Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

A snippet of propaganda churning out from extremely influential far-right voices desperately trying to frame Minnesota as some wild chaotic place when it is being made chaotic by DHS instigating and attacking and desperately trying to goad well-disciplined Minnesotans into riots.

The violence and chaos from the federal government that has the Twin Cities under siege is an effort, it seems, to trigger the legal ability to neutralize the Constitution nationally. The only thing holding it off is Minnesotans adamantly refusing to step over the line.

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

Soul refresher: Lift Every Voice and Sing- Howard Gospel Choir Thanks to my brother @sketchbook2012.bsky.social for reminding me of this one. Music can save the world. m.youtube.com/watch?v=huXr...

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

I hope there's a way to fill the Senate chambers with large images of the dozens of people murdered and abducted by this regime. Force Senate Republicans to look at the faces while they hand more money for murder.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Wael Tarabishi, the last person I wrote about for the Star-Telegram, died on Friday. Wael’s health declined rapidly after his father and primary caretaker, Maher, was detained by ICE last fall. The Tarabishi family believes that if Maher had not been arrested, Wael would still be alive. I do too.

Thank goodness for the wiseacres of Bluesky, I need a laugh right now, and better still if it is bitter and cynical

Mood in minneapolis right now

If you love people, tell them that as well.

Uprising in the Trump concentration camp in Dilley, TX

JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Reminded earlier this week that we here in Minnesota are carrying grief along with our strength & connection: George Floyd’s murder, the Hortmans’ assassination, the Annunciation shooting. Give yourself grace to honor that grief when you can. Holding you in mind and heart as we continue to fight.

This is who the Whittier neighborhood in Minneapolis is named for

For those of us who are sick today, a candle in the window is a way to express you grief.

Walz: "You kill a man, and then you just leave? You're law enforcement -- you just leave? Is there a single case in American history where you just, like, walk away and say, 'I guess that just happened and we're not gonna clean up our mess?'"

Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

Trump and Vance's masked federal agents have killed two 37-year-old American citizens in broad daylight in the past three weeks

Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.

there is no retraining there is no rethinking it was built for this purpose and it is operating as intended

Oh, I thought of more: Spend time researching companies that enable ICE and spread the word about boycotts. Use your own positions of power and influence to chip away at the enablers too. And here’s a guide on how to do that:

If you’re feeling like none of this stuff is big enough, know that it’s these kinds of small actions done by hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans that built the resistance you’re seeing. Doing something is always better than nothing. Just do something and trust it will inspire others to do the same

They call immigrants criminals as they unleash a crime wave. They call immigrants rapists as they keep raping people. They call immigrants invaders as they keep invading communities. They call immigrants murderers as they keep murdering people.

ICE killed another Minnesotan. there is video and it is very bad. www.facebook.com/share/r/1aPB...

Not like us

I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it. Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)

Evil incarnate

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

I've covered a lot of protests and resistance movements of various kinds in my days on this earth -- I've never seen anything quite like this epic day in Minneapolis today. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

NEW — West Garfield Park’s Legler Regional Library is providing meals to those in need through a Library-Based Food Access program. It is the first library food pantry for Illinois and Chicago, according to the Greater Chicago Food Depository. thetriibe.com/2026/01/food...

In a dispatch from Minnesota, I want to talk about "Real Minnesota" and the failed, pathetic vision of Minnesota that Tom Emmer and City Church offer. I want to talk about how Real Minnesotans take care of strangers. open.substack.com/pub/wburdine...

The second Dems get power back. It can’t wait. We can’t Gerald Ford this again. And we know, from both Obama and Biden, that good policy on issue X doesn’t fix the authoritarian problem. The platform must be institutional reform:

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

What made the child a threat JD? Was it the floppy ears or the Spider Man backpack?

@amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov

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

Happy to turn 6 8 today. 6 7 was a year of such uncertainty, not to mention so «  last year ».

Respectfully, look at this fucking bullshit that we’re dealing with, not a single person here has “taken the bait.” We have born witness as little kids are used as bait and neighbors are kidnapped on our streets. A mad dipshit is going to invoke the Insurrection Act regardless and you are blaming us

I know it’s being slightly semantic but i get really mad when people refer to the occupation as if it’s only happening in Minneapolis. It’s not only stupid, but erasing that this is not confined to an urban core

"[M]asked agents apprehended 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in his driveway on Tuesday...[the agent] led him to the door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.”

Plant sale moms united

I am overwhelmed & exhausted by the amount of press we've gotten over this but also determined to continue speaking loudly against Trump's reign of cruelty & retribution. #AbolishICE

That’s a lot of places on strike. Very telling that the resistance is overwhelmingly being put up by the service industry. Where are the white collar workers?

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Trump 'buried the lede' that U.S. protesters have received a raise, from "paid" to now "highly paid." Is this a great country or what?

Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.