DOJ solving a shortage of competent attorneys by tapping non-competent true believers and flinging them around the country to wherever ICE is terrorizing this week is not going to be welcomed by lower court judges who expect gov attorneys to be familiar with the rules of that particular district

Several cars followed officers through south Minneapolis after there were reports of them knocking at homes. Officers stopped their vehicles and ordered activists to come out of a car at gunpoint. Agents told reporters at the scene to stay back and threatened to use pepper spray. (Associated Press)

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

The list of products is long and so random. And all in Minneapolis. Just what the people on the frontlines of the fight for the country need right now. I blame Walking Bologna Tom Holman.

And the admin’s plan for addressing this problem is only going to make it worse:

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

Is ICE leading us into a constitutional crisis? Isaac Chotiner spoke with the law professor Ryan Goodman, who has been cataloguing the Trump Administration’s defiance of court orders since the start of the President’s second term. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_97ltB

Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.

So over on FB @chunkletindustries.bsky.social talked about his Spacemen 3 obsession (rightly) and shared a very clean sounding tape of them in Kassel, Germany, 1989. Enjoy. Attn. @quartzcity.bsky.social and @highway62.bsky.social and @catbus.phd and etc. fromsmash.com/WsrnG.i30j-ft

Bovino needs to go. Noem needs to go. Miller needs to go. But firing or impeaching any of these people will not unilaterally change what’s happening in Minnesota. That’s why Congress needs to exert some muscle over DHS/ICE funding.

i spoke to columbia journalism review about being an independent journalist right now, the influx of streamers in minneapolis and press using these community defense networks as their sources or even leaking directly from them, which i find to be really unethical behavior

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

A huge group of local musicians have released a new benefit compilation for Minnesota. Buy it, help a great cause, and get some new tunes in the bargain. Please share so we can help them raise some $$$! #MusicSky #Music #MetalSky canmn.bandcamp.com/album/music-...

Literal enemies of the state

Every day I wake up and wonder if this is the day they're coming to my neighborhood #MillDistrict #DowntownEast #fuckICE

ICE can’t get judicial warrants not because the process is complicated, they don’t have probable cause. They could not swear it in an oath. It is that fucking simple and any reporting on statements from them should say so.

Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever. Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."

The Kickstarter has exceeded their goal by so much, it appears they actually have the funds to go ahead and build Servo's Tank Rambo idea. Hopefully used to keep the people of Minnesota safe.

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

signal down. minneapolis in shambles

Local investigators have not been given access to federal investigative materials since Good was killed on Jan. 7.

There‘s a ton of good work being done in the local private legal community. And while I’m sure there are exceptions, management has been extremely supportive and line lawyers are jumping in with both feet.

When this is all over, Whipple should be torn down and turned into a memorial park in honor of all the atrocities committed on that land. (Not least of which the horrors perpetrated on the indigenous peoples.)

I got a few ICE OUT pins up if anyone is looking to add to their collections or get some for friends/family! Grab 'em here: fedupstudio.etsy.com

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

This is AMAZING. no wonder the oligarchs are terrified.

Yup. And all of fort snelling and while we’re at it land back

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🧵 No. This is nothing. ICE out. Abolish ICE. Several officers at the scene of Alex Pretti's murder had cameras. Noem and the administration still lied and we've never seen the footage. 1/5

sundarsubramanianmusic.com/2026/02/02/m... #tuning #tuningtheory #xenharmonic #microtonality #justintonation

This is ominous.

No exercise, stay inside as much as you can: I mean, I'm an introvert who likes to be cozy, so there's a part of me that wants to celebrate this advice from my doctor. But not right now. Fuck ICE. And fuck everybody involved in allowing tear gas to be used on civilians ever.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

twin cities drum collective protest against ICE on nicollet mall in downtown minneapolis. drummer in front of the mary tyler moore statue has a trans rights flag and the other drums say “PRINCE WOULD BE PISSED” and “ICE OUT”

man walking down the street: “they’re on every corner!” another man is dancing in the middle of nicollet mall in between buses at 8th st downtown activated by twin cities drum collective protest against ICE

With words echoed by Tom Morello on Friday at First Avenue, a banner on a fence reads "BROTHERS & SISTERS IT'S FUCKING FASCISM". Minneapolis February 2, 2026

Also, @ziibiing.com has updated the standwithminnesota.com site to facilitate donating your unused Delta Skymiles to bringing people home after they’ve been kidnapped and dumped out of state

Pizza Luce comes through for our neighbors! 🍕❤️

"I won MN three times but I got no credit for it" is just batshit crazy dementia talk. He genuinely thinks he kept winning and "they" just kept stealing it from him. It's like he thinks squirrels stole his glasses, or the wind is saying mean things about him. This can't go on much longer.

@onezero.bsky.social Happy birthday!

Probably a day to promote this research from David Cortez. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Very important thread by the always smart John Pfaff.

This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I haven’t used former Minneapolis mayoral candidate Jazz Hampton’s TurnSignl app, but they added functionality to connect people to immigration lawyers. (The app was originally developed post-George Floyd to connect folks with civil/criminal lawyers.) jazzhampton.substack.com/p/we-just-la...

My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

The reality is and one that many American academics and experts are unwilling to utter is that these are death camps and just because the ash isn’t falling from the ovens yet doesn’t change that reality.