I don't think most reporting will to cover the scope of how people are fighting back until this is over. A good number of people are doing things that don't involve going outside and a very significant number ain't publicly saying shit about who they're helping and how

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Only a wine drinking elite could write something this out of touch

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

ICE just detained a 5-year-old child. Don’t tell us this is about “the worst of the worst.” That’s a lie. Absolutely vile.

Monstrous, cruel, evil.

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Respectfully, look at this fucking bullshit that we’re dealing with, not a single person here has “taken the bait.” We have born witness as little kids are used as bait and neighbors are kidnapped on our streets. A mad dipshit is going to invoke the Insurrection Act regardless and you are blaming us

I have been told that this undercover ICE agent tried to get observers to scan a QR code “for his website”. The QR code did not resolve to a link. DO NOT SCAN UNKNOWN QR CODES FROM STRANGERS. This is a massive security risk! Bad things can happen to you if you do it! Stay frosty, friends.

They are sending more armed forces to harass the local PTOs who are just trying to protect kids and other community members from being kidnapped That's the story and it should be on every damn front page in the country

I'm at the neighborhood social mixer. I'm at the elementary school parent ICE watch patrol. I'm at the combination neighborhood social mixer ICE watch patrol.

Friend’s extremely Minnesota protest sign

how’s it goin? oh, ya know.

Black women republicans. Latino ICE agents. Usha Vance having sex with JD Vance ON PURPOSE. We live in wild times. Stay safe out there, y’all.

we should make "General Strike on the coldest day of the year" an annual event

I think people outside Minnesota don’t quite realize that we are more or less in a war, except our own federal government has all of the weapons, power, and impunity.

Democrats have no obligation to support a bill that not only funds the dystopian scenes we are seeing in Minneapolis but will allow DHS to replicate that playbook of brutality in cities all over this country.

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

Who polices the police policers?

Sure is hard to focus on work with helicopters circling the neighborhood

that's right. again, not a single person i know in the twin cities supports this or is even unsure. we're unified in support of *our neighbors* against this my neighborhood in mpls is covered in signs—handmade signs, fancy letterpress signs, poetic signs, profane signs—saying "ice out"

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.

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"

Federal immigration agents detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns drawn and led him outside in his underwear in freezing conditions.

I'm not sure someone from Shakespearean England would actually be too scandalized by the idea of a person with a penis playing a woman on stage

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.

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"

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

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.

That's what all that cayenne on your feet does to you

I will admit the high price of groceries is really hitting me right now because I’M BUYING GROCERIES TO DELIVER TO MY NEIGHBORS WHO CAN’T LEAVE THE HOUSE BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT HAS SENT AN OCCUPYING FORCE OF FUCKSTICKS TO MY CITY.

it's 100% what they expected. Conservatives think of Minneapolis' white people as scared of our neighbors, especially the immigrants. But that's because *they're* scared, not because we are. They cannot imagine being in a city with such diversity and enjoying it.

Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...

1. It's been scary, heartbreaking, and dangerous here. I wouldn't wish this on anyone 2. Let us know where to send the batteries

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This is dumb, but also doesn't work. You need oil and salt for a proper marinade.

if someone punches your neighbor and you go to protect them, that does not make you a protester. that makes you someone who protects your neighbor.

Regular people are, at a moment’s notice, dropping everything to go watch armed masked goons. They blow whistles to notify other neighbors to come out of their homes and record what is happening and get the vulnerable inside. ICE hates it because they don’t want people to know what they are doing.

National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3

Native Americans protested in Minneapolis today after the ICE abducted four Oglala Sioux Tribal Members. Three of them are still missing. (1/17|26)

I think I liked this one best today at the art sled in powderhorn

Oh no, niners. Oh no.

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

Instead of going to Target, Cub Foods, and Corporate chains please support small and locally owned grocery stores in cultural corridors. @elliottpayne.org, @kayforparks.bsky.social, and I heard from businesses today who are barley making it by. Some are already getting eviction letters.

For you out of towners, I need to point out: ❄️ Powderhorn Park is in the center of one area of recent heavy ICE activity ❄️ It’s right by where Renee Good was murdered ❄️ With the wind, it’s a bit cold today in Minneapolis And yet South Minneapolis, doing its thing!

This dude rules