Records: Texan killed by #ICE months before #Minneapolis woman
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/20/texas-ice-fatal-shooting-south-padre-island/
> The involvement of federal #immigration agents in the fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez on South Padre Island in March had not been disclosed in initial reports.
Records: Texan killed by #ICE months before #Minneapolis woman
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/20/texas-ice-fatal-shooting-south-padre-island/
> The involvement of federal #immigration agents in the fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez on South Padre Island in March had not been disclosed in initial reports.
Museums and galleries in Minneapolis join citywide general strike in protest of Ice operations · Benjamin Sutton. The colouring book is available ...
The gallery Dreamsong launched the project—which will also be available on its Frieze Los Angeles stand—to support Minnesotan immigrants and a rapid response fund #USpolitics #FriezeLosAngeles2026 #Minneapolis
Minneapolis gallery launches mutual aid colouring book in response to Ice operations in the city
From “youth-led” walkouts and teachers donning black for solidarity marches in New York City to a “general strike” in Minneapolis, the left is ...
News that Mayor Zohran Mamdani has hired Bitta Mostofi, a Biden and de Blasio alumna, to “audit” the NYPD and other city agencies for violations of local sanctuary laws comes amid a larger lefty pu…#Opinion #CouncilonAmerican-IslamicRelations #editorial #ice #illegalimmigrants #immigration #kathyhochul #minneapolis #ZohranMamdani
Mamdani wants ‘Minneapolis everywhere’ with his ‘sanctuary-plus’ edicts
Calls for a general strike did not originate from union headquarters or Democratic Party offices, but from workers and young people themselves. On ...
Over the past month, as Minneapolis became the epicenter of an explosive confrontation between the working class and the Trump administration’s authoritarian offensive, Left Voice provided a revealing case study in the role of the political pseudo-le… #LeftVoice #Minneapolis #pseudo-left #unions #generalstrike #Walz #Democrats #Trump #ICE
Left Voice: An accomplice of labor bureaucracy in Minneapolis
Calls for a general strike did not originate from union headquarters or Democratic Party offices, but from workers and young people themselves. On ...
Over the past month, as Minneapolis became the epicenter of an explosive confrontation between the working class and the Trump administration’s authoritarian offensive, Left Voice provided a revealing case study in the role of the political pseudo-le… #LeftVoice #Minneapolis #pseudo-left #unions #generalstrike #Walz #Democrats #Trump #ICE
Left Voice: An accomplice of labor bureaucracy in Minneapolis
4 indicted after #Minneapolis clashes, including a woman accused of biting off an officer’s fingertip
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/02/13/4-indicted-after-minneapolis-clashes-including-a-woman-accused-of-biting-off-an-officers-fingertip/
> Feng’s attorney, Kevin C. Riach, said she would fight the charge. “All you have to do to assess the credibility of #ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents when they make allegations like this is to look at yesterday’s dismissal that confirmed ICE agents have made false allegations against a defendant,” Riach said. “We look forward to fighting this case and clearing Ms. Feng’s name.”
"...it should surprise no one that much of this work is being led by women. They come from all backgrounds and walks of life—immigrant women, mothers, teachers, healers, Black and Brown women, queer and trans women, grandmothers, young girls, women of faith, women who are simply fed up—to get involved, organize, support, nurture, fight, love, protect, and contribute in whatever ways they can."
https://www.glamour.com/story/the-women-holding-minneapolis-together
#PublicHealth #immigrant #immigration #ICE #women #community #minneapolis
Asked what he thought of the call for a general strike that emerged from Minneapolis, he said, “That would be a huge hit to the billionaires that back ... #ICE #FactoryZero #Hamtramck #UAW #Minneapolis #Romulus #Trump #Good #Pretti
GM workers denounce ICE operation outside Factory Zero in Detroit
Asked what he thought of the call for a general strike that emerged from Minneapolis, he said, “That would be a huge hit to the billionaires that back ... #ICE #FactoryZero #Hamtramck #UAW #Minneapolis #Romulus #Trump #Good #Pretti
GM workers denounce ICE operation outside Factory Zero in Detroit
"...it should surprise no one that much of this work is being led by women. They come from all backgrounds and walks of life—immigrant women, mothers, teachers, healers, Black and Brown women, queer and trans women, grandmothers, young girls, women of faith, women who are simply fed up—to get involved, organize, support, nurture, fight, love, protect, and contribute in whatever ways they can."
https://www.glamour.com/story/the-women-holding-minneapolis-together
#PublicHealth #immigrant #immigration #ICE #women #community #minneapolis
Text from letter handed out in #Minneapolis to anti-ICE rapid response volunteers:
To Our Beloved Guardian Angels,
In these times of profound trial, when darkness sought to engulf our community, you emerged as beacons of unwavering light. When fear gripped our hearts and the very fabric of our existence trembled under the shadow of masked agents-when we were hunted, chased, and made to feel as strangers in the place we call home- you stood tall. You stood with us.
With courage that defied the chill of winter winds and compassion that warmed the coldest nights, you became our shield. You left the comfort of your daily lives, your workplaces, your routines, to stand guard at our doors. You brought us the gift of warning-the loud sirens that pierced the silence of impending danger, giving us precious moments to seek shelter, to protect our children, to preserve our dignity.
You did not merely observe; you acted. You confronted hatred face-to-face. You stood between us and the agents of fear, becoming the voice for the voiceless, the strength for the weary, and the hope for the hopeless. In your presence, we found sanctuary. In your resolve, we found resilience.
Your bravery is a testament to the boundless capacity of the human spirit. You stood against the tides of xenophobia, Islamophobia, and every form of prejudice that seeks to divide humanity.
You embodied the highest ideals of human dignity, honor, and solidarity. You reminded us-and the world-that America's true strength lies in its embrace of those who seek refuge, its promise of freedom, and its unwavering stand for justice.
Your sacrifice will echo through generations. We will tell our children, and they will tell theirs, of the guardian angels who stood tall when hate knocked at our doors. Your legacy is etched in the heart of our community-a living history of compassion without limits, courage without borders.
You are the reason hope still shines. You are the reason America remains a home for the persecuted, a land where freedom rings true. We love you. We honor you. We will never forget what you have done.
May God bless you, protect you, and keep you close. Your light will forever guide us.
With Eternal Gratitude, The Community You Saved
Somali Community
Text from letter handed out in #Minneapolis to anti-ICE rapid response volunteers:
To Our Beloved Guardian Angels,
In these times of profound trial, when darkness sought to engulf our community, you emerged as beacons of unwavering light. When fear gripped our hearts and the very fabric of our existence trembled under the shadow of masked agents-when we were hunted, chased, and made to feel as strangers in the place we call home- you stood tall. You stood with us.
With courage that defied the chill of winter winds and compassion that warmed the coldest nights, you became our shield. You left the comfort of your daily lives, your workplaces, your routines, to stand guard at our doors. You brought us the gift of warning-the loud sirens that pierced the silence of impending danger, giving us precious moments to seek shelter, to protect our children, to preserve our dignity.
You did not merely observe; you acted. You confronted hatred face-to-face. You stood between us and the agents of fear, becoming the voice for the voiceless, the strength for the weary, and the hope for the hopeless. In your presence, we found sanctuary. In your resolve, we found resilience.
Your bravery is a testament to the boundless capacity of the human spirit. You stood against the tides of xenophobia, Islamophobia, and every form of prejudice that seeks to divide humanity.
You embodied the highest ideals of human dignity, honor, and solidarity. You reminded us-and the world-that America's true strength lies in its embrace of those who seek refuge, its promise of freedom, and its unwavering stand for justice.
Your sacrifice will echo through generations. We will tell our children, and they will tell theirs, of the guardian angels who stood tall when hate knocked at our doors. Your legacy is etched in the heart of our community-a living history of compassion without limits, courage without borders.
You are the reason hope still shines. You are the reason America remains a home for the persecuted, a land where freedom rings true. We love you. We honor you. We will never forget what you have done.
May God bless you, protect you, and keep you close. Your light will forever guide us.
With Eternal Gratitude, The Community You Saved
Somali Community
Roughly 14 years and 20+ social media accounts ago, I first encountered "my favorite writer nobody else has ever heard of." Posting under the handle Mobute, it was actually part-time media critic Jeb Lund who ultimately convinced me that there was something to the idea of integrating a social media account, with a website or blog, to more accurately track with the way people under the age of 60 were actually getting their news and analysis content. In a very strange way, everything I've done on NIDC and the social media accounts attached to it, sprung out of enjoying Lund's unique style of writing, and watching how he moved seamlessly from critical essays, to ripping lanyards and nazis on social media, then back again.
Of course, time and the world's richest nazi (except maybe Putin) buying Twitter caused me to lose track of Lund and his work. So imagine my surprise when immediately after the one day general strike against ICE occupation in Minneapolis, a Jeb Lund essay published on Truthdig showed up in my direct message box. Furthermore, imagine my delight when I found that Jeb hadn't lost his fastball, and had indeed drifted much further to the left in the wake of the open and obvious fascist takeover of America; just as I, and almost every other analyst I talk with regularly have.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/just-say-no/
Just Say ‘No’
"We can also say this: Wherever you live in the United States, the Trump administration is going to bring an ethnic cleansing near you, if not directly to you, and they are going to use every term except that one to describe what they are doing. They will not stop until they have ethnically cleansed the United States, and they do not care if you die. The only lesson each new body teaches them is how inconsequential it is to make the next one."
Quite frankly, I didn't just share this essay to go down memory lane. At the end of the day, what Jeb Lund is articulating here is more or less the central thesis of my own writing about the Trump administration's vision for America, the ethnic cleansing project he and Stephen Miller are conducting, and the Gestapo's role in transforming (in so much as that is even necessary) the United States into a fascist dictatorship - the Pork Reich. Yes it is a fascist dictatorship in progress, yes they are openly doing ethnic cleansing in our streets, no they don't care if you live or die so long as the stock market stays profitable for some, no the cavalry isn't coming to save us, and yes we have to rise up together on our own and beat back the forces of fascism or we're all fucking cooked.
In particular, I think Lund's most compelling argument for why we must all fight is that these people, this fascist order, clearly means to kill millions and millions of Americans for billionaire (cultists) whether you fight back or not. The author acknowledges that opposing a fascist regime can be dangerous, it might even get you killed, but then articulates all the ways this regime is at a minimum completely indifferent to the deaths of the American people it ostensibly represents, and at worst seems to be actively trying to kill us. And Lund isn't just waxing poetic about the Gestapo coming to your door some day either.
"They have already told all levels of law enforcement to take the gloves off, and they take care to look the other way when “officers are on scene” and a “shooting transpires” and “it eventuates” that you die. They don’t care if you are detained and some combination of filth, disease, malnourishment, injury, confiscation of your medication or “discipline” makes you die. They don’t care if your insurance rescinds your coverage and you die. They do not care if they eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, and you have to fly home and take care of your mom before she dies. They don’t care if you fly home to see her, and your plane collides with something and you die, and they don’t care if it’s blown apart by the debris from a Nazi’s rocket that was busy exploding over a protected wetland and you die.
They don’t care if you get measles, mumps or rubella and die. Sometime in early summer of 2020 was the last time they cared that anyone got COVID and died. They resented passing COVID relief, themselves defrauded it with lusty abandon, and, come the next pandemic, they will use their own crime as justification for the moral hazard of spending a cent to make sure you don’t die."
I don't want to just quote the whole essay here, he actually goes on for at least two more paragraphs pointing out all the ways the Trump regime is probably going to kill you anyway, even and perhaps especially if you don't lift a finger to oppose fascism. Lund then closes by pointing to Minneapolis as an example for us all about how to say "no" and what resistance looks like.
Naturally of course, even Lund couldn't get such a "radical message" published in a mainstream outlet. So I wanted to share it with you here.
