Laurel M

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:

NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday

NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast

JD Vance was greeted by a chorus of boos when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday, although American viewers watching NBC’s coverage would have been unaware of the reception.

Mona Lisa’s Face Redacted in Latest Trove of Epstein Files The decision to cover the world’s most famous portrait feels particularly misguided as the DOJ faces accusations of releasing sensitive victim information.

hyperallergic.com/mona-lisas-f...

Tabby cat standing inside upright weaving loom, as if it were a lean-to tent

Tabby cat standing inside weaving loom, chewing on spun plastic yarn

Ziggy is my assistant when I weave plarn. She's "good" at warping. #plarn #weaving #caturday

so Bari Weiss' wife was friends with Epstein...

IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION "Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

If you work at DHS and know the identities of the CBP officers that murdered Alex Pretti, my Signal contact info is in my bio. I’ll keep you anonymous.

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Lots of guys with backwards ball caps and truck nutz never gonna listen to Philip Glass again

are you effing kidding?

"Morale is plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports"

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

why are the leopards eating my face when I voted for the face eating leopards?!?!

Know your rights even though they seem to mean nothing anymore
Please stay safe everyone...

It was an extrajudicial execution. Anyone who defends this is defending a police state.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

A witness to Alex Pretti's murder: "I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me."

Right now. In America.

There is nothing subtle or complicated or hard to understand about what is happening.

#Resisters

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History is happening now. If you are in law enforcement, the government, or are a resident or legal observer with any information or tips or incidents you want to share, please text me on Signal @ premthakker.35

Your anonymity will be protected.

Iran was threatened for killing protesters. After two killings in America, is it ok for Iran to now threaten America for killing protesters?

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Devon Lum Jan. 24, 2026, 2:21 p.m. ET13 minutes ago Devon Lum Videos show moments in which agents killed a man in Minneapolis. Video on social media that was verified by The New York Times shows the fatal shooting of a man by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday morning. This is what the video, among several that captured the killing, shows when played frame by frame: Several agents tussle with the man before bringing him to his knees. The man appears to resist as the agents grab his legs, push down on his back and strike him repeatedly. This video does not show what led to the episode. The footage shows an agent approaching and grabbing at the man as the others hold him down. The agent appears to pull a gun from among the group. Simultaneously, another agent unholsters his firearm. The agent aims at the man’s back and appears to fire one shot at close range. He then appears to continue firing at the man, who collapses. A third agent unholsters his weapon. Both agents appear to fire additional shots at the man as he lies motionless on the ground. In total, at least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. The Department of Homeland Security said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. The Times could not confirm that based on the available videos so far.

If you don't want to watch it, here is how the NYT's liveblog is reporting on the video that first started spreading:

ICE fucking EXECUTED him in the street

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE Deems Being In Privacy Of Own Home Obstruction Of Justice

ICE Deems Being In Privacy Of Own Home Obstruction Of Justice https://theonion.com/ice-deems-being-in-privacy-of-own-home-obstruction-of-justice/

Fourth amendment? anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

These are the corporate collaborators who are culpable in ICE's all-out assault on Minnesotans. Here is how to fight back and kick #ICEOUT 🧵

A picture showing 5 different black SUVs: A Jeep Grand Wagoneer, a Ford Expedition, a Chevy Tahoe, a Chrysler Pacifica, and what looks like a Dodge Durango. All have the same rear paper license plate: AA01A56

Okay this is fucking ridiculous.

ICE is using the same paper plate on FIVE DIFFERENT CARS. This photo was taken by Harbor Area Peace Patrol, which monitors activity at Terminal Island for Los Angeles and surrounding areas.

No local gov't has held ICE accountable for this shit. #FuckICE