I didn't watch the SOTU, but did see the clip where Ilhan Omar sticks up for herself. In this world of so much fakery and posturing, it was a rare real moment to see a member if congress fighting back authentic tears and setting the record straight. Trump ordered the killings of her constituents.

So many Minneapolis teachers found out today that their jobs are being eliminated due to the massive cuts to public school funding. All that labor and love, poof, gone, and for what? Why can't Minneapolis fund schools like they can the cops?

Ok, I found the shirt. Going to wear it today and remember the man that helped get us through winter in America as we find ourselves once again, waiting for spring, and a brighter day.

Some of my earliest memories are my dad coming home from long hours knocking on doors, volunteering for the Jesse Jackson campaign in '88. The shirt he wore, so excited, so hopefully, when it looked like we might have a chance, became what he would put on to go pull weeds in the vegetable garden.

So ICE doesn't actually do any customs enforcement, do they? Was that part added so the acronym would work as shaved in to the back of the head like the bully in Hocus Pocus?

Anecdotally, I have hardly seen Minneapolis cops around Southside for months. Tonight they are absolutely everywhere. Must have something to do with the Homan announcement this morning? And this means they were coordinating with ICE the entire time? To be present or absent at the feds convenience?

It's frustrating that NBC scrubbed the audio to deny us the cathartic sound of thousands booing JD Vance, yet the screaming buzz of the drone mounted cameras makes watching the slope style skiing event unlistenable.

I learned at caucuses last night that South Minneapolis has the highest voter turnout in the country. I think I know now why the Feds invaded. Especially with Bannon fantasizing about sending ICE to polling places.

"Here come the po-po, the cherries, they swarm. Keep quiet, body cameras on their uniform..." E-40, Magazine Street Look to the hip hop greats to learn how to manage whatever the latest nonsense ICE tries to pull. The body cameras are for surveillance.

Tom Homan to Minneapolis: "Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself" Classic bully behavior.

No, white supremacists never shift their tone. What is this lie?

Minnesota residents not going to give up. Snoopy is Minnesotan as well. Reminded of that today, seeing all you heroes hanging on street corners, slipping further and further into that "Fierce Vulture" alter-ego.

Man that Soros gonna be broke after today. Had to hire a team of writers to come up with clever slogans. The artists and craftsmen to paint and build all those signs. Spent a fortune outfitting all those professional paid agitators in high end outwear garments. Then of course they expect hazard pay!

Damn they are losing BAD in Minneapolis if Trump is sending in JD Vance.

The "ICE slipping on ice" videos are great but until I see one with their tongue stuck to a pole, we are not quite finished with this bit.

Do not mistake my switching to a plastic whistle from a metal whistle for weakness.

Minnehaha Creek should stay frozen for the foreseeable future. I put the first bike track down in the 2nd Ave to Cedar section.

There is one place in Minneapolis where ICE never is: on the frozen surface of our many city lakes. If you need to take a short break.

Minneapolis: MLK was born on this day. I'm going to carry that with me as I go about my business , and hope others do too.

"Well...you're gonna need a snow shovel, friends. And a broom or something..." Cathy Wurzer doing some amazing double entendres while teasing the weather report, before the top story on MPR this morning.

This "shovel attack" story is what happens when you ask an AI to cover up your crime and the victim is Minnesotan.

ICE cracked Frey's resolve, and emboldened them. But Frey isn't from Minneapolis, and never will be. Luckily there are plenty of people who ARE from Minneapolis (plenty who were not born here even) and we will win.

People are correct that Minneapolis is being used as a testing ground for militarized authoritarianism. But: Companies have been testing products here for decades. But when they fail you never hear of it again. When was last time you saw an OK Soda or a Crystal Pepsi? ICE will be gone the same way.

Even the local hardware store is trolling ICE now.

Ah. Ye Olde follow the helicopter to find the protest march. Everything they do makes us stronger.

With all that has been happening it is important to remember that the whole military-occupation-of-American-cities thing began when "Big Balls" got his shit rocked by a 14 year old girl and the bloody nose got on his stupid white jeans. "Don't give them an excuse." C'mon people...

The ICE-backing Angie Craig has not texted me in a few days asking for money, so that is a good development.

