Allie Myren
@amyren.bsky.social
International political economy, politics, sports, and vibes. MSP local.
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to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”
January 26, 2026 at 2:43 PM
to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”
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"Shut it all down until it’s safe for every Minnesotan to drive to a sports venue without being rammed, beaten, abducted or killed."
Damn, Jim Souhan.
Gift link: www.startribune.com/jim-souhan-m...
Damn, Jim Souhan.
Gift link: www.startribune.com/jim-souhan-m...
Souhan: What good are sports in times like these?
Local owners should be making a statement. Better yet, they should be taking action.
www.startribune.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:25 AM
"Shut it all down until it’s safe for every Minnesotan to drive to a sports venue without being rammed, beaten, abducted or killed."
Damn, Jim Souhan.
Gift link: www.startribune.com/jim-souhan-m...
Damn, Jim Souhan.
Gift link: www.startribune.com/jim-souhan-m...
Can I say this more plainly: The government is such a threat to the people here that we cannot put the names of schools in print.
One thing that really stood out to me in the Atlantic article is that the author cannot name the Minneapolis schools he visited. He *cannot publicly name the schools* for fear of turning them (even more) into targets.
January 26, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Can I say this more plainly: The government is such a threat to the people here that we cannot put the names of schools in print.
One thing that really stood out to me in the Atlantic article is that the author cannot name the Minneapolis schools he visited. He *cannot publicly name the schools* for fear of turning them (even more) into targets.
January 26, 2026 at 3:59 AM
One thing that really stood out to me in the Atlantic article is that the author cannot name the Minneapolis schools he visited. He *cannot publicly name the schools* for fear of turning them (even more) into targets.
This is genuinely excellent. My only complaint (ongoing with nat’l media) is that it over-centers Minneapolis when ICE are all over the metro area and outlying towns. They are swarming St. Paul too, and inner suburbs like Woodbury, Roseville, and Shakopee.
The Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)
Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:56 AM
This is genuinely excellent. My only complaint (ongoing with nat’l media) is that it over-centers Minneapolis when ICE are all over the metro area and outlying towns. They are swarming St. Paul too, and inner suburbs like Woodbury, Roseville, and Shakopee.
I am once again asking: didn’t these ppl read books, watch movies as kids?? The hero is the main character evincing whatever type of situational COURAGE the story required. Standing up for what is right and for those who can’t do it themselves. Didn’t these ppl want to be the heroes?? I don’t get it
I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage
January 26, 2026 at 3:10 AM
I am once again asking: didn’t these ppl read books, watch movies as kids?? The hero is the main character evincing whatever type of situational COURAGE the story required. Standing up for what is right and for those who can’t do it themselves. Didn’t these ppl want to be the heroes?? I don’t get it
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Steph Curry on watching the protests from his hotel window: "In negative 10-degree weather. It was beautiful to see that turnout. That speaks to how important people felt to have their voice heard. In those elements and whatever streets outside our hotel, they were out, and it was amazing to watch."
January 26, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Steph Curry on watching the protests from his hotel window: "In negative 10-degree weather. It was beautiful to see that turnout. That speaks to how important people felt to have their voice heard. In those elements and whatever streets outside our hotel, they were out, and it was amazing to watch."
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This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.
The Chun regime that my wife fought against in the 80s did the exact same thing. They needed a "crisis" that "only they could solve" to hoard more ill-gotten power, so they chose one city (Gwangju), declared its inhabitants enemies, sent trucks full of soldiers to violently attack and kill them.
January 25, 2026 at 11:37 PM
This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.
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This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
January 26, 2026 at 2:00 AM
This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
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tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors.
i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.
thank you. thank you.
i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.
thank you. thank you.
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
StandWithMinnesota.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:12 PM
tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors.
i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.
thank you. thank you.
i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.
thank you. thank you.
Give us your tired and weak and we will make them strong
Bring us your foreign songs and we will sing along
Leave us your broken dreams, we’ll give them time to mend
Bring us your foreign songs and we will sing along
Leave us your broken dreams, we’ll give them time to mend
If anyone needs a good cry, Willie’s Living in the Promiseland always does it for me. youtu.be/G6lxpt8lzbo?...
Willie Nelson - Living In The Promiseland (Official Video)
YouTube video by WillieNelsonVEVO
youtu.be
January 26, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Give us your tired and weak and we will make them strong
Bring us your foreign songs and we will sing along
Leave us your broken dreams, we’ll give them time to mend
Bring us your foreign songs and we will sing along
Leave us your broken dreams, we’ll give them time to mend
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People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc
(GFM in next post)
www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...
