Agreed. For example someone mentioned that black people might have vaccine (and other medical) hesitations because of how the medical field has treated them broadly and/or individually, which seemed reasonable.
Yep. “Knowing who to be mad at is praxis” is Mariame Kaba’s quote and it is wisdom for these times. (1/2)
Quick reminder that everyone already knows her replacement will be as vile and dead inside as she is. It's ok to just...savor these moments. Let yourself have it. Let everyone have it. This is joy, and it doesn't last long. Don't make it shorter.
Same, in fact
Long Island: Iced Tea
Matt Pelikan, candidate for Hennepin County Attorney, is now speaking. He's running on his values of safety and justice. He thinks progressives need to embrace "safety" which feels like a bit of a red flag.
Note: I am 100% supporting @cedrickfrazier.bsky.social in this race.
Super appreciate this mention!
Rax. No AI could ever write your article about Meat Hand, and you should be able to take refuge in that
If Dems made demand to get all kids & their caretakers out of concentration camps, grinding all Congressional business to halt plus using their massive texting lists to organize caravans to create Occupy Dilly encampment, I would give them every dollar I have. And so would many.
Animation of all fed activity from Dec 1st through Feb 11th. The source data are a combo of both rapid response networks' data and IceOut's.
something from minnesota that i would like people to learn, that i don’t think is hitting people yet:
helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis.
and you can help.
I feel a bit emotionally out of step with most here, but I'm kinda in the mood of "Dance in the streets, but bring your whistles"
Play through the whistle, Minnesota!
Can you please DM me?
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.
ICE has been active this morning staging in St Anthony so we still need people out patrolling our neighborhoods.
I’m headed to the Capitol today ahead of session starting next week to work on the 70 bills we have around ICE.
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.
An 18 year old was taken today in the Hennepin County Government Center.
Any leader thinking collaborating with ICE will be good and help end this surge is forgetting that no one in our community is expendable.
Please don't accuse people in knitted hats of only wearing their supposed politics if all you're doing is posting, which is basically just another way of wearing your politics. It's a silly thing to attack people over in any case. Using fashion to signal support for ongoing acts of rebellion is good
You are a north star in this fight and I am so deeply thankful for your presence and wisdom
Great great people to listen to:
They sleep in the trees!
We're all we've got. Best to spend time figuring out how to live into this truth.
today is the last day i will ask you to donate to people’s rent this month.
we are trying very hard to meet a $30,000
goal today to help the last few families on our list before their rent grace period ends.
if you are in MN and hear of anyone in need of a flight home from detention please send them my way (contact@standwithminnesota.com)
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.
Not sure if you're aware but yesterday (YESTERDAY!) @ziibiing.com put up a page to accept frequent flyer miles to fly home detainees from TX and has collected 5M+. Any thoughts about how we can help get the word out?
bsky.app/profile/ziib...
People who may want to have children in the future should bear this in mind: tear gas can have serious consequences for female reproductive health. The data on this isn't great but I would at least recommend ensuring you have a quality respirator or mask on at all times.
a woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX.
we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home.
delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.
