Brother has heard reports that ICE agents in Minneapolis have started drawing guns on random cars driving by, whether they are observers or just...people in cars going about their day.

His face is *definitely* in their database by now, because they record everyone, but I have no particular reason to think Apollo would be singled out. He has been more involved in the "helping people" side of things & less the stuff that would make it likely for them to want to terrorize or injure him, unlike some other people who have been targets of harassment & violence.

But what slim comfort that is! Oh good, if he gets hurt it will be a random act of violence instead of a premeditated one!

Hey, let's all promise each other right now that no matter what, we will not just settle down & accept these concentration camps.

I've got a couple facets of my identity that could make me a target myself before long, so I won't be forgetting about them, but collectively let's agree that this will never be something we quietly accept or choose to ignore.

It's fucking obscene what's happening right now, what ICE is getting away with. It's terrorism.

The other day, Apollo went & spoke to some people who had been recently released from detention in the Whipple Building, & it's abuse & torture happening in there.

I mean, once we've gotten through some of this bullshit, we're going to need to talk about prison abolition & restorative justice, because, y'all, prisons are all torture. It's not fucking okay.

But let's start with putting our foot down against the concentration camps.

It feels so fucking melodramatic to be like "oh, the fascists may soon be throwing people like me in death camps". It's really annoying that this is NOT melodrama but real life.

Given what's happening now, I do actually have reason to be quite concerned.

But again, it feels silly almost. I think that feeling of absurdity is one of the weapons of the enemy. It's hard to accept dire situations because we are accustomed to thinking "it could be worse".

And of course, if people think we're being "overly dramatic" about things now, a lot of them would keep saying that to us *while we're being dragged away to a concentration camp by government thugs*.

It's a pretense, a cover. It's not normal. Nothing is normal. Now is a good time to be *appropriately dramatic* about real things that are really happening right now.

"First they came for..." etc.

Don't let anyone tell you this is normal or fine. Don't let anyone gaslight you. They're torturing detainees *right now*.

It feels so fucking melodramatic to be like "oh, the fascists may soon be throwing people like me in death camps". It's really annoying that this is NOT melodrama but real life.

Given what's happening now, I do actually have reason to be quite concerned.

But again, it feels silly almost. I think that feeling of absurdity is one of the weapons of the enemy. It's hard to accept dire situations because we are accustomed to thinking "it could be worse".

Sure, I have specific fears for my individual future, but the thing we've feared is happening *now*.

This is not a future prediction about what may happen "if we continue down this path."

They are dehumanizing, kidnapping, abusing, & killing people *now*. It's fucking happening.

Some ICE agents did wander around the alley behind his house recently. They walked right past his garage. Also walked across his lawn. Didn't seem to be a specific threat to him or anything but there are just groups of masked gunmen traipsing around through people's yards. Normal stuff.