Annie Weinberg
@annieweinberg.bsky.social
elections, organizing, electorate expansion towards a more reflective democracy, space justice, dance offs
Organizing is this at its heart and it is everything
I have never witnessed such a spiderweb of collective action, just average everyday people showing up. Not the heroism we’ve been sold by the movies but collective heroism, a fabric of care and resistance to fascism.
January 26, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Organizing is this at its heart and it is everything
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HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
January 25, 2026 at 12:00 AM
HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
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the video of another person being murdered by the state on the streets of minneapolis shows exactly what people are saying it shows. make your own choices but don’t feel like you are obligated to bear witness to it. reading a description is enough.
January 24, 2026 at 3:48 PM
the video of another person being murdered by the state on the streets of minneapolis shows exactly what people are saying it shows. make your own choices but don’t feel like you are obligated to bear witness to it. reading a description is enough.
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"abolish ICE and prosecute everyone involved" is the moderate position
January 24, 2026 at 4:15 PM
"abolish ICE and prosecute everyone involved" is the moderate position
Evil kidnappers are evil but also I promise you they’re going to lose and we will win
DESPITE A COURT ORDERING HER RELEASE
ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
January 24, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Evil kidnappers are evil but also I promise you they’re going to lose and we will win
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This shift is for conflicted - figuring out what to believe. MN has *also* shifted narrative for base. They have unleashed power of social proof, of wanting to be on team righteous cause lest you miss your place in history. This is essential to amassing more & higher bar collective action.
January 24, 2026 at 3:06 AM
This shift is for conflicted - figuring out what to believe. MN has *also* shifted narrative for base. They have unleashed power of social proof, of wanting to be on team righteous cause lest you miss your place in history. This is essential to amassing more & higher bar collective action.
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Many Minnesotans are self-consciously organizing as a broad united front against fascism with the humility, compromises, and solidarity that requires.
Labor, community orgs, faith communities, small businesses, school and child care social networks, nonprofits... are the base.
Labor, community orgs, faith communities, small businesses, school and child care social networks, nonprofits... are the base.
📢 FRIDAY, JANUARY 23 - Meet at The Commons in Downtown Minneapolis at 2 pm for a peaceful march in community. ❌🧊
💌 Minnesotans have shown the world how much we care for our neighbors. The world has shown us support back. Our solidarity is our strength. Our joyful resistance is rooted in love ✊
💌 Minnesotans have shown the world how much we care for our neighbors. The world has shown us support back. Our solidarity is our strength. Our joyful resistance is rooted in love ✊
January 23, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Many Minnesotans are self-consciously organizing as a broad united front against fascism with the humility, compromises, and solidarity that requires.
Labor, community orgs, faith communities, small businesses, school and child care social networks, nonprofits... are the base.
Labor, community orgs, faith communities, small businesses, school and child care social networks, nonprofits... are the base.
When I was in Italy advising a young progressive woman’s electoral campaign, we took a meeting outside of Naples with some regional “powerbrokers” and they said hey you should hire us to protect your volunteers. and we said huh protect from what. And they said (1/2)
Right on cue, here are the push alerts from the 3 major newspapers lmao
January 21, 2026 at 8:14 PM
When I was in Italy advising a young progressive woman’s electoral campaign, we took a meeting outside of Naples with some regional “powerbrokers” and they said hey you should hire us to protect your volunteers. and we said huh protect from what. And they said (1/2)
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🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 19, 2026 at 11:12 PM
🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️
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This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
Other lovable thing about MN is it’ll be negative 21 degrees (-47 windchill) and ppl will still be like “do u wanna come to our mutual aid tournament fundraiser for Most Artistic Icefishing Shack” on a frozen-ass lake
Ppl are winterized and dgaf
ICE goons are simply not built for this
Ppl are winterized and dgaf
ICE goons are simply not built for this
never forget: you're dealing with the state that captured a confederate flag during the american civil war and has been saying "oh you want it back? come get it then lol" ever since
Folks, if you know any Minnesotan, you'll know that many of us will bring up Minnesota and Minnesota things at every possible opportunity. If we manage to ride out military occupation, we're going to be absolutely insufferable for the next 20 years. Think about what you're risking here.
January 19, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Other lovable thing about MN is it’ll be negative 21 degrees (-47 windchill) and ppl will still be like “do u wanna come to our mutual aid tournament fundraiser for Most Artistic Icefishing Shack” on a frozen-ass lake
Ppl are winterized and dgaf
ICE goons are simply not built for this
Ppl are winterized and dgaf
ICE goons are simply not built for this
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Nice thing about Minneapolis being kinda small is that it’s hard to convince us protesters are being paid because you’d go out and oh there’s that kid from my high school who played Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha one year, and is that the pharmacist at my CVS over there, and there goes our realtor
January 17, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Nice thing about Minneapolis being kinda small is that it’s hard to convince us protesters are being paid because you’d go out and oh there’s that kid from my high school who played Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha one year, and is that the pharmacist at my CVS over there, and there goes our realtor
there’s an unrelenting wave of stories like this from Minneapolis but this particular family’s horrorshow (parents and 6 kids! just trying to get home! gassed in their car!!) OOH it makes me so mad I could fight a fuckin tornado
We can’t abolish this shit fast enough
We can’t abolish this shit fast enough
"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car"
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
January 16, 2026 at 6:35 PM
there’s an unrelenting wave of stories like this from Minneapolis but this particular family’s horrorshow (parents and 6 kids! just trying to get home! gassed in their car!!) OOH it makes me so mad I could fight a fuckin tornado
We can’t abolish this shit fast enough
We can’t abolish this shit fast enough
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The purpose of any messaging is to move people toward what we need them to believe & do. We need people to see ICE accurately - as the gestapo, a criminal enterprise destroying us from within. That's why any reference to "reform" or "train" goes against our material & narrative goal.
