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Anti-Immigration is Fascist Continuing from the other site. I started this thread as a way to see the evolution of the rhetoric and perceptions of MAGA/GOP on Immigration policy. 🧵

A tenth of a percent by Craig Merry craigmerry.com/solidarity-l...

25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.

3 year old insisted trying pedals today in the 100 degree heat. Did really good!

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents

She walked the talk and did so much for humanity. RIP Dolly

Books on my nightstand

Made a family friendly printable and digital hub for World Cup soccer brackets. craigm26.github.io/WorldCup2026...

Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists? Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy. Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists? Noem: My condolences to their families Raskin: You lied about them.

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

From @wired.com: “Federal records reveal ICE is secretly expanding into 150+ facilities across nearly every state — many near schools, medical offices, and places of worship… DHS asked the General Services Administration to hide lease listings and bypass normal procedures…”🤔

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

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"Alex was one of us, could’ve been any of us, so as we mourn, all of us can come together in unity to remember Alex for what he was." Join us for a memorial ride, 10am Saturday at Rockridge BART. There will be donations requested for local Bay Area ICE defense networks & for Minneapolis orgs.

ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk

Google DeepMind staffers are pressing leadership on their plans to safeguard the 3,000-person unit from ICE agents. "As we have seen, government agency tactics can change and escalate quite rapidly. With offices in many metro areas across the US, are we prepared?" Scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social

‘I was simply luckier’: Holocaust survivors warn against forgetting Nazi atrocities

Added license plate car reporting to the crowdtalkie.com app. Also re-enabled the Command Center features so that multiple rooms can coordinate.

Damn proud of Minnesota.

RIP Alex Pretti One of us. American.

We were just sent Alex’s GoFundMe.

My mom called me crying about the shooting and said “you don’t become a nurse unless you wanted to help, he just wanted to help people” and my heart broke all over again.

Murder. ICE pushed the woman. Dude tried to help woman, ICE agent came in with pepper spray.

There because of “massive monetary fraud”? It was violent rioters yesterday

Abolish ICE. Get them out of our cities.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026