Danica Rose 🏳️‍⚧️

Outside City Hall in downtown Minneapolis on Tuesday, March 3, a small group of protesters chanted as armed men escorted what some said was an immigration enforcement target into the Hennepin County jail. In a video of the encounter, as two protesters blocked their van — labeled with “Midwest Plumbing” decals advertising a disconnected phone number — the driver opened his door, leaned over the windshield and pointed a pistol at them. Another man in a bulletproof vest and carrying a long gun walked outside the vehicle. One of the armed men shot pepperballs into the crowd. The incident echoed encounters between federal agents and Twin Cities residents during Operation Metro Surge. But this time, the men were bail enforcement agents, or bounty hunters — contractors responsible for apprehending fugitives who post bail through a bond agency and then fail to appear in court. Although bounty hunters have long operated in the Twin Cities, they can bear a resemblance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents — in both how they appear and operate. And while there was no confirmation the bounty hunters seen in the downtown encounter were deputized by the federal government, their actions, mixed with the continued vigilance of community members seeking to observe and protest Operation Metro Surge, have raised alarms over the lack of state oversight. That same day, the same armed men appeared in another video widely shared on social media in which they detained a man in south Minneapolis. As observers blew whistles and asked to see a warrant, the men hurled curses and threats. When a car drove near their van, one of the men pointed a gun at it and screamed at the driver to back up.

A colorized version or a sketch from Harper's in the 1850s titled "Operations of the Fugitive Slave Law." Bounty hunters drag a Black man from his house as his daughter begs the bounty hunter while clinging to his leg. Both bounty hunters are armed.

A sketch group of bounty hunters have broken into a home. Home goods have been knocked onto the floor, a Black woman has a rope tied around her neck, and her daughter is taken from bed.

Y'all, this is how the Fugitive Slave Act operated from 1850 - 1860. The showdowns between citizens and armed, legalized bounty hunters were a feature, not a bug, and they directly helped cause the Civil War. www.startribune.com/as-operation...

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Even MAGA Republicans Hate Plans to Put a Border Wall in Big Bend Virtually no one, it seems, thinks a physical barrier in the region is a good idea. The Trump administration is rushing to build one anyway.

DHS is rapidly pushing to wall off Big Bend National Park.

Big Bend's former NPS superintendent says:

“This is the biggest incursion on the integrity of national parks since the construction of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite more than a century ago.”
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

The same people who are arguing conversion therapy bans are anti-free speech are now trying to ban anything that isn't conversion therapy.

And at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia, staff members have asked federal officials to decide whether a document that describes an abolitionist’s murder by a mob might “denigrate the murderers

National Park Service database flags hundreds of items that might ‘disparage’ America www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

My mom last-second decided to vote in the Republican primary because she despised him and Middleton so much.

Really seems to be an age divide amongst Democrats when it comes to Iran (John Fetterman notwithstanding) than ideology. Slotkin, Gallego and Ossoff came of age amid the War in Iraq and offered more forceful statements than Schumer or others.

This is some next-level swiftboating

Once again, the founders foresaw Trump perfectly, what they failed to foresee was this supine Congress.

Sorry guys it was a typo, he meant
Bored of Peace

Transgender people in Kenya just won a major court victory - LGBTQ Nation A trans woman arrested for "impersonation" sued and a judge ordered Parliament to pass a law protecting trans rights.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 28 LGBTNation
Kenyan trans woman arrested & subjected to strip-search, genital exam & hormone test altho she had ID & female passport vindicated after judge awards monetary damages and orders legislature to create new laws on trans rights.

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Most Americans manage to go their entire lives without worrying what's inside the pants of Boy Scouts and I'm simply asking Pete Hegseth to do the same

Nobody learned any lessons from John Fetterman it seems. If they already have red flags as budding politicians, power will only enable their worst instincts.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 26 EITM
In one of harshest measures to date. trans people in across Kansas get letters from requiring they surrender driver's licenses and saying current ones are now considered invalid with up to $1k fine and up to 6 mos in jail for driving with invalid license.

This man has been found. He is dead.
This is an atrocity.
How can we tolerate living in a society that does this?
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

The Boston Massacre would like a word.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

This is silly since separation of church and state is kind of his top issue.

Oh no what happened now?

A tweet, with 58K likes, states: "BREAKING - After it was revealed 50 mosques have opened in the Dallas Fort Worth area in the last 24 months, a woman has uncovered that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s largest donor is a Muslim Pakistani who has given him more than $14 million, including $2 million this year alone."

We have reached the point in Texas' anti-Muslim panic where John Cornyn getting endorsed by anti-Muslim activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Greg Abbott getting donations from Texas megadonor/oil exec Syed Javaid Anwar are proof that they are complicit in the Muslim Cabal's plot to take over Texas.

L.G.B.T.Q. Clubs in Some Texas Schools Can’t Be Banned, Judge Says

An obviously unconstitutional Texas law can't be enforced after state declined to offer "any defense of their new policies." To me this says they knew it was unconstitutional and the arguments they'd have to make were so embarrassingly wrong and bigoted, they'd rather lose the law than defend it.

We are living through the most serious crackdown on civil liberties built on lies

Special Saturday Triad: What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

“However alarmed you are, it’s not enough.”

Thank you @jvl.bsky.social, for telling the story we are living through here, the story we’re shouting and feel like America has moved on from.
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-i-saw...

We should try electing some kind of deliberative body that makes decisions about levying taxes.

I did not know about this. It appears that one of the people who wrote the articles that investigated her instead of her claims is Maggie Haberman's husband.

Joanne Bland passed away today. She was just was 11 when she marched in Selma on March 7, 1965, known today as "Bloody Sunday." Joanne led my students on a number of tours of Selma. I usually just sat back and watched her go. She was a remarkable woman, who will be dearly missed. #BlackHistoryMonth