There were parents kidnapped by ice agents on the Northside yesterday. I’m super glad Susan was returned to her family but there are traumatized children waking up with no idea where their parents are. Focus on the people this fascist regime has targeted. We must protect our neighbors.

“In 2019, researchers estimated that CBP officers are 5 times more likely to be arrested than local and state law enforcement personnel. CBP personel have been arrested for corruption, sexual assault, aggravated assault, domestic violence, and sex crimes against children.”

NEW: Federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement were confronted in north Minneapolis and the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood on Tuesday after locals learned operations were taking place. unicornriot.ninja/2025/ice-arr...

"A Nativity scene missing Jesus — and marked with an “ICE was here” sign — has triggered cries of “politicizing Christmas.” The parish priest says he’s answering Pope Leo's call to welcome stranger." www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/ice-was-he...

With AltText, so everyone can understand what’s possible if you think about women as people and not just caregiving machines

“Real” America Is Turning Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Regime theintercept.com/2025/12/03/a...

Quinta Brunson and Sabrina Carpenter make me proud to be a Short American ✨

Voting for the Laken Riley Act directly led to what’s happening now with ICE in Minneapolis. You had a chance to stand up for our neighbors then. Posting is not going to help them now. What’s the plan to actually do something?

Claude better be in all your year-end tributes.

Bummed out about this celebrity death

The irony is rich.

The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art's exhibition 'NDN Giver' celebrates the Potlatch. For many First Nations, the Potlatch is a central system of governance, ceremony, and social life. 📅 Open until February 2026 🔗 https://ow.ly/zUt350XuoSl

Western climate litigants keep fighting After disappointing losses in Alaska and Montana, an Indigenous-led climate case is making strides in New Mexico.

This is a dope game concept.

NEWS: Medicaid Data Now Flows to ICE Effective today, a new federal directive by Mehmet Oz allows immigration enforcement to access state healthcare enrollment data. migrantinsider.com/p/medicaid-d...

Grandma understood the assignment.💪

Right-wing reporting on Somali money going to al-Shabaab is not new, still misses the mark minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/25/r...

More of this kind of reporting. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

48% of all people in ICE custody (incl. CBP and ICE arrests) have no criminal history. Another 26% only have a criminal charge (no conviction ), and 26% have a criminal conviction (although many of these are low level). austinkocher.substack.com/p/breaking-i...

“The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods and stopping at tamale carts, elote stands & candy stalls. They buy out every last item — every tamale, every corn cob, every bundle of sweets. Then they load up the food and deliver it to shelters & families in need.”

ICE arrest were (probably) the highest ever during the first month of the new fiscal year in October when the agency made over 41,641 arrests. Many of these arrests were in Chicago, where a judge found many of the arrests to violate consent decree. austinkocher.substack.com/p/breaking-i...

Medical research has long sought to gloss over the hormonal and chromosomal complications typical of female biology. But embracing this complexity could benefit everyone

How is Minnesota's economy doing? Increasingly, it depends on who you are. A great explainer by @shadib.bsky.social on what the country's K-shaped economy looks like here.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/c... [gift link]

Even if you can’t donate, you should read the story of one of the people kidnapped from their workplace in St Paul on Tuesday. This is why we should try to stop every kidnapping. No criminal record. Just racism. They’re breaking up families. www.gofundme.com/f/fn4bw-help...

More than a quarter of U.S. farmers rely on the Affordable Care Act, but Biden-era tax credits expire at the end of the year. They are now weighing difficult decisions, like going uninsured or finding secondary employment.

Practice letting people know that you appreciate them. It costs nothing.

Indigenous people have made their presence felt at this year’s #COP30. From participation within the formal diplomacy to massive protests both inside and outside the conference - raising issues from land rights to climate financing. theconversation.com/finally-indi...

ICE employee, state worker among 16 arrested in 'Operation Creep' sting More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/ice-employee-state-worker-among-16-arrested-in-operation-creep-sting

Special coverage: Global resistance beyond COP30 While the annual COP events represent an opportunity for global civil society to mobilize, more often than not, these events are inaccessible and exclusionary to the very communities most affected by the climate crisis globalvoices.org/special/gl...

615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.

Ahh it’s been so long since I had shitty service from a punk food establishment that assumes you know how to order! 🤣

Can't wait to visit newyorkistan

Every time one of these mass murderers dies without having faced any consequence for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground… I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death.

ICE officers reportedly shot a 25-year-old named Carlos Jimenez. He was shot after getting out of his car to tell the agents, who had pulled over a vehicle, that children would soon be gathering in that spot for the school bus.

Still don’t understand why regular Minneapolis people want to keep him as mayor…

"I don’t think it’s much of an exaggeration to say that societies are defined by their libraries — by what we hold, what we lend, what we borrow and return, the knowledge we create, the values we defend" placesjournal.org/article/extr...

Lake trout were nearly wiped out in Lake Superior by the invasive sea lamprey. But a successful control project has helped bring the trout back from the brink.

All the way! ✊🏽

The reason 42 million Americans are on SNAP is because employers aren’t paying living wages.

A newly released Department of Defense memo calls for all states to form “quick reaction forces” within the National Guard that will be trained in “riot control” procedures — the latest indication that President Donald Trump is set to escalate his militarization of cities across the country.

Indigenous horror may seem new to many, but it is ancient. It is born from stories that carry lessons, warnings, and survival through generations. What is new is seeing those stories retake their rightful space in the contemporary horror landscape. redpopnews.com/13-must-read... #redpopnews

This is lovely and yes when he chokes up I also did!

"You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think." – Grace Lee Boggs

Those who do learn from history are doomed to have people tell them they’re overreacting

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is here today delivering remarks to rile up ICE agents about their masked operations in the Twin Cities. We have a White House that has its sights set on Minneapolis.

Shooting people in the head with these munitions is expressly forbidden in the manufacturer’s user manual because it has proven fatal in the past.