It seems a lot of people think they know Minneapolis now. Our flaws. Our faults. I hope my neighbors join me in reclaiming the narrative. Minneapolis, through the eyes of someone who actually lives here:

ICE is shackling patients who are having medical emergencies to hospital beds. People are afraid to go to hospitals despite having severe healthcare needs. This is INSANE and everyone should know about it.

Shouldn't it be a bigger story that the immigration cops are seizing and imprisoning people who CANNOT POSSIBLY BE IMMIGRANTS

Where can I get a pro-immigration bumper sticker or magnet locally around MPLS? Thanks

The great @usefulnoise.bsky.social made a request that we all write something about what life in Minnesota is like for folks who live elsewhere or might be outside our normal neighbothis-Bluesky footprint. So I went to cursed Facebook and wrote this. Maybe it will help you share your own thoughts.

Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school. 📸: Jerry Holt

I hope everyone outside of MPLS/St. Paul knows how distressing the last few weeks have been. From Nick Shirley and imitators harassing minority daycares to broad daylight abductions in our community to armed mercenaries carrying rifles through school zones and Target.

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...

Target Center fan screams “Go home ICE”, Target Center crowd erupts

Siri is there a website where I can find literally the richest man in the world complaining about made up bullshit?

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Photo by @benjovland.bsky.social of @mprnews.org Wow.

ice agents simply aren't trained well enough to be on the street. they are a genuine danger to citizens

This is horrifying. Stay the fuck away from our students you pieces of shit. They’re there to learn and feel safe for once. I can’t take this shit

A 23 year old larping as a journalist made a misleading and inaccurate YouTube video that the administration full of chronically online shitposters used to justify the “largest immigration operation ever” and now someone is dead

I'm already exhausted anticipating the biggest bunch of bullshit getting cooked up by the admin, the right and their fans. Online content/comments covering this will be truly unbearable.

The video shows an execution. And as we saw with George Floyd, there will be a tidal wave of creeps, bigots, and grifters telling you it doesn't. It's already started, I imagine. Don't let them.

I’m not sure giving guns to undertrained people who responded to ads designed to attract xenophobic sociopaths is working out great

Nick is one of thousands across the country who’ve been erroneously picked up by federal agents as a result of Trump’s violent anti-immigrant crackdown, and individual stories often get lost in the sheer volume. I felt it was important for him to testify to what happened—in his own words.

I used to work in a MPLS elementary school with 80+% qualifying for free lunch. To think of those innocent kids and their families suffering for the "reason" of "YouTuber Nick Shirley and a conspiracy crank couldn't harass daycares the way they wanted to" makes me feel the rage of 1000 suns.

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

Put snowbanks behind every end zone IMO

🚨🚨🚨 EMERGENCY UPDATE 🚨🚨🚨 IT'S 2026 AND RICKY RUBIO JUST DUNKED IN A REAL GAME 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

Anyone ever use the Brick app/thing? After falling down huge rabbit holes with the N*ck Sh*rley video this week, I find myself wanting to look into this sort of thing. Still need the apps in question for work/Marketplace/basic stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDHC...

There's a whole category of clickbait slop that's just "this is what they took from you" when the thing is 1000% still around and happening all the time

What amazes me is how quickly people are losing either the confidence or the willingness to complete basic human tasks.

take the opportunity with this new year to familiarize yourself with the fact that grain engulfment can happen to anyone

I see a growing number of obviously AI generated ads, and it always makes me think two things: (1) This is a rinky-dink outfit that can't afford to film a commercial with real sets and actors, and more importantly (2) They are lying to me even more than ads usually do.

WCCO debunks the content of a "viral video" produced by right wing YouTuber known for his prank videos. youtu.be/dvOkwPxsvLs?...

When you cut the salaried experts and then have to firefight constant emergencies with freelancers who rightfully charge a premium for their expertise and bill by the hour-

I'm not the only person to have written it, and Parker in particular also did it well, but this was a lazy work the whole time. You can make a whole rancid career in the conservative politics biz just by knowing who you can get away with trying to hurt and then doing it. defector.com/the-conserva...

Greatest 2 point conversion in NFL history, the old backwards pass fumble recovered in the end zone

Turned off and put away: At St. Paul's Central High, students have gone phone free — and survived www.minnpost.com/education/20...

Results of ICE: - arresting tons of people who they supposedly weren't targeting - lots and lots of children afraid to go to school or go outside - families fleeing the area out of terror - dragging a pregnant woman on the ground yesterday Very evil, people who supported this should feel ashamed

Nice story from Marcus Fuller in this week’s Basketball Across Minnesota: 17-year-old Quincy Smith Jr. pursues his hoop dreams in stripes as youngest high school ref in the city varsity.startribune.com/basketball-a...

MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…” Lawless.

Incredibly sad. The stories here are beyond awful.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

I love this, so it cost more, took more time, looked worse and everyone STILL hated it. I can see why so many people think it’s the future 😂😂

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

“It’s like this place was made for us” — our four-year-old at Applebee’s for the first time

And then nearly losing the headset transmitter trying to pick them up

Stole this from the Cedar Cultural Center’s page since they aren’t here. ♥️♥️♥️

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.

There is some tremendous Camp Snoopy merchandise on FB marketplace right now, cc @danawessel.bsky.social

before you are allowed to run one (1) Elon Musk prediction as if it is news, you should be required to provide three (3) past predictions of his that have already come true

Disappointed to learn that Kwik Trip has taken away the option to fill up gas and then pay inside.