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How to help the resistance to ICE in Minnesota — and beyond What Minnesota’s immigrant communities need from you now.

In Minneapolis and many other communities across the country, we're seeing people come together to peacefully protest and support their neighbors. If you're looking to get involved, here are some ways to help:

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Will certainly have seemed like a good idea in 2021. Now? Yeah, nah!

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Video: New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Pretti A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn’t pose a threat.

New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Pretti Shooting www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS.

Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies.

AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS.

Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.

That would seem to fix it, yep.

Err, I think you need a LOT more red on that map, pal.

Tee hee

Alex Pretti shooting by ICE - 4 different POVs YouTube video by White Rose Resistance

The 4 videos we have so far compiled into 1

youtu.be/Evg8EZEioD0

Nail on the head!

Via @the-independent.com
App to help boycott US products.

Sadly there seems to be no version in Oceania. However, having spent time looking into this recently several "US" brands are actually not in our region.

www.independent.co.uk/tech/us-boyc...

A sad collection of self-enriching tin-pot autocrats and leaders of medieval torture states.

Get out of Greenland mode and stand up for yourself, Zelenskyy tells Europe Ukraine president accuses EU leaders of waiting for direction from Donald Trump in blistering speech at Davos

Zelenskyy cuts to the chase and tells it how it is.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The second great speech I've heard from the European Parliament today.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

This is Dumpling. She got her very first sweater and promptly deactivated. 12/10 (TT: jmw495)

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

A walking sack of waste DNA.

Nope, but folk in the US certainly are.

The 1 word behind Trump’s UN pullout YouTube video by Simon Clark

The Drumpf #fascist regime pulling out of another 66 multilateral organisations.

youtube.com/shorts/rBcTu...

They're not held to those standards ALREADY? I would have expected them to apply to any government "enforcer", regardless of badge.

Well, ICE don't wear badges I guess 😡

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Download WATCH_ Segment CBS News Pulled From _60 Minutes_.mp4 | LimeWire Download WATCH_ Segment CBS News Pulled From _60 Minutes_.mp4 on LimeWire

Taking it down but here you go limewire.com/d/hmf4k#802S.... Make a copy and share widely

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Upwelling Failure

Potentially significant problem for Panama's ecology and economy as annual Pacific upwelling fails for first time since records began 40 years ago. This normally drives nutrient supply and surface cooling leading to growth of phytoplankton, on which the food Web relies.

stri.si.edu/story/upwell...

My feathered #tui friends are becoming very used to me in my role as general server.

Updating my home NAS whilst at 35,000 feet above the middle of the Pacific. #technology!