Sue Landers
@slanders.bsky.social
Poet, pedestrian.
My book WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE (Roof, 2025) emerged from riding every NYC subway end-to-end. A love letter to the city, it charts joy amidst catastrophe.
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My book WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE (Roof, 2025) emerged from riding every NYC subway end-to-end. A love letter to the city, it charts joy amidst catastrophe.
suelanders.com (she/her)
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Sue Landers
@slanders.bsky.social
· Nov 28
I will not let my outrage fatigue me.
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for over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed.
ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them
ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them
‘Backing down isn’t an option’: Minnesota ICE shootings mobilize Americans to join ICE observer groups
The killings of Minneapolis residents Renee Good and Alex Pretti have inspired people across the US to document federal agents’ activities in their communities
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:18 PM
for over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed.
ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them
ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them
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It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
January 31, 2026 at 12:41 AM
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
“Poetry is a testament to the failure of wolves.”
“Poetry is a testament to the failure of wolves.” An anonymous Midwest poet writes a letter to his daughter about the murder of a poet.
Letter to My Daughter After the Murder of a Poet in the Streets of Minneapolis
The author is a poet from the Midwest. At this time, he prefers to remain anonymous. * My dearest daughter, When the poet Lorca died, he died on a road of dust. Sad men killed him and his body disa…
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January 28, 2026 at 4:40 PM
“Poetry is a testament to the failure of wolves.”
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Also, uh, we have more than 100,000 people registered for this ICE watch training tonight. Largest training of it type in history by a long shot. Please join if you've not be trained yet, and share to friends/fam/neighbors!
I recorded this week's newsletter in case you want to watch instead of read. Are we pro or anti Gadsden flag hat? On the one hand, I like reclaiming it. On the other hand, it's hard for me to shake my visceral response to it from the Tea Party days. ezralevin.substack.com/p/how-to-mak...
How to make political violence backfire
Watch now | Indivisible's weekly newsletter with analysis and action
ezralevin.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Also, uh, we have more than 100,000 people registered for this ICE watch training tonight. Largest training of it type in history by a long shot. Please join if you've not be trained yet, and share to friends/fam/neighbors!
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in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
January 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM
in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
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There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it.
News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
More than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.
www.startribune.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:48 PM
There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it.
News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Two days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution
January 24, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Two days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution
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Tom Suozzi (New York)
Henry Cuellar (Texas)
Don Davis (North Carolina)
Laura Gillen (New York)
Jared Golden (Maine)
Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)
Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Washington)
Henry Cuellar (Texas)
Don Davis (North Carolina)
Laura Gillen (New York)
Jared Golden (Maine)
Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)
Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Washington)
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Tom Suozzi (New York)
Henry Cuellar (Texas)
Don Davis (North Carolina)
Laura Gillen (New York)
Jared Golden (Maine)
Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)
Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Washington)
Henry Cuellar (Texas)
Don Davis (North Carolina)
Laura Gillen (New York)
Jared Golden (Maine)
Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)
Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Washington)
I can’t stop thinking about this girl who got her period for the first time and needed a network of people to bring her pads because she could not risk leaving her home because of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...
How an errand for a 12-year-old immigrant in Minneapolis became an underground operation
In Minnesota, there is an extensive network of community members who are volunteering en masse to help one another. NPR's Jasmine Garsd tells the story of one family who needed to run one errand…and h...
www.npr.org
January 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I can’t stop thinking about this girl who got her period for the first time and needed a network of people to bring her pads because she could not risk leaving her home because of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...
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New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
The Companies Behind ICE
Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
readsludge.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM
New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
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My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support.
PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-
Venmo @powwowgrounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-
Venmo @powwowgrounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
Pow Wow Grounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM
My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support.
PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-
Venmo @powwowgrounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-
Venmo @powwowgrounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
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A project to dismantle ICE will be years in the making. This is because you will have opponents [not just in the fascist GOP but also in the Democratic party]. And that means that organizing campaigns will have to be strategic and they will always be subject to being undermined by purported "allies"
January 12, 2026 at 9:02 PM
A project to dismantle ICE will be years in the making. This is because you will have opponents [not just in the fascist GOP but also in the Democratic party]. And that means that organizing campaigns will have to be strategic and they will always be subject to being undermined by purported "allies"
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hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
“Neighbor, you should be alive. Neighbor, you should have risen into another good morning with your wife. Neighbor, you should have made it home to your child, to the bright warmth of his laughter, but our country is at war with its people, and your goodness makes you an enemy, a citizen insurgent.”
