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Jedidiah Carlson
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Population genetics, doom metal, anti-racism, metaresearch, & eye-rolling. Stats prof at Macalester College. He/Him.

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Jedidiah Carlson @jedidiahcarlson.com · Nov 8
🧵One of the most encouraging trends in academia over the last decade is the semi-spontaneous emergence of a massive interdisciplinary network committed to confronting scientific racism in all of its disgusting forms and applications
jowiph.bsky.social Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · Nov 6
I decided to go ahead and make a starter pack of historians, scientists, and others who work on scientific racism. If you’d like to be added to the pack (or removed from it), let me know.

go.bsky.app/E9PN3oG
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anamariafortexas.com
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
February 10, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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mnhousedfl.bsky.social
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**

He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
February 10, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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daviss.org
"A girl living in central Minnesota alleges that immigration authorities separated her from her family and detained her overnight in a hotel, where she was forced to share a room with federal agents" www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
After arrest, teen refugee held overnight in hotel room by ICE agents
A girl who entered the United States as a refugee alleges that immigration authorities separated her from her family and detained her overnight in a hotel, where she was forced to share a room with fe...
www.mprnews.org
February 11, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals.

The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.

www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
HHS Has Been Using Anti-Trans Language From a Christian Right Think Tank
The department refers to gender-affirming care as “sex-denying procedures,” a term coined by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
www.importantcontext.news
February 9, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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propublica.org
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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jelenawoehr.bsky.social
King George, 1782:
thorbenson.bsky.social Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 3d
Sorry, I'm not watching, but I just checked the score and need to ask if all of the Patriots died
February 9, 2026 at 3:10 AM
jedidiahcarlson.com
The radical leftists in Minneapolis are trying to flood every American city with thousands of these
February 8, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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attorneybencrump.bsky.social
Soren Stevenson lost his eye to police rubber bullets at the George Floyd protests. Now at 31, he's a Minneapolis city council member in the ward where both Floyd was murdered and federal agents killed Renée Good. He lived through state violence. Now he's fighting to END it. This is leadership.
He lost an eye in the George Floyd protests. Now he represents the ward where Renée Good was killed.
Meet Minneapolis city council member Soren Stevenson.
www.motherjones.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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zdroberts.bsky.social
Minneapolis: A protester near the Whipple Federal building lies on the ground bleeding after being thrown to the ground by Minnesota State Patrol... more to come at VisuNews.Substack.com and Patreon.com/ZDRoberts
February 7, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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seachanger.bsky.social
message from MN
From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here. From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.
February 7, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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brainnotonyet.bsky.social
Minneapolis police are now showing up with riot cops to stop peaceful potluck protests now. All in service to protecting fascist death squads.

Minneapolis police are fully pro fascist violence and against protestors
ONE W MINNEAPOLIS POLICE Six cop cars and riot vans show up to stop peaceful protests Cops taking protesters food and signs.
February 7, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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The Holy Trinity of bumper stickers
February 7, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota.

This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats.

They hate the helpers.

Which is why must keep helping.
Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests
Juan Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars.
www.cbsnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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wedge.live
A group of local men are tackling the male loneliness epidemic by coming together to brainstorm ways to stop being mistaken for ICE.
www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
GlasscowFramera 1h I think white men should tap into their true native MN uniform - wearing shorts in winter. ICE agents from warm states wouldn't be able to do it and blend in lol Reply Vote Crazy_Fun_3455 1h That is such a great idea. I'm sick of people thinking I'm ICE.
February 7, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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nicholasbednar.bsky.social
Things have not improved. The government won't comply with court orders. Agents are behaving more aggressively. Schools are offering remote learning into April. The tapering of national media coverage has emboldened DHS.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
February 7, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.
The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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danlehner.bsky.social
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking Show Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen Prue Leith
February 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
Minnesota is everywhere. #wearegoingtowin
lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5d
there are cold hearted, evil people in this world
an empty box of dunkin donuts with one plain donut remaining, one tiny quarter of it sliced out and missing. a menacing plastic knife- evidence of the murder weapon- rests aside it
February 6, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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spoketension.bsky.social
Death Camp For Cutie over here
a shopping mall emo/indie kid who is somehow also an ICE thug
February 6, 2026 at 4:27 AM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
“military-grade intelligence tactics”

“Pattern-of-life” intelligence

Bro, you are eating microwaveable Campbell’s Soup for every meal and crashing out in front of the Home2Suites while you’re geared up like you’re in Fallujah
murderxbryan.bsky.social 🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 6d
They text each other and have spreadsheets. scary
February 6, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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wedge.live
Maybe the best example of the "We Keep Us Safe" ethos in a time of widespread injustice is Mayor Frey's PAC putting in a plug for his personal legal defense fund.
Finally, Mayor Frey is facing serious and unwarranted legal action from the Trump administration, challenges that will be expensive to defend. Please consider making a contribution to his North Star Defense fund today. Thank you, Karin Birkeland Chair, All of Mpls
February 6, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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mnorthstar82.bsky.social
A man who was standing on the Aldine bridge with anti-immigrant signs just stabbed a friend and neighbor.

Neighbor transported to hospital. Should be OK. 🤞

Suspect still at large.

SPPD flooding the area.

FUCK
February 6, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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mollypriddy.bsky.social
crying😂😂
February 5, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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reportbywilson.bsky.social
The Religious Left Is a Leader in the ICE Resistance
The Religious Left Is a Leader in the ICE Resistance
University of Louisville political scientist David Buckley says liberal religious leaders are playing a key role in Minneapolis and in other efforts to resist Trump.
newrepublic.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:38 PM