Laura Tanenbaum
@ltanenbaum.bsky.social
poetry, teaching, good trouble. proud member PSC-CUNY and JVP. all my humor is situational. Poetry collection, Dear Mother, out soon: https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/dear-mother-laura-tanenbaum/
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Laura Tanenbaum
@ltanenbaum.bsky.social
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Dear Mother / Laura Tanenbaum | Main Street Rag
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Just a few more weeks to pre-order my debut collection Dear Mother from Main Street Rag! think grief, motherhood & middle age but with jokes. thanks to @carrieconners.bsky.social @daniarajendra.bsky.social @blbalthaser.bsky.social & @jwmason.bsky.social mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/dear...
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damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis
January 16, 2026 at 4:18 PM
damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis
Yet another connection to Palestine, where people are denied the right to grieve
One of the things that genuinely shocked me as I read through surveillance logs for the police is how much of their energy and attention is dedicated to shutting down vigils and other ceremonies of remembrance.
Anyway ICE was filmed desecrating Renee Nicole Good’s memorial & doing violence to people who found that distasteful. Might be too soon to say if this falls into some kind of pattern of behavior if you’re the stupidest motherfucker on earth.
January 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Yet another connection to Palestine, where people are denied the right to grieve
Yes and another answer to "what's the point of protesting" - it radicalizes people.
Its been my consistent experience my whole life having attended protests since I was a very small child. It was very helpful that I went to Columbia at the height of its first major shutdown and could straightforwardly say what did and didn't happen there and the amazing scale of the police response
One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.
January 16, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Yes and another answer to "what's the point of protesting" - it radicalizes people.
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Twin Cities Leather (and adult toy store Smitten Kitten) have stopped regular operations to become a staging and delivery space for food and supply donations- they are requesting monetary donations to keep them afloat without any income
www.paypal.com/paypalme/kpa...
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Pay Kurt Kopatich using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/kpattonleather and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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January 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Twin Cities Leather (and adult toy store Smitten Kitten) have stopped regular operations to become a staging and delivery space for food and supply donations- they are requesting monetary donations to keep them afloat without any income
www.paypal.com/paypalme/kpa...
www.paypal.com/paypalme/kpa...
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One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.
January 15, 2026 at 7:27 PM
One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.
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A buddy in MN shared a drawing a classmate of his kid made. They've been making thank you notes for parents who have volunteered to carpool them to school so their own parents don't have to risk waiting out by the bus stop.
January 15, 2026 at 4:43 PM
A buddy in MN shared a drawing a classmate of his kid made. They've been making thank you notes for parents who have volunteered to carpool them to school so their own parents don't have to risk waiting out by the bus stop.
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Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota
January 14, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota
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Federal agents flashbanged a car full of kids last night including a 6 month old baby, according to local news. Why are NYT reporters in a rural diner talking to anti-immigrant kooks? www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbMO...
Children hospitalized after flashbang hits father's vehicle
YouTube video by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Federal agents flashbanged a car full of kids last night including a 6 month old baby, according to local news. Why are NYT reporters in a rural diner talking to anti-immigrant kooks? www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbMO...
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A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
Mike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it.
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
January 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM
A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
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this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.
Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him’
The mother's family pleaded with federal officers for her release from custody to say her final goodbyes to her son, but their requests went unanswered.
www.wsaz.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:09 AM
this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
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NEW: Far-right Zionist group Betar US will disband following an investigation by NY State Attorney General Letitia James into the group's "violence against and harassment of Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish activists" and failure to register as a charity in NY despite soliciting donations.
January 13, 2026 at 9:10 PM
NEW: Far-right Zionist group Betar US will disband following an investigation by NY State Attorney General Letitia James into the group's "violence against and harassment of Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish activists" and failure to register as a charity in NY despite soliciting donations.
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tomorrow: leaflets air-dropped over the Twin Cities inform residents that unless they evacuate to certain designated zones they and their families will be treated as enemy combatants by the most moral ICE in the world
Or ... or you'll ... shoot the babies?
DHS I don't know if you were all absent on training day but you can't shoot babies even if you don't like their parents. There is nothing that can be happening with a baby that makes it ok to shoot babies.
DHS I don't know if you were all absent on training day but you can't shoot babies even if you don't like their parents. There is nothing that can be happening with a baby that makes it ok to shoot babies.
January 12, 2026 at 11:37 AM
tomorrow: leaflets air-dropped over the Twin Cities inform residents that unless they evacuate to certain designated zones they and their families will be treated as enemy combatants by the most moral ICE in the world
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This is Minneapolis:
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
January 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM
This is Minneapolis:
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
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Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
January 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
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Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.
January 10, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.
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I guess Ezra Klein doesn't think Nicole Renee Good "Was Practicing Politics the Right Way"
January 10, 2026 at 2:48 PM
I guess Ezra Klein doesn't think Nicole Renee Good "Was Practicing Politics the Right Way"
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I can't help but think of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, and how Schwerner's last recorded words before being shot were reportedly, "Sir, I know just how you feel."
And Renee Good’s last words appear to be “We’re not mad at you.”
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:17 PM
I can't help but think of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, and how Schwerner's last recorded words before being shot were reportedly, "Sir, I know just how you feel."
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January 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Please read this piece by a student journalist at Roosevelt High School, the school that DHS attacked yesterday. rooseveltstandard.com/797/opinion/...
ICE Needs To Get Out Of Minneapolis
On Wednesday January 7th at 3:20 pm I was working in the wrestling basement of Roosevelt Highschool to publish an article about the tragic event that occurred earlier today in South Minneapolis when a...
rooseveltstandard.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Please read this piece by a student journalist at Roosevelt High School, the school that DHS attacked yesterday. rooseveltstandard.com/797/opinion/...
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No one who doesn't want to be convinced will be moved by the forensic accounts undertaken by the media but it's still good that they offer the accounts. Not because people will be convinced but so that others can tell accurate stories.
January 8, 2026 at 6:34 PM
No one who doesn't want to be convinced will be moved by the forensic accounts undertaken by the media but it's still good that they offer the accounts. Not because people will be convinced but so that others can tell accurate stories.
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NYC‼️ TODAY, 6PM, FOLEY SQUARE
EMERGENCY RALLY IN RESPONSE TO #ICE KILLING MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTER
“This tragedy did not happen in a vacuum. It is the direct & predictable result of a federal agency that has been allowed to operate with impunity” @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social
EMERGENCY RALLY IN RESPONSE TO #ICE KILLING MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTER
“This tragedy did not happen in a vacuum. It is the direct & predictable result of a federal agency that has been allowed to operate with impunity” @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 8:41 PM
NYC‼️ TODAY, 6PM, FOLEY SQUARE
EMERGENCY RALLY IN RESPONSE TO #ICE KILLING MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTER
“This tragedy did not happen in a vacuum. It is the direct & predictable result of a federal agency that has been allowed to operate with impunity” @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social
EMERGENCY RALLY IN RESPONSE TO #ICE KILLING MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTER
“This tragedy did not happen in a vacuum. It is the direct & predictable result of a federal agency that has been allowed to operate with impunity” @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social
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really wish the “opposition” party had not spent years upon years trying to outdo the GOP in lavishing money arms and deference on state security forces
January 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
really wish the “opposition” party had not spent years upon years trying to outdo the GOP in lavishing money arms and deference on state security forces
Thanks @rustandmoth.bsky.social for publishing one of my favorite poems in the collection: rustandmoth.com/work/on-not-...
January 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Thanks @rustandmoth.bsky.social for publishing one of my favorite poems in the collection: rustandmoth.com/work/on-not-...
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Excellent mail day! Can’t wait to help launch this stunner by @ltanenbaum.bsky.social on 1/27/26 at Lofty Pigeon Books in Brooklyn! www.eventbrite.com/e/laura-tane...
January 3, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Excellent mail day! Can’t wait to help launch this stunner by @ltanenbaum.bsky.social on 1/27/26 at Lofty Pigeon Books in Brooklyn! www.eventbrite.com/e/laura-tane...