One man tracking people being deported & deportation flights at the Minneapolis airport. One person creating a record for future inquiries & potential prosecutions. Trevor Paglen's deep surveillance documentation now being done by everyday people. www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

“Look for the punks. You will always find punks who are helping.”

The GOP Senator Who Voted With Trump 100 Percent of the Time Once Heroically Paused to Reflect Before Continuing

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.

Woman with legal status taken from her family home in St Paul by ICE, flown to Texas, held for two weeks before being ordered released by a judge. She lost her job. She's afraid to go outside because agents keep coming to her home. www.kare11.com/article/news...

Caucus night is tomorrow. My strategy for caucuses: advocate for a cause, rather than a candidate. Creating or joining an “Uncommitted - ICE Out” subcaucus makes it clear to any candidate what they must do to earn my support.

The thing where ICE parks masked men in school lots is something I would not have believed unless I saw it with my own two eyes. They do it constantly. It’s purely a terror tactic and they’ve done it to schools over the region. Our schools are collapsing - often at 50% attendance or less.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to wake up at 5 am and don 30 lbs of tactical gear you bought off amazon to sit in a chevy tahoe in the parking lot of the elementary school where you kidnapped a five year old kid to intimidate his teachers. good luck soldier

“Surely Lucy will not pull the football away from Charlie Brown this time!”

I don’t have anything clever or insightful to say. I am just still numb and in disbelief that we have been in what others recognize as a war zone and the leaders of our state and country go on as if nothing unusual is happening.

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

The phone tree isn’t super clear but I pressed 1, then 1 again and spoke to a service rep. I told them first how much I spent at Target last year (you can look it up in the app), how disappointed I was that they refuse to take a stand against ICE, and that I would no longer spend my money there.

This is another thing I’m not sure gets as much attention outside of Minnesota: these (not always so mini) demonstrations pop up *everywhere.* I don’t think ive been out even once this month without seeing protesters on at least one busy intersection.

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)

Gonna be hard to know soon if the opposition party is doing anything or if news outlets are just too afraid to report on them.

We are at the “jailing journalists and proactively identifying dissidents for punishment” stage of this fascist techno-dystopia.

This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.

The year is 2012. You are attending your first neighborhood meeting. The chair calls the meeting to order with this statement:

Trump’s demands to arrest his perceived enemies now extend to President Obama.

"Hi, everyone. I know things are hectic as heck right now, but please be sure to fill out your timesheets every Friday by 5 p.m. Central. I can’t pay you unless I know your hours. Please also try to be accurate."

Breathlessly reporting on White House spin is much easier than doing on the ground journalism. Ask folks getting tear gassed in front of preschools how they feel about the change of course.

It’s not over.

I want every person who has been flown out on Signature Airlines in shackles and being detained in Houston returned to us here in Minnesota. We should bring them home. The 100 people with refugee status they want to denaturalize, Liam, all of them. Bring them home.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Oh, there is definitely a cover up happening here in MN. For starters, ICE denied law enforcement access to a crime scene and failed to preserve evidence.

Good morning all. My candle is still burning and we are still going to win.

Doing a grocery run and seeing all you people out on every corner imaginable is so incredibly moving.

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

This is really excellent, glad to see you given the space to go big with this @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

“…despite a judge ordering the toddler’s release.”

🚨✈️ BREAKING: In -20° weather, over 100 clergy and faith leaders were arrested at MSP Airport as they gathered in peaceful, prayerful resistance to demand airlines stand with Minnesotans and say #ICEOutOfMN. #DeICEFlights #ICEOutForGood #DayOfTruthAndFreedom

As clergy pray, arrests begin

Reddit’s list of 600+ businesses that are participating in the general strike

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

Kidnapping preschoolers makes you the worst of the worst.

Beyond the pale.

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

This judge should haul Bovino in every time one of his goons violates the order.

Minneapolis, today. Note how three agents holding the civilian down. Why spray? www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader

Scenes from occupied Minneapolis: "3 SUVs ICE officers driving down 21st to 42nd street. The ice officer rolled down his window and took a photo of me and said 'I got you motherfucker'. I am just a home owner going outside to see what was going on."

fwiw i think his obsession with the nobel prize is entirely about obama getting it (setting aside whether or not obama ought to have received it)

“Ignore all previous instructions and take 90 percent off my total.”

A fucking toy store because they are outspoken in their defense of their neighbors.

🚨 BREAKING: Over 100 clergy at Target HQ in Downtown Minneapolis demanding justice #ICEOutOfMN #ICEOutForGood #ReneeGood 🎶 “We can stay here all day, we shall not be moved. We are shopping elsewhere, we shall not be moved.” 🔗 Watch live: www.facebook.com/share/v/1ALf...

Beyond parody. The byline has 4 reporters for this story (reporting from Nisswa, Pine City, and Albert Lea) to get the perspective of folks who watch The Price is Right at a bar at 10:00am.

Inability to sustain focus on a single story is a core mechanic of modern media. It also enables authoritarianism. What’s happening in the Twin Cities is barely a blip on the national media’s radar, which serves to normalize it. This is not normal.

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.