Bethany Suckrow

Rebecca Solnit said respectability is dog shit

For Mahmoud Khalll, this past year has been marked by profound hardship-and by profound courage. A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine. And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child. Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together. Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.

In a dining room, five people eat, chat and smile around a table of food.

Iftar, Day 19

WALZ: What a 'stop payment' meant by what the administration did last week is 400,000 children without healthcare

COMER: We believe that's your fault

WALZ: Our Medicaid error rate is lower than your state

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.”

They pulled a Target.

This one hits hard.

Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.

I’m so sorry youre going through this whatever this is, friend. Thinking of you. And definitely can relate to the feeling. 🖤

This thread is the we are going to win thread, is the kids are alright thread, is the STOP ICE thread, is the civil society rising thread; read it through.

Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...

hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.

I am not always on board with complaints that something in a headline should have been put this way instead of that way, but “their story falls apart” is much too soft for me in this case. One’s story does not gently fall apart like a popsicle stick house.

And that’s not what gets you suspended.

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:

5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

Alex Pretti, MAGA, And The Public Meaning Of Masculinity If you'd rather be like them than like him, it's time to take a look in the mirror...

Alex Pretti’s most immediate legacy is galvanizing the country against tyranny. We should do what we can to see to it that his other legacy is reclaiming the public meaning of masculinity from the whiny, sadistic freaks responsible for his murder. www.offmessage.net/p/alex-prett...

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests

- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact

I think about this from Aristotle a lot. Democracy requires equality, but some people cannot stand to be equal with others and seek to overthrow democracy.

"Inferiors become revolutionaries in order to be equals and equals become revolutionaries in order to be superiors." Aristotle, Politics

trump has probably destroyed the minnesota republican party for the duration

Public executions at the hands of the government should never happen in “the land of the free.”

Not one more taxpayer dollar for Trump’s DHS, CBP or ICE.

This is why I have been telling people to work in their community to create local legislation denying ICE access to lease or buy these kinds of facilities. Use zoning and other city/state/county regs to block them wherever possible. (Remember, before it became a camp, Dachau had been a factory.)

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article.

Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars

smiling portrait of Liam, age 5, in a school picture

witness photo, courtesy of the school district, showing Liam outside his front door with a masked agent by his side.

Liam is one of four Columbia Heights, MN school district students who have been taken by ICE in the last two weeks, the school district said. Liam's teacher: “He is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He ... just brightens the room. All I want is for him to be back here and safe.”

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry.

"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.

Your doomposts do not impress me. They do not make me laugh. They do not make me feel like you are on my side.

If you wanna curl up into a ball and die, go do it on your own time, and keep it to yourself. I want to interact with people willing to put in the work to fight.

Californians are NOT going to vote for Gavin Newsom. They're telling you now, with YEARS to go before the election. Fair warning. Please support better candidates, there will be many to choose from.

Either Palestine becomes free, or every place gradually becomes Gaza.

"The baby was released to her family. Her grandmother says she had a bruised cheek, but is otherwise OK." oh ok, the baby had bruising but was otherwise fine other than the bruising, otherwise, being randomly abducted by ICE, otherwise the baby was fine, just the bruising

I just felt crazy listening to it, like the reporters were on a different planet.