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· Feb 5
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It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something
January 10, 2026 at 12:33 AM
It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something
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yeah it's a big cop culture thing to act like you are under extreme threat at all times. and there is a lot of institutionalized panic about what people might do with their cars in particular.
I have to be honest. this isn't meant to downplay the seriousness of what's happening now, and this isn't meant to be glib. But this is also how ALL cops act. The first time I got screamed at like this by a cop, I was 16, because of a traffic jam in the school parking lot. Every single one of them
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 9, 2026 at 11:33 PM
yeah it's a big cop culture thing to act like you are under extreme threat at all times. and there is a lot of institutionalized panic about what people might do with their cars in particular.
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What this administration is doing is accelerating and building on what already existed. This is disorienting, I know. We have to do what we can to protect each other locally while we also seriously address the foundational issues. This country has to disempower policing. I hope people understand now
January 10, 2026 at 5:57 PM
What this administration is doing is accelerating and building on what already existed. This is disorienting, I know. We have to do what we can to protect each other locally while we also seriously address the foundational issues. This country has to disempower policing. I hope people understand now
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I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
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what do you call it when a rogue armed government agency tells an elected official they dont care if theyre breaking the law
Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."
January 10, 2026 at 5:15 PM
what do you call it when a rogue armed government agency tells an elected official they dont care if theyre breaking the law
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A dynamic on the ground here in Minneapolis that's been hard to wrap my head around: Local law enforcement, while trying to lower the temperature, have vanished. So it's really just protesters vs ICE. And ICE does not give a shit. They're laying siege to the city. Existentially horrifying.
January 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM
A dynamic on the ground here in Minneapolis that's been hard to wrap my head around: Local law enforcement, while trying to lower the temperature, have vanished. So it's really just protesters vs ICE. And ICE does not give a shit. They're laying siege to the city. Existentially horrifying.
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The moment that anybody outside the DHS apparatus gets inside one of these facilities without cleaning up beforehand, we're going to see things that even the most hardened and cynical among us can barely comprehend.
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.
@zeteo.com
@zeteo.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM
The moment that anybody outside the DHS apparatus gets inside one of these facilities without cleaning up beforehand, we're going to see things that even the most hardened and cynical among us can barely comprehend.
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Update: ICE has denied the members their due right to conduct oversight
January 10, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Update: ICE has denied the members their due right to conduct oversight
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I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.
@zeteo.com
@zeteo.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:17 PM
I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
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How bad is it out there? Well, here's my bishop-equivalent, who is not normally given to pushing his luck politically:
January 10, 2026 at 2:57 PM
How bad is it out there? Well, here's my bishop-equivalent, who is not normally given to pushing his luck politically:
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Keep filming these assholes. Keep making them famous.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Keep filming these assholes. Keep making them famous.
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The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 3:25 PM
The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”
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Taunting is not a justification for arbitrary executions. Collective guilt is contrary to the rule of the law. Resisting the state— even if unlawful and prosecutable—doesn’t justify a death sentence. Our colonial ancestors rejected that agents of the state are absolutely immune for their wrongdoing.
January 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Taunting is not a justification for arbitrary executions. Collective guilt is contrary to the rule of the law. Resisting the state— even if unlawful and prosecutable—doesn’t justify a death sentence. Our colonial ancestors rejected that agents of the state are absolutely immune for their wrongdoing.
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Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
January 10, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
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If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.
January 10, 2026 at 1:34 AM
If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.
i think we should primary every national democrat that is not AOC or bernie
January 9, 2026 at 11:34 PM
i think we should primary every national democrat that is not AOC or bernie
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how to join the maquis
January 9, 2026 at 11:22 PM
how to join the maquis
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That was my takeaway too. She's clearly turning the wheel to her right.
I've slowed the video down here.
I've slowed the video down here.
January 9, 2026 at 7:35 PM
That was my takeaway too. She's clearly turning the wheel to her right.
I've slowed the video down here.
I've slowed the video down here.
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it really is pretty wild just as a how-we-live-now check to step back and realize that everyone in the world has now seen the murder of a young mom on video, and the president and vice president are doing touchdown dances over her dead body on social media
January 9, 2026 at 10:06 PM
it really is pretty wild just as a how-we-live-now check to step back and realize that everyone in the world has now seen the murder of a young mom on video, and the president and vice president are doing touchdown dances over her dead body on social media
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They were in the car with the agents. ICE appear to have some kind of content creator team traveling with them here in Minneapolis.
Coordinated? Like did it seem as though ICE and the content creators were communicating and coordinating?
January 9, 2026 at 6:33 PM
They were in the car with the agents. ICE appear to have some kind of content creator team traveling with them here in Minneapolis.
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Kinda tells you our country has always been inherently authoritarian and was waiting for an initiator. Trump is that.
/7 Prosecuting a cop for misconduct, let alone murder, is the hardest prosecution you can do in America. Thanks to America’s culture it’s like trying to convict a fucking kitten for high treason. It’s like trying to convict Jesus. You just cannot rush over confidently into that.
January 9, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Kinda tells you our country has always been inherently authoritarian and was waiting for an initiator. Trump is that.
it's going to just absolutely suck to see the 41/59 polling on this in a week
January 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
it's going to just absolutely suck to see the 41/59 polling on this in a week
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people are posting a lot of things about ICE agents right now that are true for All Cops
January 9, 2026 at 5:32 PM
people are posting a lot of things about ICE agents right now that are true for All Cops
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I hope more people are thinking about how dangerous cop cities are right now and how they have to be shut down now.
January 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I hope more people are thinking about how dangerous cop cities are right now and how they have to be shut down now.
they need to provoke a violent response so they can send the tanks in. but if they can't, they will anyways.
January 9, 2026 at 7:56 PM
they need to provoke a violent response so they can send the tanks in. but if they can't, they will anyways.