The past few days have confirmed for me something I’ve long believed: the American political system is terminally fucked, but the American people are not. Most Americans want to live in a democracy in which everyone has a decent life—the fascists in this regime represent a dying minority.

They’ll leave. We’ll stay. We live in Minnesota. The only variables are how many of they kill first and if anyone with authority will try to stop them.

It’s a good day for Hennepin County voters to listen to this Code Switch interview with @petermancina.bsky.social, the author of On the Side of Ice: Policing Immigrants in a Sanctuary State. (And yes, there’s a transcript, for the podcast-averse among us)

The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.

This, but for the entire city and state.

For those absolutely awed by Minnesota, this is the site organizers set up to support all of the efforts from mutual aid to direct resistance: www.standwithminnesota.com

He was legally observing He was helping other legal observers He was helping other potential victims He was not brandishing a gun May Alex Pretti’s memory be a blessing

This guy speaks for all of us in Minneapolis.

I think they might mistake our courage and our solidarity for a lack of fear, and that if they can make us scared enough we'll make ourselves small. That won't work, because we're all terrified and we're SHOWING UP ANYWAY with love and compassion and joy and care.

Non-Minnesotans: if you want to support local journalism, give $ first to @mprnews.org, @minnpost.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, @minnesotareformer.com, @racketmn.com, @wedge.live The Star Tribune is okayish lately (& their photojournalists are great), but has a rough track record.

Minnesota, amazing turnout for one another yesterday, despite the coldest air in years. My 💌 is a (34F) scene I hiked up to today, wearing spikes that made walking up and down the ICE-filled trails easy. Your anti-ICE whistle/mutual aid/artful/etc spikes are amazing. With love, from here.

Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. 📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune

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

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

While NYT sheepishly beats around the bush, the Germans call a spade a spade:

For those outside the US who think Americans aren’t doing anything, this is what real resistance to fascism looks like. Ordinary people are fighting together to keep their communities safe from assaults by a powerful federal government.

Read what it's like in Minnesota directly from Minnesotans. It'll give you hope, and it'll make you cry. (No paywall today as Racket has joined the general strike.)

Minnesota, enjoy two representative pics from the stairwell of a collectivist venue in #Zürich on this Day of Truth and Freedom. ICE Out of MN! The City approved the leftist collective a multi-year (interim) lease in the unused public building.

📢 FRIDAY, JANUARY 23 - Meet at The Commons in Downtown Minneapolis at 2 pm for a peaceful march in community. ❌🧊 💌 Minnesotans have shown the world how much we care for our neighbors. The world has shown us support back. Our solidarity is our strength. Our joyful resistance is rooted in love ✊

There's over 1,000 confirmed participating businesses I'm today's 2026 Minnesota General Strike & I'm sure there's more not listed

FWIW: Golden is retiring. The filing deadline has passed in NC; Davis is the only Dem running. The filing deadline has passed in TX; Gonzalez & Cuellar both have primary opponents. Gillen has several Dem opponents as well, as does Perez. If you want to primary Suozzi, you still have until 3/30.

We're not really okay and we're tired.

This is excellent. Kare 11 taking the time to fact check wild claims of federal officials rather than simply reading and posting them on the screen. youtu.be/8or8damXicI?...

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Required warching for international and national media reporting on DHS and ICE in Mpls and the US. Their statements on intentions & actions must be questioned. Don't print press release propaganda. It isn't about immigration enforcement. Many abductions & actions are clearly illegal.

Waiting with great anticipation for federal courts to decide if it's legal for fully restrained peaceful protesters to be dunked full-body in a vat of pepper extract. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Read the whole 🧵

Well meaning guy shouting at me from driver's seat of his minivan: "Why are you out here? Why do you want to be around ICE? They just killed a lady." Me, pointing at my home: "I live here."

Oh schaut mal, eine Karikatur von 1938!

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

The vibe shift in the EU and Canada over the weekend is unlike anything I've ever seen. US hegemony in military and economic alliances is effectively dead. History will look back and wonder how the elites in power not only did nothing to stop it but cheered it on willingly.

This is old news, but I still can't believe I need to get this signage posted at my 4plex. And, I want my residents and neighbors to know that we are here for each other. If you know anyone else who wants these signs, they're here. www.minneapolismn.gov/government/p...

Morning, Minnesota! Infrastructure is interesting, also when observed during other sorts of observational activities. Here are some newly-maintained tram tracks, waiting for grass to be planted between the rails. I wish you all a quiet and uneventful day.

More than enough volunteers willing to do outdoor shifts in MN when it's -10 (that's -23 Celsius).

More than enough volunteers willing to do outdoor shifts in MN when it's -10 (that's -23 Celsius).

The anti World Economic Forum protest, "Trump still not welcome" in Zurich included signs opposing ICE in solidarity with people across the country, not least in Minnesota.

Oy. My heart is in the Mpls streets while I message Norwegian friends sending me screenshots of the front page of the NYT-equivalent of Norway, Aftenposten. "Former defense minister states the USA i no longer an ally, but a Banana Republic." They see relations with the US as unsalvageable. 💔

Good morning, Minnesota. Here's an old water fountain and sculpture in a city, available for all to enjoy. Keep fighting for our city in all the ways, for today and for folks living there 50 years from now

National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3

#POLITKOLUMNE: In an age of disinformation, public broadcasting is a democratic infrastructure: free, reliable information for citizens. Yet the far-right seeks to slash public media funding, also in 🇨🇭. Not by accident: "cultural wars" grew when cable news emerged www.derbund.ch/srg-halbieru...

In Minneapolis-St. Paul

if someone punches your neighbor and you go to protect them, that does not make you a protester. that makes you someone who protects your neighbor.

In December local media hadn't quite picked up on the tenor of the MN occupation but they have since been great in understanding what's going on. But the last week means you have international media showing up & there's a huge difference. They simply cannot process events except through their priors

[taps the 🧵]

We’re in a moral fight, and Democrats in Congress need to start acting like the opposition party on every 👏🏽 damn 👏🏽 thing 👏🏽 Opposition isn’t about polite press releases and sad cable hits. It’s about using every procedural tool available to slow, expose, and force accountability. 🧵

Have helped guard a local mosque during their Friday prayers. Been very cold but Somali restaurant offers us delicious, warm tea constantly. Members expressed much gratitude & confidence this ugly time will pass.

If I post myself as a delegate at the state DFL convention, am I a bot or anti-DFL troll? Or am I a confirmed Minnesotan?

DE ICER ICE OUT OF MN Powderhorn Art Sled Rally Minneapolis

NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend. This is Alice's story: