The numbers do speak for themselves. In fact, our neighbors know this because they feel it on the ground. They expect us to do more. How about you stop telling us behind closed doors that we shouldn’t fund immigrant legal assistance, rental assistance, or support for our small businesses!

Democrats are suggesting reforms for ICE, but the reality is: abolition is the way forward, not reform. Read the latest from our co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie in @thenation.com!

Annnd there she goes, now that other people have done the real work and she thinks the crisis is over, running to the head of the parade

Lots of emotions and questions following Homan's announcement. But the thing I keep coming back to is this: We cannot go back. We must take this moment, reflect on the power we discovered, and build a city that is stronger, more caring, and more connected. A city that can do this can do anything.

you're doing amazing everybody ❤️

I think on top of the visible trauma and rebuilding, this is a large risk if we are in fact entering into a new phase. Much of ICE’s activity has been jail related for its whole existence and it is built on the idea that there are discardable people nobody has to see.

I’ll believe it when I see it. Everything they’ve said about this illegal occupation has been built on a lies. We need accountability for our neighbors and for this whole corrupt department to be dismantled. Stay out there, keep your connection to one another, and only believe your eyes.

A really good statement about today. It affirms every caveat about how Homan can't be believed, how vigilance must be maintained, and how the work continues... while also having the tone of a movement that is winning. The appearance of victory can be demobilizing; this is a call to keep showing up.

They're liars. Which is why so many folks right now don't believe what they're saying about ending the occupation. We'll believe it when we see it.

We desperately need someone to run against her.

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

We’re running it back with another Mutual Aid Market! LOVE MELTS ICE ❤️‍🔥 organized by The Brass Strap & Sappho Social Club — supporting local funds + rent relief for impacted families. mark your calendars for Friday, Feb 13th, 6-9pm 💌 I’m excited to unveil a new design that I’ll be printing live! 🎉

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

see that's not particularly difficult messaging

for @autostraddle.bsky.social, i wrote about how minnesota's queer-owned businesses (and queer folks in general) are standing up to ICE and defending their communities:

Props to @jchavezmpls.bsky.social @zaynabmmohamed.bsky.social @elliottpayne.org @doronclark.bsky.social for doing basically this on their socials each day. Wish other state-level leaders would step up to help!

Please don’t forget about us and our neighbors! standwithminnesota.com

Hey all! I'm raising funds for an immigrant family sheltering at home here in Minneapolis. They still need rent for February, and we're currently at $728 of $1525 needed! If you can help, my venmo is @austenhartke! Will post the picture of the completed transaction as soon as we have it 💜

In one of our signal chats, a neighbor calls these “fuckaroundabouts”

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From the former Poet Laureate of #Northfield #Minnesota (reportedly).

This (along with everything else he has been doing) is a model of how to lead - drawing attention to what is happening and proposing (and acting upon) a plan for how to move forward. If @jchavezmpls.bsky.social ever runs for mayor, I would fundraise or volunteer in other ways tirelessly for him.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

This cannot be accepted. This is a bullshit move to try and keep the status of the occupation basically unchanged but try and play it off as a compromise

The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.

This is the kind of data I wish I could send to my dad. "See? It's only ever been about the racism." I wish data mattered to folks who are on the steady drip IV of Fox News.

Sharing a reminder to anyone who could use it: be gentle with each other so we can be dangerous together. Remember, it’s a marathon, not a race 💜

Help your neighbors & share the new checklist in the chats activistchecklist.org/ice

That means ~815k Minnesotans participated in the shutdown and ~310k in the strike. That would make Minnesota’s January 23 general strike one of the largest in history.

Please join the First Peoples of Mni Sóta Makoce & the Good Family for a public memorial ceremony on Sat, Feb 7, at Powderhorn Park, where we will mourn Renée, Alex, & all lives taken in this occupation. Special invitation and care for those who have witnessed violence, loss, or ICE abductions.

You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something. Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

we need to take a moment to celebrate when a good thing happens. it is fuel for the work. feel the joy. take a big breath in. let yourself cry. we will win because we've got us.

I LOVE WARD 9. I went to another one in Powderhorn today and it literally allowed kids to play safely outside with their families. ❤️

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

An amazing MN Librarian assembled us a reading list to add to the website so people can do more than donate, they can learn to organize in their communities. standwithminnesota.com/read

This is such a helpful piece on how general strikes work and what it takes to create one!

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Rural Minnesota isn’t staying silent. As ICE expands raids into small towns, neighbors, faith leaders, and students are stepping up to protect Somali communities and each other. Betsy Froiland reporting on the residents uniting to protect immigrant neighbors.

And there's no mistake that the the feds are going after Black journalists. Absolutely 0%.

new: Minnesota Timberwolves chaplain and activist Matt Moberg FaceTimed me from an ICE blanketed parking lot about his empathy for Anthony Edwards, Wemby's provocative statement about the Spurs, and the value (if any) of athletes speaking out. we ended early because ICE tried to arrest his mom.

This is a fucking position worth fighting for. The higher the office, the more compromised the politician. State and federal dems make me sick with their lukewarm response

I can't believe @governorwalz.mn.gov sent out a fundraising text today when he refuses to do anything to help the Minnesotans who won't be able to make rent in February due to the occupation. Get! It! Together!

[NEW) Minneapolis is showing us how it's done. Over the past few weeks, I've received questions about how to adapt the Social Change Map for emerging efforts. I put together a short planner that can support folks in: facilitating meetings identifying roles evaluating growth bit.ly/49VL2nK

every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com

Two Black Democratic members of Congress

This calm courage and determination is so powerful. So thankful to have her as a rep.

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

Reminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain “bugs,” dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.