Driftless Thinking
@mndriftless.bsky.social
Nerd by birth, HHS wonk by trade. 🏳️🌈↙️↙️↙️ This is my main, my alt has fewer manners. The profile picture is not recent.
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I guess we now have a new way for folks who move to Minnesota get connected to strangers "I have you considered joining a rapid response network? You wont know anyones real names but you will feel connected"
It’s opsec that I’ll give you directions to anywhere except my own house.
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Cuban expats getting a brutal lesson in leopard biology.
To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Cuban expats getting a brutal lesson in leopard biology.
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A Minnesota man received a life-threatening injury while in ICE custody. It's not clear how he got injured because his memory and ability to communicate are so severely impaired. Agents said "he got his shit rocked." Wild story from @katrinapross.bsky.social sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...
Minn. man hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after ICE arrest
Alberto Castaneda Mondragon, who is in ICE custody while hospitalized at Hennepin County Medical Center, alleges in a lawsuit that federal agents are interfering in his medical care and that he was so...
sahanjournal.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:33 PM
A Minnesota man received a life-threatening injury while in ICE custody. It's not clear how he got injured because his memory and ability to communicate are so severely impaired. Agents said "he got his shit rocked." Wild story from @katrinapross.bsky.social sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...
It’s opsec that I’ll give you directions to anywhere except my own house.
I guess we now have a new way for folks who move to Minnesota get connected to strangers "I have you considered joining a rapid response network? You wont know anyones real names but you will feel connected"
January 20, 2026 at 2:46 PM
It’s opsec that I’ll give you directions to anywhere except my own house.
Siri, play “dance the night” on single song loop.
January 20, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Siri, play “dance the night” on single song loop.
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This from @andreapitzer.bsky.social is key.
“nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training.”
“nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training.”
I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:56 AM
This from @andreapitzer.bsky.social is key.
“nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training.”
“nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training.”
I love that there are multiple options for “dead Habsburg”
dumbest reason to start a world war:
⚪ dead habsburg
🔘 giant mass of arctic tundra
⚪ dead habsburg
🔘 giant mass of arctic tundra
January 19, 2026 at 5:45 PM
I love that there are multiple options for “dead Habsburg”
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Movie pitch: Amazon driver who just needs to sing and organizes his fellow drivers into a singing union, starring Kevin Bacon, working title “Loose Lips.”
This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
January 19, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Movie pitch: Amazon driver who just needs to sing and organizes his fellow drivers into a singing union, starring Kevin Bacon, working title “Loose Lips.”
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The behavior of the hospital staff at Mercy Hospital unity campus in Fridley is reprehensible
The allegations in this story are incredibly disturbing. Blocking kids from bedside, lying to their pastor, pushing a patient — Why are hospital staff so involved in ICE’s attempts to detain a woman in their care?
sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...
sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...
ICE agents detain Mounds View couple en route to ER
An early-morning trip to the ER turned into a nightmare for a Mounds View couple with Liborio Parral Ortiz shipped to Texas and the family blocked from access to the bedside of his wife by ICE agents ...
sahanjournal.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:48 PM
The behavior of the hospital staff at Mercy Hospital unity campus in Fridley is reprehensible
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Infuriating that “cancel student loans” is a nonstarter but “dismantle entire post-war coalition” and “unaccountable masked federal agents killing people with impunity” are viewed as legitimate policies.
It’s worth considering why the US as an entire thing won’t change US for people chanting a new world is possible and who mean ‘dismantle war machine so we can have universal health care’ but absolutely WILL destroy the US for a cry baby old man who wanted a peace prize and didn’t get it.
"Considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize, I no longer have an obligation to think purely of peace."
An actual quote from the sitting president of the United States, writing to the prime minister of a NATO ally.
An actual quote from the sitting president of the United States, writing to the prime minister of a NATO ally.
January 19, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Infuriating that “cancel student loans” is a nonstarter but “dismantle entire post-war coalition” and “unaccountable masked federal agents killing people with impunity” are viewed as legitimate policies.
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ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 5:41 AM
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
But Americans who want to save the alliance with Europe must have no illusions about how bad a condition this transatlantic partnership is in.
