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There are some people in the Twin Cities that are doing literal superhero shit saving people from ICE nonsense. Courage is contagious.

This is disgusting and below the DFL. I think Madel is bad for a bunch of reasons, but representing people charged with crimes is not one of them. Standing between the power of the State and a criminal defendant is an honorable thing no matter what they're accused of or whether they're found guilty.

Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”

Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

A black SUV with a covered license plate and undercover police lights parked diagonally at Cedar Ave and 6th St in Minneapolis. A masked federal agent is standing near the driver's door. Several dozen regular people are standing on the other side in the street about six feet from the car, many recording with their phones. More people are on the curb, snow is falling beautifully, and several tall apartment buildings rise in the background

One more shot from the ICE activity in Cedar Riverside this afternoon.

So fucking proud of everyone who showed up to document, yell, give the finger to feds, and care for our beloved immigrant neighbors. We keep us safe

Corner of Cedar Ave and 6th St with Riverside Plaza towers in the background. Snow is falling and the white ground is covered in an orange-brown spray over a large area. A group of people are standing around on the sidewalk after ICE left.

ICE was in Cedar Riverside today. Amazing community turnout, be mindful of the layer of pepper spray in the snow all over the neighborhood

We are hearing powerful testimony at City Hall on the strengthened separation ordinance.

It’s clear our community wants to ensure to its full strength that the City of Minneapolis does not enforce federal immigration laws nor assist ICE in any shape or form.

We support our immigrant neighbors.

I saw an ICE raid today in Cedar-Riverside. The man they took said repeatedly he was a U.S. Citizen and had ID. They put him in a car they sped off at an unsafe speed. Not that I expected much, but I called 911 and reported their behavior. The dispatcher asked "what I wanted them to do about it."

ICE's presence is keeping many on edge, including one Minneapolis restaurant, which says it had its first ICE encounter since opening more than a decade ago. South Minneapolis restaurant says ICE entered without warrant, staff push back

Great Moments in Immigration Enforcement

"I asked them if they had a judicial warrant. They said they didn't need one. I said yes you do."

Employees then captured video of agents leaving and turning the wrong way on a one way street.
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We problematize poor communities of color but not affluent white ones part 1000

this is not a drag of the writer of this particular piece, which is largely sympathetic, but this line of argument makes me nuts

young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees

Dot density map of Minneapolis election results 2025

Finally finished my blog post on the Minneapolis Mayoral Election and demographics. I posted it to an old medium account that I forgot I had. Let me know what you think. Here's what I found 🧵 medium.com/@damia025/pr...

for me- the whole business model relies on coming into markets like ours, undercutting existing drivers with unsustainable prices, and then jacking prices up once they have enough market share. same thing uber did a decade ago to destroy taxi companies that provided good wages and regulated rates.

ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."

Feds now claim a "system crash" that happened immediately after ICE was sued is the reason why 10 days of footage from inside the Broadview Detention Center has been lost.

Unreal hearing on this earlier:

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Yep, it’s funny when you travel and meet people, and somehow every state and region has a funny quirk of hating the place that has the most Black people nearby.

SanctuarySupplyDepot - Open Collective The Sanctuary Supply Depot is a central hub that fascilitates the collection and distribution of basic survival supplies for our unhoused neighbors.

If you celebrate Give to the Max day, please donate to the Supply Depot through our Open Collective so you can get tax refunds. the money all goes to keeping people alive. opencollective.com/sanctuarysup...

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

tried selling our Wolves Mavs tickets on Monday because some stuff came up, couldn’t even get the 75% price floor for them after a full day listed

Get trained. Throw sand in the gears. Take video and photos for the inevitable trials of the lawless agents who brutalized our neighbors. The day when we hold them accountable to the law is coming. monarcamn.org/training

shoutout @jason4parks.bsky.social for the correct answer and @jchavezmpls.bsky.social for the arbeiter mention

Approaching 3 hours since Katie was cuffed and taken by masked federal agents while peacefully protesting and filming today and our lawyers still can’t get anyone to tell us where they actually took her.

Fucking absurd.

I would try to wash your lips separately pre-shower, cold water and like dawn soap if you have it. Be careful with any clothes that you have to pull over your head, and be careful with placing them on the floor or anything pre-laundry.

I think what Chuy did wasn’t great, what MGP did was self-serving, and I’m mostly just sitting here wondering why the hell nobody proposes resolutions condemning Randy Fine.

Per MIRAC trained observers are on site and MORE OBSERVERS REQUESTED. Go if you can:

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.

By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

Food and hospitality workers at MSP threaten strike next week Ahead of the Thanksgiving travel rush, a union representing about 250 employees at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is threatening to strike starting Nov. 24.

Ahead of the Thanksgiving travel rush, a union representing about 250 employees at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is threatening to strike starting Nov. 24.

How a mercenary became a Minneapolis mall cop After the George Floyd protests, a former military contractor named Nathan Seabrook brought the war home.

I wrote about how an Iraq-war era military contractor ended up as a mall cop cracking down on a protest encampment in Minneapolis the summer after the George Floyd protests. This is the story of Nathan Seabrook and long arc of the war on terror. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A Midwest Bond Fund Is Helping Detained Chicago Immigrants Return To Their Families The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund launched in 2020 to provide bond assistance to people navigating the complex immigration legal system. That mission has become more difficult under the second Trump a...

There are a lot of competing needs, I know. But I really would like to uplift these folks at the Midwest Bond Fund.

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