Nicole Shambles

ICE surge in western Wisconsin echoes trauma, intimidation of Twin Cities Volunteers have raised money to pay rent, coordinated rides to school for children and donated groceries and household supplies.

Community defense is different here. Scary. Lonely. There's (some) safety in numbers, and they're hard to come by in our red exurban and rural communities.

We're standing up anyway.

So, today's front page print headline seemed quite fitting:
Emotion, defiance as ICE roams western WI

FUCK ICE.

I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...

Hi Bsky Fam- if you know of anyone who needs a wheelchair (with detachable leg extensions)- I’m weaning off mine & can’t store it. Pick up or drop off near DT Mpls.

“My calls are recorded”

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

If you're from outside MN and feel weird about sending a "Hope you're okay!" text to someone here, don't. Haven't talked since high school? Ex-coworker from 6 years ago? Already sent one a week ago? Doesn't matter.

Every time I get one it's a big relief that people are paying attention.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Purple it is.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBG7...

So for Dems, the win is: reiterating 3 things that are already law, 1 thing that is a best practice, and 1 thing that was already a rule up until 6 months ago?

From the bottom of my heart: fuck off with this.

And they didn't even include ICE out of hospitals, healthcare facilities and daycares.

@drEilers - if a person is on disability, it doesn't necessarily mean they are physically or mentally incapable of working. it can also mean that taking care of themselves is a full-time job and they cannot care for themselves AND sustain employment simultaneously.

Mountains of Ice When you listen to the song you can hear below you might doubt me – but it is not a topical song written about recent events. It was written by Parlando alternative voice Dave Moore in 2014. Dave’s…

And Minneapolis' Phillips neighborhood is named for Wendell Phillips, a fervent abolitionist. He was once asked why he couldn't turn down the heat in his rhetoric: why are do you always have to be so firery? Phillips' reply: "Yes, I'm on fire--becuase I have mountains of ice to melt!"

Downtown Minneapolis with thousands of protesters.

Say it loud, say it clear! Immigrants are welcome here!!!

YouTube video by Twin Cities PBS Anti-Racist Skinheads Fighting Nazis: The Baldies | Full-Length Documentary

Today is a good day to educate yourself about the Baldies, the Minneapolis political punks who fought Nazis and founded Anti-Racist Action. These guys were heroes of mine. This is a great documentary.
youtu.be/8BSDZ1DIEIQ?...

Powerful march today. Keep putting salt in their gears to slow down this disgusting federal operation. ICE OUT NOW!

At the airport.

-11 degrees at MSP & we are protesting the ICE Occupation in Minnesota during a day of General Strike & Truth and Freedom. We are demanding ICE leave, Accountability for the officer who murdered Renee Good, businesses no longer working with ICE, and no more funding to ICE. Stay safe, Stay warm!

how (if at all) can we support the minnesota general strike on friday from afar?

ping’s in loring park are giving out a whistle, a know your rights card, and a zine on using whistles to alert your community of ICE in 4 languages with their takeout orders, if you’re looking for a family run, chinese restaurant that is supportive of the mission here. take out only

pingsmpls.com

This week, the House votes on DHS funding.

I will not vote to give ICE a single cent.

No more blank checks for a rogue agency that operates above the law, escalates violence, and erodes our most basic freedoms.

We cannot normalize this federal occupation of Minneapolis.

It is not normal to watch people abducted in front of our eyes—dragged from car windows, pulled from their homes, and children left without parents.

This is not about immigration. It’s about unchecked cruelty.

A calico cat sits up looking forward on a lime green background. A poem surrounds it.

'Be Yourself' - Taniuchi Masato, late 1900s. The poem is translated roughly as, "Do not try to over extend, just be yourself.".
#Caturday #JapaneseArt

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.

We are at the “Minnesotans are spray painting their broiler pans for body armor” stage of the fight

Metro Transit workers decry ICE activity at transit stops Metro Transit drivers say they’re witnessing ICE arrests at bus stops and in the streets of the Twin Cities.

Metro Transit drivers are witnessing ICE arrests in the streets, and one operator from Somalia was held for over a month after being detained on his way to work, according to union leaders.

Written by Andrew Hazzard.

Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night.

www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."

Minneapolis.

New joint statement from 11 of Minneapolis’s 13 city councilors demands that ICE leave the city