It's 3 p.m. in Minnesota. Graphic is commentary on what the couch-fucker said but also advice that maybe it's time to take a break. Please take breaks, folks. Hydrate, have a snack, take your meds, stay warm. You've got this. (We take care of each other.) (Also, always and forever, fuck ICE.)

I have nearly four decades of fond memories visiting TCMRM with my grandparents and my own kiddos; our wooden trains were donated there when my kids outgrew them. I don’t know that they’ve ever caused me to shed a tear before today. 🥹

This is incredible and valuable work: an oral history of the past few weeks here in MN. Love and appreciate media that both highlights how bad the situation is AND how fierce and caring and relentless our community's response continues to be.

Ope, it's somehow already 1 p.m. in Minnesota. Have you had lunch yet? Are you having lunch now? You should eat something if you haven't lately. Also drink plenty of water. Take any meds you may need to take. Take breaks. Take deep breaths. Take care of yourself. ❤️ (Fuck ICE.)

My book launch at Pandemonium Books in Central Sq. is THIS SUNDAY! zomg. Some reminders: 1) event is 18+ ! The book is v. spicy! (combines romance, urban fantasy, BDSM). 2) Bookstore would like RSVPs: pandemoniumbooks.com...

Is there a temperature that's too cold for helicopters to fly?

The Indigenous Cinema Alliance (ICA) will make its mark at the 2026 EFM and Berlinale. The lineup features amazing films and talent, led by the official Panorama selection, the Sámi musical drama Árru. redpopnews.com/berlinale-pa...

there’s a lot of people in this thread asking “how are they doing it?” and then I remembered we actually tried to tell people what we did in 2023 and there’s a lot of overlap. if you’ve been watching coverage of MN you might recognize many of the central characters. it’s not magic. it’s work.

His family wants to do memorial services in Minneapolis and in Wisconsin where he was born and will be buried. If you've felt grief, if you've comforted people in grief, please help these folks. (My own mother died this morning. If you were gonna bring me a hot dish, please give here instead.)

Friends, this relative lost his life due to exposure in the elements last weekend. His family needs support, and this GFM is woefully underfunded. Please consider donating if you’re able. gofund.me/5bddd9549

Seriously though folks— while you're calling your senators about ICE, please do the people of Minnesota another solid and also mention this.

And please remember this is happening all over Minnesota, not just Minneapolis. The bad and the good. And most people are not protesting, they're observing. Bearing witness. Recording. Most are just average folks, trying to protect their neighbors by warning them & documenting what goes down.

I've started printing portable water bottle based eye wash stations too (www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...) in addition to whistles. I'll be bringing 10 to Strike ICE on Friday the 23rd for those who need.

I am a Warrior... But I can cloak... If I have to... I guess.

I was at MANY of these stops. Here’s what would happen: the agents would stand guard at the cars, Bovino would literally pose out front while people yelled at him. It was a pathetic, obvious attempt to antagonize neighbors - they transited three gas stations and did the exact same thing thrice.

The basketball moms are organizing The dorky pastors are organizing The preschool parents are organizing The dive bar regulars are organizing The book clubs are organizing The taekwando dojongs are organizing The uncles group chat is organizing

I know it’s being slightly semantic but i get really mad when people refer to the occupation as if it’s only happening in Minneapolis. It’s not only stupid, but erasing that this is not confined to an urban core

THE PEOPLE'S MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM IS ON STRIKE TOO

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

No hell hot enough

Tonight, a woman testified to the Saint Paul City Council about what it was like to hear a neighbor scream for help as she was taken off the street by masked agents operating under the color of law. I don’t know how to sound the alarm more loudly than by sharing the facts: authoritarianism is here.

This is a really good thread. If her name sounds familiar but you can't place her, Margaret Killjoy is the podcaster who does "Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff" (the counterpart to "Behind the Bastards," which is also a good podcast and which she appears on pretty regularly.)

Introduce yourself like they say… Iggy Pop Prince Johnny Cash Public Enemy The Riverboat Gamblers And Bob Mould as often as I can.

The thing that gives me hope for the country right now is seeing how many people here are working really really really hard to protect as many of our neighbors as much as we can while also telling ICE to go fuck themselves at every opportunity.

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.

I don't want to paint a rosy picture, because it's a city under siege. People are being abducted all the time. One person told me about watching 1-2 abductions a day, just in her own work following ICE.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

Another person put it: "we're Minnesotans. We're excited to get out our real winter gear out of the box for the year." He was an audio engineer whose kid went to school in the area. No way in hell was he going to let anyone come for the kids on his watch.

Today I talked with a 76 year old who'd been standing in the cold for hours guarding her neighbors. I was getting kind of chilly, even in the new winter gear i bought for this trip (and I live in the goddam mountains myself). She didn't even have a hat on.

Before I came, I asked a local friend if the cold (it's going to be -20 or so in the coming days) would stop people from coming out. "No, we'll be there. It's ICE who can't handle it."

It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.

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.

Half the street corners around here have people--from every walk of life, including republicans--standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.

I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it. Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Unclear to me if this fucking five year old kid getting kidnapped is breaking through outside of the Twin Cities and I don’t want to speak for anyone else but this has really steeled my resolve. This shit cannot be allowed to stand.

I don't think most reporting will to cover the scope of how people are fighting back until this is over. A good number of people are doing things that don't involve going outside and a very significant number ain't publicly saying shit about who they're helping and how

Jason Chavez is my City Council member. Anything he is helping with is legit. Please help if you can.

If Senator Gallego can come out against funding ICE, it really seems like @klobuchar.senate.gov and @smith.senate.gov can come out against funding ICE.

right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out

Border Patrol agents are very sad that everyone in Minnesota hates them. “At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”

absolutely fucking gold MISSING: BOY MAYOR

i'm way less scared of civil war ii erupting than i am of absolutely nothing changing as things get worse and worse & the entire media apparatus pivots to pretending that using 5-year olds as bait to try and lure people out of their houses before also arresting the 5-year olds is normal

In the car while my husband drives so I called my representatives and cried and said not one dollar of our tax payer money should go to thugs who kidnap children and call them “it.”

Oh! This is excellent news! Josh is GREAT and his organizational spreadsheet-making wonk skills are unsurpassed. I don't know if this is a contested race or a "oh, you're volunteering? GREAT" kind of race but I'm strongly in favor of people like Josh running the DFL.

This picture broke me, but the description of this kidnapping by a witness who says ICE referred to this precious child as “it” as they took him away fills me with an unspeakable, murderous rage.

Entertaining fantasies of taking every single God damn greedy grifting House member who voted to lift the mining ban on northern Minnesota right on up there and letting Minnesota eat them alive.