Artie Vierkant

Ice luminaries on Lake Nokomis, which is on a flight path from MSP airport. #ICEout

I personally don't tell people who have been fighting their hearts out daily for weeks not to celebrate wins of any size. I certainly don't do that when I've been nowhere near the place where the fight has been happening and have done little more than make some donations from miles away.

I'm thinking about this in the twin cities. we are winning but what are we going to do the way after we win?

someone at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis is holding a painting of the hat 5 year old liam ramos was wearing when he was abducted by ICE in columbia heights. all too much

metro transit putting up signs on 2600 nicollet warning of bus detours due to alex pretti’s memorial site

pet theory is widdle baby was just scared he was gonna get [redacted]

That's fucking funny as hell and we could all use a good laugh and a solid reminder that these are fragile piss babies who hate each other and themselves

I know we're all traumatized by past failures, liberal recuperation and seeing movements fall apart for silly or even no reason but like cmon this dude was marching around dressed like a reichsfuhrer less than a week ago and now hes headed home in shame and failure because he got his ASS KICKED

People running out into -20° at the sound of a whistle know "this isn't over", they have a good grasp on the scale of the conflict celebrating a piece of shit getting shitcanned for an hour is not some failure of militancy or political imagination dont let fight or flight fear drive yr analysis

Ruthie and Craig: “Don’t just think about winning, think about what you’re going to do the day after you win”

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.”

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Fewer of them, more of us. Don’t let up.

Read closely any of these anonymous critiques from DHS officials and you will notice it all boils down to frustration with the PR “strategy.” Matches with critiques of training and transparency. This is why you always need to ask, is the concern with the presentation or mission?

We've lost many struggles and often we've failed to take opportunities we should have seized. I dont mean to be pollyannaish. But I also think we're capable of actually abolishing this world, not in theory but us, now, today, not just in one government overthrow but in a long deep social revolution.

The future is unwritten and things are extremely fucking bad right now in so many ways. But when I look out at the streets of MPLS, and compare what it feels like now to what it felt like in 2009, we are so much more powerful, so much more organized, educated, and practiced in both care and combat

We have been building for 15 years. There have been so many disappointments, set-backs, scandals, outrages, collapses and defeats in that time that the slow, patient work of building relationships, communities, norms and values has been overlooked. But the US population has been transformed

Despite/because of the total fascistic control of the media they haven't even been able to get non-violence discourse off the ground (despite the fact that 1.5 years ago there was a huge return of NV ideology re: Gaza encampments)

If you work for ICE, most people actually do despise you.

There is nothing that can prepare you for seeing a ghost car, knowing one or more of your neighbors was taken and you weren’t there to stop it. No matter how many you see.

a flyer that reads: Urgent Call!! for donations to Twin Cities Swoletariat Bail Fund for a comrade facing federal repression. Venmo @TCSwoletariat CashApp $TCSwoletariat

I'll be sharing a few more fundraisers from the twin cities, and once again, I am only sharing those that are vouched for by people I personally know who are on the ground.

This is a bail fund that helps people who were arrested and are facing charges.

Crips for eSims for Gaza Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

PS WE ARE IN THE RED AGAIN AND WE KNOW EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING BUT WE ARE STILL HERE AND KNOW SOME PEOPLE MAY NOT KNOW THIS, SO IF YOU WANNA DONATE, HIT THE CHUFFED chuffed.org/project/crip... we gotta reimb people particularly in the UK and Canada but any currency works.

Normal life has for obvious reasons felt on pause here for some time so it feels strange to be back at work today, but fitting that work is on tomorrow’s episode of Death Panel — with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore, on the current conjuncture and the concept they call the “anti-state state”

Craig Gilmore on tomorrow’s @deathpanel.bsky.social

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Out now:

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i go to sleep every night and wake up every day thinking about how many thousands of families in mn are not going to be able to pay their rent this month and how there is no system and no easy answer to fix this.

all the good people i know are working on it. but there is no solution today. again.

Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (01/22/26) To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about their work

@pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me were on @reallandsend.bsky.social's Death Panel podcast to talk about Crips for eSims for Gaza, "how disabled people built and sustained an internationalist solidarity mutual aid project under siege, grief + death." on.soundcloud.com/utzFoAVtN4OK...

Here's our recent Death Panel chat, notable for the great fun we had talking with @reallandsend.bsky.social & getting to meet the newest of the DP gang:

Ruthie and Craig: “Don’t just think about winning, think about what you’re going to do the day after you win”

Teaser - The Anti-State State w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore (01/26/26) Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/149118289 In the shadow of the federal occupation of Minneapolis and a year of catastrophic

Teaser here for “The Anti-State State” w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore:

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