Walz and Frey have been very vocal about "not taking the bait" and trying to moderate protests and this is their reward. When are Dems gonna learn this is *always* gonna be the reward.

It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.

I keep seeing it without a source link, so here it is: January 16, 2026 MINNEAPOLIS LABOR UNION DELEGATION AND LOCAL REGIONAL LABOR BODIES ENDORSE JANUARY 23: DAY OF TRUTH AND FREEDOM NO WORK, SCHOOL, OR SHOPPING minneapolisunions.org/system/files...

This really interests me. If capacity for state violence is being consolidated in ICE then that consolidates legislative priorities to neuter the agency… could end up with an ironic and very satisfying outcome here

Andrew Wakefield has an ocean of blood on his hands.

Shocking map of deteriorating vaccine coverage in the US. Many counties have measles vaccination rates of <60% in kids younger than 5.

"The Guild is not publicly identifying the member out of concern for his family’s safety, but he is a father, a husband, and a staff member at a Minneapolis non-profit organization. He is a steward in our union and an advocate for all workers."

Aliya Rahman told ICE she was disabled She told them she was on her way to a doctor appt They broke her window, cut her seatbelt & dragged her away like an animal She was headed to the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when they grabbed her. She was denied access to a doctor & tossed in detention

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

“Don’t take the bait” is often “obey in advance”

Some of the stories in here are absolutely chilling. One US citizen of Somali descent was just riding an elevator with ICE agents and then they detained him for almost half an hour in the freezing cold despite him showing agents his passport card. They only let him go once protestors showed up.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Hahaha whoa I am used to Tooze as way more detached and way more polite left-liberal

Breaking news: An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner said it is likely to classify the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an ICE detention center as a homicide. A detainee says he witnessed Campos being choked to death by guards.

this completely horrifying. ICE is a domestic occupying threat against us all

A guy on LinkedIn (who works in school security) told me that he thought it was good for people to get shot in the face and was shocked that I conveyed that message to the school board

Yesterday, I posted about a fellow UUP member from Syracuse who’d been deported. Now one from Buffalo has been snatched and shipped to ICE detention in Michigan, after making a wrong turn.

The gestapo files on public opinion are fascinating. Citizens’ level of grousing about rationing and food availability was a major driver of decision making at the highest levels. Even after the Sportpalast speech there was no capability to really *impose* Total War on the population.

MN's already pushed the paramilitary occupation to the point that they're having to roll around in convoys and pounce on isolated individuals. they can't even sleep in the state, but rather over the border in Wisconsin. but yes, target the two of the largest states by population in the country.

“What was inaccurate in what I said” I love that he keeps asking that

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car" "His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

If ICE and genocide and grift and tyranny weren’t enough, this alone should have fire running down every street in America. This isn’t the way to live. We do not have to live this way.

I've seen some folks giving into doomerism by citing the US's history of paramilitary violence shutting down fair elections in the South, and I want to add some historical context to support Jamelle here (as an historian of Reconstruction paramilitary violence)

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

what a legend lmao

before renee, there was viola. their stories have so much in common, it’s like history itself is screaming at us to pay attention. honor their memories, fight like hell with fire in your belly and love in your heart.

Minneapolis is headed towards something resembling a general strike, if you were wondering how the campaign to cow working people into quiescence is going

I don’t think the ICE Gestapo enjoy that people aren’t afraid to have this kind of smoke for them straight to their face like this. These nazis got fucking cooked.

have long argued that free speech discourse has obscured that Americans basically don't enjoy meaningful access to freedom of assembly any more

To be fair to Nisswa, if Jennifer Carnahan was my mayor, I'd be drinking in a bar by 9am

i dunno what you can say to get electeds to do anything if “they flashbanged a baby” doesn’t do it

Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities. “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.” A profile in absolute courage.

*grits teeth so hard a molar cracks* red salute to will stancil

hexachloroethane, saving you a click. extremely toxic, so much so the military stopped using it because the damage is too extreme. this isn't a crowd control agent, this is a literal chemical weapon.

Generally you also want one with "OV" (Organic Vapors) certification to protect against all respiratory irritants. Here's a good half-face one from 3M (a Minnesota company, no less):

Walz is failing his state if he's going to say it's the protestors who have to behave themselves

Every Confederate officer should have been executed. The Confederates ultimately won the war because we didn't kill every last one of its leaders

stuff like this is what makes walz's statements even more infuriating. like dude, they are gunning after *you* too. it's the baffling thing about democrats. they won't even defend themselves let alone their constituents. the party of roll over and take the beating like a good dog.

I have become obsessed with civil war history for a lot of reasons but, as I have mentioned before, a big lesson was how the liberal faction of the republican party negotiated themselves out of power, in large part, because of their own personal interest in “getting back to business as usual”

A buddy in MN shared a drawing a classmate of his kid made. They've been making thank you notes for parents who have volunteered to carpool them to school so their own parents don't have to risk waiting out by the bus stop.

this "when they go low we go high" bullshit has run it's course and anyone spouting it is at best a fascist collaborator. We they go low we must become unseen, moving among the people and environment as a fish in water. The only dialog left to be had is deeds as the time for words is over.

i think this gets at something important which is that normal people are rightly pissed off that they’re having normal time stolen from them by this ravaging horde of jumped up mall cops. everybody has to work in the morning! why is it THEIR job to hold their community together in such a basic way!

They were using this stuff last night Northside. Be extremely careful around the green gas. > Because it contains the super-hot gaseous forms of both chloride ions and zinc, a heavy metal, hexite plumes are highly mobile and extremely dangerous to most forms of life.

I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

More information from the guy whose car had smoke grenades and other stuff thrown in it. The baby's heart stopped and EMS was called to the scene. Yeah, ICE may have almost killed a 6 month old baby yesterday

Which types of welfare fraud are politely litigated between white collar lawyers, and which types of welfare fraud are used to justify an immigration purge and shutting off resources to the poor?

During the 43-day shutdown, air traffic controllers worked without pay. FAA safety inspectors didn't work at all. Boeing policed itself. We have no idea what they missed and what the impact might be for aviation. Bill McGee has this critical report. prospect.org/2026/01/15/a...