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an aerial shot of a frozen lake with luminary that spells out MN is greater than ice with a heart that has spirals which is a hmong symbol! The words are surrounded by a circle of people

Lake Phalen last night. East Side Pride!!! Including a Hmong heart. 💛

It’s just insane that police cracked down on protestors but the outside agitator was just allowed to leave free.

These ads are revealing some truly unholy combos of celebrity spokesmanship and AI product

What is a sub stack/youtube channel but a blog at this point

Protestors turn from Pratt Street and block traffic on Calvert Street.

“S,” a longtime Baltimore community organizer who withheld their full name because of safety concerns, said residents are responding in the ways they know best: by building community and relying on networks that already exist. baltimorebeat.com/how-baltimor...

This was the most condescending way for a journo to say it’s hard work and they’re bored it’s not more exciting (aka dangerous). Even though it still is. Ugh.

We are in a small community outside Minneapolis and a child arrived to an empty house on Friday. No parents, ice kidnapped them and just leave children to wander alone after school

YES. Thank you. I sat there just confused. Bring me back the fucking Budweiser Clydesdales or the frogs

The NFL going "you know man I'm not sure everyone is a deep, profound cultural conservative again, maybe we should just take a beat for a minute and let it play out" is unfortunately why they are the best at this stuff

The ads are SO BAD

Photo of a cork board with many flyers on it, including one for “Winter for All” with a silhouette of a person wearing a gas mask.

This is Minneapolis:

Local cafe has a poster for a benefit concert for gas masks & human rights violation awareness.

He lost an eye in the George Floyd protests. Now he represents the ward where Renée Good was killed. Meet Minneapolis city council member Soren Stevenson.

Soren Stevenson lost his eye to police rubber bullets at the George Floyd protests. Now at 31, he's a Minneapolis city council member in the ward where both Floyd was murdered and federal agents killed Renée Good. He lived through state violence. Now he's fighting to END it. This is leadership.

Lindsey Vonn IS built different but I don’t think she’s coming back this time, which is such a tragedy because she was looking great yesterday. Downhill is what she does and it’s just sad to see it end like this.

“Triple-tap” here means the IDF bombed the journalists at the hospital and then bombed emergency responders not once but TWICE:

this is the hennepin county sheriff’s office deputies, not the minneapolis police. the whipple isn’t even minneapolis

A poster hanging in a bookstore. The design is a modern reinterpretation of a tarot card, with a person pierced by ten swords doomscrolling their phone. The text reads “everything is fine”

Wes Moore is trying his hardest to give us one more blue district in MD. Because fuck Andy Harris.

This guy got beaten by a bunch of masked thugs whose salaries are paid by our taxes simply for being Mexican. Help him out.

Rev Magdalen But what were people expecting blockades to even do? You're stopping and checking every vehicle and then you find one that's ICE and what? You just tell them no they can't pass and they turn around and go away? It's like "controlling space with fire" don't see how it would work.

Shit like this is what I'm talking about. Just the latest example of someone who doesn't know anything about the blockades, understand their purpose, or see their success. I've seen ICE turn around and not enter a neighborhood. I saw it with my own two eyes, on the ground in Minneapolis.

Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

One of the reasons I am *begging* everyone to stop using “Minneapolis” as a synecdoche for the entire Twin Cities metro area is that leads to inaccurate reporting like this. These are Minnesota State Police, who are under the command of Tim Walz, and this is not happening in Minneapolis.

"Support Families at a South Minneapolis Public School" flyer, replicates the text in the linked gofundme, with a donation QR code.

hello beautiful friends, if you are looking for (yet another) way to help mn, the school i am volunteering with has an ongoing fundraiser. we distributed over 100k to help with february rent and food and that is expected to continue for the next x months.

ICE is very active right now including indiscriminately stopping people on 37th & Central. There’s also ICE vehicles active in Holland, Como, and St Anthony East neighborhoods all at the same time as of 12 PM here on Saturday.

Spend your weekend outside and help protect your neighbors.

I am escorting the Crespo-Gonzalez family, including their seven year old daughter, back to Oregon now.

Out of respect for the family, additional information is not being shared at this time.

holy shit y’all, in just over an hour you raised more than $5,000 to help a local family. blown away.

i’ll share receipts soon, and we’ll coordinate with stand with minnesota to get any additional funds where they’re needed most. I LOVE THE TWIN CITIES.

A person holds up a brightly colored quilt

The African American Quilters of Baltimore is a vibrant guild of artists and craftspeople focused on sharing the tradition of quiltmaking as an expression of Black cultural heritage. baltimorebeat.com/the-women-up...

i lost track of the amount of white men i saw wearing shorts yesterday downtown. first in the skyways where maybe it made sense. but then wandering the streets too. it was only like 22 degrees and windy

LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.

I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them

Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.

Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

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Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.

No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.

Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."

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