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Why are they taking so many kids? They did this to Native Americans too, the residential schools. bsky.app/profile/whit...

Uh-oh, where am I going to go to the bathroom in downtown Seattle before the protest? Oh, the library! [Looks up library hours, oh they closed one minute ago.]

Honey, there's a new piano store in downtown Seattle!! Yes, I said a new piano store...🎹🎹🎹🎶🎵🎶

I broke down the ICE “reforms” being proposed by Dem leadership. tl;dr: They totally avoid touching ICE’s funding, in key ways actually increase ICE funding and instead focus on meaningless busywork like “body cams” and “more training”.

"The courts must step in immediately" HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA

25 people holding "target is complicit" signs outside Target, with a very large Target dog logo visible in the background

A poster saying "target is complicit" with a picture of Bovino and other ICE goons marching through Target like the dipshits they are

Outside the first of two Targets we occupied today, because Target is complicit with ICE.

Solidarity from New York City, Minnesota!

#IceOutofMN #IceOutForGood

And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.

Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.

This is critical because the past two years have seen a lot of viral calls for general strikes on a range of vital issues, but these have rarely materialized into the organizing power & logistical coordination necessary for an actual general strike.

1) The general strike came from organizing for a general strike. Not from social media posting about going on a general strike, but organizing in neighbourhoods, organizing power in unions, and organizations drawing out members and networks.

With so many of us watching the tremendous mobilizations in Minneapolis, culminating in the call to action against ICE today, I wanted to share some of what I have gathered from talking to comrades in Minneapolis over the past few weeks. A few things stood out:

Bluesky never trends these things. Never.

A Huge Group of Faith Leaders Are Blocking a Key Road Outside the Minneapolis–St. Paul Airport The major act of civil disobedience comes as throngs of residents are braving freezing temperatures to make their voices heard.

MINNESOTA SHUTDOWN: Clergy have blocked the road in front of Terminal 1 at MSP while a crowd of thousands sings "before this campaign fails, we'll all go down to jail, everybody has a right to live." Photos are members of UNITE HERE 17 who've been abducted. I'll be updating here throughout the day.

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

Turns out all the fear mongering about China spying on your every move through TikTok was projection

Der Spiegel headline: Der ICE-Kommandant im Nazi-Look Martialisch und effektheischend, so tritt ICE-Kommandant Gregory Bovino gern auf.

I didn't say it. The Germans did.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators filling the streets with signs and banners

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

A whole thread of general strikes and their accomplishments

Reflect on this one with intensity:

Photo of a huge protest in Union Square. Someone holds a handwritten sign that says ice out.

Huge crowd in union square right now. New Yorkers are in solidarity with Minneapolis and every community under siege from ICE.

(Photo by @giligetz.bsky.social)

Essentially, what stops abductions is when crowds outnumber the masked kidnappers. When people aggressively follow ICE with whistles and horns, crowds are ready to show up. If they show up fast enough, ICE leaves and a family is not broken. (People here understand the stakes).

Free Des!

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

Gorgeous!!

They are Bored of Peace

More like Overboard of Peace.

"Everybody in this room is a star. There's a reason that you're here. And you're all stars." [Can someone rewrite this script, please.]

The Titanic sinking, black and white image

Board of Peace

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Here's an easy action you can take right now: Add this phone # for @waisn.bsky.social to your contacts so you know where to call in ICE activity if you see it: 1-844-724-3737. Acronym SALUTE helps you remember most useful things to document & share: Size, Action, Location, Uniform, Time, Equipment.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Half the street corners around here have people--from every walk of life, including republicans--standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.

Walker Art Center joins growing list of organizations closing on Jan. 23 "This reflects our institutional values to center our community, support our staff, and to approach our work with care and safety in mind," a representative says.

oh man, the Walker Art Center is going to be closed on Friday

(If you're not from the Twin Cities, this is like MoMA closing in support of a general strike—a very big deal)