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Minneapolis police are now showing up with riot cops to stop peaceful potluck protests now. All in service to protecting fascist death squads. Minneapolis police are fully pro fascist violence and against protestors

the status quo is supported by people with resources believing that the only responsible way to help the “less fortunate” is to give to the appropriate organization that redistributes it to the worthy. our system was built to fail the people in the moment we are in—to protect systems of oppression.

coming up with a new idea called "driving like shit olympics". no more bland, unprovable statements like "california drivers are the WORST" allowed. whichever state wins every 4 years gets a moonshot-sized public transit investment to get those fuckers off the road

It’s a very small thing but running for Senate during “buy local month” and showing up with Starbucks is so on the nose.

Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota

L + ratio + guerilla traffic calming + abolish ICE + model of an ancient ziggurat

MINNEAPOLIS ❗️❗️❗️ Frey needs to hear from • rent fund donors who know that when landlords tell Palmisano rent is on track it's ONLY bc of mutual aid • employers with employees in hiding/detained willing to speak on tenant impact • property managers & landlords who will speak in renters' interests

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

And here it is the proof that Governor walz and the Democrats sold us out. Hennepin county sheriffs are now protecting ice as they disappear people from the government center down town

Just thinking of all the activists who warned us about every single second of the current reality for absolutely years in advance.

tomorrow i would really like to challenge a few folks with larger followings than me to adopt a rent and raise it in one day. my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.

Minneapolis City Council likely to pass $1 million in rental assistance funding today in response to financial hardship caused by ongoing federal occupation of the Twin Cities. Source of the money is contingency funds. Hennepin County will administer it.

I have been trying to frame this for non-Minnesotans; asking what they can do. If you have $100 to give: $20 to formal orgs $20 to legal aid work $20 to emergency rent funds $20 to the next (underfunded) mutual aid ask you see. Give $20 to a Minnesotan and tell them to buy some great local food.

I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.

I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵

The headline should be, "DHS to keep 2,000 immigration officers in Minnesota." Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota." This presser worked like a charm.

Striking from new Quinnipiac poll: *Voters prefer path to legalization over deportations for most undocs by 59-34. Among independents it's 61-33 *Majority says Trump on immigration is making America less safe Again, there's broad rejection of the whole project, not just ICE tactics (see below)

From 1982-2018, the Republican National Committee was barred from "ballot security measures" because of their record of using state actors to intimidate minority voters. (H/t @rickhasen.bsky.social) www.npr.org/2018/01/09/5...

following mamdani on here is just like (seething with jealously) another world is possible

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month. Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.

Don't agree with Cato Inst on much. But: Very glad they have quantified what has been obvious for years.

i feel like we've had a good enough sample size for like two decades on whether or not body cameras on cops do anything whatsoever to stop them from killing people. the guy that murdered renee good was filming it on his phone for fun!

Released. Outside of South Mpls, no community hit harder than Columbia Heights. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Instead of a song being stuck in my head, today what's stuck in my head is the "fuck ya life. bing-bong!" pigeon video.

Going to try to caucus with this in mind:

Folks, the east side of St. Paul has been getting slammed by ICE and needs help. Harding High on the east side is like 50-75% vulnerable families and is currently feeding 60 families a week. Please consider giving here. www.gofundme.com/f/vvtc6j-rel...

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

All bodycams are going to do is facilitate a surge in prosecutions for “assaulting agents” and improve data collection about protesters so good work everyone who pushed for that big reform.

Remember that trump is not the disease. ICE is not the disease. they’re the symptom. The root of evil is a nation built on stolen land, an economy built on stolen labor, the imperial core continues to maintain its power through imperialism, colonization, and systems of oppression

Klobuchar was the only Dem to speak at Trump's second inauguration. She spoke of the peaceful transfer of power, even after Trump attempted a self-coup to stop exactly that. She pivots to talking about grocery prices during Trump's ongoing attempts at turning this country fascist. She's not good.

Finished knitting! Pattern up!

NO GENDER MARKERS ON GOVERNMENT ID, NOW

tomorrow is caucus night and @dexanderson.com does a quick explainer so you can feel comf(ier) getting involved. (send this to your cousin who went to their first rally this past month!)

One of the things that keeps me going is that we are trying to protect something--community--and in the process we are strengthening that very thing. Their goal is simply to destroy. They have the guns and we have the whistles, but every day we become stronger and they do not.

ten years ago today no one clapped

Please Donate. Greater Longfellow Neighbors are coming together to raise funds for Neighbors throughout the region who are impacted by ICE activities. It’s Feb. 2nd the rent is due and the need is high. www.gofundme.com/f/Greater-Lo...

Then this is me very peacefully saying that we desperately need an eviction moratorium and rent support both. This is within your power. It’s time you use it.

Liam was taken from Columbia Heights, the town just south of my high school in Fridley and just north of the Arts district in NE Minneapolis. I spent a lot of time with friends there after extracurriculars. News of his abduction completely broke my heart. I’m glad he’s home. #Comics4Liam

soup is the original gatorade

Liam, 5, has been freed, but four other students from his school district remain detained in Texas. Two boys from his elementary school were taken Thurs “This isn’t something we are prepared or trained for. We’ve dedicated our lives to protecting + educating children,” school superintendent told me

This got funded within HOURS. But if you are still looking for a way to support Minneapolis, please consider the Near North Mutual Aid fund. It’s been paying rent for dozens of families for the last two months. gofund.me/12cc5b4cd

The entire minnesota delegation needs to be at Whipple by lunch.

death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted

@deardara.bsky.social is awfully good. deardara.com/so/adPmSCLoz...

Every donation link, every GoFundMe for rent support etc., is—in reality—a fundraiser to make sure parasitic landlords with no moral compass can keep extracting wealth from vulnerable people. We have to do it, and it’s great we are. But, it doesn’t change the fact it’s immoral and deeply fucked up.

Truly the whole city—very much including @jchavezmpls.bsky.social —is running around collecting cash, trying to meet thousands or rent deadlines, exhausting our personal fundraising networks, hugging other helpers in the bank lobby, losing sleep…and he’s posting through it.