Cindy Barukh Milstein
Misfit. Wordsmith. Dreamer. Rebel.
Never at home in this world, so always aspiring to make new ones with others, with love, care & solidarity.
@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social
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- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinSwear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinBREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh Milstein"These were not merely acts of charity. They were counter-institutions — infrastructure designed to keep people connected, informed, cared for, and protected in a system built to fragment and isolate them." truthout.org/articles/ant...
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinA Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh Milstein‘It’s an absolute bloodbath’: Washington Post lays off hundreds of workers
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinAs Marimar Martinez, who survived an assassination attempt, bravely testified today, DHS, Border Patrol, and ICE agents are rampaging through US cities, brutally targeting working people and activists who stands in solidarity against their violent repression. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinJust so we’re all clear, the Department of Homeland Security is developing pretty extreme accusations about people based on: - Hysteria-fueled nonsense spewed by Fox News which they picked up from - Far-right propagandists on Twitter whose whole thing is targeting leftists.
- 🚨 Documents leaked to me reveal a federal watchlist of American protesters suspected of being Antifa - including its supposed leader. One Department of Homeland Security document says a 29-year-old resident of Portland "is the leader of Antifa": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh Milstein"About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments."
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- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinLast night, at least one federal agent shot me multiple times w/ pepper balls in my leg after they dispersed hundreds of protesters away from the MDC driveway on Alameda Street in DTLA. I was covering the protest for @lataco.bsky.social. This is the 2nd time I've been shot by the feds since June.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinBREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinThinking how this wouldn’t have become a major story if it wasn’t for legal observers in Minnesota. Now worrying about all those children still in detention.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinIf you're not in Minnesota and have bought into the drawdown talk....it's all B.S. The only difference since Tom Homan showed it is they haven't murdered another Minnesotan....yet. We're still be terrorized by the Federal Government and the majority of elected officials seem unable to protect us.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh Milsteina woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX. we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home. delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinI don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinPrisoners in Minnesota are earning less than a dollar an hour making products for Disney. Slavery is Legal in Minnesota. These Groups are Working to Change That. unicornriot.ninja/2026/slavery...
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinThis violent assault against the people of #Portland has been escalating from ICE for months. Check out this interview with @alissaazar.bsky.social from last year here: itsgoingdown.org/interview-wi...
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinAnd ICE shot out the windows of apartments nearby. They used this munition to do it. They also shot people with this.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinJust experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh Milsteinstatement from anika bowie, st. paul city council member, on the arrest of her husband jamael lundy this morning by federal agents for the protest at a church in st. paul led by an ICE agent. she calls his arrest “militarized and traumatic”
- feds have arrested jamael lundy alongside journalists georgia fort and don lemon for the protest at a st. paul church led by an ICE agent lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember www.jlundyforsd65.com
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinFrom Texas to Minneapolis, the regime is using 'conspiracy' charges to spread fear and repression in the face of a ground swell of popular sentiment against fascism. Support anti-repression efforts. Donate to local bail funds. Throw benefits. Check groups like @cldc03.bsky.social for resources.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinWatch through. An undocumented person in Minneapolis brought dogs to a shelter after ICE kidnapped their humans, abandoning the dogs in their homes with no humans around.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinReally looking forward to the rest of this case going to trial. "We the jury find the defendant...handsome." (Anyway, quit trying to get out of jury duty and type "jury nullification" into the search engine of your choice.)
- A New York federal judge dismissed murder and weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione, a major blow to prosecutors that means Mangione no longer faces a possible death penalty if convicted reut.rs/45Fin56
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinGeorgia 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 Cindy Barukh MilsteinWASHINGTON (AP) — Journalist Don Lemon is arrested after protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church.
- (Revised) call for contributions to my next curated zine: “Pandemic Care without States: XX Prefigurative Practices in Supplying Well-Being from Below Length: 75 to 250 words Due: by/before Sun, Feb 8 Email: cbmilstein {at} yahoo.com Full post @cindymilstein IG kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh Milstein"The question before us is not whether the U.S. is 'turning into' something else. The question is whether we are finally willing to tell the truth about how power has always worked here — and what it costs to keep pretending otherwise." truthout.org/articles/thi...
