Ben Whalen

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Operation Metro Surge is not making Minnesota safer. Today's announcement is a step in the right direction, but we need a faster and larger drawdown of forces, state-led investigations into the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and an end to this campaign of retribution.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Border Czar Plans to Pull 700 Agents From Minnesota

It should be noted this drops the number of ICE agents in Minnesota from 3000 to a still alarming 2300. There were 80 in the state before the surge.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Breaking news: Immigration czar Homan announces 2300 ICE AGENTS will continue kidnapping families in Minnesota Picture of ICE agents at Whipple

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

If you're from outside MN and feel weird about sending a "Hope you're okay!" text to someone here, don't. Haven't talked since high school? Ex-coworker from 6 years ago? Already sent one a week ago? Doesn't matter.

Every time I get one it's a big relief that people are paying attention.

Senate Dems needn’t come to agreement on everything right now. That’s a path to the lowest common denominator. They simply have to agree to filibuster DHS approps. As to which of a host of anti-brutality and anti-authoritarian proposals to advance, let a thousand flowers bloom.

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

SHINE A LIGHT FOR MINNESOTA TONIGHT AT 7:00PM CT STEP OUTSIDE AND LIGHT A CANDLE ON OUR STREET CORNERS. WITH OUR NEIGHBORS. FOR OUR COMMUNITIES AND ALEX. ICE OUT NOW SAT. JAN 24, 7:00 PM (CST)

🕯️ SHINE A LIGHT FOR MINNESOTA

Tonight • 7:00 PM CT

Step outside and light a candle — on our street corners, with our neighbors, for our communities & Alex.

Together we call for #ICEOutNow.

🔁 SHARE WIDELY!

SHINE A LIGHT FOR MINNESOTA

Tonight at 7:00 PM CT,
step outside and light a candle.

On our street corners.
With our neighbors.
For our communities.

ICE Out Now.
SAT. JAN 24 · 7PM CST

If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.

Why Minnesota? It's not merely the most horrific kind of ill-luck that delivered another caught on video state mandated murder. Minnesota represents a direct assault on the white nationalist narrative & thus claim to power. 🧵

“We are here to make sure that we can protect our freedoms and get ICE out of Minnesota.”

That’s right.

📅 Friday, January 23
✊🏽 #DayOfTruthAndFreedom
❌ No Work.
❌ No School.
❌ No Shopping.

#ICEOutOfMN #ICEOutForGood #BeGood

“Silence in the face of oppression is not neutrality. It is permission.”

Minnesotans refuse to give permission. We reject business as usual.

📅 Friday, January 23
✊🏾 #DayOfTruthAndFreedom
❌ No Work.
❌ No School.
❌ No Shopping.

#ICEOutOfMN

ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA A DAY OF TRUTH & FREEDOM NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. MARCH DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS AT 2:00PM JANUARY 23

🔁 SHARE WIDELY: This Friday, Jan 23, Minnesotans are taking unified action.

✖️ No Work.
✖️ No School.
✖️ No Shopping.

We refuse to accept the violence ICE is inflicting on our communities.

🔗 Visit iceoutnowmn.com to learn more!

#ICEOutOfMN #DayOfTruthAndFreedom

🔊🎯 Rev. Dr. Karen McKinney has a clear message for Target: “You have an opportunity to speak truth to power. And the truth we want you to speak is to say: Get out ICE, get out of Minnesota.”

We look forward to meeting with Target CEO Brian Cornell and call on him to do just that. #ICEOutOfMN

Jan 23
General strike
Day of Truth and Freedom
Pass it along

🚨 On Friday, January 23, MN stands together.

🛑 No Work. No School. No Shopping.
📍 March in Downtown Mpls at 2PM

We demand:
➡️ #ICEOutOfMN now
➡️ The officer who killed #ReneeGood must be held legally accountable
➡️ No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming budget

Join us!

🔊 MN clergy got Target CEO Brian Cornell on the phone.

Target’s motto: “Expect more. Pay less.”

More like expect the bare minimum and get… hung up on? 🤔

We’re not leaving Target HQ until we get a meeting with Brian Cornell.

#ICEOutOfMN #ICEOutForGood #ReneeGood

America has always been an argument. An argument between a wealthy white few ready to kill or control the rest to seize more money & power and the bravest possible people determined to make the promise of life, liberty & yes happiness apply to all, no exceptions.

The current stress and violence we're facing in MN made me tear up at this simple tribute to the culture here. It's true, we will continue standing up for each other even in the face of this.

Flyer reads: ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA A Day of Truth & Freedom No Work. No School. No Shopping. March Downtown Minneapolis at 2pm On January 23

🚨 On Friday, January 23rd, Minnesotans aren’t shopping.
We aren’t going to work.
We aren’t going to school.

We’re using our economic power, our labor, and our collective voice to get #ICEOutOfMN and stand for justice and safety in our communities.

#DayOfTruthAndFreedom

Today at the vigil for Renee Good, neighbors and strangers alike stood together in peace and love, grieving a life lost far too soon.

We honor Renee by caring for one another and by continuing the work to ensure accountability and justice.

📣 Today, 200+ Minnesotan clergy across faith traditions gathered in Minneapolis at the site where #ReneeGood was killed by an ICE agent yesterday.

This violence is unconscionable. We will not stand for it.

“It has to end,” said Pastor James Erlandson. “And it stops here in Minnesota.”

STATE of MINNESOTA Proclamation MN DAY OF UNITY 10:00AM - STATEWIDE MOMENT OF SILENCE 4:00-5:30PM - VIGIL, STATE CAPITOL FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2026

Tomorrow we observe a Day of Unity in honor of Renee Good, who was killed by ICE.

10AM - STATEWIDE MOMENT OF SILENCE

4-5:30PM - VIGIL OF ACTION AND MOURNING, MN Capitol

In the face of such extreme violence, Minnesotans stand up for our neighbors. We will seek accountability and justice.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.

That is called murder when they do that.

Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

A photo from a vigil for Renee Good, 37, murdered by an ICE agent at 34th St and Portland Ave in Minneapolis.

Minnesota will not surrender to ICE terrorism.

They hate us because we are a free people who love our neighbors and exercise our inalienable rights.

But we will win because our American values are more resilient than their basest hatreds.

Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.