Dan Elias

They’re in Vancouver tomorrow

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The Loons draw at Nashville 2-2 … and as the final whistle blows, Fully Grown Loon Dan’s Golden Boot team will be tied Loonlet Matt’s team by that same score, 2-2.

Markanich gets off the mark with a brace as the scoreline repeats itself from 2024, 2-1 win, good guys!

I was deciding between Fitz and Carlos Harvey for my 5th pick, who do you think will get more goals this year?

There is no constitutional right of law enforcement to detain me, throw me to the ground, and then put five bullets in my back while masked and unidentified.

There is a right to vote.

Uhhh i don’t know about you, but I’ve never voted anonymously. You kind of have to identify yourself to vote

The gestapo (theoretically) leaving with their tails tucked between their legs is NOT the same as returning our neighbors, fixing our communities, paying serious reparations, and making sure those fuckers face justice for their crimes. But, boy does this feel (cautiously optimistically) good

And stay out!!!

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This is still going on in Minnesota. For all of you seeing my curling posts, this is a couple blocks from the Saint Paul Curling club, home club for Tara and Tabitha Peterson and Rich Ruohonen.

Who can forget that Super Bowl half-time show when Madonna just recited quarterly stock market gains.

No matter what the common people think, the class war already started

They’re concentration camps, just call them what they are.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

If any protesters are actually paid, it’d be the Pro Billionaires …

The PRESIDENT.

Of these United States.

Has a personal vendetta.

Against a FIVE YEAR OLD.

In a BUNNY hat.

3,000 – 700 = still too many

ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA

Jon Collins's coverage of this has been outstanding, and this article, about ICE observers in the outer suburbs, is no exception. (No paywall because this is MPR.)

We want them ALL gone! ALL!

One of my favorite Covid moments …

9 federal agents on 35W around a vehicle they pulled over. There were 4 other federal vehicles behind this and additional agents as well. They let the person go after 30+ minutes. Causing trauma & harm & spending tons of tax $ to do it.

ICE enforcement in MN continues to be so harmful, illegal, & just stupid. In last 2 days, I’ve personally witnessed:
-6 ICE vehicles stop someone on 35W, detain them for 30+ min, & then release them

1/3

74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month.

Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.

Now release the rest of them!

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A building at an intersection with two giant banners unfurled saying "ice out of mn" & "for good".

Wrecktangle Pizza here in Minneapolis is shouting it loud and proud! "ICE OUT OF MN" "FOR GOOD"

The Feb. 1 front page of the Star Tribune

The front page of tomorrow's Minnesota Star Tribune: Feb. 1, 2026

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Opinion | ICE Took Their Classmate. They Started Writing Letters. Letters from students living in fear.

Liam Ramos’ classmates miss him, so they decided to write letters to the ICE agents who took him. “Dear ICE,” one student wrote, “You are scaring schools, people and the world.”

The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization.

This is no different.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...

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