"don't be anti-catholic" tell the catholics to stop being anti-me and we'll have a conversation

I read this as teenage mutant atheist self an was like fuck yeah

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

Yes, you never expected the leopards to eat your face and you regret your vote. I get that.

Do you now also regret wanting *other people's* faces to get eaten by leopards, or do you still think it would be pretty nifty if leopards only ate the faces of the people less worthy than you?

The same day Renee Good was murdered, Bovino and his thugs showed up at a neighborhood high school during dismissal, and violently arrested a staff member on school property. I’m so glad Quentin is ready to tell his story.

Trans day of every tabloid shuts the fuck up about us forever. Trans day of let us have our healthcare and leave us the fuck alone. Trans day of tearing down the panopticon. Trans day of let us control the narrative instead of deferring to some cis sexologist's hallucination.

Data shows three-quarters of ICE arrestees in Minnesota had no criminal record The new data shows fewer than one-quarter of those arrested by immigration agents in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge had a criminal conviction on their record. A little more than 13 percent of ...

Federal agents arrested more than 3,700 Minnesota residents during the federal government’s surge into the state this winter, according to new data.

It shows fewer than one-quarter of those arrested had a criminal conviction on their record.

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

"In America, we fetishize misery. We treat suffering like a virtue, and it’s not. We live in the wealthiest country in the world. We don’t have to live like this."

even if ICE leaves Minnesota i wouldn’t celebrate because it means they’re going to terrorize other places in full force. we have begun to try to equip others but even then no one truly knows what this is like until they experience it. it’s abolish ICE or nothing. no one is safe if they’re around.

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

Mood in minneapolis right now

Treating a federal occupation of unaccountable armed, masked goons hellbent on an ethnic cleansing campaign like having a newborn baby: sleep whenever you can.

Every day some story breaks me some. Today it’s the guy who approached parents at a school patrol, told them he was with Indivisible, and asked about how the patrol system works. The parents gave vague answers, followed him back to his car — and of course it was ICE.

every single person I talk to in Minneapolis is holding stories so traumatic they claw their own way back out of their mouths. we’re not going to be okay for a long time after this. hard to believe there ever will be an “after this”

if you're cheering for freezing temps in MN you have to go donate at least one coat and pair of wool socks to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social

yes, I do in fact make the rules

Dems need to stop acting like what ICE is doing is an accident, or a failure of policy, or a tactic of distraction.

It's the policy. And that's fucking terrifying, because it means that there's no negotiating with it, no ameliorating it.

There's only defeating it, or being defeated by it.

When guys who are the physical embodiment of Vikings jerseys chase you out of the bar screaming at you, you really have lost the propaganda war

ICE is not supposed to have a policing function. To call for them to engage in “de-escalation training” is to cede to the fact that they’re going to be policing cities.

Whenever I've encountered ICE they seem genuinely puzzle that a 40-something white dude isn't on their side.

Nice thing about Minneapolis being kinda small is that it’s hard to convince us protesters are being paid because you’d go out and oh there’s that kid from my high school who played Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha one year, and is that the pharmacist at my CVS over there, and there goes our realtor

The people of Minneapolis are highly engaged in defending our community from the federal occupation. A meeting in the Whittier neighborhood last night required three overflow rooms, with speakers having to go room to room to make sure everyone heard them. 838 people at Whittier Elementary.

is it a kitchen table issue if a tear gas canister is fired through the window and is currently spewing gas on your kitchen table

WHY are news stations reading DHS statements out loud as if they have ANY credibility at all? They literally murdered a woman in cold blood LAST WEEK and are still lying about what happened, even though we can see what happened. That any credibility would be given to their statement is insane

The point of children playing sports is developing friendships, group identification, enjoying their bodies and experiencing the power of physical movement. These are at stake for trans children. Beyond that, this a fascist wedge issue that is part of an attack on all civil rights.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

MN ICE Watch Jan. 12-16: Daily Updates on Trump's Invading Troops - Racket Your one-stop shop for real-time ICE watching.

These rolling updates below will provide nugget-sized intel/links/embeds amid this dizzyingly depressing news cycle, hopefully making you feel a little better-informed and/or connected to your community.

start with what it is (not what it isn't)
focus on why they're lying (not their lies)
make it about them (not her)
eat their frame

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.