We've seen a lot of people say a lot of dystopian shit over the last couple decades, but this quote might take the cake.

Toughest congressperson in America rears back for a punch, and refuses to cut short townhall, after asshole sprays her with something.

Pencil Drawings of Ice victims Renee Good and Alex Pretti who were both killed for no reason but cowardice. The text reads "INNOCENTS MURDERED BY COWARDS"

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were executed by the state. #AbolishIce #MeltIce

“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…

So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

Last time ICE murdered someone in the street (~2 weeks ago) they spent the rest of day trying to kidnap people in the rest of the city, & pepper sprayed/tear-gassed a highschool.
Keep an eye on your own block, yr own neighborhood, yr own people.
It's still early in the day and they're everywhere.

I'm sending this out to the few folks I know who might support the present administration. I've done my best to be politically tolerant all my life and respect folks I disagree with. The last few weeks in the Twin Cities have shaken that tolerance to its core. All of the conservative folks I respected growing up have long abandoned the Republican party, but there are still folks I care about who have found ways to justify remaining. Usually they shrug and say something like, "We don't like him much either," and then do nothing to stop the rise of this horrible new regime. I don't care about excuses any more. This is the world you all made. I don't know how you might have been hoodwinked into your present beliefs, but you need to know they are deeply wrong and folks are getting killed because of it. The Twin Cities are an incredible place. I've lived all over this country, and I think this little corner of the Midwest represents the best of us. Within a week of moving here I knew the names of everyone on my street. Folks brought us food and helped watch our kids as we unpacked. We bonded over digging out each other's cars in the winter and comparing north shore hikes and camping grounds in the summer. If I hadn't lived here, I wouldn't have imagined a place like this could exist.

Over the past month, we have been ravaged by state-sponsored terrorists. They are kidnapping folks. It's not uncommon to find an empty car, blinkers on, in the middle of the road, as if the driver had been whisked away in the Rapture. Families are being broken up, folks with ample legal protections are being locked up for days without access to their lawyers or their families. This isn't an internet rumor. It's happening outside my window and it's every bit as horrible as a page from the Diary of Anne Frank. But Minnesotans are a stalwart bunch. We've got a neighborhood patrol to protect school children from government agents. Cati has been helping coordinate groceries for folks who are afraid to leave their home. The little dish by our door where we put our keys now has a stock of whistles that we bring with us so that we can alert folks to government agents. And it's working. ICE is less effective, and more and more people and businesses are being tied into one of the most remarkable and organic grassroots efforts ever seen. All of that was on display yesterday when I went downtown with perhaps 40 or 50 thousand people to protest. The -40 degree wind chill didn't stop us.

And yet, today they killed another person. In broad daylight. The video is horrible and looks like something that we'd associate with the reign of Tito or Kristallnacht. They are trying so hard to break this beautiful place. They won't do it, but the longer they try the more people are going to die senselessly. None of this would be possible without the folks who enabled this, one way or another. That's you and that's on you. This isn't an invitation to a dialogue. I'm done talking. This is a demand for accountability. Turn off your TVs and your podcasts and step out of your echo chambers. A terrible moment has arrived in America, and you carried it here on your backs.

A letter from Saint Paul to those last few friends and family who have somehow become indifferent to ongoing campaign of terror in the Twin Cities:

So many people, that even though I know exactly where I was, I can’t even see a sliver of myself in that video!

A great day for the coldest protest in US history!

CNN’s Jake Tapper cuts off bookstore owner after clash over ‘concentration camps’ remark YouTube video by Erik De La Garza

Concentration Camp: a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitation or punishment.

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.

You could be next.

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ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬

Republicans cut your healthcare to pay for a federal invasion of Minneapolis.

ICE isn’t making us safer — it’s terrorizing our communities.

This is a nightmare! If you or someone you know is a part of ICE, just quit! You can work at Subway or something and save your soul!

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"

A list of ideas!

Dear neighbor,

I want to take some time to share 3 different stories regarding racial discrimination perpetuated by ICE in the Phillips area of South Minneapolis.

On January 8th, four unhoused Indigenous men were kidnapped by ICE under a bridge near Little Earth. 1/

Just started my ARC!
Really loving it so far. Reading even the first chapter, the thought “oh this is definitely a Minnesotan author” hit hard in the best way!

Press getting hit with chemical irritants at 34th and Park.

Ice using chemical irritants on obervers

A photo of Chemical irritants

The vehicle ice crashed into

ICE rammed into a car at 34th and Park And then began to question the immigration status of U.S. Citizen Latino’s they crashed into.

They also deployed chemical irritants into the eyes of the press. Abolish ICE now.

We've got whistles (and ear plugs) for you and all your friends! We've got bathrooms if you're out observing and need a public restroom! We've got free posters and dirty bumper stickers for free if you want to make sure your minivan doesn't get confused with ICE! Here until 5pm!

“The murdering will continue until you stop calling us murderers.”

More than 5,000 people here in Powderhorn Park protesting ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis.

#FuckICE #iceout #mpls #FuckTrump

Neither does their coffee 😩

I love the effort Folio Society puts into making their editions a perfect fit for each book they work on!

For matching the vibe, it’s hard to compete with a beat up mass market PB copy, passed around between dozens of hands, but that illumination-adjacent style is PERFECT for Canticle!

🫡 happy to leverage my deeply niche knowledge the few times it comes in handy!

Most QOL mods can be run client-side only!
There’s some good QOL data-packs that you can load into vanilla Java servers as well to add the QOL features you want without needing players to run a mod client.

I’ll continue preaching on behalf of @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social ‘s novel The West Passage!
Per my personal review “the unholy offspring of Redwall Abbey and Dark Souls’ Lordren”

The audiobook for Antimemetics is wild! I’m just past halfway and it’s really blown me away

I debated making the phishing link scrape data and to then send a physical letter reprimanding people, but that seemed a step too far for folks to be comfortable with it, so I settled for the masked Google doc link

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Great ICE WATCH training is tonight 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Excellent intro to important skills and tools for people who want to get involved in Minneapolis. Let's fight these Nazis together and kick them out of our communities!
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I was genuinely proud of how many people I got to fall for a phishing scam test as part of the Strat Internal Security team during O/U:

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