trying to wrap my head around how we are going to raise $15-28 million dollars for the expected rent need in Minnesota in March when the news cycle has now passed us.

I've been saying since early 2025 that people were and are in motion... Some people have insisted that 'no one is doing anything' and they are wrong.

The big story out of the DHS funding vote is that Republicans don’t want to rein in ICE in any significant way. Their hard lines were around things like allowing ICE to target children at school and people seeking medical care.

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

This was the argument people successfully used against building an ICE facility to hold 8,000 immigrants in Byhalia, Mississippi—a town of under 1,400 with one family health clinic and no hospital. And Senator Roger Wicker agreed, spoke to Noem and killed it.

good piece by @hayesbrown.bsky.social "It is for the best that Sen. Wicker came out against [the concentration camp in his state]. It doesn’t detract from the fact that Wicker cast his vote alongside his fellow Republicans to authorize and fund the construction of these sites in the first place."

for better or worse, this will probably be the most successful and compelling argument by communities against ICE concentration camps being built: (from this piece: archive.is/eGsQf)

Pregnant immigrants in Minnesota have been postponing their abortions, skipping aftercare, and delaying birth control visits and urgent cancer screening follow-ups to avoid coming in contact with federal immigration agents.

There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.

“It was time to speak up,” Stenvik said in an interview with MPR News. “I'm glad that we did, because I think that there's some disbelief, because it's so shocking and so aggressive and violent and harmful to children.” via @shockmanwrites.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

“The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds, whether they actually slept with the women on offer or simply shared Epstein’s fantasies in order to gain influence.”

This is a very good open source resource on the variety of ways that DOGE damaged government:

at the neighborhood meeting tonight: speakers all affirming the job is the same today as it was yesterday; eyeing the end of TPS for Somali migrants in mid-March; new & old volunteers signing up for new roles/training to keep up the work; the very firm energy that 'normal' was also broken.

The effects of trauma also don’t just disappear.

ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week. Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.

All of my group chats are responding to Homan’s announcement by asking everyone to double down because: 1. ICE is still out there and abducting people today. We can’t trust the occupation is over until we actually see it. 2. People are going to be in an economic crisis for a very long time.

Today.

NEW: We’re publishing a full list of the 373 federal judges who have ruled against ICE’s mass detention policy and the 28 who have endorsed it — as well as links to key rulings by each. Trump appointees have split 44 against/ 20 for the policy. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight. The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ellison: "It felt like we were being occupied by the federal govt, & I started returning to reading about the Boston Massacre. How did those Bostonians feel when a far away govt in England had imperial troops marching all over their city, harassing & abusing the citizenry. That's kind of how I felt"

We have shipped 325,686 whistles in February (these last 12 days) so far. This is about 651 kg of filament that we have gone through. It really does help to get gift cards for non-Amazon sources!

something from minnesota that i would like people to learn, that i don’t think is hitting people yet: helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis. and you can help.

The USA should have civilian oversight of our military. That's what Congress is supposed to do. What we have is the military investigating & punishing the civilian overseers. That's ass-backwards.

cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?

god this is the worst

AG Keith Ellison: "The surge is contributing to violent crime. Two of the three homicides committed in Minneapolis in 2026 have come at the hands of federal immigration agents."

For folks unfamiliar, this was a bog standard position for Nazi and incel 8chan/board culture back in the day. He's not inventing, he's regurgitating and repackaging

ICE may have lost the battle for public opinion, and its operation may be hampered by local pushback, but it has succeeded in one respect: It has instilled terror in Minnesota’s immigrant communities, forcing them into the shadows. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: buff.ly/eSAhblK

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

Point number two is SO important. So hugely important. These ICS/DHS surges in and out of various cities are not only state terror campaigns of abductions & tremendous personal violence, they are also state acts of economic warfare against the lifeways of persons of color and all who support them.

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

Walz: "The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here. There's going to be accountability on things that happened, but one of them is the incredible and immense cost borne by the people of this state. The federal government needs to be responsible."

Also Homan: no sorry we aren't gonna get warrants to break into people's homes, lol

So I realize that stopping fascism is #1 on the menu, but we must push HARD for Medicare for All. Our taxes should be for the health and common welfare of the people. Prevention is the best cure. We don't need another billion dollar bomber. We need billion dollar healthcare.

I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.

"The real action is in blue cities and states. Democrats outside of Washington are essentially declaring war against ICE and the broader anti-immigration apparatus that Trump has created." newrepublic.com/article/2064...

Reposting for obvious reasons. ICE has leased large office spaces is every major U.S. city. And if they follow the Minneapolis playbook, they will use those hubs to terrorize suburban and rural areas too.

If we believe DHS’s numbers, ICE spent three months in Minnesota and arrested just over one person per agent in that time. The Minneapolis resistance worked. And let the momentum lead to abolishing ICE altogether.

They're still taking people in California and Illinois and and in a lot of other states, including red ones, where there hasn't been a "surge."

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It is not a coincidence that the Minnesota occupation is “ending” right before the Senate is due to vote on funding for ICE. The fascists want you to think it’s all over and to disengage, but I hope the strategy backfire as a whole country thinks, “Are they coming here next?”

New at Can We Still Govern: One aspect of ICE that is not discussed much is how dependent it is on private supply chains, including foreign companies. That provides an opportunity to name-and-shame firms providing its services. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/private-ch...

All of my group chats are responding to Homan’s announcement by asking everyone to double down because: 1. ICE is still out there and abducting people today. We can’t trust the occupation is over until we actually see it. 2. People are going to be in an economic crisis for a very long time.

“Unfortunately, because Congress is not taking any steps to rein ICE officers in, there really is no option other than states protecting their constituents’ rights," said Joanna Schwartz, a law professor at UCLA.

Minnesota, you won. Much of ICE are leaving. Don't trust this. They are trying to get the funding bill passed. Once the bill passes they'll be back at it either by you or someplace else.

Commentators seem to be missing the main point of what Homan is saying -- he says that AG Ellison and Walz agreed with him that "County jails may notify ice of the release date of an inmate just as long as they don’t hold them past the release date."

“Women get sent to the gulags first, obviously. Which women? All women. Every woman. Every woman and girl is sent to the gulags. We will determine who the good ones are after the fact. Well, what about the good ones? What about the trad ones? First of all, there are no trad ones or good ones.”

“We learned growing up about a lot of horrible things people have done in history. And there’s a lot of asking yourself, ‘What would I have done if I was in that time period?’”