To give a sense of the enormity of the moment: the airplane nerd who became a resistance hero by taking photos at the airport got a prime speaking slot between Bruce Springsteen and Bernie Sanders and punctuated his speech in front of an impossibly large crowd with a remarkably subdued "fuck ICE."

Jacob Frey on TV: “We just approved rental assistance that is targeted towards the people who hopefully need it most.” Jacob Frey to Minneapolis City Council:

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

The problem with the pathetic quiet of so many local elites during the ICE crisis isn't really that they failed to meet some partisan political bar, it's that they failed to meet a basic *civic* bar. We need a new class of local leader who loves the city + state as much as its everyday people do.

Ever since 2020, Minneapolis has been the target of an irreconcilable gang of haters (most of them from the exurbs. Concurrently, many of the city's poobahs saw narrow partisan advantage in letting the city take a light beating. Then the narrative slipped the leash and now look what happened.

All of Mpls is definitely an independent org and not in any way associated with a particular candidate. Not at all, no siree

minneapolis city council vice president jamal osman says “the people you’re calling agitators, they’re fighting for our people. they’re out there in the cold, sniffing gas, dealing with all kinds of stuff. people have lost their lives… our president calls us garbage. those people are our heroes.”

ICE agents tried to quietly get Mexican food in Minneapolis, local neighbors and protesters found out and shamed then out of the neighborhood!

More than a week before his crucifixion by Roman law enforcement, Jesus of Nazareth infuriated other authorities as he overturned vendor tables at the temple farmers market and cursed at an innocent fig tree causing it to wither, according to newly unearthed videos. Watch here.

Week 4 of school patrol... - Girl who goes to school across town gets picked up by bus - Tesla dad arrives (slow down) - Mom walking Boxer pup while escorting kids arrives - Blue hatchback cutting through to get to freeway drives by - Bus #1 pulls up to curb www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiKb...

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.

Until every taqueria is open and partying without fear of ICE, I'm not letting off the gas

Imagine being a congressman from Minnesota and caring so little about what’s happening here that you just copy and paste talking points. If you’re not writing your own statements and you’re not holding town halls, what exactly are we paying you for?

You think they’re going to let Bovino visit one more Speedway restroom tonight, as a treat??

I'm gonna level with you, I think the most lasting impact of this is that white people are gonna be around white people in MN and then one racist white person is gonna say something fucked up about this and catch hands from another white person with PTSD. 1000% #1 impact.

The 2029 Pretti Good Act will establish a commission to identify all agents, create a detailed accounting of all acts, and hold criminally liable as necessary. Agents who voluntarily and truthfully disclose will be granted some leniency, provided their crimes did not include murder or torture.

This statement is soft af. Doesn't even mention ICE. Support small business who have been speaking out, doing mutual aid, out on the streets. Support those who share your values and it inspires their action.

“Not taking a side,” is, indeed, taking a side. You also might want to check with your sales office. Pretty sure most of your ticket sales are people in the metro, not Nisswa

We’ve done nothing and we’re all out of ideas

I did some digging on that ActBlue account using Alex Pretti’s execution as a fundraiser and I have some damning conclusions for @democrats.org & @actblueorg.bsky.social. Let’s get into it.

Amy just days ago voted to confirm a full on MAGA Trump judge. She is also not doing anything publicly to lead and organize against Congressional Democratic Leaders who are scheming with Republicans to pour in more money into ICE. This is craven, performative bullshit from a Democratic Senator.

coming around pretty hard to the view that if you want to do broadly-defined antisocial things there should be friction over and above the friction associated with illegality

Grady: Oola, about that jacket-- Oola: Yeah. Grady: It used to belong to Marilyn Monroe. Oola: Really? Grady: She had small shoulders... just like you. A lot of people don 't know that.

A reminder that @bradtabke.bsky.social won his seat by 14 votes and it took Melissa Hortman 6 weeks of a DFL boycott to get him seated in the Minnesota House. He's been leading efforts in Shopee since ICE targeted his community. F'ing hero, putting it all on the line.

If our former presidents had spines, they would show up in Minneapolis tomorrow. Dare ICE to confront the Secret Service. I'd settle for Obama and Bush.

Show me 2 pics with the same energy. I'll go first

It's just another Wednesday for Amy, apparently.

I am not a social media influencer I am just a regular Minneapolis dad trying to do a kid pickup this morning and get some gas. What do I find but that one guy and a bunch of bortech (whatever that is) blocking the station for a glamour shot. I stood right where I wanted to stand this is my town.

So it's "dude comes out of his house to yell obscenities at legal observers" day. You'd think they'd be smart enough to know property records are searchable online, particularly when they're real estate agents with unusual last names. Wonder if Keller Williams Edina knows what their boy is up to.

Funny Tafoya story. When I covered the media, she was working at WCCO-AM. During one of Emmer’s race, she sent everyone an inter-office email asking them to give him $. Not everyone there was liberal, but in a journalism org it was EYE-ROLLING. EVERYONE tipped me about how clueless she was.

This is a woman whose good judgment led her to leave one of the most prominent jobs in sports to start a right-wing podcast whose audience is like a dozen Vikings fans who won’t attend games in Minneapolis because they’re too scared.

Watching this clip every morning before going to patrol my children’s schools in subzero weather with a high-viz vest and a whistle.

Why are they all so bad at this? "This needs to end," what do you mean by "this?" Do you mean the federal occupation of the county? Not really getting that from "surge of federal agents, and some of their behavior specifically." And could you say it without whining about people being mean to you?

Check this out. ICE definitely infiltrated the Minneapolis protest with some of their agents dressed as civilians.

Hey @kenwhite.bsky.social, is calling a political hack a political hack defamatory?? Asking for this chud

NYT writers referring to moms outside of their schools watching for ICE as "activists" is stupid and makes their reporters look like Cletuses. Local reporters know because their friends & loved ones are out there doing the same.

there are many who have revealed themselves of extremely low character and questionable values, then pivot and say we are on the same team because we vote for the same political party. I'm not teaming with some slimy motherfucker who I know will shank me in the back. yall crazy

Man cmon it’s okay to admit when you’re wrong. We are fundraising to get our neighbors under threat their basic needs met. Y’all should’ve met this moment by leveraging your donor base to help regular people, not whatever this is.

if you think it is fated in the stars that gavin newsom will be the democratic presidential nominee and everyone must coalesce behind him now (nearly three years before the election), i implore you to get a fucking grip

The American Psycho business card scene but it's just people in Minnesota comparing their whistles

Do not donate to the DFL. Donate to a GoFundMe for rent or immigration fees, donate to a food shelf — use your dollars to help the community, not the state party apparatus. The DFL isn’t gonna save us from ICE. We are all we have

Yes, thank you, I was already aware that this week has been stressful.

Here, watch the video of the wife of the man shot by ICE calling 911 for help. She describes what happens. ICE IS LYING www.facebook.com/615541001848...

This is some real “Bud White plants a gun on a naked dead guy” bullshit

Very normal and not at all concerning text to receive while standing outside an elementary school guarding against armed agents of the state.