Things are generally bad, but this is good. m.youtube.com/watch?v=BOtC...

Tacos el Primo for dinner and it is a delight. Any time your Mexican food comes wrapped in tin foil or cellophane you *know* it’s gonna be good. ❤️ 🇲🇽 ❤️

Ope! Just fucked around and booked Buenos Aires in April during a week that includes: Boca @ home + River @ home + Libertadores Group Stage Matchday 01 Oh, and we’ll get to visit @katiestp.bsky.social’s sister.

So proud of everyone in Mpls-St Paul who has been standing up to these goons in so many different ways. No amount of tactical gear can change the fact that they’re nothing more than bullies and cowards.

The women of MN fucking rule. WE are the ones putting our bodies in danger. WE are the ones standing in front of vans. WE are the ones being hit by ICE vehicles. WE are the ones scaling the framing of buildings to render whatever aid we can. The women of MN will not fucking stand down. FUCK ICE.

100%. Case in point, this message from a neighbor/friend last night:

My daughter’s school bus was delayed this morning because armed ICE agents, some masked, were in the middle of 15th Ave in Cedar Riverside. So why wouldn’t ICE just get out of the way when the bus came? Perhaps they were busy harassing Somali-Americans, who are overwhelmingly citizens. But... (1/4)

Governor, when my wife was arrested at BroTex she had a team of attorneys — including legislators & a MN supreme court justice — trying to locate her & they were all stonewalled by Feds. There’s a pattern here. But the point is that they shouldn’t be disappearing *ANYONE* regardless of citizenship!

Tim, I appreciate the sentiment, but they’ve been doing this for weeks now. Ask me how I know…

In a functioning society parents wouldn’t need to organize volunteer guard shifts at their kids’ immigrant-run daycare to prevent the federal government from abducting teachers and staff because they’re brown but that’s where we are now. My first shift starts Wednesday afternoon. Fuck ICE.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Frantically helping a friend from Ecuador find help for her uncle who was just kidnapped by ICE in Mpls. Fuck the assholes. Seriously. FUCK these assholes.

Behold the greatest scarf of all-time. The legendary @mndarkclouds.bsky.social “Business Casual” design circa 2014.

Frank Gehry hot take: The understated backside of the Weisman is much more interesting architecturally than the shiny front side.

Is this the year I finally stop caring about USMNT entirely?

Today is Amber Deneen’s birthday She should be turning 31 today. Do not forget her. My heart breaks for her life ended too soon. For her husband as he goes through life after witnessing this horrific tragedy. And for her family and friends who lost a loved one.

I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics

FYI

A day after an immigration raid outside an East Side home devolved into clashes with protesters, family members say they were taunted and humiliated during a standoff with federal agents. By Shubhanjana Das

Extended fam in Hibbing asked about St Paul ICE raids at dinner yesterday. So we told them about @katiestp.bsky.social arrest at Bro-Tex. 2 takeaways: 1) Thankful to have supportive family 2) A *lot* more people in small places are aware of & repulsed by ICE than we probably give them credit for

Feels like midwinter already up north.

The SPPD chief should lose his job over this.

You can split hairs all you want @melvincarter.bsky.social but in the eyes of a great many of your now enraged constituents, if your SPPD is tear-gassing and arresting people like those in the left photo instead of arresting and de-escalating the guy in the right, you ARE in fact “assisting ICE”.

If I pointed a loaded assault rifle at someone in the street with the obvious intent of intimidating them, I would be arrested and charged with assault (or worse).

Shit St Paul ICE agent aims gun

This is an incredible photo.

Are you paying attention? @governorwalz.mn.gov @smith.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov @melvincarter.bsky.social @kaohlyforstp.bsky.social Please, talk to my wife. Let her tell you what it’s like to be ziptied and hauled away to the basement of a federal bldg. Have even half the courage she does.

Whatever relative goodwill the SPPD had banked up was absolutely torched today by their actions on the East Side. Truly shameful. @melvincarter.bsky.social @mayorher.bsky.social I genuinely hope you understand how enraged and disgusted the people of our city are right now.

Couldn’t afford to get arrested by ICE again today - someone has to pick up the kids when the husband is out of town. Standing in solidarity with neighbors who stand up against unjust laws. This is wrong @mayorher.bsky.social @mayorcarter.bsky.social @governorwalz.mn.gov @peggyflanagan.bsky.social

A movie that takes place where you’re from.

Rough day for Neale.

Reminder that at his 2016 Sun Country Airlines rally, Trump went on and on and on about Minnesota’s “Somali problem” to the delight of the large crowd which included suburban hockey moms literally hi-fiving guys with unambiguous Nazi tattoos. This has been a target of his for a long time.

An L.A. man was detained in an immigration raid. No one knows where he is

Tonight, the Department of Homeland Security announced that on Tuesday they detained 14 of our neighbors on immigration charges. What they initially reported as a targeted criminal enforcement action was in fact an identity-based raid on people who had done nothing but show up for work that day.

Also notable that they lied directly to me about which federal agency was taking my wife into custody. Sorta feels like there’s a trend here, eh?

Another family whose loved ones were taken from Bro-Tex has posted a Go Fund Me www.gofundme.com/f/support-al...

The family of one of the workers taken by ICE from Bro-Tex yesterday has set up a Go Fund Me. www.gofundme.com/f/fn4bw-help...?

“Fuck you. You’re not even real Minnesotans. You’re all from Canada.” A real thing a federal agent yelled in my face today when I asked if he liked his job after they had hauled my wife away. Clearly far *FAR* from the most important thing that happened today but, wtf? Weird shit.

Update: Katie just called me. She is being held by Homeland Security at the Whipple Federal Building down by the airport. They have not told her anything. No word on release, no word on charges. Nothing. Ridiculous. But she is fine and in good spirits. Her attorney is en route there right now.

Approaching 3 hours since Katie was cuffed and taken by masked federal agents while peacefully protesting and filming today and our lawyers still can’t get anyone to tell us where they actually took her. Fucking absurd.

Our neighborhood has organized a community gathering and memorial tomorrow evening at the scene of last week’s deadly hit and run. Please join us. More info in ALT text

A pedestrian was killed in a hit and run in my neighborhood today by someone in a black SUV flying down St. Anthony Avenue near the Aldine pedestrian bridge. Neighbors have been pleading with the city for *years* to do something about people speeding and blowing stop signs on St Anthony.

Aurora over the Midway!

My take as a MNUFC fan: I’ll attend every game regardless of weather, but the kids probably won’t. So instead of 4 tix for the whole family it’s 1 (or 2 if we get a sitter) for those winter games. Game 3 vs SEA was about as cold as the kids are gonna put up with & it gets *much* colder than that.

Time for my annual posting of the radio traffic of the search for the Edmund Fitzgerald. (And as is now typical @katiestp.bsky.social gives me a huge eye roll when I make the kids listen to it) m.youtube.com/watch?v=oyaE...

The opener for Jens Lekman last night — yeemz — had the whole room captivated. You never know what you’re gonna get with an opener at a small-ish show but she was really great. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cih5...

Well that was fun.

This has to be the tallest crowd I’ve ever seen at a show.