I spoke to a friend on the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota board. They need financial donations to keep up with the heightened demand for their services: www.ilcm.org ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND

MN does have a cold weather rule for utilities, learn more about requesting payment plans to keep the heat on.

A very serious case–soon we'll all know the name of Alberto Castaneda Mondragon who it is reported had his head slammed into a brick wall while in handcuffs. His lawyers call his injury "catastrophic." He's been almost non communicative and is now sedated. Yet ICE hovers, even shackling his legs.

I wouldn’t even fuck with code words honestly. Don’t do crimes with people you don’t know and trust and don’t talk about things in public settings you don’t want other people to hear

there are a bunch of big names on this list, including multiple beard award winners, and some places i never would have guessed in a hundred years (the malt shop?!) and i'm genuinely floored and delighted to see so many participants bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

My fellow dehydrated noodles, This is your regular reminder that "good enough" exists. Fill the dishwasher halfway and run it. Especially if that way you have energy to unload it. Reward yourself with a beverage and take a sip. We gotta hydrate and keep going.

I am a multigenerational Minnesotan who has always known my family's immigration history. My grandfather came from Croatia, my grandmother's parents were still recent immigrants when she and her siblings were born. My Irish great-grandfather brought many of his family to St. Paul.

The most important thing I've read today.

People keep asking what it's like living in Minneapolis right now. The best description I can think of is this: imagine any dystopian movie or book, except the resistance all have day jobs, snow to shovel and kids in sports.

hennepin county sheriff’s office ramped up their work helping ICE even as dawanna witt announces her campaign kickoff. reports from whipple say they are acting as crowd control they’ve created a barrier and ICE are barely guarding the gates now because HCSO are doing it for them. this frees up ICE

I'm doing the design keynote at #axecon 2026! I'll be refuting – err I mean, discussing how accessibility isn’t something generative interfaces or AI will fix. The event is free/online and folks can register here: www.deque.com/axe-con/regi.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BqQ...

Hey you! Yeah you! You may have forgotten to cash a check years ago and have unclaimed property. mn.gov/commerce/mon... If you live/lived in another state, just look up that state and "unclaimed property".

Hi we're abstaining because it sucks ass, hope that helps

another non local news agency claiming ICE are just attacking minneapolis when it’s practically the whole state by now stop reading these, stop sharing these, they’re obscuring the full scope of the horrors here by pretending it’s just one city because they get more clicks naming minneapolis only

Very much this. Gotta help each other out. I'm willing to cut people in Minnesota fighting ICE a ton of slack right now. Allll the slack. (& I hope others will too.) And folks who aren't here that mean well & actually listen, that's cool too. We tell you something is not right, listen to us.

I feel this is an appropriate moment to mention something astounding that happened in the foothills of the French Alps during World War II -> in Nazi-controlled Vichy France, a small town banded together, under a Christian pastor, to harbor & save -even though the SS knew about it- 1000s of Jews...

Jeremy Keith found a `<datalist>` bug in iOS 26: adactio.com/journal/22360 I confirmed it affects iPadOS 26.2: bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi... It sucks `<datalist>` is still not ready for wide use. This is one more blocker. Updated: adrianroselli.com/2023/06/unde... #HTML #accessibility #Safari

One of the first things anyone learns about facial recognition is that it is often wrong and that it is biased. And yet ICE is using it all day every day to determine legal status & who to detain. And now we have a high-profile example of it being flat out wrong: www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

Hey Minnesota, It's well after 11 p.m. somehow. You had an evening meal, right? Have you taken all the meds you should've taken by now? Have you been drinking enough water? Take some deep breaths. Listen to a song you like. Hang in there. ❤️

Thank you so much. Save your spoons. I added alt text.

Stingrays do not have Bluetooth attack capability. Period. That is not a thing. They do not work like that. If you get a security alert that looks like a chain letter that tells you this, you should take it about as seriously as any other chain letter you receive, which is to say not at all

The City of Minneapolis has designs for signs and stickers that you can download.

FINALLY I GOT TO SEE THE AURORA!!! It wasn't *quite* as bright as the phone camera suggests - but it was all visible to the naked eye. Hamburg, Germany.

