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This is what ecocide looks like.

the radical socialist agenda of functioning public services

i am so tired of screaming from the rooftops that we have a looming, avoidable crisis of evictions brewing.

everyone knows it, but yet government and philanthropy have no solutions. unpaid volunteers of rent funds are doing the work that the people who control the purse strings refuse to do

I'm asking that we all raise our political expectations. We deserve good things.

the portrait of @drmitchpdx.bsky.social is a nice touch

incredible 8 hours for elite accountability everywhere but the United States

excellent

the article but not the post, there's not a surge happening in Hawaii I'm doing rapid response work here

this article is from last summer

congrats! and godspeed

The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

Bernie bros at the ready 🫡

DSA officially has 100,000 members nationwide!

Image of DSA co-chairs Ashik Siddique and Megan Romer

A message from your DSA Co-chairs:

“We are honored to be just two of 100,000 proud DSA members in this moment. We urge all of you to take another step today…”

“These masked agents leaving our state can be spun any way people want, but history will show what this was: regular people, clergy and teachers, janitors and soccer moms, people across all of our complicated differences, simply refusing to let our neighbors be attacked and abducted without a fight. The level of solidarity shown by Minnesotans should be an example for everyone and we couldn’t be more proud of our state.

From a statement released today by the ICE Out of Minnesota Coalition.

To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.

impressive sploot

incredible

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good

Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa” The list they're creating says so, anyway

🚨 Documents leaked to me reveal a federal watchlist of American protesters suspected of being Antifa - including its supposed leader.

One Department of Homeland Security document says a 29-year-old resident of Portland "is the leader of Antifa":
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...

have you tried following more socialists bsky.app/profile/clai...

Twin Cities Labor Report 1/26 Did we just have a General Strike?

report back from the January 23rd general strike in Minneapolis twincitieslaborreport.substack.com/p/twin-citie...

Twin Cities Labor Report 1/26 Did we just have a General Strike?

twincitieslaborreport.substack.com/p/twin-citie...

Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos A protest broke out Saturday at the ICE-run South Texas family detention complex in Dilley, where five-year-old Liam Ramos is being detained.

Reminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain “bugs,” dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.

“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.

I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.

there’s a lot of people in this thread asking “how are they doing it?” and then I remembered we actually tried to tell people what we did in 2023 and there’s a lot of overlap.

if you’ve been watching coverage of MN you might recognize many of the central characters.

it’s not magic. it’s work.

My take on the Jan 23 action in Minneapolis is that I don’t really care whether it’s a “true” general strike (we could argue about that all day).

What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance

compelling argument

what are the logistics here, someone asked our payroll department in work slack last year about not withholding taxes and it was a no go

“This country is run by workers" hell yeah shut it down