@askaubry.com, have you seen this? Could be amazing.

Big loud hail in Loring Park! Dime to quarter sized & noisy. #mnwx

@kare11.bsky.social - OK, I know there's severe weather but where oh where can I watch Jeopardy? If you're gonna preempt the show on cable, can you at least run Jeopardy on your stream or something? Plus, it's infuriating to listen to the same weather over & over, with so many outlets now.

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

Seems like this should be bigger news but US corporate media is busy covering the clicktocracy.

Hey @nbcwashington.com, the whole scoop saga is pretty despicable & this non-apology is dismissive & infuriating. When people say we don't trust corporate media anymore, this is the stuff we mean.

Moment of silence for Kristi Noem’s career

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Ashley Fairbanks @ziibiing.com launched Stand With Minnesota standwithminnesota.com, a mutual aid repository supporting residents under ICE's siege, in early Jan. in the weeks since, it's facilitated covering people's rents and flown folks detained back home from Texas. she can help you do it, too.

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

🧵 My neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota still appears to be inundated by feds. A few blocks from my house, a car with plates that didn’t match the vehicle sat idling in a church parking lot for hours. I first noticed it at 7:30 this morning. Four hours later, the pastor spoke to occupant. 1/7

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

Sketches from today's hearing: anntelnaes.substack.com/p/bondis-con...

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

The siege of Minneapolis continues. Excellent coverage of how much this brutal and useless assault on an American city just keeps getting worse, despite the regime using headfakes to get much of the media to back off.

Hey @onestpress.onestnetwork.com, I've been following your work & appreciate your perspective so I'm really disappointed to learn you're appropriating the work of others without credit.

Hi. @nytimes.com. Please see this excellent example of properly framing the latest murder that occurred in Minneapolis.

Even as the National Guard is deployed in a perimeter around half my neighborhood to try to prevent ICE’s campaign of violence from boiling over, ICE continues to send lurking cars of armed feds on patrol around the city and stage shows of force around the region. Insane. Unthinkable

@wcconews.bsky.social - SHAME ON YOU for credulously repeating the ICEstapo claim that the man killed approached agents with a weapon. By all accounts & video, it was permitted and in no way being pointed at agents. I guess Fox isn't the only state media right now.

There were an estimated 50,000 people marching in the streets to support an economic shutdown, in temperatures so cold your tears freeze to your face and exposed skin is in danger of frostbite. That was preceded by pickets, civil disobedience, and arrests.

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.

There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

Welcome to Minneapolis. Our neighbors have witnessed too many war crimes at this point. Federal agents even left weapons on the ground.

(Content warning: ICE violence) At around 1:40 this afternoon, I witnessed federal agents with ICE and CBP arresting a US citizen after hitting her car from behind, and then kneeling on the head of a legal observer in the snow, preventing breathing and bloodying their face.

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Neighborhood watch is taking on a new form in Minneapolis and other cities under occupation by federal immigration agents: ICE Watch. These folks, who're tailing federal agents as they make arrests, are passionate, determined, and just about everywhere—and ICE is getting frustrated.

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

It’s happening! @visitlakestreet.com is helping to organize a series of cash mob events to support small local businesses - first one is next week! Sign up for updates and to be notified of which Lake Street business we’ll be eating at! eventbrite.com/e/you-belong-here-cash-mob-tickets-1980574633043

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

We want to hear from people in Minnesota about the surge of thousands of federal immigration agents in the area

Why are @klobuchar.senate.gov & @smith.senate.gov voting to approve anything in the Senate while the major cities of our state are under federal occupation by erstwhile gestapo? If we can't rely on our elected officials to have a spine when we need you to, we need different elected officials.

Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats

photo of the vehicle that contained six children that ICE is accused of filling with smoke after choosing to deploy a military-grade device in a US city

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.

🧵From St. Paul, MN. The last few nights have been different. ICE kidnappings seemed like a daytime event until this week, but now ICE is active after sundown. The shooting of a civilian by ICE in North Minneapolis is also a grim sign for anyone who lives here. (art by @hot_yaga on Insta) 1/5

What I saw last in North was horrifying. ICE agents repeatedly advanced on and brutalized peaceful protesters, firing tear gas and flash bangs indiscriminately. Unprovoked agents rushed a dispersing crowd more than a block from their lines, just to reignite the chaos. This is state terrorism.

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

This is VERY well written, as most of @blindeke.bsky.social pieces are. Share with people who don't live here, so they can get a better idea who we are, and how this moment is different. #MNProud www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

Want to help folks being terrorized by ICE in Minnesota? Well look at this google doc someone made. Lots of GoFundMe's that haven't met their goals yet. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Apparently ICE goons in multi-car caravans are circling Spanish immersion preschools in the city taunting and photographing the parents and neighbors who are patrolling the school perimeter to keep kids safe.

My friend Dylan shared a heartbreaking conversation with his 6 year old daughter.

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .