Jennifer Brooks
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Minnesota Star Tribune. Your source for dumpster fires. I think you're pretty great.
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Jon Collins
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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-...
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āNo humanityā: Detainees describe conditions inside Whipple Federal Building
Immigration sweep brings overcrowded rooms and overflowing toilets. Lawyers say they canāt visit their clients. The Department of Homeland Security says āall detainees receive full due process.ā
https://www.startribune.com/no-humanity-detainees-describe-conditions-inside-whipple-federal-building/601566788?from_app=1&darkmode=System&from_mobile=1&utm_source=webview
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My cousins sent me a gas mask š„¹
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Kyle Tran Myhre
4 days ago
"I find myself wondering if I still have a home here in Minnesota, in America, in the world of the people who get to decide who is valuable and who is not, who belongs and who does not, who lives and who dies." - Kao Kalia Yang, one of the best writers in MN and in the rest of the universe
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Letter From Minnesota: āIf They Take Me and Leave the Childrenā¦ā
Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as fā¦
https://lithub.com/letter-from-minnesota-if-they-take-me-and-leave-the-children/
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Bruce Springsteen
4 days ago
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. Itās dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
https://youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?si=7ciYwNLv34RrdD1p
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Isi Baehr-Breen
4 days ago
I talked a little in this piece I wrote about ilhan last month that sheās a big fan of combat sports, and the way that influences her treatment of politics. Last night you saw her first response to a physical threat was to square up and cock a fist. Case in point.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Why Ilhan Omar Makes the Right Lose Its Mind
Trump and his MAGA allies want people like Omar to vanish from this countryāand they hate her for refusing to do so.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ilhan-omar-trump-attacks/
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Ilhan Omar
4 days ago
Iām ok. Iām a survivor so this small agitator isnāt going to intimidate me from doing my work. I donāt let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
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Jonathan C Slaght
6 days ago
"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport
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Jeet Heer
6 days ago
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
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Aidan
6 days ago
The thing about Minnesota Lutherans is that while the U.S. military can deploy a functioning Burger King anywhere in the world in 48 hours, your local Mainline Protestant church's women's committee can do it in under 36.
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Michele Guindani
6 days ago
Italian journalists of RAI (the Italian major TV and public station) stopped and threatened by ICE. This should not be the narrative the US government wants to send abroad.
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taylr
6 days ago
signs left at alex prettiās memorial in minneapolis: āi love you so much / iāll miss you foreverā photo with a friend, āi would have done the same. RIP alex,ā a stethoscope and āweāll take it from here, alexā and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association
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Jason Linkins
6 days ago
pretty incredible story in here about how you can go from sitting on your couch to radicalized and in the streets in record time:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Dave Byrnes
6 days ago
The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up, "Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"
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Joseph Kapper
8 days ago
There should be more murals of 70 year old guy grabbing a bottle of water and walking into the gas than there are of Bob Dylan in this town.
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amityf
7 days ago
Woke Hoth got me laughing out loud. WOKE HOTH.
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David M. Perry
7 days ago
Does everyone have a warm bed? Does everyone have enough to eat? Does everyone have a place to be safe? Whose getting snatched in the night? - Junauda Petrus, "Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again"
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https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/FileV2/48816/Ritual-on-How-to-Love-Minneapolis-Again_OnePage.pdf
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn
7 days ago
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Elise Schuenke
7 days ago
Thereās a rally going on in Boston rn and theyāre chanting āweāre not cold, weāre not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!ā and I might cry
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Mike The Canstralian š¦šŗ š¬š§ šØš¦
about 2 months ago
A reminder.
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Naomi Kritzer
8 days ago
Really, really recommend that Minnesotans in particular disable autoplay, I know it's annoying to have to click to see a GIF but it's not worth the mental health costs of seeing the first seconds (before you scroll by) of murders in our city over and over and over.
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Thereās video floating around. You donāt want to watch it. News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
More than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426?from_app=1&darkmode=System&from_mobile=1&utm_source=webview?utm_source=copy
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Minnesota Star Tribune
8 days ago
Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. š·ļø: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Hoodlum šŗšø
8 days ago
Minneapolis says no to ICE.
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Minnesota Star Tribune
8 days ago
Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23. š·ļø Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune Continuing coverage:
bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ
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As god is my witness, I was just trying to report a weather story.
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They can hide all the National Park signs they want. Minnesota has the receipts.
www.startribune.com/brooks-minne...
