People are still trapped in their homes in my neighborhood here in Jason's ward, unable to go to work (at jobs which may not even exist anymore), sick with worry over how they’ll pay utilities and remain housed. It's not over. ICE is still here, and the least we can do is afford families more time.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Just got a message from a signal group saying ICE was photographing *children* getting on and off a school bus today.

it me

Today, ICE engaged in a dangerous, high-speed chase in Saint Paul. Their recklessness and disdain for the safety of our residents led directly to a multi-car collision, even if ICE vehicles weren't the ones to hit other cars.

Despite what people are claiming, ICE is still actively threatening the safety and well-being of Minnesotans. Their disregard for the lives of the people of the Twin Cities is evident. These agents are a threat to all of us, and they must leave Minnesota.

This is Minneapolis:

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

When they boxed Elliott and I in and came to my car they literally said to us right away: “This is your first and final warning we have license plate readers and facial recognition we know who you are”

the bushes were people 😂

Counterpoint: no serious person in the Twin Cities is worried about any meaningful amount of "destruction" by observers/protestors. Get real.

They're doing amazing work helping people who are already going through so much. This post from earlier this week illustrates what happens when they can't locate the family in time and the car gets impounded instead of returned to them.

It’s like people have been “raptured” to hell: “Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where these abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars. The drop-offs are often emotional for the families and Leon's crew.”

Ciji Graham’s is the seventh case ProPublica has investigated in which a pregnant woman died after she was unable to access standard care in a state that has significantly restricted abortion. Read her story: https://propub.li/4r4VQr4

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

I've been thinking a lot about our current movement and the role of individuals. Each of us is just a drop. Enough drops fill a bucket. Enough buckets fill a pool. Enough pools make an ocean. Each of us will do our little piece. 1/

ICE surge news: Minneapolis Public Schools has extended *optional* distance learning until April 6.

And the percentage of those detainees who have NO criminal convictions continues to rise — up from 70% in December to 74% in January.

Struggling to articulate how weird it feels that a subset of affluent, mostly white Minnesotans are enjoying concerts, restaurants, markets, and other fun consumption “for a good cause” while many of us are essentially in hiding and waiting for those dollars to trickle down.

I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:

After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered. 18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.

Wait wait wait, this "drawdown" is because sheriffs agreed to break state law to help DHS with nazi crimes on the stipulation their legal costs are covered when people rightly say hey fucko thats illegal? This isn't a drawdown, it is just replacing some DHS goons with regular cops

Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house? —Isaiah 58

The veil between this world and the next has been pierced. We apologize for the inconvenience.

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Ociel is the father of four daughters. He is a legal resident in Minnesota who went to court for a hearing about his status, and was detained. His family needs funding for legal help: www.gofundme.com/f/community-...

See, I'm a target fanboy. It's my go-to for everything, and my wardrobe in particular is mostly Target stuff. I haven't been in a target for like, two weeks now because they're allowing ICE to stage in their lots and said nothing when agents brutalized one of their employees on the clock.

As Operation Metro Surge continues, community-led mutual aid efforts are feeding and housing Minnesotans in need—but there’s lots more work to be done.

Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak. But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.

At my MN precinct caucus tonight, a resolution calling on ICE to be more professional & follow the law got all Nays, but an "Abolish ICE" resolution got a unified resounding "AYE".

This is such great reporting -- not just capturing the scale and diversity of resistance in Minneapolis but also being beautifully direct in joining with that resistance. Thank you, @racketmn.com .

I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar. If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.

It's live. Get your tissues. “I’m OK with crying in front of him," said a mom, "but he’s come up to me a couple times and said, ‘It’s OK mama, I’ll protect you.’ That’s my job as a mom. I need to protect you.” Vera, 5, is taking matters into her own hands: She sets traps to catch the "naughties."

Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.

World's least surprising stat, now with alt text:

Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas. Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member. We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.

So they’re just chasing people around the park with guns drawn via @apnews.com

It’s day 63 of the ICE occupation of MSP. Today another district had to cancel school- this time for a bomb threat after going public about the impacts of the ICE surge on their district. All kids deserve to go to school without fear. But that’s impossible for our kids right now.

annoying thing about a united front is that a lot of people in it are gonna be super wrong about a lot of other stuff

Story of the fraud crackdown so far: Flood the streets with masked far right militia. Stalk people on their way to work. Target anyone who doesn't look American enough. Federal prosecutors resign in disgust. Capacity to prosecute fraud disintegrates. www.startribune.com/another-wave...

A new poll finds that 1 in 4 Minnesota voters took part in the Jan 23 shutdown against ICE, or have a loved one who did. Of those, 38% DID NOT WORK, either because they made the choice to stay out, or their workplaces closed. By me, @thomasbirm.bsky.social, @bloomekatz.bsky.social

Conditions in the Whipple Federal Building are violations of state law, federal law, international law, human rights, civil rights, and basic fucking humanity. racketmn.com/how-dhs-turn...

"About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments..." www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

Woman with legal status taken from her family home in St Paul by ICE, flown to Texas, held for two weeks before being ordered released by a judge. She lost her job. She's afraid to go outside because agents keep coming to her home. www.kare11.com/article/news...

One of the things that keeps me going is that we are trying to protect something--community--and in the process we are strengthening that very thing. Their goal is simply to destroy. They have the guns and we have the whistles, but every day we become stronger and they do not.

I do not need an AI to match my drink to my mood, because if I'm reduced to getting a drink at Starbucks, I am either punishing myself with burnt coffee (drip) or so hypoglycemic I cannot think straight (seasonal latte).