"An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good" - by Danez Smith
"Neighbor, you should have made it home to your child, to the bright warmth of his laughter, but our country is at war with its people, and your goodness makes you an enemy, a citizen insurgent."
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
"Neighbor, you should have made it home to your child, to the bright warmth of his laughter, but our country is at war with its people, and your goodness makes you an enemy, a citizen insurgent."
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good
Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness
www.harpersbazaar.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:39 PM
“Neighbor, you should be alive. Neighbor, you should have risen into another good morning with your wife. Neighbor, you should have made it home to your child, to the bright warmth of his laughter, but our country is at war with its people, and your goodness makes you an enemy, a citizen insurgent.”
“We had whistles. They had guns.”
Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears:
archive.is/ur35j
archive.is/ur35j
January 9, 2026 at 8:25 PM
“We had whistles. They had guns.”
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Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
January 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
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If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!
January 6, 2026 at 10:26 PM
If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!
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24 hours ago, journalists were wondering aloud what "deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty" could possibly mean
Hard to watch US TV media discussing how the US might occupy and run a foreign country as if it’s a perfectly normal political development.
January 3, 2026 at 8:58 PM
24 hours ago, journalists were wondering aloud what "deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty" could possibly mean
Every time I go to the laundromat, it hits me that there is no way the current US president or that Tesla guy has ever done their own laundry—but I have no doubt that Mamdani has.
So my question is this: now that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is mayor, which household chore will he continue to do?
So my question is this: now that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is mayor, which household chore will he continue to do?
a dog sitting in front of a washing machine that says viralhog on the bottom right
Alt: a dog sitting in front of a washing machine
media.tenor.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Every time I go to the laundromat, it hits me that there is no way the current US president or that Tesla guy has ever done their own laundry—but I have no doubt that Mamdani has.
So my question is this: now that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is mayor, which household chore will he continue to do?
So my question is this: now that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is mayor, which household chore will he continue to do?
“For too long those fluent in the language of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.” —NYC Mayor Mamdani.
You listening, Chuck?
You hearing this, Kirsten?
You listening, Chuck?
You hearing this, Kirsten?
January 1, 2026 at 8:16 PM
“For too long those fluent in the language of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.” —NYC Mayor Mamdani.
You listening, Chuck?
You hearing this, Kirsten?
You listening, Chuck?
You hearing this, Kirsten?
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Next year we'll all be too poor to eat anything else but the rich.
December 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Next year we'll all be too poor to eat anything else but the rich.
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Shout out to the librarians who bought What to Carry Into the Future for their collections this year. 😘
But, hey, who do I know at BPL, NYPL, and QPL who will stock it in 2026? It *is* a love letter to NYC, after all, and even contains the lines “chaos might mean / without a library.”
But, hey, who do I know at BPL, NYPL, and QPL who will stock it in 2026? It *is* a love letter to NYC, after all, and even contains the lines “chaos might mean / without a library.”
December 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Shout out to the librarians who bought What to Carry Into the Future for their collections this year. 😘
But, hey, who do I know at BPL, NYPL, and QPL who will stock it in 2026? It *is* a love letter to NYC, after all, and even contains the lines “chaos might mean / without a library.”
But, hey, who do I know at BPL, NYPL, and QPL who will stock it in 2026? It *is* a love letter to NYC, after all, and even contains the lines “chaos might mean / without a library.”
Shout out to the librarians who bought What to Carry Into the Future for their collections this year. 😘
But, hey, who do I know at BPL, NYPL, and QPL who will stock it in 2026? It *is* a love letter to NYC, after all, and even contains the lines “chaos might mean / without a library.”
But, hey, who do I know at BPL, NYPL, and QPL who will stock it in 2026? It *is* a love letter to NYC, after all, and even contains the lines “chaos might mean / without a library.”
December 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Shout out to the librarians who bought What to Carry Into the Future for their collections this year. 😘
But, hey, who do I know at BPL, NYPL, and QPL who will stock it in 2026? It *is* a love letter to NYC, after all, and even contains the lines “chaos might mean / without a library.”
But, hey, who do I know at BPL, NYPL, and QPL who will stock it in 2026? It *is* a love letter to NYC, after all, and even contains the lines “chaos might mean / without a library.”