Nathan Chomilo, MD FACP

pretty stunning chart

Soccer is THE most popular sport in the world.

Last week, nearly 800 million(!!) people worldwide tuned into the Manchester city / Liverpool game.

The Washington Post cut its entire sports desk.

New School cancels its class on global soccer and politics.

America is hustling backwards.

The New School Cancelled Their Class on Global Soccer and World Politics. We Are Going To Teach it Anyway. When institutions abandon critical thinking, we build our own classrooms.

NEW:

One of the most progressive institutions in the U.S., The New School, has begun destroying its humanities departments.

They have cancelled one of their most popular classes, "Global Soccer and World Politics."

We are going to teach it anyway.

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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

Since the start of Trump’s second term, the number of children in ICE detention has increased sixfold.

In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.

Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

“I’ve mentioned before that concentration camp regimes in their early stages often make use of large open infrastructure to convert into detention spaces. Dachau was converted from a shuttered factory into a concentration camp in 1933.”

Vinay Prasad will defend your right to drink raw milk. That's freedom.

With vaccines, he decides for the entire country. He controls our health.

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

This is what ICE looks like

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Columbia will never be free of this stain.

City of Minneapolis allocates $1 million for immigration legal services due to increased demand Minneapolis is putting a historic amount of money into immigration legal services

The importance of $1 million in funding for immigration legal services approved by the Minneapolis City Council last week:
“If you don’t have an attorney, 80% of cases in MN end in deportation. If you do have an attorney, 26% of cases end in deportation"
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YouTube video by Nathan Chomilo Health Care Workers Concerned for Conditions & Medical Care for ICE Detainees Rally - MN, 2.7.26

You can see the full Demonstration Video at: youtu.be/cdIv2roZ72s?...

#MedSky #PedSky

MN>ICE in snow on lake at night

This week may we all use our platforms, our power, to lean into love & away from dehumanization.

Call on your Senators - 202-224-3121 - to block funding for ICE. This lawless & violent agency must be defunded. We must find a way forward grounded in a humanity ICE has failed to be capable of
#MedSky

Sign from the Super Bowl - "The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate Is Love"

This action was accompanied by a letter sent to Congressional leaders signed by 650+ Minnesotan health care workers calling for more oversight of these facilities

Bad Bunny showed millions what humanity looks like. It is inclusion, it is truth telling, it is caring for everyone, it is love as power

Headline about 32 deaths in ICE detention in 2025

"No humanity" headline in Star Tribune

Story about a woman shackled at the ankles, forced to share a small cell with 3 other men while in ICE detention in Minneapolis

Whether it be in Minneapolis or Palestine, St. Cloud or Sudan, allowing injustice in health to go unchallenged is shocking & inhumane.

To provide a dose of humanity back to those whose lives were lost in ICE detention, I read just some of the names, $ ages, lost over the last year alone

#MedSky

Health care worker demonstration

Health care worker demonstration

I joined MN health care workers at the federal detention center in Mpls as we lived out our ethical principles of beneficence - an obligation to remove conditions that will cause harm & act to rescue persons in danger - & to justice, ensuring all persons can access fair & equitable treatment
#MedSky

Injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman - Dr. MLK Jr

As the federal government's siege on MN extends into a 3rd month we are hearing more stories of the inhumane conditions that people are experiencing while in detention.

#MedSky

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists.

Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews.

All Black. All doing their jobs.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

There is a heck of a lot going on w/ Medicaid

Monday 2/2 at noon ET @georgetownccf.bsky.social will hold a press availability with our experts to discuss:
- alleged Medicaid fraud in MN
- Medicaid data sharing w/ ICE
- new provider tax rule
- why the child uninsured rate is likely going up
+ more

Doctors offer tips for avoiding ICE when seeking health care As more people skip health care due to fear of ICE, physicians offer ideas for safe, less stressful access.