January 15, 2026 at 10:51 PM
The purpose of any messaging is to move people toward what we need them to believe & do. We need people to see ICE accurately - as the gestapo, a criminal enterprise destroying us from within. That's why any reference to "reform" or "train" goes against our material & narrative goal.
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Bro, people are going to build entire lives around the neighbors they’ve found in these anti-ICE signal chats. Marriages, lifelong friendships, weird hobbies. It is actually breaking my brain. I am almost crying in the club (chat).
January 16, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Bro, people are going to build entire lives around the neighbors they’ve found in these anti-ICE signal chats. Marriages, lifelong friendships, weird hobbies. It is actually breaking my brain. I am almost crying in the club (chat).
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Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
January 15, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
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remember when centrists confidently asserted that dems should avoid talking about immigration because it was a GOP 80/20 issue
Trump Net-Approval On:
Immigration: -23%
Venezuela: -24%
Foreign Policy: -24%
Economy: -25%
AP-NORC / Jan 11, 2026
Immigration: -23%
Venezuela: -24%
Foreign Policy: -24%
Economy: -25%
AP-NORC / Jan 11, 2026
January 14, 2026 at 10:37 PM
remember when centrists confidently asserted that dems should avoid talking about immigration because it was a GOP 80/20 issue
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Frost: For so long, the right wing has held up patriotism as a vibe, as an aesthetic. But patriotism is more than bald eagles and flags and beer. Patriotism is about loving the people who live in the damn country — every single one of them.
January 13, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Frost: For so long, the right wing has held up patriotism as a vibe, as an aesthetic. But patriotism is more than bald eagles and flags and beer. Patriotism is about loving the people who live in the damn country — every single one of them.
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Journalists often go on hand-fed ride-alongs with agents.
Seldom, though, do they get into the cars of everyday people protecting their communities from those same agents.
We just did exactly that, in ICE-occupied Minneapolis:
Seldom, though, do they get into the cars of everyday people protecting their communities from those same agents.
We just did exactly that, in ICE-occupied Minneapolis:
January 13, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Journalists often go on hand-fed ride-alongs with agents.
Seldom, though, do they get into the cars of everyday people protecting their communities from those same agents.
We just did exactly that, in ICE-occupied Minneapolis:
Seldom, though, do they get into the cars of everyday people protecting their communities from those same agents.
We just did exactly that, in ICE-occupied Minneapolis:
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Rhetorically this accomplishes *the exact same thing* leadership tries to do to focus on healthcare WITHOUT invalidating the other issues at hand by calling them distractions.
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Rhetorically this accomplishes *the exact same thing* leadership tries to do to focus on healthcare WITHOUT invalidating the other issues at hand by calling them distractions.
Srsly. If I still have jeans from the year ICE was invented (2003, and I DO) it’s not some sacrosanct institution; it’s just a Patriot Act Era racist-violence generator we can easily abolish from American life.
<courageously throws out a pair of diesel acidwash skinnies as tribute>
<courageously throws out a pair of diesel acidwash skinnies as tribute>
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Srsly. If I still have jeans from the year ICE was invented (2003, and I DO) it’s not some sacrosanct institution; it’s just a Patriot Act Era racist-violence generator we can easily abolish from American life.
<courageously throws out a pair of diesel acidwash skinnies as tribute>
<courageously throws out a pair of diesel acidwash skinnies as tribute>
All of us singing: 🎶which side are you on/ which side are you on 🎶
literal patch of Minnesota ice: IM ON THE FREEDOM SIDE
literal patch of Minnesota ice: IM ON THE FREEDOM SIDE
January 11, 2026 at 7:33 PM
All of us singing: 🎶which side are you on/ which side are you on 🎶
literal patch of Minnesota ice: IM ON THE FREEDOM SIDE
literal patch of Minnesota ice: IM ON THE FREEDOM SIDE
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This is insane. Brooks says everyone is too blinded by ideology to see the truth of what the video shows. Then the host asks him what it shows and he refuses to answer.
“Left and right are equally to blame for everything all the time” is also an ideology!
“Left and right are equally to blame for everything all the time” is also an ideology!
sounds like david f’ing brooks
Brooks and Capehart on the response to the Minnesota ICE shooting
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
January 10, 2026 at 11:02 PM
This is insane. Brooks says everyone is too blinded by ideology to see the truth of what the video shows. Then the host asks him what it shows and he refuses to answer.
“Left and right are equally to blame for everything all the time” is also an ideology!
“Left and right are equally to blame for everything all the time” is also an ideology!
Kidnappers everywhere in the twin cities
if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed.
everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.
everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.
January 10, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Kidnappers everywhere in the twin cities
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“It’s about being full human beings and not just means to an end. I want to live in a city that honors what you’re doing when you’re not making money: time spent on the playground with a kid or visiting a sick friend…we need bread, but we need roses too.” -Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson
January 2, 2026 at 7:13 PM
“It’s about being full human beings and not just means to an end. I want to live in a city that honors what you’re doing when you’re not making money: time spent on the playground with a kid or visiting a sick friend…we need bread, but we need roses too.” -Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson