Friends please set your Venmo to private. Do this always, but ESPECIALLY if you’re contributing to anything right now.

Absolutely massive turnout at the ICE Rapid Response training in Pittsburgh tonight, hosted by Frontline Dignity. Over 500 people showed up, including dozens from out of county & out of state.

Gross as hell. We are currently paying for ICE bounty hunters to do this to Americans

Looks like Elon Musk got a little favor in a recent funding bill, a mandate the FAA block anyone trying to track any info about private jets upon a request of the owner.

the temporal front of the culture war

U of M student: "My mom did make me start carrying my passport card with me in the event ICE pulls me aside. She says I don't look necessarily American." youtu.be/Ll90FOz6z0U?...

"They've got some excellent communications, and that ... make[s] that a difficult operating environment at times." I feel like I'm hearing the opponent's head coach at the post-game presser complimenting our O-line after we drilled them hard all week, if that coach was also Hermann Göring

went to go read the bovino comments, ended up reading about more violent idiocy

An off duty local cop in MN, a woman of color, was stopped by ICE and they demanded to see her papers. When she reached to get her phone to record the interaction, an ICE agent knocked it out of her hand.

St Paul Police Chief Axel Henry: citizens and people with legal status "are scared to death, afraid to go outside... people are getting stopped by the way that they look and they don't wanna take that risk." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak09...

He's just straight-up telling everyone that he's deployed a vicious occupying force to brutalize an American state and terrorize every non-white resident because they didn't vote for him

Simply extraordinary

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Minneapolis residents have joined a church-run effort to donate groceries to immigrant families who fear being caught in public by federal agents. What started with a couple of hundred deliveries a week has quickly swelled into a vast operation involving thousands of volunteers. trib.al/1qT1xMw

As the federal government targets Minnesota, I’m staying in this race to defend our state as Attorney General.

To understand what's happening here, you have to understand that people are framing this as "what would I do if the Nazis came back?" Case in point: a lawyer friend told me she just quit her cushy in-house counsel job to do full time pro bono for detainees.

If I weren't doing shifts looking out for SS jump out squads I would be going absolutely ape shit over the Minnesota State Fair expanding its bike parking lot. We would probably dedicate a bottle of brut to this

I’ve seen a lot in my 26 years teaching in Saint Paul but today’s the first no school day due to the city being terrorized by the federal government

The federal government lying about private citizens to destroy their reputations is one of the most outrageous things about all of this.

"I'm a woman" ad spot to help fix company

A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.

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:

TWIN CITIES FOLKS WHO WANT TO HELP AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START: I put together a big list of resources. Do you want to deliver groceries? do people's laundry? work in community defense? I want to help you get connected! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...

With only $28.7 billion in funding, ICE has successfully been able to steal $14k from two US citizens. Sure it’s easy to criticize racism, but what if I told you it comes with a 0.00005% return on investment?

Here’s a really tense ICE situation in front of my home. One car looped a block 25 times until two reinforcement cars showed up and led me home. Was pretty scary because I was solo - BUT I knew I had backup from thousands of courageous neighbors and observers. Strength in numbers.

Minneapolis AFL-CIO and several Minnesota labor bodies have called for a General Strike on Friday to protest ICE's occupation of the city. Solidarity actions are planned in several cities as the movement could go national. paydayreport.com/minneapolis-...

Pretty strong elsewhere (I'm in Hopkins). Got pulled over twice, guns drawn both times, to give me "final warnings" to stop following them.

lots of people talking about this but the thing i am sort of in awe in right now is not just the scale of the mutual aid but the huge variety of ways people have found to help. people are making toy baskets for kids stuck inside, doing signal training for older adults, every little ask is being met

ICE is allegedly hunting for Hmong people in Minneapolis and as I watched video of the incident lo and behold @whstancil.bsky.social was on the scene

The kids and I helped pack food this morning for families who can't leave their homes due to the ICE occupation. We did the math that there are somewhere between 2000 to 20,000 families that are sheltering at home right now. Which means they need thousands of food boxes a day. We're mobilized.

Government hoping to quell a people that bike in -5°F weather looking like 1500 AD knights of the Holy Roman Empire. Dream on

I’m the one in the brown hat. What you might not see is the victim in the car. His feet are pointing out the open car door. An agent is sitting on one of his legs. He’s only wearing crocs. Bystanders found his legal work visa in his abandoned car. #AbolishICE

my overall experience being in Twin Cities the last two evenings is that the hypothetical what will you do when It Happens Here is what people here are doing, and the vast majority are looking for ways to meet the occasion with bravery

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...

“I feel as though the weapon I built is coming to kill me and my people," said Sahra Sharif about her decision to vote for Trump. Immigrant communities have grown quiet and tense as federal agents flood the state. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...

The allegations in this story are incredibly disturbing. Blocking kids from bedside, lying to their pastor, pushing a patient — Why are hospital staff so involved in ICE’s attempts to detain a woman in their care? sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...

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.

ahh a nice night out at the movies. now time to check my phone and see what our mad pedophile king and his evil scheming viziers are up to

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

What people know about publicly is only a fraction of the work actually going on, much of which is being done very quietly for the safety/security of our vulnerable neighbors. Truly inspired by so many people (you know who you are) right now. And truly surreal that any of this is even necessary.

To paraphrase Polanyi: the ICE assault was planned, massive resistance was not. That the social fabric—the relationships and ongoing patterns of interaction that get us through our lives—should be reliable is a broadly shared moral conviction. Not only markets provoke protective. countermoves.

It is courage, but it’s ordinary courage. What Minneapolis is doing can happen anywhere. The alternative—ignoring the thousands of masked men with machine guns kidnapping and killing in broad daylight—is simply impossible.

We’re going to have to build a monument to the Fourth Amendment after this. A big bronze door in the middle of Loring Park

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

Two community members stand on the street corner of Central Ave and 18th St, watching over a local business in 5° temps with a wind chill of -15°. They are patrolling the area, keeping an eye out for ICE activity, doing what they can to protect their immigrant neighbors.

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.

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

Nasra Ahmed, a U.S. citizen raised in St. Paul, recounts the encounter with a dozen ICE agents that led to two days at the Sherburne County Jail. She was taken for an MRI in arm and leg restraints, and then released Friday night without charges:

A third immigrant held at Camp East Montana has died, reportedly by suicide. Victor Manuel Díaz was detained in Minnesota. He is the sixth migrant to die since Jan. 1 in ICE detention. My story: www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

I’m hearing people freak about a military deployment to Minneapolis but it doesn’t change much. It’s scarier but the same. We still outnumber them 100 to 1. They have more guns than us either way. They can shoot us either way. They’ll probably be easier to find and follow if they’re in a tank.