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Hulda Gates
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Too clever by half. Not a lady. The Church's pronouns are she/her. Human Rights Bitch. #endchristianpatriarchy
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wedge.live
Great Moments in Immigration Enforcement

"I asked them if they had a judicial warrant. They said they didn't need one. I said yes you do."

Employees then captured video of agents leaving and turning the wrong way on a one way street.
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South Minneapolis restaurant says ICE entered without warrant, staff push back
ICE's presence is keeping many on edge, including one Minneapolis restaurant, which says it had its first ICE encounter since opening more than a decade ago.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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minnesotareformer.com
Over a hundred people rallied in 17-degree weather for over an hour outside of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to protest deportation flights that regularly fly out.
Over a hundred people rally against ICE flights outside MSP • Minnesota Reformer
Over a hundred people rallied in 17-degree weather for over an hour outside of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to protest deportation flights that regularly fly out. Nick Benson, a photogra...
minnesotareformer.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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aaronsojourner.org
Crazy idea, stick with me...

Law, but for rich people.
Treasury recovers $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high-wealth tax dodgers
The IRS has collected $1.3 billion from high-wealth tax dodgers since last fall, the agency says, crediting spending that has ramped up collection enforcement through President Joe Biden's signature…
apnews.com
September 8, 2024 at 4:04 PM
huldagates.bsky.social
Here are some organizations that will defend Minnesota immigrants.Please support them. Feel free to drop your suggestions in the comments.

The Advocates for Human Rights
Global Refuge
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
ACLU
Unidos MN
Fe y Justicia MN
December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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scottsantens.com
One of the most common replies in any discussion of universal basic income is "but how do we pay for it?" and not once do those same people ever question the costs incurred by not doing UBI. We spend $1.5 trillion every year on the costs of child poverty alone. Poverty ain't free, folks. WE ALL PAY.
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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hassankanu.bsky.social
NEW: A federal judge restricted the Trump admin’s ability to arrest suspected undocumented immigrants in D.C. without a warrant, saying the arrests are only permissible if authorities have good reason to believe the person is likely to escape.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Judge limits warrantless immigration arrests in DC
The judge ruled the arrests require probable cause showing a suspect is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained.
www.politico.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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naomikritzer.bsky.social
There is something so deeply, deeply Minnesotan about these sorts of posts (which I see every winter). If you're from almost anywhere else and wondering if you're missing something: this person did in fact leave their car running, unlocked, keys in the ignition.
Facebook post from the Highland Neighborhood Group, St. Paul. Name redacted. "Hello Everyone, just giving a word of caution to make sure your vehicles are locked when you’re warming them up this winter. My 2003 Ford Ranger, Rhonda, was stolen this morning at 8:15 from my home on Saint Paul Ave. I’m attaching the video to show you just how easy it was and a picture of my girl. My fault for leaving her unlocked and running but I thought she was fine for the 20 mins it took for me to shower! I’m chalking her up as gone but if anyone sees my baby you can PM me."
December 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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ashkenaz89.bsky.social
I keep thinking about how many people are quietly realizing their moral compass wasn’t broken — it was jammed by foreign influence ops that excel at weaponizing idealists.
November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
huldagates.bsky.social
New day.
Cats sitting in front of a winter window scene.
November 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
Trump pardons a narcotics kingpin, but he blows up fishing boats in the Caribbean.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”

As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family. The real migrant population is much higher. This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America, something that did not exist after World War II (Failed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits, etc.). As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone. The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst “Congressman/woman” in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how “badly” she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation…
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
A reminder that it has never been about "illegal" immigration. They want to stop all immigration because they are greedy racists who have nothing to offer their base other than the felt superiority over an out-group. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump says he will ‘permanently pause’ migration from ‘third world countries’ after national guard shooting
In a social media post sent late on Thanksgiving, US president said he would ‘end all federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens’ following Washington DC shooting
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court.

More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
"Those who would twist this moment to attack Afghan families aren’t seeking safety or justice — they’re exploiting division and endangering all of us."

Statement from the @afghanevac.bsky.social veterans on the DC shooting.
Statement from AfghanEvac President Shawn VanDiver – November 26, 2025 On the shooting of two West Virginia National Guardsmen in DC We are deeply saddened by the tragic attack in Washington, DC, and our hearts go out to the West Virginia National Guardsmen and their families. No one should ever have to endure this kind of harm. We reject and condemn anyone who uses, or seeks to use, violence, and we stand with every American who is horrified and saddened by this crime. There is no excuse — no context, no grievance, no ideology — that justifies the actions of the shooter. AfghanEvac expects and fully supports the perpetrator facing full accountability and prosecution under the law. None of us want to be defined by the actions of another person, so we encourage the media, elected leaders, decision-makers, and other people of influence not to demonize the Afghan community for the deranged choice this person made. Afghan immigrants and wartime allies who resettle in the United States undergo some of the most extensive security vetting of any population entering the country. As with any serious crime, authorities will examine how this happened and whether any systems failed — and we support a fact-based review. But nothing we learn will change the simple truth that this individual alone is responsible for his actions. This individual’s isolated and violent act should not be used as an excuse to define or diminish an entire community. AfghanEvac rejects any attempt to leverage this tragedy as a political ploy to isolate or harm Afghans who have resettled in the United States. Those who would twist this moment to attack Afghan families aren’t seeking safety or justice — they’re exploiting division and endangering all of us. Our adversaries benefit when Americans turn on our neighbors, and so we must work together – neighbors, faith groups, civic leaders, and all who believe in justice – to extinguish rhetoric that seeks to sow fear and hate. Our organization stands
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
huldagates.bsky.social
Deploying the national guard in cities creates hundreds of soft military targets. It does not make cities safer.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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ceaubin.com
THIS THURSDAY ON TGS: I’m joined by David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social to get justice for Laura 700 years after this weirdo first wrote a poem about her.
Man with branches on head and face scribbled out
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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startribune.com
We talked to a former fraud investigator about the role a conservative activist's unsubstantiated report on fraud played in Trump's threat to revoke asylum protections for Somali refugees in Minnesota.
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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tanvi.bsky.social
I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless.

nymag.com/intelligence...
What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?
More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.
nymag.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Now they are casting a Black Othello just to be PC, wokeness is ruining entertainment

deadline.com/2025/11/broc...
Barbara Broccoli’s First Post-James Bond Feature ‘Othello’ To Shoot In Qatar With David Oyelowo, Rachel Brosnahan & Cynthia Erivo
Barbara Broccoli's First Post-James Bond Feature 'Othello' To Shoot In Qatar With David Oyelowo, Rachel Brosnahan & Cynthia Erivo
deadline.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
“I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers.” Heartbreaking piece by Tatiana Schlossberg, President Kennedy’s granddaughter and RFK Jr.’s cousin.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
A crackdown on immigrants who have committed crimes (of any sort, including petty ones)? Nope. 40% of those held have no record whatsoever. It's a crackdown on people with brown skin.
November 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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dlmayfield.bsky.social
Just a little reminder for all my fellow people who come from toxic, enmeshed, and emotionally immature families:

You deserve holidays that are comforting, nourishing, and are about good food and being around people you actually like being around. Full stop.
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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rparloff.bsky.social
Mag Judge Fitzpatrick says two statements by Halligan to grand jury "appear to be fundamental misstatements of the law that could compromise the integrity of the grand jury process."
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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jackjenkins.me
1. More arrest photos from this protest are emerging: e.g., Lutheran pastor Rev. Luke Harris-Ferree, wearing a clerical collar and a shirt that reads “Bad Theology Kills.”

(Photos via Harris-Ferree’s FB and Mennonite Action’s Instagram, linked in next post.)
Rev. Luke Harris-Ferree handcuffed and being led away by police, wearing a clerical collar and a shirt that reads “bad theology kills.” Rev. Luke Harris-Ferree, in a clerical collar, is shown being held to the ground and handcuffed by police. Rev. Luke Harris-Ferree handcuffed and being led away by police, wearing a clerical collar and a shirt that reads “bad theology kills.” In the foreground, an heavily armored riot cop looks back at the scene.
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM