Current state of affairs in Southwest Minneapolis: students are too scared to wait at bus stops and parents need help getting their kids to school. (This reflects crowdsourced data that show many ICE observations at bus stops)

A mayor in a snowstorm shoveling people out. Note: no PR cameras following.

There were clues along way (e.g. school shootings), but I never imagined so many Decemberists war songs would be relatable.

What a concept.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

An essay on organizing in Minneapolis: "Margaret stressed that the collective courage on display in Minneapolis shouldn’t be construed as a lack of fear, but rather, as a willful, collective persistence." Well worth the long read.

I think this is a fair ask. It is also a lot of fun to ride bikes with 6-year-olds down city streets so the end goal is more biking and less fear.

Morning, Minneapolis. 1. We are close to 11 hours of sunlight (10:51) with the sun awake at 7 a.m. today 2. Mercury retrograde is upon us. Shadowy info will be exposed this week. Stay in solidarity and keep up the critical thinking. (summarized from Chani Nicholas)

He is so good at new media communications.

We're seeing a drop off in newborn donations in Minneapolis. Birth workers are seeing small/early babies due to stress/food insecurity—ICE has not stopped—families still in desperate need of support. If you're able, here is a wishlist compiled by folks doing mutual aid www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

No. Stop. Delete. I don't want any AI. Make it go away for the love of Mr. Rogers and the VHS tapes that he pushed into the wall.

Southwest Voices will have deeper coverage on the state of Uptown in March.

We actually broke this news in our print edition in a story about poinsettia donations (it pays to read every story!) but here it is again:

My best friend forever is still surviving Stage 4 colon cancer from lapsed colonoscopies. It is truly a miracle he is alive. Colonoscopies suck but cancer sucks even worse. It sucks for you and it sucks so much for the people around you. It's cool to get colonoscopies.

Morning, Minneapolis. Two things: 1. We are up to 10.5 hours of sunlight. 2. The astrology this week is wild but on The People's side. Dream big, let the envisioning fly. Don't let them write the ending.

Minnesota State Patrol all over the Northside this afternoon.

This is really serious and also if you watch "The Morning Show" it's deeply uncanny.

Statement from Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne after announcement that Operation Metro Surge is winding down.

MPR News verifies brutal car crash connected to federal agent activity:

Very violent ICE activity in St. Paul today.

A good reminder to us all. The best journalists are watchdogs. I'd suggest @minnesotareformer.com at the moment.

Federal agents in Uptown this morning. (Whistles and honking in video)

Morning, Minneapolis. The sun is now out for over 10 hours a day.

Age verification? I was a participating member of many AOL discussion boards

My team @propublica.org is hiring. We're looking for a data reporter itching to do ambitious, impactful investigations that uncover abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust. Maybe that's you? grnh.se/iunysgl96us

Morning, Minneapolis. I hope the sun brings you some regeneration.

People out protesting ICE at Penn Avenue and 66th Street on Feb. 7 at 1 p.m. Snapped these photos from a moving bus, please mind the quality.

This bus stop comes with a ottoman!

FYI, South/Southwest on Feb. 5 afternoon.

U.S. ICE-produced Facebook content, claims that ICE has arrested 4,000 criminals.

I handled this today but please let the record show that Medica was threatening to have me pay out of pocket for my all of my health care services if I didn't pay for my *unemployment health care* premiums that totaled less than $300.

Video contains honking and whistles.

The legion of Twin Cities turkeys causing havoc to normative society continues.

Totally unprompted, my nephew told me last night he wishes he had a smoke bomb so he could throw one at ICE. And then we could all run away from them.

For those who ride in the Press Mobile™️, it has been upgraded to include this charging unit, thanks to my dad and his wife. Also on hand: a mobile charging brick. WATCH OUT WORLD. OUR BATTERIES WILL NEVER DIE.

In Minneapolis, you can still see daylight and it is past 5:30 p.m. It feels good for many reasons. I hope you find your own.

Banner drop at LynLake.

Georgia Fort is arrested by assumed federal agents for filming a protest as a member of the press. This is beyond scary.

The LEAST of concerns but a few weeks ago, I caught someone with blacked out windows videoing me at my car outside of Bryant Lake Bowl. I had press credentials on. I know their plates too and they have been called in before. I am not scared but aware. It's all of us anyway.

Why doom scroll when you can look at this dot-to-dot deer I colored in. My nibs love to do dot-to-dots and then I do the coloring. Saving my booty butt right now, ngl.

Earlier this week, On Point's well-read, intelligent host Meghna Chakrabarti (airs on NPR) had to come back to a guest and get them to explain, again, that U.S. citizens are too afraid to leave their homes. The spectacle is getting out, but not all the details.

We’ve been asked about data on where/when ICE has been in our parks. I put together a quick Google map using the summary data the commissioners receive from the superintendent regarding reported sightings. Click on the legend and you can see incidents by date. www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...

Tesha Christensen and I just stopped Gov. Tom Walz at the Minnesota Newspaper Association conference to ask him about community concerns re: the state and local gov't talking with federal gov't. "They need to leave. We are not talking about some change in operation. They need to leave," Walz said.

TEAM GROVER

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

This is very important. Leaders will say one thing, community will experience something else.

Milwaukee is holding a bike ride on Saturday, too. They will be doing a Riverwest 24 lap in honor of Alex Pretti, who was a RW24 rider. Alex is from Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Minneapolis ride starts at Washburn Fair Oaks Park at the same time

Last night I turned the phone on Do Not Disturb, fixed up some bikes, played with my cats, and listened to a paranormal podcast. Even when more news broke, I did this. It was ok.

Morning, Minneapolis. You are enough.

Putting on my humanity hat for a second: If this story doesn't rock you to your core, I don't know what will. Two very young children left alone when the mother is taken away by ICE (They are *physically* ok but the mother needs help). www.gofundme.com/f/ayudanos-p...