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Gaius (from Tribunate)
9 days ago
Same people who whinge endlessly about how the removal of confederate monuments āerases historyā have no problem erasing actual history
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Matt DeLong
10 days ago
Love this story about all the ways community members are pitching in to take care of each other in the Twin Cities
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People find ways to help as ICE surge continues in Twin Cities
From food shelves to community days and comedy shows, Minnesotans organize care during chaos.
https://www.startribune.com/people-find-ways-to-help-as-ice-surge-continues-in-twin-cities/601564938
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Becky Zosia Dernbach
10 days ago
5-year-old Liam and his dad were arrested by ICE yesterday on the way back from school. He's the fourth Columbia Heights Public Schools student detained by ICE this month. His stuffed turtle and W worksheet wait for him at school.
sahanjournal.com/education/ic...
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Columbia Heights school leaders speak out after ICE detains kids
ICE agents have detained students on their way to and from school and also tried to get onto school property, the Columbia Heights superintendent said in an emotional news conference Wednesday.
https://sahanjournal.com/education/ice-minnesota-columbia-heights-students-detained/
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Minnesota Star Tribune
10 days ago
Federal agents pinned a man to the ground in south Minneapolis and sprayed him with chemical irritants directly in the face. Minnesota Star Tribune photographer Rich Tsong-Taatarii did not witness the man put his hands on agents.
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Minnesota Star Tribune
10 days ago
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is seen deploying a gas canister at Mueller Park in south Minneapolis this afternoon. Video by Ben Luhmann.
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Minnesota Star Tribune
11 days ago
Ramon Menera, a Columbia Heights resident and U.S. citizen, said he was detained by Border Patrol agents Jan. 14 after an agent told him his accent led officers to question where he was born. The agent asking for Meneraās identification appeared to have an accent himself.
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Matt Novak
14 days ago
Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
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Ali Elabbady
14 days ago
Because these international grocers need your support now more than ever, especially during these times, hereās a guide to the international grocers of the Twin Cities that I wrote for
@racketmn.com
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racketmn.com/guide-intern...
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A Guide to the International Grocers of the Twin Cities - Racket
The Twin Cities is home to over 40 international grocers, and they deserve your dollars, too.
https://racketmn.com/guide-international-grocers-twin-cities
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Minnesota Star Tribune
15 days ago
A federal judge has prohibited federal immigration agents in Minnesota from arresting, detaining, retaliating against or using force and chemical irritants against peaceful protesters and observers.
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Federal judge bars ICE agents from āretaliatingā against protesters in Minnesota
The injunction filed Jan. 16 follows a lawsuit brought by six Minnesota residents during the early days of Operation Metro Surge last month.
https://bit.ly/45cFdRs
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Will Stancil
15 days ago
alright here you go
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ICE on Lake Street, Minneapolis - 1/13
YouTube video by Will Stancil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRRA30-OBRY
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Laurie Hertzel
16 days ago
One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, āand then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
19 days ago
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*
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Radley Balko
23 days ago
The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.
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Mark Wasson
23 days ago
Please read this piece by a student journalist at Roosevelt High School, the school that DHS attacked yesterday.
rooseveltstandard.com/797/opinion/...
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ICE Needs To Get Out Of Minneapolis
On Wednesday January 7th at 3:20 pm I was working in the wrestling basement of Roosevelt Highschool to publish an article about the tragic event that occurred earlier today in South Minneapolis when a...
https://rooseveltstandard.com/797/opinion/ice-needs-to-get-out-of-minneapolis/
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Tom Joscelyn
25 days ago
1984 stuff here.
www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
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January 6: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Discover the real January 6 story: peaceful protest turned tragedy, Deep State entrapment, media deception, and President Trump's triumphant pardons restoring justice to patriotic Americans.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
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Walter Olson
26 days ago
Five years ago.
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Governor Tim Walz
27 days ago
Minnesota has to come first - always. Today, Iām proud of the work weāve done to make Minnesota the best place to live and raise kids. Iāve decided to step out of the race and let others worry about the election while I focus on the work.
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Iām in Chicago, bracing for the drive home. Uh, wish me luck with that.
www.startribune.com/weather-snow...
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Winter storm to bring snow, possible blizzard conditions to Minnesota on Sunday
A winter storm warning has been issued for much of eastern Minnesota, while a blizzard warning is in effect for portions of central and southern Minnesota.
https://www.startribune.com/weather-snowstorm-minnesota/601553281
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Ashley Miller
about 1 month ago
The last edition of The Minnesota Star Tribune printed in Minnesota.
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Matt DeLong
about 1 month ago
New carol just dropped
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Snoop Dogg - Christmas in Minnesota (Official Audio)
YouTube video by SnoopDoggTV
https://youtu.be/sfYIu5NUgew?si=RAaEkaA4ju8t6Ffv
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May this 2025 felt ornament ā a drunk raccoon ā carry us into a new and better year.
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Iām home for the holidays! Itās time for Unnecessarily Topical Gingerbread!
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