Two small children hold signs they made. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"
Gotta remind yourself not to cry when you see the kid's signs.
It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous.
"LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!"
"ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"
A little too convenient.
Minnesota shifting narrative from "rabble rousing protesters" vs "law enforcement" to "people of conscience" vs "evil regime." This is essential to defeating authoritarianism - exposing who, what & why they are by demonstrating who, what & why we are.
And MAGA knows it.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
Don't forget the Supreme Court's role facilitating ICE's brutality and racism in Minneapolis. SCOTUS lifted an injunction that limited racial profiling in immigration enforcement on Sept. 8. The federal assault on Chicago began the next day. Then came the Twin Cities. SCOTUS greenlit these horrors.
Ben Damberg protest volunteer: “None of us want to be doing this — I don’t, but we simply cannot stand by as other Minnesotans are being hurt — we will march, we will protest, & we will do it all peacefully above all else”
If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?
[Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.
If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….
The image doesn’t convey that it was -20° there
Shooting in Minneapolis involving ICE happened on the 600 block of 24th Ave North.
Temporary power, permanent consequences 💥
It used to be that victims of murders in the U.S. would be smeared by InfoWars and Gateway Pundit as a way to fetishize guns and violence for ad dollars and supplement sales, with the added benefit of cozying up to far-right politicians. Now that work is done by CBS News.
How many moms need to get shot in the face before members of congress support a sec Noam impeachment?
the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
How I'm dealing with my stress: I bought a 3d printer and am producing 100 whistles at a time. 1000 heading to Minneapolis tomorrow.
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.
A disabled woman trying to drive to a doctor's appointment had agents break her window and drag her out of her car. A peaceful observer on scene was tackled and had his face pressed into the concrete, a State Rep. was shoved and multiple others safely observing were needlessly pepper sprayed.
so sick of seeing libs say that there is a “right and legal way” to violently deport people, like you people are so worthless that you can only follow arbitrary “rules”, you’re incapable of seeing other people as HUMANS who inherently have value and are deserving of dignity and life
so much to cover right now, but a thread i just want to throw out there from my reporting is that the car rental market in minneapolis is reportedly totally screwed up right now because ICE has cleared the inventory. rental companies should have to answer for supplying vehicles used in terror.
People can say what they want but the real US left is developing rapidly. People are falling into different communist strains of thought. Orgs are exploding. Lenin lives
FBI fires top official amid Kash Patel's outrage over reports of agency jet use Patel reportedly became furious after stories revealed he flew to visit girlfriend and fired official who oversees fleet
These are not adults
Furthermore, I’m grateful for the connections I have made and fostered. I’m incredibly lucky to have the ability to exceed my wildest dreams of my youth. I’m incredibly fortunate. Gotta take that energy and put it into fostering more community. Sow some seeds now, folks.
Life has been wild lately. The world is falling apart (as intended) and I’m sitting here still riding the high of the Garbage concert on Halloween feeling the deep love and appreciation of music I felt as a teen. If you need motivation for fighting for a better world, please listen to @garbage.com
