The New York attorney general is finally taking the first steps to hold NYU Langone accountable for their horrific decision to end trans care for minors. Note that California AG Bonta has not sued any hospitals under discrimination laws this way (only one lawsuit under M&A law).

“Renee Goodman [sic], Alex Pretti – there are no words,” DeLauro said. “You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’” www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...

right like it seriously needs to be reiterated a billion times that the incidents here aren't conspiratorially unique but a machinic form of patriarchal violence and violation that occurs in fractals and scales at all levels of society. sexual abuse is the glue of structures of exploitation

ah yes “guardrails,” famously observed by murderous thugs

Banning trans athletes from whale shit beer league hockey is just so fundamentally insane. If it’s really about ‘fair competition’ or whatever bullshit you wouldn’t have included whale shit hockey.

The right's been headed towards this stance for ~20 years Being disagreed with was unbearable. Being canceled was the greatest calamity that could befall a white man or conservative. Feeling afraid justified lying in wait to murder people. Being rejected by women justified killing them

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

ugh why is everybody calling my masked armed death squads who kidnap kindergartners the gestapo

And most will never acknowledge this, but that's fine. Nothing new.

Two days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution

'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'

Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

this is a punitive expedition by the sitting president of the united states over civil disobedience that transpired 5 years ago. children have been kidnapped for the crime of being conceived to brown parents in Minneapolis as its people were saying unkind things about him

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white

Local reporters understand that what's happening in the Twin Cities doesn't have much of a precedent. It's not a political response (pink hat protest), it's an existential one. It is actual resistance to a violent external threat that is ICE terrorizing neighbors and families.

if you vote for another cent for this you are a collaborator. this is a litmus test for every politician for the rest of my life

Fun fact! We could be using the $75 billion allocated for ICE on literally anything else! Like essential services that help people exist! It’s almost as if these issues + our priorities have a lot of overlap! Also people definitely can’t afford things if they get shot in the face!

they have time for this shit while they’re doing civil war stuff. none of it is a distraction. if you actually give a fuck about reshaping society for the better you have to stand against all of it. if you’re in maine, remind janet mills it’s time to raise hell again.

The vast majority of members of Congress of both parties are too intimidated to do anything meaningful to help us. Everyone has to be loud right now. That's the safest way of getting out of this, versus keeping our heads down and hoping it all goes away. That only entrenches, emboldens the fascists

Preaching non-violence while people are being shot in the streets is the privileged position.

i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

I think Democrats should focus on kitchen-table issues Such as whether parents will be shot dead by masked government agents and thus be unable to eat breakfast with their children at the kitchen table anymore

a 15 year old girl playing soccer is "reasonable concerns" but a paramilitary squad kicking down doors is "bait"

"I know gassing babies isn't ideal, but it's important that you remain civil." Part of what makes this administration so sure of its choices and so easy with its abuses is that it knows Democrats will lie down for it, and softly rebuke their own voters for not taking abuse with greater equanimity.

I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.

the people of MN have been murdered, brutalized and kidnapped for weeks now and have remained *amazingly* peaceful in the face of it. lecturing citizens to not “take the bait” etc is pretty disrespectful after a point and avoids the real question: how long are they supposed to take this, undefended?

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

This. I am done returning to the status quo of what got us here. I want universal healthcare. I want a maximum wage tied to the minimum wage. I want omnipresent, cheap public transit and walkable neighborhoods. I want Supreme Court and police reform, and I want the rich to pay their fair share.

Bro, they are closing schools because teachers need time to make virtual options for non-white students because lawless federal paramilitaries are terrorizing them.

It absolutely matters.

Was this from the episode where Scrappy helped Reagan funnel crack into black neighborhoods, or when he helped traffic weapons to Iran?

If this was any other set of medical treatments, the entire medical community would be scrambling to study how they could improve their own treatments.

now that's more like it

This is a warband of lawless marauders, and it's stupid to think of them as an agency we are obligated to underwrite with taxes

Claiming to worry about population decline while actively trying to expel as many non-white people as possible from the country is not a real worry about population decline; it's simply and plainly a way for conservatives to call for white supremacy using the sort of words NPR apparently falls for.

They're threatening to kill more of us if we call them murderers. Only a murderer levels that kind of threat.

I’m begging Democratic leaders to understand that outlining and forcefully articulating their vision for accountability now is an electoral strategy.

Our own government is going to war with Minnesota. This is deranged. All of it. Dark paths ahead.

Please understand what it means when journalists are evacuating their family members out of town. In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory

Those of you who still insist on drawing a distinction between ICE and police should be aware that the police are not drawing that distinction.

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

Dems are still approaching this wrong. I just saw a BBC host ask a state senator if Tim Walz should call out the National Guard. He says, "No, because Minnesotans know how to protest peacefully." THAT'S NOT WHO THE GUARD IS FOR. THE GUARD IS TO PROTECT THE PROTESTERS FROM LAWLESS FEDERAL AGENTS.