This shows why you can’t trust headlines or press conferences from the Trump administration. We still need people out keeping watch and staying vigilant until every last agent is off of our streets.

So if you’re a quantity over quality kind of bird watcher, 4th Ave N and West River Parkway has what you’re looking for tonight. Enough crows that their cawing creates an echoing cacophony, like a crowd at a concert or a protest.

I kind of assume they’re going to revoke half of Minnesota’s PreCheck status after all the performative facial recognition photography we’ve been subjected to whilst blowing whistles and all, so I’m not too invested in this, but fun to see the bad guys in disarray.

Pretty sure that AXS identified me, a human, as a bot and bounced my request while scalper bots they failed to detect bought up all the remaining tickets. If we’re going to let companies charge predatory fees to sell tickets, we could at least expect them to be good at it, yeah? Grrrrr.

Way too much of what I saw today was either: A) obviously fake AI slop things, some of which I wish were true or B) strange, awful, stupid (apparently) real things that I wish were AI slop

There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.

While Walz, Klobuchar, Frey & their ilk steal Minnesota valor on TV, our City Council members are still out in the streets, protecting our neighbors ❤️‍🔥

UPDATE: He was just released. This shows that just indiscriminately took someone because they were Latino. Their illegal tactics continue so we still need neighbors to patrol, observe, and support our immigrant community.

I have neighbors everywhere

I am proud of you and our immigrant residents. Your resiliency, strength, and dedication have led to the announcement that “Operation Metro Surge” will end soon. 1/

Feels good to (provisionally) check one item off our to-do list. ✅ End Occupation 🔲 Prosecute violent ICE agents 🔲 Return our neighbors still in detention 🔲 Remove Noem and Miller 🔲 Abolish ICE 🔲 Repair the damage inflicted on Minnesota’s community and economy

Ugh. Get these fucking dangerous lunatics off of our streets. Abolish. Prosecute. Sue the rental companies knowingly providing vehicles for this dangerous use.

🎶 Southtown girls won’t blow you awaaaaay 🎶 (but they’ll catch feds in a sting)

One of the less talked about things with the federal government's attacks on Minnesota is that it's not just the goon squads, it's also across the board attempts to deny us Congressionally allocated federal funding. Because we love our neighbors, apparently.

💪Mutual aid workout💪 Lift & open boxes. Sort for assembly line. Fill bins with necessities like toilet paper, soap, tortillas, chicken & add cookies & markers for kids. Carry heavy bins. Repeat until 🚚 & 💖 are full. You can buy groceries for our vulnerable Minneapolis neighbors! Venmo: kevin-nye-3

So Whipple roads get to be as blocked off as the Feds and HennCo sheriff want to protect evil, but Frey/MPD say neighbors don’t get to do partial blocks of roads at all to prevent evil. Cool.

Hospitality Minnesota members are choosing to house ICE agents for money and prolong the occupation that is harming their whole industry. They have so much more power in this situation than they’re leveraging. Nobody wants to risk staying in the same hotel as masked, armed kidnappers.

The City should be taking the lead here: - Allow multi-day block party permits and waive fees - Install emergency traffic calming yourselves - Work with the County to do it on county roads too - Connect PW staff or nonviolent safety orgs with RR efforts, so we can have trained marshals in busy areas

I’ve been to plenty of DFL conventions. My preferred scenario is that tonight I can use my vote to elect enthusiastic newcomers to represent me as delegates in an “uncommitted - abolish ICE” subcaucus and I don’t personally have to go to any more meetings.

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.

Caucus night is tomorrow. My strategy for caucuses: advocate for a cause, rather than a candidate. Creating or joining an “Uncommitted - ICE Out” subcaucus makes it clear to any candidate what they must do to earn my support.

Once I got some bad acid and the next 12 hours felt exactly like the vibration of “Klobuchar vs. Lindell ‘28”

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

I am so happy Liam is home, and @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social’s letter to him was today’s thing that triggered a good cry about *all this* for me. I wonder how many kids were brought into Dilley today. Like, while we celebrate Liam’s freedom, what’s today’s net kids in concentration camps tally?

Thank you to every person who raised their voice in outrage. May they be returned, safely and swiftly. May they all be freed. #CloseTheCamps #BringThemHome

if you feel like passing around a link today and helping fundraise for rent that will actually get paid today (and in the next few days for families who have a grace period) you can send here. we will be going hard all day. i won’t be posting about it because I don’t want to flood your feeds.

They’re playing musical chairs with Greg Bovino, Tom Homan, and Kristi Noem. But the chaos, the violence, and the fear that ICE agents are inflicting on our community continues.

My self-care this morning was cathartic screaming alone in my car in the empty parking lot of my closed gym, which had modified its hours for staff to participate in today’s shutdown. I’m glad my gym did that (and wish I’d seen the email). We just can’t have nice things until ICE is gone.

legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards

I would beseech the national media to stop writing sentences like one I just read that said basically "ICE's time in Minnesota is almost up." That is NOT an established fact. Please do not turn away. Please check the readily available information from people on the ground and local journalists.

Wait, Chuck, are you telling me a single Senator has the power to delay a vote from happening when they object to something in the bill? What is this procedural magic? I’ve been assured that our Senators have no power at all until we win the midterms. Quick somebody tell Amy!

Has MPD enforced a single law broken by a federal agent? Even a parking ticket? Everybody liked O’Hara’s speech and StrongMayor’s F-Bombs, but I haven’t seen a single instance of “duty to intervene” in action. I have seen Minneapolitans arrested for resisting, but never ICE. Did I miss something?

ICE are running around in the streets using facial recognition on random people and telling anyone filming them they're a domestic terrorist and Democrats solution is to equip every ICE agent with their very own body-worn surveillance camera

Absolutely ghoulish behavior. Our federal government is stalking food shelf volunteers to hunt hungry immigrant families.

This song is a blessing. Also, an update on an old curse: may you experience events that Bruce Springsteen writes a song about.

Pedal, metal, now.

Walz, Frey, Trump, Homan, Noem, Miller are all aligned in wanting us to believe they’ve negotiated a de-escalation. They’re all lying. There’s no change on the ground. DHS brushed that magic “benefit of the doubt” dust off and continues terrorizing our community. Abolish. Prosecute. Impeach.

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.

it is beautiful how we are having another moment of Bluesky unity. everybody basking in the glow of how Ilhan Omar was very visibly gonna punch that dude in the mouth

The conciliatory tone from Frey and Walz about “productive” calls with Trump & Homan is insane. They have murdered and kidnapped your constituents! They’re holding hostages in camps! Stop schmoozing and start demanding abductees’ return, accountability for agents, & ICE’s complete departure.

Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me in the YouTube comments of the Wedge Live NYE Blong drop.

We’ve sacrificed too much to protect each other from the federal government for this to be the opposition party response.

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

“Tensions” about WHAT!?!? No mention of ICE? Who thought this was OK? If your name is on this, you’re a bad person and your company is bad.

Oh look, a boycott list.

Awkward for Meet Minneapolis (whose board is like half hotels that are housing ICE right now) to have such a clear, coherent “woke Hoth” brand emerging. We should absolutely lean into being the place O’Keefe is least comfortable in the world. I love Minneapolis.

Never forget

We had such a moving vigil on my corner. Held a long moment of silence, introduced ourselves to each other. I thought we might be standing out there on our own (it wasn’t advertised by anyone as a planned spot) but ended up in a circle with 20 other people who are all doing stuff for community.

I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.