I keep thinking about how I saw people in LA and Chicago describe it as a battle. The Battle of LA, the Battle of Chicago

Minneapolis Food Drive for 100 local families in need! 🛒 Collecting on Saturday, January 17th, from 9:30am - 11:30am — in need of: - Diapers & Formula - Hygiene & Cleaning - Food for 100 families ✉️ Email for the drop off address: [email protected]

Mass resignation at Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office stems from Renee Good shooting and investigation www.startribune.com/joe-thompson...

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

Elected officials have to stop posting like bystanders who have no power.

Arrested while observing ICE, two Minnesota residents describe harsh conditions and fear inside federal building cells. Written by Katelyn Vue

ICE agents detained three people, including two citizen observers, and deployed chemical irritants at a crowd of over 100 observers around E. 34th Street and Park Avenue in Minneapolis. Written by Nicolas Scibelli

It's about to get real cold, great for breaking ICE's spirits, but sucks for our unhoused neighbors. Venmo electric-tumbleweed to keep them warm. Put a 🌴 in the Venmo notes.

People don't want to accept that the primary reason that we have Trump today is that the previous administration completely failed. It should have never gotten to the point where it was in the so-called hands of the voters. It was already too late by then.

New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis. The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.

oh does it make them feel unsafe and vulnerable? does it make them feel in danger in their community? like an attack could come from anywhere at any moment?

CW

Something to pass on

Someone inside DHS leaked the names of 4,500 ICE and CBP officers to a nonprofit that tracks ICE. About 80 percent of those name are active. www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-d...

Hmmm. Minneapolis Schools removed key finance staff, and they refuse to explain it minnesotareformer.com/briefs/minne...

These three people asked themselves "are we the baddies?" And realized the answer was yes. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

ICE are 100% accessing DVS data on the fly. Every day for at least the past 3 weeks, folks in our MSP patrol groups doing in-car observing of ICE activities/vehicles are being: - led back to our houses by the ICE vehicles we're observing - being called by name when pulled over/approached by ICE

Guys I think they're instantly getting DVS data. Pulled up next to this guy on central going south in Columbia heights, followed him, they turned around, got on 694, crossed the river, and went straight to my house in Brooklyn center.

People who aren't in Minnesota might not know that if you drive or walk past pretty much any school, there's going to be a group of people, parents and childless, standing guard to make sure the kids are safe from feds. It's pretty remarkable. And very disturbing. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says

I get that the cold temperatures next week are gonna make ICE miserable but I also want you to know how difficult it is for unhoused people, especially now that there are no encampments or yurts.

Saturday is normally the day with the lowest newspaper readership, and Sunday is by far the highest. Editors are very aware of this.

The count of Renee Good-related LTEs in the Strib is: Thursday: 3 of 7 Friday: 9 of 9 Saturday: 11 of 11 Sunday: 0 of 6

What to do if ICE stops you: An attorney answers some questions www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I encourage you to think of abolishing ICE not as an end in itself, but as a good start.

The Saint Paul paper has multiple locally bylined stories today, including the only one I seen in either local daily about the arrest at the Snelling Avenue Speedway as part of a rundown of local ICE nonsense (gift link): www.twincities.com/2026/01/12/s...

As thousands of immigration agents arrive in Minnesota, neighbors are working together to track, distract and protest ICE. The cat-and-mouse game between activists and agents is escalating as tactics change daily.

John Boehler, ACLU of MN says observing ICE or feds is a protected First Amendment activity: “To be using those cameras, to use those license plate readers, to surveil protesters has a chilling effect on First Amendment rights, and that's what we think the goal is.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Unfortunately this is yet another person badly beaten. Still don't know about the gas station incident

Has anyone asked O'Hara if he thinks ICE are using unlawful force yet? (Article from December 5) www.ms.now/news/minneap...

These peaceful observers I spoke to had ICE show up at their homes in what they see as attempts at intimidation. ICE has somehow been accessing Minnesotans' private data in likely violation of state law, according to privacy advocates. share.google/J00lpWzPzOu2...

They want to bring 1,000 more agents so we will need thousands of neighbors to come together and alert neighbors of any immigration enforcement. Jason Chavez 4/

We posted this video 26 minutes before ICE shoved Council President Payne and other observers in NE Minneapolis. We want to let community know about the reports of 1,000 additional federal agents deploying to Minneapolis. 1/

also if a lady like this saying "you guys have to stop this" doesn't make you feel shame to your very core, nothing will. i recoiled away from my screen when she said it. no wonder they tucked their tails and got back in their cars.

She stands her ground, people with horns and whistles show up, and the thugs leave

US citizens do not have to show ICE any proof of citizenship. Takes guts, but she did it right.

I'm at a coffee shop at the moment with a bunch of writer buds, and we just observed a large convoy of ICE vehicles pursued by a much larger convoy of volunteer observers honking their horns with wild abandon. If there's one thing Minnesotans do, it's show up for shit.

It should also be noted the Council President was assaulted and it was filmed by another City Council Member @jchavezmpls.bsky.social This is the world we are living in

NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good. www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...

Okay I think I fucked up here :( I've deleted my post

Okay, thanks to @cmcfadden.bsky.social, it’s pretty clear this person’s fate is still in doubt. The person knocked unconscious was not Lalo.

I can’t emphasize enough how shocked my out of state friends and family are when I tell them what has happened in Minneapolis since Renee Good’s murder. Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.

A neighbor in the block chat that’s been up since May ‘20 has been delivering whistles to anyone who texts the group that they want one. And, lemme tell ya, there are people who have *never* posted once all those years, not a peep, names I’ve never seen before, suddenly: “Hi. I’ll take a whistle.”

if you’re outside of minneapolis and want to help support mutual aid but don’t know where to do so, may i suggest CANMN? funds go to food and diapers. they’ve doubled their delivery days as more and more people are unsafe leaving their homes.

ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.

1. It's good that ICE agents are scared to come here, 2. and that there's any kind of split in the ranks. 3. But this means the agents coming to MN are either basically untrained or weirdos really hyped to beat people up. This explains some things (ctd) www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigratio...

More than 300 people are at Mankato’s City Council meeting tonight, where residents are calling on city leaders to protect residents from ICE.

People who don't have activism experience often ask what the point of big protests is. There are LOTS of points, but this is a really big one: When people start building their protest muscles at big, long-organized events, when they start networking—they're able to do all this ⬇️, within *48 hours*

There’s reports that there will be 1,000 more agents coming to our city. We need that same surge in residents out patrolling our streets. Even if you can’t patrol, come work from a coffee shop on one of cultural corridors so you can be there to show up for our neighbors.

OH: "Sorry I slept through the bomb threat. But I was awake for the attempted tear gassing of the sex toys"