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinAn extraordinary document. Read it. “Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
- BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz cancels contempt hearing Friday where ICE chief Todd Lyons was to be forced to testify, but excoriates ICE for defying almost 100 court orders in last month. "ICE is not a law unto itself," Schiltz writes. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinA general strike in Minneapolis. Student walkouts across the country. Demonstrations break out everywhere, organized by prisoners, workers, and youth - are all picking up speed. Masses of people are working together to organize mutual aid + community solidarity on a growing scale. A thread.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh Milstein🚨 I've obtained a list of secret watchlists the Department of Homeland Security uses to keep tabs on American citizens www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secre...
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh Milstein"When does this end? How many more innocent lives must be lost before we say enough? Hearing disgusting lies spread about my brother is absolutely gut-wrenching, and my family is deeply grateful so many people have stood up and helped tell his truth." www.cbsnews.com/news/alex-pr...
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinI'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/ (New piece) newrepublic.com/article/2057...
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinYou really don't need to be warning people not to think that Bovino being gone means we can all stop fighting. Everyone knows that Bovino being gone means we should KEEP fighting, because it's working.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh Milstein“One of the things that I don’t think is getting talked enough about outside of Minnesota,” she said after a pause, “is how much this feels like ethnic cleansing. People are so afraid to go out and participate in public life regardless of their citizenship status. This isn’t about immigration.”
- So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinMy report from Minneapolis, about the things you'll never see. newrepublic.com/article/2057...
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinSo much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinHere's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinUPDATE: We're told U.S. Citizen Matthew James Obadiah Allen has been released after being attacked/detained yesterday by Trump's immigration agents... He repeatedly screamed "I can't breathe" and requested ambulance as a swarm of agents pinned him down⬇️ bsky.app/profile/stat...
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinNEW Video: Tractors on the Highways, Survival on the Line: Greece’s Farmers Rise Up For over 50 days, farmers across Greece are blockading roads with their tractors protesting unpaid subsidies, rising costs, & policies that are forcing them off their land. More: unicornriot.ninja/2026/tractor...
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh Milsteinhealth care workers see feds denying patients their rights but with the knowledge & connections gained from “know your rights” trainings, a growing number of health care workers now know that they can push back and report suspected abuses.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinA grassroots network of mutual aid volunteers called Safe Haven has been doing nearly round-the-clock jail support for everyone released from detainment at Whipple, the federal building ICE operates from. They provide medics, rides, food, clothes, phones—anything people need after being released.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinI remarked early into the afternoon to a woman standing behind a table covered in organized boxes of hand warmers and coffee and masks how impressively fast these things came together. “We can do this so quickly because we built these networks in 2020, so now everyone just knows what to do.“
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinEveryone looked for something to do, checked in with anyone they made eye contact with. “Do you need hand warmers?” was as frequent a refrain as “Fuck ICE!” Despite (and because of) an unimaginable, horrific, enraging tragedy, everyone prioritized looking for ways to comfort others.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh Milstein“I’ve never done this before,” one woman arranging logs into a pile told me between heavy breaths. “But we don’t want them coming back and bothering people.” People brought countless waters & hot coffee. They built bonfires to keep warm. Handed out countless mini pizzas from Little Caesar’s.
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinAfter DHS retreated from Nicollet Ave after murdering ICE observer Alex Pretti, community members flocked to where he was killed, creating barricades for the purpose of protecting the space from federal agents who may want to return to unleash chaos on mourners. 1/
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinAt the Alex Pretti memorial this afternoon, people are unfurling four very large banners. They read, "How many more will ICE murder? How many more funerals? How many more...how many more?"
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinEvery part of this is heartbreaking
- Alex Pretti's parents found out about his death when the Associated Press called them. They then had to make phone calls until they reached the county medical examiner. So heartbreaking. coloradosun.com/2026/01/24/c...
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- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinWe are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it
- Reposted by Cindy Barukh MilsteinVigil Held for Alex Pretti, Second Person Killed by Federal Agents in Minneapolis Pretti was an intensive care nurse with the Veterans Affairs. He was fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. He's the 2nd person killed by feds this month: unicornriot.ninja/2026/federal...
