Matt Chorpenning, MSW
@chorpenning.bsky.social
he/him. social work professor specializing in skilled complaining and applied anger. guitar player. abolitionist. Posts don't represent my employer's views even if they probably should.
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"The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength."
Amazing report from @crimethinc.com on the recent general strike in #Minneapolis. crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/c...
Amazing report from @crimethinc.com on the recent general strike in #Minneapolis. crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/c...
February 2, 2026 at 6:29 AM
"The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength."
Amazing report from @crimethinc.com on the recent general strike in #Minneapolis. crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/c...
Amazing report from @crimethinc.com on the recent general strike in #Minneapolis. crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/c...
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Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
dailyillini.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.
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If you missed this, they teargassed a little girl and her grandmother just over half a mile away from the facility
Right passed the park now and a little girl maybe 5 years old got out of the car. She's saying "oww" and coughing, an older woman with her rushed her inside
February 2, 2026 at 6:05 AM
If you missed this, they teargassed a little girl and her grandmother just over half a mile away from the facility
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So many reports like this from people who had nothing to even do with the protest. And that’s not even taking into account all the animals and environmental impacts.
February 2, 2026 at 6:08 AM
So many reports like this from people who had nothing to even do with the protest. And that’s not even taking into account all the animals and environmental impacts.
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People all over Portland, Oregon were impacted by the chemical warfare deployed by the feds tonight. Here’s a thread of some Portlanders experiences who weren’t even at the protest:
Lots and lots of teargas and various other munitions. People yelling for medics. Ambulance came for one person already and there was a brutal arrest amidst all of this
February 2, 2026 at 6:02 AM
People all over Portland, Oregon were impacted by the chemical warfare deployed by the feds tonight. Here’s a thread of some Portlanders experiences who weren’t even at the protest:
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Are we planning to field anybody in 2028 who isn't a sniveling bootlicker
February 2, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Are we planning to field anybody in 2028 who isn't a sniveling bootlicker
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Thousands of union members & supporters gathered in Portland’s South Waterfront on Jan 31 for an anti-ICE demonstration hosted by Oregon labor leaders. The family-friendly event turned chaotic after federal agents met the peaceful crowd with tear gas as they marched outside Portland’s ICE facility.
Portland Officials Condemn ICE After Federal Agents Tear Gas Peaceful Protesters and Children
Thousands of local union members and supporters gathered in Portland’s South Waterfront Saturday afternoon for an anti-ICE demonstration hosted by Oregon labor leaders. The family-friendly event turne...
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February 2, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Thousands of union members & supporters gathered in Portland’s South Waterfront on Jan 31 for an anti-ICE demonstration hosted by Oregon labor leaders. The family-friendly event turned chaotic after federal agents met the peaceful crowd with tear gas as they marched outside Portland’s ICE facility.
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Enforce the law, @mayorkwilson.bsky.social
Lots of teargas at ICE tonight in Portland. People were just standing and chanting.
February 2, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Enforce the law, @mayorkwilson.bsky.social
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🚨🚨🚨 Portland peeps 🚨🚨🚨
If you attended the Labor against ICE rally yesterday and were involved in the baseless chemical attack from the feds and happen to have photo or video evidence- the NLG is collecting that evidence and asks that you send it to them at pdxlegalobserver@nlg.org
Thank you and Solidarity!
Thank you and Solidarity!
February 2, 2026 at 3:50 AM
🚨🚨🚨 Portland peeps 🚨🚨🚨
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Hahahaha even Rowling?
Seriously, EVERY bad person making the world a worse place is DIRECTLY tied to that fucking guy.
Psychotic rich people? Direct friends of Epstein.
The odious channer roommate you're saving up to escape from? Brainwashed by Epstein.
Seriously, EVERY bad person making the world a worse place is DIRECTLY tied to that fucking guy.
Psychotic rich people? Direct friends of Epstein.
The odious channer roommate you're saving up to escape from? Brainwashed by Epstein.
February 2, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Hahahaha even Rowling?
Seriously, EVERY bad person making the world a worse place is DIRECTLY tied to that fucking guy.
Psychotic rich people? Direct friends of Epstein.
The odious channer roommate you're saving up to escape from? Brainwashed by Epstein.
Seriously, EVERY bad person making the world a worse place is DIRECTLY tied to that fucking guy.
Psychotic rich people? Direct friends of Epstein.
The odious channer roommate you're saving up to escape from? Brainwashed by Epstein.
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I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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Ending immigration agents’ abuses requires reckoning with a long history of cruelty at the border.
ICE Is Not the Only Problem. Border Patrol Has Acted With Impunity for Decades.
Ending immigration agents’ abuses requires reckoning with a long history of cruelty at the border.
buff.ly
February 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Ending immigration agents’ abuses requires reckoning with a long history of cruelty at the border.
