DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold. It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.

Kao Kalia Yang at @literaryhub.bsky.social - "If they take me and leave the children." One of our great local writers at this moment of crisis.

A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all. Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

AND we don’t just want them bringing this elsewhere. It’s not “get out of Minneapolis” it’s “get out of everywhere, get prosecuted for the crimes, and then we salt whatever ground made this happen don’t doesn’t happen again to anyone anywhere” Won’t fit on a poster but that’s the demand.

It better not stop here. Dems better not use this as an excuse to bury their heads in the sand. ICE still needs to be abolished no matter who at the top gets replaced

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

The Supreme Court forced schools to educate Black children. Education has always been political.

People aren't just being released out the door like this. Volunteers drive around and check the parks and areas around Whipple because ICE is just dumping people hoping no one sees

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc (GFM in next post) www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

a non comprehensive list of things MN are doing right now legal observing in a rapid response group legal observing because they happened to be in their community and came across ICE participating in or supporting rapid response groups safety patroling their schools, businesses, daycares 1/5

Asking people how they are and getting a vague, but generally positive response is a deeply ingrained script in MN. It's been striking to me the last few weeks how many people, whether a stranger or a friend, break that script with a sigh or other response that hints at struggle.

Not that we don’t protest too — we do — but Renee Good and Alex Pretti (and those who witnessed and documented their executions) were legally observing ICE kidnappings and alerting their neighbors to ICE presence. It’s not a protest, it’s a public service. It’s how we’re protecting our neighbors.

We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

I truly understand the pleas for ICE to leave Minnesota. But leaving MN to go terrorize other states isn’t what anyone wants. ICE/DHS is kidnapping and murdering people in the streets AND IN DETENTION CENTERS. Abolishing ICE - and holding its leaders & agents accountable- is the absolute minimum.

A migraine means I can't join the vigils tonight, but we've got a candle out for those who've experienced violence from ICE. Abolish ICE.

In 15 min if you’re snowed in on the east coast

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

In a lot of cases, what's happening now is even harder. During COVID lockdowns, even hybrid instruction was expected to be very different than typical school. Right now, most kids are at school doing business as usual while some in the same class are at home.

Reporters, if you wrote about learning loss due to covid school closures, you can write about learning loss due to state terror.

I've been known to keep my n95 on outside on cold days to keep my face a little warmer!

School district leaders tell MPR News that they have verified incidents in which children, parents and school staff members have been pulled into vehicles by masked agents or detained in other ways.

Jonathan Ross—the ICE fascist who killed Renee Good—is an 18-year ICE veteran, firearms instructor, & active shooter trainer. The people claiming "ICE needs more training" are missing the point. Ross's 2 DECADES of training IS what led him to execute Good. ICE Training IS the problem. Abolish ICE.

Incredibly helpful rundown from Aaron here about how ICE has been formally instructed to act outside the bounds of the constitution

You can't reform this. Abolish ICE.

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-...

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

ICE are nasty ass child kidnappers, like after school special style

The actions of federal agents in Minnesota absolutely deserve to be protested. But this thread is spot on that most of what we're doing is just trying to keep each other safe in the face of violence and illegal behavior from these agents.

The vast majority of what’s happening is communal self-defense. It’s not an about agitating or escalating. The whistles, the honking, the yelling — these are efforts by people to warn and protect their neighbors. 2/3

National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3

I needed the reminders in this thread today

What is there to say about this? "raising civil liberties concerns????"

It should be noted that Black folks, especially, have been yelling - from the rooftops - for years about the existence of the prerogative state. They warned us it would, eventually, come for us all. And too many of us, comfy in the normative state, did not listen well enough. And here we are.

So working as designed then.

This is impossible to miss. It especially breaks my heart when I'm in schools. Our hallways and classrooms look and sound different than they did at the start of December. Latine and Somali kids in particular have to choose between safety and education.

Lots of people correctly noting that star trib doesn’t need or deserve your money. Know MN news who DO? @sahanjournal.bsky.social @racketmn.com @wedge.live @minnesotareformer.com @mprnews.org

I just wanna say -- because it can't be said enough -- Renee Good's queerness is an enormous factor in the justification of her murder. It is as important as anything else about her. Anyone who is not in line with the program must be eliminated. That is the point.

A thing I'm fascinated by: a few times this year, different teachers have said someone from "the district" needs to show up and help with an issue. Usually, it falls in the scope of my job so I offer some ways I can help. They take my help, but also say "You aren't *really* the district."

For #OpenSciEd folks, any advice on supporting students out for extended periods? It's great when a kid is only gone a day or two since it spirals so much, but gets tough when kids are gone a week+ with all the discussion and collaboration.

Reminder that “Say her name” was developed specifically to call attention to murders of Black women

I'm proud we have students standing up for themselves, their neighbors, and our community

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

Minneapolis.

This is why we say Abolish ICE. Watching the midwest being brutalized is heartbreaking not because those folks are particularly good, but because no one- not undocumented folks, not citizens, not "criminals"-should be harmed all the ways ICE is harming.