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Ffs people, double check things. This is the pastor who was giving the sermon when the service was interrupted, not David Easterwood who is the ICE field office director and pastor. Easterwood is a slightly older bald guy. At least roast the right dude. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

"Now that I've told you about the Halloween Blizzard of '91, sit back, the Federal Occupation of '26 is next."

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They also need to stop calling what's happening "immigrant enforcement" because it never was that. Ever.

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

The most popular sled at today’s Art Sledding event in Minneapolis.

From a Minnesotan: a hearty HELL NO to this. This man is a professional political consultant in DC raising $$ for a political party. There are endless better places to donate to actually help people here suffering and fighting against this nazi invasion. Here’s a start: www.standwithminnesota.com

AIM are the good guys. If you see folks sporting this flag, you can relax knowing they're here to help us get ICE off our backs.

I realize this is over a year old but I just saw it and DAMN that’s good.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.

Le Guin got the words spot on here - ‘But when we crave power over life - endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality-then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then becomes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in scale’

For every ICE arrest that draws a crowd with cameras and whistles, there are an untold number happening quietly when no one is watching.

Note: Minnesota is full of great writers who need work. Stop putting your dudes on planes and start hiring local writers. I've now connected two folks. I can find you more. *I do not want this work I have a syllabus to finish this ain't about me.

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Twin Cities local here -- Strib is literally owned by a billionaire. Strongly urge contributions to these outlets instead: @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com @mprnews.org

I know there is so much horror going on right now, but let's also not forget how DOGE (an illegitimate "agency") stole all our personal data and who knows what other kind of data, for nefarious purposes. And illegally destroyed many of our federal agencies, and is still doing more damage.

ICE isn’t making rare mistakes. This is the point. When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.

Queen of Swords is a queer, Minneapolis-based small press, and they just released an omnibus of their popular (Hugo-eligible) Astreiant series! If you're into genre fusions, astrology, sleuthing, high fantasy geopolitics, and/or m/m romance, today's a great day to pick it up.

How you can tell the protesters aren’t paid agitators: Watch the videos. It’s the accents. Those accents have a favorite Zorbaz. Those accents can tell you EXACTLY where they were on 10/31/91. Those accents have thrown a bra off the SkyGlider. Those accents get emotional about Randy Moss.

Hey everyone, We literally just added 100 more trans girl scouts to the trans girl scout cookie list. The list is bigger than it has ever been in EITM history. Go get some cookies and make a trans scout's day!

For the intentionally obtuse: there are many many ways to enforce laws. Stop framing issues as ‘don’t enforce the law at all, or enforce it in the worst way possible.’ Your false choice is intentional. This is deliberate. And it’s going to be our downfall if we persist.

PSA: misinformation campaigns are doubling down on Minneapolis and St. Paul right now and you need to get a LOT more skeptical about things you’re posting. Ask yourself: Is it from a highly reputable source? What makes it “reputable?” Are people I know offline/in trusted orgs talking about this?

#TwinCities THREAD From [redacted]. I'm not a snitch. ALERT: Anti-MusIim- anti-immigrant rally Dwntn Mpls Sat. noon. Regional domestic hate groups are attending led by a lead Jan 6ers. They plan to march on Cedar-Riverside. Local LEO are aware and plans to contain them.

DO NOT SHOW UP TO OPPOSE THEM. The community leaders in C-R want streets empty. This is 100% a move to escalate violence. PLEASE DO NOT GO DOWNTOWN, TO THE U, OR TO CEDAR RIVERSIDE ON SATURDAY. Please be careful driving near these areas. Please do copy/paste and pass on the word. #TwinCities

I just want it to be really clear, to people from out of the area, if they see pictures of fires in Minneapolis: THEY WERE STARTED BY ICE. NOT BY PROTESTERS. NOT BY RESIDENTS.

I have a lot of thoughts on what’s going on here in the Twin Cities and I cannot seem to articulate it all. It feels like hearing a high frequency and a low frequency simultaneously constantly. If you’re near the city it feels different than the outer suburbs. But you feel it. Humming. Constantly.

My partner @jasoncapsaicin.bsky.social made a step by step guide on how to break up ice in your neighborhood in Minnesota. Enjoy!

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

Q: will this help? A: yes. celebrating the misfortune of bad people is one of the ways society discourages antisocial behavior Q: is it healthy? A: also yes. one needs to pretend that the unaccountable can at least be laid low by chance

The thing that I truly adore about this letter is the subtext: “keep in mind, if you want to pursue this shit any further, that we are so much better than you better at this stuff.”

If you don’t live in Minneapolis here’s a way to help

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

So much respect for the people of Minnesota. I hope that union list grows bigger. inthesetimes.com/article/minn...

NOBODY is immune to propaganda

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

Daughter sent me this gofundme for one the MCAD facilities guys who got kidnapped by ice. She said “gerardo is one of the nicest people on campus too, he talks with everyone, literally wouldnt hurt a fly”. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

At this point I would be better off wearing ice skates to get anywhere on foot. Nearly slipped multiple times every day in the parking lot and driveway this week…

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Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism. Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.