Liz Renner (she/her)

A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the clean ACA tax credit extension that the House passed to save millions of people thousands of dollars each.

If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.

Minnesota Students Are Living in Perilous Times, Two Teachers Explain (Opinion) The federal government is committing the "greatest constancy of deliberate community harm."

Minnesota Students Are Living in Perilous Times, Two Teachers Explain (Opinion): The federal government is committing the "greatest constancy of deliberate community harm."

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

Looking for a way to support Minneapolis while it's under siege?

Here's a Linktree of mutual aid and community orgs that are desperate for financial support. Please donate if you can.

linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid

A protester is currently lying in a hospital bed with a piece of shrapnel in his neck 7mm from his carotid artery.

While he lay bleeding on the pavement, blinded in his left eye, gasping for air, agents did not call a medic. They dragged him and sneered: "You're going to lose your eye."

Roosevelt Students Organize Walk Out to Protest ICE At 2 pm on January 12th, over 150 students walked out the front door of Roosevelt High School to protest the actions of ICE agents in our community. This was the first day back to school for MPS follo...

More reporting from student journalists at Roosevelt High School. By Thora Anderson: “Hundreds of students no longer feel safe coming to school in the current environment. Junior Addie Flewelling says she chose to partake in this walkout “to show up for the students who can’t actually go to school.”

They are unlawfully detaining people for First Amendment protected activities, as far as I can tell. Dragging people out of their vehicles absent witnessing a crime and without a judicial warrant is repugnant to our constitutional order.

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*

FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now?

Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests

FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests?

Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"

A list of ideas!

ice takes out ICE again 😬 🧊

This is what I meant when I wrote that "we can overthrow them with a union of care."

Please understand this is happening in literally dozens of locations around the city simultaneously. If an ICE vehicle stops, community members materialize in seconds and do everything they can to stop the kidnappings. We are under siege and using every tool to fight back.

“The murdering will continue until you stop calling us murderers.”

WATCH: “Hey Jack, how many voucher kids were already in private schools?”

As @GovBillLee pushes for 20,000 MORE vouchers, @SenJohnson @LeeReevesTN & Republicans won’t answer why they won’t track how many are ALREADY in private🙈

(Hint: most of them. A coupon for the wealthy)

“Plato does not agree with the narrative that there are two biological sexes and that everyone should be heterosexual. So it is controversial. But that's the whole point of including him in the syllabus.”

— Martin Peterson, Texas A&M

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Presence in the US without documentation is a civil offense, not a crime.

There is no reason for ICE to have weapons whatsoever (or exist, really). It would be like a meter maid or a debt collector drawing a weapon on you. The militarization of civil law enforcement is and has always been wrong.

You know what feels good today?
Donating to the student newspaper of the Minnesota high school ICE raided yesterday. Keep writing, Lila!!

Meanwhile near where they killed Renee Good ICE was terrorizing a high school — and now Minneapolis has canceled school for the week.

None of this is about safety. A lawless regime with no guardrails.

Minnesota Public Radio says today marks the first and only shooting and homicide in Minneapolis in the year 2026

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Tomorrow, we all need to call our reps—even and especially MAGA ones, but also feckless Hakeem Jeffries— to voice our urgent support for @robinkelly.house.gov’s impeachment articles against Kristi Noem.

It was public pressure that got the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed. We can’t let this go.

There are people who still don't understand that you can do everything right--you can do everything they tell you--and you will still be shot in the face.

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there

Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

Wow

For folks not in DC:
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

"Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here, nor needed here."

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker responds to President Trump's threats to send National Guard troops to Chicago.

Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.