Thanks to a FOIA lawsuit from @deportationdata.org, Minnesota is getting its first credible numbers on arrests during the federal government's surge here this winter. About 3,800 Minnesota residents were arrested. Most from Latin America (only 106 from Somalia). (1)

Quentin Williams says he felt like he was moments from death after several Border Patrol agents piled on top of him and choked him on Jan. 7 while pursuing someone else. Written by @bzosiad.bsky.social

There it is. Walter Hudson was armed and hammered with Elliott Engen while he was drunk driving about 12 hours after they had skipped out on committee and started drinking earlier that day.

Long past time to break the tyranny of oil and the oily oil men who keep starting oil wars

Just got alerted to a large urgent rent need for a family in Bloomington who has eviction court scheduled TOMORROW and needs $3800+ to prevent eviction. Adopt a rent has about $2400 we can send toward this family now but can we raise the $1400 balance? 🌻🌻🌻

Really great reporting here on tge impact of ICE in rural MN and the deep and very likely long lasting damage the regime is causing.

No Kings (Philadelphia)

We showed up for our neighbors to protect the from ICE and we showed up today to say no kings. Thanks to all the organizers who made #NoKings possible. I even got to see live sign making, def a first for me.

I counted nearly 1700 protesters in Franklin, TN. Which is, uh, not exactly a hotbed of left-wing progressivism. #NoKings

Y'know what, I'm still with it "War don't sex" that's right brother, peace fucks

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

It felt like there were more people at the Capitol in Saint Paul than any event I’ve ever been to anywhere. Being in the middle of that crowd, I can give you no sense of how huge it was, but here is a parade of grasshoppers going by as Venus deMars sings #NoKings

I have now seen Bruce Springsteen perform live.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

In a new court filing as part of an ongoing lawsuit against ICE actions in Minnesota, DHS says nearly 500 officers remain in the Twin Cities metro.

Fascinating poll on how pervasive ICE invasion was in the central cities. Almost one-fifth of St. Paul encountered ICE; more than a quarter of Minneapolis did. Either figure is astounding & awful; indicates Mpls enforcement was roughly half again more intense than St.P.

A survey just came out showing about 8% of people in Minneapolis had weapons drawn on them by federal occupiers in the last few months. The two visions of what collective action (government) can do, who it serves, whether it exists to help make our lives easier or harder, could not be more opposed.

Please, I am begging people: never again repeat the claim that only two people were killed in the occupation of Minnesota.

Hell yes, it’s real Minneapolis! Looking great thanks to @dbrauer.net!

jacob frey endorsed anders folk for hennepin county attorney... folk, who is campaigning TO REPUBLICANS! this is completely unacceptable. with ICE causing so much pain in minnesota, there is no "reaching across the aisle" to the party who supports president trump taylordahlin.com/f/anders-fol...

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

Today the St. Paul City Council unanimously passed their own version of Pause Evictions, Save Lives, and extended pre-filing eviction timelines to 60 days through the end of 2026. This critical protection was lead by Council Members @hwajeongkim.bsky.social and Nelsie Yang.

This is the first report I've received of ICE agents performing actual TSA duties. Not good.

Good news: we just DEFEATED the Republican bill to kick 450,000 small business employees off of Minnesota's Paid Family Leave Program. You deserve access to paid leave, regardless of where you work or how many coworkers you have. We won't ever let the GOP take this critical support away from you.

"we need to make a city where it is affordable to yell at your politicians" masterful way of handling this situation

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

This is Minneapolis: We sent home a survey asking about April rent needs yesterday (for neighborhood school families). Today we received $50k+ in requests (& I'm assuming that number will at least double over the next couple days). The economic recovery is a LONG road. Please donate and share.

ICE goons in airports are not "doing nothing." They are: 1. Normalizing fascist paramilitary control over previously "free" movement in the US. 2. Putting a foot in the door, only to be removed once the door is permanently open to further fascist paramilitary occupation at any time they choose.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but ICE-Gestapo killers aren’t at airports to help TSA, they are there to intimidate and terrorize and it’s also practice for what they plan to do at polling locations this November by order of the orange felon. This is what fascism looks like.

I don’t even care if it’s true or not, just the thought fills me with joy

HCMC — the most important safety net hospital in the Upper Midwest — is on the verge of collapse, while Mayo netted $1.5 billion in profit. It’s not just a struggling institution, it’s a broken system.

Our partners at Homeline and with the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department are warning that we are now seeing a staggering spike in eviction filings.

Really glad to have @sorenwithward8.bsky.social‘s strong voice for police accountability and just plain fiscal sanity on the council. Minneapolis does not need this bonkers cop city!

The Supreme Court refuses to review an odious 5th Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to Texas officials who arrested a citizens-journalist in retaliation against her posing questions to public officials. Sotomayor has an appropriately furious dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

in three weeks they have fucked this up so comprehensively that returning to a facsimile of the previous status quo is now the goal

Footage from yesterday's ICE Air flight at MSP; 24 people, chained up in the shackles you see dragged across screen in the second segment, were loaded and flown to the ICE hub in Alexandria, LA. Data: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data Cover volunteer parking fees: mn50501.org/donate

just reflecting on how i know this because i grew up in a community that lionized men we knew were abusers and misogynists because AIM did great things and then how i was tossed out of that community when i spoke out against sexual violence within it protecting these men has a cost and a legacy

Wow, learned a lot from this surprising and entertaining 🧵

Minnesotans are already paying for the havoc that Big Oil causes. Exxon and co have known this would happen for 50+ years. As long as they profit, they don't care if you and I die or pay thru the nose for our homes getting wrecked every few years. The fossil giants should pay for this, not us.

electrified public transit, heat pumps, home weatherization all make life easy for people and hard for fossil capital. here's some recs from @cplusc.bsky.social climateandcommunity.org/research/blo...

No no no no! With that 40 mill we could (should, if the city actually had this $)- Pay off lots of back rent Build social housing pilots Weatherize & electrify Green Zone homes for families with high energy cost burdens You know, things that would actually help keep Mpls families healthy & safe

Everyone is wondering what the correct level of contrition is and this seems about right

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Here's a 15 minute edit of the footage we obtained of Liam boarding Delta at MSP; I believe this is the only known film documenting the process ICE uses to fly children to detention centers on regular, public commercial flights. More from @gbrockell.bsky.social: gillianbrockell.com/video-proves...

Video I obtained through a public records request on behalf of MN50501 shows Liam and his dad boarding a Delta Air Lines flight at MSP. Delta was silent when workers were being snatched up by ICE at MSP, but was a vocal supporter of the Big Beautiful Bill, which increased ICE’s funding.

Delta swore to its employees and unions that it was not transporting deportees this way.

One thing we discussed today that will stay with me is how as regular people we talk ourselves out of demanding what we deserve. Lots of reasons why this is so but it's absolutely lowering the threshold re: public policy. Expectations are below ground & that means that what we "win" is insufficient.

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

Absolute legend at the Frost game tonight!