Very cool—thanks for the update! Today I got gassed by the federal government two times within a few blocks of my house

I'm sorry, abolishing ICE is now off the table as the centrist compromise. The floor is now The Hague.

I was at MANY of these stops. Here’s what would happen: the agents would stand guard at the cars, Bovino would literally pose out front while people yelled at him. It was a pathetic, obvious attempt to antagonize neighbors - they transited three gas stations and did the exact same thing thrice.

All I have ever heard about every news story from Bill Clinton to drag shows is “it’s awful, parents have to explain this to their children, why can’t we just let kids be kids?” Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt

Respectfully, look at this fucking bullshit that we’re dealing with, not a single person here has “taken the bait.” We have born witness as little kids are used as bait and neighbors are kidnapped on our streets. A mad dipshit is going to invoke the Insurrection Act regardless and you are blaming us

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

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

It is frankly *extraordinary* restraint *not* to riot in the face of these provocations

It seems to me Congress should hold off on funding elaborate conspiracies to violate the Constitution.

I left Klobuchar a long message today talking about how I watched ICE agents kneel on a person's head in a snow bank and told her that if she gives ICE another dime, I will be doing everything in my power as a DFL volunteer to ensure she never holds office again.

As a general rule I don't care much about sick Supreme Court oral argument burns, but Ketanji Brown Jackson hitting Trump's SG with a "look man I hear the words you are saying, my question is, is there any evidence for them or are you just making it up" was, at the very least, pretty funny

fwiw i do prefer “goon squad” to “secret police.” it’s more accurate because it communicates the fundamental clownishness - violent and malevolent and dangerous clownishness, but clownishness nevertheless - of the operation.

Your favorite Democrat has been hoping and wishing the Gestapo wouldn't come to America but they have and they are frightened which is why they're focusing on affordability. They say it's about kitchen table issues. But kitchen table issues are not the biggest problem facing our country right now

oh man, the Walker Art Center is going to be closed on Friday (If you're not from the Twin Cities, this is like MoMA closing in support of a general strike—a very big deal)

Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

state-sponsored child trafficking

oh Fanni Willis deserves to live in infamy with Garland, her office was a shit show when it could least afford it.

the one excuse/scenario here I think we need to permanently dispense with is the 'Trump's people rise up and overthrow the government' one, because we have now seen in both South Korea and Brasil that you can break these populist right wing cults if you nove decisively enough.

Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.

trump was tried and convicted and the judge basically went 'eh! can't sentence him until the election!'

abolish ice but also the entirety of DHS. They were founded in the xenophobia/kleptocracy patriot act spree of 2002 and never should have existed to begin with.

once SCOTUS made the decision to slow walk it, it was over, because the later things went the more costly it would have been for Republicans for Trump to be prosecuted.

I think the problem is that there was never an appeals-proof case, and you could not leave the fate of the republic up to SCOTUS, so time was more important than people gave it credit for.

A Minnesota high school student was nabbed by ICE agents as she was trying to pick up food for her family after work. She was violently dragged from her car and lost her shoes. So, barefoot in the middle of winter, she was put into the back of an unmarked car in a small town (Willmar).

Abolish ICE.

AOC: The president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. It is really damning when we think about the degree to which media outlets reported on Joe Biden, yet we are seeing behavior from Trump that is alarming and everyone is pretending this is normal.

look what they’re doing to my city. apologies for the camerawork

Chillingly, the whistleblower says that ICE trainers were directed (no paper trail?) to train all of ICE's new recruits that these administrative warrants authorize breaking into peoples' homes, even though DHS's own training materials still make clear that's illegal!

ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

if two people are already restraining someone physically while spraying their face with pepper spray, that is torture, plain and simple. no debate to be had about it

Justice Kavanaugh: this is ok if the house is brown

This photo will be everywhere for the next week. Pls credit prominently. Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minnesota Star Tribune Every journalist covering ICE risks their lives. Tsong-Taatarii has been an NPPA Photographer of the Year, rec'd a World Press Photo award, and was on a team that won a Pulitzer.

we are not cooked but we do need to admit that the basic foundation and structure of our system of government is collapsing to a degree we have not seen since the late 1850s.

This was not the person I helped - this happened down the block after the first person got pepper sprayed. I was helping her out and saw tear gas being set off, so I assume this is from that. Horrifying.

Hey, hey, @startribune.com, what the FUCK is with calling people detained by ICE "suspects." The person they took, according to your own story, is SIXTEEN. Suspected of WHAT? existing while brown? FUCK YOU.

Is it @startribune.com policy to refer to anyone confronting ICE as a protester? This obscures the nature of what people are doing. We're not protesting ICE. We're constitutional observers documenting human rights abuses by agents of the state.

black letter fourth amendment violation and any judge that does anything other than wipe their ass with the constitution should rule this illegal immediately

they are actively trying to get these officers killed and have been for some time

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

I have probably an hour of insane video but it's awful. they're destroying our city, trashing residential neighborhoods, menacing schools. completely out of control. ICE must be ended forever

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.

Our city has been over-run by Nazi ghouls kidnapping people to traffic them to concentration camps and other countries. Did you ever think you'd see the day when masked gunmen jump out of moving vehicles and chase families down the street in your own neighborhood? FUCK ICE forever and ever.

Gotta watch video and it'll blow your mind that anyone in power on our side can sit and watch this happen and do zippo. They're all weak and scared and can't do the job. They're forcing taxpayers to defend themselves. That's not the job of the taxpayer.