Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

“Permit to carry holders, they’re allowed to carry in public," said Rob Doar, president of the Minnesota Gun Owners Law Center. "There’s nothing inherently criminal about that activity. You also don’t have to choose between exercising your First Amendment rights or your Second Amendment rights.”

The beauty of mass nonviolent resistance and mutual aid is that every kidnapping, every murder, every beating, every lie—the only weapons they have—invigorates our solidarity and commitment and weakens them. It turns their violence and propaganda inside out. We’re winning and it’s not even close.

I saw/heard another chant in Boston about Minnesota teaching them how to be brave and between that and this I have to tell you it’s incredibly helpful. I can’t speak for everyone in my state but I can’t be the only one who has felt so very abandoned and alone at times. This helps so much.

i like that every time jd vance tries to tell a story about some awful thing that happened he just sounds like the softest dude on the planet. aw, poor baby, you mean you and your chud friends were locked in a restaurant?

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

I can't stop thinking about this Minnesota Republicans Brought This Violence to Our Home On June 14th, Melissa Hortman, was murdered in her home by a man disguised as law enforcement. Now, men disguised as law enforcement are murdering our neighbors in the street. leaflet.pub/dc5a74c5-5e6...

Pam Bondi can have our voter rolls and take our democracy over our frigid, cold, dead bodies.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

I was reading to my 4 year old this past week at bedtime holding back tears. The federal government had kidnapped children that day as young as her. I thought to myself “I wonder if parents felt this way during the siege of Sarajevo”. Having to hold it together for our kids is heavy.

Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers

ICE is distinguishable by their rotundity, their stature, their slobby half-civilian uniforms, their visible lack of physical conditioning, and their total lack of training. Border Patrol is distinguishable because they’re always equipped like they’re about to ship out for Fallujah.

Anderson, it's ok to put on a hat.

JUST IN: ICE agents in Minnesota arrested an employee at the St. Louis Park Homewood Suites — where they were staying to help carry out Operation Metro Surge. A federal judge just ordered the man's release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This right here. This can't be stated enough. The scam video didn't come out of nowhere. It was deliberately created by identifiable members of the Republican part in Minnesota.

CRUCIALLY: this was all done with the direct and overt help of the MNGOP. This is an invasion facilitated by local conservatives for electoral leverage. Murder for votes.

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.

When you lose dads from Prior Lake , Woodbury and Bloomington, this week in MN . Ground sifts beyond politics into fairness , freedom and human rights.

I don’t know how one city, one community, deals with this much trauma over the course of so few years. I don’t know how to keep myself moving forward day to day, how to tell my kids it’s going to be ok day to day.

Eat shit.

Friends sending me lots of stories about this one particular ICE agent - really more like child soldier. He couldn’t have been more than 23 and came to the scene of the shooting fully kitted in U of MN branded clothes. Apparently he made a 6-7 joke

Renee Good’s last words: “That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you.” Alex Pretti‘s last words, reportedly, to the woman ICE was attacking and he was trying to help: “Are you okay?”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "I don't know. You kill a man and then you just leave? You're law enforcement and you just leave? Is there a single case in American history where you just, like, walk away and say, 'I guess that just happened and we're not going to clean up our mess'?"

Dayum! @weratedogs.com dropping bombs!

As a Disney Parks nerd, I follow dozens of Disney influencers on Instagram and a whole lot of them are posting about abolishing ICE. The idea has broken containment.

I spent all afternoon in awe that the grief from Alex Pretti's depraved murder turned into neither violence nor resignation, but into greater resolve. I'm not sure I've ever been prouder to be a Minnesotan than I am today.

Tonight, my Minneapolis neighborhood gathered on street corners and in our local park to mourn Alex Pretti. This is our FOURTH vigil in eight months. No community should have to go through what we're going through.

man the stuff i am seeing on IG from the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different

He’s not wrong. I wake up daily and make peace with the fact that it might be my last day on earth. The last day I hold my 4 year old daughter.

NOTE: Walz called in the National Guard during a flood in June of 2024.

😕

From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

Good thing he told us it was sickening. Makes me feel safer already 🙄

Three apartments worth of people on their balconies here are heckling agents down below. One person has produced a white board that says "ICE can suck my dick." "Fuck you all! Kill yourselves!"

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

Video ABSOLUTELY CONTRADICTS the DHS statement. Video of man in street, being approached by ICE agents: www.reddit.com/r/behindtheb... DHS statement is on Star Tribune live blog: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

‼️‼️‼️ ICE is arresting or kidnapping Nur-D right now near the scene of the murder today. He was being tackled and begging for an ambulance. Several ice agents just dragged him into the bed of a truck.

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

The chief judge of the federal Minnesota district court writes a startling letter — to explain why he hasn't responded to the U.S. government's request that he override a magistrate judge's refusal to arrest protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I’m now fully in the camp for secession. We cannot remain a part of a country at war with us

Sayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."

This is @nurdrocks.bsky.social and this is horrifying.

Federal agents are acting as though any crime they commit will be ignored by federal prosecutors today, and pardoned before Trump leaves office. The proper political response to this is to impeach and remove the president from office before he can do that.

I thought I would be more demoralized, but no I’m mad as hell.

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)