ditchpony
live from Minnesota
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- Reposted by ditchponyThe arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution. This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American. They must be released immediately.
- Reposted by ditchponythe arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
- Reposted by ditchponyThis 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.
- Reposted by ditchponyNews cycles are being manipulated to make people think a problem has been solved when it hasn’t. Bovino removed didn’t change anything but people have been tricked into thinking it did, so they move on. Same as it was. Know this. The situation in MN is as bad as it’s always been. Don’t forget them.
- Reposted by ditchponyThe arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
- 🚨🚨🚨They are arresting our journalists. 🚨🚨🚨
- The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:
- Reposted by ditchponyMINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)
- Reposted by ditchponyBREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56
- Reposted by ditchponyICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?
- Reposted by ditchponyThe good news is all the brazen, cartoonish corruption makes it easier to run on an anti-oligarchy, good government platform. The bad news is you still need candidates who want to do that
- Reposted by ditchponyREP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”
- I’m glad new folks are posting and sharing about fascism but I need them to hear me when I say the Mumford & Sons music is not mandatory for the movement.
- Reposted by ditchponyjust saw 4 ice agents go up to a house and knock and within 1 minute there were 30 people out whistling and they left. we will not take our foot off the gas
- Reposted by ditchponyAn ICE agent attempted to enter the Ecuadorian Consulate in Minneapolis, threatening the staff member who prevented him from entering. Hello? ICE is so out of control that its agents think they can break international law. Congress needs to rein them in yesterday.
- If they’re killing white people on camera in the street, what horror do you think are they inflicting on our brothers and sisters and children in detention centers? we will not look away. close all detention centers. let our people go.
- Reposted by ditchponymy expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
- Reposted by ditchpony"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
- Reposted by ditchponyNEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.
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- Reposted by ditchpony"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
- one silver lining of this occupation is that every night I can tell my husband that, for the resistance, we need to support a local, minority owned restaurant and if he says “no we already have food to make” I call him a white man and then he gets sad and we get fajitas
- “We have fought hard and long for integration, as I believe we should have, and I know that we will win. But I've come to believe we're integrating into a burning house.” Martin Luther King Jr “If you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Reposted by ditchponyCBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
- Reposted by ditchponyMinnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
- Minnesota is the front line and we will hold it. We are heartbroken, we are afraid, we are exhausted but we will not fall. Please support us. linktr.ee/mplsmutualai...
- Reposted by ditchponyI think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
- Reposted by ditchponyFrom Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis
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- Reposted by ditchponySupport your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.
- Reposted by ditchponynext reporter who interviews stephen miller should ask him point blank if his goal in minneapolis is to kill more americans
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- The phrase I keep hearing from coworkers, friends, family is, “This feels like Covid.” That’s how disrupted lives feel right now. Schools and businesses closing, people afraid to leave the house, watching for ICE cars, just constant, fatiguing anxiety, fear, anger and grief. Pray for Minnesota.
- Reposted by ditchponyJust so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats
- Reposted by ditchponythis completely horrifying. ICE is a domestic occupying threat against us all
- Reposted by ditchponyNon-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
- Reposted by ditchponyI know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.
- Reposted by ditchponyApparently ICE goons in multi-car caravans are circling Spanish immersion preschools in the city taunting and photographing the parents and neighbors who are patrolling the school perimeter to keep kids safe.
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- if you are not in Minnesota I need you to know it is BAD. my friends in the cities are afraid to walk their dogs because of the pepper spray. there are empty cars of the abducted left sideways on the street. a kids arm was broken on school property. we are terrified.
- i live over an hour from the cities and even in these smaller communities ICE is going door to door. There are workers trapped on roofs hiding when it’s below freezing. Minority owned businesses are closing. Some of my friends stopped going in public.
- Reposted by ditchponyThis is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...
- my friend was maced by ICE agents outside of the coffee shop where I do my homework. she was just standing there filming them and they maced her directly in the eyes and fled the scene. our communities are being terrorized.
- Reposted by ditchponyWe are aware of reports of a shooting involving federal law enforcement in North Minneapolis. We are working to confirm additional details.
- Reposted by ditchponyNever forget the most ironclad rule of politics: Every abuse you justify against another will be weaponized against you in time. To cheer abuse, violence, or the suspension of others’ rights is to cheer the abuse, violence, and suspension of your own.
- Reposted by ditchponyKristi Noem stated over the weekend that Americans deserve what they get if they get in the way of law enforcement operations, including the murder of Renee Good. If people get injured or killed, it's on them. Then she is sending more agents to Minneapolis. This Regime wants us killed.
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- Reposted by ditchponyI am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
- Reposted by ditchponyfor the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism
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- Reposted by ditchponyDoesn't it strike you as strange that the people who shout long and loud that America is a Christian nation founded on Christian principles are the very people who don't want Christ's teachings of tolerance, pacifism, and generosity codified in law?
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- Reposted by ditchponyCasual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
- Reposted by ditchponyMy dog and two cats love to throw up on the floor and they represent 60% of the household. As a leader I can't just ignore public opinion so I also throw up on the floor sometimes to stay popular
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- Reposted by ditchponyDie Hard was actually appropriated from pagans
- Reposted by ditchponythey don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE
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- Reposted by ditchponyAfter buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
- Reposted by ditchponyNORAD Santa tracker is Woke
- Reposted by ditchponyExtremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
