This is Brad Lander doing pulltabs in the Uptown VFW. He’s one of us now

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

FULL INTERVIEW: PT4 🧵👇🏼 Stella Carlson talks about how Minnesotans feel abandoned by authorities. & ordinary people know they have to step up. “Did I think I would be filming a murder? No. But no way I was gonna leave Alex without backup. We all have to be brave & take risks. This was that moment.”

Among the messages spelled out in ASL on the ice sculpture: “ICE out,” “love,” “unity” and “resist.” “Unfortunately, Team USA did not comply with the rules of the competition,” Robin Anthony-Evenson, president of the Greater Stillwater Chamber of Commerce. www.twincities.com/2026/01/28/t...

To my absolute delight this little song has now been played on TWO radio stations. Thank you, KEXP. As always- proceeds from this tune go to support mutual aid here in MN. jeremymessersmith.bandcamp.com/track/fuck-t...

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

Y'think?

“Fully 75 percent of Democratic primary voters say Craig’s immigration record raises serious doubts.”

Which is it?

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

“Tom Homan is not some avatar of restraint. He's been lying through his teeth about what ICE has been doing since he was put on the job. He's a fundamentally corrupt leader and somebody who has been cheerleading the brutality from the start..."

The @gofundme.com for Renee Good's killer is still up, despite appearing to violate GoFundMe's TOS. It's raised nearly $800K. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ic...

"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve." Excellent piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social. Read it all.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

NEW: Minnesota's top federal judge says ICE has been violating court orders repeatedly — detaining noncitizens or rushing them to Texas despite judges' commands. He wants ICE's director to answer for it "personally," and could level contempt sanctions. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Imagine being a congressman from Minnesota and caring so little about what’s happening here that you just copy and paste talking points. If you’re not writing your own statements and you’re not holding town halls, what exactly are we paying you for?

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

It's not just ICE leaving Minnesota, it's stopping this authoritarian test case right here -- not just sending it to Wisconsin or Colorado or Maine. So that is my plea to the United States Senate: stop *all* business as usual.

An appropriate reaction to the federal government attacking a WHOLE STATE -- murdering, disappearing, brutalizing, kidnapping our neighbors isn't to just haggle over the funding for one agency. It's to stop all business as usual until this ends.

I'll repeat my ask to Democratic Senators here: don't vote for the DHS funding bill, yes. AND ALSO do not vote for another single thing in the United States Senate until the invasion and occupation of Minnesota ends. Don't vote to name a post office, dedicate a road, or even a procedural motion

spotted in the street: an abandoned car with a handwritten sign attached to the window reading “this woman was pulled from her car by ICE — please do not hit or tow”

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

Eviction filings are increasing: 164 filed last Wednesday, 83 on Thursday, 165 on Friday. The financial aid requests we're hearing from clients at HOME Line are coming at a VASTLY higher rate now than during the first 6 months of the pandemic.

Staff at 211 Greater Twin Cities United Way, a line that connects Minnesotans with resources, report calls have increased more than 1,600 percent. Calls requesting rent assistance more than tripled in mid-January. Local officials are pushing for an eviction moratorium.

“The imperial boomerang is the theory that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.” [en.wikipedia.org]

trump has probably destroyed the minnesota republican party for the duration

It’s a privilege to represent an ~80% renter community. The most vulnerable of my constituents, along with vulnerable renters across the Southside and Minneapolis, are at risk of losing their homes come the 1st when rent is due. We need @governorwalz.mn.gov to enact an eviction moratorium NOW.

The thing to remember about Chris Madel dropping out of the GOP race for governor is that the local cops VOCIFEROUSLY endorsed him, since he has aggressively defended them in court. Perhaps an indication white law enforcement (not just chiefs or minority cops) are fed up with this shit.

MN Gubernatorial candidate Chris Madel withdrew this morning from the race, saying "he cannot support the national GOP’s “stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.” www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...

Exactly this. Here's how you can contact Walz: mn.gov/governor/con...

ICE is distinguishable by their rotundity, their stature, their slobby half-civilian uniforms, their visible lack of physical conditioning, and their total lack of training. Border Patrol is distinguishable because they’re always equipped like they’re about to ship out for Fallujah.

This summer, my family went to My Huong Kitchen on Eat Street and my toddler grandson couldn’t have been treated better by the proprietor. Yesterday, she displayed all her humanity provided refuge and car to teargas victims. youtube.com/shorts/XxFvg... Give her your business! myhuongkitchen.com

i havent shut off the notification for this form and it has just been vibrating every minute in my hand. just a steady beat.

Family of Alex Pretti, who was shot dead in Minneapolis today, releases statement: "The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs."

From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis

This is a MUST-READ affidavit. This eyewitness to Alex Pretti’s murder — who is too scared to even go home because she doesn’t trust federal agents — directly refutes what the feds are saying happened today:

ALL MN PROTESTERS Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.

BREAKING: Trump’s thugs just shot and killed a man in Minneapolis. Eyewitnesses are describing it as an execution. We cannot keep living like this and people can’t keep dying like this. Stop funding DHS. Impeach Kristi Noem. Hold these agents accountable.

100%.

“We haven’t heard from Stauber, Emmer, or the president” says KARE11 weekend host. Journalists on the ground are out there on Eat Street wearing gas masks describing people puking from the weapons

And funded by our tax dollars. This has to end.

Arrest ICE murderers now.

This is so fucked up.

If initial reports are true, they shot someone who they'd wrestled to the ground. Potentially an observer. These agents must be arrested and brought to justice.

Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. 📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune

The DHS funding bill can’t pass the Senate without Democratic votes. We must flood Senate Democrats’ offices with calls and force them to use their leverage to rein in ICE. Call your senators: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena... Or send an email: act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...