MN mom pressed into democracy defense
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Mom, physicist, educator focused on equity, world-traveler, gardener, defender of democracy
Our government is terrorizing children. Everything in this story is heartbreaking. It also doesn't just affect the kids detained. Entire schools of children are traumatized by this.
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
#AbolishICE
#NoConcentrationCamps
about 11 hours ago
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Yep totally true. I know my neighbors will show up way faster than police. We have found missing dogs, deescalated situations, and connected people with needed resources in addition to trying to get ICE to follow the constitution.
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about 12 hours ago
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Most frustrating student conversation. Student didn't finish test on time (designed to take 1 hour, gave them 2 hours). Student just goes on and on about they know it but just need more time. Actual problem is student used AI to do all their homework for the unit and hasn't actually learned anything
about 17 hours ago
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MPR News
1 day ago
Vivian Huelgo, president and CEO of Esperanza United, told Minnesota Now that while the majority of federal agents have left the state, many are still on-guard. "I think the level of hypervigilance is still present," she said.
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'A horrible decision': Domestic violence survivors hiding during ICE surge faced increase danger
A domestic violence advocate told MPR News that increased immigration enforcement left some domestic violence survivors afraid to leave home, cutting them off from support and forcing difficult choice...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/04/20/domestic-violence-survivors-hiding-during-ice-surge-faced-increase-danger
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Minneapolis stay vigilant and make sure you are checking on your neighborhood. I am not sure what ICE is doing but I saw a lot of suspicious vehicles around north and driving on 94. There has also been more attempted abductions.
#AbolishICE
#Minneapolis
#Minnesota
2 days ago
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I hate ICE so much. It is exhausting to always be vigilant...but the second we aren't they are out here kidnapping our neighbors.
#AbolishICE
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2 days ago
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I feel this as a female physicist. Nice job reclaiming the expert title!
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5 days ago
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This was ICE terrorizing residents of North Minneapolis this morning. Why on earth do we still have these masked men in unmarked vehicles in our neighborhood just randomly stopping residents.
#AbolishICE
#Minneapolis
#NoSecretPolice
5 days ago
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Governor Tim Walz talks dinosaurs with 4-year-old Yasir Hassan during a visit to Hoover Elementary and Early Learning School (Joe Ahlquist / @PostBulletin_News). This could be our VP. Instead we have JD Vance lecturing the Pope on theology.
6 days ago
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Save the boundary waters! Mining is important on the iron range but the boundary waters are too special to destroy for short term profits. I want my kids to enjoy canoeing there just like I have been able to.
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6 days ago
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Absolutely infuriating. There was a murder within about a mile of my house that might not have happened if all the federal officers and courts hadn't been busy kidnapping children and other non criminals and then dealing with all the lawsuits from violating our rights.
#AbolishICE
#Minneapolis
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As Operation Metro Surge stormed on, a wanted man stayed free â and allegedly committed murder
Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim has a lengthy history of gun crime. A federal warrant for his arrest was active when he allegedly took part in a killing.
https://www.startribune.com/as-operation-metro-surge-stormed-on-a-man-wanted-on-a-federal-warrant-stayed-free-and-allegedly-committed-murder/601667233
7 days ago
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So sick of MAHA. If they want to believe misinformation they should pay more for health insurance and higher medicaid taxes for the increase in costs they are passing on to the rest of us who choose to believe science over grifters like RFK. People spreading misinformation need to pay up.
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8 days ago
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This is the school across the street from us. Yes we are changed for the better. I have gotten to know so many neighbors better!
#AbolishICE
#Minneapolis
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Yuen: After ICE, Minnesota enters the next chapter of loving your neighbor
The relationships forged during the immigration crackdown may be the most radical part of the resistance. What happens now?
https://www.startribune.com/yuen-after-ice-minnesota-enters-the-next-chapter-of-loving-your-neighbor/601608347?from_app=1&darkmode=System&from_mobile=1&utm_source=webview
8 days ago
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Looking forward to years from now when my kids watch this in history class in college and go wtf
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8 days ago
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Way to go Hungary! I remember going to Hungary right after Orban won and academics felt pretty grim, but the people finally won! I dedicate my performance in democracy 250 today to you. May we also redeem our democracy in America!
#defenddemocracy
#authoritariansout
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Hungary election live: Viktor OrbĂĄn concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power
Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/12/hungary-election-latest-results-viktor-orban-peter-magyar-fidesz-tisza-russia-europe-live-news-updates
10 days ago
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I guess it is democracy week for me. Thursday did training for faith leaders to prepare for ICE. This weekend we perform Democracy 250 a concert about what democracy can be. 4 pm Sunday Orchestra Hall. Also recorded for PBS and NPR.
www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/cale...
