It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.

show me a person with chronic pain or chronic illness and i'll show you a person who at some point has been indifferent to whether they lived or died

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

With tax season in full swing, here's our reminder that TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free. (Published 2019)

This is purely retaliation. Trump & his gestapo got embarrassed by the outpouring of support for Liam’s family & the backlash against the government’s cruelty, so now they must suffer. Our government is run by schoolyard bullies. We have to keep hitting back—that’s the only thing bullies understand

The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Oh for the love of god IT’S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY IT’S ABOUT CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE

"the invading force will draw down when the occupied people stop resisting" ok bro

As an immunocompromised cancer survivor, the riskiest things I do are go for my 6 annual cancer surveillance appointments in crowded medical offices full of unmasked patients and staff. I should not have to risk death by respiratory illness in order to not die of cancer, but the system is failing us

this is like if your flood relief plan was to subsidize paper towels

ice is killing americans and democrats are still voting for trump's nominees

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”

One of the things about chronic pain/illness that is truly torture is that you never know how long a flare will be. I'm on day 25 of an awful migraine episode. It's hard not to think that this level of pain & nausea is just my baseline now, and from there to wonder if it's worth going on.

As a lawyer, you have a duty to uphold the rule of law. Sometimes resigning is the only ethical choice.

ten years ago today no one clapped

"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005... "Over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves"

Tell me @whstancil.bsky.social how wearing a respirator here shows cognizance of guilt bsky.app/profile/fore...

If your idea of resistance doesn’t include disabled people then it’s destined to fail because as soon as one group is expendable, any group is. Masks make protest accessible AND help prevent protests from creating more disabled people. Masking is community care and self protection, and both are good

Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors

A lot of people predicted, based on his past actions & stated beliefs, that Trump would go full Hitler if nobody stopped him. We were called hysterical and told to calm down.

masking up is a tangible act of resistance we can commit to today and tomorrow. go beyond a one-day strike. go beyond the protests. because we keep us safe, every day. right?

Absolute tin pot dictator shit

My bar for politicians is not high. I want them to care about eugenics and disabled people. Because without that, we don't stand much of a chance defeating fascism. If some of us are deemed disposable, eventually other groups will be too

"people said mean things about ICE so it's not our fault we shot them" is textbook abuser bullshit & a nakedly transparent ploy to get media to both-sides ICE's murders of civilians & detainees, but i fear that because he wears a conservative suit & tie & speaks in a somber tone, they'll fall for it

the demands schumer laid out, in light of existing rules and current ICE practices, are not a serious effort at modifying ICE’s behavior in any meaningful sense. they’re an attempt to mollify the base with meaningless bullshit without actually changing anything so they can move on to affordability

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images. This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

There isn’t any indication that immigration activity has changed in Minneapolis. In fact, this afternoon, federal immigration agents began staging at Holy Rosary Catholic Church located in East Phillips. This activity is disgraceful and creates an unsafe environment for our neighbors. 1/

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

It's amazing they can hear the calls to abolish ICE and respond with shit like this. It's embarrassing.

ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.

oh get fucked. these positions are to the right of the majority of americans. the bare minimum position is to abolish ICE. the better position that would shift the overton window is (1) abolish DHS entirely; and (2) tribunals for everyone involved with ICE top to bottom.

Your apparently weekly reminder that pepper spray and tear gas can cause permanent disability (blindness, irreversible respiratory issues) or death (total sudden respiratory failure). This casual, unprovoked, and unnecessary use of it is extraordinarily dangerous and damaging.

they're going to dox dissidents to foment stochastic terrorism. more people are going to get murdered for opposing the regime.

What's the statute of limitations on figuring out light switches in a new house? I've lived here since June and there's at least 5 switches that remain an utter mystery. Are these just enigmas of the universe I am not meant to know?

This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.

Y’all I saw a doctor today who spent an HOUR listening & asking questions & genuinely caring about what’s happening & who came up with a plan to try new treatments while also doing further tests to get a better understanding of what’s going on and MY GOD is this what medical care is supposed to be??

The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter. He's got to go.

Greg Bovino seen leaving Minnesota after his demotion (photo: AP)

This is a nuanced issue. Have those people been enacting incredible harm prior to their change of heart? Have they been actively attacking or dismissing those who did know as doomers or hysterical? Because then the proper reaction is “welcome friend, I think you have some apologies to make.”

w/ alt-txt

We are all desperate for leaders who believe government can and should make people’s lives safer and better

would genuinely love to know when was the last time @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social talked to an actual voter who doesn’t live and work inside the beltway

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

When you're a paramilitary force, they let you do it

It is not gonna be unique to Minneapolis. Local authorities are not the ones "engineering" this. The people mad about this are like, extremely normal people who just think that the government should not shoot people for no fucking reason and also not kidnap five year olds and use them for bait.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

I can’t believe it needs to be said but some jobs are fundamentally immoral and nobody is obligated to do those jobs or support those who do