January 18, 2026 at 10:05 PM
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
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Victor Manuel Díaz
Minnesota, make his name known
A third immigrant held at Camp East Montana has died, reportedly by suicide. Victor Manuel Díaz was detained in Minnesota. He is the sixth migrant to die since Jan. 1 in ICE detention.
My story:
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
My story:
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
January 18, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Victor Manuel Díaz
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Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
January 18, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
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I was at of those DFL community “listening sessions” last fall just after the election, when we were all very bruised from the state snatching Fateh’s endorsement, and this was the plan he unveiled, to mass incredulity: “your troubles are over! We’re hiring INFLUENCERS!”
Well, not likely the DFL is going to try to undo the absolutely awful shitstorm started here over fundraising and simple questions of ‘where is that money going, SPECIFICALLY’ Since the person doing all the damage is ALREADY up posting long threads again. Day 3 crash out - going great!
January 18, 2026 at 3:22 PM
I was at of those DFL community “listening sessions” last fall just after the election, when we were all very bruised from the state snatching Fateh’s endorsement, and this was the plan he unveiled, to mass incredulity: “your troubles are over! We’re hiring INFLUENCERS!”
Hey Mn. Saw another video of a laundromat that was empty when normally it would be crowded. Are there orgs organizing for people to clean clothes for folks sheltering at home? Me and my front loader would be happy to do what we can. Cc @flanknits.bsky.social @ziibiing.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Hey Mn. Saw another video of a laundromat that was empty when normally it would be crowded. Are there orgs organizing for people to clean clothes for folks sheltering at home? Me and my front loader would be happy to do what we can. Cc @flanknits.bsky.social @ziibiing.com
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Just crying in the club (my couch) b/c a lot of folks who don't know the law are giving small biz bad advice about I-9 audit notices. PLEASE direct any small business owner you know not to publicly post about any notice and to contact a lawyer. I can help Mpls and Henn Co businesses at no cost.
January 17, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Just crying in the club (my couch) b/c a lot of folks who don't know the law are giving small biz bad advice about I-9 audit notices. PLEASE direct any small business owner you know not to publicly post about any notice and to contact a lawyer. I can help Mpls and Henn Co businesses at no cost.
Hey, Robert. You’re gonna wanna call the head office for some updates.
I joined people in my church to stand watch at the doors during our spanish language mass and check the parking lot for feds before people leave. Most churches, including catholic ones, serving majority immigrant or POC congregations are doing this.
Barron is a bishop in MINNESOTA for God's sake
Barron is a bishop in MINNESOTA for God's sake
January 17, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Hey, Robert. You’re gonna wanna call the head office for some updates.
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The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
January 16, 2026 at 5:16 PM
The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
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This could be the unified Dem position. It is wildly popular. Puts the regime on defense on two fronts at the same time. Good policy, good politics.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...
Progressive Caucus Backs Bill To Redirect ICE Money To Affordable Housing
www.huffpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:29 AM
This could be the unified Dem position. It is wildly popular. Puts the regime on defense on two fronts at the same time. Good policy, good politics.
I’d beg transphobes to make an even rudimentary survey of how weight classes and other non-discriminatory factors can be used to sort out fair/competitive cohorts…
But the cruelty is the point.
But the cruelty is the point.
we actually have a solid understanding of what the athletic advantages are, and just about every sporting organization developed guidelines to manage them. these laws endrun around those guidelines in order to institute a discriminatory categorical ban.
January 16, 2026 at 6:22 PM
I’d beg transphobes to make an even rudimentary survey of how weight classes and other non-discriminatory factors can be used to sort out fair/competitive cohorts…
But the cruelty is the point.
But the cruelty is the point.
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ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings
January 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM
ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings
Makwa coffee is hopping this morning. Collecting mutual aid, slinging great coffee, and raising a middle finger to ICE. Some community and a iced gimiwan latte was just what i needed @jbf.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Makwa coffee is hopping this morning. Collecting mutual aid, slinging great coffee, and raising a middle finger to ICE. Some community and a iced gimiwan latte was just what i needed @jbf.bsky.social
If you are naturalized, or otherwise at increased risk, you know your situation better. But particularly if you’re a US citizen from birth, this is the way.
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 3:32 AM
If you are naturalized, or otherwise at increased risk, you know your situation better. But particularly if you’re a US citizen from birth, this is the way.
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crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.