#defenddemocracy
#mso
11 days ago
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From Minnesota to Iran way to be brave! Americans time to step up! We can't let these innocent people be murdered. 25th amendment now. We need to be on the streets and making sure every elected representative knows they are responsible if they don't stop this genocide.
#Impeach
#25th
#nokings
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15 days ago
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Congress and cabinet get do something. Anyone who participates or knows about this and doesn't use their powers to try to stop this could be charged with war crimes. Do you want to spend a lifetime in jail for this insane lunatic who will gladly throw you under the bus?
#Impeach
#25th
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15 days ago
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What has happened in this mans life that he is such an asshat. That is the the thing I will never understand about MAGA. Just hating people, being a complete jerk and then thinking we are all will celebrate their terrible behavior.
#Impeach
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16 days ago
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Happy Easter! In church we saw our insane president tweet about committing war crimes. Then we got word we needed to monitor the neighborhood because a steady stream of masked ICE agents were leaving the federal building.
#Impeach
#AbolishICE
#WWJD
17 days ago
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Twins home opener! Did I eat a hot dog for breakfast? Yep. Am I going to watch the Twins lose while freezing? Probably. Twins fans can always hope though this is the year they don't fall apart for months at a time. Go Twins!
19 days ago
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We are still recovering in Minneapolis. This morning I ended up crying on the way to work thanks to an npr story about how ICE terror affects children. Both my kids are in therapy from watching masked men abduct neighbors. Singing helped pick me up a little.
#AbolishICE
#Minnesota
#Resist
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Women In Music | Resistance Revival Chorus | United States
The Resistance Revival Chorus is a collective of women and non-binary singers, who join together to breathe joy and song into the resistance, and to uplift and center womenâs voices. Joy is an act of ...
https://www.resistancerevivalchorus.com/
22 days ago
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stpaulartcollective.org/draw-together/
. This is so awesome. Going to love coloring this with my kids. Get your own by ordering or downloading with optional donation.
#Minnesotastrong
#ICEOut
#AbolishICE
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Draw Together - Community Coloring Book | St Paul Art Collective
https://stpaulartcollective.org/draw-together/
24 days ago
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Grand Marais is the best! Minnesotans everywhere standing up for democracy!
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25 days ago
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Huge turnout in St Paul for no kings! Kids survived almost 5 hours of the largest protest in Minnesota history! Good music and good speeches all around even if they all ran long.
#NoKings
#Minnesota
#AbolishICE
25 days ago
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No Kings Minnesota! Still one hour out and 3 marches are still forming before heading over. This crowd is going to be huge!
#NoKings
#Minnesota
#StPaul
25 days ago
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I will be in St Paul marching for our democracy and my and my neighbors rights. Where will you be?
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26 days ago
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Yep American science is about to nearly collapse. That is why one side of my no kings sign is about love thy neighbor and the other is about funding and believing science.
#nokings
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27 days ago
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Peter DiCampo
27 days ago
The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at
@propublica.org
, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera đ
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Norm Charlatan
27 days ago
Holy shit, every single aspect of this story is so tremendously infuriating. How many of these kids are there, forced to suffer?
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UMN student detained by ICE in January still in detention
Editorâs note: This story contains a detailed description of an ICE apprehension involving violence and distressed individuals. For Edwin Toalombo, studying at the University of Minnesota was a dream...
https://mndaily.com/top-story/umn-student-detained-by-ice-in-january-still-in-detention/03/25/2026/eicmndaily-com/?utm_source=mndaily.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily-breakdown
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This is literally how concentration camps started. First the sick die from neglect then eventually more deaths are normalized. We can still stop this though! Join your local no kings rally. Get Upstander training. Stand up for everyone's dignity and rights!
#AbolishICE
#NoKings
#Minnesota
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Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now heâs in hospice.
Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.
https://www.startribune.com/how-ice-detainment-harmed-immigrants-with-chronic-health-problems/601588583
27 days ago
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Another good version of All you fascists bound to lose this one with a shout out to Minneapolis. Thanks Bette Midler!
#nokings
#Minneapolis
youtu.be/U5VXwncNvTo?...
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AllYouFascistsBoundtoLose 4k BetteMidler 2026
YouTube video by Bette Midler
https://youtu.be/U5VXwncNvTo?feature=shared
28 days ago
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Music has pulled me through the ICE occupation so I am sharing favorites. First my Minnesota protest mix full of protest music and Minnesota artists. Second come here my orchestra play beautiful music about what democracy can be.
www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/cale...
#nokings
#Minnesota
#music
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Minnesota protest songs 2026
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0VnWqG0flYIdtooEGItPUC?si=TlmT06rzTtqeA3qbuJnOog&pi=tgJVyLLCTnm1u
28 days ago
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Attorney General Keith Ellison
29 days ago
BREAKING: I'm suing the federal government for access to evidence in the shootings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Julio Sosa-Celis. It's astonishing this lawsuit is even necessary, but in Minnesota, nobody is above the law.
