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Somehow I get paid to write, despite my best efforts to become a scientist. Bad at magic the gathering, but very enthusiastic. She/her
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The two genders
February 2, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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How do we lose Catherine O'Hara and Rob Reiner when SOME PEOPLE seem to keep going forever and ever
January 30, 2026 at 6:22 PM
meg.gg
You could share this information about a massive raid in the very small ag community of Wilder, ID.
www.investigatewest.org/idaho-immigr...
Idaho immigrants detained far from home, and from their attorneys
Many undocumented immigrants arrested at an Idaho racetrack are being detained in Nevada and other states, making it harder for attorneys and family to find them
www.investigatewest.org
January 29, 2026 at 8:33 PM
meg.gg
Different question, but good try. What are you doing to collect your fellow white dudes?
January 29, 2026 at 6:13 PM
meg.gg
Hey Elliott, I have a question
A smug white man stands in a field, mountains in the background. He's wearing a baseball hat.
January 29, 2026 at 5:14 PM
meg.gg
Friend, that is wildly incorrect.
January 28, 2026 at 2:36 AM
meg.gg
Here are screenshots and the post in alt text, note that screenshots are duplicates in order to fit the alt text in full.
The post reads: I want to try and describe what it is like in Minnesota right now for my friends in other states. As a reminder, Alyse and I live in the suburbs -- Apple Valley -- not Minneapolis. This federal invasion and occupation is occurring all across the state, not just in Minneapolis. ICE is not looking for specific people. They don't have a sheet of paper with specific names, specific addresses, that they are arriving in communities to get. They drive around looking for kidnappings of opportunity. So they will sit and idle in their car, waiting for a Black, brown or Asian person who is walking into the gas station, taking out their trash, walking their dog, or working at their job and then swarm and grab them. ICE drives around *incredibly recklessly* and uses license plate readers to find people with mostly-Hispanic sounding last names, pulls them over, and kidnaps them. Again, these aren't specific people ICE has been tasked with finding. Most of the people who are kidnapped are U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, or have legal status of some sort (work permit, a social security number, or are a refugee or asylee) (picture 1). These are documented immigrants or citizens who have broken no laws -- including not having broken laws entering the country. These are people just going about their daily life who get stopped and snatched because they're Black, brown or Asian. Just going about OUR daily life, we see abandoned cars in the middle of highways, on neighborhood streets, in front of doctors offices. Sometimes the doors are still open and the car is still running. We could be in line to get Burger King and watch ICE snatch a teenager on his way into work (picture 2). We could be taking out the trash, walking kids to the bus stop, going for a walk outside, and there will all of a sudden be a swarm of anonymous, masked, violent men ripping a family from their home or out of the booth at a restaurant. Picture 3 is a neighborhood, one mile from my house, at 8:30AM this past Wednesday. It was school bus pick up time and also trash day in that neighborhood. This is just in the middle of the neighborhood. This can happen any where at any time. There is no place we can go and be assured we won't see someone be violently taken. Target. The grocery store. A restaurant. Driving Hattie to swim lessons. Driving to church. Going to the doctor (picture 4). Multiple times a day, we get texts from co-workers, neighbors, friends, family members about a person they know (or are related to, or work with, or are their kids' friends parents) who was taken. ICE sets up checkpoints in neighborhoods and make everyone leaving or entering show their papers (note: very few people can prove their citizenship at a moments notice. A majority of Minnesotans don't have passports. Citizens don't just carry their birth certificate around). They go door-to-door in apartment buildings and neighborhoods, just hoping a Black, brown or Asian person will open their door (because they have no judicial warrant to take a specific person(s), just kidnapping whoever accidentally opens their door). Schools have had to close. ICE has shown up to schools and just pepper sprayed kids and parents (picture 5). Districts are calling families and advising that their kids switch to online school. ICE circles and targets Spanish-immersion programs, forcing moms and dads to sit watch over their kids' school to keep their kids and teachers safe (picture 6). Kids come home from school to empty houses, their parents having been stolen sometime during the day. When parents are kidnapped in front of others, they will yell out their full names and the name of their kids' school(s) so someone can call the school and alert the administration, hoping their kids can be put with a safe adult instead of coming home to no one. There are people who signed delegation of parental authority (DOPA) forms -- agreeing to take a neighbor or friend's kids in the event of an emergency -- who now have multiple children from multiple families. ICE is ubiquitous. They are everywhere. We see them 3, 5, 7 times a day just going through our normal routine. There are more federal agents in Minnesota than there are local law enforcement from the ten largest metro police departments COMBINED (picture 7). This is going to come to other states and I want people to be prepared, because I cannot overstate how many people have (had to) come together to respond. Regular Minnesotans -- people who have never once gone to a protest, called their elective representatives, participated in an economic strike, people who rarely even vote have been activated. Grandparents carry whistles in their cars in case they come across ICE while living their lives and need to warn the surrounding area. Parents of kids in K-12 organize to ensure there's parents at bus stops and the area around schools, because ICE stakes out bus stops and school properties -- taking parents who are waiting at the bus stop or in the carpool line (picture 😎. We've set up massive food donation and delivery infrastructure. We organize rides to school and work. People are literally taking in families. SO many kids aren't going to school right now (picture 9). So many businesses are closed or have lost their customer base entirely. So many families are facing eviction because they can't go to work and won't be able to pay their rent. Minnesotans are being collectively punished and traumatized. 6 month old babies have been teargassed because their parents are just driving in their own neighborhood (picture 10). We are coming together in the most beautiful ways -- I don't want to understate that. But I want everyone outside of Minnesota to understand: we are under a federal invasion and occupation of armed, masked, paramilitary that roam our streets, brutalizing, harassing and murdering with impunity. There may be people who might think that when this comes to your state, being white or being a U.S. citizen or living in a suburb or rural area or living in a neighborhood with few or no immigrant neighbors means you won't see or experience this kind of daily assault of an invasion and occupation. I want to dispel that idea. There are things I'm forgetting, certainly, but I wanted to try and paint the picture because this isn't ending in Minnesota. We are the test case before expanding to other states in the country. Help us now to stop this before it spreads. Organize in your communities now. To support MN's during this time, donate here: http://standwithminnesota.com/
January 20, 2026 at 6:09 PM