Tim Pierce
@unchi.org
what's a man like me supposed to do
with all this extra savoir-faire?
with all this extra savoir-faire?
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Tim Pierce
@unchi.org
· Feb 1
Making political hay out of this makes you an asshole. A ghoulish one.
If I die under this administration, don’t bother burying me — just dump my body on the White House lawn.
FUCK YEAH BOSTON
Even the ducklings hate ICE
(Photo taken by a friend who's not on here)
(Photo taken by a friend who's not on here)
January 11, 2026 at 2:22 AM
FUCK YEAH BOSTON
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Ranger handed me the keys to the Bronco. "I'll drive the BMW, and you can follow."
Normally a person would take his cars home. Since Ranger wasn't normal I wasn't sure where we were headed.
Normally a person would take his cars home. Since Ranger wasn't normal I wasn't sure where we were headed.
January 11, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Ranger handed me the keys to the Bronco. "I'll drive the BMW, and you can follow."
Normally a person would take his cars home. Since Ranger wasn't normal I wasn't sure where we were headed.
Normally a person would take his cars home. Since Ranger wasn't normal I wasn't sure where we were headed.
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One detail about the MPLS ICE invasion that I haven't seen many comment on: these goons drive like maniacs and they're eventually going to run someone over. They speed, run red lights every chance they get, and because they don't know the roads, they're constantly going the wrong way down one-ways.
January 10, 2026 at 5:39 PM
One detail about the MPLS ICE invasion that I haven't seen many comment on: these goons drive like maniacs and they're eventually going to run someone over. They speed, run red lights every chance they get, and because they don't know the roads, they're constantly going the wrong way down one-ways.
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Slightly diminish a band:
The Danged
The Danged
Slightly diminish a band:
Guns ‘n’ Rosehips
Guns ‘n’ Rosehips
Slightly diminish a band:
They Might Be Unusually Large
They Might Be Unusually Large
January 11, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Slightly diminish a band:
The Danged
The Danged
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You are doing the right thing. It sucks to be under siege but you are under siege. And you won't be free while these law enforcement agencies continue to exist.
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 11, 2026 at 12:09 AM
You are doing the right thing. It sucks to be under siege but you are under siege. And you won't be free while these law enforcement agencies continue to exist.
Slightly diminish a band:
Guns ‘n’ Rosehips
Guns ‘n’ Rosehips
Slightly diminish a band:
They Might Be Unusually Large
They Might Be Unusually Large
Slightly diminish a band
Something Something
Something Something
January 11, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Slightly diminish a band:
Guns ‘n’ Rosehips
Guns ‘n’ Rosehips
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I’ve been in the streets in Minneapolis 4 of the last 5 days. We are way past “know your rights” we need to retake our rights. They are shooting us when we exercise those rights. This is a lawless regime.
January 10, 2026 at 10:30 PM
I’ve been in the streets in Minneapolis 4 of the last 5 days. We are way past “know your rights” we need to retake our rights. They are shooting us when we exercise those rights. This is a lawless regime.
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If you need inspiration to keep going right now, may I recommend the story of Robert Smalls, who stole a confederate steamboat and piloted his family and almost 20 others to freedom and went on to become one of the first Black people elected to Congress ✊🏽
www.usatoday.com/story/life/b...
www.usatoday.com/story/life/b...
'Be Free or Die,' tale of escaped slave who became a Union hero
Cate Lineberry's new book tells the little-known story of Robert Smalls, a ship pilot.
www.usatoday.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:48 PM
If you need inspiration to keep going right now, may I recommend the story of Robert Smalls, who stole a confederate steamboat and piloted his family and almost 20 others to freedom and went on to become one of the first Black people elected to Congress ✊🏽
www.usatoday.com/story/life/b...
www.usatoday.com/story/life/b...
This is clear evidence that Jonathan Ross harbors white supremacist sympathies, but — maybe even more crucially — it demonstrates a history of anger and open resentment of women with left-leaning views.
January 11, 2026 at 12:01 AM
This is clear evidence that Jonathan Ross harbors white supremacist sympathies, but — maybe even more crucially — it demonstrates a history of anger and open resentment of women with left-leaning views.
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If there are *any* Democrats in Congress who will still vote to keep funding this administration when it is using that money to terrorize our cities and refusing to allow congressional representatives their clear right to observe their activities, then those reps need to be primaried into retirement
I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
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 6:49 PM
If there are *any* Democrats in Congress who will still vote to keep funding this administration when it is using that money to terrorize our cities and refusing to allow congressional representatives their clear right to observe their activities, then those reps need to be primaried into retirement
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The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.
January 10, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.
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The moment that anybody outside the DHS apparatus gets inside one of these facilities without cleaning up beforehand, we're going to see things that even the most hardened and cynical among us can barely comprehend.
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 5:29 PM
The moment that anybody outside the DHS apparatus gets inside one of these facilities without cleaning up beforehand, we're going to see things that even the most hardened and cynical among us can barely comprehend.
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You don't reform this. You can't fix it with "better training."
An institution that behaves this way is functioning exactly as intended.
An institution that behaves this way is functioning exactly as intended.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 6:18 PM
You don't reform this. You can't fix it with "better training."
An institution that behaves this way is functioning exactly as intended.
An institution that behaves this way is functioning exactly as intended.
