* I didn't even finish scaffolding the ICE Protests, but there are so many action items, I had to post.
* "Trump's Greenland War Faceplants:"
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* "Jason Rezaian - Amplifying the Iranian Experience Amid Protests & Media Blackouts | The Daily Show:"
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* "Trump raises US tariffs on South Korea imports to 25%:"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyw3ynwe37o* "China says Canada deal does not target the US after Trump tariff threat:"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8r4kxgpx6o*** Immigration/I.C.E/Autocracy/Slow Motion Civil War/Violent Illegal Occupation of Blue Cities News (Sort likely a little rough)***
* "Trump administration is potentially sending two gay men to their death by preparing to deport them to Iran:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/iranian-men-deportation-danger* "Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino and some of his masked agents will leave Minneapolis:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/greg-bovino-leaving-minneapolisStay noisy! It's not remotely over, but resist hard enough we can move the needle.
* "Greg Bovino Loses His Job:"
https://archive.ph/aYe22* "Critics slam Pam Bondi’s demand for Minnesota voter rolls amid ICE surge:"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/pam-bondi-minnesota-voter-rolls-ice-surgeThere is no legal basis for them having access to these records, and this is clearly extortion designed to get records they can they weaponize to steal yet more basic rights from Minnesotans.
* "ICE says its officers can forcibly enter homes during immigration operations without judicial warrants: 2025 memo:"
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-policy-officers-enter-homes-immigration-without-judicial-warrant-rcna255305This is blatantly unconstitutional. Let us see if SCOTUS will declare the 4th and 10th Amendments unconstitutional.
* "Unbelievable ICE Memo Just Leaked:"
( Embed: )* "ICE Making List of Anyone Who Films Them :"
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making-list-of-anyone-who-films* "Footage, documents at odds with DHS accounts of immigration enforcement incidents:"
https://stateline.org/2026/01/23/footage-documents-at-odds-with-dhs-accounts-of-immigration-enforcement-incidents/* "Court records raise doubts that ICE is detaining the ‘worst of the worst’ in Maine:"
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/court-records-raise-doubts-ice-detaining-worst-worst-129513568* "Federal immigration agents are a modern-day ‘slave patrol,’ says former Minneapolis City Council president:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/andrea-jenkins-minneapolis-ice-terrorization* "They ‘Had Done Everything Right.’ ICE Detained Them Anyway.:"
https://archive.ph/Kuyq1* Yet more child Abuse from ICE. "Border Patrol detained family seeking care for 7-year-old child at Portland hospital:"
https://www.koin.com/news/portland/border-patrol-detained-family-of-3-seeking-care-for-7-year-old-child-at-portland-hospital/* "Witnesses say they begged ICE agents not to detain Minnesota 5-year-old after father's arrest:"
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/23/witnesses-say-they-begged-ice-agents-not-to-detain-minnesota-5yearold-after-fathers-arrest* "Immigrant families protest inside Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota:"
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/24/immigration-facility-protest-texas-liam-conejo-ramos/* Stay noisy! "Morale is plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports:"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-agents-morale-reports-minneapolis-shooting-b2907742.html* "ICE vs. Everyone: Minneapolis learned a lot from the George Floyd protests and it shows.:"
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/ice-vs-everyone/* "I’m a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here’s how ICE observers are helping.:"
https://www.ms.now/opinion/minneapolis-ice-watch-protesters-violence-research* "Your rights, explained: What to do if you encounter ICE or DHS agents:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/immigration/ice-immigration-rights-protesters* "Minnesotans strike in protest against ICE surge: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’:"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/23/minnesota-economic-blackout-ice-protests* "Photos: Clergy, activists protest ICE at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport:"
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/23/clergy-and-protesters-gather-at-msp-airport-to-demonstrate-against-ice* "Americans grow more outraged as Trump’s ICE grows more outrageous:"
https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/americans-grow-more-outraged-as-trump-s-ice-grows-more-outrageous-2483191363788* "‘State law applies’: No ‘absolute immunity’ for Trump’s ICE henchmen, prosecutor says:"
https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/state-law-applies-no-absolute-immunity-for-trump-s-ice-henchmen-prosecutor-says-2483201603544* "Exclusive: DOJ sought criminal probe of Renee Good after her death, sources say:"
