Dakota Sillyman

Minneapolis, MN -

Very developing situation here. FPS agents ran into the hotel. Tear gas deployed. Hotel patrons forced to put their hands up. One agent’s nose bloodied.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

One day this will be in reprinted text books and museums. An incredible example of the courage and care that everyday people are currently displaying in the midst of fascist state violence.

Sending so much love to every single person standing against ICE in ways visible and not.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

YouTube video by Jacob Geller Fantasies of Nuremberg

Kind of mad at Jacob Geller for making this video now www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Ay...

the video of another person being murdered by the state on the streets of minneapolis shows exactly what people are saying it shows. make your own choices but don’t feel like you are obligated to bear witness to it. reading a description is enough.

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

I won't repost the video, which is incredibly disturbing, but it looks like ICE just murdered another person in Minneapolis.

Aerial view of a large, peaceful protest on a city street with thousands of people holding signs and banners. The mood is determined and unified.

Extreme cold didn’t stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed out of work, & an estimated 50,000+ marched through downtown Minneapolis.

@sarahlazare.bsky.social with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social reporting.

#ICEOUT

inthesetimes.com/article/minn...

YouTube video by Jacob Geller Fantasies of Nuremberg

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Ay...

Setting the tone from Day 1 😤

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help.

The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:

thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

Third immigrant detainee at facility in El Paso has died, ICE says Camp East Montana on Fort Bliss in El Paso is one of the largest ICE detention centers in the country.

A third immigrant detainee at facility in El Paso has died, ICE says.

I think you're exactly right. People default to Poch because he was good before, but honestly it just doesn't make sense and could be absolutely disastrous.

Did you hear? Dakota thinks we’re cool 😎

We meet every Friday, 10:30-2 at Common Power in downtown Seattle. All welcome, for however much time you can spare

I went to a @wawhistles.bsky.social kit building event earlier today with and it was one million times better than sitting around doom scrolling and honestly more fun than most things. Lot's of cool people and great energy.

Get involved here! linktr.ee/wa.whistles

Abolish ICE. They are monsters.

Seattle friends @waisn.bsky.social and @wawhistles.bsky.social are two accounts you should check out! Lot's of people doing good work out here.

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.

If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

Eyewitness account: Good morning, My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction. I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend. As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it. We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.

Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”

Really listen to it.

One of the things that genuinely shocked me as I read through surveillance logs for the police is how much of their energy and attention is dedicated to shutting down vigils and other ceremonies of remembrance.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

In terms of seeming presidential -- this could have been a good place to be tonight.

Great work Dustin, clearly written with care and attention for the situation at hand rather than simply falling victim to the drama of it all

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie Abolish ICE

a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8