Artie Vierkant

THERE IS NO OUTSIDE

Worth the time

Latest episode of @deathpanel.bsky.social w/Ruth Wilson Gilmore & @craiggilmore.bsky.social on The Anti-State State contextualizes mind-boggling sentences like this.

Services & public goods are framed as "waste" or "bloat" while the spigot of taxpayer $ pours into carceral & administrative systems

RWG: “Many people think if they just stay off the radar in some way, whatever way that is, that they will not be caught up by the trouble. And certainly Alberto Toscano’s book [Late Fascism] and other books show us again and again that there is no outside. And therefore there is no time to lose.”

new death panel with ruthie AND craig about the anti-state state is very, very good

ice trying to threaten my family just bc we live in minneapolis and have a podcast that hates them. Grow up, fucking losers LOL

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 thank you Sam

hard to express how angry this makes me. ICE intimidating people who dare to speak honestly about what it is they're doing. endless love and solidarity to Bea, Artie, their lovely child, and everyone standing up against bullies in uniform

Is it clear yet that ICE is not about immigration?

Not only is the Trump admin NOT backing down on its occupation of Minneapolis, it now seems like they’re trying to use the moves they’ve made to manufacture that perception to keep the courts from stopping them

With the facts on the ground changing by the minute, and with discussions between federal and state officials now active and ongoing, this Court should not massively expand the Tenth Amendment, contravene both the Take Care and Supremacy Clauses, and revolutionize the relationship between the federal government and the States, on the one hand, and between Article II and Article III, on the other. Cf. Tincher v. Noem, No. 26- 1105, 2026 WL 194768, at *1 (8th Cir. Jan. 26, 2026). The Court should instead conclude that Plaintiffs lack a likelihood of success on the merits at this stage and deny their motion for a preliminary injunction.

As I suggested it might a few days ago, the Trump admin is now leveraging the cosmetic changes in Metro Surge to get district court to balk at granting a TRO in Minnesota lawsuit against DHS. Neither we nor the courts should fall for it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

hell is not hot enough

it was the first thing we saw when we woke up and we just looked at each other and burst out laughing

hbd kim!

as someone said over there, “I don’t know what’s going on when Bill Kristol approvingly quote tweets the author of Health Communism”

Evil man Bill Kristol tweeting “Abolish ICE” quote tweeting my partner Beatrice Adler-Bolton’s tweet about being visited by ICE agents the last two days

Indescribably weird stuff going on over on x the everything app

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota.

people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

this is indeed just as pathetic a video as everyone says it is but as a total aside “the CDC director is reading your mean tweets” also perfectly describes my experience of the years 2021-2024

"The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the provision establishing the Medicaid community engagement requirements will reduce federal Medicaid outlays by $325.6 billion from FY2025 to FY2034, & the SNAP provision will ⬇️ federal SNAP outlays by $69 billion over the same 10-year period"

ilhan braver with her bare hands than an ICE goon with a gun

I take it back, saying “grow up” is an insult to children and saying “losers” is an insult to losers

video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight

ice trying to threaten my family just bc we live in minneapolis and have a podcast that hates them. Grow up, fucking losers LOL

“Funds for training” only make state violence more expensive and allow them to polish their impunity and hone their violent tactics at even greater expense (it’s already *at our expense*). Be discerning.

Your federal tax dollars at work. Terrorizing people who dare to speak truth to power.

#IceOut of #Minneapolis

Donate to Critical Rent Assistance for Central Neighborhood Families, organized by Sara Huelle "While ICE wants to disappear us, you are finding us." -Letter… Sara Huelle needs your support for Critical Rent Assistance for Central Neighborhood Families

Help my neighborhood raise money to pay the rent? We met our target but that was just for February. Now the target is to pay everyone's rent for March. And April, and June, and for as long as we must. www.gofundme.com/f/critical-r...

Fascism thrives on spectacle & complicity. CBP/ICE/police are forces of terror that feed off illusions of their own invincibility. Their power depends on us hiding, shrinking & giving into fear. They want deference—we serve back defiance because we know we have each other. Minneapolis doesn’t cower🖤

ICE just showed up at our house for the second day in a row. Four cars yesterday, today five. They rolled up slow, then got out to taunt us, and take pictures of the house. They want fear to overwhelm us, to project a fantasy of power meant to intimidate, isolate, produce obedience—not happening.