We literally watched videos literally every single day of ICE literally assaulting people violently for no reason. What the fuck, man

MPD's "duty to intervene" is meaningless when his police force worked through the last few months without a single intervention. He should just acknowledge there was no amount of lawlessness federal agents could've done that would have triggered an intervention.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

The combination of ICE agents not having uniforms or identifying themselves, and police supporting their openly illegal behavior, has been that anyone who looks the right way can just openly break laws, in serious and dangerous ways, in broad daylight.

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Some Minneapolis council members critical of MPD reaction or inaction to ICE agents Police chief Brian O’Hara said he’s mostly pleased with how the department performed during the months-long ICE enforcement surge. However, some council members pushed back on that assessment.

O’Hara said a supervisor tried to coordinate with federal agents on crowd control but was rebuffed.

“However we feel about federal law enforcement, they are a lawful government agency...We can not prevent them from enforcing federal law in the city.” (2) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Some Minneapolis council members critical of MPD reaction or inaction to ICE agents Police chief Brian O’Hara said he’s mostly pleased with how the department performed during the months-long ICE enforcement surge. However, some council members pushed back on that assessment.

Minneapolis Council Member Aisha Chughtai to Chief Brian O'Hara: “You show up to the scene and you see federal agents pointing their weapons at people, and you don’t feel a duty to protect the residents of this community and instead choose to leave the scene?” (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Chief O'Hara confirmed today that there were no "self-initiated" reports from his officers of illegal activity by federal agents.

Everyone in Minneapolis ought to be seeing red about this. I think there’s hardly anyone in the city—outside of MPD—that hasn’t seen illegal activity by federal agents. They just pulled guns on people multiple times yesterday while driving a fake van right??? Was that yesterday???

This is known as the riddle of the trash barricades: We've established MPD is never going to intervene in cases of reckless, dangerous behavior/driving by federal agents. So why send cops to disassemble barricades erected to address a problem that police won't?

Of egregious, felony level misconduct, then they would investigate, but notes that it would be difficult considering it’s hard to identify the ICE agents involved. BECAUSE MPD DIDNT SHOW UP TO DEMAND THEY ID THEMSELVES. The circular logic of evading accountability here is horrific. (2/2)

HUGE SHOUTOUT to @aishaforward10.com for pressing chief O’Hara on MPD’s response (or lack there of) to ICE. O’Hara suggesting that MPD observing ICE is intervening and that they can’t interrupt the “lawful” right of the federal government to investigate. He keeps saying if there’s evidence (1/2)

Awoooo

Texas AG Paxton Declares Therapists Affirming Trans Youth To Be Illegal And Child Abuse The declaration echoes his 2022 efforts to target parents of trans youth with child abuse, and may force conversion therapy on trans youth in the state.

1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration:

Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure.

Its a horrifying escalation.

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

All this to say, I’m slowly realizing how inept nonprofits are at meeting the moment when they’re so restrained by capitalism. (5/5)

And they can’t fathom why taking a pay cut of a month’s rent to their barebones budget is actually less important than the harm that will happen otherwise.

Also where were they when we’ve BEEN advocating for more funding?? They only care now that it affects their bottom dollar. (4/5)

I hope there are loads of people outside the management class at these agencies that disagree with their directors’ words today. Eviction is so disruptive and for POC/immigrants right now, it’s dangerous.

I’ve been musing on these agencies motives. I think they’re attached to these processes (3/5)

The shelter system and then that system pressured this family with a disabled child and a newborn to move into a 2 bedroom apartment. Each time these kids shifted schools because of zoning, their IEPs needed to be amended.

I thought they had realized that their own system is broken. (2/5)

I was floored. Previously worked as a children’s mental health case manager (basically a social worker). It was infuriating to me that there was nothing preventative I could do when my client with SIX kids needed new housing. To access funding or aid or a housing worker, they had to go through (1/5)

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money."

Curious if you think this is unique to men’s hockey, or is it a symptom of all men’s team sports?

WE DESERVE AN ABOLISH ICE PLOW

Ahhh sorry I think misunderstood your post. You’re saying that the culture of hockey itself is conservative, irrespective of the financial costs?

If people have to “break their backs working overtime to pay for it” then yes, it’s inherently a pretty classist sport. Growing up, the hockey kids I knew were probably 90% upper class. Obviously just an anecdote, but feels pretty accurate to my experience.

ICE detained a Minnesota teen, labeled him an ‘unaccompanied minor,’ and lost him The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

Absolutely enraging. ICE kidnapped a 16 year old child in Mpls, refused to let him go home, sent him to a youth shelter in Michigan and LOST TRACK OF HIM. The family’s lawyer used an investigator to trace a phone call and locate him. (🎁 link)
www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

Re: Bluesky “is seen as a joke across progressive media and activist circles.”

… I respect the writer who posted that, and know he was angry because a friend was being treated unfairly he thought, but let me just say: not in Minnesota it isn’t.

Honestly the Frey supporters poured a lot of money into spreading insinuations about his main opponent (a Somali man) being a fraudster. Frey should be begging for forgiveness for fueling the flames of the fraud propaganda that tipped us into this mess.

I do think there’s a bit of a “STP is a suburb” mindset from some mpls people. Being from stp and living in Longfellow, I don’t have that as much. You’re right that NE is a hike by transit. I hate feeling like I have to drive to a place with very little free parking that’s only a couple miles away.