Working in coordination with standwithminnesota.com, I’m raising rent funds for Minneapolis immigrant families in need. We now have a $5000 match offer (!) and are going to help as many families as we can to stay housed today. V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Thank you so much! 🌷

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

as i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.

Elon COULD be happy He'd need to learn an art, make amends to his children, give to the poor, make friends, love a movie, play a video game, literally do anything but be Elon Musk - the one thing he cannot do That money could buy anyone happiness except for him

Man hell yeah I love this place so much

I’m extremely disappointed in the decision made by Children’s Minnesota to temporarily pause some gender-affirming care practices starting on February 27, 2026. Gender-affirming care is evidence-based and life-saving. 1/

For 65 days we have been showing up for our neighbors, in a multitude of ways. And tomorrow we’ll do it again. Because we won’t rest until ICE is gone, not just from here, but from all our communities.

If they said 3,000 agents were leaving MN today, I would not fully rejoice. Because those 3,000 would be headed elsewhere. I don’t want them kidnapping ANYONE. I don’t want them breaking up ANY families. I don’t want those 700 headed off to destroy other families! Abolish ICE is the floor.

Abolishing ICE is necessary but not sufficient. A Nuremberg is necessary but not sufficient. It is the bare minimum. We must completely repudiate the fascist ideology that led to this.

And, finally, WE ARE WINNING. They're crumbling, and the full firepower of the Minnesota bar isn't close to online yet. The combined might of our state's attorneys will soon be able to double, triple, 10x, the number of filings. They can't cope.

While Tom Homan was trying to grab headlines this morning ICE was again circling our schools. They’ve been out all morning and no “drawdown” is enough until every single one of these agents is out of our state and DHS is abolished.

Axios had a story today about how hard Minnesota’s economy is being hit and how slow the recovery could be. So, I’m going to take this opportunity to say that if you want to support the Twin Cities, you should plan a visit for this summer, spend some money here, & see how amazing it is for yourself.

They are systematically trying to take away our art, our culture, our community. They are disassembling, brick by brick, page by page, seat by seat, the places we go to experience moments of joy, empathy, hope, collective grief, connection.

This is about The Washington Post but it is also about the slow death of movie theaters, of book stores—the rapid integration of AI into schools—the Kennedy Center—the way so many people in power are afraid of art (and wow even sports) for the power it has to give people common language and cause.

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

Oh my god. Please read this essay. We have got to get people out of these camps.

the amount of what i’ll call “mundane bravery” on display every day in the twin cities from every different group making this work is just really astounding. and it is killing them that they just cannot understand it because they are fundamentally cowards

That's our mayor! 🤩 (We're from Minneapolis) (He's the worst!) Despite the national attention Frey has received for saying a swear word, @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social has been ineffective and even complicit when it comes to getting ICE out of Minneapolis. Here are some real actions he could take.

The only thing that will change things on the ground in Minnesota is the total destruction of DHS. Pull the poison tree out by the root. Defund. Dismantle. Prosecute. This is the way.

Inside those concentration camps, people hit by measles will lose any previously acquired immunity, whether from vax or previous infection, and become vulnerable to every other disease there. That is why when the measles vaccine was invented, childhood mortality from *all causes* declined.

Today, on the 125th anniversary of his birth, I'm reminded that Langston Hughes wrote what for me is the most compelling response to the false dichotomy of patriotism vs the brutality of our national history.

i think this is a key thing that makes "abolish ICE and undo DHS" good policy in and of itself these killers are not fresh recruits, they're just existing guys who got the go ahead to be vicious thugs and pounced on the opportunity

It's why they'll eventually lose, and also why it's going to be an especially awful road to get there Go do something beautiful. Read a story, listen to a song, look at a sunset: whatever feeds you. Seriously. I'll do it if you will

You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something. Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.

In MN I’ve seen ice fishing on lakes as protests, bike ride protests, cookie sale protests, and lunch club protests. Everyone has their own thing and it’s all anti-ICE

statement from jamael lundy, SD65 senate candidate, after he was arrested by federal agents for being part of the protest at a st. paul church that is led by an ICE agent don lemon and georgia fort were arrested the same day for covering it

This is another thing I’m not sure gets as much attention outside of Minnesota: these (not always so mini) demonstrations pop up *everywhere.* I don’t think ive been out even once this month without seeing protesters on at least one busy intersection.

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

A hearty fuck you to every centrist who tried to normalise the far right fascist movements in the western world by saying they weren’t racist, they just had “economic anxiety.”

There have been many journalists arrested in the US before. I'm one of them. This is still very different. Lemon wasn't arrested as part of a mass of arrests of people surrounding a protest as it was happening and released (as I was). Lemon is being re-arrested for having covered a protest.

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The VERY MEAN AND NASTY Jesus Christ flipped over a bunch of tables in the temple and assaulted our fine money changers with a whip! HE WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH THIS. Jesus is a well-known leftist who has NO RESPECT for the businesses that make our houses of worship great!

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

I am begging you all. Please Please Please don't let this place be lost.

ICE kidnapped a permanent resident in Minnesota today. They let the individual go after realizing they had authorization. Don’t be fooled, ICE is still discriminating against our neighbors based on the color of their skin. 1/

It's not just "stand up to ICE when you see them," it's building many vast networks of support and trust to - create safe spaces - protect schools - get kids TO school - check on neighbors - deliver groceries - help pay the rent - let people know of danger - feed the helpers, too! - and on and on

Listen up. NOBODY is stopping you from getting together your neighbors today and meeting the needs of your neighbors.

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

Reminder that LA has endured a surge since June. Day 236. It’s getting worse.

From the incomparable Kao Kalia Yang, one of our Eastside neighbors in St. Paul.

Confronted Congressman Tom Suozzi, one of seven Democrats casting the decisive votes to increase ICE funding by $10,000,000,000.

Those who make whistles impossible make vuvuzelas inevitable

one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”

just saw 4 ice agents go up to a house and knock and within 1 minute there were 30 people out whistling and they left. we will not take our foot off the gas

"Ask someone else, I am just a U.S. Senator." — Chuck Grassley

The "ban whistles" stuff is how you know whistles are working incredibly well

Just outside Seattle on I-5 🤘