am I "falling for the bait" or am I "having a proportionate and reasonable reaction to a racially motivated pogrom being carried out against my neighbors" can someone please help me figure that out

For my out-of-state friends wanting to help Minneapolis, Sanctuary Supply Depot is a grassroots mutual aid effort to support unhoused folks here. They take cash as well as in-kind donations: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...

Cannot stress enough that you can just do stuff. You don't need permission. You can just do stuff because it needs to be done by someone.

Today’s a great day to bring your old but good costs and boots to Duck Duck Coffee for our houseless neighbors. And they have whistles!

This new toolkit by @siembranc.bsky.social has lots of actionable ideas re: ICE - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Wrote an update in the chat and when I re-read it to check for errors, I realized I'd put a CW at the beginning of it. It is too early in the morning for our entire lives to be one giant content warning. Please remember that self-care is resistance, too. We keep us safe. ICE out of MN! 💚

A frightening byproduct of professional activism is that average people think they need to be certain, brave, and an expert in order to go do something. You don't. Do it unsure. Do it scared. Do it without having read all the books. Showing up for your community doesn't require a degree.

Had a telehealth appointment with my psychiatrist this morning. Psych: So how are you doing? Me, after a 5 min update of what I’ve been doing: But oddly I am really at ease about everything. I think I’ve made my peace with maybe getting killed by my own government outside of my children’s schools.

It's sincerely not only incredible and spontaneous, but also so full of gratitude.

Reports of 3 Lakota people currently being held at Whipple. ICE is holding them and trying to negotiate for access to their lands, according to protesters outside. Thank you for being out there again, @guru-merc.bsky.social. Live now: www.youtube.com/live/8GxrGs3...

In the middle of the ICE occupation, the City of Minneapolis is still evicting its poorest, most vulnerable residents. Over peanuts. 86% of public housing residents are BIPOC, 57% disabled, avg income of ~$16k. Throwing our neediest neighbors out into the teeth of winter, exposed to ICE. Disgusting.

Gallego: "What we're seeing in MN isn't immigration enforcement. It is suppression. It is suppression of the people of MN. It is using ICE & CBP and all these other people to basically scare the people of MN. There's gonna have to be a lot of things that should we get power we're gonna have to fix"

Dear neighbor, We don’t know when this ICE occupation is going to end. Our neighbors are not sheltering in place because they are struggling to pay for rent, bills, and groceries. While the community has been meeting the moment, it’s time for the government to step in and help. 1/

friendly reminder The things you believed were right yesterday are still right. They'll be right if they put you in jail. They'll be right if they shoot you. They'll still be right when these people are dead and dusted and gone. which they will be

Worth every second

Nisswa's a resort town, wholly dependent on the economies and residents of the blue cities they claim to stand against. These people are jokes.

Let’s get this straight. They’re not gassing professional agitators. They’re gassing Minnesotans sticking up for their neighbors. And if this happens, and the rest of the country ignores it… www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

They hate us so much but we love each other more

I honestly thought the war against Denmark would come before the war against Minnesota

Well, what do you know. Almost a decade in the criminal justice system and I guess I developed some pretty good instincts. A reader just showed this to me and it does now look like the entire DHS story is a pile of bullshit.

We don't exist in the same reality in this country. Never really have. Here's something I wrote in 2013 about what police in Chicago do to young Black and Brown people REGULARLY: www.usprisonculture.com/2013/02/19/o...

ICE shot a Latino on the leg in Minneapolis today. It’s despicable. Being Latino is not a crime. The color of your skin is not a crime. Being in this country is not a crime. Our entire community is in complete & utter pain. Sending the family and our community a ton of love tonight.

Better dead than Fed

Live in North Minneapolis. @guru-merc.bsky.social

Feeling overwhelmed? Remember: your stepping back is enough. Choosing yourself is enough. You don’t owe the world your undoing.

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.

Every time I get home from watching ICE without falling on the ice myself, I reward myself by watching videos of ICE falling on the ice. I love Minnesota. 🫶

ICE arrested four houseless Indigenous men of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in Minneapolis—men who were living under a bridge. Since then? Silence. No updates. No confirmation of where they’ve been taken. Let me ask the obvious question: Where does Trump want to deport Indigenous Americans to exactly? 1/

Every time I see someone yammering about abolish ICE / policing and how DEEPLY UNPOPULAR it is, I want to remind them that the GOP abolished Roe v. Wade and that was also deeply, deeply unpopular, and here they are, in charge of everything still.

A piece of my heart is with Arlit Maria Martinez this morning. I can't even imagine. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/w...

Good morning, and thank you for thinking of me, Grandpa Jody! @jodywagner.bsky.social I hope you're holding up okay. 💚

It's so surreal to be shootin' the shit in these early morning groups and suddenly you get something like: "🚨🚨5 cars, 10 officers at CVS, walking up to the store, on [redacted] avenue, military plate armor, right now, weapons and ladders." I'm still half-asleep. We do this 'til we free us. 💚

This is an excellent piece from the @minnesotareformer.com 👇

"For too long we have been told nothing is possible, bow down, obey and do whatever it is that somebody at the top says to do. But we know that that is a lie from the pit of hell." Auxiliary Minister JaNaé Bates Imari of St. Paul's Camphor Memorial United Methodist Church

🚨"They've got guns and pepper spray but there's more of us out here; I admit we are scared—but we are not gonna back down! We will protect our city, we will protect our neighbors," -Minneapolis protester in Pickle Rick costume. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

Yeah man all my friends in Minnesota are buying high viz vests and forming human chains at class dismissals because ICE is targeting and tear gassing schools. I wonder why parents would want information about that.

I'm helping ICE watch a local elementary school with other connected community members at pick-ups and drop-offs. Kids are afraid. Staff are afraid, overworked, and unresourced. I've been thanked so many times for helping out, but I just feel devastated that we are all living through this. ICE OUT

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

U.S. citizen detained by ICE: “…they finally told me that they could offer undocumented family members of mine legal protection if I have any…or money, in exchange for giving them the names of protest organizers, or undocumented persons. I was shocked, and told them no.”

His message is addressing only trump voting Minnesotans. The DAY OF RECKONING means killing more liberals and disappearing more brown people. Minnesota will be the war zone he needs to declare martial law…

For those not from here…this is a cold that gets into your bones. It seeps in through seams. If you live here, you know how to exist in it, how to survive, how to go about your life, even thrive. If you aren’t ready for it…if every piece of your clothing isn’t made for it… It is a painful cold.

By everyday people doing this, they increase the likelihood of other everyday people being aware, just because of the outrage of ICE's behavior that they're experiencing firsthand. For many it's harder to truly care about what happens to a random stranger, but Shirley from church? *throws hands*

Hundreds of Twin Cities high school students walked out Mon to protest ICE operations in Minnesota. Some schools are reporting 30% drops in attendance as families fear leaving their homes, w/districts pausing field trips and offering virtual learning options. |MPRNews www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Two Faces, Two Systemic Failures: Grief, ICE, and What We Demand On the left is Renee Nicole Good. Less than a week ago, she was shot and killed by a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis. 🧵

Signs of Renee Good that say "Murdered by ICE" go up in Minneapolis over the weekend

Stopping for a moment to acknowledge that it's absolutely nuts that everybody's schedule is now like "2:00 meeting, 3:00 daycare patrol, 4:00 emails." And we just...do it because what other choice is there?

For lawyers in Minnesota who want to resist the ICE occupation: forms.gle/YK9mVYTft1Lt... So many folks in our legal community are ready and eager to get involved. But right now, a lot of work is being done in a decentralized way, by groups without bandwidth to organize. Let's coordinate efforts.