“A force numbering in the hundreds — several times larger than that initial deployment — is not a retreat. It is a tremendous enforcement footprint in a single metropolitan area, and a force capable of inflicting mass terror, carrying out targeted abductions, and sustaining a climate of fear.”

If you missed the Brandi Carlile show, they'll be selling the video livestream (with proceeds going to charity) for about another 48 hours (& it will still be available to folks who purchased/watched tonight for that long too). veeps.com/brandicarlil... www.thecurrent.org/feature/2026...

BRANDI BROUGHT MINNEAPOLIS' SINGING RESISTANCE ON STAGE

That's right.

I guess I should have known The Joke was the song that would just send me fully into tears.

I forgot how The Joke just destroys me. Brandi sounds so good too.

ICYMI, Rice University students have developed a free online map to track ICE activity throughout the country. Find it here: www.icemap.dev. Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it: www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

We took our kid to Brandi’s state fair show however long ago that was, and I feel like we’re pretty great parents for making her show the first concert kiddo saw.

They figured out how to do this 3 days ago & as of right now, Brandi says from the stage, they've raised over half a million dollars. You can also get a t-shirt from the tour (which I'm really tempted to get, honestly). shop.brandicarlile.com/products/be-...

She is such a rock star.

The agents who murdered Good and Pretti have had lengthy careers. ICE (and CBP) are rotten to the core. The agents who murdered people less than a mile from my house have trained others and harmed others. Abolish ICE. Break up DHS. The agency isn’t even old enough to rent a car. End it.

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE. Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater We keep us housed 💛 Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

1. I love this 2. It’s incredibly weird to invite any pope to something like that.

This is disturbing. The Chief Justice of the MN Supreme Ct met with Homan, worked out an agreement, and never announced it publicly. ICE appeared to violate it days later by violently tackling a person in the Gov Center w/out a judicial warrant. We need transparency.

Last month we raised over $100,000 to pay 82 families' rent, so they can remain housed while sheltering in place during this federal occupation. ICE is still here & active. The majority of families are still unable to work. Help us gather financial resources to keep my neighbors housed.

Put off dealing with citations. It won’t come back and bite you in the ass by becoming a very mean ogre. Sigh.

We had a meeting with our financial planner today (who I affectionately refer to as “finance bro”) and he kicked off the conversation with how mad he is about ICE and what’s happened/happening here and I can’t fully express how people who are not activists are *so angry* and talking about it.

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.

This morning my child asked me “are we going to get bombed?” I was like—is there a reason you’re asking? Are your friends talking about that? “No, just from everything.” (ICE, Trump, etc.) So, like, none of our kids are okay. At risk or not. They’re swimming in some intense seas here.

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

Also in the latest document dump was a letter from my grandfather to his insurance guy when my dad crashed their car at 15, along with a statement he took from my dad as if he was interrogating him. It’s very detailed. My wife exclaimed: OMG you people are all the same! I hate to admit it…

After the most recent document dump I got from my dad, I started trying to find an old NIMLO journal that might have a speech given at a 1958 conference (it exists only as a physical book—so just adding it to my list for a library visit). Along the way, I found two things of interest.

I agree with all the slave ship & forced labor camp comparisons, but also, on a practical level, this is not how you build a detention center where you expect either violent inmates or long-term prisoners. The very floorplans betray the obvious lie; they are meant to warehouse harmless folks.

Well this video made me tear up. Abolish ICE — and donate to the folks here who organized to do this.

All I want computers to do for me is to format citations properly. I don’t want to write them out correctly because the machine should make it easier and faster. It does not.

If you're not in Minnesota, please help share these updates widely. You can use keepMNhoused.com to help with direct rent relief as well as StandWithMinnesota.com for lots of other resources & ways to help—including donating Delta sky miles to bring home people who have been detained by 🧊

I’m at the point where I am aware every waking moment of the day that my eyeglasses prescription has changed and I can barely read the words on my computer after a couple hours. It’s extremely annoying, and also not fixable until March.

