Last year when I wrote about prison staff jumping ship for ICE, I reported that BOP had lost a net of at least 1400 employees by late fall. I just got new data showing they lost a net of ~1700 by mid-December -- though w/EOY retirements the final 2025 figures will likely be higher.

My friend and colleague @michellesphelps.bsky.social explains how the history of community organization prepares Minneapolis for this moment. @newrepublic.com

Amazing piece from David Chang about the ominous location of the Whipple Federal building, the ICE HQ that resurrects 19th c. Fort Snelling geography. racketmn.com/fort-snellin...

We love to see universities caving to right wing hysteria both literally and figuratively paying the price for it

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

Amy Klobuchar voted for one of Trump's nominees the day after a woman in her state was murdered by ICE.

Saint Paul Central High School is requesting community member presence at tomorrow’s 3 p.m. dismissal

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

I read this paragraph four times. Not because it's murky, but to let the message sink in. www.cjr.org/tow_center/b... If an information company is clear and determined in supporting (not "saving') democracy, then it can be a home for good journalism. If not then the press must disengage. Now.

After border patrol agents fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, agents showed up to a high school and released chemical weapons during dismissal, Minnesota Public Radio reports. Their live reporting here: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret. But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.

NOTE: This news immediately followed a Supreme Court order this morning denying the paper's shadow-docket efforts to block an injunction issued by the Third Circuit that was enforcing an NLRB unfair labor practices order relating to the paper's health insurance plans.

Pittsburgh deserves so much better than what the Block family has done to the P-G and the city.

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

Right now with this federal onslaught in our community's, it's been enlightening to see who among our elected officials wnk are organizing, leading, working and speaking up to support our Immagrant communities. And it also is showing who is not.

Wrong answers only: Norm Macdonald

OK but what modern poster exemplifies the Martin Luther vibe, if he was here?

It appears two ICE observers following ICE agents on 31st in south Minneapolis this morning were arrested. Activists say it appears the ICE observer vehicle was stopped or slid into something, and ICE agents used pepper spray and broke the car window, arresting the occupants.

Want to step up for your neighbors? Join a upstander training with local leaders to see how you can keep our neighborhoods safe: immigrantdefensenetwork.org#events-train... monarcamn.org/training

Looking forward to the weeks of slow reveals that the Venezuela abduction was much more of a stage-managed coup than a successful military operation.

Huh, living through late-stage everything isn't nearly as fun as you might think. Weird.

I can't tell if it's Chrome, Google Drive, or the interaction with those things and the UMN tech, but my Google stuff is messed up today -- I keep getting logged out as soon as I log in.

Some of us remember Tom Workman as a world-class Minnesota legislative asshole, but I’ve sort of ignored him when he took the bigger money to become a Carver Commissioner. Anyway, this is how he treats ICE victims at county board meetings.

Goddammit again, Klobuchar.

There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.

Evil shit.

Every single day we see a new horror unfolding in Minneapolis at the hands of ICE’s untrained, unvetted, masked officers terrorizing immigrants AND citizens in the Twin Cities. End “Operation Metro Surge” and fire Kristi Noem.

While the media chums it up with Greene, reminder that she has a bill going before the House today to make it a *federal crime* to provide or advocate for healthcare for trans youth.

After ICE did this in Illinois, the Secretary of State revoked the plates, sent a cease and desist to ICE, threatened to suspend rental car licenses for allowing ICE to swap plates and set up a tip hotline to report plate tampering. MN deserves the same action. www.ilsos.gov/news/2025/de...

OR BOTH! I know some of yall forgot

Big map update: In collaboration with our partners at Mapping Racism and Resistance at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, we've added more than 32,000 racial covenants from Milwaukee County to our interactive map: mappingprejudice.umn.edu

Completely agree this movie's a Rosetta Stone, an attempt to re-litigate the last 3 American decades through a gauzy postwar lens. The country was coping with real trauma, and I think there are many ways in which the film either reflects or sets the tone for Boomers' specific, unhelpful Boomer-ness.

This is extremely important

When the small team at @lataco.bsky.social saw fed raids hit the food vendor community in Los Angeles this summer, they dramatically and immediately changed their coverage, and in the process created the excellent Daily Memo roundup, the gold-standard for this type of reporting. Thank you so much.

Raven and Steve, the two person shop behind @unraveledpress.com literally got shot at and arrested for covering the ICE and US Border Patrol onslaught on Chicago. It did not slow down their efforts to expose the abuses of the feds and stand up for communities across Chicago. Thank you for the work.

Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

Been seeing a number of Waymo vehicles driving through Cedar-Riverside, which I think is most likely people getting rides but also I do not love the surveillance of it all. Do they have federal contracts?

Advocates say community members are rightfully concerned when masked, armed men show up at homes and businesses. Law professors say local police can investigate federal agents with some limitations. Written by Mohamed Ibrahim.

And this is a very large community! This isn’t just a Minneapolis & St. Paul story, or even them plus inner-ring burbs. I’ve is seen reports from Shakopee, Chaka, etc. At the very least it’s 60% of the state (metro area state %).

For large parts of our community, this is a time of dire crisis, with thousands of people both afraid and activated. And while there are reporters doing good (and bad) work about this, I agree, you would never know it from the way the stories are featured.

Perusing Twin Cities local news, i think there’s a huge disconnect. There are schools shut down and going remote, neighborhoods that are ghost towns, because we have federal agents terrorizing the community. But it’s just a single story a day at best

🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.

cc @aurinmpls.bsky.social

Testifiers continue to highlight the lawlessness of ICE. Detaining citizens, failing to show adequate warrants, violating due process, breaking local traffic laws, and using chemical irritant’ against a sitting member of congress.

I saw an ICE raid today in Cedar-Riverside. The man they took said repeatedly he was a U.S. Citizen and had ID. They put him in a car they sped off at an unsafe speed. Not that I expected much, but I called 911 and reported their behavior. The dispatcher asked "what I wanted them to do about it."

ICE was in Cedar Riverside today. Amazing community turnout, be mindful of the layer of pepper spray in the snow all over the neighborhood

And, as another reminder, when I buy PACER documents, I make them available to anyone through @free.law's RECAP extension, which then makes them available to all at CourtListener. PACER itself should be free, but, until it is, everyone who can use RECAP to help make docs accessible should do so.

Augsburg president decries ‘illegal’ ICE detention of a student on private campus in Minneapolis www.startribune.com/augsburg-pre...

I say it every year but ... if your previous NiemanLab prediction didn't come true you should be forced to apologize publicly or to just stay silent for the next 10 years