Two community members stand on the street corner of Central Ave and 18th St, watching over a local business in 5° temps with a wind chill of -15°. They are patrolling the area, keeping an eye out for ICE activity, doing what they can to protect their immigrant neighbors.

I believe Nazi Baby Jake Lang’s Wild Ride in Minneapolis perfectly illustrates this: that greasy little chode *genuinely believed* that the people of Minneapolis were on his side, or at least, wouldn’t stop him from having a Nazi parade on their turf. He guessed incredibly wrong.

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

My mayor told me police keep killing his constituents so I asked how many constituents he has and he said he just gives the police more money for training afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just paying the police to kill his constituents and then Matt Yglesias started crying.

we're all napping on the train

This cannot be emphasised enough: the phrase is itself eliminationist as it sets up being trans as pretense/deception and is calculated to pruriently evoke body parts & elicit disgust.

#bishova park date

“Asking scientists to spy on and report on their fellow co-authors” is a “classic hallmark of authoritarianism,” said Jennifer Jones, director for the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists

"Good white people have refused to admit this, as it means they would have to acknowledge their complicity. It seems that bruised egos matter more than confronting the ugly state of the nation’s cultural divide." Nothing but fucking truth here.

The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.

this is very much not the core of the issue. we tolerate all sorts of biological advantages and disadvantages in sports. the real fundamental question here is: why is this one different than the others?

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

A new NYT video analysis by confirms that Renee Good's vehicle did not run over Jonathan Ross and did not strike him. It's possible that it brushed up against him, but that remains unclear. Ross should be under arrest. This is a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats

adding this to my folder of ludicrous supposed "trans sports" bans that also includes: chess, pool, darts, sailing, Irish dancing & more. as Molly says, it's simply about removing trans ppl from the public sphere...

A nurse nearly blinded by a tear gas canister. Protesters struggling to breathe. Under Trump 2.0, federal agents have routinely countered protesters using "less lethal" weapons in ways that some experts say might be criminal. ➡️ Read more (w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social): https://propub.li/4qjXYdX

This is genuinely psychotic.

Stars & Stripes is a great paper.

for a certain type of Boston guy this is gonna cause incidents similar to when yet more conservative boomers find out that Bruce Springsteen is a lib

I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.

Shipping off to Boston!

This is not a question of training. These are not cocker spaniels. They *want* to hurt people. They *want* to scare people. They *want* to do so with impunity. They'll happily take overtime pay for another training session they can ignore. What they don't want is consequences.

when will my yelena come back from the war (i mean in doomsday i assume but that's so far away)

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

There are Facebook groups where parents trade tips on chelation to “cure” autism. Kids have died. This is so, so unbelievably dangerous.

We are at the “Minnesotans are spray painting their broiler pans for body armor” stage of the fight

Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.

this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"

Trump is threatening wars with NATO and Venezuela for the same reason he’s at war with the American people: fascism must always be on the march. Authoritarians are good at offense, but bad at defense. The only strategy for combating the Epstein crisis is literally going to war.

This article is a must-read. It matches my own experience of seeing conservative judges go from often siding with trans plaintiffs prior to 2021 to being outwardly hostile. Judges don't live in a hermetically sealed chamber. They absorbed anti-trans propaganda. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Trump is selling seized Venezuelan oil and putting the cash in a bank account in Qatar. Nothing to see here. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

health care lawyer here: CBS 'news' reports that: "Jonathan Ross, suffered internal bleeding to the torso following the incident..." Here's the thing, that can mean 'a bruise' — it just sounds much more dramatic to call it "internal bleeding to the torso"

99% chance this is what they mean

just a little more training bro then ice will be okay, i swear just some more training bro i promise, we can reform this

The thing that really makes Minneapolis different, other than the fact that they straight up murdered someone, is that they've dropped all pretense that this is just about immigration. The state has declared war on its own people, or at least those people who live in cities.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

ICE Is amassing dozens of vehicles in Burlington, MA in anticipation of a surge in New England. Given new reporting by @marisakabas.bsky.social, this could be used in Lewiston, Maine to go after the Somali community there. It's a 2 hour straight shot on I-95 between Burlington, MA and Lewiston.

The bootlicking by the Washington Post doesn't seem to be working out for them. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“One day, a woman wrote to me on Signal, asking me not to respond. She lived alone, she messaged, and planned to die that weekend. Before she did, she wanted at least one person to understand: Trump had unraveled the government, and with it, her life.” @hannahnatanson.bsky.social essay:

Every obsessive critic of "wokeness" embodies the actual qualities that they attribute to "wokeness." In this case, the mentality that any obstacle you encounter is discrimination bsky.app/profile/park...

“Tell us where the non whites are so we can kidnap them at gunpoint” sounds like a free country to the Roberts Court

These problems are bigger than any individual so this isn't a solution but I do think Schumer and Jeffries should be replaced by any two Minneapolis residents who are out doing ICE patrols right now

"i serve the Lord, not a draft-dodging coward" is the kind of phrase that would be slightly cringe online and is incredibly badass when being stated by a man surrounded by armed men threatening to murder him