This is called getting Higgs'd.

🚨Emergency skating event declared for tomorrow/Sunday at 1 pm, Lake of the Isles.

Usually takes 150 hours to get your certification. I completed the program in under 100.

Best selling t-shirts on the Wedge LIVE store this week (all proceeds to charity): 1. Graphic of Tom Olsen's punchable face with text: #TomOut #BackToEdina 2. "Licensed Trash Barricade Operator"

In Tom Homan's first 1-on-1 interview since taking charge of the secret police operation in Minnesota, KSTP's Tom Hauser congratulates him for not dressing at all like the previous little Nazi-looking fella.

The suggestion by Tom Homan that the ICE surge will continue until the mayor and governor "get the message out" to their constituents (the "agitators") to stand down, misunderstands why federal agents are now so widely despised in the Twin Cities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oncM...

This kind of stuff is not malicious. The requirements to get on the ballot for sheriff are: 1. Be an eligible voter and at least 21 years old 2. Be a licensed peace officer 3. Live in the county and be the biggest bonehead for miles around

listen, all my shirts say "Licensed Trash Barricade Operator" because I'm ready to be taken in by the feds at any moment.

Crow Wing Sheriff: "If you're just here simply bc you crossed the border, we're not going out with ICE going after people like that" Next breath, describes his deputies assisting ICE in "targeted" arrest: "There just happened to be a couple of them that were, far as I know, just crossed the border"

Transferring a thing from yourself to yourself so you can dummy up a document to make a number look bigger sounds like a case of fraud.

KARE 11's Jana Shortal recounts getting pepper-sprayed by federal agents www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC-T...

Trump admin's "worst of the worst" website is a big scam. Among the discrepancies, they seem to be counting 92 people transferred to ICE custody from federal prisons in MN. "Those suspects might never have spent any time in MN outside of prison." www.kare11.com/article/news...

"First of all, thank you for standing up for your neighbors by heckling the shit out of me" is exactly what an ICE agent would say.

Naomi Kritzer's next book is about a character harnessing her power as a middle aged woman driving a subcompact crossover to avoid getting dirty looks. It's at least somewhat biographical.

A group of local men are tackling the male loneliness epidemic by coming together to brainstorm ways to stop being mistaken for ICE. www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

Also making threats to observers like, "I'll put you in the fucking domestic terrorist fucking app." www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

After publicly agonizing about her situation in the NY Times, many are speculating about the potential release of a heartbreaking video from Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt telling hostage takers she's ready to pay the ransom.

Sworn declarations in ACLU lawsuit. www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...

Worst of the worst: "Pena Jimenez, a Mexican citizen who lives in Lakeville, came to the U.S. in 2000, owns a tile installation business and has no criminal record, according to his petition." Flown out of the country, against a judge's order. www.startribune.com/judge-orders...

Sounds like she's made the decision, while saying he hasn't: "Sheriff Witt said she owed it to her constituents to make a decision in the days ahead."

I continue in my attempts to impress on the Sheriff just how much her decisions are compromising the reputation of and any trust the public has in the Sheriff’s Office, as well as the entire county operation.

We just published database: @aclu.org plaintiffs' sworn declarations of ICE enforcement actions in Minnesota Devastating Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles Mostly US citizens A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne... 🧵

It's Leo's Towing--and they're doing a charity event with Lito's Burritos on Sunday 💜 www.facebook.com/share/186pVG...

"These people, when they're hobbling up the steps in chains, a lot of them are pausing for a moment at the top of the steps, and they're taking a look around, and I can't even imagine what they're thinking." www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

Tow truck driver offering free service returning abandoned vehicles to families of those abducted by ICE: "For the last three weeks, we have been getting nothing but death threats." www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Minnesota's federal prosecutors — the ones who haven't resigned in disgust — are overwhelmed. Actual criminal cases are on the backburner. I realize putting little children in detention camps is a top Republican priority, but this is nuts. youtu.be/v_0D0YlwUso?...

Re-upping my story from yesterday: "Uptown is getting a Little Caesars."

Sociologist: Most ICE agents motivated by desire for approval and to "affirm their masculinity in public." Those who commit violence are typically seeking status, power, acceptance. ICE observers work to deescalate by surrounding agents with disapproval.

If I'm ever hauled out of my home in handcuffs by the secret police, let it be in a sweatshirt that spells out my mission: "Licensed Trash Barricade Operator."

Pretty good 9 minute piece from ABC News on Minneapolis. youtu.be/TRZ5fwUQBqI?...

Minnesota connection

Feds grew their own Stancil in a lab for the final battle with the real thing.

Politically ignorant person: "I don't know why Al Flowers just gets to stand up there and be an idiot." Me, a longtime observer: "90% of life is showing up."

there are going to be four national pizza chains on one small stretch of Hennepin Ave and yet they will say uptown is dead

HAPPENING NOW: Uptown is getting a Little Caesars. Same shopping complex as Frattallones hardware and the paint store.

Maybe the best example of the "We Keep Us Safe" ethos in a time of widespread injustice is Mayor Frey's PAC putting in a plug for his personal legal defense fund.

Coming to Paramount Plus, a high stakes political drama from the twisted mind of Taylor Dahlin. Main character is a perennial candidate who is a mashup of true stories about both Brenda and Becka.

Brenda is a false flag. Ask yourself who benefits? The elite create a crisis (another election season of Brenda), wait for public outcry, then offer a pre-planned solution (no more elections.)

Peggy Flanagan, try and deny responsibility for this one.

You guys this is what they do. They drive around in circles in parking lot. Ice has to be the most dip shit inefficient organization on the planet.

Authoritative bald headed friend, Chairman Martin. He's out there every day modeling an alternative kind of masculinity based on spreadsheets, parliamentary procedure, and gentle fact checks.

Aurin Chowdhury is registered on Etsy if you're looking to buy her a stuffed cow wearing a cape.

If Jason Garcia didn't have years of experience yelling this into a microphone at me, never would've blossomed into the commissioner we see today.

Fortunately, having your trash barricade operator license does permit you to pile garbage in the skyways.

New royalty free soundboard clip for when your podcast guests are out of line.

I believe she plagiarized this from a plaque on Liberty Island.

Looks like we're headed to the supreme court for a decision in the case of City of Minneapolis v. Licensed Trash Barricade Operator.

I'm calling decorum on this even though it was deserved and well delivered.

Council discussing $1 million boost to rental assistance funding, in response to federal occupation. Council Member Warren says it'll lead to fraud (loosening of standards) and discrimination.

i’m told HSI was here with a criminal warrant to arrest kyle wagner aka “antifa kyle.” video from inside the building of the man taken matches his appearance as well