Minneapolis firearm instructors see surge in interest amid ongoing turmoil “Most are people afraid of ICE."

Photo essay from my Minneapolis coverage is up! Check it out.

The regime obviously thought they'd be able to take out a few dozen scary-queer-weirdo Antifa types in black masks and then successfully cow the rest of the Coastal Elite Liberal class into terrified silence: they were not expecting "totally fearless mass nonviolent resistance by entire cities."

‘Stop trying to make fetch happen!’

Trump will throw anyone under the bus to protect himself. His followers need to learn this.

You’ve gotta be kidding me. I’m a quarter of the way into a new enjoyable book and the first real human villain is an ICE agent? (No spoilers pls, I’m still reading!) The universe is something else.

part of why we are driving ICE absolutely mad is that we are using tactics that do not really permit them to legally arrest us. they cannot operate the way they want to operate when we have eyes on them. they want to be a secret police and we simply will not let them be secret

I was working last night so tonight there’s a candle in my window.

I am so proud of my colleagues at Minnesota Law, standing with their students, alumni and the larger Minneapolis community. “As scholars, teachers, and practitioners of the law, we feel compelled to speak out about this ongoing threat to our communities and democracy.”

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage. Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.

Cannot see the end of it.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

These morons who were afraid of tracking chips in the COVID-19 vaccine 5 years ago are now compiling a surveillance campaign against Americans. Make sure you get good facial shots of the nazis because America will need to know who trampled on the Constitution.

Thousands here at Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, the site of deportation flights. Clergy have blocked the road at terminal 1 departures singing “before this campaign fails, we’ll all go down to jail. Everybody has a right to live.”

A portion of my problems are because I said "sure" when I should have said "no".

Oh I have thoughts about this album…good ones! #poppy #emptyhands

It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason

LOFGREN: The fact that Trump, according to Senator Graham, would be that 'Martians stole the election' -- what does that tell you about Trump's state of mind? JACK SMITH: Trump was not looking for honest answers about if there was fraud in the election. He was looking for ways to stay in power

THIS

[bringing back this post from 6 months ago]

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

I cannot tell you the joy I feel that all my ads are in another language and I can reject every cookie

I miss calm, sane, world focused leadership so much.

100% truth spoken.

Almost as if this is the natural state of humanity. We WANT to help each other, we WANT to protect each other, we WANT to be in community with each other, we just get convinced that we don't by those who need people to be isolated in order to seize power.

The rest of the country needs to take note - these cities are showing us how it’s done. Hats off

Amateurs study strategy, pros study logistics. It's going to be hard to put this toothpaste back in the tube.

It’s wild that the militia people fully bought the idea that masks were the biggest federal threat, but are happy to see the feds do actual American rights violations. I would ask my militia buddy what he thinks of this conundrum, but he died of the covid that isn’t real.

I am not exaggerating when I say ICE functions as a terrorist organization in the Twin Cities. The goal seems to be to harass and frighten people (the ones who are lucky enough to not be abducted, at least) and it's deeply unsettling when you learn they're in your neighborhood.

I would pay money to watch a prosecutor ask him, So, you were in fear for your life but managed to hold your cell phone in one hand and record shooting Renee Good 3x with the other. Did I get that right?

This. We know. We know you are not one of us.

How you can tell the protesters aren’t paid agitators: Watch the videos. It’s the accents. Those accents have a favorite Zorbaz. Those accents can tell you EXACTLY where they were on 10/31/91. Those accents have thrown a bra off the SkyGlider. Those accents get emotional about Randy Moss.

Once again, 2 hours post incident, DHS has written the narrative of the event rather than gather all the details.

Basically 2026 so far.

I would rather sell Tupperware than invest in crypto.

"The veteran said he saw volunteering as an ICE observer as another way of serving his country. 'It’s the most American thing to do: not to be scared of people trying to scare you... This is a pivotal moment we’ll be asked about by our kids, "Where were you?" www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

So much this. And a large fry. And a gigantic USA soda.

I can’t fake it like I did when I was younger and everything was in chaos. That was survival and I didn’t know any different. I’m still navigating this feeling my feelings crap but I’m not there. I don’t even know if I can do it. But, I can’t reach the tools to disassociate anymore. This sucks.

Do folks realize that ‘ice out’ is the yearly tradition in MN when all the ice is off any particular lake? We make bets on these dates here. So using ice out is specifically relevant to Minnesotans

This upcoming generation is going to change a lot of things. I feel like being harassed by the police state who wouldn’t raise a finger to protect them from school shootings but will terrorize them for this worthless crusade is going to be their final straw.

I’m so overwhelmed with it all

As someone w a brain that makes connection after connection - this is not a fun time

Imagine having your parents brutally murdered and then having to do this because the fucking President of the United States is so disgusting.

Don’t engage, block- best way to fly the sky

Yeah, seems as good a time as any for a few months sub to Netflix. Going to need to hunker down, this is gonna get real stupid. All the James Bond later this month.

My sister-in-law works at the midnight oil factory — yeah she says it’s the same stuff as the regular oil comes out of the same vat and everything

can't believe the guy whose entire political philosophy revolves around domination would turn out to be a hawk

he can (seems to be looking for a reason to) declare martial law in order to indefinitely suspend elections, since the protesters didn’t riot. they know their goose is cooked electorally. stealing another regime’s oil by warring with them is icing on the cake of a republican president’s playbook.