Queen Leen
@goblinwitch.bsky.social
Several opossums in a trenchcoat masquerading as a functioning adult. Big proponent of making weird art.
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Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael.
On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.
ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.
On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.
ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.
ICE Denies Detainee's Request to Attend His Son's Funeral, Attorney Says
Maher Tarabishi was the primary caretaker of his son, Wael Tarabishi, 30, who died on Friday, Jan. 23, from complications related to Pompe disease.
people.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael.
On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.
ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.
On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.
ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.
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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.
This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time.
People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.
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...
www.mprnews.org
January 27, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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.
This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time.
People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.
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I think about this post a lot.
January 25, 2026 at 10:26 PM
I think about this post a lot.
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"getting outside your bubble" is an admirable thing when it means trying a new hobby or introducing yourself to your neighbor or watching an art film but people only want to apply it to "being a little more racist just to see how it feels"
January 27, 2026 at 4:08 PM
"getting outside your bubble" is an admirable thing when it means trying a new hobby or introducing yourself to your neighbor or watching an art film but people only want to apply it to "being a little more racist just to see how it feels"
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"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
January 27, 2026 at 4:15 PM
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
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1/27/2026 - Minneapolis
ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone
They did not have a warrant
ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone
They did not have a warrant
January 27, 2026 at 10:01 PM
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis
ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone
They did not have a warrant
ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone
They did not have a warrant
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This or just dumping people *in the woods* AND sending folks out w/o their phone or I.D.
Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate."
I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0
Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate."
I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0
I spent the evening outside the Whipple federal building in Minneapolis, where the feds have been releasing people they detained — often for no discernible reason — into the freezing cold... wearing whatever little clothing they had on at the time they were taken.
January 27, 2026 at 6:27 PM
This or just dumping people *in the woods* AND sending folks out w/o their phone or I.D.
Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate."
I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0
Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate."
I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0
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CNN is reporting that federal authorities may have been collecting information and "documenting details" about Alex Pretti before killing him on Saturday, and that officers tackled him a week earlier. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
Alex Pretti was in earlier confrontation with federal agents who tackled him, broke his rib, sources say | CNN
Federal immigration officials have been collecting information on protesters and agitators, sources told CNN.
www.cnn.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:25 PM
CNN is reporting that federal authorities may have been collecting information and "documenting details" about Alex Pretti before killing him on Saturday, and that officers tackled him a week earlier. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
During a trivia game, my cousin yelled “the old man who lives in the attic!” as an answer to “children’s stories.”
And that’s how he learned most children do not, in fact, believe there’s an old man who lives in their attic. My brother made that particular tale up, specially, just for us.
And that’s how he learned most children do not, in fact, believe there’s an old man who lives in their attic. My brother made that particular tale up, specially, just for us.
January 26, 2026 at 5:28 PM
During a trivia game, my cousin yelled “the old man who lives in the attic!” as an answer to “children’s stories.”
And that’s how he learned most children do not, in fact, believe there’s an old man who lives in their attic. My brother made that particular tale up, specially, just for us.
And that’s how he learned most children do not, in fact, believe there’s an old man who lives in their attic. My brother made that particular tale up, specially, just for us.
For 14 years, I have felt guilty about the time I borrowed my dad’s first edition of Zorro and rain ruined the cover jacket.
I apologized to him again last weekend & learned I’d already bought him a new copy - a signed first edition, back in 2014. Love how memory works.
I apologized to him again last weekend & learned I’d already bought him a new copy - a signed first edition, back in 2014. Love how memory works.
January 26, 2026 at 5:09 PM
For 14 years, I have felt guilty about the time I borrowed my dad’s first edition of Zorro and rain ruined the cover jacket.
I apologized to him again last weekend & learned I’d already bought him a new copy - a signed first edition, back in 2014. Love how memory works.
I apologized to him again last weekend & learned I’d already bought him a new copy - a signed first edition, back in 2014. Love how memory works.
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It’s all over the place. Good.
January 25, 2026 at 7:56 PM
It’s all over the place. Good.
