This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.” What?

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

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I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying

Friday afternoon, ABC News ran an interview with one of Mischief Toy Store's owners about the store's practice of giving away free whistles. Hours later, ICE agents showed up at their door. Here's my story (gift link):

We really need those that work at Target Corporate , UHC, Best Buy corporate, US bank, Medtronic, Cargill, Optum, and whatever corporations that have big offices here… We really need you on Friday. Grind it all to a stop. Friday.

yes. this is one of the major weaknesses of an administration helmed by an indifferent and doddering old man and run by vicious ideologues. they are totally unresponsive to public conditions. also a sign that they are isolated from those republicans who are worried about elections

by contrast, minnesotans have a clear strategic goal in mind: the removal of ICE and CBP from their streets. and their discipline reflects that clarity of purpose.

i think it is simply true that for all intents and purposes stephen miller is the president of the united states

“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.” - Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail Silence is not neutral. It is a choice.

Four attorneys told ABC News they have been denied access to their clients at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, where they are being held, which they say would violate 5th & 6th Amendment rights to due process & the right to consult with counsel. abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-a...

*screeching*

On this quiet and very cold MLK Day, the great bells inside the 345 ft tall tower of Minneapolis City Hall poignantly play "America, The Beautiful"

fantastic piece from my colleague @polgreen.bsky.social that gets at something i have been thinking about. what, exactly, is the administration's strategic goal in minnesota? what does "victory" look like for trump and miller?

If MLK and Anne Frank hadn't been killed, they would be 96 today. It's important to see pictures of them as a reminder that history was not that long ago.

“If it weren’t for my horse I wouldn’t have spent that year in Narnia”

The labor share of GDP is lower today than it has been at any time since records began being kept in 1947. The share of the nation’s income going to workers has fallen 16 points in that 78-year stretch. The share going to capital has risen by the same amount. prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...

Every time Trump breaks the clear letter of the law, the NYT and WaPo write a story about how he’s “pushing boundaries” or “testing the limits of his authority” He's not Chuck Yeager, guys. He's a crook.

A majority of Americans now want to abolish ICE

This is probably approaching "And *now* a warning?" levels, but truly he's gone completely insane.

No. ICE agents have been paid to fuck up Minnesota's economy and our way of life. Our schools, our hospitals, our neighborhoods, our roadways are a mess and we're trying to keep our people safe because the government that is supposed to work for us, is attacking us.

This protester is Sue and is in our Rapid Response over North and she is out there every day keeping witnesss

Don't accept penitent words: only penitent actions. If conservatives want to be let back into human society they all owe us a lifetime in service of repairing the damage they have done and the lives are destroying. You want redemption? Prove that you aren't an irredeemable piece of shit.

wind chill is currently -22⁰F

my bucket is fuck Schumer

I’m not sure people outside the Twin Cites realize the prevalence and the fear ICE is causing in Twin Cities. They are dining undercover pretending to be couples at restaurants, they are going to businesses and checking the license plates of cars to find employees. Every public place is compromised.

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

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Today’s distraction baking was, indeed, Six Grain bread. Good distraction, 10/10, would recommend.

They've changed their faces to please the patriarchy. It's not about what types of women those patriarchal men personally prefer; it's about showing those men that they are willing to submit. And it's a specific kind of look. It shows their willingness to be controlled.

Fun fact: when I was in the Minnesota National Guard we went to visit the flag so we could all give it the finger.

“He was the ringleader of a group conservative christians club at Richfield high school in the 90's … they would form a prayer circle around the flag every morning and cry about Bill Clinton's blow jobs.”

I mean also, the vast majority of Somalis in the US are citizens, it's weird how noone really wants to use the term "ethnic cleansing" because that's exactly the language Republicans use (they're garbage, our country is better off without them, we have to rid ourselves of them)

can we just quickly clear up an often repeated idea that Minneapolis is a “small city of 500k” or the “47th largest city in the US”? it is directly connected to st. paul, a city of 400,000. with the suburbs, the metro area is over 3.5 million people. your city won’t be safer because it is bigger.

There must be a lot of money in saying unspeakably vile things.

Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.

With masked armed federal agents sitting at the corner and circling the St. Paul neighborhood for quite some time, about 50-100 neighbors came out to blow whistles. This man says this is his neighborhood and thanks everyone who came out. The agents have all left.

Exactly, and they’ve been operating everywhere in the area and beyond. Big presence in St. Paul today; daily raids in suburbs in every direction; even some smaller MN cities hours away from Minneapolis.

Rugged individualism never existed. Pioneers took care of each other because if they didn't they'd die.

Noem: the paid protestors in Minnesota. Minnesota:

If DOJ is not investigating him, there is no ongoing federal investigation for state and local authorities to supposedly obstruct or interfere with by pursuing their own.

The laziest journalism. Pitching Nisswa as rural where the “real Americans” live vs Minneapolis is so ridiculous given that the median home price in Nisswa is $200K higher than Minneapolis.

For ICE to have designated cells for Americans in immigration detention means that the unlawful arrest of Americans by ICE is a systematic issue.

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I mean . . .

I wrote this poem as an homage to Baldwin and to hear it being sung across the world or read in protests has been my own guiding light of hope.

New times call for new cookies.

"Now that I've told you about the Halloween Blizzard of '91, sit back, the Federal Occupation of '26 is next."