The very idea of non-reproductive sexuality terrifies the fascist heart. It is queer genius to exploit this weakness 🍆

What! Friends, tuition for our Latina organizer’s little one is within reach! Just $760 to go! venmo.com/chudgar

Wow, friends, we’re more than halfway to meeting our organizer friend’s need for school tuition! Thanks to all who’ve donated and boosted so far. Can we raise $830 still today?

Just now, Sat. 2/7/26, ICE pulled two random people out of a car at 37th and Central because they looked Latino. The “softer touch” continues

just in case there was anyone who thought they were being serious that "we're withdrawing Border Patrol from #Minnesota" Four uniformed Border Patrol agents just forced a random person to pull over and ripped them out of their car in NE #Minneapolis. #ICEout #fuckICE

most of the dispatchers i’ve worked with are women and you can absolutely tell that they are experts in navigating stressful situations while trying to manage the emotions of people who are being annoying

“Much of this work is being led by women. They come from all backgrounds and walks of life—immigrant women, mothers, teachers, healers, Black and Brown women, queer and trans women, grandmothers, young girls, women of faith, women who are simply fed up” 🔥

💸 Mutual aid request! An amazing Latina organizer in my neighborhood needs $1800 tuition for her Autistic child’s school tuition by Monday. Husband & I can contribute $600, hoping to raise the other $1200 by end of day tomorrow. If you can help, Venmo @chudgar with “tuition” 🙏 venmo.com/chudgar

Peggy Flanagan at today’s DFL Elected Officials Convocation: fighting back against ICE isn’t a marathon, it isn’t a sprint, it’s a relay.

my colleagues at @racketmn.com are raising funds for a local mom who needs help with rent. the total is $4,785—we’re trying to raise $4,000 as a four-person newsroom. i believe racket readers can do it this weekend!!! V: @em-cassel PP: @biketrouble please share widely and donate if you can! 💗✨

💸 Mutual aid request! An amazing Latina organizer in my neighborhood needs $1800 tuition for her Autistic child’s school tuition by Monday. Husband & I can contribute $600, hoping to raise the other $1200 by end of day tomorrow. If you can help, Venmo @chudgar with “tuition” 🙏 venmo.com/chudgar

Why would I stop protecting my neighbors now? You’ve already fucked up my life a ton, now I gotta see this shit through.

I know who needs to hear this… but it’s ok to say out loud to someone you’ve just met in the last couple months… “hey, you want to be friends after all this?” Be brave. Drop your Minnesota guard. New friends are good, especially if forged in fire and ice.

This article reports nothing new, but it does obediently amplify the administration’s very obvious lies about a “softer touch.” It’s a slap in the face to Minneapolis. Don’t read it

Heads up North Minneapolis and north burbs. Lots of spy drones out over us tonight. Usually that means a busy day tomorrow. Another good morning to walk your neighborhood especially early in the morning. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #mpls

As a middle-aged, bearded, bald white guy with resting galoot face, I assume this is an inevitability. I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet. It’s still too cold to conspicuously display my Devo shirt.

It’s not often I prefer an edited version of a song over the explicit version, but Dream songs hit different every time

A lot of antisemitism boils down, itself, to a conspiracy that a shadowy cabal of rich and powerful people are controlling everything in existence with a high degree of success. It's the Protocols of the Elders of Zion bullshit. And it inflects modern conspiracist thinking about *everything.*

Wanted to give everyone a ”good news” update: the teacher has been released and is back with their family. Thanks to everyone who helped with this fundraiser, you were really great. (Good news in quotes because I can only imagine the trauma this family is dealing with.)

We’ve seen lots of reports of legal observers being arrested in North Minneapolis, South Minneapolis, and Eden Prairie. Exercising your first amendment right to observe is not a crime. This is exactly why congress can’t give another penny to DHS.

The afternoon of Fri. 2/6, two days after the president announced a “softer touch”:

Friend who's part of a neighborhood watch group says their car was just surrounded by ICE. Is fine but obviously rattled.

Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota

I continue in my attempts to impress on the Sheriff just how much her decisions are compromising the reputation of and any trust the public has in the Sheriff’s Office, as well as the entire county operation.

“God, please protect my son when he’s not at home."

