Eric Lundgren

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Letter From Minnesota: We Are a People Born and Bred of Organizers Before the current ICE occupation, many folks in the activist community moved off Facebook, Meta, X, and went to, at the time, more secure communication platforms. I asked a Lakota friend, activist…

"It’s not about bravery, it’s about making sure to do the right thing, at the right time, for the other human—because we too are human." Marcie Rendon in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy : lithub.com/letter-from-...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

The same guys who leave laughing emoji on ICE articles would have been shooting the buffalo 150 years ago

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Vikdun Quisling was the infamous Norwegian collaborator with the occupying Nazis whose name has become synonymous with betrayal. His legacy is overwhelmingly that of a man who sold out his country for personal and political gain. A man for our time. "Quisling Culture" should be a term of discourse.

​Book cover for Place-Keepers: Latina/x Art, Performance, and Organizing in the Twin Cities by Jessica Lopez Lyman. Color graphic blending musical bars behind two people smiling and gesturing toward the Taco Taxi restaurant’s marquee over a spray-painted facade.

Book cover for We Miss You, George Floyd by Shannon Gibney. Illustrated cover showing a young black woman in a green shirt holding a sign displaying the title of the book against a purple background.

Book cover for We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, edited by Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura. Title in large sans-serif black font against blue-sky background; in lower third, orange ground serves as backdrop for an upside-down Minneapolis skyline.

Book cover for The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives by David Mura. Image of an extremely thick book that displays the title and author name in black text on white cover. Background is a glaring, solid red.

Books for Understanding ICE in Minnesota: a curated list of titles to aid in understanding the profound and disturbing events that have so deeply affected our communities. www.upress.umn.edu/books-for-un...

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

ICE agents tried to quietly get Mexican food in Minneapolis, local neighbors and protesters found out and shamed then out of the neighborhood!

Ms. Omar, visibly shaken after the assault, insisted to her staff and security that she would continue. She asked for a napkin and told them: "Just give me 10 minutes. I beg you. Please don't let them have the show." Ms. Omar then turned the crowd. "Here's the reality that people like this ugly man don't understand," she said. "We are Minnesota strong, and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us." Someone in the crowd later thanked Ms. Omar for staying and continuing after the assault, which had shaken not only her but the entire room. "I learned at a young age you don't give in to threats," Ms. Omar said.

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

DHS Says Critical ICE Surveillance Footage From Abuse Case Was Actually Never Recorded, Doesn't Matter Court records reveal the incredibly sad state of ICE's evidence retention systems.

New: DHS now says that two weeks of missing surveillance footage from ICE's Broadview Detention center isn't "missing," it was never recorded in the first place and thus can't be produced in an abuse lawsuit. An utter shitshow:

www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...

“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…

So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

They are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic thinking it'll fix the hole caused by the iceberg. But we are the iceberg.

on eat street today, pho 79 was giving out no-cost community meals; luna and the bear had free coffee for folks; cheapo had a sign up encouraging folks visiting alex pretti's memorial site to come in, warm up, and use the bathroom. good city full of good people imo.

This is a win and it's worth celebrating.

The Border Patrol thugs we've seen while out patrolling Northeast MPLS and for sure some of the most aggressive and unhinged people I've ever seen personally. Horrific stuff. Worse than ICE, if you can believe it.

Bauer, who is 49, struggled to maintain her composure as she described the day early this month when ICE showed up in force outside her school. Agents had been circling the school since December, seemingly learning its routines, and they arrested some parents just before the winter break. But this time, agents leapt out in riot gear and began entering the apartments just across from the school, where many students live. “We had to lock down and keep the kids inside, and parents linked arms to block the school entrance,” Bauer said. “We had a student who was looking out the window and saw them break into his apartment and just sobbed, ‘That’s my house. That’s my home.’ And we shut the blinds, but it was too late.”

The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

if you're wondering how insane things are here now

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Bolvino with green gas

Green gas in Minneapolis

Agents in Minneapolis

Weapons left by ice

Welcome to Minneapolis. Our neighbors have witnessed too many war crimes at this point. Federal agents even left weapons on the ground.

“They’re terrified of seeming unwilling to kill their own voters”

ICE is a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanish in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer means anything. The knock on the door is the sentence.

Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.

@radleybalko.bsky.social :

A dark blue mug with an American flag reads “AMERICA 1776 – 2026”

Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…

Knut Hamsun giving his Nobel prize to no other than Joseph Goebbels. History repeating itself today.

Vehicles abandoned due to ICE detention will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost www.minneapolismn.gov/ice

Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE kidnapping and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.

Learn more: www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-arou...

Listening to Shostakovich String Quartet no 8 for the first time in many years this morning, feeling its grief and rage. #mpls

“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”

Sign on door prohibiting immigration enforcement on private property

Shelf filled with goggles and whistles

This is Minneapolis:

Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.

Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.