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Snor

@snorfluencer.bsky.social

Less gentle (but still friendly) reminder:

🔊 CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY! 🔊

🙏

Snor @snorfluencer.bsky.social · 8d

Gentle reminder to call your reps today, US snors. 🫶

Snorlax smiles with an orange lanyard around his neck. There is a whistle on it and a pink button with an illustration of Kirby screaming “Abolish ICE.”

January 29, 2026 at 3:51 PM

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️

@ethyricalartist.bsky.social

See also: the “ceasefire(s)” in Gaza which make 🇺🇸 people think there’s any kind of peace for those poor, starving people they were so vehemently protesting & speaking out about just last summer… 🍉

Article:
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

#Imperialism #Israel #Gaza
bsky.app/profile/nbed...

Graph showing how many Israel has killed and injured in Gaza since the “ceasefire”

“Since the declaration of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on October 10, 2025, Israel has violated the agreement with near-daily at-tacks, killing hundreds of people.
Israel violated the ceasefire agreement at least 1,300 times from October 10, 2025 to January 20, 2026, through the continuation of attacks by air, artillery and direct shoot-ings, the Government Media Office in Gaza reports.”

January 26, 2026 at 11:56 PM

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Nicole Bedera

@nbedera.bsky.social

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM

Hangry Penguin

@hungrypenguin.bsky.social

🥺🥺🥺

Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Don't worry, I've got you
Rest in Peace, Alex.

Beautiful street art tribute by Topsy (topsy_paints on Instagram) in Seattle, U.S.

Street art tribute mural by Topsy (topsy_paints) in Seattle, USA, showing a healthcare worker in blue scrubs with a stethoscope gently lifting a kneeling Lady Justice—white-robed, blindfolded in gold, holding a sword with the scales of justice resting beside her—painted on a textured gray wall as a memorial message reading “Rest in Peace, Alex.”

January 26, 2026 at 11:33 PM

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❌👑🐸❌🧊 Target Majority NYC: An Indivisible & Swing Left Group

@targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social

The 15+ NYC @indivisible.org & allied groups who rallied at @schumer.senate.gov's home & office DAILY LAST WEEK (even in a blizzard!) now hold >1K signed letters from voters.

We urge Chuck to declare the **specific, feasible demands** with broad consensus support to curb ICE or vote NO on DHS $$.

over 1000 letters from voters demand Chuck Schumer publicly state the specific demands to curb ICE, for which there is broad consensus

text of the constituent letter that demands Chuck Schumer publicly state the specific demands to curb ICE, for which there is broad consensus

January 26, 2026 at 4:03 PM

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vijay iyer

@vijayiyer.bsky.social

You should read this.

James Baldwin, “A Report from Occupied Territory” (1966)

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

A Report from Occupied Territory

www.thenation.com

January 26, 2026 at 12:59 PM

Hangry Penguin

@hungrypenguin.bsky.social

Friends, meet Defrosty, who is originally from MN but traveled to NYC in the clouds.

He would like everyone to know that snow is cool, but a certain other kind of frozen water sucks.

#protestart #snowday #meltice

January 25, 2026 at 10:07 PM

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌

@chanda.blacksky.app

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽

‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota

Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.

apnews.com

January 25, 2026 at 1:32 PM

Hangry Penguin

@hungrypenguin.bsky.social

And people looked away until it was yt people.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 5d

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

January 25, 2026 at 4:38 PM

Hangry Penguin

@hungrypenguin.bsky.social

No funds for DHS!!!

Text SIGN PQOBQC to 50409, click the link below, or check out @resist.bot to write and send your own message.

resist.bot/petitions/PQ...

Hold the line: No funds for DHS

Obstruct ICE, CBP, et al. at all costs. Use every tool, no matter how orthodox or unorthodox.

No funding for DHS.

Abolish ICE/CBP.

It is your duty as a defender of the Constitution to halt the lawlessness of the fascist secret police that are now running wild within our communities. Everyday people are literally giving their lives to fight against this fascist terror. You should be throwing yourself in the gears too, but the least you can do is hold the g-damn line.

January 25, 2026 at 5:17 AM

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Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow

@ddelgadovive.bsky.social

I just want to make it clear that it was *Border Patrol* agents who murdered Alex Pretti, and those fuckers murder people regularly here along the border.

Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE).

Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.

January 25, 2026 at 3:28 AM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM

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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity

@oaklandabosol.bsky.social

Demonstration popping off now inside Dilley ICE detention in Texas in response to the news from Minneapolis and the mistreatment of 5 yr old, Liam Ramos.
✊✊✊
80% of the detainees, 1500 people many of them children are chanting and disrupting prison operation.
x.com/EricLeeAtty/...

January 24, 2026 at 10:13 PM

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Kashana

@kashana.blacksky.app

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM

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Taniel

@taniel.bsky.social

The man killed by ICE was Alex Pretti, a 37-year old Minneapolis resident, UMN graduate, and licensed nurse.

The Star Tribune with information we know at the moment: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

January 24, 2026 at 7:55 PM

Hangry Penguin

@hungrypenguin.bsky.social

💯

Looking especially at you, white guys and gals, and leadership! 👀

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 6d

Every member of congress has a duty & right to conduct oversight on DHS.

They should all come do rapid response. Come inspect the Twin Cities ICE HQ. Push in and do some oversight. Do not let the guards turn you away. Make them arrest you or beat you or let you in.

January 24, 2026 at 9:54 PM

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Brandy Zadrozny

@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM

Hangry Penguin

@hungrypenguin.bsky.social

Hi @vanhollen.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov et al, if you need to get Chuck kicked out of leadership to block ICE appropriations, PLEASE FREAKING DO IT NOW.

—signed an unfortunate Chuck constituent from NY

January 24, 2026 at 9:43 PM

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Clara Jeffery

@clarajeffery.bsky.social

This is insane

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….

January 24, 2026 at 12:42 AM

Hangry Penguin

@hungrypenguin.bsky.social

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 7d

"Oh my gosh, it was so nice to see you! Have a lovely day, fuck ICE!"
"Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!'

- two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest

January 24, 2026 at 1:29 AM

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Ben Carter

@archaeoscape.bsky.social

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

January 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM

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Snor

@snorfluencer.bsky.social

Gentle reminder to call your reps today, US snors. 🫶

January 22, 2026 at 8:08 PM

Hangry Penguin

@hungrypenguin.bsky.social

👀 Hey, @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov. 👋 Called you & left a message, but to reiterate: NOT ANOTHER 💲 FOR ICE.

Whip your caucus! Vote NAY on any appropriations to DHS that fail to stop ICE’s illegal terror campaign against USians.