Minneapolis - anyone else local who uses the mn511 site regularly for road conditions in the metro - it’s not showing me any accidents, which cannot be true . is it just me?

““The love I have received is stronger than the hate I have faced,” said Ali. “Minnesota has set such a strong example of how we love each other, how we support each other, how we feed each other.” Gonna get sambusas a few times in the next couple weeks.

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

In Algerian Arabic, we say "you entered my heart" to a new friend. And I think that's beautiful.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Jesse Jackson crying at Obama’s inauguration is something I’ll never forget. He saw the fruits of his labor and what he had saw comrades and friends get killed for. I hope he rest well. ♥️

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Little puzzle library spotted near Bracket Park, in case you needed another reason to love Minneapolis

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...

Minnesotans, continue to stand up for all of your neighbors.

A hacktivist has scraped more than half-a-million payment records from a provider of consumer-grade stalkerware apps, because stalkerware makers don't give a shit about the security of their products. techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/h...

Another addition to the website to help us built *systems* and not just have me trying to do everything alone: If you'd like to adopt a rent that you can either *cover immediately* and fundraise for, or just pay outright, please fill out this form and we will contact you via Signal.

Fun fact, actual time of gameplay (when someone is doing something with the ball) on average is 11-18 minutes 😂

Gonna be kind of a bummer when this Green Day concert gets cut short for a football game.

I’m told there was a contest for the kid rock alternative halftime show 1st prize was a front row ticket 2nd prize was 3 front row tickets

One of the best shopping days of the year, back when I went shopping. (I used to hit Target during Vikings games.) (Sigh.) IKEA on Sunday nights was great since most stores in MN were closed then & a lot of people didn't realize IKEA was open (or so it was, years ago). I had shopping strategies.

For all of you looking to make a run to a shop, small local TV-free restaurant, go for a drive, walk in the park, etc. The time from about 5pm until 9pm today is going to be AMAZING. (recommend staying off the roads after that though, amateur hour).

I believe Walz, Frey, Witt, O'Hara genuinely want the ICE surge out of MN and Minneapolis. Some of them genuinely might want all of ICE out for good. At the same time, the ICE surge is not an existential threat to their jobs/careers. The appearance of disorder in the streets is. An uprising is.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Cool. Most people can’t afford rent.

We’ve paid rent for over 270 households so far in February and we currently have a waitlist that totals over $30,000. We distributed rents one by one. We can’t even think about March rent yet. You can help us here: gofund.me/5d4d1a571

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

Why are you sending the state patrol to arrest peaceful protesters? Don’t they have anything better to do?

also how much of these systems are built because of the moralizing of poverty? poor people are inherently untrustworthy because they’ve made the wrong choices—not because of our massive wealthy inequality

“Until the killing of black men, black mother’s sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother’s son. We who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.”

A group of local men are tackling the male loneliness epidemic by coming together to brainstorm ways to stop being mistaken for ICE. www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

if anyone has any spare funds to help us financially bear his vet bill of $1012, it'd be much appreciated. gofund.me/1d1edd307

it is absolutely wild that random people on the internet have kept thousands and thousands of minnesota families housed this month my friend and followers helped pay around maybe 130-140 people’s rent in the past 6 days? like. so much of it was just you guys. it is insane to me, this platform.

GRIEF and RAGE on display at HAIR and NAILS hairandnailsart.com/about-it/

New mutual aid request! This time it’s a Mpls family of six (incl an infant) facing extreme hardship. Right now they need $3,000 for housing, food, and health expenses. We’d love to get there by Monday—can you pitch in? Excess funds will be passed on to another mutual aid fund. Venmo: offalcute

Hi all. I’m working with @ziibiing.com at standwithminnesota.com to get rents paid for Minnesota families impacted by ICE as soon as possible. I’m barnraising $2400 for one campaign. I’ll chip in $25. Please chip in and share this need: V: colocha_rachel $: ColochaRachel Put a 🌻 in the memo.

But seriously, I know everyone is on the edge - but really consider Occam’s razor. don’t let people don’t freak out. take it from nerds like me. when it looks like something nefarious we’ll know. but also consider the def dept couldn’t plan air strikes without it 😂 😭

Remember when things like signal go down, that the entire Internet is a house of cards and likely should never work in the first place, so count every day that you actually have Internet access and that computers work as good days. And that the days when nothing works as normal. (kidding, mostly)

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

Very good digital security guide. Don't be a bozo, your security is your friend's security.

MINNESOTAN WAYPOINT! If you're a Minnesotan who has been doomscrolling, take a little break and read some of these love notes to us from all over the world. We are seen. We are not alone. We are love and we are loved. We keep us safe, but it turns out 'we' is a lot bigger than we imagined.

A Powderhorn Park neighbor who has lived in the U.S. since 2003 was kidnapped by ICE because he had to go to work. His wife and 15- and 12-year-old daughters are hoping for his safe return. We are raising donations to help cover the legal fees.  gofund.me/840703938

Billie Eilish used her acceptance speech to say: “No one is illegal on stolen land.” And CBS censored her when she said “Fuck ICE.”

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

Heroes come in many forms and this is one of them

It’s February 1 and a beautiful morning to support the Twin Cities community! ☀️ Rent is due and volunteers with @commkitchenmpls.bsky.social are sourcing $20K in funds to support 20 families impacted in the 🧊 occupation. Can you help? RTs and shares are free! Venmo: @GRACIE-MCCLURE-1

This morning, federal agents staged at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center lot and began to throw chemical irritants at observers. They also kidnapped an observer. Our parks are meant for our children, youth, and neighbors. They should never be militarized zones meant to separate families. 1/

In MN I’ve seen ice fishing on lakes as protests, bike ride protests, cookie sale protests, and lunch club protests. Everyone has their own thing and it’s all anti-ICE

"we didn't start the fire" but it's only about the last week

Colonial Market in North Minneapolis just spun up a GFM for grocery and delivery support. Can vouch for this one! Also can say that their food is great, please support them :) www.gofundme.com/f/support-co...

I was frankly pretty startled to see that this was real. (It's here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...) Matthew 19:14 is "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." John 11:35 is "Jesus wept."

our first goal of the day is $2000. We have $600 left over from our last push last night.