Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.
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Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.
Ian Coldwater makes a statement before the Minneapolis City Council. They wear a black knit hat and a vintage KubeCon EU 2019 (Barcelona!) t-shirt - a shirt which some of you also probably have in a drawer. The lower third from this livestream says: March 03, 2026 Committee of the Whole Temporary pre-eviction notice extension ordinance lims.minneapolismn.gov
Powerful statement earlier today from @lookitup.baby in support of a pause in evictions for Minneapolis families in this time of crisis.
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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
No. Just absolutely the fuck not. Get out.
Hate to lib out here, but even if there was some sort of clear, strategic goal, this would still be highly illegal and the president should be impeached and removed from office immediately.
Operation Metro Surge is not over. Abolish ICE.
My elementary, middle and high schools were all hit, and I don't really know the results of those attacks because there's not really anyone around but my parents to report it. My parents whose car windows were smashed along with the whole neighborhood. We need reporters out there.
Knowing what you know, seeing what you have seen, feeling what you have experienced - why would you stop before ICE was abolished? answer yourself honestly
Statement on ICE “ICE agents have had a devastating impact on the lives of millions of Minnesotans. Next week we will introduce legislation to protect their rights and restore our sovereignty, and continue the work of holding hearings to learn the legal, local, educational, and personal impact of the chaos rained down on us. We know this is far from the only harm Donald Trump and his agencies have imposed against Minnesotans, including cuts to food security, childcare and healthcare for people living in every community. Next, the president has threatened to seize control of our free and fair elections. We will continue to lead for Minnesota and seek safety, freedom, and prosperity for all of us.” Majority Leader Erin Murphy
If ICE is in fact finally leaving Minnesota, that would be a welcome development, but it does not make us whole.
The Trump administration has lied to the public about why they came here, what they did to people, and about the Minnesotans they killed, assaulted, and made disappear.
Already seeing people not from around here saying "Minnesota won" and I just— It's not over yet. We don't know if they'll actually withdraw. And the damage is overwhelming. We need a lot of fucking help here. And there are still people in concentration camps.
Abolish ICE, shut down DHS, prosecute.
Trump's big, ugly budget megabill gives ICE more agents than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries.
It does this by stripping food away from children, the disabled, and the working poor.
Not one more penny.
Planning for detainees’ constitutional right should not be up to the Executive agency’s discretion. DHS was structured since its inception to enable these abuses. It must be abolished.
Man, today would be the perfect day for ICE to get the fuck out of Minnesota
Suddenly realizing that in 10-20 years, the MN Historical Society will have an exhibit about *all this* and there will be a whole wall showing different types of whistles
YES, THIS!!
I just don’t have words.
Also: 2,300 ICE agents is still almost exactly the number of local police officers from the ten largest police forces in Minnesota COMBINED. As such, can report there's been no change on the ground today in my community.
I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
tl;dw: Immigration enforcement as formulated in DHS is a uniquely unaccountable concentration of power in the executive branch, without the same protections that constrain our (itself broken) system of law enforcement.
I am older than DHS. DHS must be abolished, for the sake of the Constitution.
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DFL legislators need to insist on a compensation fund of tens of millions of dollars to offset economic harms of the ICE siege. It infuriates me that Mercado Central has to hold a $500,000 bake sale to hold onto their building. Tens of fucking millions.
When they defeat ICE, Minnesota will have 34,000 trained volunteers to observe the police
Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.
It's day 61 of the ICE occupation of MSP.
Yesterday thousands marched downtown, today thousands joined a mass bike ride in memory of Alex Pretti, and thousands more gathered for vigils, neighborhood patrols, grocery packing, and know your rights trainings.
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"I find myself wondering if I still have a home here in Minnesota, in America, in the world of the people who get to decide who is valuable and who is not, who belongs and who does not, who lives and who dies."
- Kao Kalia Yang, one of the best writers in MN and in the rest of the universe
Let me assure you, we mean that the whole thing is so irredeemable, so predictably leads to these outcomes we now see, that the agency established to fight a misguided war on terror must be entirely dismantled, its architects brought to justice, and its name made infamous for posterity. (2/2)
It seems that when people hear us say “abolish ICE” or “defund ICE”, they think we mean that the current overreaches and abuses are unfortunate, but that we just need to make the apparatus of deportation and dehumanization more respectable and professional. (1/2)
US authorities must immediately release journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. Journalism is not a crime. Reporting on protests is not a crime. Arresting journalists for their reporting is a clear example of an authoritarian practice.
Mercado Central says the cooperative is in danger of losing the building ☹️ gofund.me/cf76f8dcb
