ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

And if you're STILL worried about the midterms, consider getting trained as an election judge / poll worker. In Minnesota they even pay you (optionally — you can choose to work the polls as a volunteer). vote.minneapolismn.gov/election-wor...

🪡 An annual ritual in Mpls. (LOTI = Lake of the Isles if you’re not familiar)

“Oops.”

I should look more into the history, but slave catchers from the south coming into northern cities to violently remove people no matter the cost sure feels like what Minnesota has been dealing with the last two months.

Feeding the detained kids food with worms in it until they stop eating and then gathering them all in a gymnasium to watch as a Thanksgiving feast is laid out before telling them the food is for employees, not detainees? They're torturing people.

More proof this isn’t about immigration or the rule of law. At this point, DHS is a criminal enterprise

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Went to pick up some takeout (Homi). Lady walks out with her food crying, clearly emotional. Door is locked. Get let in. Sign on the inside asks guests not to unlock the door. Drive home past some Mennonites with Ice Out signs picketing Target. Normal Friday. Totally crazy. Both.

Regulations are what keeps ordinary Americans healthy and, often, alive. It took spoiled meat and rodent droppings out of our food. It took harmful lead out of our gasoline and paint. It took poison out of our water. Deregulation only achieves one goal: making rich corporations richer.

The measles virus infects ~90% of unvaccinated people exposed to it. The infected can then infect a dozen to several hundred people each. This well-researched piece is a chilling, powerful account of exactly how easily a kid could get measles, and how they could die of it. Must read! Gift link.

Whoopsies!

The SAVE Act is an election power grab that could block millions of eligible voters. Let’s be clear: we’ve already seen U.S. citizens detained by ICE despite having proof of citizenship. Now we’re supposed to trust this same government to police paperwork at the ballot box? tinyurl.com/yhwj7b77

Abolish ICE. The Trump Administration found $38 billion to make concentration camps. "The plan’s $38 billion budget is more than the total annual spending for 22 states, according to state budget data." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Russell Vought raided USAID budgets he helped gut to pay for his own security

Be careful, folks. ICE is still out there, circling the schools this morning. Even if this withdrawal is happening over the next week, some of the agents want to get their last bit of being shitheads in.

Hulking dark SUVs used as troop carriers. Sedans for kidnappings. Rafted multi-vehicle agent convoys. Speeding, red light running, blacked out windows, utter lawlessness. The story of American Republican terror is told on our streets through the violence of cars and trucks. How perfect.

According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.

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Coming up with new depravities every day!

I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...

I imagine this being spoken by Columbo to the villain

Twin cities! The food box distribution project at Andersen United middle school is short boxes for 50 families today. If you are free right now (Feb 12th) and can pick up everything on the following list and drop it off at Andersen middle school by 5pm you can make sure families get fed!

"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said. Their pregnancies are considered high risk by definition, particularly for the youngest girls."

Fuck ICE #DefundDismantleDefenestrate

“She spent a day in a Kafkaesque phone tree, being directed to one federal office and then another and then back to the first, to try to get her phone back.”

Jesus Christ

My conversation with the White House's special election cybersecurity expert included allegations about poison soda, medical experimentation, "Satanists," and a moment where it sounded like he began to cry. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

If the name on your birth certificate doesn't match the ID you currently use (passport, Driver's License, etc.) you will need to produce documented reasons why-marriage/divorce docs, legal name change, etc.). This could disenfranchise millions of married women, divorcées, adopted children, actors...

This photo by @leilanavidi.bsky.social deserves the Pulitzer. This is the Minnesota resistance in a picture.

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

everything is awful but at least it is also very stupid

A stone's throw from my house.

Take it from me, the guy who has watched way too many body cam videos .. the way I've seen Police handle folks who have literally shot at them is nicer than the way ICE treats someone who has, like, a parking ticket, and just happens to be on a list. It's not law enforcement, it's a terror campaign.

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists. That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.** He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Absolute monsters. Nothing has changed until they are all fired, arrested, tried and convicted. Every. Single. One.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

Federal agents abducted two people in Uptown, Minneapolis this morning at 6:45am. Boxed in their car in the middle of a major commercial street (Lagoon) and smashed out their window.

People need to realize that, along with citizens swept up in immigration raids, they have also detained citizens for being involved in activism.

Prisons are for people who've been CONVICTED of crimes. Most people in these warehouses - without proper food or sanitation or worse - haven't even been CHARGED with crimes. And thousands are CHILDREN. This will be another of America's greatest shames.

The fact that there are now multiple videos and pictures coming out of ice illegally going through peoples mail here and around the city and suburbs people need to get it together and understand how fast is accelerating even if it not nightly news anymore. The police state is solidifying fast now.

It's not possible to overstate how despicable it is that the US is currently essentially laying siege to Cuba by cutting it off from all supplies required to live because it objects to a collectivist politics of not allowing people to be denied the supplies required to live. Pretty sick situation.

these concentration camps - and this is what they are - are a key part of Stephen Miller's mass deportation scheme he got the money for them from the GOP big ugly bill last year

We could be housing homeless people, providing healthcare, funding our schools, protecting our environment… no let’s make more concentration camps for brown people. I hate this.

Well hell.