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@amandashmanda.bsky.social

Finally PhDid it! Dr. of Conservation Science, focused on sustainable agriculture and curriculum development to support collective action. Higher Ed has got to do better!

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A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

03.02.2026 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4333    πŸ” 2330    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 30
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Donate to Help Save Mercado Central from Closure, organized by Cooperativa Mercado Central Mercado Central, a cooperative founded by latino entrepeneurs with… Cooperativa Mercado Central needs your support for Help Save Mercado Central from Closure

Mercado Central - a Minneapolis cooperative housing 35 small businesses - is halfway to goal of $500k to save the co-op & these hard-earned family businesses, livelihoods, and cultural landmark that the city would be poorer without. Please give (+share w/rich people)
www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-...

03.02.2026 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Columbia Heights (Liam's school district) cancelled school today because of a credible bomb threat at Liam's elementary and multiple ICE vehicles parking in the high school staff parking lot at 6:15am.

02.02.2026 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1816    πŸ” 575    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 90
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'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.

www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...

01.02.2026 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2703    πŸ” 1017    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 78

Police departments in targeted deep-blue cities keep on saying they’ll try to stop ICE from breaking the law and then they do jack shit except occasionally arrest some protesters.

Its notable they’re even saying these things, but lets focus on what their actions have always and continue to tell us.

01.02.2026 03:53 β€” πŸ‘ 419    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

While this is a banger of a story, let's look again at that image of three federal officiers with guns drawn and pointed at an unarmed observer in her car. She's a citizen, but her status isn't really the point. These "officers" are the problem, and you can plainly see why.

31.01.2026 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2523    πŸ” 270    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 2
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ICE Begins Buying β€˜Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.

This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 β€” literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

30.01.2026 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5743    πŸ” 3703    πŸ’¬ 490    πŸ“Œ 639
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Seems like one of those issues that should greatly concern everyone regardless of their politics.

29.01.2026 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 9680    πŸ” 4198    πŸ’¬ 561    πŸ“Œ 358

FUCK NO. There are like 50 people who are more qualified than her and did not vote to confirm a murderer’s row of fascists to cabinet positions and lifetime judgeships

29.01.2026 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 135    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

This deal is completely inadequate and unacceptable. These minor reforms will do nothing to end the violence unleashed by ICE & CBP goon squads. The only goal here is to allow the Dems to pretend they've solved the problem.

28.01.2026 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Does a β€œreform” further empower your enemies or take power and resources away from them? Some of you need to sit with this question.

27.01.2026 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 832    πŸ” 241    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 10

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call β€œsymbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

26.01.2026 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 20739    πŸ” 8639    πŸ’¬ 271    πŸ“Œ 716

Meanwhile while tens of thousands of folx marched downtown, untold numbers kept up patrols and mutual aid runs, clergy shut down part of the airport, little protests all over the metro, businesses closed everywhere...and these folx barricaded ICE from going in or out of Whipple for over half an hour

24.01.2026 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions.

We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying πŸ‘‡

24.01.2026 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1565    πŸ” 921    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 42

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article.

Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

22.01.2026 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4542    πŸ” 3055    πŸ’¬ 108    πŸ“Œ 229

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

22.01.2026 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 15502    πŸ” 5796    πŸ’¬ 141    πŸ“Œ 1573
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THEY USED A FIVE YEAR OLD AS BAIT

22.01.2026 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 295    πŸ” 121    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 39

Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.

20.01.2026 07:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3030    πŸ” 502    πŸ’¬ 144    πŸ“Œ 39

We're not talking enough about how much the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department run by Dawanna Witt is collaborating with ICE. Arresting at Whipple, working with ICE to arrest legal observers, failing to trespass ICE when not welcome in hospitals and schools. Shame.

19.01.2026 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 329    πŸ” 124    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 8
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ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice.

ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate

www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

19.01.2026 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1673    πŸ” 813    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 80

National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as β€œprotests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3

18.01.2026 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2452    πŸ” 828    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 83

Minnesota, make his name known

18.01.2026 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 168    πŸ” 114    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4

It's particularly galling to call for ICE to wear body cams when Renee Good's murder literally recorded the whole thing on his phone. He was so confident in his impunity as part of that organization that he recorded and allowed for the release of footage of him shooting a woman at point blank.

16.01.2026 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2673    πŸ” 700    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 21

One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, β€”and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.

16.01.2026 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 7278    πŸ” 2233    πŸ’¬ 395    πŸ“Œ 494
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@angiecraigmn.bsky.social was the ONLY Minnesota Democrat to vote for the Laken Riley Act. The only one to vote to praise ICE.

Even today, with ICE in our streets, she stands by her pro-Trump votes.

14.01.2026 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 302    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 13

Moratorium on evictions, NOW.

15.01.2026 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was supposed to be in bed an hour ago but sending links and videos to people so they know to avoid the green gas (zinc chloride).

Once a lab steward, always a lab steward.

Seriously, I was a chemist twenty years ago, you do NOT want heavy metal toxicity. It fucks you up in weird ways.

15.01.2026 05:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1168    πŸ” 481    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 30

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.

If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

15.01.2026 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 17876    πŸ” 8404    πŸ’¬ 303    πŸ“Œ 493

WHY are news stations reading DHS statements out loud as if they have ANY credibility at all? They literally murdered a woman in cold blood LAST WEEK and are still lying about what happened, even though we can see what happened. That any credibility would be given to their statement is insane

15.01.2026 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6171    πŸ” 1209    πŸ’¬ 113    πŸ“Œ 57

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