Mike French Esq.
@mayormike.bsky.social
Abolition, potatoes, dogs.
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And meanwhile I have clients who haven't even been designated--can't get medical care--because there are no staff.
Last week I asked BOP officials if they had sent tactical teams to Minneapolis. They denied it (left).
Multiple agency sources told me otherwise, and photos from
reporters on the ground soon confirmed BOP folks were there.
Now BOP is finally admitting it (right):
Multiple agency sources told me otherwise, and photos from
reporters on the ground soon confirmed BOP folks were there.
Now BOP is finally admitting it (right):
January 17, 2026 at 12:19 AM
And meanwhile I have clients who haven't even been designated--can't get medical care--because there are no staff.
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The freaking TBI center is where she was going. Seems rather important!!!
Woman Seen Pulled from Car Speaks Out: 'Lucky to be alive'
Aliya Rahman "said she was driving to an appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when the incident occurred."
She asked for a doctor and was taken to a detention center where she lost consciousness.
abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
Aliya Rahman "said she was driving to an appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when the incident occurred."
She asked for a doctor and was taken to a detention center where she lost consciousness.
abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
January 16, 2026 at 6:26 PM
The freaking TBI center is where she was going. Seems rather important!!!
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ICE/CBP is following school busses now.
My husband (a school bus driver) was just in an urgent all-hands meeting about it this afternoon.
My husband (a school bus driver) was just in an urgent all-hands meeting about it this afternoon.
January 16, 2026 at 10:52 PM
ICE/CBP is following school busses now.
My husband (a school bus driver) was just in an urgent all-hands meeting about it this afternoon.
My husband (a school bus driver) was just in an urgent all-hands meeting about it this afternoon.
Their capitulations did not save them. Learn this lesson--your silence will not save you.
This is bad. Like Reconstruction Era bad. www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
DOJ investigating Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over alleged conspiracy to impede immigration agents
Federal prosecutors are investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly impeding immigration agents, sources told CBS News, an extraordinary escalation in the Trum...
www.cbsnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Their capitulations did not save them. Learn this lesson--your silence will not save you.
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every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
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So working as designed then.
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:19 PM
So working as designed then.
laila cunningham has mar-a-lago face
January 16, 2026 at 8:33 PM
laila cunningham has mar-a-lago face
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Being terrible on trans issues is always a tell. It never fails.
January 16, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Being terrible on trans issues is always a tell. It never fails.
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SCOOP from Douglas Macmillan
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:46 PM
SCOOP from Douglas Macmillan
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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All of the years that folks supported stop and frisk has also led to this moment.
January 15, 2026 at 8:19 PM
All of the years that folks supported stop and frisk has also led to this moment.
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“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”
January 15, 2026 at 4:04 PM
“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”
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We need honesty about what US policing actually is or there's no possible way to something different.
January 14, 2026 at 9:14 PM
We need honesty about what US policing actually is or there's no possible way to something different.
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The longer elected officials in Minnesota stand by, do nothing, and lecture people not to "take the bait" as their citizens are brutalized, the more powerless and irrelevant they will become as people take matters into their own hands to protect their community.
January 15, 2026 at 12:22 PM
The longer elected officials in Minnesota stand by, do nothing, and lecture people not to "take the bait" as their citizens are brutalized, the more powerless and irrelevant they will become as people take matters into their own hands to protect their community.
ICE is an ethnic cleansing force and the Dems are just 'you all need better police training.' The police are the violence, rooted in slave catching, and the 'lesser' of two evils is evil.
January 15, 2026 at 12:11 PM
ICE is an ethnic cleansing force and the Dems are just 'you all need better police training.' The police are the violence, rooted in slave catching, and the 'lesser' of two evils is evil.
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I've read most of the scholarship about US policing since the early 20th century. What you learn from this is that violence is inherent. You cannot "separate" out violence from policing. Police in the U.S. are violence workers.
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 AM
I've read most of the scholarship about US policing since the early 20th century. What you learn from this is that violence is inherent. You cannot "separate" out violence from policing. Police in the U.S. are violence workers.
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We don't exist in the same reality in this country. Never really have. Here's something I wrote in 2013 about what police in Chicago do to young Black and Brown people REGULARLY: www.usprisonculture.com/2013/02/19/o...
January 14, 2026 at 8:53 PM
We don't exist in the same reality in this country. Never really have. Here's something I wrote in 2013 about what police in Chicago do to young Black and Brown people REGULARLY: www.usprisonculture.com/2013/02/19/o...
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As the #idleg kicks off, Idaho Rep. Barbara Ehardt (R) was excited instead to be in DC at SCOTUS to hear arguments upholding her 2020 bill banning trans women from sports. Which she says had a much bigger goal: "Created a national movement that was a unifying issue for President Trump's campaign."
January 14, 2026 at 1:02 PM
As the #idleg kicks off, Idaho Rep. Barbara Ehardt (R) was excited instead to be in DC at SCOTUS to hear arguments upholding her 2020 bill banning trans women from sports. Which she says had a much bigger goal: "Created a national movement that was a unifying issue for President Trump's campaign."
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he also touched fentanyl and OD'd
January 14, 2026 at 5:44 PM
he also touched fentanyl and OD'd
the definition of chicken shit
Mayor Jacob Frey Says ‘I Do Not Support Abolishing ICE’ After Telling Agents to ‘Get the F*ck Out of Minneapolis’
Mayor Jacob Frey Says ‘I Do Not Support Abolishing ICE’ After Telling Agents to ‘Get the F*ck Out of Minneapolis’
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) declared he does not support abolishing ICE in a preview of a Fox News interview set to air on Wednesday morning.
The post Mayor Jacob Frey Says ‘I Do Not Support Abolishing ICE’ After Telling Agents to ‘Get the F*ck Out of Minneapolis’ first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
January 14, 2026 at 6:11 PM
the definition of chicken shit
professionalism and civility: the concepts fascists use to infiltrate without ever having felt the tiniest bit uncomfortable
January 14, 2026 at 6:10 PM
professionalism and civility: the concepts fascists use to infiltrate without ever having felt the tiniest bit uncomfortable
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It could be the last scan you ever make
January 14, 2026 at 5:58 PM
It could be the last scan you ever make
conditions in ICE facilities will provide a comparison for the right to demand a down-degrade of prison conditions mark my words
January 14, 2026 at 4:22 PM
conditions in ICE facilities will provide a comparison for the right to demand a down-degrade of prison conditions mark my words
One of Ours, All of Yours....they are talking about USians.
January 13, 2026 at 2:49 AM
One of Ours, All of Yours....they are talking about USians.
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There’s no reforming this.
There’s no getting local cops to “enforce the law” (whatever that means) against this
There’s no getting local cops to “enforce the law” (whatever that means) against this
ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬
January 12, 2026 at 11:23 PM
There’s no reforming this.
There’s no getting local cops to “enforce the law” (whatever that means) against this
There’s no getting local cops to “enforce the law” (whatever that means) against this
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What Duran Duran did, what the Timberwolves did, what Steve Kerr and Doc Rivers said, what the actors who wore pins did, etc etc etc all are signals/signs to the rest of us of what time it is on the clock of fascism.
January 12, 2026 at 4:55 AM
What Duran Duran did, what the Timberwolves did, what Steve Kerr and Doc Rivers said, what the actors who wore pins did, etc etc etc all are signals/signs to the rest of us of what time it is on the clock of fascism.