Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

CNN said there's unrest in Minneapolis and there's just not. There's very orderly, organized determination. This is not 2020.

Re Opus Development pulling out of an ICE deal to create a Shakopee concentration camp: am told this was due to broad pressure from electeds beyond hero @bradtabke.bsky.social, including Tina Smith, US Reps Kelly Morrison & Angie Craig, and the guv’s office. The ”corporate lane” got involved. 1/

genuinely stunning image

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

⚓🕯️📕 #narthex Friend got this text from her neighbor who went to the protest today. Way to be, ECMN!

"Oh my gosh, it was so nice to see you! Have a lovely day, fuck ICE!" "Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!' - two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest

Just imagine if it was summertime. I saw three bikers heading in today but in June??

“.. People take part in a rally on the day of a general strike to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's deployment of thousands of immigration enforcement officers on the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota.” @reuters.com

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

Ben Damberg protest volunteer: “None of us want to be doing this — I don’t, but we simply cannot stand by as other Minnesotans are being hurt — we will march, we will protest, & we will do it all peacefully above all else”

Exactly -- our neighborhood has a pedestrian bridge over the highway into downtown, where we had our own mini demonstration. Lots of supportive honking.

Windchill at -30. Outside temps are -8. And in downtown Minneapolis today. 📷 Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune Continuing coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

HOLY SHIT - that’s people power, spearheaded by a true leader. @bradtabke.bsky.social is just massive. Take door knocking shifts for this legend this summer & fall.

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

Really appreciate this thread from someone outside MN.

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The executive director of a food pantry reports ICE tailing volunteers and showing up at her house www.kare11.com/article/news...

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.

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If you’re outraged about protests in churches i wonder if you know what ICE is doing there www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/268977/...

This was the 26th dedicated ICE air deportation flight to operate out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International since January 1, 2026. We estimate they've deported 1,830 people on these flights - just over 100 per day, on average, so far this month.

I love this goddamned town

Drew I didn't know you were capable of geography jokes.

I'm convinced that the administration assumed that, while they wouldn't have broad support, most white citizens would be too intimidated to act outside their self-insert, and now they're genuinely confused and terrified by the backlash they're receiving.

Very curious what the long-term ripple effects of this ICE occupation will be. Many very privileged people have stepped up to prevent their own government from disappearing their non-white neighbors and have now confronted inequalities and social problems they never would have experienced firsthand.

Several of the 13 “worst of the worst” criminals that the Department of Homeland Security said were arrested in Minnesota through its immigration enforcement operation were actually handed over to ICE by state prisons before Operation Metro Surge began.

Miller’s miscalculation - the logic of a privileged and sheltered brat - is that violence would pull white folks away from black and brown folks, when in fact it’s done the opposite. And now America’s other cities also know how to face him.

What we are experiencing is 25x of the Midway Blitz.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

I joined people in my church to stand watch at the doors during our spanish language mass and check the parking lot for feds before people leave. Most churches, including catholic ones, serving majority immigrant or POC congregations are doing this. Barron is a bishop in MINNESOTA for God's sake

it’s just impossible to imagine sometimes how we ever build back trust in some of these basic foundational things, like the idea that the DOJ’s client is the people and they’re not Donald Trump’s personal revenge lawyers

While technically the app provides dopamine like any other app, it sure doesn't feel the same.

A month ago I was worried I was spending too much time on Instagram. Now I'm worried I'm spending too much time on <app redacted>.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

"We know the agents have hotel reservations through June."

I won't say what involvement, if any, that I have in this. But I will say that this work is incredible.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

My Lenten discipline this year is <redacted>.

Once a day the neighborhood chat opens to provide the list of families who need a grocery run. The lists are claimed within minutes.

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Our regular school bus driver, who is incredible and takes such good care of our daughter, was not on the route this morning. I hope he's okay.

The people of MN give me far more hope than the largely feckless “opposition” leaders of our country or the deeply compromised and ineffectual media both-sidesing white nationalist totalitarianism.

We are so far beyond "show us your papers." They don't want to see the papers. We are now into the "give us the names" stage of the occupation.

Also this quote makes me want to run through a wall

Today I did the following: solo parented, took 9 meetings at work, did 5 loads of laundry, watched my daughter's school go into lockdown via a RR chat, ran a 90 min meeting at church.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*