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@joleneljohnson.bsky.social
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Mom, physicist, educator focused on equity, world-traveler, gardener, defender of democracy
What on Earth! This senator needs to be charged with assault. Protesting isn't punishable by a broken arm.
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Nate Pentz
about 22 hours ago
North Minneapolis was the only part of the city where those involved in observing and documenting ICE had little to no support from our elected city Council Members throughout the worst times of the occupation.
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Wedge LIVE!™
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MPD tally of the ICE surge (which appears far from comprehensive): -2 fatal shootings -1 non-fatal shooting -7 abandoned vehicles (3 federal) -2 assaults -7 chemical attacks -12 vehicle collisions, fed vs civilian
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www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
. Another Minnesotan killed by the absolute incompetence of the Trump administration. Her kids will never see their mom again. Soldiers shouldn't die for pointless wars
#ImpeachTrump
#Minnesota
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Minnesotan among six service members killed in airstrike in Kuwait
A Minnesotan is among the U.S. service members who were killed in an airstrike in Kuwait on Sunday, a day after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/03/03/minnesotan-among-six-service-members-killed-in-kuwait
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What is wrong with Republicans! Regular citizen out here trying to raise 20k so 54 families in our neighborhood don't get evicted. Meanwhile Republicans voted down everything to help Minneapolis including rent moratorium and this is the shit they do instead.
#AbolishICE
#ImpeachTrump
#Minnesota
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GOP lawmakers introduce impeachment articles against Walz, Ellison
Minnesota Republican lawmakers on Monday introduced two House resolutions for the impeachment of Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison.
https://www.fox9.com/news/gop-lawmakers-introduce-impeachment-articles-against-walz-ellison
2 days ago
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It is national Minnesota day! Our state isn't perfect but the last few months have made me very proud to be a lifelong Minnesotan!
#AbolishICE
#Minnesota
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3 days ago
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Nice reminder the federal government hates my profession in addition to hating my state.
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5 days ago
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Jon Collins
6 days ago
Our local digital alt-weekly
@racketmn.com
has done such a good job rounding up ICE news every day. This is also a really nice story about what things have looked like on the cultural front.
racketmn.com/winter-of-pr...
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Anti-ICE Ice Fishing, Subzero Marches, and Art Sled Activism: A Winter of Protest in the Twin Cities - Racket
This is how Minnesota fights back.
https://racketmn.com/winter-of-protest-in-the-twin-cities
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Jon Collins
6 days ago
A federal judge in Minnesota has scheduled a contempt hearing for next week for federal officials for not complying with the judge's orders to return property to unlawfully detained immigrants, including cash, jewelry and docs. More than two dozen petitioners who filed habeas petitions are listed.
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This isn't about fraud. This is about punishing us for resisting all their illegal cruel actions. Unfortunately the result will be vulnerable people losing access to health care.
#Impeach
#AbolishICE
#Minnesota
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7 days ago
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This is why we need rent and food support. Trump has wrecked our economy along with kidnapping our neighbors.
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7 days ago
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North Minneapolis still needs rent support! At just Cityview we need $15k to support many families that are just starting to return to work.
#RentSupport
#StandWithMinnesota
#Minneapolis
#AbolishICE
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7 days ago
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This morning a group of neighbors sang for our neighbors at Cityview. ICE kidnapped 4 neighbors there and multiple times pointed guns at us as we protected them over the last few months.
#SingingResistance
#Minneapolis
#AbolishICE
#Minnesota
8 days ago
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Come see my orchestra perform this inspiring concert at Orchestra hall on April 12th! The music is a beautiful expression of what actual democracy requires with orchestra and multiple choirs. It is also being recorded for NPR and probably PBS.
#Minnesota
#Democracy
#msomn
#Resist
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Sing Democracy 250 - Minnesota Orchestra
Accessibility Services Armless & Bariatric Chairs Assistive Listening Devices Noise-Cancelling Headphones Service Animals Wheelchair & Accessible Seating Additional services are available upon request...
https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/rentals/sing-democracy-250
8 days ago
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This makes me so angry! We had an entire fleet drones over our house again tonight like most nights. How much of my tax money is wasted on collecting spy data on me and my neighbors. What are they doing with this data?
