Ian Cook
@iancook.xyz
Composer & musician. Nonprofit Salesforce architect. I make music (choir, orchestra, electronic, ambient… w/ voice, Dorico, Max, Bitwig, TidalCycles, synthesizers…). I’m also into linguistics and TTRPGs. Twin Cities, MN. He/him. https://links.iancook.xyz
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To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 PM
To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
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Something I've been trying to impart on people is that the ICE occupation in Minnesota is both an ethnic cleansing and an ideological terror campaign. It's clear that the second part has utterly failed; the community is not terrified. But ICE is now desperately trying to salvage the first part.
January 27, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Something I've been trying to impart on people is that the ICE occupation in Minnesota is both an ethnic cleansing and an ideological terror campaign. It's clear that the second part has utterly failed; the community is not terrified. But ICE is now desperately trying to salvage the first part.
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America needs the names and identities of every criminal in this death squad.
That State of Minnesota has enough here for murder charges.
That State of Minnesota has enough here for murder charges.
The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.
wapo.st/49Zqv1L
wapo.st/49Zqv1L
January 27, 2026 at 10:22 PM
America needs the names and identities of every criminal in this death squad.
That State of Minnesota has enough here for murder charges.
That State of Minnesota has enough here for murder charges.
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Genuinely interesting. Kristi Noem is snitching that Stephen Miller is the one who made up the bullshit about Alex Pretti.
It would be genuinely useful if Congress can get her to admit that he has been dictating ALL OF THIS just like he dictated the murderboats.
www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
It would be genuinely useful if Congress can get her to admit that he has been dictating ALL OF THIS just like he dictated the murderboats.
www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
January 27, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Genuinely interesting. Kristi Noem is snitching that Stephen Miller is the one who made up the bullshit about Alex Pretti.
It would be genuinely useful if Congress can get her to admit that he has been dictating ALL OF THIS just like he dictated the murderboats.
www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
It would be genuinely useful if Congress can get her to admit that he has been dictating ALL OF THIS just like he dictated the murderboats.
www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
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IMAGINE using the phrase 'hamstrung by human rights laws' and expecting people to treat you like a perfectly normal being afterwards.
Suella Braverman, "There is a very strong case to increase the powers of any immigration enforcement officers that we deploy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
January 27, 2026 at 9:53 PM
IMAGINE using the phrase 'hamstrung by human rights laws' and expecting people to treat you like a perfectly normal being afterwards.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
January 27, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
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Republicans are deciding how to exit the legal and political pickle of ICE, calling for hearings after they murdered a second citizen in Minnesota. This gambit is not new, where they wearily decide to condemn what they endorsed before. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/dvL7tKc
Republican Expressions of Concern Already Turning Back Around - The American Prospect
All the Trump administration had to do was send Tom Homan to Minnesota.
trib.al
January 27, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Republicans are deciding how to exit the legal and political pickle of ICE, calling for hearings after they murdered a second citizen in Minnesota. This gambit is not new, where they wearily decide to condemn what they endorsed before. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/dvL7tKc
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If Senate Republicans refuse to strip out the DHS bill to put real constraints on ICE — and hold hostage the vast majority of government funding — then Republicans are complicit in the chaos and own the potential government shutdown.
It’s time to stop ICE’s violence.
It’s time to stop ICE’s violence.
January 27, 2026 at 2:23 PM
If Senate Republicans refuse to strip out the DHS bill to put real constraints on ICE — and hold hostage the vast majority of government funding — then Republicans are complicit in the chaos and own the potential government shutdown.
It’s time to stop ICE’s violence.
It’s time to stop ICE’s violence.
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The judge ruled Monday that any removal or transfer of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, is on hold while a court case proceeds.
They are currently at a family detention facility in Dilley, Texas, near San Antonio.
They are currently at a family detention facility in Dilley, Texas, near San Antonio.
Judge issues temporary order barring removal of boy, 5, and father who were detained in Minnesota
A federal judge has issued a temporary order prohibiting removal of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father whose arrest last week in Minnesota quickly become another lightning rod for America’s di...
www.mprnews.org
January 27, 2026 at 10:11 PM
The judge ruled Monday that any removal or transfer of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, is on hold while a court case proceeds.
They are currently at a family detention facility in Dilley, Texas, near San Antonio.
They are currently at a family detention facility in Dilley, Texas, near San Antonio.
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fucking hell just remembered, "CBP stays at border" and the way 'border' is defined in this country is this bullshit. awesome work, guys
January 27, 2026 at 1:30 PM
fucking hell just remembered, "CBP stays at border" and the way 'border' is defined in this country is this bullshit. awesome work, guys
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Minnesota judge summons ICE leader to court, threatens contempt sanctions www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Minnesota judge summons ICE leader to court, threatens contempt sanctions
The chief judge, a George W. Bush appointee, said the administration had repeatedly violated or slow-walked court orders in Minnesota.
www.politico.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Minnesota judge summons ICE leader to court, threatens contempt sanctions www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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I'm not celebrating Bovino going under the bus because I think it means this is over.
I'm celebrating that we've entered the Shitheads Going Under the Bus era.
God I'm so pumped to trip more of them under it.
I'm celebrating that we've entered the Shitheads Going Under the Bus era.
God I'm so pumped to trip more of them under it.
January 27, 2026 at 3:43 AM
I'm not celebrating Bovino going under the bus because I think it means this is over.
I'm celebrating that we've entered the Shitheads Going Under the Bus era.
God I'm so pumped to trip more of them under it.
I'm celebrating that we've entered the Shitheads Going Under the Bus era.
God I'm so pumped to trip more of them under it.
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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Bovino's gone but it's not over: they're ramping up. They're going to use Fort Snelling for "parking approximately 300-500 vehicles . . . a ready room space for 500-800 CBP personnel . . . access to a magazine to store munitions."
Exclusive: Hegseth boosts Minneapolis immigration siege, approving use of military base
In an email obtained by the Chronicle, U.S. Customs and Border Protection asked for use of Fort Snelling to house federal immigration agents, weapons, vehicles and aircraft.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Bovino's gone but it's not over: they're ramping up. They're going to use Fort Snelling for "parking approximately 300-500 vehicles . . . a ready room space for 500-800 CBP personnel . . . access to a magazine to store munitions."
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Until every taqueria is open and partying without fear of ICE, I'm not letting off the gas
January 27, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Until every taqueria is open and partying without fear of ICE, I'm not letting off the gas
It's going to be *really* easy to let up our efforts when they do. We're all exhausted and traumatized. But that's exactly what they want. They want us to settle. That's *why* they're making concessions.
We can't pause and let fascism breathe till it's truly dead, or it will come right back again.
We can't pause and let fascism breathe till it's truly dead, or it will come right back again.
Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go.
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.
As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.
As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Live updates: Top Border Patrol official Bovino expected to leave Minneapolis as Trump sends Homan to the state | CNN
Tom Homan is headed to Minnesota after the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in an encounter Saturday with federal agents deepened outrage over the Trump administration’s surge, part of its nati...
www.cnn.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:24 AM
It's going to be *really* easy to let up our efforts when they do. We're all exhausted and traumatized. But that's exactly what they want. They want us to settle. That's *why* they're making concessions.
We can't pause and let fascism breathe till it's truly dead, or it will come right back again.
We can't pause and let fascism breathe till it's truly dead, or it will come right back again.
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BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:40 PM
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
When the local newspaper is telling you how to identify the specific method of war crime being used by the government on its own people…
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 11:17 PM
When the local newspaper is telling you how to identify the specific method of war crime being used by the government on its own people…
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Remember the outrage when Al-Assad and Gaddafi used chemical weapons, gas, and executions to control people and remain in power? The US went to war to eliminate these killers. Now we have a corrupt US regime doing the same thing - gassing and executing Americans to take all power for themselves.
January 26, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Remember the outrage when Al-Assad and Gaddafi used chemical weapons, gas, and executions to control people and remain in power? The US went to war to eliminate these killers. Now we have a corrupt US regime doing the same thing - gassing and executing Americans to take all power for themselves.
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Hey question: WHAT BORDER IS IN MINNEAPOLIS?
DHS is using explosives on people’s homes???
“Bovino has often used the phrase “turn and burn” to describe Border Patrol operations, a reference to actions like smashing windshields, using explosives to blow down the doors of homes and engaging in car chases.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
“Bovino has often used the phrase “turn and burn” to describe Border Patrol operations, a reference to actions like smashing windshields, using explosives to blow down the doors of homes and engaging in car chases.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
January 26, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Hey question: WHAT BORDER IS IN MINNEAPOLIS?
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This is because our elected officials haven't been helping with any of our institutions for years except the military and law enforcement. Schools, libraries and other public services have been held together by immense amounts of volunteer labor and community funding.
All of this happened with basically no help from elected officials of the opposition party. This was entirely the people.
January 26, 2026 at 10:23 PM
This is because our elected officials haven't been helping with any of our institutions for years except the military and law enforcement. Schools, libraries and other public services have been held together by immense amounts of volunteer labor and community funding.
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Would like to see Minnesota lawmakers push to ban the use of CS gas and other forms of chemical irritants in our state. Especially those that have already been banned under international law.
January 26, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Would like to see Minnesota lawmakers push to ban the use of CS gas and other forms of chemical irritants in our state. Especially those that have already been banned under international law.