Shocking observers, the most recent court monitor report for the MPD consent decree notes that officers continue to express a "misunderstanding" and "misconception" that reforms are "being forced on the dept" instead of reflecting "improvements the MPD is committed to making" 😂

After 17 years (!) together, my academic spouse and I are finally doing the one thing we promised never to do: collaborate on a research project together. Pls keep us in your thoughts & prayers. 😂

I interrupt your doom scrolling with flowers courtesy of Philly. 💜

Congrats to @michellesphelps.bsky.social, whose book The Minneapolis Reckoning won the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award. This urgent work describes how Minneapolis arrived at the brink of police abolition and why reform is so difficult. Get your copy: hubs.ly/Q0453BKz0

This morning, more arrests of activists were made as the federal government unsealed the full superseding indictment from a grand jury that charges 39 people who were allegedly involved in a January protest at Cities Church in St. Paul where an ICE field director is also a pastor.

Throughout the Twin Cities, residents are carrying on the state’s long-standing tradition of solidarity. You can read my latest piece on mutual aid and 'Minnesota nice' in The Conversation. theconversation.com/minneapolis-...

in 2020, voters for the winner (Biden) outnumbered eligible people who didn't vote for the first time in about a century. In 2024, even though Trump got a *slight* majority of those who voted, people whose decision was "nah, not going to do this" outnumbered people who voted for Trump.

This has nothing to do with fraud. The agents Trump allegedly sent to investigate fraud are shooting protesters and arresting children. His DOJ is gutting the U.S. Attorney’s Office and crippling their ability to prosecute fraud. And every week Trump pardons another fraudster.

We sued for I213 forms, records the govt uses to prove that a person is in the country illegally. The forms detail a person's criminal history. We got 8 months of records and only 23% of people had a criminal conviction

Really appreciate this data reporting from the @startribune.com, which comes with the appropriate cautions about the crowd-sourced data. Looks like the ICE/DHS surge in MN is down significantly, but (a) was HUGE compared to other cities, (b) impacted the suburbs A LOT, and (c) is still happening.

An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. ...A regime of secret policing has no place in our society. Here, the Government’s power is derived by the People, and the People must be able to identify the Government when it acts to infringe on their liberty.

At the stage of exhaustion where my husband had to convince me we should order pizza instead of having cereal for family dinner. That's partnership. 😂

New study from @curaumn.bsky.social: "We estimate that 30–50% of immigrant renters may be at least one month behind on rent by February 2026." Researchers estimate that excess statewide rent debt linked to ICE's occupation reached between $27.4 million to $51.3 million by February 2026.

7 detainees were loaded onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP. The number of detainees leaving MN is down, but demand for rent/food assistance remains high. 📊 Data: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/msp-ice-flights.numbers 💵 Help: standwithminnesota.com 🚗 Airport Parking: mn50501.org/donate

We should know how many DHS agents are still in MN. There's definitely fewer abductions happening in Minneapolis, but it's not over.

Let me explain what this genuinely EVIL memo does. The admin is doubling down on its plan to arrest, detain, and interrogate tens of thousands of legally present refugees; people already vetted who’ve lived here legally for 1+ year. Hundreds were arrested in Minnesota before a court blocked this.

If you like Will's writing, you should read his book of essays called Farewell Transmission: bookshop.org/p/books/fare...

My friend, the brilliant essayist Will McGrath, wrote an essay about the beauty of resistance in all its forms here in Minneapolis. "Everyone is doing his part here, each to his ability. This is easier to accomplish, it seems, when joy and love are the engines." 🎁: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

But he will also be remembered for the quiet moments. If you were in his company, you would feel seen. You would feel seen in your own struggle to be understood, in the fight for this country. His fight for justice, for humanity, for Black liberation & Black joy lives on in every one of us.

These are the conditions under which the Trump regime wants to detain noncitizens indefinitely. It violates international law, the Eighth Amendment, and our own laws & regulations. And the DOJ and DHS are willing to manipulate any law, defy any court order, to keep doing so. 26/

Operation Metro Surge resulted in a $203 million impact on Minneapolis. Every penny is a loss to the City’s economy, people’s livelihoods, shelter and food security. Read more about the preliminary impact assessment released by the City: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/

‘Our opponent is tricked out with military gear, staying in Hilton hotels and renting Enterprise cars, with technological support from Palantir and Amazon Web Services.’ NEW: Amna A. Akbar writes from South Minneapolis www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

a beautifully written and powerful piece from University of Minnesota Law professor Emmanuel Mauleón on the stakes of how the legal profession responds in this moment. lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...

Here’s the thing: All non-violent political movements are engaged, at some level, in a contest of persuasion. In such a contest, images matter. Optics matter. Always.

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It remains to be seen how this promised "drawdown" in MN will go, but in the meantime as the prez admin declares "victory!" people in MN are hitting a new crisis of overdue rent, failing businesses, and traumatized kids with learning loss. This was always the "best case" end and still it's so bad.

I would like the definitions of "small" and "footprint" please

My defense of the traffic calming checkpoints in South Minneapolis. www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

I’m seeing more and more Minneapolis/Minnesota people naming that they are burned out and I just hope people allow themselves to change their pacing from sprint to marathon or better yet, a relay. Slow down if the alternative is you crashing out and not being able to do anything.

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They published it www.startribune.com/readers-writ...

Three months of ICE flight observations at MSP: since November 10 there have been 84 known ICE Air flights operating through Twin Cities, with an estimated 3,563 detainees, in shackles, sent away from their homes in and around Minnesota.

🎊The Minneapolis Reckoning has now won both the Minnesota Book Award for Minnesota Nonfiction and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award. I wrote it for Minneapolis, but also to bring more critical scholarship into criminology, and I am so grateful it's resonating.

Last summer, a sheriff put it plainly: the federal government “depends on sheriffs and county jails to have bed space,” and his ICE contract helps “pay the bills.” Marie Gottschalk on books by @briannanofil.bsky.social @jesspish.bsky.social @michellesphelps.bsky.social @equalityalec.bsky.social:

Ended a teach-in recently with this advice for people outside of Mpls -- “Go to an ICE watch training, print whistles, get connected with your neighbors, and prepare to be the next city.” For a summary of the event, see: krieger.jhu.edu/chloe/2026/0...

REALLY USEFUL overview of the many ways ICE is entwined with sheriffs from @jesspish.bsky.social "...local laws that require or encourage the arrest and detention of people (even those accused of misdemeanors) are making it easier to deport immigrants."

Yes: one of the things that has kept protests peaceful is that the insider/outsider dynamic was so pronounced. The feds were invaders; local and state police were separate and not really against us. What we’ve seen in the last couple days feels like the sheriff and state patrol switching sides.

ethics professor here, can confirm

Niche announcement for the sociologists of law: our @asanews.bsky.social section is organizing a couple online writing groups for this spring. Thursdays 11:30a ET and Fridays 2pm ET. If you’d like to join, email me!

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

"It's more soccer moms than hardcore activists, they said. But the challenging conditions have brought them closer together. After knowing each other for just weeks, they feel like they’d give their lives to protect one another if necessary..." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Without the brave work of ICE-watchers in Minneapolis there would be *NO VIDEO* of ICE executing Renee Good & Alex Pretti. It has been a high price but it is making a difference. A lesson for all of us. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

It has been an exhausting couple of weeks, but I'm proud to have been able to contribute to a slew of news reports about the resistance in MN. Doing a link round-up below: newrepublic.com/article/2050... / www.startribune.com/ice-mpd-law-... / www.cnn.com/2026/01/24/u... ... (cont.)

Gift link: racketmn.com/the-art-of-t...

DHS has been posting Nazi memes for months. None of this is an accident.

Three thoughts. 1. It’s always been about the white nationalism 2. He is returning to the old favorites because his support is waning 3. He dabbled with this trope before but would always leave a hair of deniability. Going straight there also seems like a sign of weakness

This is right, and also I think reflective of the Trump admin's approach to a lot of things, immigration enforcement included. They threaten to violate the law both because they want to test what they can get away with *and* because the threat itself creates all kinds of consequences thru fear.

Plus photos by Salih Basheer; fiction by Emmett Rensin; @blbalthaser.bsky.social on Mark Mazower’s “On Antisemitism”; and Marie Gottschalk on the deportation-industrial complex & books by @briannanofil.bsky.social, @jesspish.bsky.social, @michellesphelps.bsky.social, @equalityalec.bsky.social