Tamara Houde
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Tamara Houde
@iamtam.bsky.social
· Jan 28
www.congress.gov
Not sure how to reach your Senators and Reps? Capitol Hill Switchboard can connect you with DC offices. 202-224-3121.
Also, Congress.gov can hook you up.
www.congress.gov/members lets you pull up individual members or whole categories. More tips downskeet.
Also, Congress.gov can hook you up.
www.congress.gov/members lets you pull up individual members or whole categories. More tips downskeet.
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we need every grain of sand in the gears. every single one.
A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.
Minneapolis Council committee delays liquor licenses for 2 hotels over hosting federal agents
The City Council will hold a public hearing on the liquor licenses for the Canopy by Hilton in the Mill District and Depot Renaissance Hotel.
www.startribune.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 AM
we need every grain of sand in the gears. every single one.
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And just to add: it is possible to feed or help thousands without EVER posting about it on social media. It’s called building relationships of trust and it has been done in this work for centuries.
Do you think Harriet Tubman took out an ad in the paper?!
Do you think Harriet Tubman took out an ad in the paper?!
February 4, 2026 at 11:39 AM
And just to add: it is possible to feed or help thousands without EVER posting about it on social media. It’s called building relationships of trust and it has been done in this work for centuries.
Do you think Harriet Tubman took out an ad in the paper?!
Do you think Harriet Tubman took out an ad in the paper?!
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guy turns out to be exactly who a bunch of us Black women said he was: an American story
This is the stuff that marks someone as a danger.
Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows.
You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.
Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows.
You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.
February 3, 2026 at 9:52 PM
guy turns out to be exactly who a bunch of us Black women said he was: an American story
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Had a long conversation about this today. Very important read.
This is a deeply important piece. "A tool meant to make D.M.V. data sharing frictionless for law enforcement agencies also acts like a privacy Trojan horse, because agencies don’t need just cause or a warrant to look at it."
Opinion | ICE Is Watching You
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Had a long conversation about this today. Very important read.
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If you are doing any form of service to people at risk right now, do not, under any circumstances, advertise it.
February 4, 2026 at 2:18 AM
If you are doing any form of service to people at risk right now, do not, under any circumstances, advertise it.
THIS! For the love of all things holy, think about what infor you're putting out there, where you're putting it, and how that info may be weaponized. Stop broadcasting all your thoughts and plans. Just do the thing that needs to be done to help people and leave it at that.
If you want to get your ass followed by the Feds to your undocumented neighbor’s house when you deliver that food, and see that neighbor get arrested and deported, please continue.
There has never been a more critical moment to understand that what you post on social media can get people killed.
There has never been a more critical moment to understand that what you post on social media can get people killed.
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 AM
THIS! For the love of all things holy, think about what infor you're putting out there, where you're putting it, and how that info may be weaponized. Stop broadcasting all your thoughts and plans. Just do the thing that needs to be done to help people and leave it at that.
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Folks:
This is important.
SHEAR—the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)—is tracking examples of the regime erasing history.
More at the link below.
This is important.
SHEAR—the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)—is tracking examples of the regime erasing history.
More at the link below.
Please circulate and share this important resource: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
The Early Republic Tracker
The Early Republic Tracker documents instances where the federal government is removing facts and stories essential to the public’s understanding American history from public historical sites, muse…
thepanorama.shear.org
February 2, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Folks:
This is important.
SHEAR—the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)—is tracking examples of the regime erasing history.
More at the link below.
This is important.
SHEAR—the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)—is tracking examples of the regime erasing history.
More at the link below.
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Republicans are in here cosplaying as protectors of women and children, but they were silent when Renee Good was killed, willingly voted to cut SNAP, and are now sitting by as ICE rips children away from their families.
Miss me with the selective outrage.
Miss me with the selective outrage.
February 3, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Republicans are in here cosplaying as protectors of women and children, but they were silent when Renee Good was killed, willingly voted to cut SNAP, and are now sitting by as ICE rips children away from their families.
Miss me with the selective outrage.
Miss me with the selective outrage.
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This whooole thread.
Lots of regular degular, never-done-an-activism folks have been activated in recent months and are working alongside a bunch of seasoned, die-hard, been-tired-for-ten-years-or-more organizers, and you don't know all of those stories bc most people are moving with a bit of discretion in these times.
February 3, 2026 at 1:25 PM
This whooole thread.
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Is this person actually doing anything? is a good way to keep things moving and to reclaim your time.
February 3, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Is this person actually doing anything? is a good way to keep things moving and to reclaim your time.
Remember how you used to hear, "the cruelty is the point"? That hasn't changed. The goal is still to cause harm and benefit from it.
it's grim, but the reality is that Trump wants more innocent people to die here in the Twin Cities and the GOP majorities in both chambers of Congress are either ambivalent about more lives being taken or outright support it
February 3, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Remember how you used to hear, "the cruelty is the point"? That hasn't changed. The goal is still to cause harm and benefit from it.
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A lot of wisdom being dropped here about deescalation. At artful protests I organized in the early 2010s, where people showed up expecting a family-friendly vibe, we sometimes had folks who were bloc'd up who I had to talk to. They always heard me out because we had mutual respect. They knew me.
And if you realize you are out of your depth, you call someone over who CAN be nonreactive and calm and de-escalatory, or someone who is simply a more trusted messenger.
It doesn't matter if it's black bloc or some guy who's off his meds.
This is part of the work.
It takes practice.
It doesn't matter if it's black bloc or some guy who's off his meds.
This is part of the work.
It takes practice.
February 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM
A lot of wisdom being dropped here about deescalation. At artful protests I organized in the early 2010s, where people showed up expecting a family-friendly vibe, we sometimes had folks who were bloc'd up who I had to talk to. They always heard me out because we had mutual respect. They knew me.
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As a stretch goal for our upcoming Kickstarter campaign, we'll be donating a portion of proceeds to one of the amazing aid groups you can find listed on Stand With Minnesota.
Sign up to be notified when we launch here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/coy...
#TTRPG #FuckIce #NoOneIsIllegalOnStolenLand
Sign up to be notified when we launch here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/coy...
#TTRPG #FuckIce #NoOneIsIllegalOnStolenLand
February 3, 2026 at 4:06 PM
As a stretch goal for our upcoming Kickstarter campaign, we'll be donating a portion of proceeds to one of the amazing aid groups you can find listed on Stand With Minnesota.
Sign up to be notified when we launch here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/coy...
#TTRPG #FuckIce #NoOneIsIllegalOnStolenLand
Sign up to be notified when we launch here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/coy...
#TTRPG #FuckIce #NoOneIsIllegalOnStolenLand
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This is absolutely earth shaking for those of you who don’t know the area.
Jan 29- Thursday
Yesterday was the first anti ICE protest in Irmo, SC. It was an overwhelming success. An estimated 75 Americans from Irmo, Chapin, and Lexington came together yesterday to say Enough is Enough.This will be the first of many protests coming to the Irmo area soon. So stay tuned!
Yesterday was the first anti ICE protest in Irmo, SC. It was an overwhelming success. An estimated 75 Americans from Irmo, Chapin, and Lexington came together yesterday to say Enough is Enough.This will be the first of many protests coming to the Irmo area soon. So stay tuned!
January 30, 2026 at 5:53 PM
This is absolutely earth shaking for those of you who don’t know the area.
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Judge Fred Biery: "Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issue d by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called the fox guarding the henhouse. The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Judge Fred Biery: "Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issue d by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called the fox guarding the henhouse. The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This! The shift is possible and we need to keep pushing.
One way to think through the victory in Tarrant County, given that Rehmet ran in labor issues, is that the voters were offered two competing theories of solidarity and chose collective bargaining over white supremacy as their mode
This shift is possible and important to aim for
This shift is possible and important to aim for
February 1, 2026 at 3:22 PM
This! The shift is possible and we need to keep pushing.
