“so what comes of this moment?” speaker at no kings asks “we attend community meetings, we pressure our elected officials…” community meetings are the ground floor to understanding local politics and i can’t encourage going to them enough

Agate, Housing Stability Coalition, Avivo, Catholic Charities, Aeon, People Serving People, Project for Pride & living, Beacon, & Simpson Housing services all joined the Mayor’s press release for his veto of Pause Evictions Save lives. These orgs officially stand on the wrong side of history.

i ❤️ Hodan Cuisine

i’m trying to keep track of the names for all of the volunteers i’ve met, let alone this week. do they know how much i love them???? i hope they do. i try to tell them but words don’t do it justice. i don’t think anything ever will

Feel like if we don't get ICE to unmask masked police are going to become the norm

dawanna witt's hennepin county sheriff's deputies are once again hiding their faces at the whipple building, just like ICE and CBP do

Thousands of our neighbors are struggling to pay rent. Mayor Frey is sending scolding letters painting small business aid and rent assistance as fiscally irresponsible. MPD blew $4.3 million on overtime last month. And now the Frey administration wants $38 million for MPD’s own cop city?

😭😭😭 a community member just handed this off to a patroller in our neighborhood

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

This article really hits home about why we all keep on going out there each day. slate.com/news-and-pol...

so many people are afraid to leave their homes right now. if you know vulnerable or at risk community members who have dogs you can offer to take their dogs out or to join them while they do it ❤️

i don’t trust anything the gov is saying either. one of my biggest concerns is that people let their guard down if ICE supposedly “leaves” and they actually return (or never truly left). i feel like i’m already seeing a decrease in patrollers or it was just a coincidence at the times i was out

hi! @defendthe612.bsky.social has been doing National ICE Watch and Community Trainings through Zoom. go to defend612.com/events/ to see upcoming ones plus other resources. they have a Instagram account they’re more active on too ❤️

In the Skyway 20 minutes after an ice abduction, mayor Frey walks through the government center. A lady yells at him "what are you doing to stop this? Fuck you." He responds, "is that helpful?" With a smirk on his face.

Council President Elliot Payne is showing real leadership every day.

even if ICE leaves Minnesota i wouldn’t celebrate because it means they’re going to terrorize other places in full force. we have begun to try to equip others but even then no one truly knows what this is like until they experience it. it’s abolish ICE or nothing. no one is safe if they’re around.

There’s not a way to negotiate with ICE without selling out some of the very neighbors we’re risking our lives to protect. This is a moral issue. Your willingness to negotiate shows you don’t understand the problem at all or our sacrifice, not that you’re somehow smarter or more rational than us.

“‘We are rejected from the day we come out, many of us,’ says M Nijiya, owner of Jackalope Tattoo in south Minneapolis. ‘We’re used to being rejected, … . ‘We became each other’s families, because our families abandoned us, right? We’re used to going and helping our fellow community members.’” ❤️‍🔥

how are people eating 3 meals a day, snacks, properly hydrated, and getting 8 hrs of sleep during this???!!!!!

We could be housing homeless people, providing healthcare, funding our schools, protecting our environment… no let’s make more concentration camps for brown people. I hate this.

This thread gives the impression of someone who got bored with covering metro surge because it's been a whole two weeks since someone got murdered

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

i just saw someone say "Kid Rock makes music for the people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody" and hol up i need a minute

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.

white ppl doing rapid response (voluntarily) talking about how exhausting it is and how they need a break............did you know that the ppl targeted in these attacks don't quite get to opt in and out? it is exhausting. it is also, not new!

Yeah I’ve seen “progressives” in other cities saying the blockades are a step too far… ICE agents drive like they’re in GTA. Even beyond the kidnapping and the murder, they‘re speeding and crashing their cars everywhere. With zero consequences.

There’s something very freeing when you know you’re on your own. There’s really nothing stopping us from caring this deeply and boldly about our neighbors at all times, everywhere in the world, and if you’re not from Minnesota you should be doing what we are doing, and if you aren’t, start now.

A group of local men are tackling the male loneliness epidemic by coming together to brainstorm ways to stop being mistaken for ICE. www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

Concentration camps are the defining issue in public health right now. Measles and TB outbreaks, healthcare being withheld as punishment for your race. It is not enough simply to turn the grants tap back on. To do so would make us the same as the Nazi scientists who discovered smoking causes cancer

They didn’t nominate “the city,” they nominated THE PEOPLE OF the city. The distinction matters, not least because “the city” seems to have forgotten that the whole damn metro area is resisting the occupation, which is something THE PEOPLE of Minneapolis are constantly reminding out-of-towners

This is just part of patrol. ICE threatens you, points guns at you, brutalizes or kills someone in front of you. Every day it's somebody new in our circle. We gather around them while they work through the stress and fear and then, to the person, they go back out. My friends are so insanely brave.

god i am so thankful @robin4mpls.bsky.social exists because i can only imagine what Shelley Madore would be doing during ICE’s occupation besides literally nothing

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

that’s my city council member!!!! @robin4mpls.bsky.social always ready with that tea!!!!!!!!!!

Wonsley: please submit your evidence of rental assistance fraud to county government across the street, otherwise "consider joining the MAGA movement."

Only $700 from a goal for a family of four’s rent. If you can give $5 or $10 - my Venmo is Kelly-rogers111 - THANK YOU for sharing!

WHEN I WAS A YOUNG FED MY CO TOOK ME INTO THE CITY TO SEE AN APARTMENT RAID HE SAID SON WHEN YOU GROW UP WILL YOU BE A KILLER OF CIVILIANS A BEATER OF YOUR WIFE HE SAID WILL YOU DEFEAT THEM WILL STANCIL AND ALL THE NONBELIEVERS IN THEIR HONDA FITS

ICE surge news: Minneapolis Public Schools has extended *optional* distance learning until April 6.

Hey @governorwalz.mn.gov tonight my kid and I escorted a teacher home so they didn’t get kidnapped by ICE. Then I got home myself to find that my neighbor had *just* been stabbed by a man on the Aldine bridge. That man was holding a sign that said “Come legally or don’t come at all” DO SOMETHING.

i know this is all irrational and that rest is a really important part when we don't know how long this will be but the only way i can turn my brain off is when i feel like i'm Doing Something.

taking today off patrol to try and basically do a week's worth of work and get my house back to relatively livable shape but man it's so fucking hard to turn it off when you aren't out there

Council Members Warren, Shaffer, Whiting, Rainville, Vetaw, Palmisano just voted to try and delay the Council from even *considering* approving rental assistance for people until March 19th. Apparently they don’t see the urgency of this moment. Thankfully that motion failed 6-7.

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

Martinez ends her testimony with this: "If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."

The reason "Abolish ICE" scares them so much is because it speaks to the power of political imagination. Our political imagination has been intentionally suppressed in favor of the stagnation and inertia of the short-term profit economy's political desires. This is existential as well as physical.

am i happy i caucused? yes. am i confused? also yes

desperate for sweet treat. the chocolate chips aren’t cutting it. thankfully i haven’t hit the low of eating the butterscotch chips but these are dark times so i shouldn’t rule it out

Finally getting serious about signal op sec.

it is astounding how many of these dudes wake up, put on their little soldier costumes and just drive around doing nothing for 8 hours then go back to a hotel room and eat microwave mac and cheese every single day