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My 5 year old wants to sing Streets of Minneapolis everyday on the way to school. She is so excited to join the protest so she can chant ICE OUT!
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30 days ago
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These goons couldn't or wouldn't check the id of the people they ripped out of cars and houses in Minneapolis. Now they are going to be assigned that as their job? Just abolish ICE already and be done with this.
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about 1 month ago
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So much less snow than when I left! Happy to be home.
#Minneapolis
about 1 month ago
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We talked about this in my physics classes. Women and minorities are the hardest hit by the attack on government and science
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about 1 month ago
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www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
. I am glad we are being recognized but just a reminder we are all capable standing up. Minnesota is not special and we need every city and state to contribute to the resistance.
#AbolishICE
#Minneapolis
#Resist
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People of Twin Cities awarded JFK Profile in Courage Award over resistance to ICE surge
The people of Minneapolis-St. Paul are being honored with a John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for their response to the federal immigration enforcement operation this winter, the JFK Library Fo...
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/twin-cities-jfk-profile-in-courage-award-resistance-ice-surge/?fbclid=Iwb21leAQpFYdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR7cnloLxwu2vDdC2l9U2hkhhv2VDSXdzufTL2_wk7taisY3eSjk0Cr0vDZ6UQ_aem_F9_SZKwTd-NBUKTmGCrRww
about 1 month ago
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www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
This! Me and many of my students can't just pretend everything is fine. Yet my University is pretending everything is normal. Not processing this trauma is so bad for our individual and collective mental health.
#AbolishICE
#Minnesota
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Processing the ICE surge isnât over, professor says
Hamline University in St. Paul is one of many colleges that found itself immersed in a surrounding neighborhood impacted by ICE arrests and raids. Now, months after the height of the operationâs surge...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/03/19/processing-ice-surge-isnt-over-professor-says?fbclid=Iwb21leAQpE5djbGNrBCkTXmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHnsDnvCC0u6JzB-vHiaBCgXIbpHNidViWT4pbwq-uh4KUzyxoaHGpvFTyA71_aem_BIB4MwakgJ_l35QvcwYy5w
about 1 month ago
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CALL TO ACTIVISM
about 1 month ago
đ¨LIVE BREAKING: Leader Hakeem Jeffries has just introduced a discharge petition that STRIPS all Ice funding from the DHS funding bill. The bill would FULLY FUND TSA and not provide a single penny to ICE. This is amazing.
#FundDHSFreezeICE
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Peggy Flanagan
about 1 month ago
In Minnesota, weâve seen the federal government at its worst -- and showed the world how to fight back. Now, I'm honored that the flagship No Kings protest will be held here in the Twin Cities. Together, we'll show Donald Trump that we don't do kings.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
about 1 month ago
The article is here, and I'll have more to say in the coming days about how we came to this method of trying to answer, "How many Covid-19 deaths went uncounted in the US?"
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Applying machine learning to identify unrecognized COVID-19 deaths recorded as other causes of death in the United States
A machine learning approach suggests that COVID-19 deaths were undercounted unevenly across sociodemographic groups in 2020â2021.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aef5697
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Physicists come see my talk and poster tomorrow! My talk is at 12:12 and is on adapting step up lessons for college. My poster is at 2-5 and is on the history of women in physics in Minnesota and my diversity in physics lesson.
#physics
#APS
#WomenInPhysics
about 1 month ago
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Sadly the snow was just a regular big storm not Halloween blizzard caliber. Still though kids got outside, I got to shovel and had time to plant more seeds. Bonus I got on the one flight going to Denver today so will make it to APS. Come see my poster and talk Tuesday!
#Minnesota
#Blizzard
#APS
about 1 month ago
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This made me so paranoid. So many drones and helicopters. I am pretty sure one even hit our window one night.
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about 1 month ago
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Nice to see Minneapolis actually enforcing laws. I can't tell you the number of times we had ICE vehicles illegally parked in our neighborhood blocking intersections or fire hydrants or school fire zones.
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about 1 month ago
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Tomorrow is the first national loon day!
about 1 month ago
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www.science.org/content/arti...
I am showing this to my Freshman physics students and electronics students today. Love the visual and combining physics with art!
#Physics
#Electronics
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And the winner of Scienceâs 2026 âDance Your Ph.D.â contest is âŚ
A physicist and professional dancer takes home the grand prize, and Science awards its first trophy for an AI-assisted dance concept
https://www.science.org/content/article/and-winner-science-s-2026-dance-your-ph-d-contest
about 1 month ago
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