As if the ICE presence wasn’t already anxiety/stress inducing enough, it’s now causing events to cancel, which means I have 2 jobs but only 4 total hours of work scheduled next week.
January 25, 2026 at 7:51 PM
As if the ICE presence wasn’t already anxiety/stress inducing enough, it’s now causing events to cancel, which means I have 2 jobs but only 4 total hours of work scheduled next week.
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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To quote Andrea Pritzer, "The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards. "
January 24, 2026 at 11:05 PM
To quote Andrea Pritzer, "The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards. "
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Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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I'd say as long as ICE is allowed in churches, hospitals, and school grounds. Protesters should be allowed as well.
January 24, 2026 at 6:13 PM
I'd say as long as ICE is allowed in churches, hospitals, and school grounds. Protesters should be allowed as well.
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"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution
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.
January 25, 2026 at 2:03 AM
"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution
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“Did any of that seem ‘defensive’ to you?”
@barelyinfo.bsky.social shows how absurd DHS & Bovino’s lies are about the killing of Alex Pretti.
(He thinks the ICE agent who took his guy accidentally shot it and started the shooting… at which point they shot Alex 10 times in cold blood)
@barelyinfo.bsky.social shows how absurd DHS & Bovino’s lies are about the killing of Alex Pretti.
(He thinks the ICE agent who took his guy accidentally shot it and started the shooting… at which point they shot Alex 10 times in cold blood)
January 25, 2026 at 4:51 AM
“Did any of that seem ‘defensive’ to you?”
@barelyinfo.bsky.social shows how absurd DHS & Bovino’s lies are about the killing of Alex Pretti.
(He thinks the ICE agent who took his guy accidentally shot it and started the shooting… at which point they shot Alex 10 times in cold blood)
@barelyinfo.bsky.social shows how absurd DHS & Bovino’s lies are about the killing of Alex Pretti.
(He thinks the ICE agent who took his guy accidentally shot it and started the shooting… at which point they shot Alex 10 times in cold blood)
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As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.
36-year-old Nicaraguan national Victor Manuel Diaz died in ICE custody on Jan. 14 at Camp East Montana in El Paso.
The Texas Nicaraguan Community on FB reports that his mom last heard from him on Jan. 6, when he told her he was planning to go to Minneapolis to start work in a restaurant. 1/3
The Texas Nicaraguan Community on FB reports that his mom last heard from him on Jan. 6, when he told her he was planning to go to Minneapolis to start work in a restaurant. 1/3
January 25, 2026 at 4:48 AM
As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.
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It's not a crackdown on immigration. Why are we still pretending that these fascists are arresting illegal immigrants rather than arresting, beating or murdering anyone they like, with apparent immunity?
January 24, 2026 at 11:24 PM
It's not a crackdown on immigration. Why are we still pretending that these fascists are arresting illegal immigrants rather than arresting, beating or murdering anyone they like, with apparent immunity?
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Last year I interviewed @bostonjoan.bsky.social, who pointed out that anonymity was becoming a hallmark of this administration. In the same conversation, she said that what’s being built amounts to “a standing militia movement for Trump” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“The most transparent administration in history” refuses to say who’s behind their batshit social media
Government trolls spread cruel memes and "textbook propaganda” on behalf of Trump.
www.motherjones.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Last year I interviewed @bostonjoan.bsky.social, who pointed out that anonymity was becoming a hallmark of this administration. In the same conversation, she said that what’s being built amounts to “a standing militia movement for Trump” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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My variant for Black Cat 9
January 22, 2026 at 11:04 PM
My variant for Black Cat 9
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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2 more and we have FIVE HUNDRED businesses shut down for the Minnesota General Strike.
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List of Minnesota businesses closing for Jan. 23 anti-ICE strike
First announced by faith leaders and unions on Jan. 13, Minnesota businesses have begun announcing plans to join the action.
bringmethenews.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:17 PM
2 more and we have FIVE HUNDRED businesses shut down for the Minnesota General Strike.
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National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.