Eric Beckman

These #momentsofgender are completely out of hand.

Democratic lawmakers in New Jersey use blunt acronym to name anti-ICE legislation The measure is expected to be voted on next week by the New Jersey State Senate and Assembly before heading to the governor’s desk

Like the energy behind this bill #FuckIce h/t @carnage4life.bsky.social
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St. Paul neighbors band together to oppose immigration crackdown The residents are part of a sprawling, decentralized network comprising thousands who organized with their neighbors to oppose what Homeland Security officials called the largest immigration crackd…

Local #journalism on the social effects of the occupation in St. Paul @nickwoltman captures the experience. Disturbingly apt opening account and comparison.
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Twin Cities mobile home parks feel the pain of immigration enforcement, often in isolation Residents say they’re seeing ICE and immigration agents at mobile home parks in Minnesota, but don’t receive as much support as other neighborhoods.

Local #journalism
Minnesota occupation in the suburbs @sahanjournal.bsky.social
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Again, this is a problem that neither more laws nor more court rulings can fix. These people don't follow laws & court rulings. Everyone is just kidding themselves, because it's really uncomfortable to acknowledge that there is only one solution under our system & it has zero chance of being used.

As an architect, this is so fucking bleak. Someone in my profession is taking a hefty design fee to draw these plans.

This is a modern day concentration camp and the design professionals involved should be named and shamed.

Come ON. True mad king stuff. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...

Coverture, Now More than Ever - Karin Wulf Coverture is a legal principle in which a married woman's legal identity and capacity is subsumed under her husband's.

Ugh, who wants to have to write about coverture bc relevant to current events? Super short post bc apparently needs circulating. karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...

Will this apply to "groceries? "

working through the incredible material gathered in Showa Day by Day, the encyclopedia of daily life across the long Showa period, and now imagining some future historian combing through MAGA Day by Day, a chronicle of the shitstorm we can barely keep up with.

How else will covfefe be handed down?

Still, Mr. Trump repeatedly stressed on Friday that he was not deterred, and at times, he sought to reframe elements of his defeat as a victory. “While I am sure they did not mean to do so, the Supreme Court’s decision made a president’s ability to regulate trade and impose tariffs more powerful, and more crystal clear, rather than less,” Mr. Trump claimed to reporters.

I think the court's conservatives knew exactly what they were doing. They were creating the appearance of judicial independence while leaving Trump an enormous loophole through which he can continue to do what he wants.

My son’s teacher is from Ecuador. Her husband was abducted by ICE a month and a half ago. They have a special needs child.

Her husband was just now released from custody and reunited with his family. 6 weeks in a concentration camp. 6 weeks away from his family.

Fuck ICE. Fuck their apologists.

My post accurately describing ICE agents circling my kid’s school today was flagged by Insta/Meta

Fucking Zuckerberg

It’s day 81 of the ICE occupation of MSP.

Yesterday Rep. Aisha Gomez spoke for so many of us on the floor of the MN house.

All the clips in this thread are great, but we especially love this one:

Other countries have agency and domestic politics, too 🇩🇪

Probably a good day to repost this shinplaster from a carpet company in an area of Connecticut named Tariffville in honor of the Tariff Act of 1824 (lawfully passed by Congress) which protected some American manufacturers including textiles. New England Carpet Company, Tariffville, CT, $.50, 18--.🗃️

Judge sentences man for setting fire to Minneapolis mosques Jackie Rahm Little pleaded guilty in September to arson and hate crime charges for setting fire to Masjid Al Rahma in 2023.

Jackie Rahm Little pleaded guilty in September to arson and hate crime charges for setting fire to Masjid Al Rahma in 2023.

bring american flags--lots of american flags--to your next no kings rally on march 28

"Checks and balances" for tariffs and "free" trade, but not for white nationalism, immigration, and a police state. Very consistent with capitalism, actually

Don’t Be Fooled By the Corrupt Court’s Tariff Decision The depth of the Supreme Court’s corruption has forced us to find...

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It's a banner, but it is also unprecedented in American history, an affront to our republican tradition, and a dangerous intrusion of the separation of politics and law enforcement that is the basis of a free society.

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

It's day 80 of the ICE occupation of MSP.

Many of our neighbors have been in hiding for 11 weeks. We have 9 days to raise March 1 rent for those families.

Please dig in and give as you can - many rent relief fund are in desperate need of $$

StandWithMinnesota.com

There are definitely precedents for these sorts of actions by state governments, but they’re generally not precedents we’ve tended to think positively about. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Minnesota suburbs see ‘stealthier’ tactics as ICE stays active Minnesota residents and lawmakers say the promised drawdown has not materialized, and they are seeing ICE use more covert tactics to continue operations across Twin Cities suburbs.

Minnesota residents and lawmakers say the promised drawdown has not materialized, and they are seeing ICE use more covert tactics to continue operations across Twin Cities suburbs.

By @ncsscibelli.bsky.social

Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

(waves tiny American flag) 🗽

Thank you!

Screenshot of the front page of the Feb 22, 1954 issue of The Militant (N.Y.) newspaper. The photo, front & center, depicts a “Scene of Mexican Border Violence” in which U.S. police attacked migrant workers with tear gas & riot guns, admitting 600 workers for temporary agricultural labor while brutalizing the rest. Original here: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol//newspape/themilitant/1954/v18n08-feb-22-1954-mil.pdf

If you’re familiar with the history, you begin to notice that the fascist “crises” which allegedly justify lawless violence & repression are 1) always the same & 2) manufactured by those in power to promote the plunder & coercion of radicalized working people.

72 years ago like it was yesterday.

Thread. Elite accountability is hard, but not impossible. This is the most acute form--criminal wrongdoing. There are other processes for policy or governing debacles (congressional oversight, a thing we used to do; political costs, ditto). Not fast or easy, but processes that need revitalizing.

“President Trump has an incredible eye and appreciation for the arts, and only selects the most talented people possible,” said Davis Ingle, a White House spokesman. “These individuals possess a wealth of experience that reflects the values of everyday Americans and President Trump’s vision to make America great again.”

We are living in an Orwell novel
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The family of 2 detainees was too scared to approach ICE HQ, so Haven Watch volunteers greeted them instead.