A beloved workers' rights organizer in Minnesota, known for *successfully* fighting against wage theft and labor trafficking, has been detained by federal immigration agents and is now locked up in New Mexico. His family is calling for his urgent release. inthesetimes.com/article/work...

They didn’t nominate “the city,” they nominated THE PEOPLE OF the city. The distinction matters, not least because “the city” seems to have forgotten that the whole damn metro area is resisting the occupation, which is something THE PEOPLE of Minneapolis are constantly reminding out-of-towners

North Minneapolis alert. Activity ramping up for school dismissal. Sounds like aggressive agents may be detaining legal observers. If available please take a walk in your neighborhoods. #AbolishICE #mpls

I hear this from my soul. Also, I see those external events like, looking out a window. I mean sure we're living in a tragic hellscape of violent oppression, but there is still a blue sky out the window. And when the shackles are broken, that sky is still ours too. And I imagine flowers grow there.

The mayor of NEW YORK speaks with more compassion and authority about Minneapolis than our weak mayor

“He hears / On all sides, from innumerable tongues / A dismal universal hiss, the sound / Of publick scorn” (this is about an ICE agent in Minnesota)

It’s hard for me to tell exactly whether people are understanding the level of harm. It took the DOJ 15 days to release someone unconditionally. And even when they did, they put him on a flight with an agent. He was already free for 15 days and they still had a federal agent with him on the flight.

Apropos of nothing: my mother-in-law (RIP) said many awful things after dementia had dissolved all her conversational filters. But she never once said anything racist, ever. Not one time!

An actual "you couldn't make it today" movie is Smokey and the Bandit. Bumbling cops foiled by an underground network of lawbreaking good ol' boys? There's be bomb threats.

“The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has said its deputies are at Whipple to maintain order. The office did not respond to questions about license plates” 😡

The city has spent ~$5M above budget in the past month to deal with the occupation, with roughly $130k per day going to MPD overtime. So when mod CMs/the mayor tell you that we can’t afford rent relief, they’re telling you that they prefer to spend your tax dollars on this instead.

In one of our signal chats, a neighbor calls these “fuckaroundabouts”

2nd Republic: (1848 – 1851): Anne Veal Finally having broken the cycle of useless monarchs and having been granted the right of franchise, the French people choose Louis Napoleon Bonaparte as their leader, causing the international community to cock their heads and say "Her?"

look this is just a whole branding problem, what if we just called them roundabouts? filter blockades: scary, bad, confusing, american roundabouts: less threatening, already exist in places here, vaguely british

As a Christian, and millennial mom, standing publicly with someone who is *kidnapping toddlers and preschoolers* IS where you stand. There’s no credit for being privately upset. THE DAY LIAM WAS KIDNAPPED she said “We are the party of parents, the party of families. Trump has led the way on that”

Tonight at 8:30 PM our constituent Ricky was pepper sprayed by ICE on 18th & Polk. 2 agents parked their car, got out and approached observers, started pepper spraying Ricky on public property, and then drove away and left. Nothing is changing on the ground in Minnesota. ICE must be abolished.

Write it down. Tell the story of this time in your own words. All too soon, people will try to re-write history, their own complicity in these horrors will be scrubbed away. But take a pen, take to the keyboard. And write. Remember for the rest of us.

3 year old me having an absolute meltdown over someone calling me “cute”

Ricky was assaulted by ICE tonight for merely standing on public property.

o my god. I feel so bad for these kids.

photo of a hennepin county sheriff’s deputy (obscured partially by security here) letting ICE agents into the court side of the government center in downtown minneapolis and bypassing weapons screening

Today they threatened to arrest all of the neighbors who came out and watched 20 agents struggle to change a flat tire for “impeding a federal investigation.” These are just clowns and they absolutely know it.

100% this. In our neighborhood ICE is most active at start and end of school. They sit at bus stops and in apartment parking lots literally stalking children. The worst of the worst work for ICE

Hey @governorwalz.mn.gov tonight my kid and I escorted a teacher home so they didn’t get kidnapped by ICE. Then I got home myself to find that my neighbor had *just* been stabbed by a man on the Aldine bridge. That man was holding a sign that said “Come legally or don’t come at all” DO SOMETHING.