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I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
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We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
January 10, 2026 at 1:47 AM
We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
The easy answer for Machado is just to order a cheap medallion from Medals R Us or whatever and write "NOBEL" on it in gold Sharpie. He would absolutely not know the difference.
unspeakably pathetic stuff from Trump here as he says he'd be honored to accept María Corina Machado's Nobel Prize if she wants to give it up to him
January 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM
The easy answer for Machado is just to order a cheap medallion from Medals R Us or whatever and write "NOBEL" on it in gold Sharpie. He would absolutely not know the difference.
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Many are arguing that they wouldn't be acting this way if they thought they were subject to free & fair elections.
Plausible. But another explanation is that they see the writing on the wall--generational backlash--and they're attempting increasingly desparate hail marys
Plausible. But another explanation is that they see the writing on the wall--generational backlash--and they're attempting increasingly desparate hail marys
January 9, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Many are arguing that they wouldn't be acting this way if they thought they were subject to free & fair elections.
Plausible. But another explanation is that they see the writing on the wall--generational backlash--and they're attempting increasingly desparate hail marys
Plausible. But another explanation is that they see the writing on the wall--generational backlash--and they're attempting increasingly desparate hail marys
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I think the more important question here that no one is asking (or wants to ask) is: would cops even be willing to arrest their buddies? And if they refuse, what does that mean? And if they agree, do we now have a war between different state and federal militarized US agencies?
This is a bullshit answer. With very few exceptions the ICE guys do not want to die for this regime. Conceding the law to the imagined threat of violence is asinine. If “your” cops feel this way that’s their problem, too.
@mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social
@mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social
"The question that you're basically asking is, can our cops arrest them? From a legal perspective, yes. From a practical perspective...they have bigger guns than we do." That's where we're at.
Look out for @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social!
Look out for @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social!
January 10, 2026 at 1:33 PM
I think the more important question here that no one is asking (or wants to ask) is: would cops even be willing to arrest their buddies? And if they refuse, what does that mean? And if they agree, do we now have a war between different state and federal militarized US agencies?
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Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
January 10, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
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DHS has again tweeted literal nazi propaganda. "We Will Have Our Home Again" is a popular slogan used regularly within the white nationalist sphere, based on a song of the same title. In Portland 2022, now-defunct nazi group RCN hung a banner with the phrase. Antifascists repainted it the same day.
January 9, 2026 at 11:37 PM
DHS has again tweeted literal nazi propaganda. "We Will Have Our Home Again" is a popular slogan used regularly within the white nationalist sphere, based on a song of the same title. In Portland 2022, now-defunct nazi group RCN hung a banner with the phrase. Antifascists repainted it the same day.
That moment when you realize the headline you are about to write could have appeared in the Onion
Trump Gets Up, Walks Away From Meeting To Stare Out Window At Ballroom
Trump Gets Up, Walks Away From Meeting To Stare Out Window At Ballroom
Trump Gets Up, Walks Away From Meeting To Stare Out Window At Ballroom
www.huffpost.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:41 AM
That moment when you realize the headline you are about to write could have appeared in the Onion
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Let's fight the spread of misinfo + disinfo by creating a Bluesky Culture of Context for imagery.
Please make a good faith effort to name the SOURCE, even if you don't link to an evil media empire.
For video and photos, CREDIT the creator. No exceptions!
BONUS points: give Date | Time | Location
Please make a good faith effort to name the SOURCE, even if you don't link to an evil media empire.
For video and photos, CREDIT the creator. No exceptions!
BONUS points: give Date | Time | Location
I'm trying to encourage better Bluesky practices to avoid these ↓↓ and limit spread of mis/disinfo:
context-less images
theft from indy journos
covering watermarks or adding new ones
incorrect description
no sources
photos uncredited
MisIDs
As a start, I'm asking if people could name sources. 🙏🏼
context-less images
theft from indy journos
covering watermarks or adding new ones
incorrect description
no sources
photos uncredited
MisIDs
As a start, I'm asking if people could name sources. 🙏🏼
January 10, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Let's fight the spread of misinfo + disinfo by creating a Bluesky Culture of Context for imagery.
Please make a good faith effort to name the SOURCE, even if you don't link to an evil media empire.
For video and photos, CREDIT the creator. No exceptions!
BONUS points: give Date | Time | Location
Please make a good faith effort to name the SOURCE, even if you don't link to an evil media empire.
For video and photos, CREDIT the creator. No exceptions!
BONUS points: give Date | Time | Location
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Folks in cities currently occupied by ICE:
What preparations are you glad your neighborhood did prior to occupation?
And what preparations do you wish your neighborhood had done?
What preparations are you glad your neighborhood did prior to occupation?
And what preparations do you wish your neighborhood had done?
January 10, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Folks in cities currently occupied by ICE:
What preparations are you glad your neighborhood did prior to occupation?
And what preparations do you wish your neighborhood had done?
What preparations are you glad your neighborhood did prior to occupation?
And what preparations do you wish your neighborhood had done?
must-read thread from David Simon.
"We have to be told who is shooting us."
"We have to be told who is shooting us."
Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:
January 10, 2026 at 12:36 AM
must-read thread from David Simon.
"We have to be told who is shooting us."
"We have to be told who is shooting us."
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like I said, the MAGA fascists always and inevitably grossly underestimate the resolve of women
Two different "wine moms" I work with have dropped their emergency contact info to the company slack in the last couple days because, to quote one of them, "I'm going to the protest tonight and if i get shot, I want you to know why I missed work."
January 10, 2026 at 12:33 AM
like I said, the MAGA fascists always and inevitably grossly underestimate the resolve of women