Tanya Kerssen

ice sculpture reading prosecute ice at the minnesota state capitol on february 5 2026

This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol.

An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.

Donate to Support a Family in Immigration Crisis, organized by T CommunitySupport "Dear community, My name is Sofía and my family is experiencing hardship… T CommunitySupport needs your support for Support a Family in Immigration Crisis

If you are able, please join me in supporting a Mpls family that is experiencing fear and hardship with the detention of their family member, taken Jan 3 and sent to a detention center in Nebraska. Bills, rent, and legal fees are accumulating and they need some community support. gofund.me/85b41dc95

Arresting Black journalists for covering a protest is a violation of the most basic principles of the 1st amendment. This administration is determined to deny not only the constitutional rights of its citizens and residents, but the human rights of all who oppose its racist agenda.

This also came to mind for me ✨A perfectly delivered line.

Zoran has friends everywhere.

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.

The moment that made Mamdani How a 15-day hunger strike foreshadowed his campaign.

Read @nlanard.bsky.social on the hunger strike that made Mamdani www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Spokane food banks are seeing ‘COVID levels’ of stress on services – RANGE Media With the future of SNAP in jeopardy, here’s how our region is impacted and who is stepping up to help.

Spokane food banks are seeing ‘COVID levels’ of stress on services, impacting 83,000 Spokanites. With the future of SNAP in jeopardy, here’s how our region is impacted and who is stepping up to help:

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

Los Estados Unidos abren el camino a la proliferación nuclear | #Escriben Vijay Prashad y Dae-Han Song | @vijayprashad.bsky.social | www.somosmass99.com/167166-2/

Geordi Laforge from Star Trek meme format. He's holding up his hand to say "hold up" next to the words "giving up on social media" then pointing affirmatively next to the words "building activism on Bluesky"

If you're a nonprofit or union using Bluesky (or a Bluesky fan working for an org that hasn't made the leap) join us for our online training July 22! @levin.bsky.social is talking strategy, organizing, what makes Bluesky unique & what works like before: registration.socio.events/e/blueskytra...

Masking en masse also prevents medically vulnerable people from being singled out by cops. BE ALLIES. bsky.app/profile/erin...

Beyond erasure: Anti-Black racism in U.S. immigration Black immigrants are disproportionately harmed by exclusionary immigration policies and are continuously erased from the broader immigration discourse

Black immigrants are disproportionately harmed by exclusionary immigration policies and are continuously erased from the broader immigration discourse.

Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy.

This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.

This is why an attack on trans women is an attack on *all* women. 😡

As someone put it, how men treat trans women in public, is how they treat cis women in private. 🤷😡

Watch this.

In what might be the logical endpoint of American Zionism, the Heritage Foundation has declared that pro-Palestinian activism is not just antisemitic, but is in fact a shadowy global conspiracy … led by Jews. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

#tdih 1968 UPenn student Kiyoshi Kuromiya and friends held a demonstration against the use of napalm in Vietnam.

They announced that a dog would be burned alive with napalm in front of university library.

Thousands turned up to protest.

Students were handed a flier that said: [See⬇️ | 🧵1/3]

May 1st International Workers Day Rally & March | March 1 Mayo Dia Internacional de Los Trabajadores · May Day Strong May 1 International Workers Day Rally and March Rally 4:30pm March 5:30pm Minnesota State Capitol For Immigrant Rights and Workers Rights Initiated by MIRAC, MN Workers United, MN Immigrant Movement, ...

May 1st International Workers Day Rally & March | 1 Mayo Dia Internacional de Los Trabajadores - Find an event in your area www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/

Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia Home Kilmar is not alone. He is one of over 250 immigrants deported without due process, as part of Trump’s $6 million deal with Bukele’s government—a plan to funnel immigrants, often with no criminal reco...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/br...

Write your reps to Defend Kilmar Abrego Garcia · Mobilize This is an at home write your representative event! Defend Kilmar Garcia and the rule of law!

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Write your reps to Defend Kilmar Abrego Garcia” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’ Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process

The New Barbarism is here. Palestinians used for target practice by Israeli weapon and military software manufacturers. Deportations that are run like ‘Amazon Prime for humans'. Foreign aid replaced by tariffs on the poor. Etc. etc. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Politicians want to normalise what’s happening in Gaza. Our moral outrage won’t let that happen | Nesrine Malik The more shocking the carnage becomes, the more people are punished for speaking out. This just makes it clear how much is really at stake, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

"Gaza has been deported to another dimension in which no rules apply." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are seeing a very clear pattern of banning things that make Trumpists and their kids feel bad:

- Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation
- Challenging ideas about gender
- Protests against genocide
- Science generally

It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.

leave our kids alone.

This New Documentary Gets at What the Columbia Encampments Were Actually About "We were like, 'Wow, we're sitting on a movie that is ready to go, that debunks everything that Trump is saying.'"

A new documentary from Palestinian American-run Watermelon Pictures, and Breakthrough News (with rapper Macklemore and Alana Hadid among the producers), shows perspectives from inside the 2024 Columbia University encampments.

The Republican Justices Do Not Want to Talk About the Human Suffering They’re Enabling The Court’s opinion in Trump v. JGG is disastrous for the people the administration is disappearing.

A Supreme Court opinion about the U.S. government disappearing people to a prison in El Salvador should probably mention the words "El Salvador"

Florida teacher loses job for calling student by preferred name It’s the first known dismissal stemming from the conservative campaign to limit schools' recognition of transgender identity.

WashPo Apr 9 -- Brevard Cty FL high school teacher of 11 years became state's first to have contract terminated for using trans student's preferred rather than legal name w/o parental permission under a new "parents' rights" law. Brevard is home of Moms for Liberty. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that ...

"The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union (IUE-CWA Local 83761) and the local labor movement."

labornotes.org/2025/04/kent...

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back