Alex Ford

Amazing! Thank you

Have reposted the initial post to better reflect that I hope.

To me it is crazy how little this is all appearing in the UK news. An occasional article but really nothing.

Definitely want to support keeping Minnesota in the news cycle here however I can.

Link back to the original thread - reposted the first one as I didn’t want to imply the fight was done

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The Blueprint That Broke a Federal Occupation Minneapolis and the Mosaic of Effective Activism

Fantastic piece on how collective action and care taking, led by Indigneous peoples, is challenging the federal occupation of Minnesota.

Both inspiring and humbling to see how people from all different backgrounds and walks of life have come together.

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Completely take this point. Apologies. Will repost that first post.

The occupation of MN has not been broken. The regime would like us to believe that narrative so we focus on something else. But it is still going on and still brutal.

Yes, maybe that wasn’t the best choice of phrase… “is breaking” maybe? Or do you think that’s also too far? Don’t want to imply it’s done.

Meant to add this to the second post but so important

Doesn’t even feel like there’s any pride left in the game.

YouTube video by The Red Nation Red Power Hour - Hope in the Streets: Report from Minneapolis

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjNB... - this bit from 41:00 about the power of “care taking” is really powerful too.

I think it’s crucial we help people to see that, as the article says, change doesn’t happen because of grand gestures, but by widespread and committed action every day. It is a commitment to taking care of one another.

To invert an expression - when good people act, evil cannot triumph. 2/2

Over 40 years watching Welsh rugby and this is the bleakest I can remember it… even in the early 90s it felt like there was still hope of winning.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked.

Full story:

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Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.

“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.

But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

YouTube video by Lakota Peoples Law Project Reflections on ICE Violence, Black History Month, and Standing in Solidarity

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This looks amazing

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Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them.

The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.

What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?

I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

Well that’s a world I wish I’d never learned more about

YouTube video by Indian Country Today Natives Fear ICE Raids

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That‘s the spirit.

Seema R on Instagram: "@britishmuseum @rishi_365 bullying folks is a terrible look if your mission is to bring people together" 751 likes, 49 comments - art_lust_ on February 4, 2026: "@britishmuseum @rishi_365 bullying folks is a terrible look if your mission is to bring people together".

In a fantastical disappointing update to this, content creators now allege that the head of the British Museum’s social media team is using his personal account to attack them online.

Is this how the British Musuem wants to be seen to be treating PhD Students?

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British Museum’s A.I.-Generated Post Sparks Online Backlash The British Museum has been called out for posting images containing A.I. generated content on its Instagram and Facebook.

…continue to follow an Ai model used in the photos.

(That last bit, pointed out by the content creators the BM has unfollowed, of course)

Content creators - PhD students - that the BM has happily used in the past for promo and influence.

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Everything about trans history (and much LGBTQ+ history) has been erased from government websites since last year this time. See @outhistory.bsky.social @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social and other groups that have been speaking out and documenting this for a while now. 🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈

It’s just appalling.

A quick reminder that Teaching Slavery is #OpenAccess! Read and download it free from: uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.