https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/exclusive-doj-sought-criminal-probe-of-renee-good-after-her-death-sources-say-2483160643705* "Appeals court declines to reimpose restrictions on agents at Minnesota protests:"
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5707439-trump-administration-wins-appeal/* "Judge orders Trump administration to address motives behind ICE's Minnesota operation:"
https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-hears-arguments-state-minnesota-seeks-temporarily-halt/story?id=129567914* "Federal agents kill another person in Minneapolis:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/federal-agents-kill-minneapolis-man* "Alex Pretti's killing was recorded on body-camera videos, DHS says:"
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dhs-says-body-worn-camera-video-fatal-shooting-alex-pretti-rcna255978* "The Execution of Alex Pretti Broke Me:"
( Embed: )* "Minnesotans mourn Alex Pretti, man killed by Border Patrol agents:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesotans-mourn-alex-pretti-ice* "Pritzker, Johnson call for ICE to be abolished after second fatal shooting by feds in Minneapolis:"
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/01/24/pritzker-johnson-call-for-ice-to-be-abolished-after-second-fatal-shooting-by-federal-agents-in-minneapolis* "Chris Madel ends GOP bid for governor, says he can’t support federal ‘retribution’ against Minnesota:"
https://www.startribune.com/chris-madel-ends-gop-bid-for-governor-says-he-cant-support-federal-retribution-against-minnesota/601570793* "Nurses Union Calls ICE Agents “Public Health Threat” After Alex Pretti Killing:"
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/nurses-union-calls-ice-agents-public-health-threat-after-alex-pretti-killing/* "Queer lawmakers call for ICE to be reined in after killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-pols-condemn-minneapolis-killing* "‘State law applies’: No ‘absolute immunity’ for Trump’s ICE henchmen, prosecutor says:"
https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/state-law-applies-no-absolute-immunity-for-trump-s-ice-henchmen-prosecutor-says-2483201603544* "Large protests spread across US after Alex Pretti fatally shot by federal agents:"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/protests-alex-pretti-killing-federal-agents-ice* "'My heart just dropped': Protestors rally demanding accountability for shooting of Pretti:"
https://abcnews4.com/news/local/my-heart-just-dropped-protestors-rally-demanding-accountability-in-shooting-of-alex-pretti* "Over a Thousand Protesters in New York Denounce ICE After Latest Killing:"
https://archive.ph/tZsC6* "‘We must stand up’: Hundreds of S.F. protesters demand end to ICE:"
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/ice-protest-embarcadero-minneapolis-21313251.php* "Protesters in Los Angeles mourn another person killed by federal agents:"
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/protesters-in-los-angeles-mourn-another-person-killed-by-federal-agents/* "Killing of man in Minneapolis by federal agent fuels Seattle protests:"
https://www.seattletimes.com/news/killing-of-man-in-minneapolis-by-federal-agents-fuels-seattle-protests/* "Anchorage protestors gather to remember Minnesota man killed by immigration officials as Minneapolis ICE crackdown continues:"
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/01/26/anchorage-protestors-gather-remember-minnesota-man-killed-by-immigration-officials-minneapolis-ice-crackdown-continues/* "A city-by-city look at anti-ICE protests planned in Florida this week:"
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2026/01/26/see-where-anti-ice-protests-held-this-week-florida-trump-immigration-minnesota/88359072007/* "US citizen detained by ICE amid multiple brawls at Phoenix protest:"
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2026/01/24/emily-despain-detained-ice-phoenix-protest/88324706007/* "ICE protest in Park City at Sundance Film Festival after Minnesota killing, Utah leaders react:"
https://www.abc4.com/news/wasatch-front/park-city-ice-protest-sundance/* "Maddow: Americans flexing democratic muscles are stronger than Trump:"
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-americans-flexing-democratic-muscles-are-stronger-than-trump-2483596355901* "Maddow: Trump in retreat as disastrous anti-immigrant campaign becomes political catastrophe:"
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-trump-in-retreat-as-disastrous-anti-immigrant-campaign-becomes-political-catastrophe-2483596355613* Extended Josh Shapiro Interview:
( Embed: )* "Minneapolis Is Just The Beginning (How To Prepare Your City For ICE):"
( Embed: )* "Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.:"
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/ice-businesses-boycott-campaign/* Here are some ways to help Immigrants and the anti-ICE Protesters:
"Here are Minnesota groups that need your help organizing against ICE and DHS operations:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesota-mutual-aid-groups-ice"How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota:"
https://naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/how-to-help-if-you-are-outside-minnesota/"Support minnesotans defending their communities from ICE:"
