I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this. I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it. I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.

Same, newly discovered dinosaur, same.

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Not gonna quoteskeet because I'm not interested in getting into an online slapfight, but it's genuinely depressing to see lots of accounts with good politics twisting themselves into pretzels to defend retweeting a blindingly obvious Nazi dog whistle.

I’m just a Minneapolitan, standing in front of a country, asking them to stop platforming our mayor for swearing on tv about ICE and then doing nothing substantive while antagonizing city council members that are

Muppet Bladerunner where Deckard is implied to be a Muppet too

The lasting way to fight fascism—and the thing each of us can do—is to liberate your mind from the fascist framework. Stop being frightened of the things that fascists say are frightening. Start looking at those things as liberation. Fear the things fascists say make us safe. See them as prisons.

Good news! I did some research and there's a Nuremberg in Pennsylvania. It's kind of small, but I bet we can make it work.

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt collaborates with ICE. Sheriffs escorted and protected ICE in this action.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

I would love to have a discussion with Jake Tapper about the history of the term "concentration camp" and its usage. It would do so much good if he would actually address this head on.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

it's easy to miss if you don't spend much time on X or right-wing media, but the demonization of immigrants ties directly into trump's claims of stolen elections. the notion that there's a dem plot to let illegal immigrants vote is key to how the right justifies both Jan 6 *and* ICE's behavior

we need to put schoolhouse rock back in schools!!!!!

you thought you could make your "we have a panopticon for hunting down specific people one at a time, this is awesome" story about a lost dog. you showed visuals of how that worked in excruciating detail. small children pointed at the screen and said "they're going to do that to people"

No Kings includes Draft Kings

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Learning about the particulars of local permitting as it relates to privately owned buildings leased out to the federal government in order to become a problem

Revealing undercover ICE agents by offering them the last donut in the box and seeing them take the whole thing.

“what if all the worst work was done by humans who had no rights” <— this is the voice of the devil

Fuck Ice chants from the crowd on #AEWDynamite

that stage of society when school children share the bond of having endured the camps together

MacKenzie Scott should publicly offer to buy Washington Post

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

Tito Puente’s gonna be dead and you’re gonna say, “I’ve been listening to him for years, and I think he’s fabulous.”

What utter assholes. "At least 12 companies received letters from the agency stating that the gender-affirming compression garments are medical devices and require compliance with strict federal regulations." rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/02/02/c...

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

The key thing to remember is this was a city-approved protest and the protesters didn’t deviate from the plan, but were still attacked by the feds. Absolutely criminal.

look, if there's one thing we can learn from the history of . . . lots of times and places, actually, it's that there are in fact situations where thousands, myriads, lakhs, millions are persecuted or killed by the state.

I certainly would not have been able to write my story about all the bravery I witnessed in Minneapolis without the access I was given! bsky.app/profile/whst...

I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.

south minneapolis residents set up their own traffic calming makeshift roundabout, building a campfire to keep warm as they guarded the intersection “ICE GO HOME” written on a sign nearby

There are approximately 3 million undocumented persons in Texas and Florida, and there are about 100,000 in Minnesota. Ask yourself why ICE has been deployed to MN, but not even close to the same way in FL and TX. This isn't about immigration, it is all about politics and retribution.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

Does this mean Texas gets invaded now? Or is that only after intrepid reporter Nick Shirley gets a scoop? www.fox4news.com/news/48-texa...

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

/2 The predominant ethos of the performatively masculine Right is “if I had my way I would stop these liberals with fire and sword, the way the ancients did, but I have been prevented by cancel culture, which involves people saying mean things to and about me.”

As a long time fan of KFAN I won’t ever listen again until Paul Allen is fired. Making jokes about Minneapolis residents putting their lives on the line and sometimes losing them in order to defend our neighbors is immoral and wrong

More ICE tech: Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.

When we talk about people murdered by ICE, we shouldn't forget Keith Porter, a black man who was shot by ICE on new years eve

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

Reminder: If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, some of the ICE officers currently brutalizing Minnesotans may be reassigned to apprehend newborns from the hospital for immediate deportation. Just read the Trump administration’s own memo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

I really can't state this enough. Federal agents have been teargassing parks and residential neighborhoods for weeks but didn't show up for a fight downtown today and look what didn't happen. Wishing absolute worst wishes to our occupying forces. GTFO of Minnesota.

Note how there's no violence or chaos when the cops aren't rioting.

It’s not so much that Trump & co don’t think slavery was important, they want to remove this history precisely *because* of how important it was. They don’t want people to learn about slavery because then people would understand how it continues to shape the landscape of inequality in America today.