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‘I’m a Pedestrian at My Core’: Catching Up With Comedian Jake Cornell - Racket Cornell will appear at the Parkway in Minneapolis on Thursday night.

"I didn’t go in thinking I wasn’t gonna have a great time in Minneapolis, but I remember having a moment halfway through the show where I was like, 'Holy shit, I’m having fun. These people are so great.'”

this rocks omg

Radish Farm Stop: A New SW Minneapolis Grocer That's Like a Year-Round Farmers Market - Racket And also: a coffee shop!

coming soon to southwest minneapolis... minnesota's first farm stop!

Yes, That Mancini’s: How a Legendary St. Paul Steakhouse Raised $35K for the Resistance - Racket ‘The Gathering for Good’ brought the West 7th neighborhood together.

For @racketmn.com, I wrote about The Gathering for Good, the huge fundraiser Mancini's Char House & Lounge--yes, that one--held two weeks ago for ICE victims in St. Paul's West 7th neighborhood. One of my best, huge thanks to everyone involved.
racketmn.com/yes-that-man...

Can't make it tomorrow morning? Send an email now: bit.ly/pauseevictions

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

my invite (and maybe every racket editor's invite?) came from you!!

ICE surge in western Wisconsin echoes trauma, intimidation of Twin Cities Volunteers have raised money to pay rent, coordinated rides to school for children and donated groceries and household supplies.

Community defense is different here. Scary. Lonely. There's (some) safety in numbers, and they're hard to come by in our red exurban and rural communities.

We're standing up anyway.

So, today's front page print headline seemed quite fitting:
Emotion, defiance as ICE roams western WI

FUCK ICE.

Sack's Back: MN's Greatest Political Cartoonist Un-Retired Because He's 'So Fucking Pissed' at Trump, ICE - Racket Before launching his Substack, Sack had to re-learn to draw using his left hand.

I wanted to talk with Steve because it's amazing he came out of retirement to publish independently. I had no idea he'd been forced to RELEARN HIS ARTFORM WITH HIS LEFT HAND. Anyway, great guy and a state treasure.

The Jacket is the last thing you see before a St Paul dad hands you a Hamms

Anti-ICE Ice Fishing, Subzero Marches, and Art Sled Activism: A Winter of Protest in the Twin Cities - Racket Protesters have shown their disgust with the Trump administration and their willingness to fight side-by-side with their neighbors—often in distinctly Minnesotan ways.

the last few weeks in MN have been the greatest moment of nonviolent protest i've seen in my lifetime. i spoke to the organizers of marches and demonstrations, bike rides and ice fishing protests—and even a puppeteer—about this winter of protest in minnesota.

Donate to March Rent Neighbor-2-Neighbor Fund for Central Neighborhood, organized by Central Neighborhood Care and Resistance The neighbors of Central Minneapolis have stood strong for mo… Central Neighborhood Care and Resistance needs your support for March Rent Neighbor-2-Neighbor Fund for Central Neighborhood

The Central neighborhood in South Minneapolis has been disproportionally impacted by ICE. Our neighbors are struggling to stay in their homes. This fund will help with direct rent and mortgage support to Central Minneapolis neighbors in need.

gofund.me/03278b181

WE DESERVE AN ABOLISH ICE PLOW

if! it! sucks! hit! da! bricks! love it❤️‍🔥

We are trapped in the belly of a horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death and also winning gold, baby

A week or two ago, a member of one of the families we’ve been supporting shared this piece with me. She said that writing has been helping her get through this time, and after reading it, I asked if I could help her get it published. Thank you again to @racketmn.com for giving it a home

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

This case is insane:

ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.*

The young man they killed had no criminal history.

All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs.

We don't know officers' names.

We don't have footage.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Because of ICE, I've Been in Hiding for Months. It Has Transformed Me. - Racket Days of anxiety, of frustration, and of feeling that everything is on hold while the world keeps moving forward outside.

A first-person account of life in hiding.

Keep Minnesota Housed! Much of the medía has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction. Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds! #keepMNhoused

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation.

Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

HATE this word

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ICE Cost Lake Street Businesses at Least $46M. These Weekly Cash Mobs Help Them Claw Back Profit. - Racket The Lake Street Council's cash mobs are bringing hundreds of people to struggling restaurants each week.

“the one we went to last week at sanag restaurant, i came with my son, and we were at the front door with a bunch of other people—the owner was trying to hand out menus but didn’t have enough for all the people. i thought, ‘this is a good problem to have.’”

Streaming the Siege: At Every Turn, ICE's MN Invasion Has Been Captured on Video - Racket As the country’s largest-ever immigration raid hits Minnesota, unprecedented packs of journalists, activists, and influencers upload scenes of the chaos.

“Now livestreaming has transformed the media landscape,” @unicornriot.bsky.social co-founder Niko Georgiades observes. “There's right-wing cats that've infiltrated all these places. You see 16-year-old kids with selfie sticks on TikTok. It's the content-creation game; it's the new game of media."

Donate to Esperanza y apoyo para sus hijos de Patricio y esposa, organized by Rolando Patricio Tigre Jara Hola me llamo Patricio q Dios los bendiga grandemente quisier… Rolando Patricio Tigre Jara needs your support for Esperanza y apoyo para sus hijos de Patricio y esposa

Friends, can you chip in to support our NE neighbor? He’s lost his family, and he’s staring down the barrel of an immigration hearing at Whipple next month gofund.me/39d8aaed4

that’s my emotional support fleet of bicycles

it’s still abolish ICE baby, it’s always abolish ICE

thanks so much, robert!

First they came for the immigrants, and the freakiest people you know threw the fuck down because it was never going to end with immigrants.

thank you for reading ash!!!

How Minnesota’s Queer-Owned Businesses Are Leading the Fight Against ICE As the federal occupation continues, community members are committing themselves to standing up to the feds while supporting the state’s immigrant communities in any way possible.

for @autostraddle.bsky.social, i wrote about how minnesota's queer-owned businesses (and queer folks in general) are standing up to ICE and defending their communities: