It’s real that struggling businesses are taking the hit today for expressing solidarity with the victims of ICE slavecatchers. So for those with means, I declare the weekend Spent That Shit Saturday and Sunday at their shops and eateries to provide them some instant payback. #spendthatshit

🧵ICE's tactics for arresting and holding observers and protestors is ever-shifting, and I'm hearing lots of different stories. Right now, my perspective is that these are your best practices:

Vote for Josh Will be great as CD5 DFL Chair

You can always call your representatives and remind them that it is not worth funding any part of the security state while it's being used to invade our cities.

This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING wat CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Bre is right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYhy...

@angiecraigmn.bsky.social was the ONLY Minnesota Democrat to vote for the Laken Riley Act. The only one to vote to praise ICE. Even today, with ICE in our streets, she stands by her pro-Trump votes.

Yesterday, I wrote about the ongoing resistance to ICE terror in Minneapolis. “With each passing day, networks widen, tactics crystallize, and previously unconnected people find their bravery. […] Yes, we are on our own. But…we are not alone. Take heart, friends. Don't let them see you sweat.”

A new ongoing feature we hope we don't have to keep doing for too long.

ICE is using an array of tools and programs to track people's social media activity and location. But 404 Media journalist Joseph Cox told Minnesota Now host Nina Moini that there's a "solid and robust" way to help combat even more surveillance: turning off your phone's location services.

It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why: They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course. The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.

you and many of your followers have probably already seen this but I thought it did a good job laying out a list of targets and categorizing strategic considerations for each vis a vis scope and lift: www.thenation.com/article/acti...

#Animorphs fans, a reminder! As the series turns 30 this year, the first three books are being released with beautiful new cover art by @creepcaptain.bsky.social. Out May 5! Here's a link to book one: bookshop.org/p/books/anim...

I was in sixth grade the first time someone I knew was shot by a cop "afraid for his life." Sure she wasn't targeted - he just sprayed bullets towards her house and one killed her at the kitchen table. She was doing homework. I don't want to hear that excuse ever again. It's never valid.

It's easy to get down on classic musicals, but I just if more people had seen Guys and Dolls they wouldn't be losing their shirts in prediction markets. Don't bet on an outcome they got you're being against controls or you'll end up with cider in your eye, that's all I'm saying.

Location data from phone companies requires a warrant. But ICE believes this data doesn't, because people give it up "voluntarily." That's according to this internal ICE legal analysis shared with us. Ignores that people don't know what apps are tracking them www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

this, to the ends of the earth

MPLS 📣 call to action 📣 From MFPS: Hi all - It has been a heart wrenching + infuriating day in our city and we are sending everyone big care ❤️

"I-94 was never supposed to be here. Interstates were originally envisioned as connectors that delivered cars to cities’ edges. MnDOT intentionally ravaged Minnesota’s thriving Black communities by forcing I-94 and I-35W into their hearts." www.startribune.com/rethinking-i...

My first podcast guest was Professor Rachel Barkow, who talked about how the criminal legal system doesn’t actually work to keep the public safe. We also talk about what does. Please check out, We Don’t Have to Choose,” where you find your podcasts.

I had a presser with DV advocacy groups to talk about how dangerous Laken Riley would be to victims of domestic violence. One of our reps, Angie Craig, Dem voted for it. She’s now running for our open senate seat bemoaning what ICE is doing to MN. The hypocrisy is stunning. @jesspish.bsky.social

Today in 1975, Minneapolis passed the nation's first law protecting trans people from discrimination

Everyone knows the biggest healthcare fraudsters in Minnesota aren’t Somali, they’re at UnitedHealth Group. I want to hear DFLers point the finger, accurately, at this entire convoluted dumb HMO system of vouchers & grants (the DFL itself helped create) that somehow makes millionaires in Minnetonka.

the nick shirley thing pisses me off because it's changed the narrative so much that people don't understand that the fraud problem *is years old*. The prosecutions for Feeding Our Future are well underway. Reforms (some worth critiquing!) are already happening and have been happening for awhile.

