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So folks,
Who's picking up the baton?
We are rightly very proud of the folks who have been pushing their asses off.
If you're reading this and you're looking for something to do, please please please speak up so that the folks who are running themselves ragged can tag out.
Who's picking up the baton?
We are rightly very proud of the folks who have been pushing their asses off.
If you're reading this and you're looking for something to do, please please please speak up so that the folks who are running themselves ragged can tag out.
I’m seeing more and more Minneapolis/Minnesota people naming that they are burned out and I just hope people allow themselves to change their pacing from sprint to marathon or better yet, a relay.
Slow down if the alternative is you crashing out and not being able to do anything.
Slow down if the alternative is you crashing out and not being able to do anything.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 PM
So folks,
Who's picking up the baton?
We are rightly very proud of the folks who have been pushing their asses off.
If you're reading this and you're looking for something to do, please please please speak up so that the folks who are running themselves ragged can tag out.
Who's picking up the baton?
We are rightly very proud of the folks who have been pushing their asses off.
If you're reading this and you're looking for something to do, please please please speak up so that the folks who are running themselves ragged can tag out.
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I keep turning those numbers around and around in my head. During the coldest stretch of the winter we got an average of 34 hot meals a day to unhoused ppl & ppl experiencing food insecurity. We’re nearing 1000 burritos, plus 100s of tacos, tamales & dozens of pizzas. Pastries from local panaderias.
It’s been another busy week dealing with the ICE occupation in Minneapolis, but I wanted to give you a Burrito update!
We started this project just over 5 weeks ago, and since then we’ve provided over 1150 meals for people, and spent almost $12k at local, immigrant-owned restaurants!
We started this project just over 5 weeks ago, and since then we’ve provided over 1150 meals for people, and spent almost $12k at local, immigrant-owned restaurants!
February 11, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I keep turning those numbers around and around in my head. During the coldest stretch of the winter we got an average of 34 hot meals a day to unhoused ppl & ppl experiencing food insecurity. We’re nearing 1000 burritos, plus 100s of tacos, tamales & dozens of pizzas. Pastries from local panaderias.
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Can a DC reporter ask Mike Johnson if he's ever seen anything ever?
More to the point, why don't reporters come armed with phones ready to show Johnson all the things he claims to have not seen.
More to the point, why don't reporters come armed with phones ready to show Johnson all the things he claims to have not seen.
February 12, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Can a DC reporter ask Mike Johnson if he's ever seen anything ever?
More to the point, why don't reporters come armed with phones ready to show Johnson all the things he claims to have not seen.
More to the point, why don't reporters come armed with phones ready to show Johnson all the things he claims to have not seen.
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This is a long thread but you should read it.
In related news, judges *must* start holding AUSAs in contempt (and then locking them up) if we want this to stop without more bloodshed.
In related news, judges *must* start holding AUSAs in contempt (and then locking them up) if we want this to stop without more bloodshed.
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 12, 2026 at 2:04 AM
This is a long thread but you should read it.
In related news, judges *must* start holding AUSAs in contempt (and then locking them up) if we want this to stop without more bloodshed.
In related news, judges *must* start holding AUSAs in contempt (and then locking them up) if we want this to stop without more bloodshed.
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And please thank lawyers doing this work. We’re carrying a lot of trauma for voiceless clients. We are tired. We have become experts in new law under the most dire circumstances.
If you can, donate to immigration defense funds. They’ve been at it the longest and have the least resources.
30/end?
If you can, donate to immigration defense funds. They’ve been at it the longest and have the least resources.
30/end?
February 11, 2026 at 9:57 PM
And please thank lawyers doing this work. We’re carrying a lot of trauma for voiceless clients. We are tired. We have become experts in new law under the most dire circumstances.
If you can, donate to immigration defense funds. They’ve been at it the longest and have the least resources.
30/end?
If you can, donate to immigration defense funds. They’ve been at it the longest and have the least resources.
30/end?