We know that delayed or forgone care can lead to disastrous results. Thanks to @sahanjournal.bsky.social for sharing the stories of what I & other clinicians are seeing happen in our health care systems & compiling useful guidance for our community members🙏🏾✊🏾 #MedSky

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Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Hundreds of students at the University of Minnesota or Alex pretty attended, joined a midday walk out calling for action from the university. “ we want ice out of Minneapolis said far is one of the walkout organizers “and we want our university to join us and making the call.” University leaders adopted a policy last year, barring the school from issuing statements about matters of public concern unless they directly affect the schools mission or operations.

Institutional neutrality is a straight jacket the campus presidents and boards put themselves in in order to absolve them of any moral obligations to the to the world and community which they reside. Trump’s Compact attempted to codify this practice that many, many campuses adopted on their own.

A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

A picture of the following poem: In a time when kindness Is seen as weakness and cruelty is seen as strength, those who wear their hearts on their sleeves and hold their souls to the light are made to feel all alone in this world that they still love deeply. You are not alone. You are holding the line and fighting for millions upon millions of people by keeping your heart soft by bearing witness by refusing to become apathetic in the face of all this injustice. Be loud. Make future generations who learn your name proud. - Nikitia Gill (posted 7/11/25)

This school year I’ve been reading poetry once or twice a week to my oldest son as he eats breakfast. Today I shared this poem @nikitagill.bsky.social posted last July. I share it here as it is one thing that has helped me & my family today. I hope it does much of the same for you. #MedSky #BlackSky

MIN S3AT STATEMENT FROM MATT MOBERG, CHAPLAIN OF THE MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES IF YOU'RE A CHURCH POSTING PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND UNITY TODAY WHILE MY CITY BLEEDS IN THE STREET, MISS ME WITH THAT SOFTNESS YOU ONLY WEAR WHEN IT COSTS YOU NOTHING. DON'T DRESS AVOIDANCE UP AS HOLINESS. DON'T CALL SILENCE "PEACEMAKING." DON'T LIGHT A CANDLE AND THINK IT SUBSTITUTES FOR SHOWING UP. TONIGHT AN ICE AGENT TOOK A PHOTO OF ME NEXT TO MY CAR, LOOKED ME IN THE EYE AND TOLD ME, "WE'LL BE SEEING YOU SOON." NOT METAPHOR. NOT HYPERBOLE. A THREAT DRESSED UP IN A BADGE AND A PAYCHECK. PEACE ISN'T WHAT YOU ASK FOR WHEN THE BOOT IS ALREADY ON SOMEONE'S NECK. PEACE IS WHAT THE POWERFUL ASK FOR WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO BE INTERRUPTED. UNITY ISN'T NEUTRAL. UNITY THAT REFUSES TO NAME VIOLENCE IS JUST LOYALTY TO THE ONES HOLDING THE WEAPONS. STOP USING SCRIPTURE LIKE CHLOROFORM. STOP CALLING YOUR FEAR "WISDOM." STOP PRETENDING JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED BECAUSE HE PREACHED GOOD VIBES AND PERSONAL GROWTH. YOU DON'T GET TO QUOTE SCRIPTURE LIKE A LULLABY, WHILE INJUSTICE STAYS WIDE AWAKE. YOU DON'T GET TO ASK GOD TO "HEAL THE LAND" IF YOU WON'T EVEN LOOK AT THE WOUND. THERE IS A KIND OF PEACE THAT ONLY EXISTS BECAUSE IT REFUSES TO TELL THE TRUTH. THAT PEACE IS A LIE. AND LIES DON'T GROW ANYTHING WORTH SAVING. THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM. THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT. AND SOMETIMES THE MOST FAITHFUL THING YOU CAN DO IS STOP PRAYING AROUND THE PAIN AND START STANDING INSIDE IT. IF THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE-GOOD. GROWTH ALWAYS IS.

Statement from the Minnesota Timberwolves team chaplain with alt text (ht @gregolear.bsky.social)

Just say the government is lying. The goal of journalism should be to inform, not gaslight.