@gscl.bsky.social
🚲Car-free euphonium person. 💜Asexual and somewhere in aro/gray/demi-romantic land. 🏙St. Paul, MN, US
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Feels like general political conditions are shifting pretty rapidly right now, and political elites all over are scrambling to reposition themselves. I don't know how it's going to shake out, but I wouldn't bet on the ultra-savvy "nothing ever changes in Washington" take that seems popular on here.
NEW Economist/YouGov Jan 23-26: ICE
% of U.S. adult citizens saying they have very little confidence in ICE, according to polls conducted...
Jan 23-26, 2026: 55%
Jan 9-12, 2026: 49%
Dec 12-15, 2025: 45%
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
% of U.S. adult citizens saying they have very little confidence in ICE, according to polls conducted...
Jan 23-26, 2026: 55%
Jan 9-12, 2026: 49%
Dec 12-15, 2025: 45%
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
January 27, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Feels like general political conditions are shifting pretty rapidly right now, and political elites all over are scrambling to reposition themselves. I don't know how it's going to shake out, but I wouldn't bet on the ultra-savvy "nothing ever changes in Washington" take that seems popular on here.
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I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:
So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?
January 27, 2026 at 9:28 PM
I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:
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I believe Enterprise is one of them
January 27, 2026 at 9:51 PM
I believe Enterprise is one of them
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here's a video from this afternoon in Eden Prairie MN of ICE agents camping out as a bus stop.
Again, this is terrorism.
Again, this is terrorism.
January 27, 2026 at 9:40 PM
here's a video from this afternoon in Eden Prairie MN of ICE agents camping out as a bus stop.
Again, this is terrorism.
Again, this is terrorism.
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The thing about this political moment is that my most and least Theory Brain friends are saying Exactly the same thing: Push Now. Hit them while they're down and keep hitting them and keep hitting them until we fucking Win. Accept nothing less than total victory.
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
January 27, 2026 at 8:11 PM
The thing about this political moment is that my most and least Theory Brain friends are saying Exactly the same thing: Push Now. Hit them while they're down and keep hitting them and keep hitting them until we fucking Win. Accept nothing less than total victory.
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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If you're regularly using force and injuring people to stop them from committing crimes, but can't find a crime to charge them with, and claim you don't have a record of the interaction — it means you were the criminal gang the whole time.
January 27, 2026 at 9:16 PM
If you're regularly using force and injuring people to stop them from committing crimes, but can't find a crime to charge them with, and claim you don't have a record of the interaction — it means you were the criminal gang the whole time.
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I honestly think half the e-bike backlash is just people hate seeing teenagers having fun.
January 27, 2026 at 8:29 PM
I honestly think half the e-bike backlash is just people hate seeing teenagers having fun.
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#Minneapolis has been subject to #Terrorism by #Police #NationalGuard #Sheriff #StatePatrol and most recently #DHS #ICE. We have been under seige. No more troops, no more random stops, no more #helicopters, end #TheOccupation.
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
January 27, 2026 at 9:18 PM
#Minneapolis has been subject to #Terrorism by #Police #NationalGuard #Sheriff #StatePatrol and most recently #DHS #ICE. We have been under seige. No more troops, no more random stops, no more #helicopters, end #TheOccupation.
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When you make statements reserving a certain kind of suffering for the Jewish people, it closes a door rather than opening one. The Holocaust was unique, but the suffering of its victims was not.
Respect all the vulnerable and victimized, I beg you.
“Any burden is light, when carried by another.”
Respect all the vulnerable and victimized, I beg you.
“Any burden is light, when carried by another.”
January 27, 2026 at 9:23 PM
When you make statements reserving a certain kind of suffering for the Jewish people, it closes a door rather than opening one. The Holocaust was unique, but the suffering of its victims was not.
Respect all the vulnerable and victimized, I beg you.
“Any burden is light, when carried by another.”
Respect all the vulnerable and victimized, I beg you.
“Any burden is light, when carried by another.”
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Coming back to this in a longer form but what inspires me is all the mutual aid. People powered philanthropy has been overwhelming in this moment. WHO IS STAYING SILENT AND NOT WRITING CHECKS: large MN foundations. At least not in my circle. I won’t name names but it starts with B and ends with ush.
January 27, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Coming back to this in a longer form but what inspires me is all the mutual aid. People powered philanthropy has been overwhelming in this moment. WHO IS STAYING SILENT AND NOT WRITING CHECKS: large MN foundations. At least not in my circle. I won’t name names but it starts with B and ends with ush.
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Alex Pretti was a hero & was targeted for his actions. The feds that killed him that day very likely knew who he was before shooting.
Fuck ICE forever. Honor the martyrs.
Fuck ICE forever. Honor the martyrs.
CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”
January 27, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Alex Pretti was a hero & was targeted for his actions. The feds that killed him that day very likely knew who he was before shooting.
Fuck ICE forever. Honor the martyrs.
Fuck ICE forever. Honor the martyrs.
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Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
January 27, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
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Not guns. Not ICE. Not election-stealing, racism or fascism.
Whistles.
Whistles.
January 27, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Not guns. Not ICE. Not election-stealing, racism or fascism.
Whistles.
Whistles.
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@klobuchar.senate.gov @repangiecraig.bsky.social This is why we are asking you to push for ABOLISH ICE and ABOLISH/Defund DHS. This guy is threatening to "erase" someone's voice. Is that saying he's not going to allow them to exercise their 1st Amendment Rights or is he threatening to kill them?
getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
January 27, 2026 at 7:51 PM
@klobuchar.senate.gov @repangiecraig.bsky.social This is why we are asking you to push for ABOLISH ICE and ABOLISH/Defund DHS. This guy is threatening to "erase" someone's voice. Is that saying he's not going to allow them to exercise their 1st Amendment Rights or is he threatening to kill them?
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time to create absurd amounts of "move to Minnesota" propaganda
#NEW: 2030 Apportionment Forecast based on 2025 Census Bureau Population Estimates (January 27, 2026).
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
January 27, 2026 at 4:53 PM
time to create absurd amounts of "move to Minnesota" propaganda
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Referring to the US as a "homeland" was always creepy as fuck, always nazi-adjacent, and creating a Dept. of Homeland Security was an obvious lurch toward authoritarianism that should have been strenuously resisted from the beginning.
(Oh weird the hippies were right again.)
(Oh weird the hippies were right again.)
January 27, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Referring to the US as a "homeland" was always creepy as fuck, always nazi-adjacent, and creating a Dept. of Homeland Security was an obvious lurch toward authoritarianism that should have been strenuously resisted from the beginning.
(Oh weird the hippies were right again.)
(Oh weird the hippies were right again.)
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The longer we make the administration respond to this PR nightmare, the less they can get away with elsewhere.
Keep up the pressure. It’s harm reduction.
Keep up the pressure. It’s harm reduction.
January 27, 2026 at 8:31 PM
The longer we make the administration respond to this PR nightmare, the less they can get away with elsewhere.
Keep up the pressure. It’s harm reduction.
Keep up the pressure. It’s harm reduction.
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"We can do both!!!"
OK but we don't; we only do the significantly less effective victim blaming, not changing infrastructure or policy, drivers not having to change or even consider their behaviour one.
OK but we don't; we only do the significantly less effective victim blaming, not changing infrastructure or policy, drivers not having to change or even consider their behaviour one.
The reason why cyclists and pedestrians push back against these types of campaigns is not because we think visibility is bad (I wear hig-viz!), but because it's victim blaming that diverts attention from the real issues: dangerous drivers and poor infrastructure
“Where the built environment separates human skin and bone from lorries, cars, and buses, there is no need for our frantic striving to make fragile bodies hyper-visible”
January 27, 2026 at 8:35 PM
"We can do both!!!"
OK but we don't; we only do the significantly less effective victim blaming, not changing infrastructure or policy, drivers not having to change or even consider their behaviour one.
OK but we don't; we only do the significantly less effective victim blaming, not changing infrastructure or policy, drivers not having to change or even consider their behaviour one.
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You don't stop playing serious hockey just because you get a one-goal lead in the first period. You high-five your line-mates, squirt some water in your mouth, and get ready for your next shift on the ice.
So demanding ICE and CBP follow the law. That's the best they've got. Any Dem who isn't willing to add "Abolish ICE" to their list of demands should resign. Will they get it today? No. Will they ever get if they don't demand it? No.
Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told:
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
January 27, 2026 at 5:08 PM
You don't stop playing serious hockey just because you get a one-goal lead in the first period. You high-five your line-mates, squirt some water in your mouth, and get ready for your next shift on the ice.
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Here are some district maps for 47A (parts of Maplewood/Woodbury) and 64A (St. Paul centered around Grand Ave)
January 27, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Here are some district maps for 47A (parts of Maplewood/Woodbury) and 64A (St. Paul centered around Grand Ave)
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We should have all known that the moment progressives pulled out their own guns and the black panthers were back in the news defending their communities, that would be the time for common sense gun control. Not 20 some school shootings back, don't be silly.
January 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
We should have all known that the moment progressives pulled out their own guns and the black panthers were back in the news defending their communities, that would be the time for common sense gun control. Not 20 some school shootings back, don't be silly.
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we’ve got a ways to go until 2030 so this could change but it’s pretty much an across the board disaster if it doesn’t
building more housing isn’t just good policy, it’s existential politics
building more housing isn’t just good policy, it’s existential politics
#NEW: 2030 Apportionment Forecast based on 2025 Census Bureau Population Estimates (January 27, 2026).
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
January 27, 2026 at 4:59 PM
we’ve got a ways to go until 2030 so this could change but it’s pretty much an across the board disaster if it doesn’t
building more housing isn’t just good policy, it’s existential politics
building more housing isn’t just good policy, it’s existential politics
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Begging and pleading for New York and California to build more housing
#NEW: 2030 Apportionment Forecast based on 2025 Census Bureau Population Estimates (January 27, 2026).
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
January 27, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Begging and pleading for New York and California to build more housing
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Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...
EMERGENCY RENT FUND: Support Workers in Minnesota
Rent is due FEBRUARY 1st. Support our Emergency Rent Fund for Minnesotan workers and families facing eviction due to ICE Raids. We are calling for a rent moratorium, but regardless of if that happens ...
chuffed.org
January 27, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...