Statement from Jacob Thomas with Common Defense:

No, Cynthia Nixon caused a sensation by appearing in The Real Thing and Hurlyburly at the same time and commuting between them on her bicycle. What Nick Shirley caused was people getting killed. Please make a note of it.

If you ever want to do something eye opening, drive W River Parkway from the falls to downtown. Go 25 mph (speed limit: 20) the entire time. You will collect 15-20 cars behind you.

Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked. When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.

TIME magazine just released its new cover focused on Minneapolis, calling it “The Siege of an American City.” More than 3,000 federal agents have been deployed in the city in what’s being described as the largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history. Absolutely outrageous.

Why do I keep reading "antifa" as if it's an actual organization? The fact that this person they arrested claims to be a member of it makes me think there's something dubious about him, besides just obviously being a douche.

This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.

OPINION: The government "has tried to criminalize journalism by characterizing reporting as doxxing and observing as impeding law enforcement, and its agents are now threatening and sometimes assaulting people who record them..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

Where the people at who cried about damaged property in 2020? Like obviously thats the least concerning thing here. But the destruction of communities is a lot man

I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.

I can't imagine using someone else's guest list for your own wedding? Wouldn't you want the people you love and care for to be there? I remember agonizing about the guest list because it had to be under a certain number. Every single person was vetted.

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

My stay at the Washington Post was bookended by the pandemic shutdown and the takeover of the Kennedy Center — an extraordinary time in DC arts that I was honored to have had a hand in documenting. I’m hoping the DC arts community stays supportive of its independent classical scene. You are needed!

In a sane world, the decision by Rufo, Vance, & co. to slander and slap a target on the traumatized, hardworking immigrants who revitalized a rust belt city -- and who *were invited* to that city -- would be a stain on their careers that they never live down. They should be reminded of it. Often.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

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.

When Tom Homan starts talking about “rotating people out”

This morning, Tom Homan said that 700 federal agents will be drawing down effective today. At the press conference he said it will leave around 2,000 federal agents in Minnesota doing “immigration enforcement”. 1/

The Post killing its Books section (one of the best around) is so fucking bleak

A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw (unpasteurized) milk that the baby’s mother drank during pregnancy.

A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.

Our caucus had a resolution to protect gender affirming care.

holy crap there were a lot of people at caucus

I just got off the phone with Elizabeth's dad...she and her mom were freed tonight! Updated story: sahanjournal.com/education/co...

Administrative subpoenas are back in the spotlight. Worth remembering ICEs use of a similar tool: hundreds of thousands of warrantless “customs summonses,” often for non-customs cases sent for info about journalists, students, and abortion clinics, with no oversight.

The main argument against using judicial warrants in immigration cases is that it's inconvenient for the government. Is there an inconvenience test for the Bill of Rights?

Here's the link www.fox9.com/news/federal...

One fun thing about perimenopause for me is how angry I am all the time. Just full of absolute rage.

I can't think of a more important election coming up than our governor's race, and we don't seem to be talking about it at all?

Children’s has fought against this longer than most. This is very upsetting news for a lot of kids, it will absolutely hurt the mental health of them and their families, and I expect every MN politician to either fight fed transphobia or find a new job. www.childrensmn.org/services/car...

This means that people who are wrongfully detained by ICE can force ICE to pay for the legal fees it takes them to get out. Could have big implications in how this legal work is paid for.

I found out today that one of the largest firms in the state has >10% of their attorneys working basically full time on habeas petitions. If you aren't in the legal industry, that's basically unprecedented. And our bar is still in the early stages of mobilizing. The full efforts have yet to begin.

observation works by being so ubiquitous and having a relatively easy buy in. Get trained, grab a whistle. Hell, just grab a whistle. Chatted w/ a youth coach today & he walked by the local taekwondo studio while walking his dog. Now he's got a 1 hr daily shift. Easy fuckin' peasy.

JFC ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE ALREADY REQUIRED. OH MY GOD. YOU ARE BEGGING FOR THINGS THAT ARE ALREADY REQUIRED BY LAW. GEE I WONDER HOW NATIONAL DEMS COMPLETELY LOST THE RHETORICAL BATTLE ON IMMIGRATION. IF ONLY THERE WERE ANY RECENT EXAMPLES OF THEM JUST ACCEPTING GOP FRAMING AND TALKING POINTS.

Story of the fraud crackdown so far: Flood the streets with masked far right militia. Stalk people on their way to work. Target anyone who doesn't look American enough. Federal prosecutors resign in disgust. Capacity to prosecute fraud disintegrates. www.startribune.com/another-wave...

I haven’t used former Minneapolis mayoral candidate Jazz Hampton’s TurnSignl app, but they added functionality to connect people to immigration lawyers. (The app was originally developed post-George Floyd to connect folks with civil/criminal lawyers.) jazzhampton.substack.com/p/we-just-la...

ICE was stealing equipment from the Islip Long Island fire department and a Islip Forward member documented it. ICE tried to arrest the community member but the firemen said “I don’t think so” www.islipforward.org

not like i am the only one who called this, but i definitely called that their administrative HR capacity wouldn’t be able to keep up with hiring and that it would start causing real problems in the rank and file

New York Times covers the Economic Siege of Minnesota’s ICE occupation, a deliberate administration strategy to punish an entire blue locality. We need more national coverage alerting the nation to what’s next for them. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/b... (gift link)

My friend just posted on fb that her friend got punched in the head over the weekend at a coffee shop by someone who thought they were ICE.

“The letter avoided naming the federal agencies responsible for the enforcement actions; offered no assessment of the practices themselves; and framed the crisis largely as a threat to economic activity and public order.“

This is how Tom Homan reacts to losing a court case to free a medically fragile 5-year-old who was used as bait to lure his dad so they could be imprisoned in a measles factory. Fuck any de-escalation stories that come out.

Sorry if I'm slow here, but why can't the Mpls park police enforce the park board's resolution about ICE staging in parks?

If you see Federal Agents and activity at our parks please email [email protected]. When reporting, videos and pictures are great for documentation. I encourage folks to use SALUTE when reporting (I know many of us are familiar with using SALUTE).

And not to put too fine a point on it, but a president who ran on eliminating “illegal” immigrants created a ton more “illegal” immigrants by canceling a bunch of actual real legal statuses. He took people off the path that everyone says they want people on.

Last week this guy tried to pass off an old vid in Minneapolis as being new and now he’s saying this Trump post from August is from tonight.

Handling of Epstein files is ‘outrageous’, say attorneys of his sex trafficking survivors Tranche of government-held files filled with ‘ham-fisted redactions’ and expose survivors’ identities, say attorneys www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW: Late night on Jan. 28, a medley of state and local police officers arrested nearly 70 people after the third noise demo protesting ICE agents at the Graduate Hotel on the University of Minnesota campus. Full story: unicornriot.ninja/2026/state-a...

Earlier today in conversation I referred to Kinko’s as a business you could simply use as an alternative to Amazon for self publishing. And I am now sitting with the fact it has bee closed for years and I’m in some sort of alternative reality.

This map is shocking.