nancy a heitzeg

i just want to cry. i have literally just spent the last 6 hours responding to email after email of people begging for rent money or for me to point them in the direction of help, which does not exist.

please @governorwalz.mn.gov. we need an eviction moratorium. there is no other solution.

We're going to win because their side has no good art and they know it.

This is the book cover for "Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform," by Kay Whitlock and Nancy A. Heitzeg. It features the book title, in fractured green lettering against a backdrop of smoke/fog.

Abolish ICE/DHC. For those hoping for reforms - especially better training, better staffing of detention centers, more oversight, etc. - I offer this book of mine, co-written with Nancy Heitzeg (@naheitzeg.bsky.social), "Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform."

There's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this?

This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.

Happy Birthday Dr. Davis. Thank you for everything.

"I will have my vengence, in this life or the next" --Kristi Noem's puppy.

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE

Immigrant Rights Groups Immigrant Rights & Mutual Aid Groups by State This list was compiled from Fair Immigration Reform Movement membership, Win Without War immigration and mutual aid resources, National Network for Immigr...

Immigrant Rights Groups by State. List by @jayapal.house.gov - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I was lucky to write this with @annekosseffjones.bsky.social ❤️

Hundreds of Minnesota Businesses Take Stand Against ICE After protesters called for a pause on economic activity and work to strike against the federal immigration crackdown, many business owners won’t open their doors on Friday.

Top headline on NYT.

Some things are just too big for even them to ignore

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

The Consequences of Factory Farming Are Too Large to Ignore Factory farming is often brushed aside as a niche concern, but it's one of the largest—and most ignored—sources of suffering, environmental destruction, and human harm in the world today.

New from me!

now is the smoke-if-you-got-em era of our discontent

Chuckling at the Nazis being hit with water balloons and then crying 'please stop'

Live: Jake Lang chased from downtown Minneapolis rally; protests grow tense at Whipple Federal agents rushed the crowd at the federal building and used chemical irritants a day after a federal judge banned such tactics against peaceful protesters.

not a fan of @startribune.com, but the daily live feed is not bad.. Not sure how far back it you can take it

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Thank you <3

it’s up to 126,000 unique visitors now. doing my best to keep my head above water with updates!

BREAKING: Judge enters TRO blocking feds from interfering with or arresting peaceful protesters in Minnesota. Judge Kate Menendez, Biden appointee. Order: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

A [short] History of U.S. Police & Tear Gas This is the 6th issue in Mariame Kaba's archival activations series. It was designed by Cindy Lau (October 2024).

Deploying tear gas is an act of war. People have become inured to it but it is toxic and harmful. issuu.com/projectnia/d...

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

I've read most of the scholarship about US policing since the early 20th century. What you learn from this is that violence is inherent. You cannot "separate" out violence from policing. Police in the U.S. are violence workers.

We don't exist in the same reality in this country. Never really have. Here's something I wrote in 2013 about what police in Chicago do to young Black and Brown people REGULARLY: www.usprisonculture.com/2013/02/19/o...

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

Thread. [the shorthand about her that is often uplifted on social media always does her a disservice and also does Rosa Parks one too. Glad for this thread]

the horror of this is compounded by the fact that the whipple building sits on the same military fort where 1600+ Dakota, mostly women and children were held in a concentration camp in 1863, where over 300 died

this is absolutely part of the equation. Look at how virulently angry they are at Renee Good and her wife.

this is war. I don't know why this isn't the language that everyone uses. The Feds are waging war on civilians.

Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.

The fascists don't have the culture. And THIS absolutely enrages them.