So here's the deal. We're gonna close in protest of federal occupation on Friday. If you want to buy a drink for the local queer soccer bar and some Minnesotans who are fighting ICE everyday, we've started a tab for Thursday and Saturday night. www.blackhartstp.com/new-products...

With the last letter (candle holding), he literally says “As Michael Collins said about the Irish and their fight against British occupation, our weapon is our refusal.” How can you invoke Irish history and know so little?! (See next post)

former ward 7 council member katie cashman sent an email amplifying ways to get trained to observe ICE and be informed, a list of fundraisers to contribute to, and more actions like attending DFL caucuses on 2/3, adding that she’d be supporting peggy flanagan for US senate

In Minnesota, Democrats are unraveling our disability services system by imposing AI-driven payment waiting periods so that small businesses can't keep providing services to disabled Minnesotans. Currently it's non-emergency medical transport that's collapsing. All in the name of fighting fraud.

Of course I'm sick today. Don't mind me, I'm just staying on my couch, watching movies, and flipping the blanket off and on as I switch between being too hot and cold.

How cold is it in Minneapolis today? If you use C instead of F, it might be much colder here than you think. (Wind makes the "feels like" temp even lower.) I just donated to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social & I encourage you to donate there and at www.standwithminnesota.com to help against ICE and ice.

i cannot possibly recommend strongly enough starting with Letter from a Birmingham Jail. www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...

I was pleased when I saw Lydia Polgreen would be covering this. Grateful for this piece (and her work).

People have been asking if there's a resolution floating around for the abolition of ICE. I wrote up some wording that people can use to take to their caucuses and added it to the page describing how to fill out the Resolution form: www.abetterdfl.org/resolution

In case you didn't get the message when the public gave him three quarters of a million dollars in *less than two weeks* as a reward (I checked and 302 people JUST donated, a tally GFM keeps in 24h increments):

Well I guess that’s it for Clinique and MAC for me. Anyone know a good dupe for All About Eyes cream? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Doubletree and the Intercontinental in downtown St Paul are closing temporarily. TIL they’re owned by the Mille Lacs band of Ojibwe. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/h... And also, TIL, this. ⤵️

This has been the conflict with the DFL for *ages*. It's the donor base v. the volunteer base. Volunteers are largely working class people who don't have funds to toss around, but we're the ones shouldering the workload in getting out the vote and ensuring party business happens smoothly.

The degree to which Allina is doing ICE's work for them is really upsetting.

Things continue. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

In interviews, nurses and doctors in the Twin Cities said federal agents have broken hospital protocol, refused to provide warrants and gotten into shouting matches with staff. Some compared the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown to the coronavirus pandemic. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

Dress for the #Arctic with wool socks, baselayers, cover your face, head, hands, double up with liners under your mittens, handwarmers, footwarmers are a must if out longer than 15 minutes. Vaseline or Jojoba oil on your cheeks & ears good too. www.rei.com/learn/expert... #Minnesota #mnwx

ATTENTION. On Friday, January 23rd, we will be closed as part of the ICE OUT general strike opposing the federal occupation of Minnesota.

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

The best part about my Norwegian care package is that none of my family is around to be horrified at me eating a lefse wrapped around a vegan sausage with dill pickle mustard and kimchi. I'm also drinking non alcoholic beer. It is all the right things done wrong (to them).

Some additional notes: * The cold will make your phone battery go dead much faster than it normally would. Plan accordingly. This is also true of electric car batteries. * Really intense cold will impair you. Like, you will have trouble thinking. Your body will get stiff from the cold.

This entire thread but especially this bit about boots. When it gets cold cold, I pull out my ancient Sorel's my uncles bought for me in the 90s to go ice fishing. Fashion boots don't cut it here, you want something hardy that you can dry out.

Tonight is a laundry, knitting, and watching John Wick 2 kinda night. I'm working on this hat. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

There's a guide I read at some point for writers about how to not use this shit, and one of the points it makes is that you can just use a word that describes the ACTUAL behavior. The actual description of what they do is never the developmental slur that you want to use.

st. paul vegan restaurant j selby’s will be closed on friday, jan 23 for the anti-ICE strike planned for that day