Over 1,600 evictions have been filed throughout Minnesota from January 1 through January 23.
Filings for January rent have increased dramatically in the past week.
February rent is due soon.
It is still extremely dangerous for our neighbors to be out in public.
27.01.2026 02:17 β π 209 π 90 π¬ 2 π 0
Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez has been a hero throughout, advocating, witnessing, speaking up, getting assaulted by ICE thugs, but still never failing to help the people he represents. Bravo @jchavezmpls.bsky.social
27.01.2026 03:18 β π 1565 π 286 π¬ 4 π 4
While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really donβt have any higher opinion of Homanβa cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat whoβs devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. Heβs the architect of child separation.
27.01.2026 02:07 β π 12060 π 2230 π¬ 523 π 113
What does that say about you that you are not brave enough to admit or declare for the abolition of an agency that has only been around since 2003, and just swooped in with masked unaccountable thugs and killed two loving neighbors? ask yourself, it is a fundamental question
27.01.2026 02:26 β π 383 π 82 π¬ 2 π 3
Oh dang, okay I have a crazy story! So, this U.S. citizen was watching TV in his house, in his underwear (like a lot of us!) and ICE came and BROKE DOWN HIS DOOR WITHOUT A SIGNED JUDICIAL WARRANT AND DRAGGED HIM OUT THE HOUSE IN HIS UNDERS IN SUBZERO TEMPERATURES AND KEPT HIM FOR HOURS.
26.01.2026 22:51 β π 205 π 44 π¬ 2 π 4
Leadership looks very clear when you see it.
26.01.2026 22:55 β π 62 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
I am sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight. He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there. Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly to me. Separately, a major investigation is going on with respect to the massive 20 Billion Dollar, Plus, Welfare Fraud that has taken place in Minnesota, and is at least partially responsible for the violent organized protests going on in the streets.
Additionally, the DOJ and Congress are looking at "Congresswoman" Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars. Time will tell all. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT
Sorry, Trump, your support is collapsing and youβre panicking.
Right on cue, youβre deflecting from your failures with lies and conspiracy theories about me. Years of βinvestigations" have found nothing.
Get your goons out of Minnesota.
26.01.2026 16:12 β π 2648 π 442 π¬ 95 π 35
Be relentless. be ungovernable. be self governing to your highest best self. We keep us safe.
26.01.2026 14:53 β π 18 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
But you cannot absolutely cannot look away, you can not retreat into comfort. They dangle comfort in front of you to seduce you into submission. They dangle the lie in front of you to entice you into hagiography, into their mythology, into supremacy - away from solidarity
26.01.2026 14:52 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
because you yourself has seen the murder of innocent people with your own two eyes.
That image is traumatic that image shakes you to your humanity, that image cast you into a despair you have never felt, you have never experienced before, only seen in some kind of history book.
26.01.2026 14:52 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
The Trump administration and Trumpers are trying to make our lives feel untenable and chaotic. The backlash from 2020 will not be complete until they force you to submit. Never ever submit. Never surrender your values, your love, what you know to be true, you cannot submit...
26.01.2026 14:52 β π 38 π 15 π¬ 3 π 0
If this is how CEOs break the silence, please CEOs just stfu
25.01.2026 21:43 β π 23 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Come together for what? Progress towards what? Iβm genuinely asking. The federal government is murdering Minnesotans and disappearing our neighbors. So if any of these CEOβs want to explain to me personally what I β as a state leader β should ask the federal government for, Iβm available.
25.01.2026 19:32 β π 358 π 108 π¬ 15 π 1
Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in.
Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.
25.01.2026 19:37 β π 15295 π 3688 π¬ 144 π 193
unlike all the strident leftists who were correct too early, i am correct at exactly the right time
25.01.2026 20:01 β π 5387 π 910 π¬ 101 π 17
We donβt need PR shit, we need protection
25.01.2026 21:33 β π 28 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0
WNBA players have ALWAYS put other professional athletes to shame in demonstrating moral character and bravery while having relatively the most to lose. I love yall.
25.01.2026 21:32 β π 72 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Since he is on camera so much, next time he is on a journalist should ask @MayorFrey is he ready to abolish ICE now?
25.01.2026 04:27 β π 52 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it
25.01.2026 00:20 β π 5301 π 1567 π¬ 23 π 39
It's also about convincing you that they impose reality and that they are the final arbiters of truth. Hence the importance of continuing to name reality and truth ourselves, at every single turn, with all that is available to us.
24.01.2026 23:15 β π 1344 π 409 π¬ 6 π 0
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti
βWe 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 βheroβ 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 Trumpβs 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."
25.01.2026 00:43 β π 24866 π 12919 π¬ 203 π 451
Including the devils stoically standing behind the lead devil
24.01.2026 23:57 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Devils
24.01.2026 23:56 β π 23 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0
Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"
24.01.2026 22:29 β π 3345 π 872 π¬ 1174 π 835
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
24.01.2026 21:41 β π 33689 π 10488 π¬ 450 π 429
It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you free to abandon it
24.01.2026 22:11 β π 1457 π 322 π¬ 12 π 6
Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
24.01.2026 17:37 β π 31034 π 14531 π¬ 1775 π 1454
but we wont get that from police, not even that heroic individual you admire - so what does that say to you about policing at large?
24.01.2026 17:58 β π 33 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0
This whole thing falls apart for right wingers if just one police officer thought this was their duty to protect us. I don't know of one instance where a local police officer has stood up to ICE. Think about that, all those supposedly duty bound protectors.
24.01.2026 17:58 β π 51 π 9 π¬ 2 π 1
Do you honestly think ICE moves in the same way if they have just one intervention from local police enforcing a clear MN statute? Do you think Trump moves the same way after the picture of ICE in confrontation with police?
24.01.2026 17:58 β π 58 π 11 π¬ 2 π 0
Every billionaire is a policy failure. We keep us safe. Find me at Minneapolisβ finest Somali Walmart. (Any medical story is fictionalized/composite.)
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