Asking a machine to adapt my writing into film would be like asking a machine to ridicule people who still use hashtags.

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

If you can't handle me at my 𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚌𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚜, then you don't deserve me at my 𝙀𝙣𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜

Power concedes nothing without a fight. The news of the draw down this morning is a development that was won by the power of neighbors joining together to keep each other safe. We celebrate the wins. Yet we know the threat is not over, and so our fight is not over.

SMALL MEN OF BITTER DISPOSITION HAVE FROM TIME TO TIME DARED TREAD THE HALLOWED GROUND OF THE GREAT LOON BUT IN THEIR FOLLY NONE MAY MATCH THE GREAT FURY OF THE DARK AND RED EYED SPIRIT THAT SPREADS ITS WINGS IN JEALOUS CARE OVER THOSE WHO DWELL HERE. BLESS THE LOON. FEAR THE LOON.

I am wary of any politicians doing a victory lap today before we’ve seen on the ground that ICE has left. Their surety makes me think that they negotiated something and I think they owe it to us to be as transparent as possible about what that is.

I feel like someone in MN should design like a POW-MIA flag for all the neighbors abducted or had to hide themselves & we should fly that underneath the state flag for long, long time. Symbolic, yes. Also we need visual reminders to keep a lot of focused on the long road of work yet ahead.

I'll believe it when I hear from likely targeted folks that *they* believe it's over If it is true (or whenever it finally happens) then we have a mountain of subsequent questions; Big one is how do we get people back who've been abducted?

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Back in the day you needed 99 balloons to set off this response, so if you think about it we’re much more efficient.

The amount of funding and resources an institution or person extracts from Minnesota at this point is inversely proportional to how much they do to help with the occupation. The U, our elected officials, and our police have been worse than useless and regular people pick up the slack.

But seriously so many people in this state are looking around and seeing people in powerful roles doing nothing, or capitulating, so much, fuck it, I’ll do it myself energy out there.

tHinGs aRę wINdinG dØwN

We are facing a humanitarian crisis here. Each passing day we learn of new neighbors who haven’t left their homes and have fallen through the cracks. Lots of people aren’t connected to mutual aid networks. Just terrible suffering caused by the federal government.

If when I’m older I become one of those people who lives in a bunker in Montana, I want everyone to know they can point to these first few months of 2026 as where that process started.

You spend a lot of time alone in the woods with just your skis and your gun. Lots to think about out there.

That’s correct—the patient is important but faces many challenges!

Now I've heard there was a secret floor That ICE made squalid just as before But you don't really care for rulings, do you? It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth The minor falls, our neighbors sick The baffled king composing Hallelujah

The number of ice sightings and ops seem to be going down in many of the city neighborhoods & up significantly in the 1st ring burbs. I think in general they’re finding it harder & harder to get any success so they’re just taking it out on observers

This Super Bowl answers the thought experiment “what if the QBs of both teams weren’t good?”

It’s just insane that police cracked down on protestors but the outside agitator was just allowed to leave free.

The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps" The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"

Entire world: welcome to the “decathlon,” ten classic athletic skills in one event! Finland: no. biathlon. Two things. Ski and gun

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

They’re trying to pull a fast one and convince the committee they count as a government because they oversee “The Nation”

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Help me [insert literally any vaguely prominent Minnesota democratic politician] you’re my only hope.

Kamala thank you so much for your renewed focus on Posting. Posting got us into this mess and Posting will get us out

Revealing undercover ICE agents by offering them the last donut in the box and seeing them take the whole thing.

It’s as bad as it’s ever been here. Local volunteers are wearing bulletproof vests to pack groceries for their neighbors.

The GOP threatening to shutdown DHS over the (pretty weak) demands the Democrats have is peak “threatening us with a good time”

A dispatch from Surprise AZ where residents gathered to protest plans for a warehouse concentration camp in their community by @azrww.bsky.social “Despite this evidence of authoritarian power, it is possible for even the most local form of government to take a stand in the name of the people.”

Most of the footage you see from ICE observers in Minnesota comes from the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I talked to observers in the northern suburbs, who say they're taking on the same mission in very different conditions. (1) share.google/ei9giIFLsuEJ...

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Our precinct adopted a resolution calling for new leadership to replace Schumer and Jeffries. Rousing applause.

Counterpoint: Democrats want ICE razed more thoroughly than Carthage in 146 BC, the ideological territory in which it operates salted so thoroughly it never grows again, and every single one of these goons in front of a judge to face justice for their crimes.

What's tough to get across to folks outside MN is that both the occupation & everyday resistance are both happening at such a scale that it's kinda flipped a lot of what most would assume makes sense for precautions or 'opsec'. Everything from spicy stuff to mundane have different rules than before

If ICE can get out of my town before I turn bald that would be much appreciated.

The thing where ICE parks masked men in school lots is something I would not have believed unless I saw it with my own two eyes. They do it constantly. It’s purely a terror tactic and they’ve done it to schools over the region. Our schools are collapsing - often at 50% attendance or less.

It really is unlivable here now for huge parts of the city

One thing I need to do more of is put down notes, observations, analyses, whatever of this occupation. We all need to be preserving a record of this cataclysm and the people it has forever changed. We don't want any of this simplified or glossed over or memory holed. We owe it to everyone.

The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, plus the New York Times story about using facial recognition to take away PreCheck and Global Entry from observers, reveals how closely linked these two missions are. There is no separating ICE’s twin missions of ethnic cleansing and ideological terror.

They can’t even get consensus on whether *american citizens* should be protected from deportation lol. I’m sorry but they are a total dead end and I don’t want to see energy and resources funneled into their campaigns and shit this season

I’m also concerned because the admin is clearly trying a tactic where they swap leaders and act like that means things are resolved while the situation on the ground remains the same. How can we show America this isn’t over if we won’t let media get the story?

I’m not totally sure how to address this but apparently I’m getting kicked out of ICE rapid response for the moment because I’m allowing press ridealongs, with an extremely strict condition that no other observer be identified. Lots of observers have allowed ridealongs and they benefit us.

If Minneapolis gets a peace prize then Saint Paul doesn’t want one.

The entire world is screaming at them and rage and despair but all they hear and see is the applause their tiny audience of degenerate internet Nazis, whose appetite for images of bloodshed and violence, for stories about minorities being killed and dominated, is insatiable.

One of the frustrating things to deal with as somebody who actually lives in the Twin Cities is that we’ve become an object of interest to an entire group of people who don’t think it matters if something is real or not.

So glad to see the Senate Dems taking a stand against there being too few camera angles of my neighbors being shot.

we are going through it!