El Tío de la Sobremesa
banner
eltiodelasobremesa.bsky.social
El Tío de la Sobremesa
@eltiodelasobremesa.bsky.social
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.
February 2, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
"About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments."
'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.
www.jta.org
February 1, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...
January 30, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
This is Minneapolis.

Collective trauma, and neighbors helping neighbors.

This is our 24/7 every day lives right now, not just a 10 second news clip.
January 28, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
January 27, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
for Alex Pretti
January 26, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti

Absolutely heartbreaking
January 25, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
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
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
January 24, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
At a church in Minneapolis that is hosting an anti-ICE singing vigil, which will later process through the neighborhood.

They sing: “This is for our neighbors who are locked inside, together we will abolish ICE.”
January 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Agree with all of this except a greater emphasis on voters, whose failure is inextricably tied to the failures of who precedes them on this list.
five years ago the president of the united states incited an insurrection in order to try to retain power and it is a comprehensive failure at every level - media, law enforcement, courts, politicians and most of all the voters - that he has returned to power and threatens the stability of the world
January 6, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
Commentary: Am I Ugly? https://theonion.com/am-i-ugly/
December 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
December 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
December 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Which one of the aspirants will be the Taney in the Court’s birthright citizenship case? Gotta say Alito is the favorite to complete the racialized patriarchy double.
December 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
Hands Reaching Up From Hell, Wat Rong Khun Temple, by Chalermchai Kositpipat, 1997
December 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
ALSO, today’s 1,200 word front page story by the Strib’s retail reporter (the Strib doesn’t have a labor reporter) devotes exactly one sentence to Target’s blunders, implying that the boycott was brief.

I wonder whether the retail reporter ever reads the letters to the editor; this one ran on Sat.
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
What if I told you that two of the central dynamics of baseball are players complaining that umpires are always trying to fuck them and that the other team doesn’t treat them with proper respect.

bsky.app/profile/razz...
Ahh so that’s why I can’t hit a 94 MPH slider
November 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
What’s the more interesting question:
Whether enough incontrovertible evidence surfaces and is seen by enough people to resolve the question about involvement in the ring or whether the ‘shoot someone on 5th Ave and get away with it’ applies to involvement in the ring?
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Reposted by El Tío de la Sobremesa
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Post a perfect album from the 90’s.
October 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM