Azurp
@azurp12.bsky.social
I'm a concerned citizen living at the heart of an empire bent on global domination. I love learning new things, and I care deeply about this world and everyone in it.
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It’s day 73 of the ICE occupation of MSP.
We know that the vigilance, whistles, phones, and community care that thousands of us have practiced over the last 11 weeks are what have led to the ICE retreat announced this morning.
But it’s not over yet. ICE OUT has never meant the end of the surge.
We know that the vigilance, whistles, phones, and community care that thousands of us have practiced over the last 11 weeks are what have led to the ICE retreat announced this morning.
But it’s not over yet. ICE OUT has never meant the end of the surge.
February 13, 2026 at 4:22 AM
It’s day 73 of the ICE occupation of MSP.
We know that the vigilance, whistles, phones, and community care that thousands of us have practiced over the last 11 weeks are what have led to the ICE retreat announced this morning.
But it’s not over yet. ICE OUT has never meant the end of the surge.
We know that the vigilance, whistles, phones, and community care that thousands of us have practiced over the last 11 weeks are what have led to the ICE retreat announced this morning.
But it’s not over yet. ICE OUT has never meant the end of the surge.
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It's a concentration camp.
This is genocide.
This is genocide.
February 13, 2026 at 5:18 AM
It's a concentration camp.
This is genocide.
This is genocide.
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Google gave ICE the sensitive personal data of a student journalist, including his bank account and credit card info, without even letting him know.
The company is also helping bankroll Trump’s vanity ballroom project.
Google is enabling fascism — all to protect its bottom line.
The company is also helping bankroll Trump’s vanity ballroom project.
Google is enabling fascism — all to protect its bottom line.
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Google gave ICE the sensitive personal data of a student journalist, including his bank account and credit card info, without even letting him know.
The company is also helping bankroll Trump’s vanity ballroom project.
Google is enabling fascism — all to protect its bottom line.
The company is also helping bankroll Trump’s vanity ballroom project.
Google is enabling fascism — all to protect its bottom line.
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Our leaders are not going to fix the worst problems in our world. They couldn’t if they wanted to. And they don’t want to.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/our-leader...
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/our-leader...
Our Leaders Couldn't Fix Our Problems If They Wanted To (And They Don't Want To)
Reading by Tim Foley:
www.caitlinjohnst.one
February 11, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Our leaders are not going to fix the worst problems in our world. They couldn’t if they wanted to. And they don’t want to.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/our-leader...
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/our-leader...
we can't live under a system that profits under cruelty. I don't care what your politics are, this is a fundamental human principle.
🚨NEW INVESTIGATION: How ICE's detention center buying spree is bailing out the commercial real estate industry & being facilitated by a handful of powerful real estate brokerages — including one with financial ties to Trump’s Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick.
Empty Warehouses, Secret Deals: Insiders Poised To Profit From Trump’s Deportation Boom
As the Trump administration hunts for massive detention sites, politically connected real estate brokers are lining up to benefit.
www.levernews.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:03 PM
we can't live under a system that profits under cruelty. I don't care what your politics are, this is a fundamental human principle.
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This is what ICE does on our streets. This is what they're capable of. You can debate funding in your fancy halls until you're blue in the face. Abolishing them now is the only solution.
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 5:44 PM
This is what ICE does on our streets. This is what they're capable of. You can debate funding in your fancy halls until you're blue in the face. Abolishing them now is the only solution.
I don't know what the concern is, I lose my hard drives all the time. /s
A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage has reached new levels of absurdity.
Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On
A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage has reached new levels of absurdity.
www.404media.co
February 11, 2026 at 6:50 PM
I don't know what the concern is, I lose my hard drives all the time. /s
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The U.S. economy is growing and the stock market has soared.
Today's January jobs report showed some growth, but 2025 was one of the worst years for hiring since 2003.
On what really counts to most Americans — jobs and wages — the economy is shitty.
It's just more trickle-up economics.
Today's January jobs report showed some growth, but 2025 was one of the worst years for hiring since 2003.
On what really counts to most Americans — jobs and wages — the economy is shitty.
It's just more trickle-up economics.
U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January, but labor market growth stalled in 2025
The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that U.S. employers added 181,000 jobs last year, far fewer than the 1.46 million
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
The U.S. economy is growing and the stock market has soared.
Today's January jobs report showed some growth, but 2025 was one of the worst years for hiring since 2003.
