THREAD: Fucking bitches unite

The assholes are losing. Here is a list of ways to help brave Minnesotans.

Jan 26, 2026

Friends, my attention is frayed today, as I’m sure yours is too, but every time I look at an image of the fierce Minnesotans out there protecting their neighbors, I am moved to tears. I had a thought this weekend, despite the brutal violence, despite how we have all become public death analysts, despite having to explain to my children why the state keeps killing people, that for the first time in a long time, I was scrolling social media and feeling not just hope, but pride, unity, awe, a sense of goodness.

For many, watching the state execute another person over the weekend—a white man, a veteran, a gun owner, an essential worker—will be an inflection point. For Minnesotans, this has been a long, slow build. What they are doing right now is what so many of us have longed for, and perhaps thought was impossible, for years. It’s a testament to community organizing and local activism. We owe them the world.

Whether you’re mad, sad, totally dysregulated, or all of the above, let’s support them. Below is a list of ways to help those on the ground in MN. Comments are also open to all, until/unless that gets unmanageable with drive-by assholes. Please share actions big and small, places to donate, helpful thoughts about the current moment, good stuff to read or listen to, ways to stay sane, whatever you got for us— as long as, again, it’s not assholery or pro-ICE rhetoric, in which case, you’ll be blocked, byeeeee.

DO/DONATE/BUY/DON’T BUY

Call your senators

Donate to help people pay rent

Donate gas cards and prepaid phones to help those detained at Whipple/those helping

Huge list of places to donate

Again, calling is free

Abolish ICE shirts

Boycott or join a pressure campaign

General strike this Friday January 30!

Tell GoFundMe to stop supporting state terror

Find a local org or group to connect with if you have not already— some places to start: SURJ (offering a training tomorrow on how to prepare for ICE presence in your town), DSA, local food banks, your neighbors

Like this post to support donations, sponsored by some of my amazing friends and colleagues

Rental assistance

Go to a local protest. Look for actions outside your immigration court. Bring kids if it’s safe and have them make signs beforehand, as you talk through what’s going on, and how many people care, and want a different world. A friend of mine always brings a bucket of chalk for the kids, too, so they can fill the sidewalk with whatever they want to say, and connect with other kids.