Rebecca Orchant

Turn! These fuckin things! Off!

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

Oh, you mean the thing that can’t count to 100?

Wait — this thing?

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It’s easy to be filled despair by how much need there is for help — but nothing has felt better than knowing we’re helping people pay their rent and get out of detention. You know people who have the money to help, sometimes they just need a nudge.

Thanks to @ziibiing.com for your hard work on this project! One of the most useful organizing tools I’ve ever seen.

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

Threw a gigantic 5-DJ party in Ptown last night, sending all the proceeds from the door and bar to Minnesota mutual aid to the tune of $5k. We knew where to focus thanks to standwithminnesota.com. Big “joy is an act of resistance” energy. Whatever you’re good at can be used to help other people!

It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished.

I have neighbors everywhere.

Have never seen someone put this better.

Actually my favorite scene in comedy history.

Would absolutely watch the “Men Experiencing Consequences Olympics.”

Ugh — *in the line of

In my defense, I’m seething with rage.

So… how many ICE/CBP agents have been killed in the of duty as a result of this “unprecedented aggression?”

Yeah, for some reason I don’t think bringing your kids to Child Rape Island is as good of an excuse as you think it is.

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

And I mean in every way — sartorially, culinarily, socially — they make better art than you, they write cooler words, even the fucking mobility of their hips just mops the fucking floor with you.

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Demonizing multiculturalism is such a stupid philosophical pratfall because everyone you’re trying to make into the enemy is so much fucking cooler than you.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Every time one of you starts your beautiful, shiny, new newsletter on this platform, it chips away a piece of my heart. Knock it off.

Willa from “One Battle After Another” asks Lockjaw why his shirt’s so tight.

If it weren’t for that Mayor Mamdani clip this morning, this phone would 100% be at the bottom of the sea.

Oh, well this explains “congragulations.”

Chuck, our house is on fire and you’re suggesting a ten point plan to regulate the kind of hose we’re allowed to use to put it out in the future. The house is on fire now, man. This sucks.

We’re constantly meeting new people.

“Oh, hey you! Nice to see you too!”

This movie also contributed 100% to my childhood anxiety that I would be framed for murder.

Have been scheming on my first Japan trip, and these updates are so inspiring!

Reasons to be cheerful — or at least, not in complete despair.