Joe Berkowitz
Writer. Not too annoying. Books: American Cheese, Away With Words, You Blew it. Bylines: Many of the good places.
- Reposted by Joe Berkowitz‘Lord Of The Rings’ Reader Can’t Believe How Long It Taking Sam And Frodo To Fuck theonion.com/lord-of-the-rings-r…
- Reposted by Joe Berkowitzthat tweet about how vance has 4chan politics with tumblr cadence - "pretty problematic of you to want to tax the rich when there's literally a (checks notes) white genocide going on right now"
- I talked with the owner of Modern Times, one of my favorite spots in Minneapolis, about making the entire menu free for everyone (except ICE) until ICE leaves the city.
- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzWe gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzAlex Pretti wasn't killed by rhetoric, he was killed by two masked CBP agents shooting him 10 times in the back after they had disarmed and pepper sprayed him. Rhetoric didn't kill Renee Good either, a thug from ICE did that with a gun as she tried to avoid hurting him.
- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzI think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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- Reposted by Joe Berkowitzlook at what hustle culture has done to us www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...
- Runs in the family.
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- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzPop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.
- Reposted by Joe Berkowitzexactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...
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- Reposted by Joe Berkowitzthey should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
- Xfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. bit.ly/4rmRhrK
- “…, Charlie Brown.”
- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzDHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
- [X starts January as a csam-generating machine and ends with its owner’s latest Epstein entanglements] Professional media-knower Ben Smith: Twitter is back, baby!
- Reposted by Joe Berkowitz'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 Joe BerkowitzThe pure cruelty of putting a five year old through all this for absolutely no benefit to anyone or anything
- BREAKING... and Thank God... 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, father board plane for Minneapolis after detention center release - ABC News abcnews.go.com/amp/US/5-yea...
- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzNothing has changed and these masked, armed federal paramilitaries are just as aggressive and lawless as ever.
- Reposted by Joe Berkowitzfor over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed. ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them
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- What an incredible cast on Flirting With Disaster. This title card is just obscene.
- Thumbing through Catherine O'Hara's filmography, found this nonexistent movie she was in 3 years after Swingers, whose studio in no way hoped to evoke Swingers.
- Reposted by Joe Berkowitzevery epstein commentary is these immensely rich/powerful/influential people raving about what a genius epstein was, and every one of his emails is just “helo, my name jomfrie”
- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzLawyer here. There’s a lot of misinformation about what this means. It means he’s innocent even though he did it and the judge said that it’s good what he did
- BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56
- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzThousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
- An early favorite poster from today’s protest in downtown Minneapolis.
- RIP to a staggering talent. Here she is doing the best drunk acting you will ever see in your life.
- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzBrewery workers, bar owners, and union organizers in MSP are setting the mark on how to actually care for their community, rather than just invoke as a buzzword. At @vinepair.com, I reported how their work doubles as a playbook for colleagues nationwide whose homes may face MAGA sieges soon enough.
- Reposted by Joe Berkowitzi am happy to fight for freedom with the libertarians but also, we don’t really need to *talk*
- It sure looks like no one in Trumpworld knows what 'doxxing' actually means, so I wrote about why it benefits them to pretend not to know.
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- You don’t need to read Trump’s tweet about Alex Pretti. I summed it up here.
- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzOne of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.
- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzIf you find yourself sitting across from this guy you are F U C K E D
- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzI cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
- Follow up question: which rhetoric led an officer to shoot a lady in the face?
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- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzImagine having Bruce Springsteen AND Billy Bragg release songs about how much you fucking suck and how much the people fighting you rule you within the same 48 hours
- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzThis is Minneapolis. Collective trauma, and neighbors helping neighbors. This is our 24/7 every day lives right now, not just a 10 second news clip.
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- Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.
- Hate to give them the click but here's a link if you think I'm joking.
- Always looks like he's itching to bulldoze the rec center to make way for his new bank branch, but can only get the deed if his son beats a ragtag group of kids at the yacht regatta.
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- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzREP. 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.”
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- Whatever you do, please don't tell my employer I was mad about my neighbors getting kidnapped.
- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzIf a non-citizen neighbor gets kidnapped by ICE, you supposedly have about 4-5 hours to file a habeas petition in Minnesota to prevent ICE from shipping people to Texas. They are moving people that quickly regardless of whether or not they have legal status.
- I humbly suggest leaving your liberal comfort zone by listening to podcasts that are further to the LEFT than you ffs
- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzOne armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings. This can't be "reformed"
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- Reposted by Joe Berkowitzbrass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzThe biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzThe woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force. @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzI just thought everyone should see this
- I'm glad they're speaking up. Wild that they needed the DHS to lie about a ~second~ broad daylight murder caught on camera from 5000 angles in order to do so.
- Reposted by Joe Berkowitz"We'll take it from here, Alex"
- Oh, his parents thought they cooked.
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- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzThe people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE
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- Reposted by Joe BerkowitzI am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
