Then @taylorcarik.bsky.social returned to call BS on the “drawdown” and talk about the lasting consequences of the occupation of Minneapolis www.liberalcurrents.com/minnesotas-f...

JVL sounding the same note as @taylorcarik.bsky.social here www.liberalcurrents.com/minnesotas-f...

Everyone at the NYT

New study from @curaumn.bsky.social: "We estimate that 30–50% of immigrant renters may be at least one month behind on rent by February 2026." Researchers estimate that excess statewide rent debt linked to ICE's occupation reached between $27.4 million to $51.3 million by February 2026.

@brucespringsteen.net calling Minneapolis a city of heroes and marketing his tour off of our traumatic experience, then immediately charging us $900 for floor seats and $350 for regular seats is fucked up. And I say that as a Jersey girl and lifelong fan.

I guess all bosses are the same 😢

Me: the media is a scam Journalism professors: I did not know that Media folks:

One of them is literally Maggie Haberman's husband, if I remember right. Literally a direct line to the top of the NYT.

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Are we finally getting back to 'sell outs' being bad? god I hope so

March is right around the corner, and with it March rent. So many of our neighbors need help to be able to stay in their homes and keep food on the table right now. Here are some amazing mutual aid efforts being organized by Ward 8 neighbors. Please contribute and share as you are able.

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is suspending evictions for its rental properties in response to the ICE surge. It's the first local government body in Minnesota to enact a rent moratorium because of immigration enforcement.

The Supreme Court:

If you can’t draw the line at genocide, then how can voters trust you to draw the line anywhere?

If you've ever espoused the "cops need more training" line yourself (I know I did), this is a good guy to follow to get de-programmed.

Frey’s little minions are claiming ALL data about the Homan meeting is protected by attorney-client privilege or work product. THAT’S NOT HOW THAT WORKS

I like this trend of state birds becoming symbols of resistance.

First time in a while I’ve seen lots of ICE agents in the neighborhood

@chapinforcongress.bsky.social can you follow me so I can send over a dm

So many people have said it, but it needs constant repeating—if people thought they'd fight against the nazis back in the day or even more modern authoritarians, it's go time

The Metro Surge experience

Concepts of 'History', as an area of study/discipline developed as a networked construct, have shaped how Digital Humanities is currently being thought of and that's a huge problem.

Treat yourself to some of joy from A Bar of Their Own 🥇

hi! @rollingfor20.bsky.social are working on barnraising this one together! we'd be so grateful for your support to help these treasured community members & comrades stay housed!

lol of course Tom said it way before me

I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.

My spouse and I are paying $2000/month for healthcare coverage now. For us and our 24-year-old son. Two thousand fucking dollars

BIG NEWS! The Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed the $7 million Small Business Resiliency Fund I brought forward with my colleagues. This will support activation and small businesses impacted by “Operation Metro Surge”. 1/

Me: Media is a scam Journalism scholars: I’m not aware of that, what about the abstract concept of “journalism” and the public good??? The Economist:

the only place this should happen is academic conferences

the current U.S. president has a head full of mashed potatoes, operates at a third-grade reading level, and genuinely has no idea how anything works, but you'll notice that's not a consistent narrative in NYT reporting AOC says "um" and it's an entire fucking newscycle the intent ain't subtle

Wine Moms and Daycare Dads are rightfully getting a lot of credit for the resistance but also we need to recognize a lot of this top notch Auntie energy that’s out there too doing a lot of lifting

In 1999, I had a happy hour with 2 friends. We got to talking about how evil Sodexo-Marriott was (they were the biggest investors in private prisons). One friend ran with the idea & launched a huge nationwide campus campaign (they also ran the dining halls) to force them to divest & eventually won.

Remember folks it is vitally important that we tone down the rhetoric about armed agents of the state brutalizing Americans and only apply it to rational and appropriate historical parallels like raising property taxes 3% to pay for greater city services

Because everybody knows how to show a rotten leader the door EXCEPT us.

don't forget for profit healthcare the largest employer in many states

First Draft: 🗳️ ICE to the... Polls? Republicans are starting to salivate at the idea of sending masked secret police to the polls, 'Donald the Dove' might plunge us into another major war, and former Prince Andrew arrested. From @swin24.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/first-draf...

The same media raking AOC over the coals won't give two shits that Trump doesn't even know what cushy Caribbean ambassadorship he appointed a failed Senate candidate to

Mister Donut is a defunct US chain, but they survived in Japan where they invented the mochi donut which is now all the rage back in the US I think this is what they call the imperial boomerang

Just awful. People (like Ryan mentioned in the article, who is living out of his van) have been staying awake all night for weeks keeping watch over the memorial for this exact reason.

1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first. 2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts. 3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger. 4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover. 5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

I know it’s only mid February but still crushed my soul a little bit brushing the snow off my car after the recent 50°+ days.

The AOC gaffe police are a joke, and many of her substantive critics are off base. If you listened, she outlined an ambitious vision to synthesize global class politics and liberal internationalism. One red flag: the implication that fascism arises from, and must be defeated by, economic conditions.

It's obviously not a competition but the essays about *all this* that will most stick in my mind for years are today's Will McGrath essay in NYT, @taylorcarik.bsky.social in Liberal Currents www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-... ...and Kalia Yang in Lit Hub lithub.com/letter-from-...

Techno-fascism is as much cultural as it is political; framing like this is to try and shift discourse for both. People are posting obvious replies, but also this isn’t about technology, it’s about the obvious inequalities and dire consequences, not complex tools and tech in general.

This makes me so fucking proud