Deer graze near headstones in Minneapolis where two labor organizers are buried. 10k people attended their funeral in 1919 after they were found bludgeoned to death by the train tracks during an attempt to unionize the railway workers. News accounts said they were hit by a train. Propaganda!

Thinking about all the Minneapolis volunteer ICE observer patrols that have been activated and how beautiful it will be when inevitably someone meets the love of their life, then soon: "...You can't change the children of the revolution, no you won't change the children of the revolution..."

Renee's killer joined ICE in 2015, and is also a member of the St. Paul SWAT team? Has SPPD announced cutting ties? Also anyone talking about how the problem is "not enough training" doesn't understand the issue at all. He was a firearms instructor for the FBI and ATF.

I get the instinct to say "Be safe out there!" But no one is safe, and that's why we need to be out here.

I still have not seen MPD intervene to enforce laws that ICE has been breaking, and now they are murdering people so it was all just talk. Not going to be worshipping O'Hara or Frey for spinning lies that provide false hope.

Klobuchar take: She has accepted a massive amount of money from mining interests over the years. So just like everything else happening lately, Walz stepping aside might just be an opportunistic scramble for natural resources (that happen to be located in/near the Boundary Waters).

There are a lot of people who are commenting on the kidnapping of Maduro in Venezuela who need to listen to the 1990 Geto Boys song "City Under Siege" for a quick history lesson.

Frozen Minnehaha Creek was good today, switching between the packed single track on shore, and picking a line on the fresh snow. Fun following animal tracks, footprints from various shoe sizes, and a section that was clearly left packed by a kid rolling in the snow.

The Feeding Our Future scheme is a pretty big deal I guess, but we pretty much got to the bottom of it. Minnesota has a new question: Can we start investigating WHERE DID GLEN TAYLOR GET HIS MONEY? Wikipedia claims he was a farmhand who invested in a graphic design company...and I smell a rat.

Sure is pretty. Don't drive.

First time using Old Time Cobblers on Lyndale and Lake: full Red Wings refurbish and resole, feel great. Not too many left doing this in Minneapolis.

I’m pretty sure that my biggest Millenial tell is I always type nevermind as one word, never two, and when spellcheck underlines it in red, become personally offended that Cobain’s legacy is being mocked by a lowly algorithm .

Amongst the breathless accolades after yesterday’s presser, I think people are missing the most important part of what Minneapolis Chief O’Hara said: “police have been instructed to keep their riot gear with them at all times.” Who would that be used against?!

It’s super funny to see all these people on here dunking on Kash Patel, pining for the return of the “real fbi.” Quit embarrassing yourself and read up on J Edgar Hoover. That organization has always existed for, and been led by depraved right-wing extremists. X-files was great show, but fiction!

Winter cyclist in Minneapolis here. 25+ years experience. The combination of snow and bollards everywhere is just the worst, most dangerous situation. Protect bike lanes or not. Ain’t no half stepping!

“Everybody has a Trump , until they get Zohraned in the face…” -Mike Tyson

Angie Craig, the very same Angie Craig who is constantly spamming my phone for donations, thinking she will become US Senator some day, decided to vote with House Republicans to “condemn socialism?” Get out of here!

Something isn’t right with Apple’s predictive text. I was starting to type the word “illness” and after the first two letters it offered me up “Illinois” and “illegals” as the top two word suggestions. Those are words I would never use, so it isn’t learning it from me. I feel sick.

“We would like to talk to Mr. Emmer about the going ons in Congress, but he has denied our requests for interview.” Cathy Wurzer has that ice cold delivery that only could come from a Minneapolis South High grad.

Lake Harriet, standing on a cold beach with strangers on a Tuesday night in November.

Hearing that the district has decided to come to the table and a Minneapolis teacher strike is adverted? Please be true!

A lot of fear and uncertainty among those of us that teach and have kids in Minneapolis schools. I just dropped my red wings off at the cobbler to get them resoled. I have an unfounded superstition that hopes that being ready means we won’t have to walk.

Any one else not see Frey at the Minneapolis Educator rally? Omar Fateh, Dewayne Davis, Jazz Hampton were there. Wonder why he doesn’t care about public schools?