#drones
#AbolishICE
#Minnesota
#Minneapolis
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8 days ago
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Passing along from a lawyer friend. Especially of interest for academics doing research the current administration frowns on. Sponsored Research and Change: A Summit for the Higher Education and Academic Research Community
communications.dorsey.com/374/4364/feb...
#highereducation
#academicsky
8 days ago
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Minnesota women are superheroes! I can't tell you how many women have just seen a problem and did their best to solve it. Of course men have helped too but women make up a huge part of the organizers of the resistance.
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8 days ago
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Testifying in support of SF 1750. Hoping the state reforms HOAs and finally provides a path for dissolving our HOA that does nothing yet still managed to foreclose on 10 black homeowners during the pandemic over things as stupid as garbage can fines.
#ReformHOAs
#HOAnightmare
#HeritageParkMaster
9 days ago
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There are so many famous male physicists in the files... maybe connected to physics and engineering having the lowest percentage of women in STEM?
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9 days ago
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ICE has not left Minneapolis. This afternoon for some reason they are just parking in their unmarked cars next to the elementary school on my block. There is no good reason masked men in guns need to be terrorizing elementary kids.
#AbolishICE
#ICEOut
#Minneapolis
9 days ago
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Rev. Angela Denker
10 days ago
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
Unconscionable.
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‘I was shocked’: 3 Minnesotans describe unexpected ICE detentions
Now back in Minnesota, three Somali immigrants who had been abiding by legal requirements describe their recent arrests and troubled detentions in Texas.
https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/minnesota-somali-immigrants-ice-texas-detentions/
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Week of Action is starting in Minneapolis!
melttheicemn.com
Some things coming up. Author signing! Singing resistance coming to Cityview Wed morning (locals dm me for details) Lots of fundraising for rent including matching funds here.
wilsonfoundationmn.org/mpls-respons...
#AbolishICE
#Minnesota
10 days ago
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Oh my God why is our president so terrible! Canada is not our sworn enemy. We happened to beat them at hockey this time. Also if we are doing bird memes, loons can kill bald eagles. Loons are the MN state bird and on Canadian money.
#Impeach
#Loons
#CanadaIsOurFriend
10 days ago
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Wait so am I getting back the $2000 extra we had to pay in tariffs on our new electric car?
13 days ago
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Who in their right mind would continue to teach in these conditions if they have other options. Florida is about to get even dumber.
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13 days ago
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Women have led the resistance. The GOP solution seems to be try to disenfranchise us.
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15 days ago
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
15 days ago
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after
@propublica.org
published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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Nash Is Here For It
16 days ago
Wow.
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MdDoogie3
16 days ago
If this does not absolutely gut you, you are dead inside. A 2-MONTH-OLD, sick, choking on his own vomit, denied medical care because there was no doctor on duty. A 2-MONTH-OLD in Dilley. Where Measles is spreading. Juan Nicolas has spent half of his life in a concentration camp.
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Two-month-old baby 'choking on his own vomit' while detained in Dilley
'His life is in danger,' U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility...
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/two-month-old-baby-choking-on-his-own-vomit-while-detained-in-dilley/
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‘Residential protesting’ could be a crime in Minnesota under new GOP proposal | FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
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Just WTF. This is what Minnesota Republicans are doing. These people have lost their mind.
#MNGOP
#Minnesota
#AbolishICE
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‘Residential protesting’ could be a crime in Minnesota under new GOP proposal
A bill that’s backed by a coalition of GOP lawmakers set to be proposed at the start of the upcoming session would make “residential protesting" punishable under Minnesota law.
https://share.google/jWM2SY0T1L1slD8XF
16 days ago
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Proud to help defend our Somali and immigrant neighbors!
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17 days ago
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Amanda Carpenter
17 days ago
PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated. Watch the segment here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC...
I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3
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They are targeting schools and children. Even this morning I had to get an ICE car to move away from a bus stop.
