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Gautam
@gautammani.bsky.social
· Jan 23
I've never understood "the night is always darkest just before the dawn." The night is always darkest in the middle of the night. We're a long way from dawn, and I think we are still a long way from the middle of the night.
But the dawn will come.
But the dawn will come.
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I’m not sure people outside the Twin Cites realize the prevalence and the fear ICE is causing in Twin Cities. They are dining undercover pretending to be couples at restaurants, they are going to businesses and checking the license plates of cars to find employees. Every public place is compromised.
January 19, 2026 at 3:17 AM
I’m not sure people outside the Twin Cites realize the prevalence and the fear ICE is causing in Twin Cities. They are dining undercover pretending to be couples at restaurants, they are going to businesses and checking the license plates of cars to find employees. Every public place is compromised.
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Not to sound like kind of an angry person at the moment, but all of the Philly folks being like we would do this differently. What exactly are we Minnesotans supposed to be doing differently? People are putting their bodies on the line against the full force of the federal government.
January 19, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Not to sound like kind of an angry person at the moment, but all of the Philly folks being like we would do this differently. What exactly are we Minnesotans supposed to be doing differently? People are putting their bodies on the line against the full force of the federal government.
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I keep thinking about the toxic, pervasive mythology of "rugged individualism" as a driving force in American culture, and how the collective efforts in the Twin Cities right now are proof that the only way through hard times is together, as a community.
January 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I keep thinking about the toxic, pervasive mythology of "rugged individualism" as a driving force in American culture, and how the collective efforts in the Twin Cities right now are proof that the only way through hard times is together, as a community.
Paul Wellstone and Walter Mondale would have been incredibly proud of Minnesota.
People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.
January 18, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Paul Wellstone and Walter Mondale would have been incredibly proud of Minnesota.
I used to tweet out that we desperately need more dignity infrastructure in our cities and Zohran just...just...going out and doing it irl?
More public restrooms across our city?
Relief for all New Yorkers.
Relief for all New Yorkers.
January 17, 2026 at 9:57 PM
I used to tweet out that we desperately need more dignity infrastructure in our cities and Zohran just...just...going out and doing it irl?
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just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.
January 17, 2026 at 8:33 PM
just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.
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I just want people to know that there is no active insurrection, no regular protests, no rioting or whatever. The only time people are in the streets is when masked armed ICE thugs descend on one of our neighbors to disappear them as part of a federal government-led ethnic cleansing campaign.
January 17, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I just want people to know that there is no active insurrection, no regular protests, no rioting or whatever. The only time people are in the streets is when masked armed ICE thugs descend on one of our neighbors to disappear them as part of a federal government-led ethnic cleansing campaign.
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People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
January 17, 2026 at 6:02 PM
People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
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they are weak. finish them
NEW: As the chaotic scenes from Minnesota play out around the clock, Axios has learned that some Trump advisers quietly are talking about "recalibrating" the White House's approach.
Trump's team recently reviewed private GOP polling that showed support for his immigration policies falling.
Trump's team recently reviewed private GOP polling that showed support for his immigration policies falling.
Trump's immigration erosion worries his team
Some Trump advisers quietly are talking about "recalibrating" the White House's approach — though it's unclear what changes Trump would embrace, if any.
www.axios.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:12 PM
they are weak. finish them
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You obviously can’t “re-gift” a Nobel Peace Prize,” and everyone (even Trump) knows it.
So it will never be his.
But his record-breaking pathetic neediness has to be fed, and his completely corrupt value system considers something stolen or coerced to be maybe even better than something earned.
So it will never be his.
But his record-breaking pathetic neediness has to be fed, and his completely corrupt value system considers something stolen or coerced to be maybe even better than something earned.
It's truly difficult to think of a more pathetic picture than this in American presidential history.
January 16, 2026 at 12:43 PM
You obviously can’t “re-gift” a Nobel Peace Prize,” and everyone (even Trump) knows it.
So it will never be his.
But his record-breaking pathetic neediness has to be fed, and his completely corrupt value system considers something stolen or coerced to be maybe even better than something earned.
So it will never be his.
But his record-breaking pathetic neediness has to be fed, and his completely corrupt value system considers something stolen or coerced to be maybe even better than something earned.
The level of Susan Collins Concern going to be off the charts.
ICE is coming to Portland and Lewiston imminently, their mayors confirmed today. Both cities have large Somali populations.
When reached for comment, ICE wouldn’t even confirm whether or not this action was happening.
When reached for comment, ICE wouldn’t even confirm whether or not this action was happening.
ICE is headed to Maine
The Mayors of Portland and Lewiston confirmed Wednesday ICE's imminent presence.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 15, 2026 at 3:01 AM
The level of Susan Collins Concern going to be off the charts.
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Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
🚨U.S. veteran GOES ABSOLUTELY NUCLEAR ON ICE:
"I've bled for this country, I've fought for this country—they're disgracing this f*cking country and what it f*cking means! They hide behind their f*cking masks like f*cking pussies! Get them out of here!" WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
"I've bled for this country, I've fought for this country—they're disgracing this f*cking country and what it f*cking means! They hide behind their f*cking masks like f*cking pussies! Get them out of here!" WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 14, 2026 at 2:08 AM
The night is so dark and cold, but I am here to tell you again that the dawn is going to be incredibly bright and warm. And it will come, perhaps a bit sooner than any of us think.
I've never understood "the night is always darkest just before the dawn." The night is always darkest in the middle of the night. We're a long way from dawn, and I think we are still a long way from the middle of the night.
But the dawn will come.
But the dawn will come.
January 14, 2026 at 1:34 AM
The night is so dark and cold, but I am here to tell you again that the dawn is going to be incredibly bright and warm. And it will come, perhaps a bit sooner than any of us think.
Abolish ICE
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Abolish ICE
The rule of law is continuing to hang on in the District of Minnesota.
January 13, 2026 at 9:49 PM
The rule of law is continuing to hang on in the District of Minnesota.
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the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.
January 12, 2026 at 11:12 PM
the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.
Dan Garodnick did a lot of good at DCP the last few years. Good luck for the future.
January 12, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Dan Garodnick did a lot of good at DCP the last few years. Good luck for the future.
Abolish ICE, duh.
ICE goons smash the window of an activists car brutally yank 2 out, abduct them and leave their car abandoned in Southside Minneapolis (1/11/26)
January 11, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Abolish ICE, duh.
The MPD union, at least, has made it clear which side they are on.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
January 10, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Guy who becomes an upzoning urbanist just so ICE doesn’t have any local parking lots to stage their raids in.
January 8, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Guy who becomes an upzoning urbanist just so ICE doesn’t have any local parking lots to stage their raids in.
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for fucking decades i've had to listen to right wingers jerk off to their fantasies of masked federal agents turning their guns on innocent Americans and then the moment it actually happens they're sniveling boot-licking scum
January 8, 2026 at 12:42 AM
for fucking decades i've had to listen to right wingers jerk off to their fantasies of masked federal agents turning their guns on innocent Americans and then the moment it actually happens they're sniveling boot-licking scum
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The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood.
Scum.
Scum.
January 8, 2026 at 12:59 AM
The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood.
Scum.
Scum.
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Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.
The usual 1st Amendment folks are awfully quiet this afternoon.
January 7, 2026 at 11:07 PM
The usual 1st Amendment folks are awfully quiet this afternoon.