This is irresponsible. Not one elected official can claim this is a good return on investment or has increased public safety. This is bigger than “Somali Fraud” but yall don’t lose your shit over this ever.

They crush the local economy, deplete city budgets, illegally withhold congressionally allocated funds. In exchange we get masked Texans running wild in the streets, paid for with tax money that was supposed to be used on our healthcare. Thank you to our federal partners.

I have to say all this concern and coverage of Savannah Guthrie's mother being kidnapped (with minute by minute analysis of the video) seems a bit much when lots of people are being kidnapped by our own government. Sure, sympathy for her family, but really? Is this the biggest news?

MINNESOTA IS NOT OK. EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE TALKING ABOUT MINNESOTA… THEY ARE LITERALLY FEEDING FAMILIES THROUGH UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STYLE ROUTES THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND APPARENTLY HELICOPTERS AND DRONES FLY OVERHEAD CONSTANTLY EVEN THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.

Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.

just an update from when we talked to the reporter: we’ve now successfully connected over 100 families for direct, peer to peer rent adoption. we’ve collected and immediately distributed…a lot. it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.

The only relevant "lawless" part of Minneapolis/Saint Paul is what ICE and DHS have brought to it.

"...CATO calculated, 'The chance of an ICE or [BP] agent being murdered in the line of duty is about one in 94,549 per year, about 5.5 times less likely than a civilian being murdered...' ...[and] when you just look at ICE. ...no deportation officer has [ever] been murdered in the line of duty..."

rep. kraft is so whimsical , using his pez collection to show what the ice presence in minnesota looks like

We’re never going to turn our backs on our neighbors and stop exercising our constitutional rights. No amount of meetings with Tom Homan or anyone in the Trump administration will change our community’s resolve. This only ends when every DHS agent leaves and they no longer exist to terrorize us.

This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights. When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.

Indirectly? That’s like saying the economic wrecking ball effect isn’t intentional.

Having spent most of my working life in transport policy, this is the essential truth that so many people - including politicians with responsibility for transport decisions - don’t or won’t get. To reduce congestion, you reduce capacity and reduce speed. The empirical evidence is overwhelming.

Judge Tunheim (Clinton) declines to dissolve his temporary restraining order blocking Trump policy requiring warrantless detention of 5,600 refugees in MN. Says DHS's new reading would mean govt has been violating the law for past 45 yrs. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you widen that highway you won’t reduce emissions or congestion. What you WILL do is spend a lot of public money to induce even more cars emitting even more GHGs and pollution in the same or worse congestion with people still demanding that you widen the highway. Period.

Minneapolis City Council is leading The Resistance. Minneapolis Mayor is inviting the Border Czar into our City Hall and allowing their SUVs to park in our bike lanes.

If the Mayor needs to meet with the border czar or other high-level ICE officials, as he has done in the past, these meetings must take place off of City property to protect our residents and our workers.

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

Hennepin County and State Patrol officers can be seen in images from Whipple on Sat concealing their faces, which is against a MN law that also applies to cops. In was 26 degrees on Sat. They cannot claim it was “protection from weather.”

The media need to be reporting on the ongoing occupation of Minneapolis, not Trump's lies about a softer approach.

“Triple-tap” here means the IDF bombed the journalists at the hospital and then bombed emergency responders not once but TWICE:

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

I keep thinking about what a joke the idea of “safe routes to schools” is right now… maybe we can get MnDOT involved in the resistance.

Let’s talk more about judges’ frustration with Trump admin attorneys. Yesterday it was in the context of immigration. Today: why a judge told a DOJ attorney his argument about removal of slavery exhibits from the President’s House in Philadelphia is “horrifying to listen to.” 🧵

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.

The Turnaway Study found that NINETY-ONE PERCENT of respondents who had SOUGHT abortions but were denied them nevertheless chose to keep their children. Lots of people want to adopt babies, but essentially *no one* wants to surrender one. +

i’m in st. paul for the statewide DFL elected officials convocation. i see jason garcia of the minneapolis park board and soren stevenson of the city council angie craig brought starbucks coffee

Lunch at Boca Chica. Volunteers manning the doors, limited menu, but they are open and it’s delicious. Please, please, get out and support local. Fuck all of this but infinity fuck the damage it’s doing to our vibrant communities.

This story should be retitled. The US is actually funding pro-Putin think tanks, ones that want to end European democracy. Lets be honest about this.

WHERE IS THE PROOF THAT THEY LEFT??? #TheOccupation #Minneapolis

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

This story - read the thread because he has an update.

"The state has an undercover vehicle registration program for law enforcement activities, but state and federal officials would not answer whether... DHS may be using it. The state has threatened to remove those privileges for the federal government." Threatened? Why not remove privileges NOW?

this is the administration hennepin county sheriff dawanna witt thinks will get off minnesota’s back if she capitulates to them

This is exactly what we should want from our long time local businesses. They own their site. They want to stay in business. But they recognize the site could handle much more density and they want to help make that happen. Love Abbott Paint & Carpet for this! www.twincities.com/2026/02/05/s...

"the only people who are going to save us is us"

Everyone should know this.

I’m posting about black scientists every day for BHM. No death threats so far. Thanks for the heads up. Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) His work laid the foundation for steroid drugs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_L...

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. This is how he did it (published 2021):

Hey newsies, anyone check to see those 700 #ICE agents get on a plane? Yeah, didn't think so. But all the newspapers & tv news readers said it as fact "drawdown of 700 agents" NOPE #HomanLied, just like they always do. #ICELies #TheOccupation #Minneapolis #Minnesota

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 coached a bunch of coworkers (who live across the country) on how Signal works during my work trip this week.

Quick reminder everything they say is a fucking lie. We are facing a major healthcare crisis due to the occupation. Pregnant people are regularly missing care & do face an impossible choices. Occupying agents ABSOLUTELY enter hospitals for enforcement purposes and have since they arrived.

A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026

Wait, does this apply to sidewalks too?

Many worse ways to be remembered tbh

Well this is interesting.

From a religious perspective, this is why Christian traditions that emphasize certainty (ie fundamentalists, Evangelicals) are so dangerous. And why traditions that leave space for mystery (progressive Lutheranism, Catholicism) are so important for these times.

Prospect Park (Minneapolis) bridge brigade, February 5, 2026. Slightly warmer, but still a brisk wind. (I'm behind the Y in Thy.)