between the performances, military spectacle, &dystopian ads, i didn’t know what to write about sunday. so i wrote about all of it are you subscribed to my newsletter? open.substack.com/pub/andrejge...

jeeeeeeesus: theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI. one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."

it’ll take more than an experienced politician to fix la when “experience” means knowing how to bribe the lapd with more funding. angelenos cannot afford business as usual when that business is unlimited support to cops, landlords, and real estate developers. @raeforla.bsky.social is the candidate!

Happy Monday. I wasn’t really planning on getting involved in the local elections this year but since Nithya just announced her campaign…. There’s about to be a bunch of misinformation spread about this mayoral race. I think I have to start pushing more for @raeforla.bsky.social. Let’s go, Rae!

At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city. Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026

LMAO: “I helped her commit violence against the unhoused of Los Angeles! How could she betray me so?"

Another of dozens of examples that MPD will indeed always side with ICE and this dweeb should not be listened to. I live in Minneapolis, it doesn't matter what the city has been through. The cops are not gonna be on our side.

Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.

professional photo shoot and announcement in the New York Times. Clearly committed to local politics and the people of Los Angeles and definitely not using the city to build a national profile. definitely not that.

we gotta abolish internet personalities saying “what have you done?” to people online. seriously 😭😭😭

Nithya has been on the council long enough to become disappointing to some progressives who’ve supported her. I don’t see her as a Mamdani unless she shifts her rhetoric on several issues but she’s currently better than Bass.

Called it in February 2024 (even if the run date was 4 years off).

There is about to be a push of claiming Nithya is the progressive champion we need. I’d like to remind folks that she switched up on the grassroots base that got her elected in 2020. She spent most of her initial time in office sucking up to Nury Martinez (saw how that worked out lol). Beware!

Nithya supporters love to cry about “leftist infighting,” especially when you bring up topics like her supporting increasing LAPD budgets. Expect more of it!

wtf is happening lol

I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them

LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations. The full story: lataco.com/lapd-arrests... By Izzy Ramirez

Arrest avoidance is always the best policy. Build your plans around getting away first, then have contingencies if that doesn't work. Never trust an org that uses the intentional arrest strategy, they are fighting for funding, not collective victory.

Welcome to today's episode of Shut The Fuck Up Friday! Check out this video for some tips from a local lawyer for those of you headed out to the streets to protest. You're a target of the state when you take action. NEVER talk to police & always STFU! Full video in thread👇

Since it’s Friday… I’m not saying that you should be “afraid” of getting arrested. I’m saying that you should avoid arrest if possible. Things become much more difficult for you when you’re in police custody. This is solid movement advice thats been passed down from generations of rad lawyers. STFU!

Happening Now: 20+ law enforcement vehicles, including a Minneapolis Police SWAT Bearcat, are staged on SE Beacon St as a noise demo has started at the Graduate Hotel. This is the 4th noise demo at the Graduate and one of multiple noise demos tonight outside hotels housing ICE agents in Minneapolis.

The myth of the “sanctuary city” has been entirely shattered and everyone needs to act accordingly. Your state and local politicians will not save you. They will sic their dogs on you just the same as red state governors and mayors would. No one is coming to save us. It’s up to us to save ourselves.

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

It's time for everyone in LA to realize that cancelling the Olympics will be a lot less costly than hosting them, in many more ways than one.

I cannot reiterate enough that you can’t just protest ICE out of the Olympics. Hosting a mega-event = Feds run security. Period, point blank, every time.

Karen Bass refusing to speak out against Epstein’s friend Casey Wasserman is pure cowardice. An easy win to demand he resign but Bass doesn’t want to upset her donors, & maybe more importantly, she doesn’t want to switch her stance on the games. Either way, cancel the Olympics!

Unlike Zohran, though, Rae actually supports defunding the police

I have no doubt the conservative billionaire would've been worse, but Karen Bass has been one of the most disappointing mayors I've had the displeasure of voting for.

Real “profiles in courage” stuff (sarcasm!)

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

In the words of Desus, avoid the bookings beloved

Karen Bass was quicker to drop Faisal Gill for saying he wanted a brief moratorium on prosecuting petty crimes than she is to repudiate a guy who flew on Epstein's Plane

Although we agree that Casey Wasserman should not lead LA28, NO ONE should lead LA28. There shouldn’t be a 2028 Olympics, or any Olympics. It doesn't matter who's driving when the car is flying off a cliff.

Karen Bass refusing to speak out against Epstein’s friend Casey Wasserman is pure cowardice. An easy win to demand he resign but Bass doesn’t want to upset her donors, & maybe more importantly, she doesn’t want to switch her stance on the games. Either way, cancel the Olympics!

I’ve watched this about 20 times already

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.

Anarchists are your neighbors. Their kid goes to preschool with your kid. They are in class with you at the local community College. They are your coworkers, your friends, and your family members. We don't just fucking spawn out of thin air if full black bloc gear anytime there's a protest

this is pretty wild. good argument for lockdown mode if your threat model is one where you might have your phone seized by the Feds: www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

The amount of observers that have been detained today in the city already that I’ve seen videos of is really spooky.It’s very clear that ice is now just straight up targeting observers in an effort to quash people watching them. It’s also clear that they are absolutely keeping databases of observers

It's also not unique to this moment for people who are brand new to believe they have it all figured out, or for onlookers to believe the same. That part of the equation rhymes with a whole lot of history, and people who stick around long enough learn that they don't know what they don't know.

Graffiti seen in Los Angeles following the riotous anti-ICE protests

Even if you’re a generous person, it’s beyond the point of plausible deniability. Who is going to ask Casey Wasserman on the record about his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein?? Why is he in charge of the private org running the 2028 Olympics in LA??

"PROTECT" "ICE EAT SHIT - NOT WELCOME HERE" "BOVINO & ICE, GTFO!" "SAME SHIT" It's hard to state the widespread nature of signs and posters in Minneapolis right now. They are everywhere. Minneapolis, February 2026

Been seeing a lot of updates coming out of Minneapolis from @minneapolis-spring.bsky.social & @tcungovernables.bsky.social. If you’re looking for local sources on the ground:

Anonymously submitted to Twin Cities Ungovernables

NEWS FROM THE BARRICADES: Today, hundreds of community members were able to safely pass through the filter blockade. When ICE Agents tried, they were repelled. For a free Minneapolis, For one another.

Three years today. The cops are already killing protesters—it's not a line we haven't crossed, it's a thing already happening—but lots of people never heard about or paid attention to this one. So it goes

If you don't remember Tortuguita's story, one place that I think told some of it well was the Bitter Southerner: bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023...