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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 16/09/2026

Interested in supporting the Trans Relocation Fund? Donate with the link in our bio! You can also get involved with the Queer Liberation Working Group by emailing us at queerliberation@twincitiesdsa.org

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 18/09/2026

Want to get involved with our Melt ICE Priority? Check out these different ways to engage! Melt ICE is hosting a social for our Court Observers and members interested in Immigration Court Observation. Enjoy a cold one and learn about how you can get involved on Thursday, Sep 24 @ 8 pm at Arbeiter

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wrote about documenting ICE arrests during a surge in southwest Florida -- and how no one wanted any of the footage.

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ICE is Still Surging

Dispatch from an immigration surge in southwest Florida

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On 9/11 I read a Hunter S. Thompson essay in ESPN and listen to “Makeshift Patriot” by Sage Francis. Both came out shortly after the attack and are some of the few pieces of media that accurately predicted where this country was headed in the way that only art can. www.espn.com/page2/s/thom...

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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

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A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain

In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A self-defense argument is not going to work in Minnesota. You have a duty to retreat in the state, which did not happen here. So make sure all your friends who might be potential jurors know about jury nullification because punching fascists is good. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nu...

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Jury nullification - Wikipedia

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 05/09/2026

TCDSA will be doing targeted door knocks against data centers every Saturday in September! Let’s make every resident aware of what data centers are, that there is a risk for them to pop up anywhere in the city, not just downtown, and that now is the time to fight back! RSVP link in bio.

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 31/08/2026

Twin Cities DSA members spoke in support of the MN15 following a court hearing in Minneapolis on Aug. 27. This as the state has entered a "Shadow Surge", with abductions and deportations climbing in recent months.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/08/2026

In the days following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, institutions rushed to appease online mobs and vitriolic politicians who demanded takedowns of anyone critical of the right-wing influencer. Now, courts have forced them to answer to something much more enduring than right-wing pressure: the law.

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Karen Attiah fought the Washington Post and won

Employers who fired their staff for posts about Charlie Kirk have lost a string of high-profile disputes.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026

Because the behavior of the parties is not symmetrical. If we genuinely brought back shaming of shitty, cruel, deceptive behavior, the shame would overwhelmingly fall on the right, and the whole elite political & media system has shown again & again that it values symmetry over decency.

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Schuyler Mitchell @schuylermitchell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

NEW: Police are spending hundreds of thousands of opioid settlement dollars on Flock cameras and other AI-powered license plate readers. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Police are spending opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras

Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 26/08/2026

TCDSA’s Abolition and Decarceration Working Group hosted our first Mass Meeting Against Mass Surveillance this weekend where community members came out to voice their opposition to ALPRs in our communities. Minneapolis must act now and end their contracts with these tools of state surveillance.

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

NEW: Charges were dropped against white supremacist Ed "Jake" Lang who remains jailed awaiting extradition to Texas. Lang was jailed on probable cause riot charge for holding a hate rally in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday. The protester dressed as Spider-Man, however, is currently facing charges.

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Hennepin County Drops Charges Against Jake Lang, Citing Communication with Police - UNICORN RIOT

Minneapolis, MN — Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty will not press felony riot charges against white supremacist provocateur Edward Jacob “Jake” Lang for his latest hate rally in Minneapolis, cit...

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It seems clear that MPD worked with Lang so he could bring his hate here and then they assaulted and arrested a black man that stood up to it.

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Weird how it always end up working that way.

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Update on the situation here. Police are nonexistent. People took down the barricades and held the space. People are now leaving to go about their Saturday after yelling at a fascist and the police who protected him.

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Slightly shorter video of Jake Lang’s very quick entrance and exit from Minneapolis. Police protected Lang as he and his private security drove on the sidewalk and pepper sprayed people.

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Escalated quickly. Lang rolled up in the sidewalk in a a truck with private security. After being confronted, MPD came out to protect him. I gotta cut up video but I’m sticking around in case police get froggy again.

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ope they went away too. Police presence on the block is just this car on 4th st and 3rd Ave

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Barriers have been set up on Fourth street between Minneapolis City Hall and the federal courthouse in Minneapolis in anticipation of Jake Lang showing up to say the n word I guess.

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MinnPost @minnpost.com · 20/08/2026

Local government decisions are made in public, but only if someone’s there to listen. Support transparency in Minneapolis and St. Paul today and have your gift matched up to $5,000, thanks to NewsMatch. Give now: minnpost.fundjournalism.org/support/?cam...

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 20/08/2026

i’m at north loop neighborhood association meeting on a data center going in the old star tribune printing plant. the room is packed. we are watching a presentation from the developers, who are in virginia. “we are active in minneapolis developing properties,” they said. so why aren’t you here?

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Flock has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” The company has now built an AI system that does both. And @wired.com got the system's code -- allowing us to reconstruct it, and learn exactly how Flock's new tool is supposed to work:

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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

NEW: Flock has said for years its cameras don’t identify or track people. We obtained the code for its police AI and rebuilt parts of it. The tool can find witnesses, surface associates, search people by race or physical description, and flag vehicles by how they move. W/ @dell.bsky.social

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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In an extraordinary move, a federal judge has ordered the government to turn over to her all materials presented to grand jurors in the conspiracy case against 38 people, including journalists. It's tied to the anti-ICE protest at Cities Church in StP over the winter. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Judge orders full review of grand jury materials in St. Paul church protest case

A federal judge has ordered prosecutors to turn over a broader set of grand jury materials for review in the case against 38 people charged in connection with a January anti-ICE protest at Cities Chur...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/08/2026

Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist, beat Alex Vindman, a key Trump impeachment trial witness, in the Democratic primary for Senate in Florida.

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Angie Nixon Scores Upset Win in Florida Senate Primary

The underdog faces another uphill battle this November against a Republican incumbent heavily favored to win.

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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

DSA is trying to hire a Press Coordinator and in the interest of my not being annoyed daily from now to November, I need one of y'all to go do this job exceptionally well. workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

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Recruitment

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 18/08/2026

🚨 THIS SATURDAY, August 22nd, join TCDSA’s Abolition and Decarceration Working Group for our Mass Meeting Against Mass Surveillance and learn how you can join our fight against Flock!

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Icymi! It's tied to the revelations last week that Homeland Security Investigations agents infiltrated and surveilled anti-ICE residents at churches, union halls and libraries in the Twin Cities. It appears they may have violated a federal injunction.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."

But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

" I want people to study what we did in Minneapolis with a critical lens, then apply and adapt it to where you are." truthout.org/articles/aut...

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Authoritarians Will Target Effective Legal Organizing, Minnesota Defendant Warns

Minnesota defendants charged with conspiracy are alleged to have moderated meetings and posted on social media.

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Royce White has to be one of the dumbest people I’ve ever talked to. The main picture of this story is one I took of him wearing body armor with the plate upside down. www.postbulletin.com/news/minneso...

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No love lost between Republican Senate candidates

During a July 4 rally, GOP-endorsed candidate Royce White said 'Jewish elites' run the Federal Reserve and condemned his primary opponent Joe Fraser's support for the military.

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Why are they all so fucking stupid?

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’m here at the Fish Hatchery encampment in St. Paul as the city prepares to sweep the camp. St. Paul cops are stopping cars coming in but there are dozens of people that have gathered here in anticipation of the sweep in order to help camp residents and document what the city does here today.

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It’s super weird that our police keep getting coached by private companies on how to sell what they want to do to the public. Lexipol, which quite literally writes department policies for law enforcement agencies, does the same shit.

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I really wish we’d stop framing deaths with this “underlying health issues” nonsense. Almost everyone has an underlying health issue and that’s not why they died.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/08/2026

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

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She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 31/07/2026

Join PACAT and the Stop the Sweeps Coalition to address the intersectional movement on police brutality towards Black youth and unhoused St. Paul neighbors!

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 29/07/2026

One of my habeas clients who won release was deported last night. I spoke to his partner and she told me that, while he was in jail, he said that if he got out they should finally get married after over 20 years together. She told me that the night before he was taken back in they tied the knot.

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