Probably old news by now, but heads up all the same Twin Cities folks. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

wfh jobs are super cool until the nanny you depend on to watch your 4 y/o is out sick. And then you’re stuck trying to be productive and lead meetings while your child demands your attention. That’s 8-10 hours of feeling like a bad dad and not being in top form for work.

“.. Shameful — but in a way useful,” he wrote in a post on X on Thursday. “No one should any longer pretend we have a ‘Department of Justice.’ We have a Department of Trump.” @financialtimes.com @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/6eca...

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.

every American reading the UK news this morning

If anyone out there has advice for how to not F-up my first ever chaperone duty for my son’s kindergarten field trip to the Minnesota children’s museum, I’d consider writing you into my will. 5-6 kids seems like a lot of kids to keep track of for half a day.

Gotta love company town hall meetings Me: Hmmm no recording and chat is disabled. I wonder if they’ll address the 40% dip in stock price over the last 12 months and slashing our maximum RSUs from 10% to 5% Them: LOL. Let’s do a rapid fire round talking about your favorite colors and things to eat!

Full stack software development makes me weep a little more every day. I just want to be writing code. Instead I get to muck around in Argo CD to try and figure out why the pods are using a different Postgres connection string than expected. Time for a kubectl crash course I guess

I’m not a plane expert but there have been some pretty damn quiet well lit slow flying planes tonight. I guess they needed something to balance out the drones.

Set off?! You mean further compound? Jamar Clark (2015) Philando Castile (2016) George Floyd (2020) Daunte Wright (2021) Amir Locke (2022) Renee Nicole Good (2026) Alex Pretti (2026) “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time” -Maya Angelou #ACAB

“At the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis … activists told The Associated Press they had seen agents leaving in vehicles with stuffed animals on their dashboards or Mexican flag decals on their bumpers. Pickups with lumber or tools in their beds were also frequently spotted.”

idk how many government drones a person has to see in their residential neighborhood to start googling “potato cannon drone net” but I’m definitely past that threshold

we gotta open the schools…or close down the schools. not sure. yikes

It would be real cool if these drones would stop spying on us at night…or in general. Expecting more activity in Rosemount tomorrow. #ICEOUT #AbolishICE

Buy Girl Scout cookies from a Minneapolis 2nd grade Brownie Troop with trans and neurodiverse youth and 75% BIPOC girls who can't go out selling because ICE ruins everything (you can also buy some to be donated in the community): digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop5...

The Anoka County observer who provided us the video said, “Hearing from a federal agent actively out here detaining people, I thought it was very surprising to hear that essentially their plan is to take away as much of our voters as possible so our state can’t remain blue.”

MN could really use a “What to expect when you’re expecting (ICE edition)” for home network hardening, intrusion detection, and general security best practices… starting with get a freaking encrypted password immediately followed by change your network name to something other than your home address.

This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Living in a suburban neighborhood while large spy drones fly overhead and seeing reports about individual homes and apartment buildings getting raided creates uncertainty. Especially this time of night…is that an airplane? No? A drone? How soon until they arrive? Are we even close enough to help?

Being told by your 4-year-old’s Pediatrician that she has an exceedingly rare abnormality that requires extensive bloodwork and a brain MRI is easily one of the shittiest starts to a Monday I’ve ever had. We have to wait a minimum of two days for the specialists to confer about a plan of action.

BREAKING: ICE and Border Patrol are beating a 16 year old like a grown enemy soldier. Guns out. Heads slammed into concrete. This country is rotting in real time.

Never mind sleepy Joe. There’s mud butt Trump. He with a wave of his hands announced a code brown. Sounds like he attempted to make soup.

Given the nature of the warrantless home invasions, folks may consider door reinforcement locks and security bars. I have no vested interest in these products but wanted to share some examples: a.co/d/0mGxTR2 a.co/d/2xMfI45

Home ownership is all fun and games until you attempt to replace a hardwired smoke detector and accidentally electrocute yourself

To the surprise of literally nobody.

you say “pogrom,” they say they’re just rounding up “collateral aliens”

Honest to God I cannot believe people like this exist much less live in the same community as me. We’ve been pushing so hard for love, inclusion, and support…yet people like this exist that would happily throw you to the wolves. Her alternate photo is TPUSA, so that tracks.

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

We have to report what they do not what they say. That's the job and it's been done pretty well until the last few days, when wishcasting has taken over. We all want it to end. Until it ends, we (journalists) have to lead with ... nothing has changed.

What's the end game here? Arrest all of us? Remove the rights of full citizenship for an entire state?

Here’s the legacy of Kavenaugh Stops. DHS lost 60 of the 61 immigrant detention challenges in MN district court last week per @msnowreports.bsky.social We were right when we said they’re just ripping anyone off the streets.

Heads up for people connected with friends, family, or community groups on Facebook. I’ve seen some real shady posts this week from *new accounts* that are social engineering their way into details of home daycare and/or daycare center locations for parents concerned about ICE.

MST3K reviewing Melania is something I’d like to see

I hope people in other states know there’s a big difference in ICE strategies depending on population size. I feel like only the urban presence is really being covered. I’ve yet to see any news articles about fleets of 4' - 5' drones with IR tech hovering outside folks 2nd story windows.

It's not just "stand up to ICE when you see them," it's building many vast networks of support and trust to - create safe spaces - protect schools - get kids TO school - check on neighbors - deliver groceries - help pay the rent - let people know of danger - feed the helpers, too! - and on and on

Hey folks. Aside from iceinmyarea.org are there other resources to help suburbanites get connected? Rosemount has seen a big uptick in drone activity. 10 reported this morning in the vicinity of the lifetime fitness as of 6am. Agents seen getting coffee at Caribou. DM’s welcomed.

pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor: "Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

rise and grind, taxpayers, it's time to help our neighbors under threat of summary execution

oh commuters just found the motherlode of ice agents at a suburban hotel, including, potentially, bovino himself. a bunch of confirmed ICE and CBP cars from the bovino convoy there. spring hill suites in maple grove. people of the twin cities, do with this info what you will.

This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

I was still feeling really low & a couple friends at BH said, "but we're winning." "Yeah, I know, but it doesn't feel like it." And he just said again "no, we're winning." And that reminder did start to turn me around. Every punch we take on the chin makes them weaker.

The “critical” here improves the headline. www.startribune.com/fact-check-f...

Target in Minneapolis has pulled Hispanic employees off of pick-up order duty after ICE arrested two US citizen Hispanic employees while on the job. “I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.

Standing with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

In the voice of Bill Lumbergh, “Yeah…our bottom line is being impacted so if you could stop being difficult that would be great.” It’s a damn shame two children’s hospital networks are on the list. I can’t say it comes as a surprise that the major mandatory RTO companies are on there though.

Friendly reminder about sewer gas in cold/dry weather. If you smell something bad in your home or hear gurgling sounds when you flush the toilet it may be due to a dry P-trap. Make sure to check your basement drains, utility sink, that toilet or sink you never use etc Just fill it with water.

The Trump regime's position seems to be that Republicans have the right to bear arms and everyone else has the right to get shot by them.

I’m trying to reconcile which federal groups have taken up occupation of the twin cities: * ICE * National Guard * Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) * Department of Homeland Security (DHS) * Customs and Border Protection (CBP) * FBI * Army Reserves (on standby)