Nick Benson is an activist with MN50501 who works in commercial flight data analytics. He is one of a handful of people who spend much of their days documenting ICE activity at the airport. Since the beginning of December, Benson has observed more than 1,000 people board ICE flights at MSP.

Took que from @dbrauer.net to post to FB about what it's like in Minneapolis and Saint Paul Metro right now.

Truth.

This is Minneapolis: Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city. Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.

“Chemical weapons are being used widely in the area” ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PICKUP

Same incident, from across the street.

Wrecktangle & Smitten Kitten have been doing fabulous work to support the community.

Activists allege ICE tracked and intimidated Minnesotans observing their operations using private data like license-plate and car-registration info — data that, advocates say should only be accessed during active criminal investigations. The ACLU of Minnesota calls for answers and accountability.

why a dash cam? because today on Central, following two sets of ICE agents, they tried to box me in, in the middle of a busy four lane street. after losing one of them, the other tried to ram me on a side street. don't worry i made my 9:30 standup meeting.

A lengthy interview by an excellent local reporter. One of the citizens detained was offered money or legal protection by ICE if he would give them names of undocumented individuals or protest leaders.

U.S. citizen detained by ICE: “…they finally told me that they could offer undocumented family members of mine legal protection if I have any…or money, in exchange for giving them the names of protest organizers, or undocumented persons. I was shocked, and told them no.”

He's just straight up rationalizing that it's OK for them to murder people over "hateful rhetoric." "Contempt of cop" is not, in fact, a crime, especially not one that warrants summary execution on the streets.

Read Ashley’s whole thread if you want to understand what’s gain the Twin Cities metro right now.

There’s a lot of this mutual and safety support happening in the Twin Cities right now.

Three Members of Congress showed up to inspect the actions of federal officers in their state and the federal officers drew their weapons?

I’ve heard from multiple friends today about daycares being raided and parents being ripped out of cars (in one case with a child left behind in the backseat). Grim times here.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Something I noticed in watching the video of the Minneapolis shooting of Good: the ICE shooter has his phone in his left hand the whole time. He was filming the scene as he walked around the car--that will be an important piece of evidence to capture.

For non-MN folks, the Whipple Building is at Ft. Snelling & is serving as the base of operations for ICE in the Twin Cities.

Good morning from the Whipple building.

After the killing of Ms Good, Greg Bovino of the CPB led a raid on a Minneapolis HS. An official there said: They don’t care. They’re just animals,” I’ve never seen people behave like this.” All MPLS schools now closed for the week. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

ICE killed a member of our community today. ICE showed up at my kid’s daycare today. ICE is bragging about the number of families they’ve torn apart in a matter of days, and promising that their campaign of terror isn’t done.

Raju: The Speaker and others have said that this driver was weaponizing her vehicle. AOC: Their editorializing of this event to justify a public murder is disgusting. It is horrifying. Watch it for yourself and make that assessment for yourself on which of these leaders are lying to you.

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

Read this.

It appears two ICE observers following ICE agents on 31st in south Minneapolis this morning were arrested. Activists say it appears the ICE observer vehicle was stopped or slid into something, and ICE agents used pepper spray and broke the car window, arresting the occupants.

ICE agents stopped by protesters after the shooting an observer in Minneapolis, according to witnesse. ICE deployed pepper spray and tear gas.

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Dozens of feds, large MPD response, an observer saying he's a physician and had a gun pointed at him for checking the victim's pulse

🧵Neighbors, please be aware that there has been an increase in already very escalated immigration enforcement activity these past few days, with reports that roughly 2,000 agents will be sent to the Twin Cities over the course of a month-long deployment.

It’s a little on the nose for the guy kicking millions off SNAP to announce the first annual Hunger Games

as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable

About 700 Somalis are covered by TPS. To end that status and deny these community members the basic protection they’ve been promised is—like so much of what Trump does—just cruel. It throws people and families into chaos, and is a direct attack on our community. www.twincities.com/2025/11/21/t...

“Minnesota has the nation’s largest Karen population, indigenous people who were forced from their homeland in Myanmar, with about 20,000 living mostly in Ramsey County. It was not immediately clear Monday how many have TPS.” www.startribune.com/temporary-pr...

Aaaahhh!!! I've been watching the live cams compulsively, waiting for the next fountain event at Kilauea, and it started today.

Thanks to Donald Trump, we have corrections like “the baby was exposed to pepper spray, not tear gas.” Fucking monsters.

It seems like every bar or restaurant on the Big Island with TVs has at least one tuned to a USGS live feed from Kilauea, and I'm loving it

The Trump administration has decided to starve people for political gain www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

A friend brought a Reanimator tiki mug to the cocktail meet-up, and I may have lost my mind a little.https://middleofbeyond.com/products/re-animator-mug-corpse

ICE is hurting people & causing fear everywhere, including Hawaii: www.civilbeat.org/2025/09/immi...

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

#NoKings #Mpls #Commons 1:20pm photo cred: @nichelle02.bsky.social

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide.

If I’m running messaging, the word on the street is that Democrats are refusing to fund a dictatorship. Either Article 1 means something or nobody gets anything.

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted. My story:

the president just said the military should start shooting american civilians if they want to

We fought the bloodiest civil war this country has ever seen for birthright citizenship. We amended the Constitution. We have all understood what that amendment meant--from the moment it was debated in Congress to this moment now.

Portland is not "war ravaged." This is delusional and dangerous. Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos. Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.