guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.

1/21/2026 - Minneapolis Federal agents abduct two teenagers (15 & 16) from a doctor's appointment At one point, it appears an agent tases one of the children

Minneapolis, today. Note how three agents holding the civilian down. Why spray? www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

There's not a lot of "who is doing anything?" at the local level because our neighbors are always active and our council members are engaged. Elliott Payne in Ward 1 is always in the streets. Just north of me is Ward 9, where Jason Chavez is out constantly. We here have Soren Stevenson, who's great.

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

If you live in Hakeem Jeffries district can you please call him and ask how many more Minnesotans need to die before he takes meaningful action to abolish ICE?

Welcome to Minneapolis. Our neighbors have witnessed too many war crimes at this point. Federal agents even left weapons on the ground.

This is actually a weirdly boring time to specialize in International Relations because there's no actual intellectual substance to any of this. Like, yeah, man. Shit's fucked. Fucker's nutso. That sort of insight is why I'm a fancy-pants political scientist you should all respect and consult.

Minneapolis has called for a general strike this Friday (1/23). All the major labor unions in Minnesota are supporting it (e.g., AFL-CIO, SEIU). I’ve reposted solidarity strikes happening in LA, NYC, Chicago, and Oakland and looking for more to share Please help us get the word out!

I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

Dear neighbor, We are seeing an increase in immigration enforcement and federal agents across South Minneapolis. This includes the sighting of Bovino at 34th and Cedar. There’s definitely an uptick compared to the last few days. 1/

hi @uaw.org, do you confirm or deny that Shawn Fain called Lutnick and glazed Trump?

“why are you still on twitter” -> whiny, makes you sound like a scold “oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile

As someone who volunteers in local Democratic politics I want to once again remind the Bluesky community that the Democratic base is your friend, and LIGHT YEARS ahead of the national party leaders on literally every issue

This poll shows that 74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting getting rid of the agency. Any elected Democrat who wants ICE to exist is outside the mainstream of their party and the people they purport to represent.

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.

Friend’s extremely Minnesota protest sign

This week, the House votes on DHS funding. I will not vote to give ICE a single cent. No more blank checks for a rogue agency that operates above the law, escalates violence, and erodes our most basic freedoms.

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

Look who just endorsed the January 23 Minnesota-wide shutdown to protest the federal assault! “No work, no school, no shopping.”

Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her

He's the Acting Field Office Director! His name is a matter of public record!

We cannot normalize this federal occupation of Minneapolis. It is not normal to watch people abducted in front of our eyes—dragged from car windows, pulled from their homes, and children left without parents. This is not about immigration. It’s about unchecked cruelty.

BREAKING: The Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota has just donated $10,000 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, an essential org working on the frontlines to protect people from ICE's terror.

It is important to acknowledge who is standing up and who is just trying to get by. Every day Americans are standing up while the powerful are mostly standing by. Why aren't law firms standing up and sending lawyers to Minneapolis. Why aren't the corporations speaking out? Why isn't the media?

if you don’t think it’s a political winner to campaign on “should masked goons be able to terrorize every facet of your life or should they all be fired and prosecuted” it’s because you either don’t want to or you really really suck at your job. either way you gotta fuck off to your skdk gig

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Minnesota's Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth made a Facebook post critical of an anti-ICE protest at a church, and got ratioed by her own daughter in the comments www.facebook.com/LisaforMN/po...

If they’re letting people die rather than receive care, we don’t have to dress it up. We don’t have to sanitize it. This is a crime against humanity.

So now the’re death camps.

SEIU, which represents nearly 2 million workers around US, are holding Friday actions in solidarity with the Minnesota economic blackout, from the Twin Cities to Orlando, to Columbus, to Phoenix, to Seattle, to Boston, to LA, to New York.

Join us and @seiu721.bsky.social in LA! #ICEOUT

not doom scrolling I just want to be here when it happens alright

"Major media know Trump is building a dictatorship, but they’re unwilling to tell the public that Trump is building a dictatorship. This cynical pursuit of profit at the expense of public awareness is unacceptable." @markjacob.bsky.social asks some critical questions here:

“In 2029 we will retroactively annul all pardons linked to payments to Trump, his family, or his organizations.“ One might say: we can’t. I say: we must. And we’re living in post constitutional America already so try to keep up

MN Doctor: I learned that Renee Good still had a pulse 8 minutes after she was shot by an ICE agent. Yet the offer to administer aid from a physician on the scene was denied. I can't say how much that stirs the blood of everyone here as we try to fulfill our oath to care for the people of Minnesota

Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...

interesting that a single face-to-face contact turned this nonvoter into a voter

What's remarkable is not just that Trump is so loathsome and narcissistic that he doesn't care when an innocent woman is killed in a protest unless and until he finds out that her dad was a fan of his ... it's that he's so disregulated he *can't help but say so out loud*.

YOU WILL REGRET COMING HERE BEFORE THE END

Passed a middle school a few minutes ago. Hundreds of students protesting ICE. Middle school students.

The president encounters a binder clip for the first time, then talks about it for a while. Remember when Joe Biden had a raspy voice and every major news organization created a 10-person Biden Is Old investigative team?

Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland

Lots of you know, but it's rare to see in mainstream media & edu: US conservatism (in practice) has nothing to do w/ skepticism about change, limited gov't, states’ rights, individualism, or free markets. It's all class, race, gender, & religion hierarchies. News & edu need to stop misleading ppl.

🧵 One year ago today, Trump was sworn into his second term. It’s impossible to list all the damage he and his Administration have done since. They’ve made a mockery of our constitution, terrorized our communities, and embarrassed our country on the global stage time and again. (1/3)

Again, we're kidding ourselves. A constitutional order that can't immediately end this, today, has totally failed. Presidentialism was a grave mistake, & the idea that impeachment would ever work was the worst error. The Founders simply couldn't fathom the mass oath-violating cowardice we see now.

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

I was feeling kind of stressed and exhausted about ICE patrol today and now I am FIRED UP

I spoke to a friend on the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota board. They need financial donations to keep up with the heightened demand for their services: www.ilcm.org ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND