It's Not Funny

Aliya Rahman is a U.S. citizen who was violently arrested by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. Rahman says she repeatedly told agents she was disabled, but they ignored her pleas for medical attention or other accommodation.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/9/minneapolis_ice

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ACAB

Not necessarily as people. But professionally. As a profession. It's a bad job, a bad class of work, defined entirely by violence against the people.

Fondly remembering the months of weirdness/unhinged comments we got from Pritzker fiends on this app and others for simply (and accurately!) covering state police attacks on protesters outside Broadview. Godspeed to everyone in Minnesota facing the same from the Walz fan club

Will be interesting to see the posture that people take around this today. For my part, I'm glad to see that the white supremacists continue to make it clear how anti-Black and racist they are. It goes to the very top. This is what their weaponization of "woke" was always about.

The mainstream media is OVERWHELMINGLY white. Why and how can they cover this well??? They cannot and will not.

All politicians that are a part of the current system play the games inherent in the system. Mamdani smiled brightly as he stood in the Oval Office next to Trump. This system does not yield power to those unwilling to yield to this system.

ICE agents can't make warrantless arrests in Oregon unless there's a risk of escape, US judge rules A judge says U.S. immigration agents in Oregon must stop arresting people without warrants unless they are likely to escape. U.S.

BREAKING: A federal judge blocks immigration agents from arresting people in Oregon without warrants unless there's a risk of escape.

FINNEAS defends sister Billie Eilish amid online backlash over her anti-ICE comments at GRAMMYs:

“Seeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech. We can literally see your names in the Epstein files.”

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Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge.

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France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US European governments are moving away from U.S. tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives.

European governments are moving away from U.S. tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives.

Federal agents can be charged with crimes under State law when their actions are outside the legal scope of their duties.

Election interference is outside the legal scope of their duties.

States can deploy law enforcement to impede, arrest, and prosecute Fed agents attempting election interference

There's so much about major social organizing campaigns that is serendipitous... The stories we tell in the aftermath make these actions look much more coherent and intentional than they were in real time...

They should not be on the ground in Minneapolis or elsewhere. They simply should not Be.

As the most current example of how meaningless this is, there is body cam footage from the murder of Alex Pretti, but they simply refuse to show it. Why would it be different next time?

Artwork by Monica Trinidad, featuring illustrated tan-colored text on a purple background: “Block It! Don't Build It. Don't Fill It. Don't Fuel It. How are YOU disrupting the ICE kidnapping, detention, & deportation machine?" In the middle are three rows of drawings in orange, tan, and black, depicting: a protest in front of a construction vehicle, transport vans and three Avelo Airlines planes, and hands holding and ripping apart money and a paper with "Palantir" on it.

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A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.

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www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it

I have this great Spanish history book about female prisoners of the Franco regime who managed to communicate with each other and anti fascist cells by encoding messages in knitting patterns they shared. The male guards never checked them because it was "just" women's knitting patterns

After ICE release St. Paul woman, she says agents keep returning to her home Thi Dua Vang legally came to the U.S. two years ago. So when ICE showed up, she thought it must have been a mistake.

Woman with legal status taken from her family home in St Paul by ICE, flown to Texas, held for two weeks before being ordered released by a judge. She lost her job. She's afraid to go outside because agents keep coming to her home.
www.kare11.com/article/news...

Brooklyn Tech Students Walk Out of School to 'Melt ICE' "We were like, we have such a big school, we have so many resources here, we should do something about it."

Here's a nice write-up of an NYC high school's participation, but yes, it got very little coverage overall. hellgatenyc.com/brooklyn-tec...

The reality is that the US would not be taking action to help the Iranian people. The current US regime does not care about Iranians, or any other non-whites. That much should be evident to anyone. So, any pretense of concern for Iranians is an obvious misdirection.

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“Though we live in a world that dreams of ending
that always seems about to give in
something that will not acknowledge conclusion
insists that we forever begin”

- Brendan Kennelly. Begin

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

The hell is a "good shooting?"
That term existing in the lexicon of a society is a sure marker of systemic inhumanity.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February

"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March

"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

"Republicans are far more skeptical of vaccines and twice as likely as Democrats to believe the measles shot is worse than the disease."

Yet another way Republicans pose an existential threat to the rest of us.

🇺🇸 Minneapolis activists track Trump's immigration enforcers

Using encrypted messaging apps and mapping software, volunteers shadow federal officers as they comb Minneapolis looking for undocumented immigrants, to share their whereabouts and document arrests.

I’m old and have a lot less at stake than many people. If I get arrested, I won’t lose my pension. If I get shot, I’ll lose 10-20 years of arthritis getting worse and worse. I have no reason not to rouse a little rabble.

Protesters close schools and stores in nationwide strike against Trump’s immigration policies Protesters held “no work, no school, no shopping” strikes across the U.S. on Friday to oppose the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Protesters close schools and stores in nationwide strike against Trump’s immigration policies