Smart Dissent
@smartdissent.bsky.social
Be Smart. Stay Informed. Actively Dissent. #SmartDissent
PRO DEMOCRACY. ANTI CONVICTED FELONS, STUPIDITY, CULTS AND FASCISM.
PRO DEMOCRACY. ANTI CONVICTED FELONS, STUPIDITY, CULTS AND FASCISM.
Pinned
Smart Dissent
@smartdissent.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Glad to be among the thousands moving to Blue Sky. Nice to see you all over here. Hoping to eventually have a fraction of the 60k "followers" we used to have on the artist-formerly-known-as-Twitter.
Reposted by Smart Dissent
DELETED
After lying about this baby they gassed and almost killed in their own neighborhood, DHS deleted their post
After lying about this baby they gassed and almost killed in their own neighborhood, DHS deleted their post
January 16, 2026 at 7:17 PM
DELETED
After lying about this baby they gassed and almost killed in their own neighborhood, DHS deleted their post
After lying about this baby they gassed and almost killed in their own neighborhood, DHS deleted their post
Reposted by Smart Dissent
Instead of seeking justice for Renee Good, Donald Trump is weaponizing the Justice Department to investigate and intimidate Democratic leaders in Minnesota.
We will not stand by silently and be bullied into submission.
We will not stand by silently and be bullied into submission.
January 17, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Instead of seeking justice for Renee Good, Donald Trump is weaponizing the Justice Department to investigate and intimidate Democratic leaders in Minnesota.
We will not stand by silently and be bullied into submission.
We will not stand by silently and be bullied into submission.
Reposted by Smart Dissent
Minneapolis AFL CIO calls for a general strike on next Friday January 23rd minneapolisunions.org/system/files...
minneapolisunions.org
January 17, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Minneapolis AFL CIO calls for a general strike on next Friday January 23rd minneapolisunions.org/system/files...
Reposted by Smart Dissent
The Supreme Court gave Trump absolute immunity for using his official powers even for the most corrupt reasons ever, including to criminally investigate state and local chief executives for using their official powers to serve their constituents
January 17, 2026 at 2:41 AM
The Supreme Court gave Trump absolute immunity for using his official powers even for the most corrupt reasons ever, including to criminally investigate state and local chief executives for using their official powers to serve their constituents
Reposted by Smart Dissent
Was just on w/ @chrislhayes.bsky.social talking about the impact ICE is having on public opinion toward immigration and Trump’s second term in general. The bottom line is that people hate the violence against Americans, and this is moving a significant number of people against Trump in a new way
January 17, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Was just on w/ @chrislhayes.bsky.social talking about the impact ICE is having on public opinion toward immigration and Trump’s second term in general. The bottom line is that people hate the violence against Americans, and this is moving a significant number of people against Trump in a new way
Reposted by Smart Dissent
Coordinated a beer drop by a white friend to deliver a 30-rack of Hamm’s to a Hispanic friend’s doorstep because his wife wouldn’t let him leave the house to go buy more beer for fear he’d be brutalized by lawless armed masked federal paramilitaries. This is Minnesota community. We take care of us.
January 17, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Coordinated a beer drop by a white friend to deliver a 30-rack of Hamm’s to a Hispanic friend’s doorstep because his wife wouldn’t let him leave the house to go buy more beer for fear he’d be brutalized by lawless armed masked federal paramilitaries. This is Minnesota community. We take care of us.
Reposted by Smart Dissent
Trump is selling pardons every week to people who pay $1-2 million to his PAC and is approaching 2,000 corrupt and disgusting pardons less than a year into his term, but yeah “no one is above the law.”
January 17, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Trump is selling pardons every week to people who pay $1-2 million to his PAC and is approaching 2,000 corrupt and disgusting pardons less than a year into his term, but yeah “no one is above the law.”
Reposted by Smart Dissent
⚡️“I do think he’s gonna do it.”
What Trump Invoking the Insurrection Act Would Mean for America
🎧Listen, subscribe and rate today’s new Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff—with guest @asharangappa.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
📱💻Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/hx4mo4FTAg4?...
