Catherine Fraser
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They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
January 23, 2026 at 8:56 PM
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
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Data for Progress Workers United is proud to stand in solidarity with the people of Minnesota, who are fighting back against ICE’s violent occupation of the state.
ICE out of Minnesota now! Join us here:
www.iceoutnowmn.com #ICEoutofMN
ICE out of Minnesota now! Join us here:
www.iceoutnowmn.com #ICEoutofMN
January 22, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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abolish ice!!!!!!!!!
A 5-year-old preschool student was taken with his father by federal immigration agents shortly after arriving home from school, Columbia Heights school leaders said Jan. 21.
Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says
The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.
bit.ly
January 22, 2026 at 3:53 AM
abolish ice!!!!!!!!!
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ICE is writing secret memos claiming power to invade homes without warrants. They're using children as bait. They're killing.
Congressional Democrats are about to vote to increase their budget by $18 billion.
Call your House rep tonight. The vote may come tomorrow.
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Congressional Democrats are about to vote to increase their budget by $18 billion.
Call your House rep tonight. The vote may come tomorrow.
www.patreon.com/posts/148814...
CTA: $18 Billion More for ICE — WTF Are Congressional Dems Doing? | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
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January 22, 2026 at 2:21 AM
ICE is writing secret memos claiming power to invade homes without warrants. They're using children as bait. They're killing.
Congressional Democrats are about to vote to increase their budget by $18 billion.
Call your House rep tonight. The vote may come tomorrow.
www.patreon.com/posts/148814...
Congressional Democrats are about to vote to increase their budget by $18 billion.
Call your House rep tonight. The vote may come tomorrow.
www.patreon.com/posts/148814...
holy sh*t part one million
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
bit.ly
January 21, 2026 at 10:07 PM
holy sh*t part one million
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However, voters are skeptical that either party has a solution to the cost of living.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
January 20, 2026 at 5:44 PM
However, voters are skeptical that either party has a solution to the cost of living.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
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Seventy percent of voters say that lowering costs would help them more than raising their wages.
Grocery costs are the top expense voters would like to see lowered (40%), followed by housing (23%) and utilities (16%).
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
Grocery costs are the top expense voters would like to see lowered (40%), followed by housing (23%) and utilities (16%).
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
January 20, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Seventy percent of voters say that lowering costs would help them more than raising their wages.
Grocery costs are the top expense voters would like to see lowered (40%), followed by housing (23%) and utilities (16%).
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
Grocery costs are the top expense voters would like to see lowered (40%), followed by housing (23%) and utilities (16%).
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
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NEW: After one year of Trump's second term, voters are still pessimistic about inflation and the state of the economy.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
January 20, 2026 at 5:44 PM
NEW: After one year of Trump's second term, voters are still pessimistic about inflation and the state of the economy.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
good morning, it's a great day to work at @dataforprogress.org -- where we stand firm in our progressive values and use public opinion to lead and persuade, rather than bowing to popularism at the expense of morality.
January 15, 2026 at 5:20 PM
good morning, it's a great day to work at @dataforprogress.org -- where we stand firm in our progressive values and use public opinion to lead and persuade, rather than bowing to popularism at the expense of morality.
Reposted by Catherine Fraser
I have a lengthy video of a long chase yesterday, including one maniacal e-bike rider who was absolutely giving the ICE Wagoneers hell. They’d try to lose us in traffic but the bike didn’t care about traffic
It occurs to me that it also depends on how fast ICE can go in that particular neighborhood. Big streets/no traffic would make bikes less useful because they couldn't keep up, but on narrower downtown streets with traffic, an ebike could easily outpace cars.
January 14, 2026 at 8:13 PM
I have a lengthy video of a long chase yesterday, including one maniacal e-bike rider who was absolutely giving the ICE Wagoneers hell. They’d try to lose us in traffic but the bike didn’t care about traffic
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Someone just called in ICE knocking doors in Uptown and within 5 minutes maybe 100 people had arrived. Probably a false alarm but extremely hard to see how ICE operates with this kind of suffocating neighborhood response. Incredible work Minneapolis. ICE, just give up and get out already.
January 14, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Someone just called in ICE knocking doors in Uptown and within 5 minutes maybe 100 people had arrived. Probably a false alarm but extremely hard to see how ICE operates with this kind of suffocating neighborhood response. Incredible work Minneapolis. ICE, just give up and get out already.
Reposted by Catherine Fraser
The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.
January 15, 2026 at 12:56 AM
The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.
January 14, 2026 at 3:17 PM
more important journalism from @zeteo.com, which you should follow if you don't already
Journalists often go on hand-fed ride-alongs with agents.
Seldom, though, do they get into the cars of everyday people protecting their communities from those same agents.
We just did exactly that, in ICE-occupied Minneapolis:
Seldom, though, do they get into the cars of everyday people protecting their communities from those same agents.
We just did exactly that, in ICE-occupied Minneapolis:
January 13, 2026 at 2:55 PM
more important journalism from @zeteo.com, which you should follow if you don't already
Reposted by Catherine Fraser
Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll:
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
January 13, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll:
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
people are not buying MAGA propaganda
By an even greater margin, voters disagree with using the term "domestic terrorist" to describe Renee Good.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
January 13, 2026 at 2:37 PM
people are not buying MAGA propaganda
"Most people are correct"
NEW: By a -16-point margin, voters say that the ICE officer in Minneapolis was not justified in using lethal force against Renee Good.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
January 13, 2026 at 2:36 PM
"Most people are correct"
so much love for the people of minneapolis
Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon. Agents drop a gas can at the end and someone kicks it back at them.
