I hadn't cried about how much I love Minneapolis in a few days, so this was a good one to read: "Minnesotans will continue to keep Minnesotans safe until we rid the state of the federal occupation, just like lake ice is weakened by springtime sunshine and subsumed by the water below."

Keep Minnesota Housed, friends! Visit keepMNhoused.com today to adopt a rent or donate to a rent fund to help families affected by ICE stay in their homes. #keepMNhoused

This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.

This gives you a sense of scale of the Trump admin's new refugee detention policy; they are claiming that all 100,000 of these lawfully present refugees MUST be arrested and detained for "re-vetting" and interrogation about their status.

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Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

my mom, who has been a bigger WNBA fan than me for years, and a bigger hockey fan for my entire life, just sent me an email about how she just learned that the PWHL exists. I am so happy for her.

lol, it’s a lot easier to form a tenants union when everyone in the building is in the same group chat

I feel very ill-fitting in academic spaces but apparently it is impressive that I can knit prolifically simultaneously with reading & comprehending texts / the ADHD does indeed giveth sometimes.

Very belatedly/slowly/annoyedly finishing the last sleeve of my first knit sweater & stuck remembering the story of the six swan brothers / their poor sister, weaving shirts made of nettles / & the one missing sleeve. (honestly, it gets weird: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Six...)

Twin Cities Tenant Union announced plans for a rent strike starting March 1st #FuckICE #Minneapolis

My god do we need UBI “Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“

Please keep in mind that ICE still hasn't left Minnesota and many of our neighbors are still living in fear. If you're able, please consider donating to one of the many aid funds listed at standwithminnesota.com. Thank you again! 💖

I played hooky this afternoon to enjoy the last day of False Spring and biked down the river a ways. Y'all, people were WATERSKIING. I love Minnesota so much.

Once you see it you’ll never not see it again

it was 55 degrees out today and I had my first haircut since before Thanksgiving / stay tuned for whether I regret how much hair we left on the floor.

y'all met the grocery need SO fast - but we're also raising rent money for this family because their income earners are still in detention: the need is $2400, and we're at $580 so far. I'm not the point person for this one, so donations to me will then be passed on to the main hat-passer 💸

y'all met the grocery need SO fast - but we're also raising rent money for this family because their income earners are still in detention: the need is $2400, and we're at $580 so far. I'm not the point person for this one, so donations to me will then be passed on to the main hat-passer 💸

Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski absolutely failing to enthuse about Shaidorov winning to the aria from the 5th Element, as if the beautiful skating was somehow more important.

going to tell my kids these were my roller derby photos

To commentate Valentine’s Day, community members and Recovery Bike Shop help put hearts along central at spots where our community members were taken. In the last 3 months at least 38 people have been taken around central Ave.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

also i will NEVER forget that when it was Mamdani vs Cuomo, the blue no matter who people didn't say a word about voting for the Democrat no matter what. everyone saw that.

so we've agreed that this is our emotional support figure skating, yes?

“As an immigrant and person of color in Minneapolis, as someone who has seen, daily, over three decades, how white culture in Minnesota has evolved, that when this particular occupation is over, I, we, will still live in an occupied place, in an occupied land.” — @sunyungshin.bsky.social

Mayor Frey on east coast victory tour answering questions about the time he said "get the f out of Minneapolis." Remember that? That was the moment we knew the feds were in trouble.

ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week. Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.

It is not a coincidence that the Minnesota occupation is “ending” right before the Senate is due to vote on funding for ICE. The fascists want you to think it’s all over and to disengage, but I hope the strategy backfire as a whole country thinks, “Are they coming here next?”

at the neighborhood meeting tonight: speakers all affirming the job is the same today as it was yesterday; eyeing the end of TPS for Somali migrants in mid-March; new & old volunteers signing up for new roles/training to keep up the work; the very firm energy that 'normal' was also broken.

talking even occasionally about being in Minnesota sure is a way to gain a lot of new followers who you're not sure are bots or not.

we *still* have no eviction moratorium in the Twin Cities despite ICE terrorizing people into staying home/not working for months now. please help us keep people housed!

the good things that have happened this week are that I got the cat a little tunnel to run through and she has decided running around a tunnel is not enough, she must also fight the tunnel.

Stories about what ICE's presence in Minnesota has done to kids — something I'm seeing firsthand — are hard to read. It's unfathomable that kids have to go through this. www.startribune.com/ice-children...

The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.

Part of my grad research involves learning dendrochronology/tree ring crossdating and for all that I will not give Orson Scott Card my money ever again...the wood grain tracing OCD in "Xenocide" keeps coming back to me as I stare at & practice charting the relative narrowness of tiny little rings.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

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.

hey folks, it's my turn this week to fund&get groceries for a 12-member household in SE Minneapolis w/several young children. 2 of their 3 income earners have been abducted by ICE. our median cost/week has been about $300. Venmo here: accounting in replies for transparency. www.venmo.com/ctaylsaurus

CM Chavez continues to show incredible leadership and care for community & constituents. let's make this happen

"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.

just an update from when we talked to the reporter: we’ve now successfully connected over 100 families for direct, peer to peer rent adoption. we’ve collected and immediately distributed…a lot. it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.

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...

I was describing the "Fix your hearts or die" scene in Twin Peaks: The Return tonight and, pinnacle of my life, I was told I do a great David Lynch impression.

My aunt and uncle went without power for 2.5 months after Maria. My grandfather who lives in San Juan went even longer. The power lines were the most impactful image of many tonight.

I am an unrepentant Superbowl Scrooge & was happily home all day after a week+ of Way Too Much Stuff, but I am still embarrassed that when I went for my little afternoon walk to drop my compost I was briefly confused about why all the undergrads were so clearly en route to a party, crockpots & all.

I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state. Tell them it will find your dog.