MPD announces they are "working with other agencies to arrest violent criminals" this week in Minneapolis. And ICE has been active, so just connecting the dots here. When you are using the exact same words the fascists use, we see who you are.

I've seen MPD training opportunities at every single Michel's infrastructure project in Minneapolis. They can train all day, engine idling, and yet still not beat that level of tetris. So they don't need taxpayers to buy them gun range by an elementary school.

NBA announcers slipping AI ads into the play by play commentary is so cringe. All of this play is physical and human.

Saw my first Waymo in Minneapolis. It's human handler looked like they had seen more than one middle finger today.

Messing around with paper stencils on a silkscreen, on a bunch of thrifted shirts. Made 11 shirts to give away to friends. Turns out I have a lot of friends so...Cutting another stencil to do a second run!

Tina Smith has been generally less disappointing than Amy Klobuchar as a US senator, so the fact that she took campaign contributions from Palantir is troubling.

Saw a group of teenagers tear through a crisp new 2026 yearbook, trying to be first to spot AI slop and be the most enraged by it. Anyone who thinks AI is the future...you can't hide the truth from youth. Get out the way if you can't lend a hand. AI ain't it.

The word for sailboat and the word for candle start with the same three letters in Spanish. That two things that live or die at the whims of the wind have the same root makes a lot of sense.

ICE didn't have a good time getting traction on frozen sidewalks in Minneapolis, so expecting a good highlight reel of them slipping and falling on freshly waxed airport floors.

Now on top of working but receiving no pay, TSA employees run a real chance of being brutalized or killed by ICE?

It is amazing the EV evangelicals don't seem to realize that most electricity comes from natural gas and coal. Gloating about high gas prices because you personally drive an electric car is a special kind of ignorance.

I think the most insidious part of daylight saving time is it has changed so many times in my lifetime, I'm not sure which one is real anymore. Should I be nostalgic for how the time used to be? Should I hope for future time changes?

"Agentic procurement orchestration..." A cursed sounding phrase that makes my skin crawl. The underwriters of NPR are a good way predict who is building our next fresh hell. Remember when every other story was "Brought to you by Cambridge Analytica..." in 2016?

The quality of American propaganda has declined significantly since '91 and '03, but Orwellian phrases like 'suicide drones' still managing to creep into mainstream journalism.

Feel so helpless to stop all this needless death and destruction. But certainly won't be driving for the time being. Filling up the gas tank with blood is a mental picture I can't shake, and I am fortunate enough to own a cargo bike.

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.