Deva Woodly

ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children to Take Liam Ramos, 5, isn’t the only child in detention. Teachers and parents describe kids being hunted by federal agents.

NEW: School hallways are silent. Grandparents patrol outside in shifts. Two more kids taken from Liam Ramos' school.

Trump isn't deescalating ICE at all at MN schools.

“I stopped wearing my high heels to work. I wear my boots to work because I have had to run." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

It is so grim.

What ICE Should Have Learned from the Fugitive Slave Act Americans took to the streets to defend their neighbors in the nineteenth century, too.

Closest historical corollary to this moment is not the middle twentieth century but the late 19th.

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

All about "reactionary centrism" Michael Hobbes joins me to diagnose the pundit class's obsession with scolding the left while the right burns down the house.

This is a very, very good conversation with @volts.wtf and @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on reactionary centrism and the media. Highly recommended. www.volts.wtf/p/all-about-...

I may have a stroke.

Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”

A PROTESTant.

I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

Transcript: Trump Is Losing a Lot. We Must Celebrate Our Victories Georgetown philosophy professor Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò explains why it’s vital for those resisting Trump to acknowledge and share their successes, both large and small.

"An embrace of policing and the kind of authoritarian politics behind them is an element of convergence between the center-left and the far right. They just both believe in handing money to the people with guns," says @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Senate Democrats’ ICE Proposals Are a Huge and Inexcusable Whiff Their opening bid should have been eight or 10 bold proposals. But as usual, the Democrats start by negotiating with themselves.

"The Democrats are pushing reforms that they know won’t work because they are doing performative, perfunctory opposition to try to quiet their base, instead of real legislating and fighting to dismantle Trump’s ICE and CBP." newrepublic.com/article/2059...

From 1960s to the present, how people “read” a protest is almost always contentious. Was it peaceful? Lawless? A sympathetic cause? Immoral?

Note White House use of “St. Paul Church Riots” bsky.app/profile/atru...

Right after George Floyd was murdered, many on the right—from elected officials to police chiefs—condemned the killing. That moment of narrative consensus, though, was fragile and soon new stories and interpretations gained traction to restore the old partisan divides. Expect similar pattern now.

Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should.

Minnesota is Everywhere: On Coming to Our Senses For Keith, Alex, Renee, Heber, Victor, Parady, Luis, Luis, and Geraldo and For Liam

From Brittney Cooper.

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

Attorney General Pamela... * @AGPamBondi X.com At my direction, early this morning federal agents arrested Don Lemon, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy, in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. More details soon. 8:09 AM • 1/30/26 • 35K Views 384 0 565 2K 49

interested to learn what “at my direction” means because it sounds like “without a warrant”

Charging a Black journalist under the KKK Act for reporting on a protest is a whole new level of fucked up.

The very worst and most common kind.

I mean, I agree. But we have been disappeared! Conspiracy! Conspiracy!

I was GEN Y goddangit! We existed! We were REAL.

I know generations are not really real but I’m still going to pretend those 6 months of the 70s I was alive for do not count.

??????

This is fucking appalling. This is university-administrators’-heads-should-roll appalling.

Most Americans say it is acceptable to record video of immigration officers and share their locations

What Americans think is and isn't acceptable from immigration officers and the general public, per new @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

It’s not often Congress does something that genuinely surprises me.

….And, the Atlantic just hired him as a staff writer 😆 He’s making out like a bandit.

Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, and X the Everything App have been merged into a new company called I Can Keep Doing This Forever And No One Can Stop Me

Yep. Gonna say this does not score positive on my antidote to skepticism meter, tbh.

Teaching exercise that is helpful with my policy students. Based on the solution, hiring this fella to a fancy position and giving him $$$ in this environment, what is the root of skepticism with higher ed that Yale is attempting to solve? Whose skepticism do they seek to assuage?

Look here. Do not mention this man’s name with reference to any future public office. DOA. Non starter. Utter opposite of happening.

NO

Congratulations!