Matthew Cunningham-Cook takes apart some of the wildest claims about Somali fraud in Minnesota. prospect.org/2025/12/29/c...

normalize instead of “would this candidate have a beer with me” asking “would this candidate be folding laundry on a Monday night, and planning out the grocery list for Tuesday while doing so”

Oh.

Thanks to @quattronecenter.org for posting about our Conviction Integrity Unit’s new public dashboard. Transparency of our work is critical to earning the public’s trust.

At-Large School Board member Joyner Emerick is not seeking re-election. There are two at-large seats up for election in 2026 - this one and the seat held by School Board Chair Collin Beachy.

Twin Cities friends! This is probably your last opportunity to shovel before the inch of slush freezes solid. It's brutally heavy so watch your back and take breaks!

In the midst of... everything... I forgot I booked a show months ago. If you're in the Twin Cities area and want to catch me in a room with glorious acoustics come to St. Peder's Church on 1/8. Doors at 6:30, suggested donation $10.

It's Boxing Day. Tradition would say that it is a day for the "wealthy" (the landed gentry) to give "Christmas boxes" with gifts, money, or leftovers to servants and tradespeople who worked Christmas Day. A lovely tradition which in America has become a day for returning gifts & shopping for "more".

"So if it's expensive, not working, and actually over time making our communities less safe, what is compelling us to hold on to this is a really interesting question" Episode 9 of our podcast features renowned professor Dr. Robert Kinscherff Tune in: youtu.be/aZqT3rWgoik?...

For a bunch of self-proclaimed Christians Tom Homan et al are really determined to follow the model of Herrod this Christmas season. I mean, I may be a dirty heathen but I know who the good guys were in the Massacre of the Innocents and it wasn't the agents of state violence.

Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Want to learn how youth develop and what we can do in the criminal legal system to help them get, or stay, out of the system? Check out my conversation with Dr. Robert Kinscherff on episode 9 of our podcast, “We Don’t Have to Choose.”

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

If we could just take a fucking breath and admit "our kids are people, we don't get to decide who they are," and stop using "BUT THE CHILDREN" as a reason to attack trans people, and autistic people, and whoever else we've decided not to like, that would be cool.

North Minneapolis!! we have a Monarca upstander training planned at Camden HS on Jan 5, 2026 from 6-8pm. register here: bit.ly/RRCA0108

Ghostly white, she comes by night... TO EAT ALL YOUR CHEESE AND DRINK ALL YOUR ALE If you're cold, she's cold. LET HER IN. #MariLwyd sjtucker.bandcamp.com/track/welcom...

Taking part in my annual tradition of learning "Christmas in the Trenches" so I can play it at any gathering with a guitar for the next few weeks. Every year it hits different, this year has me thinking about the way they started policing borders post WW1, and the grace we find transcending them.

I’ll see you in Cedar Riverside today! Bundle up and get there.

In Minnesota, we care about our neighbors—no matter our income, skin color, or where we were born. As Trump and the ICE machine attack our immigrant neighbors, we’re coming together to say MN ❤️'s our neighbors. March with us: www.facebook.com/share/1JbXD5... #DeICEMN

This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.

In the spirit of Broadview in Chicago, please come out and support the ICE watch at Whipple today at Ft Snelling! The Whipple building is where ICE gathers and leaves for raids and kidnapping people off the street. ICE Watch. All day today!!

san antonio has a publicly owned energy utility, and after the great freeze, while other texans had utility bills that were thousands of dollars, CPS stretched our costs over the next 10 years, so no one got more than an added dollar of charges publicly owned utilities and co-ops are where it’s at

As a constituent, I am asking that @governorwalz.mn.gov and @keithellison.bsky.social arrest these men and prosecute them before they kidnap someone and intentionally freeze them to death

Strib put its Emmer takedown behind its new, higher paywall, meaning even subscribers can’t share, so I’ll paste the grossest part, which includes the loathsome Vin Weber, who hasn’t received enough criticism over the years. (Link in case I’m wrong about sharing: www.startribune.com/once-a-defen...)

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Last week ICE used the parking lots of the Powderhorn & Lake St post offices as staging grounds for their operations in South Minneapolis. Support postal workers and join us at a rally on Sunday, 12/14, at 11am at the Lake St office, followed by a march to the Powderhorn office.