What Trump Invoking the Insurrection Act Would Mean for America
🎧Listen, subscribe and rate today’s new Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff—with guest @asharangappa.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
📱💻Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/hx4mo4FTAg4?...
January 17, 2026 at 3:07 AM
⚡️“I do think he’s gonna do it.”
What Trump Invoking the Insurrection Act Would Mean for America
🎧Listen, subscribe and rate today’s new Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff—with guest @asharangappa.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
📱💻Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/hx4mo4FTAg4?...
What Trump Invoking the Insurrection Act Would Mean for America
🎧Listen, subscribe and rate today’s new Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff—with guest @asharangappa.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
📱💻Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/hx4mo4FTAg4?...
Reposted by Smart Dissent
Yesterday, these incompetent fucks were just going door-to-door in a neighborhood near my house at 8:30 in the morning. School buses were driving through trying to pick up kids, people were out walking their dogs, and people were taking out their trash cans.
January 17, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Yesterday, these incompetent fucks were just going door-to-door in a neighborhood near my house at 8:30 in the morning. School buses were driving through trying to pick up kids, people were out walking their dogs, and people were taking out their trash cans.
Reposted by Smart Dissent
There is no scenario where Tricia McLaughlin would not blame the victim, would not allege, with zero evidence, that they have assaulted the DHS agent. It his her default setting.
McLAUGHLIN: Racial animus has no place in DHS and of course is not use
CNN: *plays clip of ICE agents asking Minneapolis woman where she was born*
McLAUGHLIN: I haven't seen this clip before. She might've been assaulting law enforcement prior to this.
CNN: *plays clip of ICE agents asking Minneapolis woman where she was born*
McLAUGHLIN: I haven't seen this clip before. She might've been assaulting law enforcement prior to this.
January 17, 2026 at 3:29 AM
There is no scenario where Tricia McLaughlin would not blame the victim, would not allege, with zero evidence, that they have assaulted the DHS agent. It his her default setting.
Reposted by Smart Dissent
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 10:15 PM
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.
Reposted by Smart Dissent
This guy is basically inviting China to take Taiwan.
January 17, 2026 at 2:35 AM
This guy is basically inviting China to take Taiwan.
Reposted by Smart Dissent
TONIGHT: Minnesota’s national guard is mobilized ahead of tomorrow’s protests – the President continues with his threats to take over Greenland, and threatens to put new tariffs on countries that “don’t go along” with the acquisition – & new polling shows Democrats in a strong position for midterms.
January 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM
TONIGHT: Minnesota’s national guard is mobilized ahead of tomorrow’s protests – the President continues with his threats to take over Greenland, and threatens to put new tariffs on countries that “don’t go along” with the acquisition – & new polling shows Democrats in a strong position for midterms.
Reposted by Smart Dissent
You kind of want Wolf to pause after that for a very long moment, then ask her, "Tricia, are you ever afraid for your eternal soul?"
McLAUGHLIN: Racial animus has no place in DHS and of course is not use
CNN: *plays clip of ICE agents asking Minneapolis woman where she was born*
McLAUGHLIN: I haven't seen this clip before. She might've been assaulting law enforcement prior to this.
CNN: *plays clip of ICE agents asking Minneapolis woman where she was born*
McLAUGHLIN: I haven't seen this clip before. She might've been assaulting law enforcement prior to this.
January 17, 2026 at 4:36 AM
You kind of want Wolf to pause after that for a very long moment, then ask her, "Tricia, are you ever afraid for your eternal soul?"
Reposted by Smart Dissent
When the racist meme becomes national policy
January 17, 2026 at 4:53 AM
When the racist meme becomes national policy
Reposted by Smart Dissent
Tribes have been here longer than any of us, they are quite literally the opposite of immigrants.
Tribal leaders are still unable to locate their missing members.
January 17, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Tribes have been here longer than any of us, they are quite literally the opposite of immigrants.
Reposted by Smart Dissent
Given the timing, we consider this to be targeted harassment as punishment for exercising our First Amendment rights.
We're still handing out free whistles. And we just got in hundreds of new yard signs.
Keep resisting, Minnesota. We love you.
We're still handing out free whistles. And we just got in hundreds of new yard signs.
