I suggested a sidewalk tea party to my kids given the inevitable spills, and they decided to make tea out of weeds while I pulled volunteer tree seedlings from our garden. I am so glad to be fully in spring, and so grateful pretending to drink my “tea” was acceptable to my six year old today.

I won an election within my union and hosted a birthday party for my kindergartener this weekend, and wowee it has been so wonderful and rewarding to talk to so many kind people, but also I am so tired. Really grateful to be in these communities.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

The cruelty is systemic, and every person contributing to the torture of our neighbors needs to be held accountable.

Nothing has changed here. Shut it down.

It’s me. Once again grateful to my union for the opportunity to speak up about paid leave.

ICE is inflicting trauma on so many communities. No one is coming to save us, and it is up to every one of us to do our part to protect our neighbors.

Trump tried to break the Twin Cities but we stood strong, and now *they* are backing down. Makes me feel proud to live here.

Abolish ICE and prosecute them for their crimes. I’m glad for this good news, but we aren’t letting up until all our neighbors are safe.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

a second angle of the killing in south Minneapolis today is even worse warning: video is graphic

There’s video now. Worst thing I’ve ever seen. The entire ICE contingent needs to be arrested

ICE killed another Minnesotan. there is video and it is very bad. www.facebook.com/share/r/1aPB...

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Fresh horrors every day.

Local reporters understand that what's happening in the Twin Cities doesn't have much of a precedent. It's not a political response (pink hat protest), it's an existential one. It is actual resistance to a violent external threat that is ICE terrorizing neighbors and families.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

This dude is intense and correct

I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

The schadenfreude of seeing ICE unable to handle ice and snow is one of the only silver linings of this whole mess.

Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.

Seriously. It feels like this will get worse before it gets better, and in the meantime people have to coordinate things like security presence for daycares and schools to prevent teachers and families from being kidnapped.

My kindergartener had indoor recess today because it was “too slippery” outside. Bless those teachers, too often in a position of protecting students and each other with so much skill that the kids don’t really notice how wrong things are.

There are so, so many good people looking to help and plugging into opportunities to support our neighbors and students, and I feel so much grief and fury that we have to do this.

A better angle of this absolutely horrifying scene

Here's the video. It's hard to watch. It's extremely clear that it does not even remotely align with what DHS claims. The shooter is clearly not in the path of the car. But I want to see his bodycam, because he's not visible at the moment of the shooting.

ICE reportedly shot someone at Portland and 33/34. Mspt saying bullets, could be less lethal 20+ agents on site, MPD and ambulances responding. Helicopters overhead

All of this

Intense travel day yesterday so we could just enjoy snow out the windows today was so worth it. “Mom, it’s fresh snow!”

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Brought the kids along and enthusiastically voted for @melvincarter.bsky.social, admin cites, and school funding. Happy Election Day!

If memory serves, the Lincoln police spared no expense investigating this (the stickers on the sign, not the federal crimes).

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Hard day to work in a school. Hard day to have a kid about to start kindergarten. It doesn’t have to be this way.

We should ban cars on Halloween every year and expand from there

Every word of this. Kids should be more included in society, not less. “Kids learn about how to be a person by participating in these same spaces where they are increasingly unwelcome.”

After a wonderful trip to New York and Connecticut, we got to come home to our block party for National Night Out. Letting the kids roam and play without worrying about cars while we chat with neighbors is such a dream.

Omar Fateh authored the North Star Promise, which has been such an incredible gift for the students I work with, and their families. I’m excited to see what he’ll do as mayor. Well done on the endorsement, Minneapolis DFL!

My spouse is in Montreal this weekend.

I can’t believe it took me this long to get to the neighborhood cat cafe. Perfect place to write half a speech. I would have done excellent procrastinating here in college.

Looks like July.

I’m half tempted to door knock for this campaign while we’re in New York (being slow-moving tourists) in a couple of weeks.

So much of going to the pool with toddlers is my 2 year old buckling and unbuckling and rebuckling a life jacket and trying to carry too many noodles and then my 5 year old showing me a pair of long-dead bats and then my 2 year old needing to go potty. Really appreciating the slowness of it all.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.