On what really counts to most Americans — jobs and wages — the economy is shitty.
It's just more trickle-up economics.
Today's January jobs report showed some growth, but 2025 was one of the worst years for hiring since 2003.
On what really counts to most Americans — jobs and wages — the economy is shitty.
It's just more trickle-up economics.
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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.
February 10, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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.
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In our deep blue state with a near-supermajority Dem legislature, Dems just helped Republicans make sure that ski towns cannot tax out-of-state tycoons’ part-time vacation mansions in order to fund affordable housing for workers & others who actually live there.
What stage of oligarchy is this?
What stage of oligarchy is this?
Colorado lawmakers reject bill to allow resort towns to tax vacant homes | Colorado Newsline
Supporters of the measure said vacancy taxes can disincentivize empty homes while helping to fund local affordability programs.
coloradonewsline.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:53 PM
In our deep blue state with a near-supermajority Dem legislature, Dems just helped Republicans make sure that ski towns cannot tax out-of-state tycoons’ part-time vacation mansions in order to fund affordable housing for workers & others who actually live there.
What stage of oligarchy is this?
What stage of oligarchy is this?
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NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Major media finally caught up with me!
ICE has been tracking the names of protesters in an internal database for several months, according to two US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operations reut.rs/46wwn1j
ICE is cracking down on people who follow them in their cars
Becky Ringstrom was heading home after following federal immigration officers in her gray Kia SUV in suburban Minneapolis when she was suddenly boxed in by unmarked vehicles.
reut.rs
February 10, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Major media finally caught up with me!
Plesse go watch videos of this man delightfully bragging about getting paid to set up a digital surveilance police state through his company, Palantir. This is one reason why we can't have affordable lifestyles. He's being fed our tax dollars to oppress us instead of that money bettering our lives.
In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company's products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees
In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company's products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.
wrd.cm
February 10, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Plesse go watch videos of this man delightfully bragging about getting paid to set up a digital surveilance police state through his company, Palantir. This is one reason why we can't have affordable lifestyles. He's being fed our tax dollars to oppress us instead of that money bettering our lives.
We all deserve better and healthier life styles. Those lifestyles are going to have to be earned, politicians will never give them to us.
Sneaky fees, excessive paperwork, spam calls, and other avoidable, annoying, shady practices cost Americans $165 billion annually in wasted time and money, according to a new study.
newrepublic.com/article/2063...
newrepublic.com/article/2063...
How Companies Profit by Annoying the Hell Out of You
A new report reveals that sneaky fees, excessive paperwork, spam calls, and other annoyances cost Americans $165 billion annually in wasted time and money.
newrepublic.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:27 PM
We all deserve better and healthier life styles. Those lifestyles are going to have to be earned, politicians will never give them to us.
Please, none of us are safe with this technology in our neighnorhoods.
In today’s #404DeepDive, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social gets into Ring’s new feature Search Party which was advertised at the Super Bowl which essentially turns the entire neighborhood into a security dragnet.
Read more: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
Read more: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
February 10, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Please, none of us are safe with this technology in our neighnorhoods.
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This was not an inevitability.
This is the result of decades of political choices that rig the system in favor of the wealthy and powerful while leaving workers behind.
It does not have to be this way.
This is the result of decades of political choices that rig the system in favor of the wealthy and powerful while leaving workers behind.
It does not have to be this way.
February 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
This was not an inevitability.
This is the result of decades of political choices that rig the system in favor of the wealthy and powerful while leaving workers behind.
It does not have to be this way.
This is the result of decades of political choices that rig the system in favor of the wealthy and powerful while leaving workers behind.
It does not have to be this way.
We need public accountability from ALL our institions and representatives. This is just one example of the importance if it.
NEW: The Forest Service didn’t tell wildland firefighters that their pants may contain harmful “forever chemicals" despite knowing for years about the issue, according to multiple workers and officials familiar with contracting and purchasing gear.
Firefighters Wore Gear Containing “Forever Chemicals.” The Forest Service Knew and Stayed Silent for Years.
As early as 2021, government officials were alerted to the presence of potentially dangerous chemicals known as PFAS in pants used by wildland firefighters, according to emails obtained by ProPublica.
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM
We need public accountability from ALL our institions and representatives. This is just one example of the importance if it.
