The Twin Cities community is pulling together like never before. Nobody can remember a time when drivers would pull up to bus stops — not to be obnoxious and block the next bus — but to ask if anyone needs hand warmers.

This should have been the new flag. Looks like a Minnesota-fied Jolly Roger.

In Minneapolis this afternoon: “Trump is a pedophile! Release the files!” Temperature: -30F windchill

Oh yeah, I didn’t bother to carry through to critiquing the national tv news. When the ABC News lead-in promo said something like “protesters at the airport confronted ICE” I was a hard out. Y’all don’t pay me enough to suffer this volume of abuse.

One, no buying shit today. Two, I’d like clarification on which local orgs. Nobody needs their cash going to grifters or the counterinsurgent liberal abyss.

KSTP at Target Center. Someone speaking, but that doesn’t stop the reporter from shouting over top of them for the duration. A brief mention of ICE refusing to comply with a judge ordering the kidnapped 2 y/o be released. Followed by a segment for ICE to spout unfettered nonsense. I need booze.

If I were smart I’d figure out a way to monetize shitting on the tv news I’m forced to consume.

KSTP did not think it newsworthy that those arrested at MSP were clergy, nor that it was done by local multi-agency and cross jurisdiction police forces. They were simply nondescript protesters arrested by airport police.

This is not factually correct. Texas and Florida are arresting thousands of people with their state and local police and then detaining them for DHS. Yes, DHS is targeting Democratic states and cities, for deployment, but that does not mean there aren't arrests every single day in every state.

Again, the four local tv news outlets each made a choice to give today’s action a near total coverage blackout. No live, and thus far the same sort of time they’d allocate to someone winning a Minnesota State Fair baking contest.

WCCO’s 4pm block comes on and they open inside Target Center. In their five minutes the reporter said he couldn’t find pro-ICE attendees before centering the grifty 50501 org. Then they were done.

My disabled 81 y/o dad lives in front of a tv. A typical day is 7am to 11pm. He had no idea there was a general strike or massive protest occurring. That speaks to the coverage local tv news has done today.

Now: With double digit windchill, thousands marching in Downtown Minneapolis during a general strike. Marching and protest against the actions of ICE. Prince dance party outside First Avenue and the Prince mural - where there’s been many Prince dance parties before. Minneapolis January 23, 2026

Izzy Ramirez is on the ground at the anti-ICE demonstration happening today at Placita Olvera in solidarity with Minnesota.

For those outside Minnesota, Edina has a certain reputation. Additionally if you are not familiar with the geography MSP airport is not in Edina. So somebody called their police in across jurisdiction to arrest clergy.

No one from MN is surprised to see Edina police here. A police force from a town full of people so affluent they inspired the Cake Eaters in The Mighty Ducks.

Just checked again. WCCO, KSTP, KMSP, KARE are all running regular programming. These networks would go live if Bovino had an uncomfortable poop and wanted to explain how it was the fault of immigrants.

James is one of the people who helps maintain/protect the memorial. He's been out here every day for the past 2 weeks and 2 days, from 10am til midnight. He lives in the house behind him.

Watching a livestream of the main anti-ICE march in MPLS it has just been a still shot on a single intersection and it's just been a full street wide march for 25 minutes

The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Star Tribune estimated hundreds of people. WCCO’s broadcast HQ is literally right there and they aren’t even doing live coverage, they’re running a game show.

One of the things learned in Los Angeles was the depth of fear police have for large but distributed protests. I think of that again seeing the volume of people in Minneapolis right now. One day I hope to see the strategy put into action.

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

It seems my mom just saw some of the coverage from indies around Minneapolis / St. Paul today. Sent a message of, “holy shit.” She wanted to know why this isn’t on the news. By which she means tv. Good question, mom!

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Anyone paying attention has seen them out with cameras for this. But it also shouldn’t surprise you because local police do the same thing.

i hope more and more people are realizing that even when ICE leaves minnesota, we still have police, and police act like this. and you shouldn’t want to just go back to brunch

ICE took a TWO YEAR OLD in Minneapolis yesterday. Please help her Mom get her home.💜 www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring...

NOW: At 32nd and 15th in South Minneapolis. federal agents smash up their car, leaving the car there while hopping in another vehicle, per bystanders. Reports of a person taken as well. Minneapolis January 23, 2026

Empty parking lot at a Minneapolis Target during a statewide strike with many businesses closed today. Target has remained open. With negative temperatures and a lot of outdoor protest today, the one product people may go in for is sold out at their stores - hand warmers.

Eyal Shalom, the UCLA mob attacker formerly known as #MaroonHoodie is being given a second chance after failing to comply with the court-ordered diversion program, per Dolores.

Again compelled to say this is anarchism by its true definition in action. “Leaders” have spent a century intentionally trying to redefine anarchy as nihilism. The goal has always been to make you believe you can’t live without them or their necropolitics. Those “leaders,” are the nihilists.

Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come

TELL GOVERNOR WALZ WE ALSO NEED AN EVICTION MORATORIUM IN MINNESOTA NOW

Community members in Minneapolis have built a vast rapid response network; patrols; witness and response to ICE presence; large-scale food deliveries; and care webs for those who are left behind by ICE. Many of these systems sprung to life along the paths laid down by the George Floyd uprisings.

We’ve got high quality out of staters unraveled, Talia, and Sean on Whipple which is kind of wild. Strib also has coverage there. But who is out doing realtime coverage *motions to everywhere else*. Shit is definitely happening outside of Fort Snelling / MSP airport.

It’s MN State Patrol as well. And I think we need to document that all the metro and statewide police agencies are complicit in this occupation.

Can anyone direct to some resources for this?

Canisters thrown by DHS as they left. 3 CS canisters and white smoke. Everyone has PPE so they just kept yelling at them.

State troopers with batons and what looks to be an LRAD on a truck deployed to original blockade area, where everyone has dispersed. They say they’re going to “clear the whole area” and that the nonexistent people are “an unlawful assembly” subject to arrest. Unclear if they’ll be moving in further.

Minnesota police did this what, yesterday or the day before? Included in that press conference was Hennepin County sheriff Dawanna Witt. Yet her officers have been joined at the hip with ICE. They’re who is likely doing the arrests at Whipple and MSP airport right now.

But remember folks state agencies like DOT, state police, county police, city police, are absolutely not working with DHS/ICE. They just happen to be the ones doing movement control and crowd control and performing arrests.

🚨🚨🚨 ICE IS OUT IN FORCE IN SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS TODAY 🚨🚨🚨 If you are not at the march/rally, PLEASE bundle up and get out on the streets. Join your neighborhood chat, and if you see ICE blow your whistle, honk your horn and get video (horizontal). If you can't go outside, keep an eye out your window.

It's all connected.

This is Minneapolis: It's -15°F (-26°C). Neighbors are leaving free packages of hand and foot warmers on their porches for others to grab while out on patrol, doing mutual aid, or heading to protests. ❤️

Speaking of religious freedom, clergy are being arrested for protesting at the airport. My grandad was a preacher who got arrested a bunch, so this speaks to me.

I was told the other day that it was a federal offense to interrupt a prayer service.

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