We desperately need your help, friends.

Please call your reps immediately and demand that they take action.

Credit where it's due. Thanks Rep Rarick for speaking up.

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

Stares in Minnesotan.

Not only was White Music released on this day in 1978, but so was the single, This Is Pop! #MusicSky youtu.be/cEgGtbhmAiQ?...

My story:

Mood. #Mm

“Federal prosecutors indicted James [Womack] in April 2023, according to court documents viewed by PEOPLE. Outside of distributing more than five grams of methamphetamine, the indictment also charged him with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.” people.com/donald-trump...

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

A fun fact a lot of people don't know about me is that I studied journalism in college ~ Anyways I always encourage people to practice media literacy (ex; ask "why is this disparate pull quote so far from its context?") when reading ~ So here's a thread of some basics I learned!

Barry Blitt, The New Yorker

This is a selection of front pages from the UK tomorrow, just as an example of how high Greenland is on the news agenda in Europe. bsky.app/profile/mcpl...

Besides the obvious eye-roll at the paid protestor shit, it genuinely makes me wonder how much this dude usually pays for an umbrella.

This, and the majority of people here who are participating in some tangible way in community defense / mutual aid are not activists or regular protestors or even particularly political. Many have gotten involved through a school, or a church, or neighbors going door-to-door. It's remarkable.

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

I need every interviewer to ask Republicans if they agree that the government of Norway gives out Nobel Prizes & if the US had boats in Greenland 300 years ago. B/c these aren't slips of the tongue. These are absolute delusions, & every Republican who won't call them out should OWN defending them.

"She was headed to the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when they grabbed her." These people are fucking monsters and if you support this occupation, you're one, too. And remember - this is just one horrific story of so, so many that are happening here daily.

I can think of one more thing that might be on peoples’ minds.

Its crazy the gradual increase of pleas we've made to ICE Hey can you wear a name tag? Hey do you have a warrant Hey can you please not wear masks? Hey can you please not murder us? The hell with training, that organization doesn't need to exist anymore.

We need more of this from all of our elected officials.

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

I'm sorry what now? abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...

Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

Block instantly.

Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE kidnapping and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost. Learn more: www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-arou...

you don’t have to do everything, and you don’t have to do anything huge or drastic or violent or dangerous, but you must do *something*

Conflict makes the headlines and drives the algorithm, but it's crucial to know that for every noisy clip of rightfully pissed-off, vocal Minnesotans pushing back against this shit, there's a thousand quiet, community-strengthening actions happening behind the scenes to provide aid to those in need.

"A Minneapolis couple said that ICE agents deployed tear gas... around them and their six children — the youngest only 6 months old — as they tried to maneuver their car out of a tense protest on Wednesday night." They were driving home from a son’s basketball game. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

It's striking that the federal line is now simply that there is no justifiable or legal means of resistance, defense, or protest, against ICE period. That seems to me like a change/escalation (though I know it's not unprecedented). Either assist ICE or comply with them, or be attacked and slandered.

So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away. Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.

ICE Agents enter Target with no warrant and violently tackle two American citizen employees, evidently because they didn't "look American" enough. (DHS refused to explain their rationale, so we have to guess.) The injured Americans were later dumped in parking lots miles away in sub-zero weather.

Is administration is full of ignorant liars.

"He said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, 'No puedo respirar' — Spanish for 'I can’t breathe'..." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Newsom is a loser and a coward who wants fascists to like him.

Hell yes! I love (and desperately need) good news!

I agree with what he is saying about affordability. We can no longer afford to have Chuck Schumer as Senate Minority Leader.

Getting a lot of messages. A lot are like "Can I come help?" (appreciated, but unless you know the area very well, probably not THAT useful) or "Can I send money?" (not to me, please). But the best ones are like "I want to build what you guys have back in my home city." YES, DO THAT. DO IT NOW.

If this was about "prosecuting fraud" then they would have arrived with teams of forensic accountants and lawyers instead of vanloads of little dick goons looking for another "fucking bitch" to shoot in the face. Quit lying, Gym, you pedo-protector.

The President of the United States unilaterally declared war on a sovereign nation, occupied it, stole its leader, and now is personally in unregulated control of the spoils of that war, in accounts in yet another foreign country. Sorry I'm just having a hard time dealing with that being a sentence.

Heads-up to my friends in the streets...

Fucking monsters.

“3 flash bangs at my car. ICE knew we were trying to leave. My 6 month old can’t breathe.” Trump’s goons terrorize a Black family in Minneapolis, to the point where EMT’s have to come help his child get away from the gas and chaotic dangerous scene (H/T @thejfreakinc.bsky.social )

Fuck. Standing by.

Someone quote this and it bares repeating DO NOT PHOTOGRAPH PROTESTERS DO NOT POST PHOTOGRAPHS WITH IDENTIFIABLE PROTESTERS

Sing it again, Woody...