I’m always solo but never alone because we’re always in communication when we’re out. There just aren’t enough of us and we’re spread out, most of us are solo. Though within a few minutes of each other. That’s why I was so proud tonight. So many people answered the call!

Try that in a mid-size liberal metro area

how the fuck am i supposed to do that

i’ve noticed that some of the strongest and most clear eyed opposition to ICE and the federal government and its threats in general in my neighborhood chats is coming from the queer and trans people who have sought refuge in minnesota and want to protect it. bless loring park

*frantically googling* moral arc bent wrong how to fix wikihow diy moral arc fix moral arc technician near me

if you are following twin cities people on here but don’t live here, telling people the extent of what’s happening is actually a very helpful thing to do!

I was talking to a coworker today who lives in Seattle and she asked me if throughout all of this if I'd seen any ICE agents on the street. she was astonished to hear that not only have I seen them, but they've photographed me, threatened me, almost hit me with their car -- and I've been very lucky!

something I'd strongly recommend to everyone in the Twin Cities: explain simply, directly and frequently what you're witnessing every day to anyone in your life that isn't from here. everyone I've told -- even the well-informed! -- were shocked and horrified to hear the reality of it all.

I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white

i've said it before and I'll say it again: despite being a "former" council member, nobody is walking the walk like katie cashman right now. every time I've done rapid response or patrol in Minneapolis, I've seen her. considering everything, it's really inspiring. this email is no different.

people who have been divided on every local issue are doing things to help take care of each other. the only divide that matters right now is helpers or not. i’ve never seen an amount of unity and support like this. it really is Us vs Them

i’m in neighborhood chats with my political enemies. jeremiah ellison is sharing jacob frey on the news on twitter. all of mpls staff talking about using docs written by DSA. DSA members impressed with will stancil tbh tho some of southwest aren’t meeting the moment but overall people are united

Twin Cities, 01/19/26-More barricades and some local sherif dept. at the Whipple building. When asking a protester about the sheriff’s presence, they said “It frees up the ICE agents to do more of their actions because these guys (sheriff) have taken over policing us.”

People have agency, and pretending that people inside institutions have somehow surrendered that agency and are incapable of independent thought or action is both ethically nonsensical and reinforces the permission structure for doing terrible things.

there are like ten of these per day right now. the last one was last night when a woman pulled up to where we were standing watch, thrust hand warmers on us, offered us a meal at her restaurant, and zoomed off to find more patrollers

my friend in *northfield* just texted me that their workplace is planning to shut down for this

if they don’t like what they’re doing, they can fucking quit. but all you have to do is get in front of one to see that they like what they’re doing.

It's really fucking cold and our unhoused neighbors need help now more than ever. Donate to Sanctuary Supply Depot! Hit up their Linktree for ways to donate/help: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup... If you're local & don't have $ to spare, maybe you have coats or other cold weather gear you can drop off.

I’ve heard young women facing down threatening ICE officers on open dispatch channels in ways you wouldn’t believe. The officers announcing they’re going to be arresting and jailing the observer, and the observer, voice shaking, calmly reasserting their constitutional right over and over.

I’m going to keep hammering this point: the excesses of ICE we see now are entirely contiguous with our system of policing more broadly, and the reason that almost no politician wants to threaten real consequences for ICE agents is because it opens the door to making the same demands of the cops

I don't think it matters much how we treat a handful of "saw the light" dolts but it's not clear to me why they're more interesting than people who were right all along

so tell me why I shouldn’t bust my foul neighbor‘s camera I hear notify him every time I walk the dogs with a hammer

Another reason they’re registering as Democrats is because there are millions of people who vote for Democrats not because of policy or principle, but because it’s their political sports team, whom they root for regardless of what real-world impact they have. It’s moral failure we can’t afford.

National media covering MAGA event: "Look at this normal person who is mad" (10 seconds of googling shows they're chair of the local GOP) National media covering Twin Cities community members who have never been politically active but now stand watch outside a preschool: "Look at this activist"

Any time someone proposes reforming instead of abolishing ICE, it bears noting that ICE is currently violating a bunch of federal court injunctions, plus their own policies. Giving the sadistic ethnic cleansing squad more rules to ignore is not enough

it is -10 here today. I was supposed to go do a volunteer shift standing outside loading groceries into people’s cars to deliver to families stuck at home. just got a call not to come in because they have too many volunteers already. if you were wondering if the cold would stop us.

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

brain kept showing me scary trucks and jolting me awake as i tried to fall asleep last night so i’m feeling Fresh i’m feeling Good

lrt it’s been fun to realize as i get older i’m gonna get called a “wine mom” by people who don’t know me and see me in photos in any political context. i don’t drink and won’t have children but that’s not what people mean lol

I don’t really know where the whole Wine Mom thing comes from, but maybe let’s retire it if it’s just become a dismissive way to talk about adult women who might have children and sometimes want to enjoy things. That’s. That’s a regular person.

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.

The degree to which Allina is doing ICE's work for them is really upsetting.

Rachel Maddow posting a crimethinc link is wild lmao

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.

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

I thought that this was a reporter at first by the language used. No, it is our literal senator Tina you have to go in there. I don't know how else to put it. You have to put the whole weight of your office and the political capital it affords you into going in there

We're not talking enough about how much the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department run by Dawanna Witt is collaborating with ICE. Arresting at Whipple, working with ICE to arrest legal observers, failing to trespass ICE when not welcome in hospitals and schools. Shame.

One day these people will face the reckoning they deserve. That day cannot possibly come soon enough.

Another person taken today in Northeast. ICE left their car out in the road and pepper sprayed legal observers, directly violating a federal judge’s orders from earlier this week.

We can stay trapped in "X city has it worse" or "X city is more organized" discourse and yell at each other online because we are traumatized and scared or we can try to build solidarity across state lines to topple the whole thing. This country is fucking enormous. It is hard ass work regardless.

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/

The way “stay safe” has replaced almost all other goodbyes here

Thanks. We have folks in our community giving vulnerable students rides to school, and a teacher shared that they were putting small stuffed animals on their dashboards to help kids identify safe cars. ICE picked up on it and started doing the same. Horrifying.

relatedly please send funds to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social. ICE might suffer in this weather but our unhoused neighbors definitely will without support!!!!

This is just a note to say right now is the best possible time to let people who aspire to elected office in your state that if they want your support at the ballot box they need to have abolishing ice as part of their platform

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.

We can get those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers