Government officials held a news conference today to break news they had known for days already: The Twin Cities is facing a huge surge, to a total of 350-450 federal agents from the original 140. Learn more here & find the full newsletter at defend612.com/blog (1/2)

ICE Watch welcome, a Christmas Eve special! – Wednesday 12/24 1pm-2pm Minneapolis and the Twin Cities has begun to experience another massive surge in abductions and disappearances. New to ICE Watch and want to get involved? (1/3)

Marshmallow Mateys beats Lucky Charms every time. Proud to have grown up in the queer old town where they make this stuff 😄

It's Day 19 of the ICE occupation of MSP. Today thousands of Minnesotans poured onto Lake Street to rally in support of our immigrant neighbors and against ICE. Take a moment to look at this crowd of you and your neighbors rallying in below zero windchill. 📸 @roblevine82.bsky.social

We love the anonymous neighbor who made this sign! We don't have a single religious affiliation, but whatever inspires you to mutual aid, we're glad you're here. It was a nice surprise to go to the QR code and discover someone spreading the word about US! ❤️

Considering she represents the state with the highest percentage of trans folks, you'd think @klobuchar.senate.gov wouldn't fuck this up as consistently as she does. Folks aren't going to forget votes like this when she campaigns next.

the good that you do persists in this world

Contact your reps NOW and tell them to vote NO on both bills! action.transequality.org/a/vote-no-hr... (2/2)

TWO anti-trans bills are up for a vote this week: ❌ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill that would criminalize providers of gender-affirming care ❌ Rep. Dan Crenshaw's bill that would block Medicaid funds from covering transition-related care (1/2)

They dragged a woman on the road and called the police because they were threatened by people throwing snowballs at them. ICE is composed of the biggest cowards on the planet

This article is sympathetic towards ICE but still a good read because it's clear that Minneapolis and Saint Paul are doing AMAZING work (with a little assistance from our weather). www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

It's Day 9 of the ICE occupation in MSP. Reminder that we are in this for the long haul. Take a deep breath and take care of yourself, your family, and community. If you have not yet gotten ICE training, there's another chance on Zoom tonight led by our friends in Chicago. (Link in thread)

"Tincher said she’s even more motivated after her arrest to volunteer to support immigrants in her community. 'I’m just so concerned about our neighbors, our peaceable neighbors, being abducted, and the worries their families are going through,' Tincher said." Really thankful for folks like Sue.

Minneapolis, I'm sure this would be helpful this week

This is the energy we need from everyone

"If something were to happen, we would know that we’d done everything possible to protect what was entrusted to us." sojo.net/articles/new...

Boosting this virtual training opportunity tomorrow (Wednesday!) Register in advance for this webinar: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Can I just collectively nominate every hymn they've ever done in the 9 Lessons and Carols from King's College every year?? Okay, but seriously, favorite Christian carol: The Holly and the Ivy Favorite secular song: I'll Be Home for Christmas (Runner up for both categories: Good King Wenceslas)

Really a wonderful list of ways to organize. Observing and potentially disrupting ICE’s activity is of course a visible and essential tactic right now, and there are a lot of other tactics as well! Many described here.

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today: #Nashville #Asheville (In North Carolina folder) #TwinCities Metro Area (in Minnesota folder) #NewYorkCity en Español! I am working on the backlog and will have more out tomorrow!! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

I’m gonna miss our only true poster Senator

Starbucks employees in Minneapolis, and across the country, are striking for ✅ Fair wages ✅ Proper staffing ✅ End to union busting I'm proud to stand in solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org until they get the fair contract they deserve! 💪🏽 #NoContractNoCoffee

Really thankful for the campaign Fateh ran, and even though I'm frustrated (to put it mildly) about another 4 years of Frey, I know the energy and strength of this campaign is going to matter moving forward.

Heading to bed, hoping for some good news for the #dontrankFrey crowd in the morning 🤞

wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱 www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

Went to whistle distro /mini-training event in Powderhorn Park today. There were 200-300 people, very inspiring to see community come out and be ready to fight. Big love to folx in Chicago for the inspiration. Next whistle distro/training: Sun. Nov. 2, 1:30pm, Powderhorn Park 14th Ave & 33rd St

For neighbors here in the Twin Cities planning on adapting the whistles tactic we've seen in Chicago: In the spirit of zines being adaptable, we made some super slight tweaks to the original Pilsen one. SAME INFO, just added a page of Twin Cities-specific resources: cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/fil...

Want to learn more about why and how whistles are being used?

South Minneapolis! Come get a whistle and get some practice in!

after a clarinet player was arrested at Sunday's ICE protest in downtown Portland, I talked to five artists, crafters and makers - a puppet designer, an illustrator, a graphic designer, a knitter, and a theatre artist - about creativity under fascism www.orartswatch.org/resistance-c...

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

This is the kind of full and unequivocal defense trans people deserve to hear from more candidates for office

Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

If ICE thinks it's okay to assault a pastor in broad daylight, imagine what they're doing in the dark.

Additionally, we put some Twin Cities-specific Know Your Rights / ICE Watch information into a single-page handy resource. We adapted resources from @meganpiont.bsky.social and MN Women's Press & Unidos MN into a foldable one-sheet resource, plus some wallet-sized cards that you can print out.

Wow, y’all really went from “we have confirmed it was an antifascist trans person because of markings” to “we have zero comprehension of this clearly random and incomprehensible act” as soon as it turned out he was a white right-winger.

It didn't surprise me that Fox News took about 15 minutes from the time of the shooting to blame trans people, but what DID surprise me was how fast mainstream news outlets bought into the misinformation and started spreading it. Here's what actually happened:

Don't forget to get your vaccines! Just got my updated covid shot and a Hep B which apparently I was behind on. Info from a nurse friend: it may be harder to get the new covid shot after Sept 17-18, so try to schedule asap!

This entire narrative pushed by the far right of an "epidemic of trans violence" is completely bullshit. It's propaganda designed to stoke hatred and incite violence against trans people while building support for policies designed to eradicate our community. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis

It’s important to remember cisgender women getting hurt by this is a feature not a bug as it both makes trans women fearful of existing in public and signals to cis women how they must act to be protected by the state.

"When asked to betray your integrity: hold fast to your ideals, gum up the works, disobey when able. Question everything, say nothing. Keep meticulous records. Leverage your advantages and harbor those who have none. Get in the way. Tell the story." www.thenation.com/article/acti...

behold: a woman

This government unraveling really is a death by a thousand cuts. This one hurts a lot.