@dawsonbarrett
Historian // author of THE DEFIANT (post ‘60s US politics/protest) and TEENAGE REBELS (teen activism history, for teens) & co-author of PUNKS IN PEORIA (DIY in a small town) // "Picking up where Zinn left off..." (trying anyway!) // dawsonbarrett.com
This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting.
NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE agents tried to quietly get Mexican food in Minneapolis, local neighbors and protesters found out and shamed then out of the neighborhood!
A man dressed as Batman attended a Santa Clara city council meeting in California, urging officials to stop cooperating with ICE, as immigration enforcement faces growing public backlash.
People at the Prairieland ICE Concentration Camp, located outside Dallas, Texas, are enduring freezing temperatures as the ICE refuses to activate the facilities’ heating systems. The temperature outside is a bone-chilling 13°F (8°F with wind chill), and the situation has persisted since 1/26/6
The actor, Edward Norton, calls for a General Strike!
"What they are doing in Minnesota with the strike needs to expand. We should be talking about a national General and Economic Strike."
Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
There isn‘t enough camo gear in the world to hide how shameful this is.
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
It goes without saying that in the US you’re not supposed to have a masked secret police that snatches people off the streets without knowing if they’ve committed a crime. That’s about as basic a requirement for a democracy as exists.
My new favorite band
"To ask the internet for knowledge and receive a series of articles that mostly remind you what your question was, then repeat the same three facts you already knew, padded out with more ad space than information."
That’s like 80 full grown hippos. Politics aside, can agree that you gotta have a good argument to pardon someone who was trying to smuggle 80 hippos?
Cover of Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century, by Beth Robinson. The cover features an pink and blue-tinted image of women marching in protest, holding signs. The title appears across the top of the cover and the author's name in the bottom right-hand corner. The subtitle is set in smaller text between two protest signs, as if itself a sign.
Save 30% on "Sweatshop Capital" by @bethdrobinson.bsky.social, which examines the labor practices that produced American consumer products from the late nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries, as well as the labor and social movements that contested them. #Labor buff.ly/slifuV3
The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
Cover of Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century, by Beth Robinson. The cover features an pink and blue-tinted image of women marching in protest, holding signs. The title appears across the top of the cover and the author's name in the bottom right-hand corner. The subtitle is set in smaller text between two protest signs, as if itself a sign.
In "Sweatshop Capital," @bethdrobinson.bsky.social examines the sweatshop labor practices that produced American consumer products from the late nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries, and the labor and social movements that contested them. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/Zr3tNKK
White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
Shameful.
Universities are moving rapidly to comply with laws that don't exist.
A masked ICE agent sprayed David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois.
Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.
I also gave them assignment instructions in the form of a zine!
I have! I had students first write a short paper (based on primary sources) about a local history topic (a strike, protest, etc.). Then, they made a zine based on that paper. My tip: give class time, show examples, give 5 minute lesson on zines and underground media.
