -Ecolab -FedEx -General Dynamics -L3Harris -Motorola -Thermo Fisher -UPS Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.

i love the idea of a guy who’s still been on the edge of getting into jeopardy after 61 years of it airing

It’s truly, truly horrific and why @interruptcrim.bsky.social‘s Beyond Do No Harm campaign principles 11 & 12 focus specifically on health care for people who are in custody, and incarcerated in jails, prisons, detention centers, etc.

This is how many of us become abolitionists. We learn about what goes in prisons through reading about or interaction with the prison industrial complex & realize just how terrible it is. It’s why I wrote a book about incarcerated disabled girls of color www.routledge.com/The-Pedagogy...

One of the most useful things a community organizer ever told me was "if someone wants to play tug of war with you, let go of the rope." The power in any conflict lies not w/ the person who initiates, but w/the person who responds. "Thanks for sharing your perspective, you may be right." And move on

Since the infighting and one-upsmanship has started--people who feel helpless + frustrated turn on each other, it's just a sad fact--remember: you don't have to like the people you fight alongside. Your comrades will say profoundly stupid bullshit to you, about you, etc. Let it roll off, keep going

Do your best work offline and do not expect to be thanked. Do it because it's the right thing to do, not because you want people to like you. We all go into the dirt alone. No one else will be there when your guardian angel starts listing off your good deeds. Learn to be emotionally self-sufficient.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Organizing gets the goods! Bravo @nelini.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social and @indivisible.org & I’m definitely forgetting someone.

If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.

➡️ Police escalate mental health crises. In 2024, 118 people were killed after police responded to reports of a mental health crisis. policeviolencereport.org

These fucking politicians need to STOP CONSTANTLY admonishing protestors to be "peaceful" while they are being brutalized regularly by the gatekeepers of the state. You should be up there telling ICE and Border Patrol to be fucking peaceful.

600+ people still showed up for Legal Observers training in Minneapolis tonight. In addition to those currently on patrol. This minute. While the vigil is happening in South Mpls.

I understand why many folks tonight are reminding us that ICE kills people all the time. But as an immigrant I also know that the reality is only a small number of US citizens are putting their lives on the line to protect people like me and I want to honor their courage.

One thing I didn't fully appreciate until I sat on a jury and reviewed body cam footage for myself, is how cops yell contradictory instructions at people like "Don't move" "Put your hands up" "Get the fuck out of here" "Keep your hands where I can see them" etc. all screamed at your face with guns

A history lesson. For years, Johns Hopkins had a contract with ICE and only stopped bc students & other activists made a stink. They never apologized. Thereafter they had a contract with CBP. I haven't checked what contracts are active now. share.google/f0y1lA409xub...

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot

With an annual budget that is 10 times the size of the agency’s total surveillance spending for the last 13 years, ICE is going on a shopping spree, creating one of the largest, most comprehensive domestic surveillance machines in history. Here’s what they are buying. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I want us to take the anger & grief we feel for Renee — whose name we know, whose smiling face we see— and think of all the people killed by these same monsters whose names we don’t know & won’t see. The mothers and fathers whose only sin was striving for more. Whose rights Renee died fighting for.

I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.

Both Erin Burnett and Anderson Cooper REALLY want to make sure you understand the woman murdered by ICE today was an American citizen, because if she wasn't then this would actually fine according to them.

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

Los Angeles let this be the day you join us. There is a role for everyone regardless of ability, skill sets, capacity. If you don’t see a role for yourself, that’s ok. That’s what they want you to think. Reach out to me directly and I’ll help

There are hundreds more showing up, observing, patrolling and organizing in the surrounding suburbs. Today only galvanized wanting to protect each other

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

I wish for a world where Minneapolis does not have to repeatedly be a flashpoint for the most grotesque acts of fascist state violence. My heart breaks for the people of a city that deserves more than taxpayer-funded knees on necks and federal bullets through windshields.

"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."

ICE is a relatively newer agency that has always terrorized communities and attracted white supremacists to their ranks. Do people want to “train” them to be better at that? Any mention of training reveals someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

now more than ever, remember how vital it is to never leave anyone behind, to lock arms, to stand firm. we cannot stop cops from murdering us but we can stand firm and strong in our love for one another. we are building a new world. they cannot take it from us.