"Symbolic compliance." 🧵 Especially worrying is that ICE now has permission to use Fort Snelling for personnel and equipment. They may be embedding vs. yielding to public pressure.

Links to fundraisers follow in the thread below. Please help the families who are, for a variety of reasons including race and immigration status, receiving less attention.

As seen on r/nursing Alex Pretti's coworkers taking a moment of silence to honor him

A beautiful and sad and honest piece by my friend Adrianne Wright:

For qualitative papers the headings of the findings section are also a key stop.

i’d also be super interested in talking to people at these companies about the vibe after your bosses ate popcorn with the president during a political assassination. signal in bio.

This is by far more effective at conveying what the government does than simply standing at a press conference surrounded by emergency personnel.

This is an automation problem. AI lowers the cost and raises plausible deniability for influence operations. That supports agenda shaping, trust erosion, election narratives, crisis messaging, and coalition fractures. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/a...

Must read. Gift link.

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

First time I’ve been happy I voted for her since she took office.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 25, 2026

A massive thank you to everyone who called their senators today. Keep calling. It’s working.

once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street

They had to kill someone after yesterday to try to reassert control. Abusers cannot stand to let their victims have the last word.

The University of Texas has decided that teaching is not something they're interested in supporting. Learning itself is apparently now part of unacceptable "DEI." www.chronicle.com/article/ut-a...

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

Hollllly moly, when it turns the corner. That is a lot of people.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

If confirmed, this really is a new low, where a state agency is altering image of real events with an intent to deceive the public.

They not only took him, but sent five year old Liam Ramos to a Texas ICE camp.

Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

Gutless cowards.

So all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?

Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced

A reminder that every day brings a new horror, and we still have not addressed the horrors that stretch back to the first actions of this administration.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

If I could ask everyone outside Minnesota to read one thing to understand what's going on there (on ICE's side, not the community response), my current pick would be this public Facebook post by @erinmayequade.bsky.social, a state legislator in Apple Valley, an outer-ring suburb of Minneapolis

If anyone works at major HR firms and platforms (Salesforce, Workday, etc.) and has info about what drove adding these questions to job applications in the last few months my DMs are open and my Signal is SydneyBauer.30 You will have anonymity.

I suspect 9 of 10 Americans are unaware that the Hmong are here because they aided the US in the Vietnam war, and then had to flee as refugees afterwards. Quite the “thank you” we’re giving them 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Today in St. Paul: A house is raided by ICE agents and other law enforcement officers in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, January 18, 2026. REUTERS/Leah Millis

Many Americans are terrible neighbors to each other, and that is why MN is striking everyone as extraordinary activism... when they are telling us that it is not. They're good neighbors! It's no wonder that "being a shitty neighbor" is the hallmark of our domestic politics and our foreign policy.

I want to convey this in no uncertain terms. The citizens of Minnesota--an entire state--are terrified right now. The federal government is responding through greater force. The federal government is not looking at its own citizens as "citizens." They are looking at us as something to "break."

god it's so cool how she accurately describes the problem and instigators and then ends with the most useless admonishment. What are you doing with all the power we gave you by electing you to be a goddamn senator? how are you fighting?

"Disasters often unfold as though a revolution has already taken place." - Rebecca Solnit Right now on the ground in Minnesota, the revolution has already taken place. I love my community so much. www.winstonhearn.com/wrote/2026/n...

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Absolutely disgusting and unfortunately something that may become relatively common.