this is not a de-escalation.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

real "please clap" energy here

"we'll leave when you stop being big meanies to us smol beans 🥺🥺" Jesus Christ, this is pathetic. They know they've lost and they're trying to escape the quagmire in a way that doesn't play bad on Trump's big screen. We will harry the retreat into a rout, and then issue our demands for justice.

we're not doing anything illegal and they know it

I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar. If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.

Blumenthal: "Some day we should have a truth and justice commission to investigate the systematic failings." For now Blumenthal says he will not support another dime for DHS "unless there is fundamental far-reaching reform and restraint—in effect, a rebuilding—of the agency."

We need to call them witnesses, not observers. Witness Tampering is a federal & state felony. (MN Stat. § 609.498 -Tampering With a Witness) Prosecutors don’t need to prove the underlying crime happened - only that someone tried to threaten, influence, intimidate, or retaliate against a witness.

Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

it's grim, but the reality is that Trump wants more innocent people to die here in the Twin Cities and the GOP majorities in both chambers of Congress are either ambivalent about more lives being taken or outright support it

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Local and state leaders know all of the above. Almost to a person, our leaders have encouraged the public to participate in observation and to monitor ICE activity. This is not really possible if monitoring ICE becomes an arduous affair necessitating a lot of spycraft.

Oh my god. They are such babies. "Your finger guns are hurting our feeeeeeeeeelings"

I like to quickly check quotes that sound too perfect. But sometimes, someone just says the absolutely right thing.

Right now from the far left to center right the only divisions I care about are: Team fight vs Team don’t fight. Opposition vs politics as usual. and it’s not a division that maps to precious ideological categories.

these dumbass motherfuckers

This is an extremely clarifying comment: these people think that this is somehow their war and they’re mad that regular folks are fighting it. That’s not what’s happening. Minnesotans are rallying to ensure their neighbors can’t be stolen in secret. It’s not even ideological.

Seeing all the “professional” activists go after Stancil is negatively polarizing me into a stance that Minnesota is winning because it’s normal people rising to the occasion and pushing a lot of activist nonsense out of the way by doing it

The Game of Thrones podcaster decided to DM me about women’s reproductive health. This is how it went.

Trump's revenge motive—targeting people who don't vote for him—is completely obvious in this interview. And its means that Judge Menedez's conclusion, ruling against the state and city on their motion, is predicated on false facts.

You guys have no idea of the Before Times Grudges I’ve put on hold to preserve the Popular Front (#pleaseclap). So far I think only Adam Platt, Larry Jacobs & the Minneapolis Times have slipped through.

jesus christ, people, if mtg showed up tomorrow to tail ice caravans and interrupt kidnappings i would work with her until DHS withdraws. then we can get back to fighting about space lasers. anyone who thinks we can afford purity under occupation is not currently feeling the pain of being occupied.

Mitch McConnell probably still likes most of the havoc he wreaked on the republic, but I hope he goes to his grave regretting that he didn't whip votes for Trump's second impeachment.

With Great Power Comes Great Smolness of Bean

Ross, Ochoa, and Gutierrez are all CBP or former CBP with a combined decades of experience. Yet instead showing disciplined judgement, they behave like raiding marauders with no concept of consequences. So it makes you wonder what they've done at the border without consequence.

There is very clearly a subset of the poster class that is being driven out of their minds by the fact that "sorry, do *you* live in Minnesota?" is an unanswerable comeback to their Guy-Fawkes-Mask cosplay lectures about 'real' resistance like, no one is firebombing a walmart and it is killing them

These fuckers.

This is how Tom Homan reacts to losing a court case to free a medically fragile 5-year-old who was used as bait to lure his dad so they could be imprisoned in a measles factory. Fuck any de-escalation stories that come out.

i can't believe i'm saying this but i think Bundy understands Christian morality more than the MN ICE pastor

JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

This is the core of the "leopards eating your face" party. Most people join not because they want to befriend the leopards to avoid getting eaten - but because they think that if they start eating faces too, they would become leopards themselves.

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

We really, really need to squash this idea that the first step in effective protest is ensuring that nobody can ever identify who you are or distinguish you in any way

Bring all our stolen neighbors home

jeffrey epstein is the kevin bacon of Horrible People Who Somehow Control The World

In light of everything that happened WRT to the 4chan connection to Epstien and how it formed into the hell we're in today: In Plain Sight: How White Supremacy, Misogyny, and Hate Targeted the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy and Won | by Rewriting Ripley | Medium share.google/SUflnZ7PHyiZ...

If there’s one thing we’re all talking about in Minnesota, it’s coffee prices. You can barely walk down the street without someone shrieking, “nearly fifteen percent!”

Judge Menendez: “particularly reluctant to take a side in the debate about the purpose behind Operation Metro Surge.” Then step aside and let a judge with fortitude sit on the Bench.

"Sorry, your justice is in another castle"

frankly it seems to me like the epstein files are a distraction from the occupation of minnesota

Must read: "Holding facilities were so crowded that immigrants in one cell had to take turns lying down because there was no space, according to a refugee detained there for one night in January. Basic human needs like food and medical care were sometimes denied." www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...

This is horrifying

correct

Left is Jan 21 and right is Jan 24. If you encountered this agent or others I’m available on Signal and will keep your info private.

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

They actually have been doing this some, I hear. But you know, losing TSA Precheck seems like a pretty okay sacrifice for grinding fascism into dust

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

Let me reiterate: THEY DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO PERSECUTE LARGE NUMBERS OF DISSENTERS. What they are doing, instead, is using fear and paranoia as a force multiplier: they don’t have to persecute us if we keep ourselves home because someone told us we can’t walk in public without being terrified.

getting very close to the point where i'm just gonna mute every non-minnesotan* until this over because if you aren't living it then i do not care to hear your takes, positive or negative *fandom mutuals excepted