Ash
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crafter, cosplayer, silly cat person
crafter, cosplayer, silly cat person
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Today we are striking.
Don't give money to corporations, call your Senators and Repsentatives, donate to non-profits and mutual aid, do what you are able. 🚫🧊
Links below
Don't give money to corporations, call your Senators and Repsentatives, donate to non-profits and mutual aid, do what you are able. 🚫🧊
Links below
January 30, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Today we are striking.
Don't give money to corporations, call your Senators and Repsentatives, donate to non-profits and mutual aid, do what you are able. 🚫🧊
Links below
Don't give money to corporations, call your Senators and Repsentatives, donate to non-profits and mutual aid, do what you are able. 🚫🧊
Links below
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These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée
feds have arrested jamael lundy alongside journalists georgia fort and don lemon for the protest at a st. paul church led by an ICE agent
lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember
www.jlundyforsd65.com
lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember
www.jlundyforsd65.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:08 PM
These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée
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This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
This just in: "Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards," Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell says.
January 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM
This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
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"The Democrats are pushing reforms that they know won’t work because they are doing performative, perfunctory opposition to try to quiet their base, instead of real legislating and fighting to dismantle Trump’s ICE and CBP." newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Senate Democrats’ ICE Proposals Are a Huge and Inexcusable Whiff
Their opening bid should have been eight or 10 bold proposals. But as usual, the Democrats start by negotiating with themselves.
newrepublic.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:14 PM
"The Democrats are pushing reforms that they know won’t work because they are doing performative, perfunctory opposition to try to quiet their base, instead of real legislating and fighting to dismantle Trump’s ICE and CBP." newrepublic.com/article/2059...
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statement from anika bowie, st. paul city council member, on the arrest of her husband jamael lundy this morning by federal agents for the protest at a church in st. paul led by an ICE agent. she calls his arrest “militarized and traumatic”
January 30, 2026 at 5:46 PM
statement from anika bowie, st. paul city council member, on the arrest of her husband jamael lundy this morning by federal agents for the protest at a church in st. paul led by an ICE agent. she calls his arrest “militarized and traumatic”
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If anyone has contact information of the family who’s father was kidnapped by ICE at the McDonald’s in Bloomington (Southtown Center) please let me know. His son went into the Whipple building to make sure his dad got his heart medication. 1/
Worst of the worst: the 58 year old father, snatched from his job at McDonald's, and his devoted son, humiliated by ICE for simply bringing his dad the medication that keeps him alive.
youtube.com/shorts/6bS-Q...
youtube.com/shorts/6bS-Q...
58-year-old undocumented McDonald's worker detained without heart medication
MS NOW’s Alex Tabet speaks with the son of a 58-year-old undocumented McDonald’s worker who was detained by ICE without his heart medication. His son says when he brought his father his medication,…
youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:23 AM
If anyone has contact information of the family who’s father was kidnapped by ICE at the McDonald’s in Bloomington (Southtown Center) please let me know. His son went into the Whipple building to make sure his dad got his heart medication. 1/
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I have a family connection to the French Hen and can unreservedly assure you they have deep and significant commitments to taking care of their workers and peace/justice work in the Twin Cities. I just threw them my venmo balance, consider helping out!
Hey y’all! The French Hen in St. Paul is hoping to support 5 employees who have been impacted by the federal government. These funds will help their employees with rent and bills during these hard times.
Venmo: @ HENSOLIDARITYFUND
Venmo: @ HENSOLIDARITYFUND
January 30, 2026 at 5:31 AM
I have a family connection to the French Hen and can unreservedly assure you they have deep and significant commitments to taking care of their workers and peace/justice work in the Twin Cities. I just threw them my venmo balance, consider helping out!
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If Graham can hold up this bill for venal and treasonous reasons, then @amyklobuchar.com & @smith.senate.gov can block the whole spending package until Dems get the GOP to agree to clawback ICE detention funds.
NO SENATE VOTE TONIGHT
Couldn’t get all senators to allow a speedy vote. Schumer tells reporters Lindsey Graham is blocking it. “That’s the holdup,” Schumer tells reporters. Graham wants to keep a provision letting him sue to pocket $500,000 over J6 phone records seized.
