Wandering Adventure Party

@MeerderWoerter @artemis

They're giving thugs a bad name.

@catsalad @Em0nM4stodon

Come for the cats, stay for the people.

@VoxOfGod @artemis

A frontal assault would be mass suicide. Maybe *that* would woke some people up. As it is, most Americans are more interested in sports, celebrities, and the weather. As an American, I'm deeply embarrassed.

@catsalad @Em0nM4stodon

Me, too.

@artemis

#ICE #Minnesota #history

"Fort Snelling was a concentration camp used by the United States during the Dakota Indian Wars to imprison thousands of Dakota and Ho-Chunk people in abysmal conditions.

In early 2026, the Bishop Henry Whipple Building, located in Fort Snelling, Minnesota, emerged as a major center for immigration enforcement detainment processing, but the site has a much longer and more complex history.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration Enforcement Control programs have long used the Whipple building as a headquarters for its operations in the Twin Cities.

In 2019 local residents first raised awareness over concerns regarding its use for detainment.

As historic immigration raids emerged in the city in early 2026, the building has once again become a center for the processing of detained immigrants and in at least two confirmed cases, detained Indigenous people."

Former Native American concentration camp lies beneath current immigration detention center - ICT

Fort Snelling, the site of a Dakota War era concentration camp, is once again being used to detain Indigenous people

ICT (ictnews.org)

#ICE #Chicago #parenting #trama

"The 2-year-old boy was so frightened, he stuttered.

'Mommy, mommy, mommy,' he repeated, clinging to her.

His mother, Molly Kucich, had been grocery shopping when her husband called, panicking. She heard 'immigration raid.' Then: 'tear gas.'

She abandoned her grocery cart and drove as fast as she could to her toddler and his 14-month-old brother, who, on that warm October Friday, were among the hundreds of Chicago children caught suddenly in the turmoil of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Parents, teachers and caregivers have been grappling ever since with how to explain to children what they’d seen: how much to tell them so they know enough to stay safe, but not too much to rob them of their childhood. A toddler shouldn’t know what a tear gas canister is, Kucich said.

'I don’t know how to explain this to my kids.' Chicago’s children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns

The SUV eventually drove away, the cloud of smoke cleared, and parents arrived. 'What’s happening?' a girl cried, over and over.

Kucich’s son, who is white, now worries about his nanny, a U.S. citizen from Guatemala. He asks where she is and when she’s coming. He jumps at the sound of sirens. His mother called their pediatrician for a therapist referral.

Andrea Soria, whose daughter plays at Luna y Cielo, overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us,'referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement."

https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-10-30-2025
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-immigration-trump-crackdown-school-children-c9a19835cac13c0fbbebcc9f4bf4f0a2

@stux

(1.) That's not only foolish and counter-productive, but it makes you sound like a narrow minded bigot. We need as many warm bodies as we can turn out at *every* demo. Politics is numbers. You *need* us.

(2.) With talk like that you're alienating potential allies. Is that what you intend? I'm a gun owner. I'm not a "nut". I resent being slandered. We all do. Do you really want *me* to not go to demos? Think before you answer.

Maybe read this first:

Levka (@LevZadov@kolektiva.social)

My partner, "Herself", and I went to the "NoKings" rally yesterday. It was glorious. It was exhausting. She's two weeks shy of 80. I'm 76. I had a stroke three years ago that damaged my balance, and I gave a game knee from a hit and run 50 years ago, so I walk with some difficulty. But of all the things we could do against fascism, it beat living hell out of getting shot at and bombed. We dragged ourselves home, ate leftovers and zoned out on a Valkyries game. We were sound asleep by 9:30 PM. She was still asleep an 9:00 AM. Now that it's morning I felt ready to resume my traditional doom scrolling. So I did, but what to my wondering eyes should appear but thousands of other "NoKings" rallies. Damn, but there's a *lot* of us. We heavily outnumber the #MAGAts. Heavily. We *are* going to win. "They got the guns but we got the numbers" -- The Doors, 1968 We have guns, too, but after seeing how many of us we are, I think we'll not have to use them. This brings joy to my heart. I shooting war here would every bit as ugly as a shooting war anywhere, probably worse because here we have "a rifle behind every blade of grass". I had begun to doubt, but it turns out that it's not going to be necessary. We may need to stage a #GeneralStrike, but we're not going to have to kill each other, just down tools and put our hands in our pockets, and walk out the door. "The capitalist has no heart, but harpoon him in the pocketbook and you will draw blood." -- Big Bill Haywood.

kolektiva.social (kolektiva.social)

(3.) Disabled elder here. The troubles that come from gun culture are *far* outweighed by the benefits. Guns make us equal. Without guns, the old, the weak, the small and the disabled are at the mercy of the the young, the strong, the big and the able-bodied.

(4.) "Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other." -- George Orwell

(5.) See also:

How Nonviolence Protects the State

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Goodreads (www.goodreads.com)