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Seems like this is the kind of thing @governorwalz.mn.gov and @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social could be addressing since they've given up on the feds - just the bare fucking minimum. Any kind of recognition to the public that they even see this.

I remain astonished that Walz has all but disappeared.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.

#ICEOUT in Columbia Heights!

There are sooooo many protests, in addition to all the observing and MA work. I was at this one in Heights today. Found about it fifteen minutes before hand, and hopped on over with my sign. 💙💛 Just another lazy Saturday morning.

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists.

Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews.

All Black. All doing their jobs.

Also re: common ground. We are not asking for a compromise or "common ground" here. We need the government to stop kidnapping our neighbors and pissing our tax money away on grift and war mongering.

No common ground there.

Whatever accomplishes she has, and politics aside, she just isn't this type of leader. She waits to sign onto any remotely controversial until its crystal-clear how others are voting. She hangs back. Stay in the Senate, fine, but Gov feels like a huge job-skill mismatch to me.

This is not the argument for her to be elected Governor that she thinks it is...

Exclusive: ‘Pink coat lady’ who recorded fatal encounter between federal officers and Alex Pretti speaks to Anderson Cooper | CNN Anderson speaks with Stella Carlson, the witness who captured crucial video showing exactly what happened when Alex Pretti was shot and killed by DHS officers.

The full interview with Stella Carlson is worth your time.

In particular, the part around 13:30, about how ordinary people feel abandoned by local and state officials, and are left doing what they can—not much—to show solidarity with their neighbors, knowing local authorities will not protect them.

And there were bloody footprints
Where mercy should have stood

💙💙💙

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

I mean, all those chats about collecting groceries and running errands ARE pretty damning. Definitely an investigation worthy of my tax dollars!

Some of the worst of them might leave this city, but they are still employed and in power. No one is being held accountable yet. The kidnapped are still imprisoned far from home. The economic damage they wrought remains. Things are changing, but nothing is changing at the same time.

“He’s killing us in the streets and we still have to pay our taxes in April” is an incredibly compelling point.

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As many as 1500 detainees at the Dilley ICE camp have erupted in protest.

Lawyers were kicked out amid chants of: "Let us out! libertad!!"

Detainees say ~80% are rebelling, motivated by the news from Minneapolis, the general strike, and the imprisonment of little Liam.

Every bit of aid, resistance, and support is coming from ordinary citizens volunteering around daily life obligations. SO many people. Somewhat invisible webs of people. Think about that. There is so much being done. None of it is government.

When people say we are on our own, believe them.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

ICE detention staff reported death of restrained man as a suicide The statements to 911 operators the night Geraldo Lunas Campos died appear to conflict with autopsy’s later finding of ‘homicide.’

They put Geraldo Lunas Campos in a chokehold and compressed his chest until he stopped breathing. And then they lied through their Nazi teeth.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry.

It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.

since Tim Walz issued his overly long statement pleading with Trump to come do a walking tour of unity with him in Minneapolis, ICE has kidnapped a five year old and a two year old and murdered another 37-year-old US citizen

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

This might motivate me to attend caucuses again, for the first time in many years. 😬🙅🏼‍♀️🙄

He's such a lying liar, but also so deeply bad at lying.

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.

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My Mochi lounging. The best cat ever.

On top of everything, My Mochi passed today. He came to us via Feline Rescue, age approx 2-4 years old. All we knew is that he had a PAST, but no specifics.

Absolutely the sweetest, most loyal, and quietly snuggly cat. My soul cat. I will miss him terribly.

The most consequential Speaker in state history.