I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

Mexico City's UTOPIAS offer a concrete model of ecosocialism, & community care that the US left, DSA, and Zohran's admin can learn a lot from and even reproduce socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/fall-...

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.

An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."

The other said, "Take him anyway."

So they did.

It's like people read about Hitler and the path to WWII but totally failed to absorb the part about appeasement and how it didn't work.

The emergence of American concentration camps. Starvation, torture, and death. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Yesterday, the U of Minnesota deleted the American Indian Studies’ statement on Palestine. (Also deleted was a story about Leonard Peltier’s return home and five other dept statements on Palestine.) Our expertise matters if we don’t oppose genocide. web.archive.org/web/20250322...

"It’s difficult to disagree with the American union’s characterization of neoliberal free trade. But by lending support to Trump’s tariffs rather than organizing an internationalist response with unions and workers from Canada as well as Mexico, the UAW is treading a dangerous path"

❗️The mask is off: Maersk is complicit in genocide and settler colonialism.

🔎 Here we explore critical new research by the Palestinian Youth Movement about the role of the shipping and logistics giant in facilitating mass death and land theft. 🧵

True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow.

The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?"

When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

I guess it shouldn't be a surprise that society numbing ourselves to preventable mass death all around us would lead to society being unable to resist the march of authoritarianism.

You know what's good practice for aquiescing to your government's support for genocide? Acquescing to mass death from COVID, especially the deaths of elderly and disabled neighbor people.

You know what's good practice for acquiescing to fascism, tho? Acquiescing to your government's active support for genocide.

see: our acceptance of fascist rule

see: our acceptance of genocide

see: our acceptance of mass death from COVID

see: our acceptance of dehumanization and oppression of unhoused people

see: our acceptance of mass imprisonment of our fellow citizens

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Setting quotas of arrests per day. You know what happens when you have a quota to meet? Scoop them up and let the court sort it out. They will be grabbing anyone they can. No proof of citizenship on your person? Too bad. That’s an arrest. Look “illegal?” Explain it to the court someday.

My new favorite study of 2025 thus far: there is a lot of support among the US public for ecosocialist (degrowthish) policy.

“This study paves the way for new strategies for a transition that enhances well-being & reduces dependence on economic growth.”
phys.org/news/2025-01...