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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 02:25:52 JST Paul Cantrell

   This morning in Minneapolis:

   Somebody posted in one of the local chats that their neighbor didn’t come home last night, looking for help finding them. Family doesn’t know where they are. They’d been taking the legal path to seek asylum. ICE doesn’t have their name (but that means very little; they hide names, kidnap anonymously, even discard people’s IDs).

   Meanwhile, confirmed ICE sightings are ramping up in my area now after some relative early morning quiet.

   Just in case you wondered how things are going here.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 02:31:55 JST Paul Cantrell

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     If something is “de-escalated” in Minneapolis, nobody here can tell.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 02:42:05 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Meanwhile, Schumer’s much-touted list of demands is (oh, shocker) pathetic weak sauce: “a prohibition on [ICE] wearing masks, the imposition of a code of conduct and independent investigations of violations.”

     …which, like…

     (1) Sure, that would be nice — insufficient, but nice

     (2) DHS already ignore the very clear laws that are on the books; why on earth do you think it would help to have more rules for them to ignore?

     (3) ICE+CBP right now are basically the KKK except with a budget the size of Russia’s military. Decimate that budget or GTFO.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 02:43:38 JST Paul Cantrell

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     This headline is a correct headline.

     https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/minneapolis-ice-raids-trump-dispatch

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 02:46:24 JST Paul Cantrell

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     If you are a US voter, your Senator could perhaps stand to hear — again — that Schumer’s list is insufficient and abolishing ICE now has majority support.

     Very soon the electoral stuff will become completely useless again, but for a hot minute here, until this budget fight ends and Schumer caves, those calls do help.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 02:49:18 JST Paul Cantrell

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     It just pisses me off as I keep re-remembering every 5 minutes that Schumer’s sad little list of demands were the negotiation •starting• position that’s going to get watered down.

     I’m getting offline for a bit here. Bah.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 05:26:59 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Artemis

     That’s right. We didn’t say “de-escalate ICE.” We didn’t “supervise ICE.” We didn’t say “give ICE more rules to ignore.”

     We said ICE OUT.

     I •know• the world heard us. Now you all can help by •telling• people in power that you heard us. Because they think you didn’t.

     From @artemis:
     https://dice.camp/@artemis/115979983553293054

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     draNgNon (drangnon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 07:12:45 JST draNgNon

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     • Artemis

     @inthehands @artemis

     I dropped a line to them this morning it was pretty short, something like: just a reminder as a constituent of my prior communication to you of no funding for DHS still holds, it needs to be dismantled and any necessary government services put in different departments.

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     Feznander (feznander@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 09:20:58 JST Feznander

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     @inthehands yeah, same in St. Paul. Yesterday I was in a meeting about ICE defense at work, and one of the attendees was monitoring the situation via Signal as agents surrounded the home of their child's preschool teacher. Monday evening I was sitting on door guard duty at my kid's sports practice as the RRs reported three neighbors abducted a couple blocks away.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 09:22:55 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Feznander

     @feznander
     *shudder*

     I guess all the de-escalation must be happening in Maplewood or Columbia Heights or something

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 09:39:36 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Feznander

     @feznander
     And we know that can’t be possible

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     Feznander (feznander@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 09:39:37 JST Feznander

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     @inthehands I hope so, because otherwise it's fully imaginary

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     Michael Busch (michael_w_busch@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 12:02:11 JST Michael Busch

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     • Feznander

     @feznander @inthehands

     I am informed that Saint Paul Public Schools is planning temporary remote instruction in three-week long blocks.

     Because nobody thinks that things have suddenly gotten better.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 12:26:10 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • SouprMatt

     @mls14
     I have zero expectation that this would happen, but wouldn’t that be beautiful

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     SouprMatt (mls14@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 12:26:11 JST SouprMatt

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     @inthehands The deal to fund the government for the year and DHS for only 2 weeks could be genius.

     They could literally just walk away from this after the government re-opens and let DHS go unfunded indefinitely.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 12:30:38 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Michael Busch
     • Feznander

     @michael_w_busch @feznander

     Minneapolis has also been offering a remote options for a while now. It’s incredibly hard on everyone — teachers, and the kids and families who opt in — but it’s just not safe for a lot of families.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 13:18:11 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Deb Nam-Krane

     @dnkboston
     The only people I’m aware of who thought that are US senators

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     Deb Nam-Krane (dnkboston@apobangpo.space)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 13:18:12 JST Deb Nam-Krane

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     @inthehands Jesus, I'm sorry. For what it's worth, nobody I know thought anything was de-escalated anywhere.