Kyle

Here is my statement on the press conference this morning on operation metro surge.

DHS agents leaving the metro area (if we can even believe this is going to be the case) just means they’re going elsewhere to terrorize other communities. This is only over when ICE is abolished and prosecuted and reparations are made.

Stray thoughts from occupied Minnesota:

After 30 years in the workforce, I can tell you the volunteers in my community defense groups are the most dazzlingly hypercompetent coworkers I have ever encountered. Just thunderous excellence 1/x

I believe Walz, Frey, Witt, O'Hara genuinely want the ICE surge out of MN and Minneapolis. Some of them genuinely might want all of ICE out for good. At the same time, the ICE surge is not an existential threat to their jobs/careers. The appearance of disorder in the streets is. An uprising is.

My friends, the other people on signal chats and calls, most of our city council, and rereading the Secret Garden and thinking about how beautiful spring is going to be

EXCLUSIVE: US border czar says ICE surge could end in 'a couple weeks' U.S. Border Czar Tom Homan says he was sent to Minnesota by President Trump to reduce the tension in Minnesota and oversee an orderly transition from a “surge” of immigration enforcement to more stand...

I know everyone here knows it but just to repeat for everyone *else*...

Nothing has changed on the ground. It's still as awful as before. Don't believe this man.

And we won't stop protecting our neighbors.

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Keep up the good work amy definitely nothing else of note happening in minnesota right now that could use your urgent attention besides gladhanding sheriffs and drug cops

I didn’t know they made camo jeggings

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them.

The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Everything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began.

Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.

Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something.

Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.

I'm always glad to see coverage of what's happening outside the metro area.

Also that observer was, like so many, incredibly calm and collected in the face of a terrifying situation. That's always a thing I'm glad for people to have the opportunity to watch.

Opinion | ICE Took Their Classmate. They Started Writing Letters.

Well, that’ll wreck you. Gift link.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

The Whipple Building is a concentration camp

St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Poster on phone pole depicting a cartoon man in tactical gear. Text reads: ARE YOU A HUNK OF HUMAN SLUDGE WITH A BRAIN OF DOGSHIT? WHY NOT JOIN ICE? the official terrorist organization of the USA! - SEE THE COUNTRY AND TERRORIZE STRANGERS! - MEET OTHER ANGRY, UNFUCKABLES WHITE DUDES! - HIDE BEHIND A MASK… JUST LIKE AT YOUR KLAN MEETS! - KIDNAP, TORTURE, AND MURDER ~ FOR PRIZES AND CASH! - MEET OTHER ANGRY, UNFUCKABLES WHITE DUDES! - USE REAL GUNS.. JUST LIKE A REAL POLICE! - HELP CELEBRATE 250 YEARS OF ALL-AMERICAN WHITE SUPREMACY!! UGLY? STUPID? A FELON? A RAPIST? NO PROBLEM! ~SO IS *PRESIDENT TRUMP!* If you’re WHITE AND AND RACIST... YOU'RE HIRED! GET PAID TO KIDNAP TORTURE AND MURDER THE SCAPEGOAT OF THE WEEK ACT NOW! THIS UNCHECKED LAWLESSNESS WON'T LAST LONG!* *estimate based on reign of nazis in WWII Germa…however, due to ICE’s deep incompetence it will likely be much shorter. ICE is not responsible for your crimes against humanity, resulting military tribunals, shunning by your family and neighbors, or shame, were you capable of any.

someone did a really good job here

How Neighbors Transformed a Brunch Spot Into a Field Hospital After ICE Assaulted Eat Street - Racket On Saturday, restaurants and businesses all along Nicollet Avenue opened their doors for protesters and mourners.

A first-person account from the Copper Hen's restaurant and ad-hoc field hospital, where volunteer medics helped tear gassed protesters as staffers ran around with cinnamon buns and coffee orders.

every day my heart breaks in new and horrifying ways and every day the people of this city put it back together

The White House used AI to make a calm and unbothered Nekima look like she was crying for the same reason that an ICE agent shot Renee Good after she told him “I’m not mad at you.” Nothing triggers fascists like a woman whose emotions are her own.

I spent enough time living on the west coast and being treated like Rose Nyland to have a permanent chip on my shoulder about this

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Ooh ya! Usually he’s way too cute/clever but this is rad. bold commitment to photoshop emboss

headline read: Minnesota, back in the national spotlight, wrestles with its public image

if your opinion of minnesota has moved any direction other than UP in the past two weeks then you've got some work to do

I'll be here waiting!

Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that.

I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport.

I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house.

I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

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a medieval woodcut style illustration of a stacked city made of walls and limbs and fire - capped with a screaming misshapen eagle-like bird. the eagle’s mouth is open and its gullet is crammed with coins. its tongue is a furling striped flag. the eagle holds bunches of arrows in both of its outstretched hands. hands reach through the doors and arches of the stacked city. the hands grab at buildings and walls and claw at mounds of coins at the city’s base. the text reads: ‘A horrid beast. a rancid, screaming infant. it knows naught but blood and hunger. it will choke on its own grasping fingers.’

a horrid beast. a rancid, screaming infant.

Painting. A woman drinks from a mug her hand on her hip, she is standing in a control room of a spaceship surrounded by machinery.

"Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?"
Small acrylic painting I did back in 2019 for a Patreon supporter.