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The national team of Ghana 🇬🇭 is a participant in the 2026 World Cup. Another reason why FIFA should strip the U.S. of host status for the World Cup. Transfer all U.S. games to co-host countries Canada and Mexico.
#NoWorldCup
#NoWorldCup
African nations make up a striking share of the countries swept into the Trump administration’s new freeze on immigrant visas.
The 26 African countries include Somalia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, and Ghana. https://capitalbnews.org/ghana-us-immigration-visa-freeze/
The 26 African countries include Somalia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, and Ghana. https://capitalbnews.org/ghana-us-immigration-visa-freeze/
Ghana Helped U.S. Deport Migrants, and Now Its Own Citizens Are Shut Out
Twenty-seven African nations are included in a U.S. visa freeze, even as many have helped enforce Washington’s deportation agenda.
capitalbnews.org
February 1, 2026 at 2:56 PM
The national team of Ghana 🇬🇭 is a participant in the 2026 World Cup. Another reason why FIFA should strip the U.S. of host status for the World Cup. Transfer all U.S. games to co-host countries Canada and Mexico.
#NoWorldCup
#NoWorldCup
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"The world isn’t ending. A world is ending. Our job is to midwife the next one."
January 31, 2026 at 10:33 PM
"The world isn’t ending. A world is ending. Our job is to midwife the next one."
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It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
February 1, 2026 at 3:10 AM
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
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Federal paramilitaries running up on the rooftops to fire irritants and flash bangs down into a peaceable assembly full of little kids
I was there. They were indiscriminately firing multiple canisters into a huge peaceful crowd. Fucking cowards
February 1, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Federal paramilitaries running up on the rooftops to fire irritants and flash bangs down into a peaceable assembly full of little kids
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It won’t have the same dopamine hit of I GOTCHA, but it’s a much more successful long term strategy for survival.
January 30, 2026 at 11:19 AM
It won’t have the same dopamine hit of I GOTCHA, but it’s a much more successful long term strategy for survival.
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There is this thing about the way folks are dogpiling eachother here lately that smacks of a desire to get out their rage at feeling impotent about the actions of the regime somewhere, anywhere.
It is a much more worthwhile strategy to take that rage into organizing your friends and neighbors.
It is a much more worthwhile strategy to take that rage into organizing your friends and neighbors.
January 30, 2026 at 11:19 AM
There is this thing about the way folks are dogpiling eachother here lately that smacks of a desire to get out their rage at feeling impotent about the actions of the regime somewhere, anywhere.
It is a much more worthwhile strategy to take that rage into organizing your friends and neighbors.
It is a much more worthwhile strategy to take that rage into organizing your friends and neighbors.
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This is how authoritarian narratives work you smear the victim, praise the armed agent, and ignore the killing. No video justifies an execution. No insult erases due process. This is propaganda, not accountability.
January 30, 2026 at 12:14 PM
This is how authoritarian narratives work you smear the victim, praise the armed agent, and ignore the killing. No video justifies an execution. No insult erases due process. This is propaganda, not accountability.
This! Do what you can, where you can, and understand that not everyone has the same options. Resistance is not One Size Fits All.
Those of us with the biggest privileges have the biggest responsibility to take risks. Not all of us pay the same price for resistance.
January 30, 2026 at 5:50 AM
This! Do what you can, where you can, and understand that not everyone has the same options. Resistance is not One Size Fits All.
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A lot of folks seem to not understand how federal elections work. They are run by states and localities, and federal elections are on the same ballots as state elections.
Think through how hard it would be to “steal” an entire set of midterms.
Think through how hard it would be to “steal” an entire set of midterms.
January 29, 2026 at 9:18 PM
A lot of folks seem to not understand how federal elections work. They are run by states and localities, and federal elections are on the same ballots as state elections.
Think through how hard it would be to “steal” an entire set of midterms.
Think through how hard it would be to “steal” an entire set of midterms.