James Umbanhowar
Part time ecologist. I spend more time on Mastodon @jumbanho@mas.to
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- Reposted by James UmbanhowarThis morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
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- Reposted by James UmbanhowarI’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.
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- Reposted by James UmbanhowarThe two children who returned to MN today say they saw one of their Valley View schoolmates at a detention center in TX. This is a child whose family was last in contact with the school on January 9. No one has known where they were until now.
- Reposted by James UmbanhowarReally nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
- Reposted by James UmbanhowarSaint Paul Public Schools has official vehicles that are black SUVs with tinted windows. I learned this today while staring at one and photographing it at a stoplight. They rolled down their windows and said, “It’s okay! We’re with SPPS!” Then I noticed the accompanying decals. We all waved.
- Reposted by James UmbanhowarDemocracy dies in oligarchness
- Reposted by James UmbanhowarWhile Tom Homan was trying to grab headlines this morning ICE was again circling our schools. They’ve been out all morning and no “drawdown” is enough until every single one of these agents is out of our state and DHS is abolished.
- Reposted by James Umbanhowarwe really need someone to run against dawanna witt for hennepin county sheriff www.startribune.com/ice-hennepin...
- Ahh, landlords using fascists to do their dirty work.
- The building owners are now under investigation by the state of Illinois. From one tenant: “We were paying our rent, doing things the right way... Then suddenly, boom, the government comes in and takes us out. I don’t understand." dhr.illinois.gov/content/dam/...
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- Reposted by James UmbanhowarMost of the footage you see from ICE observers in Minnesota comes from the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I talked to observers in the northern suburbs, who say they're taking on the same mission in very different conditions. (1) share.google/ei9giIFLsuEJ...
- Reposted by James UmbanhowarWhen you hear politicians use the word “reform”… La Migra has *always* been like this, & they’ve been ordered to “reform” before. In 1992 students & teachers from Bowie High in El Paso (TX) were tired of harassment & profiling so they sued the Border Patrol… 1/ www.tpr.org/news/2025-12...
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- Reposted by James UmbanhowarPew finds 60% oppose pausing visas and 66% oppose nixing asylum! People overinterpreted 2024 as a seismic shift to Trump on immigration. But the data is showing very broad opposition to the restrictionist, ethnonationalist, anti-humanitarian aspects of Trumpism. 5/5 newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by James Umbanhowar4. As the Walton family — which owns 50% of Walmart stock — cheers its obscene wealth of over $500 billion, remember that all that loot was stolen from small businesses, workers, and you. You are paying for this monopoly in inflated grocery prices, lower wages, food deserts, and dead main streets.
- Reposted by James UmbanhowarIt starts bad in the part you may already know, and it gets worse at Whipple.
- what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long? m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZOG...
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- Reposted by James UmbanhowarFormer ACT UP members are still arguing with each other to this day, but we got stuff done. 👇👇
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- Reposted by James UmbanhowarColonial Market came into North Mpls when Aldi left, filling a huge need for the community. Now they’re delivering groceries to neighbors in hiding. Support them if you can.
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- Mike Johnson, next week, "if we have to fear for our own lives before pointing guns at people being mean to us, how will we ever suppress people's 1st amendment rights?"
- Another topic for the Harper's letter signatories to stay quiet about:
- If you want a sense of how bad the attacks on pro-choice speech are right now, read the latest issue of my newsletter. Prepare for a thread—because there are too many attacks to list here jessica.substack.com/p/texas-coll...
- Reposted by James UmbanhowarThis is what they consider “de-escalating." They don’t know the resiliency of Ward 9 neighbors though. We aren’t stopping until the whole dam system is abolished.
