Reminder that Steve Buscemi, National Treasure, used to be a firefighter, and when 9-11 happened, he pulled 12 hour volunteer shifts with his old ladder. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta... In case you want to know the first thing I remember about him. :)

Armies wear uniforms for a reason. And not just because it makes the laundry easier. I am reminded of certain lilac blossoms on a certain Glorious 25th of May. How do you tell your comrades from your potential murderers? A carrot, a leek, a lilac sprig, a red knitted hat, a frog costume. Duh.

Counterpoint: no serious person in the Twin Cities is worried about any meaningful amount of "destruction" by observers/protestors. Get real.

Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt is running for reelection this year and you can contact her campaign directly to tell her it’s not that tricky, actually: we do not negotiate with terrorists ([email protected])

There were 200 ICE agents in Chicago this summer. My friend from Portland said, “I think there were maybe hundreds.” We still have 2,000.

YES. Observers have spent too much time worrying about anonymity and secrecy in an effort to avoid after-the-fact consequences. But those consequences are extremely unlikely - first, you’re doing nothing illegal, and second, they literally don’t have the legal manpower to prosecute almost anyone.

Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.

ICE is very active right now including indiscriminately stopping people on 37th & Central. There’s also ICE vehicles active in Holland, Como, and St Anthony East neighborhoods all at the same time as of 12 PM here on Saturday. Spend your weekend outside and help protect your neighbors.

This is an excellent article on the different forms of resistance in Minnesota right now.

Everyone who runs for office anywhere in Minnesota for the next decade should be asked, “What did you, personally, do fight ICE and protect your neighbors?”

In one of our signal chats, a neighbor calls these “fuckaroundabouts”

TWIN CITIES Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action. No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group. Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest." acatusa.com

We’ve seen lots of reports of legal observers being arrested in North Minneapolis, South Minneapolis, and Eden Prairie. Exercising your first amendment right to observe is not a crime. This is exactly why congress can’t give another penny to DHS.

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

Quick reminder everything they say is a fucking lie. We are facing a major healthcare crisis due to the occupation. Pregnant people are regularly missing care & do face an impossible choices. Occupying agents ABSOLUTELY enter hospitals for enforcement purposes and have since they arrived.

A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”

“The Lake Street Council estimated that the corridor’s more than 1,000 immigrant-owned businesses lost a cumulative $46 million in December and January.” 1/ www.startribune.com/ice-economic...

This is every bit as good as you would hope it would be. Absolutely delightful.

My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.

I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Of course this yes, but if you want to see part of why we have been fighting back, come specifically for the State Fair

Making the rounds this week among Christian progressives: new poem by Rob Hardy, poet laureate, Northfield, MN. Yes, the protests and all the work being done to throw sand in the gears and provide aid to those at home and being released from Whipple are a kind of liturgy — “work of the people.” ⚓️

The two children who returned to MN today say they saw one of their Valley View schoolmates at a detention center in TX. This is a child whose family was last in contact with the school on January 9. No one has known where they were until now.

A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me and raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over and over again — this is too important to sit down and shut up and not do anything.”

If you are out observing or rapid responding to ICE today, let them know that they’ve lost. Remind them that they’ve failed and they should go home and call a lawyer.

Celebrate the wins for real, but don’t get soft-headed about them. As long as ICE has enough assholes to loiter at random school bus stops and parking lots, traumatized families have to hide & the economic siege will keep grinding.

*Taps the sign* www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwP-...

SHOP LOCAL: If you’ve ever had a hankering for a burrito, hesitated to try Hmong food or thought about ordering a piñata, now is the time. Some surveys show 44% of immigrant-owned businesses have at least temporarily closed, and 9% are looking at “exit strategies.” www.twincities.com/2026/02/04/c...

Axios had a story today about how hard Minnesota’s economy is being hit and how slow the recovery could be. So, I’m going to take this opportunity to say that if you want to support the Twin Cities, you should plan a visit for this summer, spend some money here, & see how amazing it is for yourself.

NY Times with searing look at the trauma ICE is inflicting on local children and families: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u... (gift link)

If my caucus is any indication, Democrats in the cities currently occupied by ICE want the whole damn thing abolished actually.

My tiny, rural, almost all white #DFL caucus mentioned the Nuremberg Trials several times.

My eyeball count was 150ish people from our precinct. I'm bad at estimating, so nobody should hold me to that, but it was a LOT.

Horrifying beyond words.

Evergreen and for the whole country. If this ends before they get to your town, you’ll have some meals prepped and you will have made some friends. You cannot lose.

I am constantly reminded that it is also really brave to receive help in these difficult moments. To be a vulnerable person, living in a society that very clearly wants to harm you, and to trust your family’s survival to strangers or people you hardly know is also really difficult.

Some recent Minnesota newspaper front pages

If random masked men are setting fires in your community, I think you should feel free to film them. Especially if dozens of other people and several national news crews are filming them. They are not "allies," they're arsonists. Grow up.

This is going to be the summer of front yards. We already have our lawn chairs ready to go. Come spring we'll just be out there with the grill every night. It'll be a daily block party. Come join us!

I found out today that one of the largest firms in the state has >10% of their attorneys working basically full time on habeas petitions. If you aren't in the legal industry, that's basically unprecedented. And our bar is still in the early stages of mobilizing. The full efforts have yet to begin.

they shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti and 1 out of every 10 Twin Cities residents volunteered to take their place

The number of detainees getting put on ICE flights at MSP has been relatively low the last few days. I believe this is not on account of ICE pulling back - they still outnumber local police in many towns - but on account of vulnerable people staying home, observer pressure, and lawyer organization.

Massive. All my homies hate ICE

Just a heads up if you're in the northern metro around Columbia heights be very careful. It looks like the feds are punishing the city for the audacity of having a child returned. I've seen more ice agents in the last 15 minutes than Ive seen all last week

"Do you have any advice you want to offer the rest of America for what we can do when our turn comes around?" "Yeah, be like Minnesotans. Just be strong, be supportive, and hang in there. People will help support you." #ComicSky #Comicbooks

They also take a lot of pride in menacing school patrols. Parents who are outside in hi-viz vests are seen as ideological opponents. If they see patrols, they circle the schools. They also often conspicuously photograph parents to try and intimidate them in the same way they do rapid responders.

Last night we took the 3-year old to Dilla (Ethiopian). We ordered her chicken nuggets (which we were very grateful they had! 3-year olds are hard to feed), but after a hesitant taste of mine, she decided she loved the injera so much that if I held a piece in my hand for 10 seconds, she stole it.