Really? We should just... stop? Stop watching out for our neighbors? Stop objecting to armed gangs invading our city? We should give up our quaint beliefs in rule of law? FUCK THAT.

Okay, I'm the perfect amount of millennial Minnesotan to begrudgingly enjoy the Charlie Berens+You Betcha Nicolet Law Super Bowl ad. Well done

Why, exactly, are the Patriots in the Super Bowl?

Why, exactly, are the Patriots in the Super Bowl?

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Wise words from beyond the grave: "objectivity is not the same as neutrality. If there is an aggressor and a victim, a liar and an honest person, a corrupt individual and an honourable one, then your task is to describe all that clearly and forcefully" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

KEA on the ICE-context: "We hear it, we feel it, we're behind our community...James bringing a positive energy to a community that is strong and united....fundamentally I think it is about just being a good person. Thank you for asking."

KEA: "On #MNUFC 's 10th anniversary, we'll have James wear our #10, and jersey drop on Feb 10" That's some solid marketing right there. Also hard not to lean into the excitement

“It seems our university leaders cannot even say that it is wrong to murder a former student in broad daylight because some people might disagree,” geography professor Kate Derickson

This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.

Conducting a straw poll for the race with only one declared candidate and not for the contested US Senate seat is certainly a choice...a choice that was *deeply* unappreciated in our very full precinct caucus

“Democracy dies in darkness.” First as warning, then as how-to manual.

SD64, too! (We in Ward 4-Precinct 4 stuck around and closed the place down, to boot!)

A former colleague called this week to ask about the situation in Minnesota for the Question Everything podcast. I'm very grateful for the opportunity to get the word out some more about everyday life here right now. (I hate the episode title tho) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

“People are scared; we are, too.” Article: Federal immigration raids in Minnesota has put 'fear' into #MNUFC players; and the situation has curtailed #Loons signings of foreigners this winter. Argentine midfielder Joaquin Pereyra shares his experiences and views. www.twincities.com/2026/01/29/l...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

@mollycoleman.bsky.social, bringing *all* the receipts, on the myriad institutional & judicial failures that have brought us to the brink, including the plain and simple truth that "to date, the only effective check on Trump has been the power of the people."

Don't think I've seen 95% to 4% before. Congrats, Meg!

Damar is peak DS9

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

"It’s strange to realize that the work people can do aboveground is harass federal agents, but the work that people have to do in secret is… feed people."

Before speaking with two armed men at the Pretti vigil last night, a man approached & asked if I was going to tell the truth. I said yes. He told me how frustrated he was at the media & the harm it’s causing to his community. I asked if he wanted to share words for the media on camera, & he did:

I had forgotten save for my calendar: MN House 64A's special election is tomorrow (Jan 27), so add voting to your school / neighborhood patrol route, Saint Paul!

NEW: Reflections on a soccer Saturday, from a state under siege by the FIFA Peace Prize winner. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Goddamn this is a jeremiad

"We know what we’re fighting for, because we’ve already lived it. [...] The cruel, painful world that Donald Trump is trying to force on us is not one that we will ever, ever settle for. The path ahead is not clear, but we will continue to put one foot in front of the other until the day we win."

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Yesterday, 50,000 Minnesotans peacefully protested to stop the terror being inflicted on our community. Today, ICE shot and likely killed another constitutional observer on the street. I can’t say this clearly enough: Congress has to stop this. The government is killing us. Congress has to act.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

“For weeks, Democrats have pushed to require ICE agents to obtain the necessary judicial warrants ahead of any murders they plan to commit,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said in a joint statement on the current Homeland Security funding bill

Now we're at the political prisoners stage of occupation.

I keep seeing leftists from outside of Minneapolis say they’ve seen all this before, and no, you haven’t. I’ve been at this for 30+ years and I haven’t either. It’s not what you’re picturing. This is something else

The last year has just been a continual slide in the Overton window about what kind of country we're living in. A civil war starting in MN? That would have sounded wildly implausible two months ago, but now? It's one of several futures easy to see on the horizon.

On the sunny side of life Tani just did this in the Champions League:

@mccollum.house.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov Your constituents are out in the cold and in dire need of your leadership. This is simple as pie: abolish ICE, refuse to fund a government that's attacking its citizens.

These people have completely abdicated their responsibility. There may be little they can do on the ground but they can tell the truth, and like the many of us who have essentially stopped living our normal lives because of this terror campaign, bear public witness to atrocity.

"Minnesota is under siege. It might not yet be a civil war, but what the White House has dubbed “Operation Metro Surge” is definitely not just — or even primarily — an immigration enforcement operation. It is an occupation designed to punish and terrorize anyone who dares defy this incursion..."

National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3

I didn't write this for people in the Twin Cities. I wrote this to everyone else, my feeble attempt to try to be witness to the occupation of Minnesota and the chaos of every single day right now. open.substack.com/pub/wburdine...

"He wanted one thing understood immediately: This is not a professional operation. 'It is just ordinary people that are doing this,' he said. 'This isn’t fun. It’s middle-aged parents who would rather be playing with their kids at home.'"

Today on school patrol, a grandfather: "I'm 80 years old and I've never seen anything like this in this country. It's crazy that it can happen so fast. That's why you don't give one man so much power."

“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

"The revolution has a Sign-Up Genius" as 'hockey moms' across the Twin Cities organize school patrols and food deliveries for neighbors.

This isn't isolated -- been hearing this from my kids' friends folks at school, too. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...