‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

State Patrol copter N118 looks drunk today

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.

After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered. 18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.

I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.

This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.

A mind-blowing exchange between the judge in the “sucks” case, detailing the endless ways the Department of Justice is maliciously non-complying with court orders while torturing detainees, and then the lawyer has to confess, “yeah, I’m not white and my whole family is scared, too.” #nuremberg

I know they've told some real whoppers as they've been on their lawless rampage, but an ICE agent thinking he could get away with lying about shooting someone through the closed front door of a home is top notch. www.startribune.com/mn-venezuela...

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

So they’re just chasing people around the park with guns drawn via @apnews.com

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

This is what they consider “de-escalating." They don’t know the resiliency of Ward 9 neighbors though. We aren’t stopping until the whole dam system is abolished.

From FB regarding Pizza Luce in Minnesota. I like it when I can do something to help people displaced by ICE and then after I do that thing I get to eat a pizza.

tina smith’s video endorsing peggy flanagan for US senate youtube.com/shorts/qYxv_...

ProPublica has identified Alex Pretti’s killers www.propublica.org/article/alex...

May 1936: Heinrich Himmler inspects "Dachau", intended as a model concentration camp to "restore calm" in the nation and "rehabilitate" political prisoners. These camps were made known on purpose to instill fear. By 1942 much larger extermination camps were conceived. These were a state secret.

The group bike ride for Alex Pretti is about to depart in Minneapolis, stopping at his memorial, then Renee Good’s, and finishing at the VFW. If you can join, hop on anywhere. It’s a warm 17° & sunny! I’ve never seen this many cyclists for a group ride. ⚡️✊🏽⚡️🚲⚡️✊🏽⚡️ #RIPPretti

Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

💚Mpls

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery's order, issued Saturday morning, requires that Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias and his son, Liam Conejo Ramos, be released from federal custody while their immigration case proceeds through the court system. Biery's order requires they be released by Tuesday.

🇺🇸 Minneapolis activists track Trump's immigration enforcers Using encrypted messaging apps and mapping software, volunteers shadow federal officers as they comb Minneapolis looking for undocumented immigrants, to share their whereabouts and document arrests.

Minneapolis is trying out new forms of resistance. They're doing pop-up blockade block parties. This one is on Cedar and 34th, a main route into the city. They have a stereo, food & a fire. MPD is present but not interfering. Lots of honks of support. ICE agents have been reported detouring around.

Ride starting now. About 1500.

It's also subtler things like surveillance aircraft 24/7. Tonight it's a simple state patrol plane that's fairly quiet, but usually its helicopters which are very loud, constantly overhead, lately from stealth agencies with transponders off. The constant grinding stress of this is hard to explain.

Rep. Mohamud Noor: ICE has stopped me in my own neighborhood. They've detained US citizens in front of me while I was begging them to let them go. My kids' schools went into lockdown because ICE was outside. "Nothing is normal anymore."

Protesters carried a giant rendition of the U.S. Constitution through downtown Minneapolis on Friday, chanting "ICE out now." 📷️: Kyeland Jackson

the foreign descriptions of what is going on are hilarious and terrifying www.youtube.com/shorts/SfzuV...

They literally threatened to arrest me yesterday and literally backed down instantly.

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

What a rough year this month has been.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

More images of this agent “NS-919,” one of two who shot Pretti and a main instigator of the Pretti incident— from January 21. NS-919 pushed the woman that started the Pretti violence on January 24.

After the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940, Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart was appointed Commissar, reassuring the Dutch people that life would return to "normal" if they cooperated. He then introduced measures to stop resistance, and after a general strike in Amsterdam, summary executions began.

Something I've been trying to impart on people is that the ICE occupation in Minnesota is both an ethnic cleansing and an ideological terror campaign. It's clear that the second part has utterly failed; the community is not terrified. But ICE is now desperately trying to salvage the first part.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.

Yesterday, I met with White House Border Czar Tom Homan. The meeting was cordial and, as someone who believes in dialogue as a path to solving problems, I welcomed the opportunity to share my perspective with Mr. Homan. My full statement is available on Substack: affordingyourlife.substack.com

"Minnesota Man" about to become a chaotic good version of "Florida Man."

These are the front pages of the Star-Tribune for the past week. I couldn't fully fit six of them on my screen at once, but there are more stories than even the front pages can convey. This is the Twin Cities right now.

‼️This famous photo from the Minnesota Tribune on Jan. 21 is from this incident, involving at least three of the same agents from Alex Pretti's killing. Thanks to the people replying who tipped me off to this.

"We have reports of ICE staging in parking lots or near food shelves, potentially following people who are making deliveries, and so the fear and anxiety is real," she said. www.kare11.com/article/news...

Seems like a good video for his trial

Just realized I have a longer version of this video. At the start, you can clearly see the feds piling out of the cars to attack Pretti and then spray pepper balls, antagonizing the crowd.

We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 29, 2026

Rabbits United Against ICE Minnehaha Parkway Minneapolis, MN 1/28/26

Minneapolis Council President Elliott Payne on TV last night reflecting on the politics of the George Floyd era as it relates to the current federal threat.

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”