i try to keep my tumblr blog free of political discussions and current events because i do that in other spaces offline. this is where i come to get my mind off of those things. but now i’m in a unique position where i am not just a random person whose opinions don’t make a drop in the ocean, but someone who can provide firsthand information to my mutuals and followers who don’t know what’s going on here.

so, if you don’t know already, i’m local to the twin cities. ICE is trying to make my hometown an example. but minnesotans pride ourselves on taking care of one another, and i have seen so many examples of that in action this past week and a half. there are supply drives in every city and suburb, grocery deliveries being organized for vulnerable families (i’ve signed up to participate in these but have yet to be assigned a delivery), schools are organizing resources for their students, not to mention the people downtown putting themselves at risk to protest ICE directly. i can’t be one of those people. but my dad is down there every day putting himself in front of vulnerable people.

my dad took this video on january 14th, 2026 in st paul.

things are scary here. ICE agents have been spotted less than a mile from where i live trying to get into secure entry apartment buildings and take people from their homes. a teacher (a us citizen!!) in my town was taken from the parking lot of her school and detained for 12 hours for no determinable reason before being released without comment. i might be putting myself at risk by speaking about the details, but i think we need eyes on us from all over the country.

i love my home. i love my immigrant neighbors. we will not take this lying down.

the Ice War on Europa...

just remember, one day you're going to open tumblr and the crabs will be raving like they never have before

We will meet here again on that day. This is my sacred promise to you.

that’s not even all of them.

He was blessed with the gift of curiosity

wild watching the rest of the us talk about ice invading their state or city and how they're doing this or that and its terrifying that our nation has descended to this and this is the biggest or worst or lowest or whatever other superlative....

and they're just describing what daily life has been like in el paso for upwards of twenty years. but no one cared when it happened here, because it was happening to the people its "supposed" to happen to; mexican immigrants, many undocumented.

just feels. fucked. that this city has been under the boot of ice for so fucking long. and i have never once seen it mentioned or talked about or acknowledged. i'll bet you money the vast majority of ice's arrests are still undocumented mexicans in texas.

but no one talks about that, because thats what is "supposed" to happen, and everyone decided over a decade ago when mexican kids were being put in cages outside our town and that made national news, that they were fine with it.

~Impulse ^Vic

a big part of the reason we have the fear of cops we (me and my systemmates) have is from growing up with ice sweeping where we lived. sometimes neighbors would disappear and we'd be like "where did my friend beto go?" and someone would say he and his family didn't have papers, so they got taken. just disappeared, and there was nothing anyone could do about it.

under the biden administration we saw ice taking people just about every month. just pulling over trucks and arresting everyone inside. no one cared then.

all of the ice activities that have been making national and international news trace their origins back here. el paso sent ice agents to chicago. and i don't say this to downplay the horror, everything ice is doing is absolutely terrible, but we were on tumblr in 2009 trying to get people to care and the only ones who did were overwhelmingly other latine people and a handful of Black bloggers.

people here are just really thoroughly defeated and broken. there are still protests every now and then, and at least one small activist group, but nothing has anywhere near the energy or presence other places have because we as a city and as communities have been crushed for decades. people here don't expect things to get better, they haven't in twenty years.

-- tocaya

Y'all, I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota and as many of you have seen on the news, conditions are horrifying. ICE is kidnapping hundreds of our BIPOC and immigrant neighbors and thousands of agents are stalking and terrorizing our city.

If you don't live in Minnesota, here is a masterlist of ways to support our city and our state. ICE is escalating their presence throughout our state but Minneapolis has been the most visible target of Trump's ire.

Families are in hiding and can always use financial donations from afar.

"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:

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.

DO NOT CALL THE REGULAR POLICE.

they are not on your side.

Very explicitly, in the video, the regular police straight up lie to the couple, telling them they will go to jail for harboring a fugitive if they dont hand the doordasher over, and that it doesnt matter if ice has a warrant for her arrest. NEITHER OF THESE THINGS ARE TRUE. You CANNOT be harboring a fugitive if the person you are haboring doesnt have a warrant out for their arrest! The warrant is what makes them a fugitive!

If ice wants access to someone on your property, do NOT hand them over unless you are shown a warrant signed by a judge! Make as much noise as you can to attract bystanders - it was the fact that a crowd gathered and started yelling at them that made ice leave in the video. And DO NOT expect the regular police to help you - they are just another arm of the state and will only do or say whatever they think is necessary to make you comply.

And make sure you film everything so you have evidence of what really happened if ice tries to enter your property illegally.

A warrant signed by a judge is vital! They can issue their own administrative warrants but those do not carry the same weight as a judicial warrant.

An administrative warrant is a document signed by a civil agency administrator authorizing their own employees to act within their administrative power, such as detaining an individual in a public place or initiating civil proceedings.

A judicial warrant is a document signed by a (supposedly) neutral judge after law enforcement have presented evidence establishing probable cause. These documents authorize things like searches, arrests, and entry into private spaces.

Judicial warrants bind not only the person specifically named in the warrant, but also third parties who may stand in the way of its execution. Administrative warrants do not mandate third party compliance. Noncompliance with an administrative warrant--refusing to open the door, denying entrance to a private space, or otherwise asserting your rights--requires the issuing civic agency, like DHS, to then escalate through pathways like pursuing a judicial warrant.

This substack post gives a thorough breakdown of the difference between the two.

Posting on 1/13/2026

god I wish I had a pair of menacing black gauntlets with really sharp fingertip claws I bet it feels good as fuck to have your hands resting palm-down on a surface and then scratch some deep fucking gashes into it as you clench your hand a little closer to a fist when your evil minion delivers some bad news to you

ohhh fuck yeah, you understand

Is this what you dykes are into????

HUH???

Oh, no?

Sorry, is *this* what you dykes are into?

You mean like this?

Is this what you dykes are into??????????????????????????????

I am Mohammed, I live in Gaza, I am 14 years old , while I was in a tent made of cloth ⛺️💔

I still live in a tent until now, and in the midst of the intense heat, epidemics, insects, and unclean water, I still live. 🇵🇸

Transfeminism isnt niche internet discourse if the FBI is telling a transfeminist author to stop publishing

@bundleofstx !!!

Deadass people need to act on this

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rating ratings out of ten out of ten

0/10 - 2/10 overrated and overused. 1/10 - 7/10 strong indication of contempt, decisive. 2/10 - 6/10 slightly weaker statement than the above. less communicatively efficacious. 3/10 - 9/10 requires thought to interpret, negative but measured. 4/10 - 5/10 hard to distinguish from 5 or 6 but the commitment to negative affect is at least clarifying. 5/10 -5/10 its fine. 6/10 - 3/10 as above but like weakly positive, also beginning to veer into, 7/10 - 0/10 total significatory black hole. completely useless as an indication of any opinion whatsoever. 8/10 - 4/10 we are still emerging from the hole 7 blasted in discursivity. 9/10 - 9/10 great! 10/10 - 8/10 bit overused but nice to know a straightforward recommendation when you see one.