Couldn’t get all senators to allow a speedy vote. Schumer tells reporters Lindsey Graham is blocking it. “That’s the holdup,” Schumer tells reporters. Graham wants to keep a provision letting him sue to pocket $500,000 over J6 phone records seized.
January 30, 2026 at 5:54 AM
If Graham can hold up this bill for venal and treasonous reasons, then @amyklobuchar.com & @smith.senate.gov can block the whole spending package until Dems get the GOP to agree to clawback ICE detention funds.
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4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
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💙🩵💙🩵LIVE NOW 💙🩵💙🩵
www.twitch.tv/deckthisout
www.twitch.tv/deckthisout
January 31, 2026 at 1:00 AM
💙🩵💙🩵LIVE NOW 💙🩵💙🩵
www.twitch.tv/deckthisout
www.twitch.tv/deckthisout
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GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, researchers have developed a targeted combination therapy that has successfully AND completely ELIMINATED KRAS-driven pancreatic tumors in experimental models. Tumors regressed COMPLETELY with NO recurrence OR major side effects. Let’s talk about that!
January 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, researchers have developed a targeted combination therapy that has successfully AND completely ELIMINATED KRAS-driven pancreatic tumors in experimental models. Tumors regressed COMPLETELY with NO recurrence OR major side effects. Let’s talk about that!
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here's a rent fun in mpls you can donate to right now, from organizers i know and can personally vouch for!
emergency rent support for North MPLS: venmo.com/u/NorthMplsMA
emergency rent support for North MPLS: venmo.com/u/NorthMplsMA
i keep seeing fundraisers for PPE. over and over. that’s a real sexy cause and there is no shortage of $$ going to it
please boost and donate to RENT FUNDS for people who have not been able to work and have their rent due within DAYS
please boost and donate to RENT FUNDS for people who have not been able to work and have their rent due within DAYS
January 27, 2026 at 3:54 PM
here's a rent fun in mpls you can donate to right now, from organizers i know and can personally vouch for!
emergency rent support for North MPLS: venmo.com/u/NorthMplsMA
emergency rent support for North MPLS: venmo.com/u/NorthMplsMA
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North Minneapolis is a really really great place to give money right now for Feb rent. For many overlapping, shitty reasons, they’re not being inundated with the support SW Minneapolis is.
good morning the month is almost over and neighbors in north mpls need rent please help if you can
here's a rent fun in mpls you can donate to right now, from organizers i know and can personally vouch for!
emergency rent support for North MPLS: venmo.com/u/NorthMplsMA
emergency rent support for North MPLS: venmo.com/u/NorthMplsMA
January 29, 2026 at 2:04 PM
North Minneapolis is a really really great place to give money right now for Feb rent. For many overlapping, shitty reasons, they’re not being inundated with the support SW Minneapolis is.
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Hey friends.
Edison mutual aid is running out of funds. Can you please give or share if you can? Needs are astronomical.
@ziibiing.com I haven’t checked if this one is in your list. Please add, gracias!
Edison mutual aid is running out of funds. Can you please give or share if you can? Needs are astronomical.
@ziibiing.com I haven’t checked if this one is in your list. Please add, gracias!
Sharing a local school fundraiser for students and families that have had to be in hiding for weeks. We have a robust system for getting mutual aid to families in need.
Please help.
www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=...
Please help.
www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=...
January 29, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Hey friends.
Edison mutual aid is running out of funds. Can you please give or share if you can? Needs are astronomical.
@ziibiing.com I haven’t checked if this one is in your list. Please add, gracias!
Edison mutual aid is running out of funds. Can you please give or share if you can? Needs are astronomical.
@ziibiing.com I haven’t checked if this one is in your list. Please add, gracias!
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There isn’t any indication that immigration activity has changed in Minneapolis. In fact, this afternoon, federal immigration agents began staging at Holy Rosary Catholic Church located in East Phillips. This activity is disgraceful and creates an unsafe environment for our neighbors. 1/
January 29, 2026 at 1:44 AM
There isn’t any indication that immigration activity has changed in Minneapolis. In fact, this afternoon, federal immigration agents began staging at Holy Rosary Catholic Church located in East Phillips. This activity is disgraceful and creates an unsafe environment for our neighbors. 1/
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Random shoutout.. Minnesota board/card game nerds, head over to Galaxy Games in Eagan. They weren't on the small business list that was going around for Jan 23rd observers but they were closed that day in support. Lots of good stuff available and had a friendly vibe. Games can bring us together!
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Random shoutout.. Minnesota board/card game nerds, head over to Galaxy Games in Eagan. They weren't on the small business list that was going around for Jan 23rd observers but they were closed that day in support. Lots of good stuff available and had a friendly vibe. Games can bring us together!
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90% of my animation friends are unemployed. I'm on hiatus. The value of animation is proven every year. Greenlight new shows! Don't overdevelop. Don't chase trends. You can't chase trends w/ animation! It takes too long! Tell good stories. Take risks."Demon Hunters" was a risk & look how it paid off
Animation ruled streaming in 2025. Again. Nielsen data shows 'Bluey' repeated as the most-watched title across all genres, while 'KPop Demon Hunters' was the most-watched movie, and Seth MacFarlane won the inaugural Streaming Icon of the Year award.
www.cartoonbrew.com/streaming/ni...
www.cartoonbrew.com/streaming/ni...
Animation Dominates Nielsen's Year-End Streaming Charts
'Bluey' was the year's most watched anything, 'KPop Demon Hunters' took the top film prize, and Seth MacFarlane won Streaming Icon of the Year.
www.cartoonbrew.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:35 AM
90% of my animation friends are unemployed. I'm on hiatus. The value of animation is proven every year. Greenlight new shows! Don't overdevelop. Don't chase trends. You can't chase trends w/ animation! It takes too long! Tell good stories. Take risks."Demon Hunters" was a risk & look how it paid off
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I'm raising $ for Maine Solidarity Fund, to help our community members affected by ICE. Grab some stickers! ❌🧊
campmustelid.shop
campmustelid.shop
January 27, 2026 at 11:04 PM
I'm raising $ for Maine Solidarity Fund, to help our community members affected by ICE. Grab some stickers! ❌🧊
campmustelid.shop
campmustelid.shop
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The aggregation of 22 separate federal agencies, most of which had nothing to do with each other, into DHS was the second most corrosive post-9/11 action taken (after the passing of the PATRIOT Act) and I will die on that hill
Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”
House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too
“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.
truthout.org
January 28, 2026 at 5:21 AM
The aggregation of 22 separate federal agencies, most of which had nothing to do with each other, into DHS was the second most corrosive post-9/11 action taken (after the passing of the PATRIOT Act) and I will die on that hill
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i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine
January 28, 2026 at 1:33 AM
i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine
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This or just dumping people *in the woods* AND sending folks out w/o their phone or I.D.
Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate."
I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0
Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate."
I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0
I spent the evening outside the Whipple federal building in Minneapolis, where the feds have been releasing people they detained — often for no discernible reason — into the freezing cold... wearing whatever little clothing they had on at the time they were taken.
January 27, 2026 at 6:27 PM
This or just dumping people *in the woods* AND sending folks out w/o their phone or I.D.
Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate."
I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0
Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate."
I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0
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there’s something pretty sinister to get three rapid response ice calls before 9am in my neighborhood and then all I see are articles about ice losing
January 28, 2026 at 3:09 PM
there’s something pretty sinister to get three rapid response ice calls before 9am in my neighborhood and then all I see are articles about ice losing
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A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all.
Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
January 27, 2026 at 7:57 PM
A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all.
Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
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Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.
The intense fallout from the killing of Alex Pretti has forced President Trump to publicly change course in Minneapolis.
Listen to our White House reporters discuss the changes on today's episode of "The Daily."
Listen to our White House reporters discuss the changes on today's episode of "The Daily."
Trump Changes Course in Minneapolis
The White House has been met with broad outcry over the killing of Alex Pretti, as well as pushback from Congress.
nyti.ms
January 28, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.