One important story I don't want to get lost in the time jump shuffle now that I'm back at work, is the evidence that Trump's Department of Homeland Security no longer considers the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution to be valid law. Or at least it sure looks that way given the orders they've been training up new ICE Gestapo pigs on.
Several months back, I wrote about news that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Trump's nazi shadow chancellor Stephen Miller wanted to use ICE to enter homes without a judicial warrant; which would be a clear violation of the 4th Amendment, based on previous SCOTUS precedent. Well, thanks to leaks obtained by the Associated Press, we now know that they're actually doing it; even if they're clearly trying to keep that a secret. This article is kind of trash, but AP broke the story so I guess we're going with it.
https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, memo says
"Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches.
The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant to arrest someone with a final order of removal, a move that advocates say collides with Fourth Amendment protections and upends years of advice given to immigrant communities."
Despite the weasel words the AP used here, understanding this issue isn't that complicated. The Constitution says police can't enter your home without a judicial warrant, except in some very narrow circumstances involving probable cause. This should mean that ICE can't just break into your house to "round people up" without a judge's warrant, but the Trump regime is arguing that they don't need to respect the US constitution for "reasons" and because ICE has never tried this before, nobody is entirely sure a 6-3 fascist high SCOTUS won't ignore the entire legal history of the United States to allow it some day.
Furthermore, the Gestapo is arguing that because they have an administrative final removal order, that is just as good as a warrant. Which is farcical, because immigration "judges" are literally employees of DHS and don't have to be anywhere near as qualified as a judge has to be, so allowing the Gestapo to violate the constitution because of an administrative order issued by "judges" who work for DHS is pretty much akin to letting the Gestapo decide who the Gestapo can legally violate the constitution to kidnap.
Whether the fascist Roberts court allows it or not, this is patently illegal and morally unconscionable; but I guess the maggots at the Associated Press are too afraid they'll be next on Trump's media revenge tour to say that out loud. As the AP itself notes, DHS is clearly aware that this bullshit is illegal because they're not actually distributing the memo to the Gestapo itself, but rather keeping it on a need to know basis and using it to train new ICE goons who don't know Kristi Noem is telling them to break the law. Finally, please be aware that none of this is hypothetical; in one of the most tense moments (so far) of the occupation of Minneapolis by Gestapo troops, ICE was literally filmed smashing an older, clearly harmless man's door down to kidnap him in clear violation of the US Constitution.
"The memo itself has not been widely shared within the agency, according to a whistleblower complaint, but its contents have been used to train new ICE officers who are being deployed into cities and towns to implement the president’s immigration crackdown. New ICE hires and those still in training are being told to follow the memo’s guidance instead of written training materials that actually contradict the memo, according to the whistleblower disclosure.
It is unclear how broadly the directive has been applied in immigration enforcement operations. The Associated Press witnessed ICE officers ramming through the front door of the home of a Liberian man, Garrison Gibson, with a deportation order from 2023 in Minneapolis on Jan. 11, wearing heavy tactical gear and with their rifles drawn.
Documents reviewed by The AP revealed that the agents only had an administrative warrant — meaning there was no judge who authorized the raid on private property."
Folks, I'm not going to blow sunshine up your ass here; if you want to know how the Trump regime makes it "legal" to send the Gestapo door to door to root out their "enemies," this is what the process that leads there looks like. A fascist police state built to disappear migrants is a fascist police state that can disappear anyone.
#Fascism #ICE #DHS #Gestapo #Trump #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #EthnicCleansing #USConstitution
Roughly 14 years and 20+ social media accounts ago, I first encountered "my favorite writer nobody else has ever heard of." Posting under the handle Mobute, it was actually part-time media critic Jeb Lund who ultimately convinced me that there was something to the idea of integrating a social media account, with a website or blog, to more accurately track with the way people under the age of 60 were actually getting their news and analysis content. In a very strange way, everything I've done on NIDC and the social media accounts attached to it, sprung out of enjoying Lund's unique style of writing, and watching how he moved seamlessly from critical essays, to ripping lanyards and nazis on social media, then back again.
Of course, time and the world's richest nazi (except maybe Putin) buying Twitter caused me to lose track of Lund and his work. So imagine my surprise when immediately after the one day general strike against ICE occupation in Minneapolis, a Jeb Lund essay published on Truthdig showed up in my direct message box. Furthermore, imagine my delight when I found that Jeb hadn't lost his fastball, and had indeed drifted much further to the left in the wake of the open and obvious fascist takeover of America; just as I, and almost every other analyst I talk with regularly have.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/just-say-no/
Just Say ‘No’
"We can also say this: Wherever you live in the United States, the Trump administration is going to bring an ethnic cleansing near you, if not directly to you, and they are going to use every term except that one to describe what they are doing. They will not stop until they have ethnically cleansed the United States, and they do not care if you die. The only lesson each new body teaches them is how inconsequential it is to make the next one."
Quite frankly, I didn't just share this essay to go down memory lane. At the end of the day, what Jeb Lund is articulating here is more or less the central thesis of my own writing about the Trump administration's vision for America, the ethnic cleansing project he and Stephen Miller are conducting, and the Gestapo's role in transforming (in so much as that is even necessary) the United States into a fascist dictatorship - the Pork Reich. Yes it is a fascist dictatorship in progress, yes they are openly doing ethnic cleansing in our streets, no they don't care if you live or die so long as the stock market stays profitable for some, no the cavalry isn't coming to save us, and yes we have to rise up together on our own and beat back the forces of fascism or we're all fucking cooked.
In particular, I think Lund's most compelling argument for why we must all fight is that these people, this fascist order, clearly means to kill millions and millions of Americans for billionaire (cultists) whether you fight back or not. The author acknowledges that opposing a fascist regime can be dangerous, it might even get you killed, but then articulates all the ways this regime is at a minimum completely indifferent to the deaths of the American people it ostensibly represents, and at worst seems to be actively trying to kill us. And Lund isn't just waxing poetic about the Gestapo coming to your door some day either.
"They have already told all levels of law enforcement to take the gloves off, and they take care to look the other way when “officers are on scene” and a “shooting transpires” and “it eventuates” that you die. They don’t care if you are detained and some combination of filth, disease, malnourishment, injury, confiscation of your medication or “discipline” makes you die. They don’t care if your insurance rescinds your coverage and you die. They do not care if they eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, and you have to fly home and take care of your mom before she dies. They don’t care if you fly home to see her, and your plane collides with something and you die, and they don’t care if it’s blown apart by the debris from a Nazi’s rocket that was busy exploding over a protected wetland and you die.
They don’t care if you get measles, mumps or rubella and die. Sometime in early summer of 2020 was the last time they cared that anyone got COVID and died. They resented passing COVID relief, themselves defrauded it with lusty abandon, and, come the next pandemic, they will use their own crime as justification for the moral hazard of spending a cent to make sure you don’t die."
I don't want to just quote the whole essay here, he actually goes on for at least two more paragraphs pointing out all the ways the Trump regime is probably going to kill you anyway, even and perhaps especially if you don't lift a finger to oppose fascism. Lund then closes by pointing to Minneapolis as an example for us all about how to say "no" and what resistance looks like.
Naturally of course, even Lund couldn't get such a "radical message" published in a mainstream outlet. So I wanted to share it with you here.
“THIS IS NOT A PROTEST STORY. THIS IS A CIVIC DEFENSE MANUAL”
by Closer To The Edge And Rook T. Winchester on Substack
“From that moment on [post the murders in #Minneapolis of Renee #Good & Alex #Pretti], Minnesota stopped acting like this was about persuasion and started acting like it was about protection.
What followed wasn’t chaos. It was organization under pressure. And that’s what other cities need to understand, because this wasn’t a protest cycle. It was a community building a defensive system in real time.
This is how it worked”
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/this-is-not-a-protest-story-this
#Press #SocialMedia #US #ICE #Gestapo #SS #DHS #DefensiveSystem #Organization #Training #Discipline #Observation #Noise #Awareness #Resistance
