It’s 1:45 AM & the President posted 10 times this hour—calling for investigations of sitting members of Congress, threatening to jail protesters, sharing alleged diplomatic messages, and posting AI-generated images of himself conquering Greenland. This is the person with access to the nuclear codes.

The Tennessee Titans agree to hire Robert Saleh as their coach, hoping he can speed up their rebuild and end the franchise’s skid of four straight losing seasons, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press.

Minnesota is definitely an open carry state, and Minneapolis does not supercede Minnesota's law on this issue. We require a permit to open carry called Permit To Carry or PTC. Read more here about gun laws in Minnesota on MN.gov. www.lrl.mn.gov/guides/guide...

This is actually Philadelphia not Minneapolis. But they are on the job 👍

The Black Panthers are back and they're patrolling Minneapolis. #PowerToThePeople

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

"You don't proofread before hitting post?" Brother nobody should be reading these, least of all me.

I still don't think Gov. Murphy has signed the Immigrant Trust Act bills. His last day in office is shaping up to be an absolute shocker.

Reposting this very relevant article from 2014: thenewinquiry.com/blog/social-...

is it a sometimes fun habit that sometimes does some good? sure. is a future without it some dark horror in which something great was lost? dude.

the perennial "is this a good replacement for twitter / can it become as big as twitter" discussion is so confused. hominids became bipedal about 7 million years ago. for most of the time since we did not have microblogging. it's not a necessity it's a habit, if it all goes away that's fine

‘The family said no warrant was presented, agents did not ask for Thao’s ID, but they “nevertheless forcibly entered the home with weapons drawn.” ‘ Utter lawlessness. One of the few things holding it to account is great reporting as @marisakabas.bsky.social is doing

The way I would go into exile if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told me to shut the fuck up and called me a capitalist…

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

The autobiography concludes its section on this conversation interestingly: "I [Harry Belafonte] felt as if our moorings were unhinging. "Damn, Martin! If that's what you think, what would you have us do?" I asked. He gave me a look. "I guess we're just going to have to become firemen.""

the famous quote is from the end of his reply to Young. from the middle: "...we live in a failed system. Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level."

Thread. [I think regularly about the fact that Young ended up a foe to the Cop City protesters... and so much more. I think Martin would not have.]

Breaking: churches shut down for Jan. 23

🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

“Fargo-Moorhead area unions endorse strike in opposition to Minnesota ICE activity” — KVRR #UnionNews #ICE #strike

Looking for something to do in solidarity with Minneapolis? Join this training session on Tuesday, January 20th at 8pm EST/5pm PST Link: www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

Jessica: The WSJ is reporting that there are incentives for ICE Agents because they need to meet that insane 3,000 people per day quota—they are getting rewarded even if they bring in people who then get released…

A third immigrant detainee at facility in El Paso has died, ICE says.

This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.

"WestExec has multiple defense industry clients, including the Israeli surveillance company Windward, as the Prospect reported. WestExec helped Google work with the Defense Department for AI drone warfare and advised defense industry contractors Boeing and McKinsey..." Gusanos and zionists!!!

“NUÑEZ-NETO TOLD THE PROSPECT that he wrote the memo in his capacity as a senior fellow at Searchlight Institute, an organization launched last fall to pull Democrats to the right, because he’s concerned that saying “Abolish ICE” will alienate voters.”

So, the political consultant who works for one of Palantir’s lobbyists doesn’t think Democrats should push to abolish ICE? Huh.

The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries. prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...

you’ll be surprised at the ppsqm (pigs per square mile) levels 🐖

What if a birding app but for IDing and cataloging the many diverse kinds of American law enforcement that u encounter in your every day ordinary life

When ICE fires multiple chemical rounds directly at the head of a praying, priest, DOJ concludes it is completely justified. When protestors make noise during a sermon by a right-wing ICE pastor, DOJ announces a major investigation. It's not about immigration; it's about control.

Notable fact in this great article: “Minnesota is an odd choice for such a huge operation. It is a medium-size state — fewer than six million people — and its percentage of undocumented immigrant residents is less than half the national average, far lower than states like Texas, Florida..”

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." Matthew 6:24

Friendly reminder for some white christians out there, there has been no time in US history where a majority of white christians have ever been behind racial and any form of social justice. Not....one.....time. Ya'll should learn why cause it is making itself very known.

“A pastor here is also director of the field office for ICE… so someone teaching people about God is out there overseeing ICE agents. How dare you.” Twin cities protestors disrupt a church service at an ICE field office director’s church. (H/T @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social )

Missed this a few days ago: Two U.S. citizens grabbed by ICE say there were cells reserved for Americans. Also, they weren’t given medical attention or allowed to go to the bathroom. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped from Minneapolis. He was my neighbor and he died in an American concentration camp. He was not "illegal," he was a human being made in the image of the divine. May his memory be a blessing, and may the rest of us fight like hell until we stop this brutality.

I haven't seen the dunks but I will say that LOCAL CONDITIONS have to determine TACTICS. Folks, whistles are just a tactic and tactics vary according to context. Why waste time on this? If you've organized for 10 minutes, you know this is true. Keep it moving.

One of the anecdotes that I'll never stop telling is when one well-known MENA analyst said on Twitter years ago that "I could never be an Iraqi person" because I replied to him late at night Baghdad time so I couldn't possibly be awake at that time. Also, it was Ramadan at the time :-))

americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys

Abigail Spanberger did not end Virginia’s 287(g) partnership with ICE yesterday, despite reports to the contrary. What Spanberger did do is rescind Glenn Youngkin’s order that required the state police + DOC to sign ICE contracts. She terminated the requirement, but not the contracts themselves.

The DOJ is not investigating ICE agent Jonathan Ross for the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a top official said Sunday. The top DOJ official confirmed that an investigation is underway into Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

These stories fill me with cynical dread, as a climate professional. It's evidence of climate change, but deniers will load it into their "global warming is a hoax, look how cold Florida is" batteries.

The trans woman who rescued Jake Lang yesterday/whose car he ran into said in a video about the incident that she and her friend in the car thought he was being beaten by ICE. They kicked him out of the car after they found out who he was, lol

Yeah cops have been using this same reform and training spiel for literally decades. We can all see how that turned out. A non-military form of immigration services and enforcement existed before ICE and a new one can be built from its smoldering ashes.