d'Lakes (mpls)

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:

There Must Be Retribution Abolishing ICE isn't enough. So what is?

I wrote a quick piece about what it would really mean to abolish ICE

Love it! Thanks!

This is genuinely one of the best show hype ups we've ever gotten! Which makes it even more sad to say as of last night, we're postponing this show until further notice! Keith - you're an icon! See you all in the near future!

Two people were killed in your state. Numerous people were kidnapped. You stood by and let it happen. You asked ICE to 'leave.' You are governor. You used NONE of your powers against ICE. Instead, thousands of Minnesotans had to put their bodies on the line.

What are you proud of? Your tweets?

I wonder if it has occurred to anyone at the Atlantic in this moment, that perhaps spending the past decade creating false equivalency between the avowed fascist movement on the right, and the college kids protesting fascists on college campuses was a mistake?

Special Elections 2026: MN House 64A (& 47A) If you arrived at my blog and are looking for posts about responding to the current occupation of Minnesota by ICE, you can find my How To Help If You’re In Minnesota essay HERE, and my How T…

HEY PEOPLE IN 64A and 47A YOU HAVE A SPECIAL ELECTION TOMORROW.

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Another murder in Minneapolis at the hands of the federal government. ICE needs to leave our City, and then be abolished immediately.

If pressed, I will do the heroic mayoral profanity thing where I tell ICE "get the fuck out of Mueller Park."

i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.

ICE may be shooting people in the face, sending people to concentration camps, and illegally occupying our cities but, apparently, the Democrats think saying, "abolish ICE" is "emotional" and politically "lethal."

More than 5,000 people here in Powderhorn Park protesting ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis.

#FuckICE #iceout #mpls #FuckTrump

2025 Minnesota Statutes 504B.285 EVICTION ACTIONS; GROUNDS; RETALIATION DEFENSE; COMBINED ALLEGATIONS. Subdivision 1.Grounds. (a) The person entitled to the premises may recover possession by eviction when: (1) any person holds over real property: (i) after a sale of the property on an execution or judgment; (ii) after the expiration of the time for redemption on foreclosure of a mortgage, or after termination of contract to convey the property; or (iii) after the expiration of the time for redemption on a real estate tax judgment sale; (2) any person holds over real property after termination of the time for which it is demised or leased to that person or to the persons under whom that person holds possession, contrary to the conditions or covenants of the lease or agreement under which that person holds, or after any rent becomes due according to the terms of such lease or agreement; or

This has to be done at the state level. Local ordinances can't preempt state law, and it's state law that governs evictions. Governor Walz has the power to declare a state of emergency and issue an executive order pausing all evictions in Minneapolis, St. Paul, wherever. We did it during COVID!

Ellison and Walz should be in front of the cameras right away, making clear that FBI agents will be indicted on state charges if they destroy evidence or sabotage the investigation in any way.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people

really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

man fuck ice FUCK ICE!!!!!

Minnesota elected officials can either arrest this ICE-uniformed killer, in which case they are on the side of their murdered people, or they can choose not to arrest him, in which case they are not. I don't think it's more complicated than that. They have already waited an hour.

yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.

“I can see it now. Blue. A blue blue. A blue that makes itself clear.”

Cities97 has been playing the last two bars of the @maxmcnown01.bsky.social song “A Lot More Free” for over 7 minutes. lol methinks this is in error

mamdani smiling standing next to trump, seated, who is absolutely beaming up at mamdani

that one photo of ariana grande looking adoringly up at pete davidson. they both have lollipops.

lmao

Groove is stored in the heart

Thank youuuu!

A song I produced just got reviewed! Check out No Promise (I'll Be Fine)!!

Listened to a lot of decemberists this week 😬