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One of the reasons that rapid response is so important is not just to prevent ICE from kidnapping people, but, if someone is taken, to inform family and friends of the kidnapped to start the legal process so that their family member isn't sent out of state.

CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”

Three border patrol agents are standing by their SUVs behind a building.

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Are you on the streets of MN? Would you like to share your thoughts about what you've experienced?

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Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents. “There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me. If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

“The people of Minnesota have forced the Trump administration into a strategic retreat—one inflicted not as rioters or insurgents, but as neighbors.” This sentence from @adamserwer.bsky.social made me unexpectedly get choked up. It’s weird what does that these days. But still …

“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once.”

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Thanks for getting the word out! If folks see suspected ICE on the west side they can call the hotline. 310-513-5539. Operators speak Spanish and English. Check out their Instagram for more info

I was just at LACES school in LA for my daughter’s basketball game. We were briefly locked down because there were reports ICE was raiding schools nearby.

If you are in West LA, it would be a good idea to monitor these areas and get the word out tonight & tomorrow. They hit John Boroughs and Palms.

< ‹ westla.rrn MEST LOS ••• West Los Respuesta Rapida 116 posts 11.8K followers 102 following Grassroots Rapid Response Network covering the 4 Corners - the Westside of Los Angeles. CALL US (310)513-5539 OR MESSAGE THIS PAGE. See original @ linktr.ee/westlarapidresponse

‹ westla.rrn •• • MEST LOS West Los Respuesta Rapida 116 posts 11.8K followers 102 following PERUSTA RARE Grassroots Rapid Response Network covering the 4 Corners - the Westside of Los Angeles. LLÁMENOS (310)513-5539 O MÁNDENOS UN MENSAJE A ESTA PAGINA. See Translation © linktr.ee/westlarapidresponse

Thanks for getting the word out! If folks see suspected ICE on the west side they can call the hotline. 310-513-5539. Operators speak Spanish and English. Check out their Instagram for more info

I think it’s weird to see so many people making fun of Bovino’s height. There are so many actual vile, evil, murderous things that he has enabled and perpetrated.

A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

I’m not looking forward to his return to California, but I’m so glad he’s leaving MN.

No wonder we’re exhausted.

Ice luminaries on Lake Nokomis, which is on a flight path from MSP airport. #ICEout

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Legend!

PSA that many libraries (including my beloved @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social ) offer FREE access to the NY Times, which includes The Athletic!

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

For anyone who cares Jackie the Big Bear Eagle just laid a second egg!

The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.

And then march em all straight into a prison cell built in hell.

shocking that the member of the Trump regime whose defining personality trait was "Cosplaying Reinhard Heydrich" was the first to get canned

Around 6:15 a.m. on Monday, “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade pitched a solution to President Trump’s growing political problem in Minnesota. “What I would do is just bring Tom Homan in,” he said. Kilmeade, a Trump booster who knows the president often watches the morning show, volunteered the idea again at 7:15 and once more at 8:10. Homan, the border czar and a former Fox commentator, would “settle things down” and help Trump, Kilmeade said. Maybe Trump was watching, maybe he wasn’t — but either way, he said, “I am sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight,” 20 minutes after Kilmeade suggested it a third time.

Lol

Bahahahaha

Greg Bovino Loses His Job The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.

Who’s next?

One demotion cannot detract from accountability.

Greg Bovino and Trump’s agents must still be held responsible for the killings and the damage they’ve done to America.

they will never break minneapolis’ spirit. this is why we will win

brass solidarity band brought the resistance and joy from george floyd square to whittier tonight

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