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Sarah Dope
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Photographer (Mostly Music + Wrestling) πŸ“Έ | Celebrity/Artist Relations, Creator Strategy Lead for ASTRO Series + Culture Marketing for ASTRO Gaming / Logitech G | Soundset Festival Prod. | Bunch o' other stuff | πŸ–€πŸ€πŸ’œ | πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡­ - https://bio.site/sarahdope
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πŸ’« A little reintroduction πŸ’«

I'm Sarah Dope. My corporate job is Celebrity/Artist Relations, creator strategy, and other things for ASTRO Gaming / Logitech G, but I am and do so much more than just that.

I'm a Thai American with a love for photography (mostly music + wrestling), videogames, + food.
I've been trying to privately message as many mutual friends and creators as possible, but just FYI, if you know my former coworker @amazingfletch.bsky.social, his Discord account has also been compromised. So if "he" DMs you, do not engage and especially do not click any links. 🫠
January 16, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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I'll say again that this is little different from the gestapo going door to door rounding up Jews.
This week, I spoke with a St. Paul woman who told me ICE came to her door and asked her to report on her "Asian neighbors."

The Hmong community, the large majority of whom are in this country legally for decades now, is in hiding.
January 16, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Damn. Thank you for asking though!
January 16, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Anyone in creator/partner relations, by chance? Have a couple of folk who had their accounts compromised and what they have on their support page does not work in these situations. 😭
January 16, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Do I have any friends who know anyone that's still at Discord?
January 16, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I need people who don’t live out here to SEE what is really happening.

apnews.com/article/minn...
Judge orders release of Liberian man arrested in Minneapolis by agents with a battering ram
A federal judge in Minnesota has ordered the release of a Liberian man after heavily armed immigration agents broke into his home using a battering ram and arrested him.
apnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:14 PM
"It's DISGUSTING to create ice in front of ICE!" πŸ€ͺ

Yeah, idk guys, but I think murdering a woman and terrorizing civilians especially if they aren't white is worse.
January 16, 2026 at 6:21 AM
exactly what I'm talking about.
January 16, 2026 at 5:47 AM
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we live in a completely police state this is horrific
SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.

Inside the app called ELITEβ€”what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.
β€˜ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
www.404media.co
January 16, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Another part of all of this is that I had a flight to go visit my parents already booked for a few weeks from now.

And now I genuinely have no idea if I’m going to survive that.
January 16, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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@kenklippenstein.bsky.social has an exclusive report on ICE’s secret programs that got revealed by a Border Patrol officer fed up with ICE’s brutality.

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-...
Exclusive: Secret ICE Programs Revealed
Leaked documents detail the dizzying scope of ICE operations
www.kenklippenstein.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
"As ICE tears through Minneapolis and protests surge, we’re joined by a seasoned community activist whose firsthand account pulls back the curtain on what resistance really looks like. And it just so happens to be our podcast producer, BK-One."
The Travelers Podcast with Brother Ali
Music Interviews Podcast Β· Updated Weekly Β· Respected Hip Hop artist, activist, and Muslim community leader Brother Ali explores life’s journey with cultural icons, spiritual masters, and thought lead...
podcasts.apple.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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🚨 This is a major step towards full-blown authoritarianism, and everyone should be alarmed. If Trump uses the Insurrection Act to suppress anti-ICE protests in Minnesota, it would be an unprecedented abuse of executive power. 🧡 ⬇️
Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act, deploy military to Minnesota
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Patterned horns can be heard from my bedroom window right now and I hate that I know what that means.
January 15, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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Friends outside the Twin Cities, please read my friend Wes’ update as to what’s going on here. Contact your representatives. Demand it stop now.
I didn't write this for people in the Twin Cities. I wrote this to everyone else, my feeble attempt to try to be witness to the occupation of Minnesota and the chaos of every single day right now. open.substack.com/pub/wburdine...
Letter from an Occupied Minnesota
I want to write a bit about the last month in the Twin Cities.
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:36 AM
For others who are currently trying to navigate through conflict overload, here's a video I have to keep listening to

www.instagram.com/p/DTQv_-ukiVK/
Login β€’ Instagram
Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.
www.instagram.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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These New York Times visual journalists do a good job of showing how ICE escalates confrontation. You can see residents and even the photogs confused about why agents are detaining a woman passing through and why the agents dropped so many chemical munitions: www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: How We Photographed an ICE Confrontation in Minneapolis
Our visual journalists David Guttenfelder and Todd Heisler describe a dramatic incident in which federal agents dragged a woman out of her car in Minneapolis near where Renee Nicole Good had been kill...
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:39 PM
I'm also angry because usually my outlet when I'm feeling this way is to step outside and go make photos...

...which I cannot safely do right now. πŸ˜’
January 15, 2026 at 6:43 AM
I'm angry that this is happening at all to any of us, but I've also been angry at anyone in my own circles who spent any time gaslighting me in the past year that I was being paranoid, overexaggerating, "oh, they won't come for you," "just ignore it," etc. I'm angry at how silent they've been now.
January 15, 2026 at 6:37 AM
But now it's at my doorstep. Metaphorically... and almost literally as there have been recent ICE sightings just a few blocks from me, as well as directly across the street.

Directly across the street.

DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET.

And I can't help but feel fearful, anxious, and also very angry.
January 15, 2026 at 6:37 AM
And some of us already saw this coming. It's technically BEEN happening for the past year. Just we're often less talked about (outside of our own Asian American communities and outlets) and that's a whole other thing to unpack for another day.
January 15, 2026 at 6:37 AM
But one of *the many* things happening out here right now is that in their start of door-to-door knocking, ICE has been asking anyone who will answer their door if they can point out, specifically, Asian households.
January 15, 2026 at 6:37 AM
There's just so much going on at all times out here right now that sometimes it's hard to remember to keep my various platforms updated, while also trying stays focused (honestly failing at this part) at work and not break down on calls 'cause I still have a lot of bills to pay...
January 15, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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There is so much tear gas in the air it can be felt driving on the other side of highway 94 in Minneapolis - in your car.
January 15, 2026 at 4:34 AM