Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
29.01.2026 21:49 — 👍 3057 🔁 1444 💬 73 📌 67
Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”
30.01.2026 00:41 — 👍 1957 🔁 344 💬 31 📌 90
Everyone's saying Chuck Schumer caved. But.... I'm legitimately shocked John Thune agreed to split DHS from the minibus when he did not need to do so.
29.01.2026 23:37 — 👍 118 🔁 15 💬 10 📌 1
I certainly would not have been able to write my story about all the bravery I witnessed in Minneapolis without the access I was given! bsky.app/profile/whst...
29.01.2026 21:22 — 👍 2382 🔁 384 💬 11 📌 4
More than a year in this has mostly gone as I feared, and in some ways has been worse. But there have been two contrasting surprises:
-- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation
-- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people
Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.
29.01.2026 15:09 — 👍 1611 🔁 471 💬 34 📌 21
It’s easy to forget since he’s still a high public official but Homan straight up took $50,000 in cash from undercover agents on camera and then nothing happened
29.01.2026 14:53 — 👍 5540 🔁 1839 💬 122 📌 65
Consider whether you really need that app on your phone. You probably don’t! Third party apps leak a ton of data and we know people get tracked that way. If you don’t need it, delete it
For the apps you do need, go through their privacy settings & turn location services to never or only when using
28.01.2026 21:08 — 👍 425 🔁 69 💬 2 📌 4
Billy Bragg dropped a banger!
29.01.2026 04:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is a lot of the Bay Area's urban core.
29.01.2026 00:07 — 👍 70 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 0
I'm relieved @repilhan.bsky.social is okay after she was attacked at her town hall last night. But Trump’s response was shameful — & Republicans should say so.
His baseless & racist attacks against her have no doubt endangered her. His inability to condemn the attack is appalling.
28.01.2026 14:44 — 👍 554 🔁 116 💬 40 📌 8
I feel like each city contributed to the model and took learnings from previous invasions. Portland created social awareness & set a peaceful tone with the inflatable costumes. Chicago added the whistles, observers, and tailing cars. The Twin Cities added mass organizing & resilience.
27.01.2026 20:33 — 👍 48 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller
28.01.2026 03:19 — 👍 16752 🔁 4492 💬 711 📌 563
This mid-afternoon Alex Pretti vigil at the Portland VA was not heavily promoted. But the crowd probably stretches a quarter mile or more. Americans are galvanized and grieving.
27.01.2026 23:47 — 👍 18545 🔁 4536 💬 285 📌 164
Hotline operators report flood of calls for rental assistance as residents hide during ICE surge
211 calls from Spanish-speakers have increased more than 1,600 percent and requests for rental assistance have more than tripled, according to Greater Twin Cities United Way. Local officials are pushi...
Minneapolis has seen a stunning 1,646% spike in calls from families who can't pay rent because they're afraid to leave their homes to work.
This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time.
People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.
27.01.2026 21:03 — 👍 2889 🔁 1343 💬 32 📌 62
My only quibble with this is: he was not protesting. He was acting in his capacity as a legal observer
27.01.2026 17:11 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents.
“There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me.
If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.
One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
27.01.2026 14:38 — 👍 5429 🔁 1490 💬 92 📌 107
Announcing that you’re blocking a person is one of the most tedious Bluesky traits. Just get on with it
27.01.2026 14:39 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
👀 Judge Schlitz, the chief federal judge in Minnesota, has ordered the head of ICE, Todd Lyons, to appeal personally in court Friday and threatened him with contempt for the agency’s repeated violation of court orders.
“The court’s patience is at an end.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
27.01.2026 11:34 — 👍 9500 🔁 2752 💬 205 📌 184
the worst is when i check a book out from the library and then *buy it anyway*
27.01.2026 06:56 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Political Scientists would call it a "tactical concession" (RRS' Spiral Model). Human rights and democracy campaigners need to make sure it leads to more gains (positive spiral) instead of stalling progress (negative spiral).
27.01.2026 00:40 — 👍 410 🔁 175 💬 2 📌 6
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
26.01.2026 23:35 — 👍 20671 🔁 8631 💬 274 📌 716
Journalists and observers in Minneapolis:
Please send me photos of spent munitions (grenade, hand sprayed, etc.). Only when safe to approach, fumes may be toxic!
Photos before use also helpful.
Much confusion on green gas. Color is just dye, unclear which are OC, CS, etc. Canisters can confirm.
27.01.2026 00:01 — 👍 41 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 0
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
26.01.2026 23:40 — 👍 10504 🔁 3214 💬 1296 📌 3699
Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
26.01.2026 21:27 — 👍 3033 🔁 2684 💬 54 📌 356
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