Paul G

I’m starting to think that whole liberal media trope was a useful contrivance used to consolidate corporate control vis a vis Republican rule…

Share it every day for a week.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

YouTube video by The Second City SCTV - Lola's Love Spirit

Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread

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YouTube video by Lautaro Gillette - Short Dick Man (Original)

An ICE vehicle and driver is stationed up on 43rd and Humboldt with a most of the neighborhood there and folks are playing Short Dick Man and having a dance party with bull horns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcre...

Bingo

Hey, you won’t be able to safely leave your neighborhood, but imagine all of those lovely roads waiting for you if you could!

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Perry: Abolish ICE? How about DHS altogether. "We have models for how to structure federal immigration oversight that doesn't rely on an unaccountable masked secret police force running rampant in our streets," David M. Perry writes.

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

Bauer, who is 49, struggled to maintain her composure as she described the day early this month when ICE showed up in force outside her school. Agents had been circling the school since December, seemingly learning its routines, and they arrested some parents just before the winter break. But this time, agents leapt out in riot gear and began entering the apartments just across from the school, where many students live. “We had to lock down and keep the kids inside, and parents linked arms to block the school entrance,” Bauer said. “We had a student who was looking out the window and saw them break into his apartment and just sobbed, ‘That’s my house. That’s my home.’ And we shut the blinds, but it was too late.”

The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

Real patriots are righteously angry. These crimes mirror those that the American Revolution was fought over. We need leaders who feel this, too and can speak to it.

I know this is tiresomely pedantic, but we need to be clear that Congress needs to defund, abolish, and prosecute ICE *and* Border Patrol.

Would a Nazi do that?

Thank you. Insane that this is a bold statement from a Dem officeholder, but thank you.

A thread about a city that I love.

Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.

A 5-year-old preschool student was taken with his father by federal immigration agents shortly after arriving home from school, Columbia Heights school leaders said Jan. 21.

Senator Chris McDipshit

Let me help. You can try to convince your Republican colleagues to do their fucking job to end this of they care about their oath or he’s going to keep ratcheting things up and will likely do it anyway.

People are being tortured and murdered in the street. the idea that in addition to this, we have to call our reps and tell them we dont like it seems insane.

Disaster as a news chief, but hell of a fascist!

Why is the follow up not a suggestion that this worthless sack of shit do us all a favor and remove his head from his ass?

Paging Chuckles

ICE actions are not a radical break but an intensification and extension of bipartisan consensus on the need for punitive immigration policy. Since its post-9/11 creation, people have warned that the tools given to ICE would eventually be turned on citizens.

this has been the central, animating principle of American conservatism for decades

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

Yes!

Hang in there, haha

Love and solidarity