Only political cowards “struggle” to respond.

MAGA billionaires despise education, except for their own children. They oppose abortion but procure abortions for people in their personal lives. They’ve massively thrived under democracy but bitterly oppose any protections for the middle class and poor, and their success is never enough.

For every act of violence against observers captured on camera, there are a dozen Minnesotans doing the quiet quotidian work that keeps others safe. The occupying force can’t comprehend that. That is why they will lose.

This falls under the law as fraud, false statements and abuse of legal authority. This alone (yes, this alone!) is enough to have got any other president impeached.

What an embarrassing circus this regime is 🎪

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

🤣 Bring out those leaf blowers! #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Minnesota's decided to escalate from being generational legends to being historical icons.

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.

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

We all have a right to be angry at GOP voters -- that almost goes without saying. But I still maintain a special reserve of vitriol for people who can't be bothered to vote at all. They, by themselves, could have prevented this. They, by themselves, can stop this whenever they want to.

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the violent racist authoritarian lawless scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.

It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.

Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."

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📌Through all the lying, the disgusting pardons, raping women, the pathetic self-aggrandizing, the illegal wars, his phony efforts to bring prices down, and his slobbery inability to answer the easiest questions, Trump's base stays with him for ONE reason: He quenches their endless bigotry. PERIOD.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.

Yes, it absolutely is barbaric!

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Minnesota is on the front lines of a figurative and literal battle against fascism. State and local officials and residents are under siege. Despite the deluge of violent ICE shock troops, Minnesota has shown remarkable resilience. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

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I guess it's now fair to say today's Republicanism is the new Communism 🙄

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

I am no longer interested in nuanced policy positions for the Democratic Party. I will be voting based on one issue: Prosecutions. Can’t commit to holding the Trump admin accountable? Fuck off, you don’t get my vote.

Whatever succeeds ICE, it needs to be focused on customs enforcement only, primarily in airports and at ports. CBP’s “warrantless authority” 100-mile border should be revoked by Congress. CBP should only be allowed to operate within 1 mile of a border, past that it’s a sheriff’s problem.

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This is the short version of whatever I would write. As you go to protests, remember that they are volatile flashpoints. It's crucial to mobilize masses of people to greater courage, but dangerous. There is no struggle without risk and danger. You do it anyway. Elbows up.

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These two images are the party affiliations of elected officials who were guests on Fox News vs. PBS. In some cases I included lawmakers who were interviewed by a Fox News correspondent too. No kidding this is what they look like. PBS was almost perfectly 50/50.

They would gladly kill you and slander you despite overwhelming evidence and footage and eyewitnesses that it was murder. This isn’t something that elections will fix. It’s going to take a massive reformation and these criminals will have to be punished.

Make it viral.

We need to get it lodged more firmly in the discourse that Trump and Stephen Miller are prioritizing removing nonviolent immigrants over public safety. They are sinking so many resources into their ethnic purification project that they're putting us in more danger. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

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If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time? Really American FB

Five years ago.

Trump just announces the US will be running Venezuela now, until the can do a "safe, proper, and judicious" transfer of power. Announcing an occupation before you've occupied a country is a new one.

Honestly, if I were a Canadian lawmaker, I'd be demanding a huge military build up on the southern border. If Trump can snatch Maduro, then say the US is gonna "run" his country, he can do that for any leader of any country. He's ALREADY making the same noise about Mexico. Why not Canada, too?

Two questions: 1. Do we still have a War Powers Act, which prevents a president from carrying out military aggression without Congress’s consent? 2. Do we still have a Congress?

He donated $1.8 million to Trump and hired Pam Bondi’s brother as his pardon attorney. Defrauded hundreds of millions from people. Walked away free. Not Somali.

New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...