Anywho, there's no better time than now to put your ideas out there and invite other people to do things with you. Might as well try. You don't have to know everything before starting. You can just start.

Community defense is different here. Scary. Lonely. There's (some) safety in numbers, and they're hard to come by in our red exurban and rural communities. We're standing up anyway. So, today's front page print headline seemed quite fitting: Emotion, defiance as ICE roams western WI FUCK ICE.

So, this happened today. In what's proved to be an impossibly difficult year, one hell of a bright spot. 🤗

Brave missions underway to finally rid this country of Good Samaritans

Another one back to his family where he belongs. ❤️ FUCK ICE.

I'm so exhausted, I can't manage the swap from photo to video anymore...but trust me when I say today's Hudson High School walkout was incredibly moving. As I stood on my front step and looked up Vine Street, they just. kept. coming. Loud. Loving. And with so much support from passing vehicles.

Operation metro surge is ending but operation “go fuck yourselves you fascist pieces of shit” will continue forever.

We got one back—just a few hours before the charming young man was scheduled to fly out to Texas. And for as long as I live, the image of his nephew racing down the driveway and calling his name will be burned on my brain. Today, the good guys win. ❤️

It's been a devastating day, and I need help. 💔 My friends' son died yesterday. Today, while they were planning his service, ICE violently abducted one of the vulnerable people they were helping. I've delivered food, we've filed a habeas petition, and now we need to repair the car for his family.

This has been happening for quite some time just across the river in western Wisco. Some of our neighborhoods are deeply MAGA and terribly unsafe. Watching a woman stand outside her home—across the street from a vulnerable family—cheering ICE as we tried to chase them away will haunt me forever.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

This is right where you belong 🎶 Welcome back, old friend. (If we're set up to have a lousy season, let's be lousy with the most likable characters in the game.)

I was doing some organizing with the Olympics on in the background when I heard a few familiar voices. So, yeah. Just my niece dining with Stanley Tucci in Milan. I love that while she's the 7th defender, they clearly included her because she's such a delightful smartass. 😂

if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good

Never a doubt. GIVE 'EM HELL, RORY!!!!

Following the 2019 Minnesota girls state high school hockey tourney, my niece humored me. "You know, for practice!" I said.

I cannot emphasize enough how under-supported principled independent news is, and how much I believe people are going to come to regret that. We need news and analysis that can fuel movements, and the people willing to deliver it are extremely hard up for resources.

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

100% My ex was abusive, and it took a lot of work to escape and get my head right. Now, I can look back and see that every bit of that struggle perfectly prepared me for this—and I know so, so many women who feel the very same way. We are steel forged in fire. p.s. Fuck ICE.

Nope. The only wise course of action here is to douse the fucking thing in gasoline and light a match.

A pipe burst in one of the Cedar Riverside towers displacing families. This Go Fund Me helps get them immediate support.

Our grounding session closed out with this tonight. May it bring you peace and strength. Spirit's calling Through heart's desire Destroying fear with love's fire Sleeping warriors now awaken To the cries of those forsaken It's the only hope we have The only hope we have youtu.be/4y0ChfWtzrQ?...

HAPPY GREG BOVINO IS LEAVING DAY! 💃🤠

A slow, broad smile spreads across the face of every mom who ever quietly organized a school carnival or ran a city council campaign. "Fuck ICE," they whisper, as they sip their coffee and plan their next secure food drop.

The Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)

Tonight, some lovely folks out east led another call for our rapid responders—and, to wrap, they read "hope is a discipline." To everyone sharing love and support from across the country, and to @prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social who inspire me every day—thank you. ❤️

What a relief that they’re calling for a general de-escalation of tensions, since it’s hard to tell who’s at fault, the people murdering people or the people who aren’t doing the murdering.

In our latest Orwellian turn, a drone followed a volunteer home from the vigil in Minneapolis tonight and hovered over her house.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Emphasis on "trying." They will not succeed.

I just responded to the scene at 26th and Nicollet shortly after the observer was shot. They teargassed and/or pepper sprayed Jana Shortal of KARE11 at the scene and she was being treated when I walked up. ICE have a fancy camera they are using to scan the faces of the crowd.

All we do is model fierce love and a mountain of restraint in the face of their hatred and they just keep murdering our neighbors.

It’s real that struggling businesses are taking the hit today for expressing solidarity with the victims of ICE slavecatchers. So for those with means, I declare the weekend Spent That Shit Saturday and Sunday at their shops and eateries to provide them some instant payback. #spendthatshit

When Sukhdeep handed a mango lassi to the last driver traveling 3rd Street ahead of the march, the guy behind the wheel didn't say thank you. He said, "Fuck ICE." Because, here, it means thank you, good to see you, I love you, be safe out there.

This guy was lovely, and his business needs some help! The samosas were delicious for the record. www.gofundme.com/f/help-curry...

My son and I helped Sukhdeep (Curry Corner) pass out samosas, mango lassis and water today. I couldn't grab the water bottles with my mittens on so I did it barehanded. A half-dozen people offered me their gloves. Another passed on the water but offered me a hug. This is what community looks like.

UNDERESTIMATE US AT YOUR PERIL

🧊 struggling for traction falling all over the place, icicles forming on their face Meanwhile MN neighbors on the move:

All these other cities are like “we’d do x, y, and z to ICE, we’d be way more badass than Minneapolis” and as a Minneapolitan I have to tell you this is a weird fucking thing to be competitive about, it is an absolute hell and a really bleak thing to be fantasy role playing.

All this to say: find out how people doing very legal shit have been criminalized in the past. Be aware of how our phones and recording devices can unwittingly contribute to this. Protect your comrades. We might be strangers but we’re all connected now. Good op sec is one of the best forms of care.

A neighborhood here is terribly unsafe—crawling with ICE and MAGA supporters who cheer them on. Those motherfuckers sat outside their house for four hours today waiting for them, not realizing they've vacated—so that's four hours they weren't terrorizing someone else. Also: Fuck ICE.

Love this! And it provides a vision for how state and local governments can support their residents in these hard times: Pass legislation that purchases and distributes key resources to stand up to the fascists. Don’t make the working class bear the cost on their own.

The bravery I witness every day is astonishing. And people should not have to be this motherfucking brave.

Look at this absolute queen

If you could see the incredible community organizing work happening across the Twin Cities right now, you'd know this regime is beat. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow—but someday, we're building something beautiful. ❤️

Stand down while we shoot your people...or we'll send more armed thugs into your communities to shoot people.

If you're in Minneapolis or the greater Twin Cities metro, this episode offers vital perspective. I'm so proud of the work underway to support the emotional needs of our rapid responders, and it was inspired, in part, by this. Thank you, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social. ❤️ truthout.org/audio/burnou...

The unspeakable terror being inflicted on our communities is too much to bear. Please stand in solidarity with the Twin Cities and western Wisconsin on January 23rd. FUCK ICE now and forever.

From an ESL teacher: 33% of students are missing from class. 8-year-olds are sharing with classmates that ICE is stealing children, and Hmong teachers are having flashbacks to the camps and jungle escapes. This is what's happening in schools across the Twin Cities and western Wisconsin today.

DO YOUR WORST, MINNESOTA!