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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you can just not fund this shit under any circumstances
you don’t have to pretend they need better training, or are doing an important job incorrectly
they’re just racist thugs doing ethnic cleansing and the whole gang should be in jail
you don’t have to pretend they need better training, or are doing an important job incorrectly
they’re just racist thugs doing ethnic cleansing and the whole gang should be in jail
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:37 AM
you can just not fund this shit under any circumstances
you don’t have to pretend they need better training, or are doing an important job incorrectly
they’re just racist thugs doing ethnic cleansing and the whole gang should be in jail
you don’t have to pretend they need better training, or are doing an important job incorrectly
they’re just racist thugs doing ethnic cleansing and the whole gang should be in jail
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One reason I am so furious with state and local officials who are cooperating with ICE is because it dignifies the pretense that the ongoing occupation is only bad because officers shot people. That would be horrible even if it were true, but it's not true: it's a campaign of destruction against us.
February 12, 2026 at 1:10 AM
One reason I am so furious with state and local officials who are cooperating with ICE is because it dignifies the pretense that the ongoing occupation is only bad because officers shot people. That would be horrible even if it were true, but it's not true: it's a campaign of destruction against us.
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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
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All House Dems present and voting again today, which Republicans still have only achieved on one vote.
PASSED: the House just passed the resolution to end Trump's tariffs on Canada.
Not many crosses from Republicans, a lot of vulnerable incumbents took a dumb vote here to stick with Trump and GOP leadership. Goes to the Senate, which is likely to pass it.
Will share the vote sheet when I have it!
Not many crosses from Republicans, a lot of vulnerable incumbents took a dumb vote here to stick with Trump and GOP leadership. Goes to the Senate, which is likely to pass it.
Will share the vote sheet when I have it!
February 12, 2026 at 12:07 AM
All House Dems present and voting again today, which Republicans still have only achieved on one vote.
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Believe it or not, observers are generally aware that we and our vehicles are known to the feds, and as such, there’s a pretty strict firewall between observers and vulnerable people
How do you think they get ideas of where to go to pick up people? They use locals! Mostly it's cops and other types like that; but its not that sophisticated to just mark and follow people ( which we have all heard they do.) You think tracking their phone b/c they have his number isn't happening to?
February 11, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Believe it or not, observers are generally aware that we and our vehicles are known to the feds, and as such, there’s a pretty strict firewall between observers and vulnerable people
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“If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted.”
The Republican-controlled US House is set to pass a sweeping voter restriction bill that would require people to show citizenship documents to register to vote.
The Republican-controlled US House is set to pass a sweeping voter restriction bill that would require people to show citizenship documents to register to vote.
The GOP’s “show us your papers” bill Is the latest effort to help Trump take over elections
“If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted"
www.motherjones.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:10 PM
“If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted.”
The Republican-controlled US House is set to pass a sweeping voter restriction bill that would require people to show citizenship documents to register to vote.
The Republican-controlled US House is set to pass a sweeping voter restriction bill that would require people to show citizenship documents to register to vote.
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"Juan" has been working in the strawberries in Santa Maria CA for 14 years. "Right now I'm picking strawberries, and I'm working fast because I get paid by the box. I have to pick as many as I can each day. I get very tired from bending over all the time." #WeFeedYou
February 11, 2026 at 9:00 PM
"Juan" has been working in the strawberries in Santa Maria CA for 14 years. "Right now I'm picking strawberries, and I'm working fast because I get paid by the box. I have to pick as many as I can each day. I get very tired from bending over all the time." #WeFeedYou
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Kristi Noem has to go.
Gregory Bovino has to go.
Stephen Miller has to go.
Gregory Bovino has to go.
Stephen Miller has to go.
February 11, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Kristi Noem has to go.
Gregory Bovino has to go.
Stephen Miller has to go.
Gregory Bovino has to go.
Stephen Miller has to go.
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Of course, the current chair of the House Judiciary Committee is Jim Jordan, so you can get why Pam Bondi would assume he wouldn't care about getting justice for the victims of sexual assault.
I can't think of an attorney general ever showing this much open contempt for Congress before.
Not only would most of them think this kind of conduct was beneath them, they'd have known that the Judiciary Committee chair, whatever the party, would never stand for clownish antics like this.
Not only would most of them think this kind of conduct was beneath them, they'd have known that the Judiciary Committee chair, whatever the party, would never stand for clownish antics like this.
Bondi is now just straight up ignoring questions from Democratic members
February 11, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Of course, the current chair of the House Judiciary Committee is Jim Jordan, so you can get why Pam Bondi would assume he wouldn't care about getting justice for the victims of sexual assault.
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“Increasingly”?
It’s not just about symmetry; it’s about an unwillingness to call out reality for what it is. This is very similar to the “escalation” language.
It’s not just about symmetry; it’s about an unwillingness to call out reality for what it is. This is very similar to the “escalation” language.
i am increasingly bothered by terms like "showdown" or "face-off" or "clash" when used to describe corrupt and fascist power coming up against resistance because there's an implied symmetry that does not exist.
February 11, 2026 at 6:52 PM
“Increasingly”?
It’s not just about symmetry; it’s about an unwillingness to call out reality for what it is. This is very similar to the “escalation” language.
It’s not just about symmetry; it’s about an unwillingness to call out reality for what it is. This is very similar to the “escalation” language.
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It’s wild to me that more Democrats don’t see these numbers and smell blood in the water. Instead, they want to step back. They wanna go back to having nice polite dinner parties.
New Strib poll confirms my rough guess: 1/3rd of Minnesotans are shitheads who support ICE, but 2/3rds are with us. 69% in the ‘burbs! (Abolish ICE, like Defund the Police, is a public-opinion loser. Still, 79% say ICE should abolished OR reformed.) www.startribune.com/poll-trumps-... (gift link) 1/
February 11, 2026 at 2:39 PM
It’s wild to me that more Democrats don’t see these numbers and smell blood in the water. Instead, they want to step back. They wanna go back to having nice polite dinner parties.
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If you thought this paradigm was going to last 30-90 days and then end and now, at day 72, you’re realizing the fallout is actually an indefinitely permanent paradigm, it makes sense you went super hard at a pace that is unsustainable.
Recalibrate now before you’re hurtling into the concrete floor.
Recalibrate now before you’re hurtling into the concrete floor.
I’m seeing more and more Minneapolis/Minnesota people naming that they are burned out and I just hope people allow themselves to change their pacing from sprint to marathon or better yet, a relay.
Slow down if the alternative is you crashing out and not being able to do anything.
Slow down if the alternative is you crashing out and not being able to do anything.
February 11, 2026 at 5:59 AM
If you thought this paradigm was going to last 30-90 days and then end and now, at day 72, you’re realizing the fallout is actually an indefinitely permanent paradigm, it makes sense you went super hard at a pace that is unsustainable.
Recalibrate now before you’re hurtling into the concrete floor.
Recalibrate now before you’re hurtling into the concrete floor.
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ICE is terrorizing people. ICE is endangering lives. And then they're blaming the victims of this terror for the harm that is caused.
February 11, 2026 at 6:27 PM
ICE is terrorizing people. ICE is endangering lives. And then they're blaming the victims of this terror for the harm that is caused.
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Before last year, attorneys general didn't read political opposition research from a binder to attack the party out of power during House Oversight hearings, entirely disconnected to any question asked by any lawmaker.
February 11, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Before last year, attorneys general didn't read political opposition research from a binder to attack the party out of power during House Oversight hearings, entirely disconnected to any question asked by any lawmaker.
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There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"
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This is a hell of a job by Massie, who for all his very very large problems on other issues, actually does give a shit about this one.
Massie: "Here is an email that was sent by the victims' lawyers to the DOJ. It was a list of names not to release. What did the DOJ do with this email? They released it! Literally the worst thing you could do the survivors you did."
February 11, 2026 at 5:28 PM
This is a hell of a job by Massie, who for all his very very large problems on other issues, actually does give a shit about this one.
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I cannot stop mentioning how the trump administration wouldn’t be drowning in any of this if they hadn’t spent years making The Files a partisan issue. If they just hadn’t done that or made those 2024 campaign promises, this wouldn’t be happening to them
February 11, 2026 at 5:34 PM
I cannot stop mentioning how the trump administration wouldn’t be drowning in any of this if they hadn’t spent years making The Files a partisan issue. If they just hadn’t done that or made those 2024 campaign promises, this wouldn’t be happening to them
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The WH sidelined America250, the congressionally-formed group charged with organizing a bipartisan celebration of the country's anniversary, in favor of Trump's sketchy Freedom250, as we detailed recently. And AP reports here that the admin is starving America250 of $. wtop.com/animals-pets...
February 11, 2026 at 5:50 PM
The WH sidelined America250, the congressionally-formed group charged with organizing a bipartisan celebration of the country's anniversary, in favor of Trump's sketchy Freedom250, as we detailed recently. And AP reports here that the admin is starving America250 of $. wtop.com/animals-pets...