https://www.standwithminnesota.com/"When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE :"
https://crimethinc.com/2025/12/03/when-the-feds-come-to-your-city-standing-up-to-ice-a-guide-from-chicago-organizersImmigrant Defenders:
https://give.immdef.org/give/545119/#!/donation/checkoutThe Bail Project:
https://bailproject.org/National Bail Fund Network:
https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directoryAmnesty International: protect asylum-seekers:
https://donate.amnestyusa.org/page/113080/donate/1The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights:
https://www.theyoungcenter.org/CHIRLA:
https://www.chirla.org/AL Otro Lado:
https://alotrolado.networkforgood.com/projects/63833-al-otro-lado-fund"Know Your Rights:"
https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights"Disappeared In America:"
https://www.disappearedinamerica.us/
* "Funding deal begins to unravel as Senate Democrats vow to oppose DHS bill over Alex Pretti shooting in Minnesota:"
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/funding-deal-begins-to-unravel-as-senate-democrats-vow-to-oppose-dhs-bill-over-alex-pretti-shooting-in-minnesota* "Senate Democrats urged to demand ‘real reforms’ over ICE funding bill:"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/senate-democrats-ice-dhs-funding-bill* "Ban on deporting U.S. citizens removed from DHS funding bill, congresswoman warns:"
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/ban-on-deporting-u-s-citizens-removed-from-dhs-funding-bill-congresswoman-warns-2483600963726* It is essential that all Democrats stay firm. Contact them so they don't betray America like those 7 Quislings in the House.
Model Script:
"Senator script about defunding DHS, helping from outside Minnesota, and resources for new activists:"
https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/322553.htmlContact your Republican Senators too.
For Republican Senators: "Call your senators to oppose ICE funding:"
https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/322615.html* "Padilla, Booker Announce Legislation Cracking Down on Cruel ICE Detention Facilities and Practices:"
https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-booker-announce-legislation-cracking-down-on-cruel-ice-detention-facilities-and-practices/* "Powerful House Oversight Democrat calls for Kristi Noem’s impeachment & ICE abolishment:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/robert-garcia-kristi-noem-impeachment* "Kristi Noem Impeachment: 140 Lawmakers Sign On—Full List:"
https://www.newsweek.com/kristi-noem-impeachment-lawmakers-sign-on-full-list-11417711If your rep hasn't signed on yet, please contact them:
* "Trump calls on Congress to pass legislation ending sanctuary policies:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/25/trump-congress-legislation-end-sanctuary-policies-00745836* "Trump’s ‘unqualified insurrectionist’ pick to be Wyoming U.S. attorney under fire for anti-LGBTQ+ record:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/wyoming-us-attorney-problematic-history
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Our until Midterms is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy."Take action with Indivisible:"
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide.
https://indivisible.org/resource/guideIf you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:
Five Calls to your critters:
https://5calls.org/Here is one that will send your reps a fax:
https://resist.bot/And another:
https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.phpSnail Mail Campaigns:
https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html"Congress. gov:"
https://www.congress.gov/White house (Possibly Dangerous):
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ACLU advice for writing to your Critters:
https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representativesThis tracks legislation:
https://www.govtrack.us/"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):"
https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share"Swing Left:"
https://swingleft.org/Run for Something:
https://runforsomething.net/"Vote Smart:"
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/Protests: "50501 Events:"
https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events"ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:"
https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:"
https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/
* "RAM Shortage Killed My Business:"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RVnQbfHUDLA* "How 'don't ask, don't tell' came to be, what it did, and how it ended:"
https://www.advocate.com/history/dont-ask-dont-tell-history* "AIDS took Ross Laycock 35 years ago. His legacy lives on:"
https://www.advocate.com/opinion/ross-laycock-legacy* "Errant bus driver takes passengers for unwanted ride to Vienna Metro station:"
https://www.ffxnow.com/2026/01/20/errant-bus-driver-takes-passengers-for-unwanted-ride-to-vienna-metro-station/* I had food poisoning, but have recovered. It's been so cold here I had to scrape my car for a library run a little before ten the other day. I hope my perennials survive, as it usually isn't this kind of prolonged cold here in our weird little micro-climate.
Monday, I had the dentist. I cleverly left a lot of extra time to scrape as it was extremely cold all night still, but it wasn't as bad, particularly inside the windows, so possibly I am making headway on the damage from the incompetent thieves letting it rain inside the car. (It is way harder to get the inside ice off).
It seems the fillings that crumbled during the trying to weather strip the window in the rain emergency aren't high risk for real damage, though they do need mending, which is scheduled. I've a not covered previously scheduled cleaning coming up. February is going to be a bear financially for all the usual reasons, but that's a next month problem and I'm in the danger zone on my teeth now. (My dad's family had genetically bad teeth caused by naturally thin enamel, plus he and my mom had bad born during WWII teeth which is a thing caused by uneven nutrition due to shortages in an era before fluoride). I've seen how bad and labour intensive Periodontal disease can get in my dad's case. (Yes we all brushed and flossed and got regular check ups and cleaning, but I basically couldn't afford it after the one poverty place closed for half a decade as an adult before poverty clinic opened to all their medical patients, and my teeth have never really recovered). so I need to cover sliding scale cleaning, plus housing tax, plus car tax, which usually is January, but the bill is late. I am fascinated to see how I juggle it all.
My sliding scale lapsed, so I drove home and got the essential paper to make that happen, got gas, then drove back to turn it in, dropped off the weekend library books as it's right there, stopped at the pharmacy. I dragged home bedraggled and exhausted and over heated as I was dressed for the finger freezing cold of morning, but the cold font noticeably moved on between 8 and 9AM. Finally.
I should definitely not been spending money, but I gave in and bought a thing I'm hoping will help with the inside the car damp on the way home because it's really concerning and interfering with safe driving. We'll see.
Physio is still hogging all the spoons, so if I have to do anything much else it really lays me up. Between assorted errands and food poisoning and having to function outside in the cold, I just keep falling asleep and needing to lie still a lot when awake. Hence me not managing a Monday aggregate and the now massive backlog of news I didn't get to last week. Sorry.
* "Jon on Alex Pretti's Killing, DHS vs. Video Evidence & MAGA's Gun Rights Surrender | The Daily Show:"
( Embed: )* "Masked Secret Police Are Not Victims | The Truth About Alex Pretti | What Would The Founders Do?:"
( Embed: )* "Meanwhile... Deadly Space Junk | Pre-Columbian Syphilis | Mushroom Magic | Gym Germs:"
( Embed: )* "Oscars 2026 nominations live updates: 'Sinners' sets new Oscar record with 16 nominations:"
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/live-blog/oscar-nominations-2026-live-updates-rcna254762* This! "Problematic Praetorian Pomposity:"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ip0R4jVA-RI* "Chronic Chivalry:"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LgyrjITmrAoI have often found myself trying to tell people real chivalry wasn't like what the Victorians pretended it was.
* "Swordmaster Simplicity:"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BgWZYULfQgg* "Dramatic Dynamic Declarations:"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X9Qv8P_3nCc* "Kind-hearted Kids:"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KwhfYqMCEy8* "Kind-hearted Kids 2:"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TvcHm-Xk1XM* "Kind-hearted Kids 3 (Birthdays):"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m0DHG855AuY* "Kind-hearted Kids 4 (school days):"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0sDJ1SyB7dI* "Ultra Ubers:"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8CVUPRUJ4H4* "Chess Chronicle:"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/42DBVkQRk70* "That 1 Lore Friend:"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9Xh2COyiyc0* "Trump Awards Cold Open - SNL:"
( Embed: )* "Backstab Island - SNL:"
( Embed: )* "Toy Commercial - SNL:"
( Embed: )* "Nobody Likes Ice:"
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
The help links are at the bottom under the cut.
* "When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE :"
https://crimethinc.com/2025/12/03/when-the-feds-come-to-your-city-standing-up-to-ice-a-guide-from-chicago-organizers* "Swing Left:"
https://swingleft.org/* If you need help with chest binders:
* "Free Chest Binders:"
https://www.pointofpride.org/free-chest-binders* "Brother 2 Brother Binder Program:"
https://blacktransmen.org/binder-program/* "Morebinders:"
https://www.morebinders.com/about* "The Queer Trans Project :"
https://queertransproject.org/* "Free Gender Affirming Gear Program:"
https://www.ftmessentials.com/pages/ftme-free-youth-binder-program( More )![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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