So… let it be known that Minnesota State Patrol helicopter has been out assisting MPD at least five of the last 7 days after being mostly parked during the occupation. Also let it be known this is the plane with full military-grade ISR intelligence.

I was going through my photos from the last six weeks. There are so many of license plates and cars with masked men inside them. And then there’s this one, a sign I found in front of my house after the protest in Powderhorn Park on Jan 10th. I love both its intention and its convolutedness.

Wait. Were the “Bernie Bros” just conservative psy ops to make Sanders’ campaign less appealing to women? I am not talking about the DNC, which can go to hell. But like some Bannoning-Kushnering-Millering actual paid-actoring.

I know there are a lot of mutual aid asks coming out of Minneapolis right now, but both of my kids graduated from South High and it would mean a lot to me for people to contribute to this rent fund for my fellow South families. I’ll match the first $1000 if you post receipts. Tiger Pride 🧡🖤

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this sign, so I drew something about it.

How cool is it that that a woman who went to medical school in Minnesota and learned to cross country ski here is the first Mexican female to compete in the sport in Olympics. And Jessie Diggins met her at the finish line. The video is heart-melting.

I’d like to give a Valentine to the whole city of Minneapolis. Hell, St. Paul too. I’m in a loving mood.

Anyone know why the news vultures are out?

If Stephen Miller switches parties to become a Democrat, wins the dem primary, and is the candidate vs. Trump in the next election, I will not vote for Stephen Miller. He is awful, his policies are awful, and it doesn't matter if he'd be "better" than Trump. This is a post about Gavin Newsom.

oh FFS, maybe get them to throw some of that money into rent funds instead of a zip line

Yikes, bro. This is a really desperate way to say “call me” to someone.

🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”

It’s day 74 of the ICE occupation of MSP. We know it’s not over yet. Despite the promise of an end to the surge, what we see on the ground is ICE continuing to abduct our neighbors and terrorize our community. Stay vigilant, and keep your whistles, phones, and rapid response networks ready.

This moment requires transforming immediate rapid response protections into durable, long-term commitments that defend the promise of public education and Minnesota's obligation to safe, supportive schools for immigrant, refugee, and first-generation learners. www.mneep.org/2026/02/13/f...

Just found myself back on Twitter for a hot second, where I happened to see that this @mollypeonies.bsky.social tweet from Dec. 4, 2022:

Hey, Southsiders! If you or someone you know is 49.5 *and* fabulous there’s a random t-shirt by the lake in Powderhorn Park waiting for you!

The reason so many women push through deep pain for so long is because the doctors who allegedly should understand our joints and bones, and all the things that hold them together, aren't called orthopedic specialists but are "sports medicine doctors" and every single one of them looks like this.

I'm old enough to remember trying to be be "cringe" to my sister and her friends by singing this and dancing in front of them, but instead I sang it as "Here Comes the Hot Stepper (Word 'Em Up)" and then was *absolutely schooled* by them and I cringed myself instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0N4...

Heyyyooo! Guess who is back on my block in Powderhorn! That’s right. It’s my best friends the Merlins. The family of small falcons that somehow took refuge in our backyards and has already returned ready for spring. My Merlin loves my Merlins.

Just got this email from my vet about my dog Flannery, as if I don’t already have a constant stream of existential questions and self-doubt about my own worthiness and now I consider if my dog is conditioned to pretend to love me?

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.

What is that people who are just *garbage* to me—and others—and have a consistent documented pattern of toxic, retaliatory, wild behaviors others and I have experienced in various settings makes me full of rage about their behavior and then also *feels bad for them*?

Strib Poll: Breathing incredibly important to staying alive

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Three months of ICE flight observations at MSP: since November 10 there have been 84 known ICE Air flights operating through Twin Cities, with an estimated 3,563 detainees, in shackles, sent away from their homes in and around Minnesota.

the ring camera network that spies on you under the guise of finding lost pets got video of me walking in the street scratching my ass and now all the cops and ring doorbell families in town are calling me The Ass Scratching Unc on facebook

I hate everything about this, see you tomorrow

I’m binging House this occupation winter, and it’s an episode starring…Dave Matthews?… and the worst part is I immediately recognized him—like in a flash—which means I somehow, inexplicably know exactly what Dave Matthews looks like even though he’s virtually unremarkable in every way.

A parent at my kids’ school was abducted a few hours ago. Please help us help the family with legal expenses and care for their elementary school son (who doesn’t even know his dad was taken yet 💔): gofund.me/20a5b26ab

What did he agree to?

Hennepin County and State Patrol officers can be seen in images from Whipple on Sat concealing their faces, which is against a MN law that also applies to cops. In was 26 degrees on Sat. They cannot claim it was “protection from weather.”

Anyway, with regards to that godawful (and entirely unsurprising!) thread that shall not be mentioned (oops!): some of us are indeed still here.

It isn’t “our job” to “help media.” Especially your “content.” No one owes you anything. If you consider it our role to “help you” instead of vice versa—by centering truth, accountability, and transparency—you do not belong anywhere near journalism. GTFO.

This thread gives the impression of someone who got bored with covering metro surge because it's been a whole two weeks since someone got murdered

One thing the last two months under a federal occupation has made clear is that people who call themselves journalists are openly and willingly muffling the screams of real, investigative journalism bc it challenges their existence and their funding stream as extractive content creators.

Time to block another block head “journalist” who is declaring the occupation & terrorizing of Minneapolis as “aftermath stories” apparently everything the government says is an acceptable substitution for doing her job and the truth.

ICE was busy this weekend. It’s not the time to let your guard down. There were multiple kidnappings in South Minneapolis yesterday, including in Powderhorn and Central. This morning, there was a kidnapping on East Lake Street. 1/

I admit I feel a bit mournful that it seems like we have entered into “basic bro” winter—the long stretch of winter months where temps resemble cold winter days across the country. Sunny and 35 degrees is nice! But it’s Kentucky winter cold. I would rather be Mars Cold than Kentucky Cold.

Things could be worse, I guess. I mean, I could be at a Super Bowl party.

Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt is running for reelection this year and you can contact her campaign directly to tell her it’s not that tricky, actually: we do not negotiate with terrorists ([email protected])

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Adoption is not social welfare. It is what happens because we *reject* social welfare—because we do *not* help those who need it most. Adoption is a *business*: the business of making affluent people into the parents of less fortunate people’s children.

Someone told me that Jolly Good Ginger dude was singing autographs 🥴 at Whipple today. The normalization of “influencer”/“content creators” in protest movements and the commodification of an entire city occupied by federal terrorists makes me wonder if we could do start Reverse GoFund Me’s for them?

This is the gofundme for Alberto Castañeda Mondragón, who suffered multiple skull fractures at the hands of ice officers and then shackled to the bed while being treated at HCMC (against the wishes of hospital staff) Here is an article that mentions it bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

The coverage of the booing is hilarious. NBC censors it out. WSJ pretends they’re booing the US team, not Vance. Reuters connects booing of the US to booing of Israel (like the US is getting booed because it supports Israel). None mention that the US threatened to invade Europe a few weeks ago!

Puppy woke me up at 4:30 and as I was eating trail mix and CheezIts by the handful waiting for her to come inside a car drove by with a spot light and shined it right into my home and I looked directly into it. I said out loud, muffled by CheezIts: “Is that the feds.”

This fed-sponsored “lawful carry event” tomorrow that requires IDs to be scanned is the Steve Buscemi “fellow kids” meme writ large, but with a gun instead of a skateboard. NEVER GO TO ANY “PROTEST” THAT REQUIRES REGISTRATION OR IDS. Especially if organizers are surely the feds. Duh.

How the Black Panthers, AIM, and civil rights leaders built the strategies now amplified by digital tools and radical organizing in Minneapolis. ❤️🫡✊

O CUTE! A judge issued an order that bars J@ke Lang from Capitol grounds. Guess his protest there can’t happen tomorrow! O CUTE! 🥰