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Noise complaint? There's stuff for that! Thanks @silentmachine.bsky.social for starting this!
651-224-4306 (St. Paul Chamber of Commerce)
202-267-3521 & 9-AWA-NoiseOmbudsman@faa.gov (FAA noise complaints)
metroairports.org/community (Metropolitan Airports Commission noise complaints)
651-224-4306 (St. Paul Chamber of Commerce)
202-267-3521 & 9-AWA-NoiseOmbudsman@faa.gov (FAA noise complaints)
metroairports.org/community (Metropolitan Airports Commission noise complaints)
February 10, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Noise complaint? There's stuff for that! Thanks @silentmachine.bsky.social for starting this!
651-224-4306 (St. Paul Chamber of Commerce)
202-267-3521 & 9-AWA-NoiseOmbudsman@faa.gov (FAA noise complaints)
metroairports.org/community (Metropolitan Airports Commission noise complaints)
651-224-4306 (St. Paul Chamber of Commerce)
202-267-3521 & 9-AWA-NoiseOmbudsman@faa.gov (FAA noise complaints)
metroairports.org/community (Metropolitan Airports Commission noise complaints)
If you study enough U.S. history, you start to see the inhumane policy choices are terrifyingly common. The cruelty is the point and our complicity is carefully manufactured. We cannot be confused and distracted any longer. No children anywhere are safe if these conditions are allowed to exist.
Children ending up in the ICU.
Children trying to end their lives.
Children refusing to eat and drink because the food has worms and the water makes them sick.
Children held for 8 months or longer.
These are the kids ICE holds at Dilley.
They’re pleading to be let out.
Children trying to end their lives.
Children refusing to eat and drink because the food has worms and the water makes them sick.
Children held for 8 months or longer.
These are the kids ICE holds at Dilley.
They’re pleading to be let out.
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2026 at 12:58 PM
If you study enough U.S. history, you start to see the inhumane policy choices are terrifyingly common. The cruelty is the point and our complicity is carefully manufactured. We cannot be confused and distracted any longer. No children anywhere are safe if these conditions are allowed to exist.
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BREAKING: San Francisco public school teachers, counselors, and nurses have walked out on strike.
6,000 members of the United Educators of San Francisco are striking to fight for fully funded health care for their families and a raise to keep up with the Bay Area cost of living.
6,000 members of the United Educators of San Francisco are striking to fight for fully funded health care for their families and a raise to keep up with the Bay Area cost of living.
February 9, 2026 at 4:11 PM
BREAKING: San Francisco public school teachers, counselors, and nurses have walked out on strike.
6,000 members of the United Educators of San Francisco are striking to fight for fully funded health care for their families and a raise to keep up with the Bay Area cost of living.
6,000 members of the United Educators of San Francisco are striking to fight for fully funded health care for their families and a raise to keep up with the Bay Area cost of living.
MN is building the world we want. We've had enough. It starts with meeting your neighbors and being neighborly.
"Now it's time to create, to build the world we want, that is more compassionate, more equal, more sustainable," said Maria Ressa at the 2026 Doomsday Clock announcement.
"85 seconds to midnight. You know, the question now is not whether we can. The question is, whether you will."
"85 seconds to midnight. You know, the question now is not whether we can. The question is, whether you will."
Nobel Peace Prize Winner on turning back the Doomsday Clock
Watch Maria Ressa's full speech from the 2026 Doomsday Clock announcement.
youtu.be
February 9, 2026 at 2:33 PM
MN is building the world we want. We've had enough. It starts with meeting your neighbors and being neighborly.
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6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
![Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k4jt6heuiamymgi46yeuxtpt/bafkreihpnudavq27nzelfb2kd3fjjthco7haqmhvx4zryksfbfruoxkm74@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 PM
6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
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5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
February 9, 2026 at 12:34 PM
5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
You can extend this perspective further. The system wants us unhealthy and to die young. It's more profitable that way.
Begging folks to realize that ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event.
People are being shot. They’ve been blinded. They’ve been traumatized.
The camps are full of disease.
TB, Covid and measles can all kill but they also disable.
It’s eugenics.
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
People are being shot. They’ve been blinded. They’ve been traumatized.
The camps are full of disease.
TB, Covid and measles can all kill but they also disable.
It’s eugenics.
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
www.texastribune.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
You can extend this perspective further. The system wants us unhealthy and to die young. It's more profitable that way.