i wonder if trump ever hears the thumping heartbeat of democracy from under his floorboards

Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

I keep seeing posts going "when ICE comes to MY city, we'll be out in the streets even harder" and man, I get that sentiment but I need everyone to understand that the work in Minneapolis is partly confrontational but MORE IMPORTANTLY aaallll the stuff organized in the background to help neighbors

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

I think my favorite genre of post right now is the fan pages really hammering home that everything is political and that you don’t get to enjoy movies and games and books and sports and niche hobbies and cute animal videos when someone is afraid to create those things, or worse, is disappeared.

signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association

I feel like when folk music starts getting this good again it’s usually a pretty good indicator that shit is FUCKED

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

Violence at the hands of the state is nothing new and has been the reality for many non-white Americans since the very beginning. This needs to be top of mind when confronting what happens next and where we go from here.

It's amazing how many people see the law as a fixed, permanent thing. More schools should assign civics projects where students attempt to trace how the legality of something has changed over the last century. It'd encourage them to recognize there's no such thing as permanence in legal doctrine.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

We really should've been a lot clearer about the fact that 'concerns about immigration' actually just means you're a racist scumbag and should be treated accordingly.

Alex Pretti was a nurse in Minneapolis, like I was in 2020. He worked at the VA as a federal employee, like I did in 2020. He was doing today what all of us who were able did in 2020 - helping neighbors in a terrifying but important time in history while the world was watching. (1/?)

More murder on Trump's hands. Another illegal strike today that killed two innocent people and left one survivor. With a drone that looked like a commercial plane again. This is what authoritarian regimes do. #WarCrimes

Just an absolute sea of people out here. Frozen breaths hovering in the air.

My hot take is that at minimum a domestic violence conviction should carry a lot more of the shame and restrictions of a sex offender; it should ban you nationally from gun ownership, jobs in law enforcement, schools, pretty much any public sector work. It’s our clearest red flag for future violence

This appears to be true of the Oregon family detained while seeking emergency medical care

This is tomorrow’s front page for The Minnesota Star Tribune. In a moment in which much of legacy media are enabling and condoning the worst actions of the Trump admin, the reporters and editors of the Star Tribune are not holding back one bit.

It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason

We’ve been in WHO since 1948.

This one is really haunting me. That poor, scared baby

not to be dramatic but every person who had a hand in this deserves to spend the rest of their life paying for it

but just think of all the mining we'll be able to get done when we're no longer distracted by the sounds of those canaries

microdosing the horrors by being awake

Is it depression? Is it anxiety? Is it a nervous breakdown? Is it living in the U.S.? Is it all 4?

They are kidnapping non-white people, regardless of status only to sort them out later, often not even taking them to the federal building but abandoning them beaten miles from where they were. And they are brutalizing witnesses, most of whom are white citizens who only have whistles and phones.

This dude is intense and correct

Great piece: slate.com/news-and-pol...

They don't seem to realize that the video of them abusing a legal observer is probably worse than whatever video the legal observer had already obtained of them.

This short piece is very good.

THIS is so important. Mention at the checkout counter that you just can’t get the footage out of your mind, ask your apolitical sister how she’s making sense of it, tell your neighbor you’re thankful for the calm here and wondering how your neighborhood would respond if it happened here.

“They just assaulted him. The whole f*cking thing is absurd.”

I cannot emphasize how much “be the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...

hope these guys are looking forward to being a dreadful family secret

The DOJ is more than three weeks late in delivering the Epstein Files. In those three weeks: - Trump declared himself acting President of Venezuela - ICE murdered a woman in Minnesota - Trump is preparing an invasion of a NATO ally - Trump initiated a criminal investigation of Fed Chair Powell

I think it’s important to point out: ICE does NOT have the same authority as a police officer. They do NOT have the power to enforce laws, only to engage in their specific tasks. IE: they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against

At the NYC protest. Powerful and tough.