i'm real sick of people not in minneapolis trying to give chief o'hara some sort of credit for an ultimately meaningless statement the things the MPD has sworn are policy and then either didn't follow or just blatantly contradicted could fill a world book encyclopedia

At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors. share.google/4LfU58LW6iUR...

the post-general campaign finance report was due yesterday, so here are my favorite expenditures of this city election season taylordahlin.com/f/best-campa...

They should do MyChart Wrapped

Dear neighbor, I want to let you know that we are witnessing increased enforcement actions by agents in South Minneapolis. There continues to be reports of residents being followed while driving, stopped and taken away. 1/

I'm deleting the ice incidents thread because enough of us have seen it & I can't stand to have it blowing up all day. They're extremely active in South Minneapolis 12/1 & 12/2 with several verified incidents of people being taken, even leaving kids in vehicles in this cold. Look out for people.

“Labeled as ‘domestic terrorists’ by the administration, these targets include anti-ICE protesters and anyone who allegedly funds them — all of them part of a supposed left-wing conspiracy to violently oppose the president’s agenda.”

This is your 2 minute whistle training. Now you’re ready to use a whistle if you spot ICE.

Statement from President VanDassor on the actions of HSI in St Paul this morning

We have got to collectively help people understand that of course the local* cops are acting as an arm of the machine. That is their purpose. People need to grow their minds & grieve what they've been conditioned to believe about cops being there to help/serve/protect. (*wherever you are)

Shit St Paul ICE agent aims gun

More Monarca training in St Paul on Saturday 11/29. Learn your rights as a legal observer. Join the rapid response network. Also 12/15 in Uptown. monarcamn.org/training

Strib: look at those unruly protestors MPR: one of the cops shot us

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/c... [gift link]

Whenever I wear my Free Them All rice bag shirt, people ask where I got it - now you can get your own and support the MN8 Deportation Defense & Relief Fund: www.bonfire.com/free-them-al...

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today: #Nashville #Asheville (In North Carolina folder) #TwinCities Metro Area (in Minnesota folder) #NewYorkCity en Español! I am working on the backlog and will have more out tomorrow!! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Erik Alarcon, whose uncle and cousin were detained in Tuesday's operation, says the family had planned to gather for Thanksgiving next week. Now, they’re trying to figure out where their relatives were taken and whether they can contact them.

More than 24 hours later and no comment from our governor on the federal agents that violently escalated things in his capital city yesterday. Legal witnesses run down with cars, chemical agents sprayed at people. Multiple injuries. I see. I see.

Listening to Sarah Marshall's "The Devil You Know" series on the Satanic Panic and @annieknk.bsky.social's "Truly Tradly Deeply" series on trad wife culture is feeling a little too full circle.

COPAL is hosting a community vigil tomorrow morning at 9am. At the site of the raid today.

If you were in St Paul today, thank you. We need more observers. There’s a thin line between protesting and observing. You don’t have to be on the front line! If you see staging activity, call a response hotline! Describe what you see. Resources and upcoming trainings here.

Know any twin cities small-business owners? I'm hosting a gathering of businesses against fascism on Wed. Nov. 19 @6pm. Working w/ ISAIAH to connect business owners with a broader anti-authoritarian movement with shared demands. Please send anyone you know who might be interested my way! The plan:

Thank you to all the folks giving updates from the DFL listening session. 🫡

if you're also pissed at the DFL, join us in trying to fix it! sign up below to prepare for caucuses in february as we try to create a Better DFL!

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Three attendees in a row at the DFL listening session have stood to speak about feeling abandoned by a party that throws around “leftists” as a pejorative and overturned the will of the convention delegates with a smug sense of superiority and certainty that party activists will turn out again

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

I reached out to federal delegation to get some answers on this project. It’s a surprise and a very unwelcome one. No home for ICE and CBP in Saint Paul.

This effort will need volunteers *statewide* so if you're not in the metro, please join up! We need people from all corners of the state to build this movement. We need the DFL to be a safe space for trans people, and that means stepping up and pushing them to change.

Hi Minnesotan Bluesky: The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party. Join me: abetterdfl.org.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

this rocks.

And can you believe we did it for only 85 cents on the dollar? So efficient. 💅

Davis told you that he worked with Frey in earnest, gave him a fair chance and was so repulsed by Frey’s lack of morals and ethics that he launched a campaign running against him - and yall choose that guy second against your leader of choice? What on earth?

I hope through my husband's campaign for Mayor, our city got to see the sides of him that inspire me. I wanted you to be inspired to become the City our residents so desperately need. I hope that in response to his vision for #Minneapolis, you step up in serve one another in a new way.

I need it

If you haven’t yet, and want to join the thousands of twin citians who have signed up for the defense of our immigrant neighbors, there’s several more trainings this month: 11/11 Chaska 11/20 Plymouth 11/23 Longfellow Mpls 11/25 Kingfield Mpls 12/4 Bancroft Mpls More info here monarcamn.org

Today I am tired, but I think I'm also ready for four years of being extremely annoying and making his job his problem.

the work continues but also like ughhhhh

This is the most Minnesota brain rot thing I have ever fucking heard and it makes me incandescently angry (Not you Brianna, thank you for door knocking!)

The time is NOW to get involved in your local DFL unit. If you want to see change in the DFL, change will only happen from within, not by complaining on social media. At a more basic level, we simply need more volunteers, to run caucuses and conventions, and to win elections.

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

It’s a good night in Ward 1. Congratulations to @elliottpayne.org and @engy5150.bsky.social! 🙌 I know you’ve got us, and we’ve got you.

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I’m kicking myself for not picking up the phone, but i just got a very sweet voicemail from @elliottpayne.org’s mom reminding me to vote and where my polling place is. She is lovely. 10/10 strategy of a very classy campaign. Polls are open til 8!