alex is writing (or supposed to be!)
writer, queer person, dartmouth & ncsu alum 📚
voracious reader, lifelong learner, love warrior ✨
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- New episode of Soul Salon is out now! 🎉🙏🏾🌻✨ Click here to watch on YouTube: youtu.be/evzP1wMhQ6E?... Sending so much love and gratitude to you, my soul siblings!! 🤎
- One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
- In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
- From a FB post about Alex Pretti:
- Sen. Jacky Rosen is calling for the impeachment of Kristi Noem. "Kristi Noem and her department's latest attempt to mislead the American public regarding the brutal and unjustified killing of Alex Pretti is deeply shameful, and she must be impeached and removed from office immediately."
- The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI
- This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.
- Spoke to Greg Ketter, owner of DreamHaven Books, just now. He’s grateful for all the book orders & knows the store’s site is struggling w/ the demand. Employees coming Monday to reboot the site & pack orders. There are so many that it may take a few extra days so please be patient & keep fighting. ✊🏽
- There is no way in hell the United States under the Trump regime can host the World Cup in a few months. They are murdering citizens in broad daylight, threatening war against NATO, and lawlessly kidnapping children and foreign heads of state. The world has to organize a boycott. It’s not safe.
- The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*
- From someone on the ground in Lewiston, Maine:
- The grimness of US history should encourage us. Yes, people used to send lynching postcards. And other people saw that, worked towards building a more just society anyway, and succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. There's more work to be done. What's our excuse for choosing despair instead?
- There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
- I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
- Hello from Portland Maine, where 88 of about 550 kids were absent from my youngest’s middle school yesterday, hiding from ICE.
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- Palestinian citizens of Israel have launched a general strike to protest spiralling violence and Israeli police complicity with criminal networks ⬇️
- FUCK yeah arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
- Fucking incredible.
- Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways
- Department of Homeland Security spending bill just passed 220-207 with the support of the following Democrats: • Henry Cuellar • Tom Suozzi • Vicente Gonzalez • Laura Gilles • Marie Gluesenkamp Perez • Jared Golden • Don Davis
- FWIW: Golden is retiring. The filing deadline has passed in NC; Davis is the only Dem running. The filing deadline has passed in TX; Gonzalez & Cuellar both have primary opponents. Gillen has several Dem opponents as well, as does Perez. If you want to primary Suozzi, you still have until 3/30.
- I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.
- I interviewed two queer activists in Minneapolis who are modeling what community defense can look like. We have so much to learn from them.
- i fucking love my country of MPLS & furthermore i fucking love so many of the amazing people i work with who are some of the most brave & amazing advocates for the community we serve [i said “so many” not “everybody”] i know & love most the staff named in this article
- i love my country of minneapolis 🫡
- Back in 2007 Fox News did a segment on how Mr. Rogers, who died in 2003, was "evil" & was the source of many of America's problems. Fun fact: Fred Rogers was a lifelong REPUBLICAN, but he was the sort of old school liberal Republican that Fox News was designed to eliminate. youtu.be/29lmR_357rA?...
- Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
- I’m told there were 500 local and out-of-town clergypeople at a training Thursday (1/22 last night) for actions during the strike today. #iceoutmn
- I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...
- nine years old
- I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...
- Lmaoooo all you Hakeem Knows What He's Doing folks gotta just stop before you hit send
- It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
- This is bad not just because of the direct infections but there's growing research that suggests vaccines also stave off things (like dementia) that we don't typically associate with vaccine prevention.
- All three people arrested by the feds in connection with the protest at the ICE pastor's church — Nekima Levy-Armstrong, Chauntyll Allen, and William Kelly — have now been ordered released. Judge's order as to the first two: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Maine has one of the smallest per capita immigrant populations in the country. There are like 6,000 undocumented immigrants in the entire state. There's obviously zero legitimate basis for any kind of enforcement surge there—it's just a naked pretext to punish them for voting for Democrats.
- It's a snitch app
- BREAKING: Now that TikTok is under US-based ownership, the social media app potentially collects more detailed information about its users, including precise location data. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
- On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”
- My loose info so far is that the Minneapolis General Strike today had about 80 unions sign on, and it might be one of the biggest labor actions in decades depending on your definition
- Shabbat Shalom to the 100+ rabbis who joined clergy in Minneapolis today to say: Jews stand with our neighbors. We want ICE out of Minnesota, out of NYC, and out of all our communities.
- The regime has begun targeting the Somali community in Portland and Lewiston, which makes this doubly important. It's so much harder for people to lie to you about what's happening in Minnesota when it's also happening to your neighbors down the street.
- "in most cases, these videos appear to have been filmed secretly - using Meta smart glasses." Argh for the love of god BAN. THE. PERVERT GLASSES.
- I was just supposed to follow clergy leaders as they did a pilgrimage from George Floyd Square to Renée Good’s memorial. But then when we got back to the landing spot, we found out an observer had been attacked by ICE agents who had been tailing the religious leaders. From me today in Minneapolis:
- BREAKING: The Tribune confirmed on Instagram that the man shot has died, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident. ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.
- Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- Witnesses are being taken to Whipple. From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”
- Love you, @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social.
- MS NOW news crew capturing ICE/DHS agents firing pepper balls, flash bangs, and tear gas at non violent protesters. file:///C:/Users/Nikki/Downloads/Velshi-2026-01-24.mp4
- I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
- Anyone telling you NOT to call your member of congress today is an op or under the influence of an op There is literally no reason not to Telling people not to call is not a radical position
- Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.
- Absolutely massive turnout at the ICE Rapid Response training in Pittsburgh tonight, hosted by Frontline Dignity. Over 500 people showed up, including dozens from out of county & out of state.
