Lots of changes in the past couple weeks. The sheriffs left, for one thing, sometime before Sunday's (sheriff-heavy) protest.Today, a driver also came by and told us that ICE had cleared out of the Minnesota Air National Guard base.
Aw!
Me in inside-out Target rain poncho and winter gear with smiling woman in front of the Whipple building, separated from it by two chain link fences. About 50 degrees with all snow but the plowed gray mountains melted.
With observers, protesters, and volunteers at the ICE detention center in Fort Snelling — an unusually quiet morning, despite the rows of new cars in the lot.
They fund it in Gaza. They're doing it to Venezuelan fisherman. They're doing it in Iran. They're doing it in the streets and in concentration camps to immigrants in the US. They've done it to US citizen protestors on the streets in Minnesota.
There are no limits to what they are capable of.
they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends
Trump’s about-face on the ICE operation in Minneapolis was his first defeat in the 14 months of his second term, and has provided a model for other communities to resist federal cruelty.
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Holding children in detention is sick and twisted.
Abolish ICE. Defund DHS.
It is utterly ABSURD that states have to pass laws to teach facts. Oh wait … remembers US history … yeah okay we do still have to do that here.
Gift link.
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Link preview with Trump's face scribbled out
This is a wild & surreal amount of how the WH has used Call of Duty graphics to justify the war in Iran, "propaganda designed to stimulate the 47 administration’s prime constituency—unsocialized Discord incels, Joker-fied elder millennials, & bloodthirsty Gen Xers."
Free link: archive.ph/gY3sF
Bernard LaFavette, voting rights advocate, non-violence theorist, & teacher has died. Another mighty oak has fallen whose legacy will fertilize the aspirations of future generations rising from the forest floor. May his memory be a blessing.
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Frank Hatchett - Break Out [US, electro] (unknown) way unexpected electro tool form the King of Broadway
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https://youtu.be/Uy5-qAfx5ZQ
In today's Flyover news roundup... In today's Flyover news roundup...
“There is no thought process into what any of this means long term,” said one official. “It’s not coordinated regime change. It’s just ‘bomb them until they’re less of a threat.’”
Asked about the administration’s plan for Iran after the war, that official responded: “Whatever.”
Fateme Reyhani, le visage de la jeunesse iranienne, se filme en train de faire du «roller» dans les rues de Téhéran tout en chantant. #Iran limportant.fr//infos-iran-...
This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.
Just donated $20: who else has a little bit they can spare today? (Especially among my friends who aren't in MN themselves.)
Poetry is a bird
perched lightly on the back
of all that is fickle
and dangerous in this world...
🇺🇸WE’RE THE REFUGEES NOW ✈️
👉 An Omni 777 (tail: N819AX), typically used for military charters and ICE removal flights, arrives from Southwest Asia—with a load of American evacuees—to Washington Dulles International 👀
The airplane flying the University of Wisconsin men's hockey to Penn State right now, N459AW, was used to fly shackled ICE detainees from Michigan to Louisiana on Sunday.
This is why it works to call the government on their shit.
They expect us never to take it to trial or fight for our rights in court. There are so many reasons why we choose not to. But this massive mobilization of lawyers from all backgrounds to file habeas petitions has utterly overwhelmed them.
I missed sharing this — gift link.
Just seeing this, but let me know if you still need sources!
The (so-called) "reforms" the Dems are (so-called) "demanding" are NOT addressing this:
"There were people in leg shackles. There were cold cement floors, no beds, no blankets. They did have showers, but told me no one had ever taken a shower," Democratic Rep. Kelly Morrison said.
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Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
This is a marvelous change not only for the Humpback whale 🐋 population but for all of us. We need to keep our gentle giants from going extinct.
Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery | RNZ News share.google/X1HB3JFgaePK...
"NO SPACE FOR ICE" 🔥🔥🔥
The magfest Rebecca sugar concert last night was a magical experience tbh, even if It was a bit crowded (also like my besties post please)
Tomorrow's Bandcamp Friday fundraiser will be for The Trans Continental Pipeline, helping trans folks leave hostile states (ahem, Kansas) for Colorado.
So I guess it was either World War III or drag queens reading books to our children.
The BLM announced a plan to fell Oregon's last great forests. Submit comments to help put a stop to this catastrophic plan: https://friendsofanimals.org/oregon