Keep resisting, Minnesota. We love you.
January 17, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Given the timing, we consider this to be targeted harassment as punishment for exercising our First Amendment rights.
We're still handing out free whistles. And we just got in hundreds of new yard signs.
Keep resisting, Minnesota. We love you.
We're still handing out free whistles. And we just got in hundreds of new yard signs.
Keep resisting, Minnesota. We love you.
Reposted by Smart Dissent
We braced ourselves for a new onslaught of emails and one star reviews from right wing trolls after this aired.
But instead we've only received support and offers to help print more whistles.
We can win this, folks. #AbolishICE
But instead we've only received support and offers to help print more whistles.
We can win this, folks. #AbolishICE
A big THANK YOU to our employee Lacy as well as Kaleb Lutterman, and the local 3D printing makers who've been keeping us supplied with anti-ICE whistles.
And thank you to everyone who's stopped by to pick one up! You're making a huge difference in this very difficult time.
And thank you to everyone who's stopped by to pick one up! You're making a huge difference in this very difficult time.
Twin Cities community members distributing free, 3D-printed ICE alert whistles
If you've been in the Twin Cities these past few months, there's a good chance you've heard the high-pitched tone of little plastic whistles used by protestors to alert others when federal agents are ...
www.cbsnews.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:21 PM
We braced ourselves for a new onslaught of emails and one star reviews from right wing trolls after this aired.
But instead we've only received support and offers to help print more whistles.
We can win this, folks. #AbolishICE
But instead we've only received support and offers to help print more whistles.
We can win this, folks. #AbolishICE
Reposted by Smart Dissent
DHS employees entered our store this afternoon and served us a Notice of Inspection, demanding copies of I9 forms for each employee.
In 27 years as shopkeepers, we have never been subjected to this type of investigation.
In 27 years as shopkeepers, we have never been subjected to this type of investigation.
January 17, 2026 at 12:23 AM
DHS employees entered our store this afternoon and served us a Notice of Inspection, demanding copies of I9 forms for each employee.
In 27 years as shopkeepers, we have never been subjected to this type of investigation.
In 27 years as shopkeepers, we have never been subjected to this type of investigation.
Reposted by Smart Dissent
Tribal leaders are still unable to locate their missing members.
January 17, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Tribal leaders are still unable to locate their missing members.
Reposted by Smart Dissent
Money that could have gone to healthcare or education is going to an armed militia
You're paying for this.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
CNN airs a compilation of escalating ICE aggression towards peaceful protesters.
January 17, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Money that could have gone to healthcare or education is going to an armed militia
Reposted by Smart Dissent
January 17, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Reposted by Smart Dissent
These are our friends. And, to me, this is a No Kings rally.
Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now.
Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.
Source: dr.dk
Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.
Source: dr.dk
January 17, 2026 at 12:28 PM
These are our friends. And, to me, this is a No Kings rally.
Reposted by Smart Dissent
ICYMI, new piece/thread from me:
Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
Trump’s Own Advisers Suddenly Unnerved as ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn
So the president doesn’t like the “optics” of what ICE is doing. But there’s no such thing as sanitized, popular mass deportations—and this is by design.
newrepublic.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:02 PM
ICYMI, new piece/thread from me:
Reposted by Smart Dissent
Our friends over at Force Center are raising money for Minneapolis charities while talking Star Wars news - go check it out and donate!
Some #StarWars News you say?
Join @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social & @kennapzok.bsky.social tomorrow at 2 PM PT for a Charity Stream.
They'll discuss the big news while raising money for charity organizations doing important work on the ground in Minneapolis.
-> youtube.com/live/GMDTRkJ...
Join @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social & @kennapzok.bsky.social tomorrow at 2 PM PT for a Charity Stream.
They'll discuss the big news while raising money for charity organizations doing important work on the ground in Minneapolis.
-> youtube.com/live/GMDTRkJ...
Kathleen Kennedy retires as Lucasfilm President | Charity Star Wars News Stream For Minnesota
YouTube video by ForceCenter
youtube.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Our friends over at Force Center are raising money for Minneapolis charities while talking Star Wars news - go check it out and donate!