DebraToTheLeft
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Fierce fighter for Democracy living in Minnesota
Cancer survivor and #Healthcare voter
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wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.
Opinion | This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play
www.nytimes.com
What we all need to read about the OCCUPATION of Minneapolis and suburbs happening NOW.
Door to door, “show us your papers”
Breaking car windows, abducting people
Injuring and killing Minnesotans:
Door to door, “show us your papers”
Breaking car windows, abducting people
Injuring and killing Minnesotans:
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EXCLUSIVE: A Ukrainian dad escaped Vladimir Putin’s drone and missile attacks back home only to be grabbed by a band of laughing ICE stooges in a Walmart parking lot in Minneapolis.
Laughing ICE Goons Seize Dad Who Fled Ukraine War at Walmart
Dmytro Kulyk is facing deportation as refugees become the Trump administration’s latest target.
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February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
EXCLUSIVE: A Ukrainian dad escaped Vladimir Putin’s drone and missile attacks back home only to be grabbed by a band of laughing ICE stooges in a Walmart parking lot in Minneapolis.
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The government has time to defend an ICE shooting on TV, but not to answer the Good family’s letters to preserve evidence in Renee’s killing. No outreach, no accountability, and reported talk of investigating her grieving wife instead. That’s how authoritarian systems treat state violence.
Lawyer for Renee Good's family: There has been no outreach at all from the United States government to the Renee Good family. We have asked for the government to preserve all the evidence in this case. They are not responding to us.
February 13, 2026 at 2:37 AM
The government has time to defend an ICE shooting on TV, but not to answer the Good family’s letters to preserve evidence in Renee’s killing. No outreach, no accountability, and reported talk of investigating her grieving wife instead. That’s how authoritarian systems treat state violence.
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In an interview with Christiane Amanpour, historian Robert Kagan says all major US institutions have buckled before Trump. Only the people are resisting, he says, citing the scenes from the streets of Minneapolis which utterly infuriate Trump and his cronies, driving them to lethal violence.
‘The United States is now a hostile and potentially predatory nation’, says conservative historian | CNN
In a new column in The Atlantic, Robert Kagan writes that Donald Trump “managed in one year to destroy the American order that was.”
www.cnn.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:40 AM
In an interview with Christiane Amanpour, historian Robert Kagan says all major US institutions have buckled before Trump. Only the people are resisting, he says, citing the scenes from the streets of Minneapolis which utterly infuriate Trump and his cronies, driving them to lethal violence.
It’s NO WONDER everyone in the Twin Cities is SKEPTICAL of the “end of Operation Metro Surge”.
They don’t appear to be going away anytime soon.
They don’t appear to be going away anytime soon.
Does the arrival of shiny new vehicles seem like an indicator of de-mobilization?
February 13, 2026 at 3:43 AM
It’s NO WONDER everyone in the Twin Cities is SKEPTICAL of the “end of Operation Metro Surge”.
They don’t appear to be going away anytime soon.
They don’t appear to be going away anytime soon.
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under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime
February 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime
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We've prepared a zine version of our text "Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities," describing the dynamic and resilient system that people in the Twin Cities have developed to keep the pressure on ICE.
Please print and distribute!
crimethinc.com/zines/rapid-...
Please print and distribute!
crimethinc.com/zines/rapid-...
February 11, 2026 at 6:56 PM
We've prepared a zine version of our text "Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities," describing the dynamic and resilient system that people in the Twin Cities have developed to keep the pressure on ICE.
Please print and distribute!
crimethinc.com/zines/rapid-...
Please print and distribute!
crimethinc.com/zines/rapid-...
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“Visible state violence against sympathetic civilians was the beginning of the end for Jim Crow. It may be a turning point now, too.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...
Opinion | We’re Seeing the Weakness of a Strong State
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:28 PM
“Visible state violence against sympathetic civilians was the beginning of the end for Jim Crow. It may be a turning point now, too.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...
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The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.
A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.
Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans trained as constitutional observers
The Immigrant Defense Network works with more than 100 organizations to help train constitutional observers. At the end of November, there were 2,500 trained observers. That number has soared as more ...
www.mprnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 1:09 PM
The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.
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Mayor Frey on Tom Homan saying DHS had "some issues" in Minneapolis: "'Issues' would be certainly the understatement of the century. These are people that should be alive today. Alex and Renee were standing up for their neighbors. Constitutionally protected activity was taking place."
February 13, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Mayor Frey on Tom Homan saying DHS had "some issues" in Minneapolis: "'Issues' would be certainly the understatement of the century. These are people that should be alive today. Alex and Renee were standing up for their neighbors. Constitutionally protected activity was taking place."
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“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”
BREAKING: Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, has issued a TRO in the Minnesota access-to-counsel case about treatment at Whipple.
"It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."
"It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."
February 13, 2026 at 12:24 AM
“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”
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Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
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Congratulations, Rich Ruohonen, on becoming the oldest winter Olympian ever.
And thank you for this beautiful and brave statement:
And thank you for this beautiful and brave statement:
February 12, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Congratulations, Rich Ruohonen, on becoming the oldest winter Olympian ever.
And thank you for this beautiful and brave statement:
And thank you for this beautiful and brave statement:
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ICE may have lost the battle for public opinion, and its operation may be hampered by local pushback, but it has succeeded in one respect: It has instilled terror in Minnesota’s immigrant communities, forcing them into the shadows.
Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: buff.ly/eSAhblK
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February 12, 2026 at 3:35 PM
ICE may have lost the battle for public opinion, and its operation may be hampered by local pushback, but it has succeeded in one respect: It has instilled terror in Minnesota’s immigrant communities, forcing them into the shadows.
Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: buff.ly/eSAhblK
Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: buff.ly/eSAhblK
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Blumenthal on administrative warrants: "This is not a warrant. It's a permission slip. It's a green light from another ICE agent to go bash down a door, smash into a home, detain and arrest someone without a judge finding probable cause."
February 12, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Blumenthal on administrative warrants: "This is not a warrant. It's a permission slip. It's a green light from another ICE agent to go bash down a door, smash into a home, detain and arrest someone without a judge finding probable cause."
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Sarah Longwell: "This is the Epstein administration because there are two types of people in it — there are people who are in the Epstein files and there are people who are covering up the Epstein file."
February 12, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Sarah Longwell: "This is the Epstein administration because there are two types of people in it — there are people who are in the Epstein files and there are people who are covering up the Epstein file."
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In addition to ripping Hegseth to shreds and ruling for Sen Kelly, Judge Leon communicates a sort of direct popular outrage with different unusual stylistic passages in his opinion, including the line from Subterranean Homesick Blues "you dont need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
February 12, 2026 at 7:02 PM
In addition to ripping Hegseth to shreds and ruling for Sen Kelly, Judge Leon communicates a sort of direct popular outrage with different unusual stylistic passages in his opinion, including the line from Subterranean Homesick Blues "you dont need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
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NEW: Senate Democrats REJECT funding for DHS, which will lead to shutdown of the agency. Keep in mind, ICE and CBP are still funded by supplemental money in the BBB, but it's harder to spend and will deplete those funds. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Senate Democrats Block DHS Measure as Funding Deadline Approaches
Lawmakers say they remain far apart on deal on Homeland Security to put new restrictions on immigration enforcement
www.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:42 PM
NEW: Senate Democrats REJECT funding for DHS, which will lead to shutdown of the agency. Keep in mind, ICE and CBP are still funded by supplemental money in the BBB, but it's harder to spend and will deplete those funds. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Either Stephen Miller was lying then or the head of CBP is lying now about the Trump regime's account of Alex Pretti's murder.
This is important. The head of CBP says here that his agency did NOT provide the assessment that led DHS to label Alex Pretti a terrorist looking to inflict mass casualties.
