Alex Weston (he / him)
Public Historian and Filmmaker in St. Paul, Minnesota. Occasional lecturer, artist, and writer. Full-time nerd.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)Horrifying beyond words.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)For those who don't know, Cajuns as an ethnicity, only exist because in 1755 the English entered Acadia in Nova Scotia and burned villages, destroyed property, and round up more than 80% of the local Acadians, forced them on boats, broke up families, and sent them out to sea. Thousands died. 1/5
- For my Cajun cousins who know better: cajuncomrade.bigcartel.com
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)We been said this fascism thing for over a decade.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)Every accusation is a confession.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)Unfinished. #LiamRamos
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
- Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)Do Not Let Trump's Twisted and Sick Distractions Make You Forget These Survivors! Obey the Court Order—Release ALL the Epstein Files NOW!
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
- "MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)If all these oligarchs named in the Epstein Files are totally innocent, surely they’d be in favor of an independent investigation into Epstein’s crimes. Right?
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)It goes without saying that what the court calls the "absence of doctrinal instruction" that makes the line-drawing exercise so apparently difficult in this case makes sense given that the federal government has simply *never done this before*.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)the 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 Alex Weston (he / him)Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)If nothing else today, I got USA Today to print my analogy of the significance of ICE administrative warrants. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)Important. There has not been a deescalation.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)Sanctuary policies are legal. The Supreme Court has been clear for decades that the federal government cannot commandeer state or local governments to enforce federal immigration law. This isn’t “playing with fire.” It’s constitutional law.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)rare to get such a clear glimpse into the mind of someone whose response to problems in his personal life was to blame black people
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)1. The most extreme anti-trans bill ever proposed is currently rocketing through the Kansas legislature. It would empower bounty hunters to search for trans people in bathrooms, even in private businesses, and sue them for large sums of money. The House is voting on it today.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)Does this mean Texas gets invaded now? Or is that only after intrepid reporter Nick Shirley gets a scoop? www.fox4news.com/news/48-texa...
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- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)There are a lot of things I wish people from other states knew, and here's one: most of the churches here are VERY MUCH part of the resistance to the occupation.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)No American has to wonder what fascism looks like up close anymore. You are in it.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)Minnesota 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.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)They can’t fathom that people have come together because they care about their community, their neighbors, and their nation. Not because they’re getting paid. A total lapse in humanity and imagination. What a sad & blatant lie.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)I don't want to be all Jon Stewart pointlessly pointing out hypocrisy, but the right has spent so many decades decrying the nightmare of a federal government crushing state and local power under its jackbooted heel only to do that exact thing in community after community.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)The safest thing for any American civilian to do at this point is to assume that every ICE or CBP agent you encounter is a pardoned violent January 6 insurrectionist with demonstrated homicidal urges toward those they disagree with politically and choose your actions accordingly.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)Hey NRA, are you good with this? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)Must be confusing for him that regular Minnesotans are more competent at safeguarding our neighbors than ICE is at literally anything
- In -7 degrees F cold, about fifteen neighbors on my block gathered this evening at the street corner with candles and sang songs and hymns. Similar street corner vigils were happening all over the Twin Cities. 1/2
- This is what we are fighting for: humanity, community, and empathy. Because we have these things, and they don’t, we will win in the long run. 2/2
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)Oh she’s EXTORTING US.
- Pam Bondi's conditions for Minnesota: 1) give us all your state data on your food programs, including SNAP 2) repeal all your sanctuary policies in the state (since it has led to "so much crime and violence") and 3) hand over your state voting rolls. Letter here: www.fox9.com/news/minneap...
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- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”
- Reposted by Alex Weston (he / him)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...
