Not surprising that the union chief for ICE/Border Patrol would be like this, but almost everything he says here is a lie. Not nearly enough pushback from the interviewer

So, here's the article I have out as of today and it's #OpenAccess. It deals with one of the earliest Christian Arabic scribal workshops in the Sinai monastery, where many of the mss produced there have been preserved to this day. In this 🧵 I do a quick rundown of the most important findings. 1/n

There’s already at least one additional death at ICE hands that’s been covered up for a year. We need a truth-and-reconciliation committee to properly address and prosecute all of the crimes committed by this agency

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What does it tell voters, who have said unequivocally we want fighters, that you sit & silently witness your own humiliation? If you will not fight for yourselves, are we to believe you will for us?

I recognize it’s baked into both the American constitutional arrangement—combined with the way partisan politics allow the President to operate today—but it really does seem like there should be more substantial ways to push back against the President than “wait 4 years and vote”

Genuinely evil incarnate

New: Immigrants in MN are being released from detention without their IDs, work permits, social security cards, and other key documents that prove their status to begin with www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The only way this belief is possibly wrong depends on how you define “small”

This is still the best summary

ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren't supposed to do They kept him from his parents -which they aren't supposed to do They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren't supposed to do. Then they *lost* him. www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

Ah, well, nevertheless

They are in downtown St Paul at this very moment casing restaurants that close soon and the 3 hospitals. Observer friend was followed home into downtown by 2 confirmed ICE plates this morning. Took her pic and drove away, didn't hide it. This ain't over at all.

This looked great even before I saw that @tamigraph.bsky.social has a chapter in it

The feds do not share how many agents are still in Minnesota or how many arrests are taking place, but anecdotal accounts show their activities moving from the Twin Cities (where they encountered strong opposition) to suburbs, exurbs & small towns. (3) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

A treatise on witnessing the moon crescent on #Ramaḍān, copied in the 19th century and digitized in the collection of the Isʻāf Nashāshibī Center for Culture and Literature (DINL 00186 195), one of four family libraries in Jerusalem whose collections were digitized by HMML: https://bit.ly/3YKzE94

One interesting part of this is what appears to be a word bubble coming from the figure’s mouth. Ancient cartooning

Curious to see what the next group, after migrants, this particular elision of rights will be systematically (de jure?) extended to cover. Probably “terrorists”?

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A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

He would have been an incredible poster

Non-Minnesotans, be clear on this: the *one and only* thing they do is racial profiling. The *only* thing. Ask anyone here! If you look nonwhite, Latino particularly, ICE will target you. It’s really as simple as that

Big Box Auschwitzes

Memphis is under a federal task force occupation that includes DEA, CBP, ICE, National Guard, state troopers, and (I’m not joking) IRS agents (IRS jackets kidnapping people). No national news.

The obvious thing about this exchange: the trainings quite clearly instruct you NOT to impede ICE actions! And filming is not impeding!

yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them

Well, and some died, but ok

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

Cannot believe how far the bar has been lowered but this somehow feels legitimately useful to hear out loud. Because what virtually every single Minnesotan is doing is simply recording, saying words, and possibly using a whistle. That is virtually ALL anyone is doing as the feds claim "escalation".

There was an abduction in Northeast not 30 minutes ago.

I’m not totally joking here - it’s already difficult or impossible to find a lot of “good” twitter posts on the site itself and we’re reliant on stuff archived randomly with screenshots etc. Twitter was a fairly major cultural outlet for several years! Seems so strange most of it will just disappear

Look I’m sure this is for a news story but hard not to feel a little like you shouldn’t be filling out this form online

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Disgusting, and drives home that this is happening not just in Minneapolis.

Thinking about this again as an image of where things are both locally/nationally. Assuming things don’t unravel completely in the next few years, some complicated combination of just retribution and undue grace will need to be dispensed in ways and proportions that I can’t really conceptualize well

The problem with them choosing this as their primary talking point is that nearly every in Minnesota personally knows someone who has been taken by ICE. And they all had either a spotless criminal record or an entirely non-violent one. These are lies. They are going to lose. MN will not quit.

Telling constituents to go record ICE while the governor (et al.) essentially do nothing to stop them increasingly doesn’t make a lot of sense to me

Your constituents lives have been turned over entirely because of a federal occupation. That you’re pulling your punches because you’re worried about it becoming a constitutional crisis is overlooking what is already happening. You need to at least communicate that you understand what is happening.

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

CC: @governorwalz.mn.gov, @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social This is untenable.

I don’t smoke, do drugs, or drink alcohol, I’m refuse to feel at all guilty about drinking coffee

Kalshi should be illegal

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

I really don’t think we need to means-test armed state agents getting to wear anonymizing masks

20% of the students at Justice Page Middle School in SW Minneapolis are attending remotely b/c they're terrified to leave their homes. Their families can't work & rent is past due. Parents at Justice Page are trying to raise 100k to cover the needs of 50+ families — can we raise 10k of it? ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago. jacobin.com/2026/02/wrig...

I can’t overstate that nearly every good headline coming out of Minnesota has been followed up by retaliation by the Trump administration—which tends to get a lot less attention. This is infuriating and devastating.

This rocks. Dueling magic spells/prayers, capes and canes, a bearded witch. This is America www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

True Verrit heads know what’s up