ICE is responsible for the *only* shooting and homicide in Minneapolis so far in 2026.

In 2025 our city came under federal occupation and thousands of neighbors got involved in ICE Watch, Rapid Response, and Mutual Aid efforts across the city. Resolve to begin this year by getting involved!

Read the full newsletter - written by rapid responders across the 612. defend612.com/blog

Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps.

A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:

1. Definitely DO submit substantive comments here

2. Be very careful about what personal information you share through that link. assume worst

3. there is an adhoc coalition thats been organizing against the FTC anti-trans BS & I think we will have a tool soon that makes it easy to submit comments

Free ebooks from @haymarketbooks.org, including Border and Rule by @harshawalia.bsky.social, which is one of the most important books I've ever read. Download and read, fam.

Incarcerated people have more chronic medical conditions than ever.

Yet healthcare behind bars is blocked by expensive copays, limited resources, & understaffing – creating a situation in which each year spent in prison takes *2 years* off an individual’s life expectancy.

Even as he sits in a cell 1400 miles away from his home and his due-any-day-now pregnant wife, Mahmoud Khalil is thinking about the plight of others:

Here's @detentionwatchnetwork.org statement on ICE's detention of Mahmoud Khalil: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...

Riot Medicine is a full-length textbook that covers everything you need to become a medic. The 486 pages include organizing, medicine, equipment, and tactics. It is written for those with no medical training and no experience at protests

Each biased piece of coverage has chipped away at the legitimacy of gender-affirming care—and built a top-of-mind fear and discomfort surrounding transness in a population that in all likelihood scarcely thought of trans people at all a mere decade ago.  
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This link also provides a good way to get connected in various ways with the Twin Cities Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC); they do good work.

new @teenvogue.com: @brittneymac15.bsky.social digs into the details of Trump's exec order on trans youth healthcare. I checked with an @aclu.org senior attorney on what trans youth and their families should plan for.

in short: no changes RN; stay on top of your healthcare; don't comply in advance.

is it uncharitable to say, i hope the new york times leadership gets not one moment of peace after this

“No matter what you think about COVID, this is your fight too.”
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