#AbolishICE
#ICEOut
#Minnesota
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‘Time to speak up’: In Columbia Heights, school leaders stepped in to protect families as ICE surged
As federal immigration agents descended on Columbia Heights families, the school superintendent expected to stay silent. Then federal agents came for 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, and s...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/13/columbia-heights-school-leaders-stepped-in-to-protect-families-as-ice-surged
20 days ago
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I hate these people so much. Wasting my tax money to kidnap children in shiny new vehicles.
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20 days ago
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This is for my physics people. I am going to run an upstander training focused on helping individuals, schools and Universities respond to ICE at the Denver APS meeting. If you can help me find a time and space for training dm me.
#APS
#Physics
#ICEOut
20 days ago
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The goons aren't gone yet. They just kidnapped a mom and a 5 year old out of North Minneapolis.
#ICEOut
#AbolishICE
#Minneapolis
20 days ago
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Hopefully ICE is actually leaving. Unfortunately that means they are going somewhere else to terrorize. Come learn from Minnesota how you can protect your neighbors.
melttheicemn.com
. Together we can uphold the constitution and build a country that works for everyone
#AbolishICE
21 days ago
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Yep we are in favor of the constitution here in Minnesota. How about you Ron Johnson? Not a fan of the first amendment?
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21 days ago
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Impeach all these idiots now. Our safety and economic security depend on it
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21 days ago
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I know my children are carrying so much trauma. A 5 year old just can't understand why masked men with guns sit at bus stops. She is so worried her immigrant friend is going to disappear. Kids are also stressed and acting out. My son got punched at school by another 3rd grader.
#AbolishICE
#ICEOut
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Yuen: Even if ICE left tomorrow, the damage to kids is already done
“They’re all suffering,” says one Minnesota immigrant dad who has been sheltering in place with his children.
https://www.startribune.com/ice-children-immigration-minnesota-adverse-childhood-experiences-operation-metro-surge/601575490
21 days ago
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ICE T-boned this car in St Paul then rode with the driver in the ambulance to the hospital. They are still here and still cruel and lawless.
#AbolishICE
#ICEOut
#Minnesota
21 days ago
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Aleesa
22 days ago
An agent told the teen to call her family and ask them to pick her up. But the agent said that if they came, ICE would send the entire family to Texas. The girl writes “My family decided not to come and pick me up as a result of this threat. ICE decided to take me to a hotel.”
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After arrest, teen refugee held overnight in hotel room by ICE agents
A girl who entered the United States as a refugee alleges that immigration authorities separated her from her family and detained her overnight in a hotel, where she was forced to share a room with fe...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/10/after-arrest-teen-refugee-held-overnight-in-hotel-room-by-ice-agents
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This is why we protect our neighbors. Nobody should be sent to concentration camps.
#AbolishICE
#Minnesota
#ICEOut
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22 days ago
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Meanwhile I am out here daily recording their crimes with only a cell phone and they keep scanning my face. I am not interfering or protesting just documenting.
#AbolishICE
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22 days ago
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This is happening. ICE stalks food shelves and schools. They want to starve out the immigrants. But Minnesota is full of people who are trying to prevent that.
#AbolishICE
#ICEOut
#mpls
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Hungry Families, ICE and Secret Grocery Networks in Minneapolis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/dining/minneapolis-ice-grocery-stores-hunger.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LFA.PYBJ.zZyybUUCvde8&smid=nytcore-android-share
23 days ago
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Finally got our Minnesota flag up. Only took 6 months and a federal occupation. Tonight watching the fleets of drones surveilling us because that is our new reality.
#AbolishICE
#Minnesota
23 days ago
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Oh for fuck sake. Leave. If you are mad about people being mad at you for supporting the masked men kidnapping our children at bus stops then we don't want you here.
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23 days ago
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Not only are they kidnapping our neighbors they are also wrecking our economy by fighting with Canada. Trump and his billionaire fascists friends need to leave.
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24 days ago
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Kids protest. Lots of clever signs and passionate kids.
#AbolishICE
#ICEOut
#mpls
#Minnesota
24 days ago
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Happy Sunday morning! Already ICE chased a child north of us and we had to drive out a fleet of them stalking the apartments by us this morning. Tried to yell at them to go to church instead of terrorizing us.
#AbolishICE
#ICEOut
#mpls
25 days ago
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