Gareth
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For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Abolish DHS, too 👇
DHS employees entered our store this afternoon and served us a Notice of Inspection, demanding copies of I9 forms for each employee.
In 27 years as shopkeepers, we have never been subjected to this type of investigation.
In 27 years as shopkeepers, we have never been subjected to this type of investigation.
January 17, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Abolish DHS, too 👇
Abolish 🧊 👇
ICE isn’t making rare mistakes. This is the point.
When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.
When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.
January 17, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Abolish 🧊 👇
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ICE isn’t making rare mistakes. This is the point.
When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.
When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.
January 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
ICE isn’t making rare mistakes. This is the point.
When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.
When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.
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Among the many powerful lessons of the last week has been this: the people, not the politicians—and definitely not the Democrats—are leading in this moment. In this week’s Elie v. US, @elienyc.bsky.social explores why that’s both inspiring—and depressing.
https://bit.ly/4qX7ofh
https://bit.ly/4qX7ofh
It's Official: The People, Not the Politicians, Are Leading
In this week's Elie V. US, our justice correspondent explores the fecklessness of the Democratic Party, MAGA racism, and fighting despite unwinnable odds.
bit.ly
January 16, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Among the many powerful lessons of the last week has been this: the people, not the politicians—and definitely not the Democrats—are leading in this moment. In this week’s Elie v. US, @elienyc.bsky.social explores why that’s both inspiring—and depressing.
https://bit.ly/4qX7ofh
https://bit.ly/4qX7ofh
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Banking on transphobia, disdain for the unhoused, and being soft on billionaires are one set of cynical gambits. Walking back his rhetoric about ICE in this particular moment is a whole other level of not just morally but strategically vacuous.
January 16, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Banking on transphobia, disdain for the unhoused, and being soft on billionaires are one set of cynical gambits. Walking back his rhetoric about ICE in this particular moment is a whole other level of not just morally but strategically vacuous.
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So I shared this thread on the 100th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 & I'll share again because I think it is important for folks to know what it is the Trump admin has to undo to undo our US citizenship in order to set a precedent for challenging birthright citizenship.
Forgot to share here but to help put this into perspective, my great grandma was 9 years old when ALL Native Americans gained US citizenship on June 2, 1924 with the Indian Citizenship Act.
January 16, 2026 at 2:31 PM
So I shared this thread on the 100th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 & I'll share again because I think it is important for folks to know what it is the Trump admin has to undo to undo our US citizenship in order to set a precedent for challenging birthright citizenship.
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Then, as now, the call was coming from *inside* the house. The sooner we accept that fact & the historical relationship btwn white moderates & white supremacy, the sooner we can abandon this farce & work towards genuine democracy & equality.
January 15, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Then, as now, the call was coming from *inside* the house. The sooner we accept that fact & the historical relationship btwn white moderates & white supremacy, the sooner we can abandon this farce & work towards genuine democracy & equality.
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Then, as now, the call was coming from *inside* the house. The sooner we accept that fact & the historical relationship btwn white moderates & white supremacy, the sooner we can abandon this farce & work towards genuine democracy & equality.
January 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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While it's convienent to point to white Southern vigilantes to explain the defeat of Reconstruction, as Proctor notes, it was white Northerners & federal officials who abandoned the rule of law & helped initiate a *nationwide* regime of racial repression.
In the same way that the media and elites in 2016 and 2024 acquiesced to Trump's election and re-election, it was white moderates, especially in the Republican Party, who doomed the South to Jim Crow after decades of insurgent violence and conservative legislative disfranchisement
January 15, 2026 at 9:32 PM
While it's convienent to point to white Southern vigilantes to explain the defeat of Reconstruction, as Proctor notes, it was white Northerners & federal officials who abandoned the rule of law & helped initiate a *nationwide* regime of racial repression.
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seeing corporate outlets repeatedly refer to ICE beating the shit out of protesters as “clashes” may be the thing that sends me over the edge
January 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
seeing corporate outlets repeatedly refer to ICE beating the shit out of protesters as “clashes” may be the thing that sends me over the edge
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Tressie McMillan Cottom has talked about part of the reason the right has targeted certain sectors/industries, is punishing Black women for radicalizing white women, and I think there’s a freight train full of truth in that.
A big part of why the Right is furious at White women right now is because they're increasingly using their Whiteness as shield and a weapon and it's honestly fucking great.
what a legend lmao
January 16, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Tressie McMillan Cottom has talked about part of the reason the right has targeted certain sectors/industries, is punishing Black women for radicalizing white women, and I think there’s a freight train full of truth in that.
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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An exhausted cat clings to a wooden wall during a flood until a rescuer rescues her with the kitten.
January 15, 2026 at 1:43 AM
An exhausted cat clings to a wooden wall during a flood until a rescuer rescues her with the kitten.
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It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
ICE agents to begin checking documents at MSP airport, patrol jet bridges - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will begin checking documents of travelers and workers at MSP airport, with patrols inside jet bridges.
www.bizjournals.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:11 AM
It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
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Murderers.
BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Murderers.
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A big part of why the Right is furious at White women right now is because they're increasingly using their Whiteness as shield and a weapon and it's honestly fucking great.
January 15, 2026 at 10:06 PM
A big part of why the Right is furious at White women right now is because they're increasingly using their Whiteness as shield and a weapon and it's honestly fucking great.
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"Border Patrol official has leaked files."
"ICE crackdown isn't just about immigration; it's about gathering intelligence."
"[P]lainclothes agents have been [.] in transport vans [.] and detention cells to gather [.] intelligence."
#USA #Whistleblowing #Surveillance #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"ICE crackdown isn't just about immigration; it's about gathering intelligence."
"[P]lainclothes agents have been [.] in transport vans [.] and detention cells to gather [.] intelligence."
#USA #Whistleblowing #Surveillance #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
'Part of a Larger War': Whistleblower Exposes ICE Effort to Spy on Immigrants—and Americans
"The ICE crackdown isn't just about immigration; it's about gathering intelligence... on antifa, on the radical left... and anyone else they consider terrorists," said journalist Ken Klippenstein.
www.commondreams.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:05 PM
"Border Patrol official has leaked files."
"ICE crackdown isn't just about immigration; it's about gathering intelligence."
"[P]lainclothes agents have been [.] in transport vans [.] and detention cells to gather [.] intelligence."
#USA #Whistleblowing #Surveillance #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"ICE crackdown isn't just about immigration; it's about gathering intelligence."
"[P]lainclothes agents have been [.] in transport vans [.] and detention cells to gather [.] intelligence."
#USA #Whistleblowing #Surveillance #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
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Flashbangs burn hotter then lava.
They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed.
*That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids.
Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com:
www.propublica.org/article/flas...
They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed.
*That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids.
Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com:
www.propublica.org/article/flas...
January 15, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Flashbangs burn hotter then lava.
They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed.
*That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids.
Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com:
www.propublica.org/article/flas...
They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed.
*That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids.
Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com:
www.propublica.org/article/flas...
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how do you release a video statement like the one @governorwalz.mn.gov just put out and then have your state troopers assisting the very occupation you've called to end
Heard some flashbangs on the side we are not on; can't tell you RN what's happening over there. Over here, state troopers still standing side by side with the feds. Have seen a few MPD officers wander through.
January 15, 2026 at 4:28 AM
how do you release a video statement like the one @governorwalz.mn.gov just put out and then have your state troopers assisting the very occupation you've called to end
Abolish 🧊 👇
“They chased him, he got home and when we closed the door they shot him.”
MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside
Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...
MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside
Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...
January 15, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Abolish 🧊 👇
Abolish 🧊 👇
“3 flash bangs at my car. ICE knew we were trying to leave. My 6 month old can’t breathe.”
Trump’s goons terrorize a Black family in Minneapolis, to the point where EMT’s have to come help his child get away from the gas and chaotic dangerous scene
(H/T @thejfreakinc.bsky.social )
Trump’s goons terrorize a Black family in Minneapolis, to the point where EMT’s have to come help his child get away from the gas and chaotic dangerous scene
(H/T @thejfreakinc.bsky.social )
January 15, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Abolish 🧊 👇
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before I go to bed, I feel obliged to emphasize how tonight’s rampage in northern Minneapolis was, by no exaggeration, a glorified episode of klan night riding by federally deputized groypers. Yes, DHS always had these people but the difference now is that they’re in charge and with a $175B budget.
oh my god????
January 15, 2026 at 4:47 AM
before I go to bed, I feel obliged to emphasize how tonight’s rampage in northern Minneapolis was, by no exaggeration, a glorified episode of klan night riding by federally deputized groypers. Yes, DHS always had these people but the difference now is that they’re in charge and with a $175B budget.
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This is the dirty secret of the Dems - they know the cops are completely out of their control and they try to stop the cops from threatening their lives by shoveling money at them and letting them do whatever they want.
I think the reason we have not seen Frey, Her, and Walz change their orientations on exercising the use of state policing power to repel the federal occupation is that to do so would be to admit the State Patrol, National Guard, MPD, SPPD, et al., are de facto not actually under their command.
January 14, 2026 at 11:45 AM
This is the dirty secret of the Dems - they know the cops are completely out of their control and they try to stop the cops from threatening their lives by shoveling money at them and letting them do whatever they want.