My anecdotal sense is that something has broken through to the general public since yesterday. I have noted 5 posts on Fedbook from people I know who NEVER post anything they consider "political." All of them have posted some version of "enough is enough."

"Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don't want to be interrupted."

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

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Crowd is massive, now overflowing Congress Plaza and taking up a block-long stretch of Michigan Avenue. Reminder: this event was only announced yesterday.

The work of women/folks in marginalized communities has always been invisible by design. Now we use that.

someone emptied out the little free library. no idea who or why, whether it was to try to hurt me or just because. if you want to help restock & you’re local to boynton beach, lmk. if you want to donate books, info below. venmo: @mortuaryreport paypal: @aceratcliff cash app: $mortuaryreport

This is LA. While CBP’s large, highly-visible terror campaign moves from city-to-city, ICE’s more clandestine operations continue daily all across America. The scope of what is happening nationally, on a daily basis, is difficult to truly comprehend.

The march has begun. I've been standing at this vantage here recording for a full three minutes and still can't see the end of the column. I *can* see still more people joining the march a few blocks south.

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

👀 eg, see California state gun laws after the Black Panthers started carrying guns for self-defense

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽 ‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

In Chicago when Marimar Martinez was shot 5 times and survived, ICE/CBP took the truck she “ran into” (in their version of events) and drove it all the way to Maine to avoid inspection.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

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.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

There is explicit video of ICE executing another Minnesotian. Turn off your autoplay. Protect your peace. Fuck ICE.

Sweet. Just learned about this cool anthology celebrating Disabled writers--forthcoming from Northwestern University Press (and open for pre-orders now, ofc). nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014973...

I’m seeking info on immigration lawyers in Boston - a friend of a friend was abducted by ICE in the area.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

My ex needs help not freezing, please. "Our first and current goal is to get at least get $100 for the remaining items we need to carpet the living room." Cashapp: $saltydoor

This is what love looks like.

Easily thousands roaring "ICE out!"

Just an absolute sea of people out here. Frozen breaths hovering in the air.

People are fully in traffic now.

"We had whistles, they had guns."

It's still freezing in Minneapolis, and crowds are streaming into downtown. Spontaneous anti-ICE chants breaking out on the sidewalk.

“We have a nice little database, & now you’re considered domestic terrorists” says an ICE agent after photographing a civilian who was videotaping them. Posted today by Brian Allen on X. h/t @allenanalysis.bsky.social

Over 100 priests have been arrested in Minneapolis for protesting ICE. They gathered to demand airlines to cease contracting deportation flights to DHS.

ICE is a force of evil and must be defunded and abolished for democracy to survive.

Well I felt all that -27 degrees getting these images this morning. Stay warm Chicago!

emotions do not always cloud one’s judgment. They can also clarify them.

Thirty-one known defendants have been charged in Chicago with non-immigration crimes tied to “Operation Midway Blitz.” With today’s acquittal, 15 of them have been cleared. No one has been convicted.

In case you missed it: One of the ICE observers was pulled out of her car by CBP, who used facial recognition on her. Three days later, she learned her TSA-Pre clearance had been revoked.

Every representative who voted yes voted for more brutalization of our neighbors, more kidnapping of our children, more trampling of our rights, and more murder from this government.

To reiterate: "Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory."

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Why?????????

One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation. We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.

It's not an accident that they're choosing to go after/make an example of a Black woman, FTR

with subzero temperatures on the horizon, now‘s a good time to revisit @katieprout.bsky.social’s 2022 piece about the lack of 24-hour warming centers in chicago. four years later and nothing has changed.

AND DID!!!

I basically wrote my dem rep today saying “I should have fought harder against ICE under Biden and Obama too, you’re all complicit, Abolish ICE is the bare minimum, Fuck ICE, Fuck you all for not dismantling it when you had power, I will work exceedingly hard to replace you with someone who will”

I think about this almost every day

Delicious to me

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.

It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.