Did the Kwesi Adofo-Mensah firing news come before or after Drake Maye missed practice today? Just curious because if Maye can't go in the Super Bowl, the starters become Sam Darnold -vs- JOSH DOBBS. #Vikings

Takeoff Hosers! The SpinSisters made it onto the CBC! Great job @taraerickson.bsky.social and @marylahammer.bsky.social and a belated congrats on a pretty stellar launch of the new Podcast!

If anybody ended up with an extra ticket for the Tom Morello show at First Ave on Friday, I will do absolutely anything in return to join you. Anything. Make a giant donation in your name? Done. Upper-deck your boss' executive toilet? Done. Just name it. DMs open

reminder that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate could end this madness today

The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, plus the New York Times story about using facial recognition to take away PreCheck and Global Entry from observers, reveals how closely linked these two missions are. There is no separating ICE’s twin missions of ethnic cleansing and ideological terror.

One week ago today they literally arrested 99 clergy members who had peacefully assembled to petition their government through speech and prayer. The arrests of Lemon and Fort are literally just this administration's effort to check all the First Amendment violation boxes.

One thing that immediately comes to mind is that Lemon was arrested while in LA to cover the Grammys. Are you (near) an artist scheduled to perform at the Grammys? Nominated for one? You now have access to a lever. How do you use it?

ICE BINGO! With the arrests of the clergy praying at the airport, they trampled our first amendment rights to speech, religion, assembly and petition of government. This arrest closes out the first amendment line by taking down freedom of the press.

I get they need to get the whole assaulting. deporting and murdering a broad cross section of Americans thing under control, but how is this graph not getting more attention?

The Stancil shit is stupid. Some people who still couldn’t say what opsec stands for really need to STFU. Use a goddamn alias and assume if you’re observing, you’re being photographed. Sorry, you’re not fucking James or Jane Bond. Plus, you WANT media getting the story out, dammit.

Sadly, it appears the ICE draw down of troops in Minnesota has ended before they could even pretend to start it.

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

If you're looking for a shiny new protest sign and a way to help out a business who mysteriously found themselves the subject of a federal ICE audit within hours of going on TV questioning the actions of ICE, well then here's your place. They're also handing out free 3D printed whistles.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Honestly the longer ICE stays here the more advantage we gain. They have to be gone by spring. If the bike whackos get a shot at patrol it’s OVER.

There are many ways that Minnesota is unique. I think history is about to show that fraud attached to the T-shirt cannons of cash that the feds were shooting off during COVID is not one of them.

The side always wearing masks is going to dox the people trying to help their neighbors and community? I’m sure that will have the desired effect.

Start your clocks.

To any of my fellow Minnesotans who might be feeling like the tide has turned, here's a reminder that Liam Ramos is still in ICE jail in Texas, drawing pictures like this. Foot on the gas, Minnesota.

Voters understand that the dems aren't going to get everything they want when they're in the minority. We aren't stupid. Unfortunately, the leadership can't even bother to show up to a gunfight with a knife, just with a sign that says "please perform CPR on me after you shoot me"

introducing my new bill to ensure that ICE only uses american-produced tear gas on clergy

Hell yes, Bemidji!

This got me way down a rabbit hole of the mechanics (and law) of how one would do something like this. Feel like Minnesota, especially right now, is ready for one of these...

Damn proud of Minnesota.

“We are starting to build a huge ICE OUT sign on Lake Nokomis [in Mpls.] 100 foot letters for MSP flights to see. By day snow letters, by night we’ll light w/ candles in white paper bags Send this widely. Tonight will get it outlined. Tomorrow night we’ll light it up and keep it going all week.“

BREAKING: The Minnesota National Guard is handing out coffee and donuts to Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, after governor Tim Walz called them in to help out. The good guys!

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

Yes, the GOP controls Congress. That's why it's key to show Congress COULD stop the madness. And it's not just the DHS bill. Congress could repeal the prior multi-year $75b for DHS; set up a special investigative committee (cf. Watergate); amend the Insurrection Act; etc.

I keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad

Pity the national reporters who flew in last night and are lined up outside the pickle bar in Nisswa in -9 waiting to talk to day drinkers.

15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

If yesterday taught us anything, it's that we need MORE Minnesotans in the street recording everything ICE does. They clearly can't be trusted to tell us honestly what happened. The only way we know they are lying is because people like Alex Pretti are out documenting their crimes.

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.

There are a lot of people asking if they should fly to Mn to "help". JFC NO. Have you taken constitutional observer training? Have you set up rapid response/mutual aid networks in your own neighborhood? Do you know your neighbors' names? Do you know who will need food/supplies?

Every US Senator needs to see this video before the upcoming vote on the DHS budget Bill. This is Alex Pretti. He was killed this morning by poorly trained DHS agents here in Minnesota. Make sure your Senators see this. I'll start. Do the right thing, @amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov

Fucking first time I ever teared up over something I saw on Bluesky.

The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.

I honestly thought it might take longer for ICE to add the second amendment to their checklist of constitutional rights violated by their agents in Minnesota.

Done!

Nevermind my previous post. Here it is. If the various angles available on social media already aren't enough to get a conviction, then might as well give up on the rule of law.

The top priority for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and Minneapolis Police Department should be finding the woman in the pink jacket and securing her footage. Given the DHS propaganda, this may be our only chance for justice.

This new video from the final moments of this man's life sure seems to poke a pretty big hole in the DHS narrative about a crazy person wildly threatening its officers with a handgun.

The fact that the president won't take this call personally raises real questions about who is leading our nation right now.

Wait. So ICE now wants us to believe that they were attempting to disarm an armed man by wrestling him to the ground? Sorry. The trigger happy history of ICE does not support your theory.

We are outgunned. We are not outnumbered.

You don't impede investigation, tamper with the crime scene, disappear witnesses, and confiscate footage when you feel your paramilitary's act of execution was legal and morally justified