For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

Canceled Paramount+ subscription last year. Canceled HBO subscription today.

ICE surge in western Wisconsin, east of the Twin Cities

How did I miss this 🧡

February 2026 so far in news photos

After Javier Abreu-Vasquez was released from the ICE detention center in El Paso Wednesday, two Minnesota nonprofits worked to coordinate Abreu-Vasquez’s stay at Annunciation House, a local El Paso nonprofit.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

See you at Vine Arts Center’s Mutual Aid Art Fair on Sunday Feb 22nd from 1-5pm. Proceeds will go to the Immigration Law Center of Minnesota and the CTUL Emergency Fund. Ivy Arts Building - Vine Arts Center (2637 27th Ave S)

Minnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.

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If you can remember a world before “The Santa Clause 2,” you can remember the world before DHS. If you can’t, well, imagine you can imagine it. www.startribune.com/minnesota-im...

I just ordered mine. The campaign closes on March 01. Raise funds for Minnesota via the ACLU NARF* & get yourself an Alaska Native rebel willow ptarmigan shirt. 💙🩵⭐️ *Native American Rights Fund

Posters honoring Renee Good and Alex Pretti Minneapolis, 2nd Ave N at 1st St N 13 February 2026

The bathrobe ICE news photo from Saint Paul reminds me of the Visby Window at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, depicting the Battle of Visby, Sweden in the year 1361

More essential writing on Minnesota schools and families from @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social at @mprnews.org. A heartbreaking story of fear, anguish, hard work, and leadership, expertly told.

So many victims — and heroes here. I’m in awe of Zena Stenvik’s commitment but especially her ability to communicate: when I’ve heard her interviewed, or testifying, she’s been clear as a bell.

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

Mutual aid has to keep going for a while. Keep shopping at immigrant-owned businesses and pitching in to rent and grocery deliveries. And keep donating to legal funds because people are still detained.

This is what I wrote about— they are outside all our front doors, constantly. And if you live in a blue city, get ready, this is what retribution looks like. Doing all the violence to you they can while blaming “the immigrant”. lithub.com/letter-from-...

Amidst all the atrocities taking place in the U.S., please don't forget the imminent threat of being robbed of our public lands. Once this happens, to paraphrase Heather Cox Richardson, we will never get them back. (Sample letter to U.S. senators included in article.)

"We've had great success in this operation," says Tom Homan in Minneapolis. Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment.

Yes - but please note this scene this morning occurred in the heart of Saint Paul

My sense of Minnesota today is that there’s less tear gas and the same amount of unlawful detention, destruction of families, loss of livelihood, people in hiding. There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.

Listen to the whole statement - 💙🤍🩵

The wife and attorney of a man detained in Rochester last week say he finally has access to life-saving medication following a kidney transplant. However, they added that federal authorities are still not giving him the correct dosage or the full regimen.

Please don't accuse people in knitted hats of only wearing their supposed politics if all you're doing is posting, which is basically just another way of wearing your politics. It's a silly thing to attack people over in any case. Using fashion to signal support for ongoing acts of rebellion is good

This. He's not your symbol of resistance. He's a victim, and a kid.

4. Every goddamn piece of protest is performative. Everything about society is performative. That isn’t WRONG. 5. How do you know that the only thing these “liberals” are doing is knitting hats? Because I see these hats on school pickup duty, on neighborhood patrols, at grocery drop offs.

It’s more than disappointing to see people mocking the red knit hats. 1. The symbol was strong enough the Nazis banned them to stop people signaling their resistance to each other. 2. Sales of patterns have raised hundreds of thousands for mutual aid. 3. Not everyone can stand, shout, smuggle.

imagine the drop in gun crime if we adopted biathlon rules and made everyone run a lap before taking a shot

What do fans do when cheering and flag-waving can be claimed by Trump, who has sought to put his name on anything he can? @jonsteinman.bsky.social and @michaelangeloni.bsky.social have suggestions for how American sports fans who want to root for their team without endorsing its government.

There is nothing more American or patriotic than criticizing our leaders. We are a democracy. We don't ask our citizens (athletes are citizens too) to express subservience to a supreme leader. We value individualism and freedom of expression. That's how we roll.

The 2026 Winter Olympics is my psychological escape for a couple of weeks. Love to my ancestral people of Norway!

The 2026 Winter Olympics are my psychological escape for a couple of weeks.

This article is fantastic AND those of us who’ve been organizing since early December are oh-so-very tired. Time for the second wave of folks to jump in and take on more so we can rest a bit. If you have capacity, plug in with whatever’s happening in your neighborhood.

I love every single word of this, and it is a lesson to all of us about how we are going to survive this moment in history. Get in, get going, don’t wait, and don’t ever quit.

Federal immigration agencies are using a vast surveillance network in Minnesota – from facial recognition technology to ‘stingrays’ that collect data by impersonating cell phone towers. Written by Shubhanjana Das

My favorite winter event in Minneapolis was tonight! Thousands of illuminated ice sculptures on Lake of the Isles. It’s pure magic.

Carol did not care for winter holidays the way others did. “I fucking hate New Year’s Eve”, she thought to herself. “And for the love of all that’s holy, why can’t this bartender make a decent gin and tonic.”

I want a MN state flag emoji and a loon emoji

😥 www.startribune.com/mournful-cer...

I wrote a song for our immigrant neighbors here in Minnesota. Pardon my rusty guitar skills—it’s been over 10 years since I wrote my last song, but this moment called for music. youtube.com/shorts/B7Csu...

“Minneapolis has shown me that even in the middle of grief and fear, people still show up for each other,” writes Becca Good in a thank-you note to the people of Minneapolis.

Peggy Flanagan at today’s DFL Elected Officials Convocation: fighting back against ICE isn’t a marathon, it isn’t a sprint, it’s a relay.

Everyone go read "A Year Without Sunshine" by Naomi Kritzer

DID YOU KNOW? If you have Delta Sky Miles, you can donate them to help a kidnapped-and-released person fly home! They are set free on the streets of El Paso or another Texas town with no phone, no money, nothing at all. Your miles can get them back to their loved ones!

The face of Renee Macklin Good is featured in a new snow sculpture in Minneapolis. Over part of her face is has a blindfold that says “ICE OUT,” and it references two snow sculptures that were disqualified from competitions last month for their references to ICE the surge.