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When it happens I think it would be both fun and funny if after the celebrations die down no one ever says the name again or acknowledges he ever existed. Like see how long we can keep it up
February 2, 2026 at 4:02 AM
When it happens I think it would be both fun and funny if after the celebrations die down no one ever says the name again or acknowledges he ever existed. Like see how long we can keep it up
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February 2, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.
Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30.
📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
February 1, 2026 at 1:44 PM
You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
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Someone told me the other day an eviction moratorium is complicated and I was like … I guess I don’t care. Because this (below) is the alternative.
Truly the whole city—very much including @jchavezmpls.bsky.social —is running around collecting cash, trying to meet thousands or rent deadlines, exhausting our personal fundraising networks, hugging other helpers in the bank lobby, losing sleep…and he’s posting through it.
You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
February 1, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Someone told me the other day an eviction moratorium is complicated and I was like … I guess I don’t care. Because this (below) is the alternative.
No new pictures. Where you at mentally?
February 2, 2026 at 3:09 AM
No new pictures. Where you at mentally?
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"Stop telling people not to sign up for protests you're being paranoid"
February 1, 2026 at 6:23 PM
"Stop telling people not to sign up for protests you're being paranoid"
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TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN OP-ED: In our society we have too often accepted the heckler’s veto, allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good and making the refusal to forgive our highest virtue
TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend
TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend
February 2, 2026 at 2:42 AM
TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN OP-ED: In our society we have too often accepted the heckler’s veto, allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good and making the refusal to forgive our highest virtue
TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend
TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend
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I'm used to having to convince coastal types that there are people out there who genuinely believe in libertarian and traditionalist principles (rather than as laundry for regular bigotry). rarely, however, do you see those types publicly confronted with how little company they actually have
February 2, 2026 at 2:35 AM
I'm used to having to convince coastal types that there are people out there who genuinely believe in libertarian and traditionalist principles (rather than as laundry for regular bigotry). rarely, however, do you see those types publicly confronted with how little company they actually have
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The destruction of public health and rising fascism forever hand in hand.
BREAKING: ICE has halted "all movement" at a Texas detention facility due to measles infections, DHS confirms.
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
cbsn.ws
February 2, 2026 at 2:56 AM
The destruction of public health and rising fascism forever hand in hand.
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That also goes for our District Attorney Nathan Vasquez who ran on crushing protestors to appease business interests.
Those politics fed into this moment, and now the moment demands a massive pivot or they will go down in history as obstructionists to stopping fascism.
Those politics fed into this moment, and now the moment demands a massive pivot or they will go down in history as obstructionists to stopping fascism.
February 1, 2026 at 7:22 PM
That also goes for our District Attorney Nathan Vasquez who ran on crushing protestors to appease business interests.
Those politics fed into this moment, and now the moment demands a massive pivot or they will go down in history as obstructionists to stopping fascism.
Those politics fed into this moment, and now the moment demands a massive pivot or they will go down in history as obstructionists to stopping fascism.
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We are at a crossroads. The Police Union can choose to stand with Portlanders, to stand against fascism, or they can continue to obstruct policies that would reign the feds in because they see a kinship with corrupt law enforcement and not with the good people of our city.
There is a choice here.
There is a choice here.
The current Portland City Councilors who are endorsed by the police union are:
Smith (D1), Ryan (D2), Novick (D3), Zimmerman (D4), Clark (D4)
Listing them because the Portland Police Association is making it a fight to have a masking ban (for law enforcement) and a tear gas ban.
Smith (D1), Ryan (D2), Novick (D3), Zimmerman (D4), Clark (D4)
Listing them because the Portland Police Association is making it a fight to have a masking ban (for law enforcement) and a tear gas ban.
Please list the swing vote councillors specifically so people know who to contact. With everything going on in the country right now, it's hard to keep up with who is doing what, especially now that there are so many of you.
February 1, 2026 at 7:22 PM
We are at a crossroads. The Police Union can choose to stand with Portlanders, to stand against fascism, or they can continue to obstruct policies that would reign the feds in because they see a kinship with corrupt law enforcement and not with the good people of our city.
There is a choice here.
There is a choice here.
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Not a judgment and IDK how you overcome it but...it's striking that every time a fresh national news story drops about ICE in the Twin Cities (ProPublica today), a lot of people respond with "Wow, I didn't realize it was that bad" and everyone in MN goes "Yes and it's a hundred times worse"
February 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Not a judgment and IDK how you overcome it but...it's striking that every time a fresh national news story drops about ICE in the Twin Cities (ProPublica today), a lot of people respond with "Wow, I didn't realize it was that bad" and everyone in MN goes "Yes and it's a hundred times worse"
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This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.
February 1, 2026 at 12:30 AM
This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.