That appears to contradict Stephen Miller's claim that the initial assessment was based on CBP reports:
That appears to contradict Stephen Miller's claim that the initial assessment was based on CBP reports:
February 12, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Either Stephen Miller was lying then or the head of CBP is lying now about the Trump regime's account of Alex Pretti's murder.
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Homan did NOT SAY they were all leaving. He said:
1) Observers are lawbreakers, so
2) A team will be staying to watch them and keep arresting immigrants
3) Minneapolis is no longer a “sanctuary city for criminals” and
4) Operation Metro Surge is over
So we now have permanent secret police.
1) Observers are lawbreakers, so
2) A team will be staying to watch them and keep arresting immigrants
3) Minneapolis is no longer a “sanctuary city for criminals” and
4) Operation Metro Surge is over
So we now have permanent secret police.
February 12, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Homan did NOT SAY they were all leaving. He said:
1) Observers are lawbreakers, so
2) A team will be staying to watch them and keep arresting immigrants
3) Minneapolis is no longer a “sanctuary city for criminals” and
4) Operation Metro Surge is over
So we now have permanent secret police.
1) Observers are lawbreakers, so
2) A team will be staying to watch them and keep arresting immigrants
3) Minneapolis is no longer a “sanctuary city for criminals” and
4) Operation Metro Surge is over
So we now have permanent secret police.
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Peters to ICE/CBP officials: "How can you expect any US citizen to follow orders from an unidentified, masked man surrounding them, given we know there are these impersonators out there who according to the FBI are committing a lot of crime?"
February 12, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Peters to ICE/CBP officials: "How can you expect any US citizen to follow orders from an unidentified, masked man surrounding them, given we know there are these impersonators out there who according to the FBI are committing a lot of crime?"
This happened TODAY.
I thought “Operation Metro Surge” was over and all ICE, CBP, and other DHS agents were LEAVING MINNESOTA.
As Gov. Walz says, ”TRUST BUT VERIFY”
I thought “Operation Metro Surge” was over and all ICE, CBP, and other DHS agents were LEAVING MINNESOTA.
As Gov. Walz says, ”TRUST BUT VERIFY”
Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.
Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
February 12, 2026 at 5:33 PM
This happened TODAY.
I thought “Operation Metro Surge” was over and all ICE, CBP, and other DHS agents were LEAVING MINNESOTA.
As Gov. Walz says, ”TRUST BUT VERIFY”
I thought “Operation Metro Surge” was over and all ICE, CBP, and other DHS agents were LEAVING MINNESOTA.
As Gov. Walz says, ”TRUST BUT VERIFY”
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Congressional Dems: Don't Let the GOP Redact the Constitution #ABlueView🧵1/2
R's unbelievably claim reverting to ICE's decades old, constitutional policy of judicial warrants being required to enter private property is "a nonstarter" & "obnoxious." Instead, they demand ....
R's unbelievably claim reverting to ICE's decades old, constitutional policy of judicial warrants being required to enter private property is "a nonstarter" & "obnoxious." Instead, they demand ....
February 11, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Congressional Dems: Don't Let the GOP Redact the Constitution #ABlueView🧵1/2
R's unbelievably claim reverting to ICE's decades old, constitutional policy of judicial warrants being required to enter private property is "a nonstarter" & "obnoxious." Instead, they demand ....
R's unbelievably claim reverting to ICE's decades old, constitutional policy of judicial warrants being required to enter private property is "a nonstarter" & "obnoxious." Instead, they demand ....
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Not only were the files that were supposed to be made available to Members of Congress still redacted, but we also learned that Pam Bondi has been keeping track of what Members have reviewed.
Clearly, this is one big cover-up led by Pam.
Clearly, this is one big cover-up led by Pam.
February 12, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Not only were the files that were supposed to be made available to Members of Congress still redacted, but we also learned that Pam Bondi has been keeping track of what Members have reviewed.
Clearly, this is one big cover-up led by Pam.
Clearly, this is one big cover-up led by Pam.
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I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.