This is really important to me. So many Minnesotans have been activated by this experience. We've been a very politically engaged place, but I think we're about to see actual civic activity go off the charts. We (the local politics sickos) need to bring people in with grace.

This is one of my first concerns. They have so much money they can send all the out-of-town agents home yet still keep (or hire) a residual force that‘s 3-4 times what was here. Enough to keep doing terror at scale.

still looking for those photos of amy klobuchar on the streets standing up to ICE like we saw from jason chavez and elliott payne and doron clark, to name just a handful of electeds who are out here protecting people

Also for every DSA and DSA-friendly Minneapolis politicians. They were the only ones in the streets doing the work.

So if ICE is gone why is there a State Patrol helicopter above my apartment at 930PM. Hmmm??

There has been no draw down today. ICE snatched someone off Central Ave out of his car because he looked Latino before then letting him go a couple hours later. They were stopping people in Blaine on highway 65, they were all around Fridley, and were in the parking lot of the St Anthony liquor store

Has Jacob Frey taken a moment away from smiling for the cameras to sign off on the $1M city council allocated for rental assistance yet?

Please read Freddy’s story on the Sahan Journal and then contribute to his go fund me. He needs our support with rent, legal fees, and livability concerns after being kidnapped for a month. gofund.me/3b46540f0

I’d love to know: What did Frey promise Homan? Why did Frey waste a year worth of MPD overtime keeping cops on call if he didn’t have the courage to give the order to intervene to protect Minneapolis residents? Which of his campaign donors are evicting vulnerable tenants this month?

Kind of think that locally we’re entering into a political moment where the idea that someone in public office credibly claiming they are a more complex or pragmatic thinker than the average citizen has become untenable. The only question will be what did you do.

Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far. In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.

The man who couldn’t even sign a unanimous eviction moratorium resolution is going to have praise heaped on him from national media. I would hope someone like Chris has done their homework on Frey. Instead of just attributing the successes of leaders Frey actively works against as his own.

I'm sick that the real leaders will have their stories erased by a white man who did nothing to earn praise. Please please reconsider. Jason, Elliot, Doron, Ilhan, and so so many others were there when we needed them. He was not.

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

I’ll believe it when I see it. Everything they’ve said about this illegal occupation has been built on a lies. We need accountability for our neighbors and for this whole corrupt department to be dismantled. Stay out there, keep your connection to one another, and only believe your eyes.

There’s a vote in DC tomorrow that would give DHS $11 billion more in funding. Schumer and Jeffries have already walked back any “demands” they had for DHS. I, for one, do not think this timing is just a coincidence. Turn down the temp for the vote. Turn it right back up when the bag is secured.

Homan thanks Mayor Frey for cracking down on the trash barricades. Thanks Walz for sending state troopers to protect federal agents.

I will keep saying it until the number of ICE agents in MN is ZERO. And for that matter abolished!

With the announcement that the ICE surge in MN is ending, I’m thinking about how so many people thought the child in Bad Bunny’s halftime performance was Liam Ramos and how our need for Hollywood endings and satisfying payoffs might hinder us from dealing with the painful and traumatic aftermath.

This morning Tom Homan announced operation metro surge would end soon. I’ll believe it when I see it. We still need people out and staying vigilant until every last agent is gone and everyone wrongly taken to Texas or anyone else is back home.

If you have a moderate council member who positioned themselves as “pro small business” during the election. Now would be a good time to check in with them on that.

Our small businesses are on the brink of collapse. Doors are closed, commercial eviction notices are being handed out, and the cultural vitality of our community is at stake. 1/ kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

Don’t worry. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries will continue to “reach across the aisle”!

So what's happening here is that Walz is likely negotiating a deal where ICE would be allow access to our justice system to detain supposed undocumented people accused of crimes. Note the "accused." ICE is grabbing people from *pre-trial* hearings, so people who have not had their day in court.

i am increasingly bothered by terms like "showdown" or "face-off" or "clash" when used to describe corrupt and fascist power coming up against resistance because there's an implied symmetry that does not exist.

jay from twin cities coalition for justice calls out jacob frey and brian o’hara for MPD providing crowd control for ICE in minneapolis, saying “crowd control is collusion.”

gross points out that people in jails are innocent. they have not gone to trial yet. these are the people ICE are taking from the government center why does the sheriff have the right to give away our constitutional rights? she should not have this authority

michelle gross says neighbors are stepping up with mutual aid and grocery delivery. where are elected officials to help? MPD helped to escort alex pretti and renee good’s killers from the scenes

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

My defense of the traffic calming checkpoints in South Minneapolis. www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Why doesn’t someone remind AG Bondi “we aren’t here on your time. You’re here on my time”

We are facing a humanitarian crisis here. Each passing day we learn of new neighbors who haven’t left their homes and have fallen through the cracks. Lots of people aren’t connected to mutual aid networks. Just terrible suffering caused by the federal government.

The point of having a government is to ensure people’s basic needs like housing and food are being met. Governor Walz needs to stop passing the buck and declare a local state of emergency so we can implement an eviction moratorium to keep families in their homes. This is clearly an emergency.

My sense of Minnesota today is that there’s less tear gas and the same amount of unlawful detention, destruction of families, loss of livelihood, people in hiding. There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.

Civilized Country: "standardizing police use of body and dash cams will protect the public and police." Police State: "don't leave home without a dash cam because your insurance company will need to see it when the secret police stage an accident, open fire, and brand you as a domestic terrorist."

An 18 year old was taken today in the Hennepin County Government Center. Any leader thinking collaborating with ICE will be good and help end this surge is forgetting that no one in our community is expendable.

Look how young the abductee looks. Do you see the sheriff deputies blocking observers? This is the behavior that our mayor and governor are negotiating to allow. To quote MLK, they are working towards a negative peace, not the presence of justice.

We’re never going to turn our backs on our neighbors and stop exercising our constitutional rights. No amount of meetings with Tom Homan or anyone in the Trump administration will change our community’s resolve. This only ends when every DHS agent leaves and they no longer exist to terrorize us.

Our local jails are pre-trial facilities. That means that the people being held there have not yet been convicted of a crime. When ICE takes people away before they have been convicted of a crime, they are preventing victims and witnesses from their opportunity to seek justice.

I’m excited to announce that my colleagues and I are proposing a $5 million program meant to support small businesses impacted by “Operation Metro Surge” in Minneapolis. 1/

Anyone know what Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries are up to rn?

The goal of Tom Homan switching out for Gregory Bovino is purely optics and damage control. It's not actually a change in their tactics of intimidation and indiscriminate apprehension. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

It’s depressing to see the conditions outside the Whipple Building with fences and barricades. If it looks like this outside, imagine what our neighbors are experiencing inside. 1/

"I think that the goal of Tom Homan switching out for Gregory Bovino is purely optics and damage control. It's not actually a change in their tactics of intimidation and indiscriminate apprehension,” said Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne.

Axios reports @governorwalz.mn.gov won’t call an eviction moratorium because it is “legally fraught” yet the definition sure sounds like one. www.mprnews.org/story/2023/0...

If the Mayor needs to meet with the border czar or other high-level ICE officials, as he has done in the past, these meetings must take place off of City property to protect our residents and our workers.

Hosting the border czar and ICE agents in City Hall (and its parking areas) is a violation of the City’s separation ordinance and broader City policy. These are in place to protect our residents and City staff.