January 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
so much love for the people of minneapolis
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JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.
@zeteo.com
@zeteo.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:50 PM
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.
@zeteo.com
@zeteo.com
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I really want to see CDR tech mature. But the ways we make CDR bankable (carbon credits, VCMs, etc) are almost universally scams. IMO better to simply just pay for CDR out of the public balance sheet, as a kind of insurance against an uncertain FF phaseout timeline.
January 7, 2026 at 4:08 AM
I really want to see CDR tech mature. But the ways we make CDR bankable (carbon credits, VCMs, etc) are almost universally scams. IMO better to simply just pay for CDR out of the public balance sheet, as a kind of insurance against an uncertain FF phaseout timeline.
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"Rationalist-optimists lack humility in the face of a planetary system."
Really loved this piece from @cathfraser.bsky.social & @noahjgordon.bsky.social taking aim at naive techno-optimist faith in negative-emissions technologies and laying bare our inevitable stranded asset problems.
Must-read.
Really loved this piece from @cathfraser.bsky.social & @noahjgordon.bsky.social taking aim at naive techno-optimist faith in negative-emissions technologies and laying bare our inevitable stranded asset problems.
Must-read.
January 7, 2026 at 4:08 AM
"Rationalist-optimists lack humility in the face of a planetary system."
Really loved this piece from @cathfraser.bsky.social & @noahjgordon.bsky.social taking aim at naive techno-optimist faith in negative-emissions technologies and laying bare our inevitable stranded asset problems.
Must-read.
Really loved this piece from @cathfraser.bsky.social & @noahjgordon.bsky.social taking aim at naive techno-optimist faith in negative-emissions technologies and laying bare our inevitable stranded asset problems.
Must-read.
Reposted by Catherine Fraser
In The Long Heat, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton take aim at what they call rationalist-optimists — people who naively believe that market solutions can fix the climate crisis.
But their sweeping critique runs the risk of abandoning all hope in the future.
But their sweeping critique runs the risk of abandoning all hope in the future.
Capitalists Want You to Stop Worrying About Climate Change
In The Long Heat, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton take aim at what they call rationalist-optimists — people who naively believe that market solutions can fix the climate crisis. But their sweeping critique runs the risk of abandoning all hope in the future.
jacobin.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:00 PM
In The Long Heat, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton take aim at what they call rationalist-optimists — people who naively believe that market solutions can fix the climate crisis.
But their sweeping critique runs the risk of abandoning all hope in the future.
But their sweeping critique runs the risk of abandoning all hope in the future.
Reposted by Catherine Fraser
The Long Heat is one of the most important climate books of the decade.
Andreas Malm & Wim Carton savage the "rationalist-optimists" who believe that carbon removal and SRM will solve the crisis.
@cathfraser.bsky.social and I review it for
@jacobinmag.bsky.social!
@versobooks.bsky.social
Andreas Malm & Wim Carton savage the "rationalist-optimists" who believe that carbon removal and SRM will solve the crisis.
@cathfraser.bsky.social and I review it for
@jacobinmag.bsky.social!
@versobooks.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 9:33 PM
The Long Heat is one of the most important climate books of the decade.
Andreas Malm & Wim Carton savage the "rationalist-optimists" who believe that carbon removal and SRM will solve the crisis.
@cathfraser.bsky.social and I review it for
@jacobinmag.bsky.social!
@versobooks.bsky.social
Andreas Malm & Wim Carton savage the "rationalist-optimists" who believe that carbon removal and SRM will solve the crisis.
@cathfraser.bsky.social and I review it for
@jacobinmag.bsky.social!
@versobooks.bsky.social
A fun collab with @noahjgordon.bsky.social reviewing one of my top books of 2025. tough to give the book justice in just a couple thousand words!
check it out, and do check out The Long Heat!
check it out, and do check out The Long Heat!
In The Long Heat, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton take aim at what they call rationalist-optimists — people who naively believe that market solutions can fix the climate crisis.
But their sweeping critique runs the risk of abandoning all hope in the future.
But their sweeping critique runs the risk of abandoning all hope in the future.
Capitalists Want You to Stop Worrying About Climate Change
In The Long Heat, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton take aim at what they call rationalist-optimists — people who naively believe that market solutions can fix the climate crisis. But their sweeping critique runs the risk of abandoning all hope in the future.
jacobin.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:14 PM
A fun collab with @noahjgordon.bsky.social reviewing one of my top books of 2025. tough to give the book justice in just a couple thousand words!
check it out, and do check out The Long Heat!
check it out, and do check out The Long Heat!
we were in Craig and the Yampa Valley last summer talking to residents about what the transition away from coal meant to them, and what they may want next for the area. full findings here: www.dataforprogress.org/memos/12/16/...
January 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM
we were in Craig and the Yampa Valley last summer talking to residents about what the transition away from coal meant to them, and what they may want next for the area. full findings here: www.dataforprogress.org/memos/12/16/...