(GFM in next post)
www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...
January 26, 2026 at 1:39 AM
People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc
(GFM in next post)
www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...
(GFM in next post)
www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...
If anyone needs a good cry, Willie’s Living in the Promiseland always does it for me. youtu.be/G6lxpt8lzbo?...
Willie Nelson - Living In The Promiseland (Official Video)
YouTube video by WillieNelsonVEVO
youtu.be
January 26, 2026 at 2:31 AM
If anyone needs a good cry, Willie’s Living in the Promiseland always does it for me. youtu.be/G6lxpt8lzbo?...
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hey everybody lifelong tech expert here
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
January 25, 2026 at 5:26 PM
hey everybody lifelong tech expert here
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
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We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
Lies and Lawlessness
The Camps, the Executions, and the Future
snyder.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:26 PM
We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
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STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION (NBPA) AND ITS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON THE FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS BY ICE
January 25, 2026 at 8:52 PM
STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION (NBPA) AND ITS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON THE FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS BY ICE
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sometimes I think about how impoverished media vocabulary for talking about collective action is, and what this means for the capacity to envision ways of acting together
everyone in Minneapolis is a “protestor” and that doesn’t begin to describe what they are doing & how it works & what it does
everyone in Minneapolis is a “protestor” and that doesn’t begin to describe what they are doing & how it works & what it does
January 26, 2026 at 1:24 AM
sometimes I think about how impoverished media vocabulary for talking about collective action is, and what this means for the capacity to envision ways of acting together
everyone in Minneapolis is a “protestor” and that doesn’t begin to describe what they are doing & how it works & what it does
everyone in Minneapolis is a “protestor” and that doesn’t begin to describe what they are doing & how it works & what it does
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I'm so glad there's more attention on the violence, trauma and lives lost due to this federal occupation.
AND we also need more attention on the less visible but INTENSE impact on our neighbors who haven't been able to leave home for weeks, are hungry, scared & at risk of eviction.
2/3
AND we also need more attention on the less visible but INTENSE impact on our neighbors who haven't been able to leave home for weeks, are hungry, scared & at risk of eviction.
2/3
January 26, 2026 at 1:16 AM
I'm so glad there's more attention on the violence, trauma and lives lost due to this federal occupation.
AND we also need more attention on the less visible but INTENSE impact on our neighbors who haven't been able to leave home for weeks, are hungry, scared & at risk of eviction.
2/3
AND we also need more attention on the less visible but INTENSE impact on our neighbors who haven't been able to leave home for weeks, are hungry, scared & at risk of eviction.
2/3
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Sen. Jacky Rosen is calling for the impeachment of Kristi Noem.
"Kristi Noem and her department's latest attempt to mislead the American public regarding the brutal and unjustified killing of Alex Pretti is deeply shameful, and she must be impeached and removed from office immediately."
"Kristi Noem and her department's latest attempt to mislead the American public regarding the brutal and unjustified killing of Alex Pretti is deeply shameful, and she must be impeached and removed from office immediately."
January 25, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Sen. Jacky Rosen is calling for the impeachment of Kristi Noem.
"Kristi Noem and her department's latest attempt to mislead the American public regarding the brutal and unjustified killing of Alex Pretti is deeply shameful, and she must be impeached and removed from office immediately."
"Kristi Noem and her department's latest attempt to mislead the American public regarding the brutal and unjustified killing of Alex Pretti is deeply shameful, and she must be impeached and removed from office immediately."
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The reason why they're still pressing ahead is not because they have some secret plan, but the pretty classic Umberto Eco fascist-folly - because of their ideology they are "constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy."
January 25, 2026 at 10:51 PM
The reason why they're still pressing ahead is not because they have some secret plan, but the pretty classic Umberto Eco fascist-folly - because of their ideology they are "constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy."
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Kevin, you don’t understand: they were chased out before they could even detain and disappear the people who cooked and served their food
January 26, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Kevin, you don’t understand: they were chased out before they could even detain and disappear the people who cooked and served their food
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And people learned the names of the ICE agents? Oh no. They might be held accountable for all their criming.
January 26, 2026 at 12:34 AM
And people learned the names of the ICE agents? Oh no. They might be held accountable for all their criming.
Wyclef’s Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door > Bob Dylan’s
January 25, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Wyclef’s Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door > Bob Dylan’s