Joe Gerteis
@joegerteis.bsky.social
Sociologist interested in culture, politics, and race. BJCP Grandmaster beer judge. Family motto: “Dignity; always dignity.”
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After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
January 27, 2026 at 8:17 PM
After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
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Disgusting & heartbreaking!
Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Warning: video is hard to watch
Warning: video is hard to watch
January 27, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Disgusting & heartbreaking!
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"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 4:15 PM
"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
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Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?
The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force.
@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the en...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?
I cannot believe this world has got me agreeing with Sepp fucking Blatter
January 26, 2026 at 10:28 PM
I cannot believe this world has got me agreeing with Sepp fucking Blatter
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Girl are you a p-value? Because I keep overinterpreting you while everyone tells me I shouldn't
Girl are you Linear A because I could spend a lifetime trying to figure you out
Yeah I'm almost as excited as when I discovered that the undeciphered script linear A has its own Unicode block 𐛌 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_...
January 26, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Girl are you a p-value? Because I keep overinterpreting you while everyone tells me I shouldn't
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Goddamn this is a jeremiad
January 26, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Goddamn this is a jeremiad
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"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
January 25, 2026 at 11:01 PM
"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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They owe her, and all of us, an apology.
January 25, 2026 at 9:45 PM
They owe her, and all of us, an apology.
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Tarot of the Saints
January 25, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Tarot of the Saints
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"Let Us Prey" #HHS #ICE
© 2026 #Steve_Sack / #Minneapolis_Star_Tribune / #Cagle_Cartoons #SteveSack
#Pulitzer_Prize Winner Editorial Cartooning 2013
#Pulitzer_Prize Finalist Editorial Cartooning 2004 2013 2016 2017
© 2026 #Steve_Sack / #Minneapolis_Star_Tribune / #Cagle_Cartoons #SteveSack
#Pulitzer_Prize Winner Editorial Cartooning 2013
#Pulitzer_Prize Finalist Editorial Cartooning 2004 2013 2016 2017
January 25, 2026 at 6:45 PM
"Let Us Prey" #HHS #ICE
© 2026 #Steve_Sack / #Minneapolis_Star_Tribune / #Cagle_Cartoons #SteveSack
#Pulitzer_Prize Winner Editorial Cartooning 2013
#Pulitzer_Prize Finalist Editorial Cartooning 2004 2013 2016 2017
© 2026 #Steve_Sack / #Minneapolis_Star_Tribune / #Cagle_Cartoons #SteveSack
#Pulitzer_Prize Winner Editorial Cartooning 2013
#Pulitzer_Prize Finalist Editorial Cartooning 2004 2013 2016 2017
Come on, Sherri Ballard and MNUFC. “Solving problems” and “finding solutions” and “deescalating tensions” — this is de-agented language and it is meaningless when an armed occupying force is disappearing and murdering those in your community.
January 25, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Come on, Sherri Ballard and MNUFC. “Solving problems” and “finding solutions” and “deescalating tensions” — this is de-agented language and it is meaningless when an armed occupying force is disappearing and murdering those in your community.
Tim Cook’s out there trying hard to make me an Android guy
On tonight’s White House agenda:
Trump and guests will get a private screening of MELANIA, the documentary about the First Lady, @thr.com reports.
Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson, per the article.
Trump and guests will get a private screening of MELANIA, the documentary about the First Lady, @thr.com reports.
Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson, per the article.
January 25, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Tim Cook’s out there trying hard to make me an Android guy
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“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
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On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.
January 24, 2026 at 4:52 PM
On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.
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If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.
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Watching this in particular. The effort to take witnesses to Whipple, as well as the police refusing to leave the scene, are key.
Per this report ICE has detained several witnesses
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Watching this in particular. The effort to take witnesses to Whipple, as well as the police refusing to leave the scene, are key.
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There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.
January 24, 2026 at 4:13 PM
There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.
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When will it be enough for you, @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ? When will you be moved? You should be standing in the streets of Minneapolis. You should be shouting from the rooftops. What a pathetic pair of cowards.
January 24, 2026 at 4:14 PM
When will it be enough for you, @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ? When will you be moved? You should be standing in the streets of Minneapolis. You should be shouting from the rooftops. What a pathetic pair of cowards.
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I don't recommend watching the video, but I don't see how you can call ICE anything other than death squads at this point
January 24, 2026 at 3:54 PM
I don't recommend watching the video, but I don't see how you can call ICE anything other than death squads at this point
The lawless federal forces must go.
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:13 PM
The lawless federal forces must go.
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026