Minnesota Reformer reports from Worthington: "You can feel it, the sadness from town. There’s no people walking around." minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/13/n...

We help us – and we’re not gonna stop any time soon. Please help us document this moment by calling 1-844-WE-HLP-US to share your story of mutual aid in Minnesota 💚

What would our mayor know about being helpful

Anyone in Minnesota will tell you that this matches the eye test. They are simply grabbing anyone who's not white. Full stop. There is no other strategy to this at all. It's a racist, heinous federal occupation. Dismantle the agencies. Prosecute everyone involved. Redistribute all the funding.

The ‘abolish ICE’ door is cracked open and every one of us needs to push and keep pushing. “Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said the family was in hiding. He cited a bomb threat at his son’s former elementary school and ICE agents patrolling the Columbia Heights home they no longer live in.”

for @autostraddle.bsky.social, i wrote about how minnesota's queer-owned businesses (and queer folks in general) are standing up to ICE and defending their communities:

Thank you @biketrouble.bsky.social for chatting with me for your @autostraddle.bsky.social story about how queer and trans people are stepping up right now in Minnesota: www.autostraddle.com/how-minnesot...

Minnesotans: I’m trying to help document this moment in our state’s history for an audio project on mutual aid. I’ve been doing some in-person interviews, but we’re all spread so thin right now. The simplest way you can help is by leaving a message with your story of mutual aid at 1-844-WE-HLP-US ☎️

Urgent mutual aid need: $620 for rent to keep a family in their home, including kids of parents who were taken by 🧊 If you can help please DM me and I'll send you my Venmo, PayPal, Apple Pay, whatever

In response to a great deal of ICE activity in our Minneapolis neighborhood of Longfellow, we are standing up for our neighbors who need immediate relief – and we’re asking for your help. Please help keep families in their homes this winter. Visit neighborrelieffund.org to learn more and donate 💜

In response to a great deal of ICE activity in our Minneapolis neighborhood of Longfellow, we are standing up for our neighbors who need immediate relief – and we’re asking for your help. Please help keep families in their homes this winter. Visit neighborrelieffund.org to learn more and donate 💜

The incredible outpouring of mutual aid and community care during Operation Metro Surge got us thinking: we don’t want these stories and lessons to be forgotten. So we’re reopening the WE HELP US hotline to help document this moment in Minnesota. Call 1-844-934-5787 to share your story of mutual aid

A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE. It includes: -Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 -The MN AFL-CIO -SEIU Local 26 -UNITE HERE Local 17 -CWA Local 7250 -Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators -Faith leaders And more. 🧵

BREAKING: The House passed H.J. Res. 140—stripping protections from the Boundary Waters and handing 225,000 acres to a Chilean mining corp. The Senate is our last chance. 📞 Call: (202) 224-3121, say "Vote NO on H.J. Res. 140." Final stand. friends-bwca.org/get-involved/take-legislative-action

and will forever

Thanks so much to everyone who has checked in about what it’s like in Minneapolis right now. This should answer most of your questions:

The difference between Friday being another day of protests and being a trial run of a general strike is what you and me and the Twin Cities working class do between today and Friday. Make your own plan. Talk with your coworkers. Ask businesses and bosses to close and observe the demands.

I may be biased because I’m in it, but I really really love this essay on wildness in a “civilized” world

Y’all gave $50K in a couple days. I don’t have words, just tears of gratitude. Thank you for supporting our neighbors during this dark time ❤️

We are all *exhausted* but boy do I have amazing neighbors ❤️

This is also a good way to help

another good place to send money if you have it

We are a small group of neighbors in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis, and we have created this fund to administer individual support to meet the urgent needs of families in crisis in our neighborhood. Please give/share if you can! tinyurl.com/helpinglongfellow

Me and mom at my stepdad’s funeral on Wednesday. I’ll have more to say about it soon, but for now I’m just very grateful for all the love and support my family has received in recent weeks ❤️

The Timberwolves held a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.

30 families in Ward 9 need help. If you have capacity please donate so we can get families food. - Email Costco gift cards to [email protected] - Venmo at @ Kevin-nye-3 - Cash App at $revkev

The irony shouldn't be lost on anyone that during the George Floyd uprising there were 104 instances where cars were driven through protests - leading to 2 deaths - and how ICE has weaponized anxieties around an explicitly right wing tactic to justify every agent firing a gun in the last few months.

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

Wrote something short about living in Minneapolis and about what it means to be a neighbor. Sending so much love to everyone in my city. Show up for your neighbors! open.substack.com/pub/chrisdst...

"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

a video taken by the eyewitness, Emily Heller, shows agents denying a self-identified physician access to the victim and telling bystanders to “just relax.” “How can I relax? You just killed my fucking neighbor,” Heller responded. “How the fuck do you show up to work every day?”

Got out of my stepdad’s funeral to the horrific news of ICE shooting and killing a legal observer and member of our community. When will the terror end? My heart breaks for this city and everything we have been through in recent years 💔

Always read @chrisdstedman.bsky.social If you love the work, take your time. You mind and soul will thank you.

Got an extremely funny response to this piece on instagram

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

I started writing about this year and ended up going very, very long on inefficiency. Put down your to-do list and check it out: open.substack.com/pub/chrisdst...

consider that the psychotic loop of chatgpt mostly seems to be 'the chatbot repeating your own ideas back to you and telling you they're brilliant' and then consider billionaires and the people around them

Thank you @keysweekly.bsky.social ❤️

Yesterday, a violent homophobic threat was spray-painted on a building at Augsburg, the university where I teach and serve as a research fellow. I wrote some words that are a little too long for this website, but you can find them here: www.instagram.com/p/DPEy-weDdF...

Starting today we’ll be sharing a few voicemails we’ve received on the We Help Us story hotline, as examples of the kinds of stories you can share when calling in. Call 1-844-WE-HLP-US to share your own story of queer and trans mutual aid or community care! wehelpusmn.com

Jesus Christ

Does anyone happen to have a copy of the book “Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota” by Stewart Van Cleve? It’s out of print as a physical book and I hate reading ebooks. I need it for a project and would be so grateful to find a used copy that isn’t hundreds of dollars

Hodag mentioned!!

Just passed a billboard that said “get us out of the United Nations” 😵‍💫

Oh my God it's true stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...

Fully entered a state of madness by the time I finished this essay, on the remarkable intellectual (and political) failures of New Atheism, and a new anthology edited by Lawrence Krauss nymag.com/intelligence...

Thank you to everyone who came out to today’s story sharing and recording session at Quatrefoil Library today! We had such a great time learning from and about your experiences of queer and trans mutual aid, and documenting them for our project.

This is tomorrow! I’d love to see you there

EHRC now saying that not only should trans people be excluded from sex segregated spaces, but ALSO those matching birth sex: “A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from … service for their own biological sex …to prevent alarm or distress for other service users.” archive.ph/2025.08.07-2...

Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if you’d like to call… HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775 HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000 PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well. NONE of this is okay. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...