Emily Thabes

Caucus is Not a Dirty Word join the party with your neighbors around 7 PM tonight

I'll be there!

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We have been texting with these families every day. I got pictures from one mom last night of the kids putting together a lego set I sent along with some groceries. I'm working on sending cookie deliveries to all of them by mail. Did I mention I live 5 hours from the metro?

Request for funds to support mutual aid for four families in the twin cities

We are supporting four families that cannot leave their homes. They cannot work to earn income to pay bills and buy groceries. Children cannot safely attend schools. PLEASE help us help these families - or pass this on to folks who can.

Thank you Dave Matthews.

Dig deep, find the fighter in you. ✊

Share Your Mutual Aid Résumé you have the experiences, skills, and networks to support your community - right now

Edited to add a link from @barackobama.bsky.social's FB post this morning, a stellar call to action. We already have it within ourselves to do this work: open.substack.com/pub/interdep...

Share Your Mutual Aid Résumé you have the experiences, skills, and networks to support your community - right now

Your experiences, skills, and networks have prepared you for the work that needs to be done right now. You’ve got this.
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Awwww, Sesame Street still out here looking after us.
Stop scrolling, take a breath, and remember you are not alone. 💖

Another scam from Governor Abbott?

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

It Ain’t Over 'Til It’s Over on false victories and the long work of resistance

The future ain't what it used to be. Stay vigilant.
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From a friend. 💙

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“LET US OUT!”

women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc.

In our name🇺🇸

They have not taken our Hope Mourning Alex Pretti

Includes a link to an affidavit from an eyewitness too afraid of our authoritarian federal government to go home, but NOT too afraid to provide their testimony to a District Court for the State of Minnesota. Excellent Human.

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These officers worked for my sister. Officers. Opppposite of criminals.

lessons learned providing mutual aid to our neighbors a guide for folks provisioning the homebound through ongoing ICE-y weather

If you are helping your neighbors in the ICEy weather ahead, a few resources and insights from our experiences this weekend. With gratitude to all who supported us- open.substack.com/pub/interdep...

24 hours in mutual aid in Minnesota “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” Benjamin Franklin

I have been picking up and dropping off food for folks homebound due to fucking ice for the past couple days. Some notes:

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another round of correspondence with my congressman capitalization denotes importance or implied authority

sometimes when my congressman contacts me, it’s too bad not to share:
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Please stop calling her Barbie. Barbie was and is a feminist role model. Barbie has lovely facial features. Barbie is not Satan’s spawn.

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.

That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

“They chased him, he got home and when we closed the door they shot him.”

MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside

Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us.

WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

The Civility Trap: How "Being Respectful" Becomes Complicity in Atrocity Or: why a viral post about following rules is 'negative peace' and crap in a cardigan

This post bugged the shit out of me all day, because it is truly crap in a cardigan: open.substack.com/pub/interdep...

My Response to WTF Fatigue ... is the Interdependence Day Book Club

Who set reading goals for 2026? Who set goals for saving democracy in 2026? Let's try to do both: open.substack.com/pub/interdep...

DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.”

(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )

Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” 🇺🇸

Senate votes to display Jan. 6 plaque after House GOP refuses to hang it at Capitol The office of House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has argued that the federal law requiring the plaque's display was "not implementable."

After the House refused to display it, the Senate unanimously agreed to hang a plaque honoring the officers who protected the Capitol on Jan. 6. It only took five years. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...