aww, beans

trying my best | not always succeeding

[radishnt]

gaslight, preheat, grillboss

[kingofthehilltoday]

[grogumybrogu]

If you were a 38 y/o virgin and you’re planning on moving out of the country in the next year or two and you met a guy at work who was either divorced or widowed (unsure) with three kids, who you get along with really well, who thinks the sun shines out your ass and could very possibly knock the Mario coins out of you, but you don’t necessarily find him all that attractive and you don’t want a relationship, would you let him put you through the mattress if the opportunity presented itself? 👀

[grogumybrogu]

Having known next to nothing about btvs until I started watching it for the first time a week or so ago, I was not prepared at all for Spike to be the sassiest bitch on earth and it is SO fucking funny

[grogumybrogu]

Finally watching BTVS and my god you guys were so right. Xander is the worst kind of chud. PLEASE tell me he gets eaten.

[grogumybrogu]

If anyone is able to help my neighbor finish off his rent payment, we would really appreciate it. He’s caring for a family of 8 that includes a newborn and only needs $470 now.

Donate to Keep an Immigrant Family Housed, organized by Emily Coad

Our neighbor David and his family (eight people including a newborn) are short on rent, but… Emily Coad needs your support for Keep an Immig

[grogumybrogu]

Got some more donations so we’re down to $320 needed!

[grogumybrogu]

If anyone is able to help my neighbor finish off his rent payment, we would really appreciate it. He’s caring for a family of 8 that includes a newborn and only needs $470 now.

Donate to Keep an Immigrant Family Housed, organized by Emily Coad

Our neighbor David and his family (eight people including a newborn) are short on rent, but… Emily Coad needs your support for Keep an Immig

[humanerrers]

x

[humanerrers]

stop spreading despair and nihilism

stop buying into the idea that nonviolent activism is useless, rather than (by far) the most effective form of protest

stop falsely claiming that BLM accomplished nothing and that most citizens “don’t care” when people are murdered by the state

start understanding that most of your neighbors care about your rights, and their own

start noticing that most people are moved by injustice, including against people who look nothing like them

[crafting-and-tea]

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong

The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

[crafting-and-tea]

Wed. Jan 28, 2026

Masked, armored, and armed to the teeth, and they're afraid of people blowing whistles at them. link to post

[stephenroot]

I wanted to share my favorite quote from this article: the secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone.

[grogumybrogu]

They executed another bystander. He had a permit to carry, they took his gun, and THEN they shot him. NINE TIMES. He was only videoing and trying to help women that ICE was shoving around. Six of them wrestled him to the ground, pistol whipped him, and thenSUMMARILY EXECUTED HIM FOR NO REASON.

[grogumybrogu]

Called out of work much later than I meant to for the strike today and then had a very long nightmare about being fired.

[grogumybrogu]

Ngl lads, seven dems voting to send more money to ICE today may have radicalized me.

[larkandkatydid]

The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees

LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.

Many House Democrats have taken out personal-liability insurance to hedge against the prospect of being targeted by the President. “We’re freaking out,” one Democrat told me. “You do not know what’s coming around the next corner.” The Administration has claimed that McIver is “aligned” with Antifa. She was “out of control” at Delaney Hall, Trump said. “The days of woke are over.” Press releases issued by D.H.S. stated that she’d “stormed” the facility and “broken in”; on television, a department spokesperson accused McIver of “body-slamming” an agent. “No one else in Congress is facing what she’s facing,” Lateefah Simon, a Democratic representative from Oakland, California, said. “Typically, we would say, ‘Oh, they’re just trying to scare her.’ They’re actively litigating this case.” At one point, a federal judge ordered Justice Department lawyers to instruct Administration officials to stop lying publicly about the incident. “It’s not local ice. It’s from headquarters in D.C.,” the government attorney replied. “We don’t have the authority.

McIver’s case is expected to go to trial this year. By December, she had already racked up close to a million dollars in legal fees. Owing to House rules, the expenses have come out of her campaign funds, meaning that, in the months before her 2026 reëlection campaign, the money she’s raising will go almost exclusively toward her defense. “About five per cent of me regrets going that day,” she said. “Do I want to be hemmed up like this? My mom is worried to death. My husband’s stressed out. My nine-year-old is, like, ‘What the hell?’ ” But the government’s case, she went on, was meant “to slow me down and drain me of joy, and that’s why I’m so bent on it.”

Here’s how you can donate to LaMonica McIver’s campaign. Facing 17 years in Federal Prison and ruinous legal bills also meets the Sumner Rule.

[grogumybrogu]

Declaring yourself autistic to this federal government is a terrible idea, right?

[grogumybrogu]

This is my mother to a T whenever I try to talk to her about leaving MN before shit finally breaks REALLY bad. The news that Trump just put 1500 active duty military on alert here has me scared shitless, but she is in near complete denial of the severity of the situation. We’re keeping our out of state family updated via signal and they both just asked if we wanted to come stay with them. She immediately said no. I am losing my absolute mind.

[grogumybrogu]

Man, threads really is just the Wild West of misinformation. It’s like no one, even people who really should know better, has ever heard of a source in their life.

[grogumybrogu]

Update: I’m a Community Note contributor/rater and my stupid one-off jokes on other people’s posts are pulling in thousands of notes. What is happening.

[edwordsmyth]

"Friends outside of Minnesota please read. I'm sharing a post written by a personal friend and medical doctor: Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:

ICE agents are cruising areas with immigrant-owned businesses, and kidnapping patrons and employees alike. Yesterday they abducted two US citizen employees at a suburban Target, one who was begging them to allow him to go get his passport to show them.

ICE is going door to door in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, asking residents where their immigrant neighbors live. Read that again. If it sounds like something out of your high school history textbook, that’s because it is.

ICE is targeting schools and school buses. They pepper sprayed teenagers and abducted two school staff members at the high school up the street from me on Wednesday. Police are literally escorting school buses to ensure children can get to school and home safely. The Minneapolis Public Schools have moved to virtual learning for the next 4 weeks because it’s unsafe for children or teachers to physically come to school.

They are targeting hospitals and clinics. Patients are scared and are cancelling their appointments or just not showing up. Kids are missing their checkups and vaccines, folks aren’t getting their cancer care, etc.

They are smashing windows in cars and homes.

ICE is increasingly picking up Native Americans—again, targeting folks based on skin color alone.

They are arresting and beating legal observers. A friend of a friend had her arm broken yesterday. Folks are showing up at local hospitals, brought in in ICE custody, with severe injuries that are absolutely inconsistent with mechanism of injury reported by ICE. (Think: patient appears to have been beaten unconscious, while ICE agent says he slipped and fell.) I can’t emphasize enough that these ICE agents do not have warrants. There are 2,000+ agents here and they are simply hunting for anyone that’s not white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or a green card holder, they will kidnap you first and ask questions later. But the community is fighting back.

Protests are happening every day.

Community groups have been leading know-your-rights sessions for months, often to packed venues.

Whistles are being distributed by the thousands, carried on keychains and worn on coat zippers, always at the ready to be blown in warning if ICE is spotted.

Drivers are following ICE vehicles, blaring their horns in warning.

Businesses are locking their doors even while open to keep employees and customers safe. As I type this, I’m standing guard at the locked door of our neighborhood burrito joint while I wait for my takeout order, so the employees can focus on their jobs. The place is packed with neighbors supporting this small business.

Anti-ICE signs are posted everywhere. The community is making it crystal clear that ICE is not welcome here.

Parents and neighbors are standing guard outside schools, organizing carpools, and escorting kids to and from school on foot.

Parents of kids in Spanish-immersion daycare (there are a LOT of these daycares here!) are keeping their kids home so the teachers don’t have to take the risk of coming to work.

Churches and community groups are holding fundraisers to buy and deliver groceries to families who don’t feel safe leaving home.

Mutual aid money is going out to folks who can’t make rent because they can’t work or because a breadwinner was abducted, or who need a warm place to stay after their home’s windows were smashed. THAT is what is happening here. This fight is ongoing and it’s horrifying to watch. But we are not backing down. To my friends in other cities and states, don’t think for a minute that this won’t happen in your town. It will. Be ready. Learn from us, as we have learned from Portland and Chicago and New York. Fight back. Don’t let us get to the last line of Martin Niemoller’s poem.” -Grant Boulanger

[bloodmoonlich]

Here's an AP news brief with a little more info. It's limited in the way major news outlets are right now but provides context that supports the personal account shared.

[justsomeguycore]

knock knock

[dismembered-jackalope]

who's there

[justsomeguycore]

deez

[dismembered-jackalope]

sigh

deez who ?

[justsomeguycore]

deez are the voyages of the starship enterprise

[grogumybrogu]

This is SO amazing. That right-wing chud showed up with LESS THAN A DOZEN PEOPLE for his anti-Islam march, and HUNDREDS of us Minnesotans literally chased him off blaring Let It Go from Frozen.

I don’t think I could ever be prouder of us.

https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=696bdf1450d0c60001154550&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky