Brandon Schorsch
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Brandon Schorsch
@bschorshy.bsky.social
@Bschorshy on the Bird app
@Schorshy@union.place on the elephant app
OPEIU member, ☭ , ✡️, Fmr CD5DFL Chair, opinions own, rt≠endorsement, i often upvote for visibility
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omnia sunt communia
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Council Member Osman: what have we done besides press conferences? What has the city of Minneapolis done in response to this crisis?
February 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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I don’t think it’s a coincidence that with Britta Curl on the U.S. Hockey Team, J.D. Vance & Marco Rubio are at the game sitting with the Lamoureux twins, who are noted transphobes and aligned with Curl wrt to their anti-trans advocacy in sport. Happy Olympics!
February 5, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox
February 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered.

18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
February 5, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.
February 5, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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A bizarre number of people have stepped up to defend Julie Le. What you see in that transcript is an attorney who chose to do evil work—deporting people for ICE then moving over to DOJ in early Jan. specifically to fight these habeas petitions—being called to the carpet. She's desperate, not heroic.
If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can:

drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 5, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.

Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.

Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
February 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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They’re screaming “fuck ice” at wrestling matches and Chuck Schumer managed to use this leverage to negotiate against himself until the demand is “ here’s a bunch more money, can you guys please promise to not wear masks unless you really need to?”
February 5, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons.

We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.

Read more:
Identified: the El Paso BORTAC crew rampaging through the Midwest
One violent duo in particular, U.S. Border Patrol agents Michael Sveum (EZ-2) and Edgar Vazquez (EZ-17), have been frequently seen alongside former commander-at-large Greg Bovino terrorizing crowds wi...
unraveledpress.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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If you saw a basketball team throw games this blatantly, you would call for them to lose their charter to the league.
Yes. Yes! Thank you
February 5, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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“The high-profile killers celebrated by the right-wing sign autographs and get crowdfunded. They actually get paid, but we don’t make them pay nearly enough in return. They walk around safe and unscathed while liberals try to appeal to moral sympathies.”
Another way out: Power, force, and far-right rewards for killing
The far-right’s celebration of killing and the state’s complicity in it show that violence is one of America’s sustaining forces
prismreports.org
February 4, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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a lot of shit is going to happen in the dark that we simply won't find out about until it's too late.
February 5, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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Find you a newspaper that loves reporting as much as The New York Times loves lionizing fascist propagandists and terrorists.
February 4, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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The Washington Post did some people really dirty. This is what billionaire-owned news looks like.
February 4, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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Just had to detach a quote exhorting people to support principled journalism by subscribing to the newspaper that laid me off during my paternity leave because somebody who made five times my salary had miscounted the beans and they refused to sign our union contract
February 4, 2026 at 9:38 PM
we must weep for the hotel property group, for their asset depreciated in the smallest & most temporary of ways
February 4, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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minneapolis city council vice president jamal osman says “the people you’re calling agitators, they’re fighting for our people. they’re out there in the cold, sniffing gas, dealing with all kinds of stuff. people have lost their lives… our president calls us garbage. those people are our heroes.”
February 4, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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fundraiser for la mama restaurant in whittier on nicollet & franklin in minneapolis, across the street from stevens square neighborhood. they are struggling to pay rent and the restaurant is the only source of income for the family, who have 5 kids

www.gofundme.com/f/help-arafa...
Donate to Help Arafa Save La Mama Restaurant, organized by loay menzli
Hi, my name is Arafa Ahmed and I’m the owner of my small family business, La Mama Resta… loay menzli needs your support for Help Arafa Save La Mama Restaurant
www.gofundme.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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Observers all over are bad ass but I give so much respect to those in the burbs and greater Minnesota who have less widespread community support compared to those in the cities and inner ring burbs.

We will win. ICE OUT.
Most of the footage you see from ICE observers in Minnesota comes from the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I talked to observers in the northern suburbs, who say they're taking on the same mission in very different conditions. (1)
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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
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February 4, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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Rent is due in the Twin Cities, and many families won’t be able to pay. “Operation Metro Surge” has left thousands sheltering in place from ICE agents roaming the streets. With many afraid to go to work and bills piling up, calls grow for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to declare an eviction moratorium.
As ICE Terror Forces People Inside, Calls Grow for Eviction Moratorium in MN
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz upheld an eviction moratorium during the pandemic. Why won’t he issue one now?
buff.ly
February 4, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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There was an abduction in front of my apartment this morning. Afterwards, a Hennepin County Sheriff car drove by. Around 10-15 of us screamed at them for help, seeking assistance with the abandoned, window-smashed car. Some ran after them. They continued driving. 😑
February 4, 2026 at 5:35 PM
just like 2024, she wont
February 4, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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Patriot Front routinely taking major L's but continuing to exist is b/c it's an MLM scheme making actual money mixed w/ a cult-like environment and dedicated middle-managers who would do anything for their dear leader (pictured below), which is also why the group can't grow past 250-300 people.
February 4, 2026 at 8:30 PM
i imagine many outside of the most violently occupied zones believes she's doing things because she has the title senator, and the age old problem of 'well its the only person who threw their hat in the ring"
February 4, 2026 at 8:45 PM