I found a healthy one: give a few $$ to mutual aid folks.

Our extended family sings Joy to the World to start Christmas Eve dinner. Us: 🎶Let earth receive her king🎶 Kiddo (age 8): “Didn’t we fight a whole war to not have kings in this country?? No Kings!” 2025 is a mood.

This is your chance to do a quick ICE WATCH training! Dec 24, 1pm – 2pm, on Zoom. Learn how to document, coordinate and monitor ICE activity, and how to connect with others doing ICE WATCH in your community. DO IT!!!

Contact your reps. Talk to your neighbors. If you're out there keeping other neighbors safe, you can show up for these ones, too. Mpls 💗

The ACLU of Minnesota and several law firms filed the suit Wednesday on behalf of six Minnesotans who say they’ve been detained or threatened by federal agents while lawfully observing ICE operations, including Susan Tincher of Minneapolis who was detained when she confronted ICE agents.

This is a great example of how Hennepin County as an institution is governed by the Hennepin County Board but the Sheriff is independently elected and HCSO doesn’t report to the County Board in any meaningful way.

Last week City Council unanimously strengthened our Separation Ordinance. Yesterday, MPD helped ICE by doing crowd control while they kidnapped neighbors. Mayor Frey continues to let MPD use a loophole to work with ICE and only he can stop what residents witnessed yesterday. buff.ly/gllRzKu

This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.

It's getting mega cold this weekend, can you hit the @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social Venmo to help keep folks warm? Put a 🌴 in the Venmo comment so we know

This whole thread is essential reading.

Friends, we have some positive news tonight out of the Constitution, Bylaws, and Rules Committee re: the DFL Feminist Caucus. The TL;DR of it is the entire feminist caucus leadership has to either undergo extensive training, or resign within 10 days.

ICE was in Cedar Riverside today. Amazing community turnout, be mindful of the layer of pepper spray in the snow all over the neighborhood

This is the way, neighbors!

It’s -6 before windchill and one of the school buses for kiddo’s school is running an hour behind this morning. Just brutal.

He said that with his whole self. We need to believe the monsters when they say they are monsters.

Given the events of the last 36 hours, we’re rolling this out even faster. Please sign up to be a hub or help print whistles!

It's wild, but whistles that cost less than a dollar have been an effective tool in Chicago and other places for alerting people to the presence of ICE/Nazis. Want to help distribute, purchase or 3-D print whistles in Minneapolis? Here's the info you need!

This fight has never been about undocumented people. Take a look at how they are treating American citizens.

This is an important thread for parents and caregivers. Your child should not be with you when protesting ICE. If you have your kid with you and you spot ICE, alert the hotline (Monarca in the Twin Cities). That's why we have rapid responders.

Shelter Connect report from this afternoon: ZERO shelter beds in Hennepin County tonight, and zero beds for men in Ramsey County. And this is just the first week of sustained cold weather this winter.

As we continue to learn more about the incident, we ask that you are on alert, keep the community safe, and alert neighbors about immigration enforcement you witness. No human beings should ever be treated like this. Children, especially, should never have to experience this. 2/

This is evil.

Things I discovered this morning: Kiddo, age almost 8, knows he is not supposed to boil water on the gas stove without supervision. He did not apply the same logic to making scrambled eggs, aka frying eggs in oil. (He was successful, but it was quite a surprise at 5 am!)

If you live in Minneapolis and your street sign is blue, you live on a snow emergency route and you should not park on it tonight

Hitler was bad. An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.

Delighted to report that my less online spouse is cheerfully embracing his identity as the snowblower guy (non-gendered) for our block. So far today he’s done all the neighbor’s sidewalks and our less mobile neighbor’s driveways, and I think he’s getting ready for round 3.

I love transit all the time, but the first storm of the season it's magical to not have to worry about all the car drivers re-learning how to drive in snow!

We have to use every tool available to us - including our dollars. This Black Friday and weekend @blackvotersmatterfund.org asks you to join “We Ain’t Buyin’ It!” to send a message to Trump’s corporate enablers. Learn more about the companies targeted in this campaign here: weaintbuyingit.com

Do the MN State Patrol pilots really have nothing better to do tonight?!

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

This is the way to use no or less salt on your sidewalks this winter.

This is a much more balanced story than this morning's version from the Strib. (Gift Link)

The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.

Another family whose loved ones were taken from Bro-Tex has posted a Go Fund Me www.gofundme.com/f/support-al...

Monarca trainings are a great step if you want to be prepared to respond to ICE in our communities.

East side of St Paul.

Our Somali friends and neighbors are elected leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, caregivers, drivers, and integral parts of communities from the Twin Cities to St Cloud to small towns. No matter their status, they belong. Don’t buy into hateful rhetoric. Stand with all those who call this state home.

Local leadership needs to assume that they’re being lied to by federal agencies. Especially after two verified raids with ICE presence despite public statements to the contrary. It was heartening to see Mayor Carter on the ground yesterday. I hope Mayor-Elect Her takes note!

The family of one of the workers taken by ICE from Bro-Tex yesterday has set up a Go Fund Me. www.gofundme.com/f/fn4bw-help...?

Federal agents wearing tactical gear used chemical irritants on protesters at the Bro-Tex facility in St. Paul. Video by reporter Louis Krauss, who is on the scene.

Watching The Diplomat makes you REALLY wonder about some people’s marriages. (Also, Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford working together again is a GIFT to tv watchers everywhere.)

Note that I saw no kids at this event. Did families get to come and get turned away for the unannounced bag policy? Or like me, did all the parents work to make alternative arrangements for our kids because we knew this would be the opposite of family friendly?

This was not a “listening session.” Less than half the people who got in line to speak were able to do so. And those that did speak got evasive answers, not active listening.

Trans and non-binary DFL’ers are all too often there for the party in its greatest time of need. DFL leadership is all too often nowhere to found in ours. Join us in supporting A Better DFL to help create a party that works for all us ❤️ www.abetterdfl.org

Due to the unannounced bag policy, if I had brought my kid, I would have been turned away. Parents attending a meeting with kids often need to travel with stuff!