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Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.

Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.

As well as everyone else who stepped up.

Minnesota suburbs see ‘stealthier’ tactics as ICE stays active Minnesota residents and lawmakers say the promised drawdown has not materialized, and they are seeing ICE use more covert tactics to continue operations across Twin Cities suburbs.

Minnesota residents and lawmakers say the promised drawdown has not materialized, and they are seeing ICE use more covert tactics to continue operations across Twin Cities suburbs.

By @ncsscibelli.bsky.social

Drawing by Greg Pak of a couple sitting on a cozy couch reading a book to a smiling toddler. Purple watercolor feel. Text reads: Keep Minnesota Housed visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds #keepMNhoused

Keep Minnesota Housed, friends!

Visit keepMNhoused.com today to adopt a rent or donate to a rent fund to help families affected by ICE stay in their homes.

#keepMNhoused

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CHICAGO: be aware that Tesla is heavily testing its extremely janky "robotaxi" service in your city. We've seen job listings going back months, and now I'm hearing on the ground reports of testing in both regular Teslas (likely facelifted Model Y) and "Cybercab" prototypes.

Be on the lookout!

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Dehumanizing Humans, Personifying Computers: Why Modern Fascism Wants You to be Lonely Welcome to fully-automated luxury fascism. Can I take your personhood?

"I’ve been thinking about the concept of running to other people ever since.

It’s incredibly powerful to seek out other people when the fascists are shoving us versus them down our throats."
www.theflytrapmedia.com/dehumanizing...

Facing racism in the sport head on, Surya Bonaly landed the banned backflip on one foot and made history anyway ⛸️ 💥

I cannot be the only person thinking about how Surya Bonaly was treated for doing the same back flips on the ice that these white boys are getting applauded for at the Olympics today

From men’s figure skating: Stephen Gogolev 🇨🇦 is an anime fan and I will not be taking questions or feedback at this time.

No Selves to Defend The Legacy of Criminalizing Self-Defense and Survival

I included Rosa Lee in my No Selves to Defend Project - noselves2defend.wordpress.com - you can read about her in the zine.

This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.

No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.

I know too much about what we do to incarcerated children in the U.S. I started and ran an organization focused on this for almost 15 years. Immigrant children are being treated terribly.

It didn’t start there. They were open about attacking Bloggers/ tumblrs and others with “SJW” and protect our discourse “

Black female professors were getting dinged as early as 2007 and attacks on ethnic studies ramped up in 2009 .

Black women have been clear about this for years

This is a key moment right here

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.

From lrt— Sam Irby blurbed this book so this is my first pre-order tomorrow 😍

Please buy books that are coming out this year.

Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky

Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

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ICE’s Child Abductions Echo the Gestapo’s — But Its Tactics Are Homegrown ICE’s kidnapping of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and other kids echoes the US’s long history of child snatching.

The forced abductions of Liam Conejo Ramos and other children are deeply reminiscent of the forcible abduction of Indigenous children in the 19th century.

The massive government funding package just failed badly in the Senate, 45-55.

Needed 60.

Zero Democrats voted for it.

SEVEN Republicans opposed it:

Budd
Johnson
Lee
Paul
Moody
Rick Scott
Tuberville

(John Thune switched his vote to no for procedural reasons.)

When Mariame Kaba told us that hope is a discipline, I always understood that to mean "I am hopeful in so far as I do". I have never felt an unfounded optimism, but organizing for 20+ years has showed me that so much more is possible.

HOLD THE LINE. NO FUNDING FOR THE GESTAPO.

The Doctor Doom toots meme reworked to support Minnesota using whistles to disrupt the fascist activities of ICE.

Stay Strong 💪

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Something I've been trying to impart on people is that the ICE occupation in Minnesota is both an ethnic cleansing and an ideological terror campaign. It's clear that the second part has utterly failed; the community is not terrified. But ICE is now desperately trying to salvage the first part.

I cannot emphasize enough how important it is that we get rid of Miller. His race war fantasies have informed the vision behind the federal assaults on US cities, as I discussed here.