Minnesota residents and lawmakers say the promised drawdown has not materialized, and they are seeing ICE use more covert tactics to continue operations across Twin Cities suburbs. By @ncsscibelli.bsky.social

I hadn't cried about how much I love Minneapolis in a few days, so this was a good one to read: "Minnesotans will continue to keep Minnesotans safe until we rid the state of the federal occupation, just like lake ice is weakened by springtime sunshine and subsumed by the water below."

No one is too smart for propaganda routed to your eyeballs through algorithms. This is a conversation I’ve been having with my father for 10+ years. He asks “why do people believe this nonsense” and I explain algorithms and being immersed in alternate reality that you start to believe.

I had no idea how much it snowed last night and left the house in shoes — don’t make my mistake.

"Before the journalists were released, the police confiscated their phones, cameras and laptops, saying the journalists had captured sensitive government information..."

The DON’T COMPLY IN ADVANCE people were right

X is absolutely cooking the brains of the entire political class that remains on there. The ones who think they're immune are probably the most affected.

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

There are four virtual (and free) sessions for Wisconsin Genealogy Day on Saturday. www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Even...

Prior to ~1917, there was no test of any sort you needed to take (they instituted a literacy test — in any language — to decrease immigrants like my family.) There’s barely any info on pre-1906ish documents (in MN at least). People would go together to the courthouse and be each other’s witnesses.

The playbook they used to dismantle ACORN is still here, and still hurting people—and it doesn’t matter how many staff the leadership sacrifices at the altar, it will not be enough for them until they bankrupt you as an institution.

It hasn’t been since grad school that I’ve consumed as many books that are specifically focused on some sort of historical event/set of events/social or environmental context and the only bad thing is that they’re audio books and I can’t highlight/screenshot parts I want to return to.

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

People outside higher education often mistake the critical inquiry of *some* faculty as emblematic of the institutions generally, which is simply not true. I remember after Castile was murdered in 2016, I got a talking to regarding the BLM sign I had on my door.

Brief self-promotion: This spring I am doing workshops and talks for a humanities collective at nyu, association of women in math, teaching advancement folks at UNT, a school of social work, a bunch of brain scientists, an anonymous neighborhood group in occupied MN, and some folks at UVA.

Like you, I’ve been contributing to others’ efforts to fundraise for their neighbors’ survival. Now I’m asking you to help my own neighbor. She’s trying to fight removal proceedings and reopen her asylum case, and needs $ for legal costs—$3,035 of $8K raised so far. VM: @wentrogue Subj: ⚖️

As we know, I sometimes do a (very quick and dirty) family tree for some of the most ardent and loud white supremacists of our time. It’s a quick tree, because I don’t want to spend more than 20-30 minutes on it (while also making sure I’m correct). So about Megyn Kelly…

It only took me a month, but I finally made a volunteer page on Stand With Minnesota. Because we are about to need a lot of freaking volunteers. Help us keep Minnesota housed!

I know there are a lot of mutual aid asks coming out of Minneapolis right now, but both of my kids graduated from South High and it would mean a lot to me for people to contribute to this rent fund for my fellow South families. I’ll match the first $1000 if you post receipts. Tiger Pride 🧡🖤

"These connections could be the beginning of something so much bigger than getting ICE off our streets, if we want them to." www.firewalledmedia.com/p/wont-you-b...

It's so striking to me all the essays about the death of the humanities and who and what to blame and blah blah blah and the answer is pretty much the undergraduate business major and everything it represents.

Literal atrocities being carried out in our names every single day Abolish DHS, raze it from top to bottom, blacklist its architects and leaders, embrace the broadest reparative vision possible

This post is really taking off. I know the Thanksgiving detail is grabbing, but I would encourage everyone to also read the full article about this family’s struggle at Dilley. They’ve been locked up for 130+ days. I spent hours with them on Zoom this week, and their story deserves to be heard.