Getting on MinnesotaCare was easy. Getting off it wasn’t. • Minnesota Reformer Why was it such a kaleidoscopic maze?

Commentary: It was easy to get on MinnesotaCare. Once I no longer qualified, it took months to navigate the bureaucratic maze of our healthcare system. minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/25/g...

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...

"Pregnancy is the only condition where FL courts have ruled that a patient can be forced to undergo unwanted treatment.Even a state prisoner on a hunger strike has more rights to make medical decisions. Those rulings give the state vast control over pregnant women" www.propublica.org/article/flor...

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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.

One St. Paul native dubbed Mancini’s “the supper club most likely to be chosen for cop retirement parties.” But, this winter, the timeless steakhouse became an unlikely hub of anti-ICE activism.

She’s raised almost $20m to help Minnesota – she thinks you can do it too Ashley Fairbanks launched Stand with Minnesota as ICE raids rocked her home town – now donations are pouring in, and families’ rent is being paid

Ashley Fairbanks @ziibiing.com launched Stand With Minnesota standwithminnesota.com, a mutual aid repository supporting residents under ICE's siege, in early Jan. in the weeks since, it's facilitated covering people's rents and flown folks detained back home from Texas.

she can help you do it, too.

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What kind of immigration-related content are you seeing on social media? Share your experience to help inform our reporting.

We’re looking for volunteers to share their social media feeds for a possible story about how algorithms shape people’s understanding of the ongoing immigration crackdown.

If you’d be willing to share your own experience and insights, fill out the form below.

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"Journalists have not only the right, but the responsibility to observe and report events in the public interest. It is not illegal to document a protest against the federal government. The fact that the protest took place in a church does not negate journalists’ First Amendment rights to report."

‘Rage knitting’ against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-ICE messages into crafts Makers take a stand through ‘Melt the ICE’ red knit caps and sparkly nails – all while raising funds for those affected by immigration raids

Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance.

They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.

They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.

thank you for sharing! <3

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Tall bikes, porchfest, giant puppets, Battle Train, jucy lucys, dive bars, breweries, banh mi, unicycles, sambusas, Cat Tours, Open Streets, pho, taco trucks, Mercado Central, the lakes ands creeks, Al's, 10 pm dusk, and the too long winters that always end and the spring that's never let us down.

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i was there in spirit

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ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene.

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Live: Federal agents shot and killed Minneapolis man, DHS officials say he was armed A bystander video shows several agents wrestled with man on a city sidewalk moments before the shooting. Police chief Brian O’Hara issued a plea for calm, as protesters gathered at the scene: “Please do not destroy our own city.”

The man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis this morning has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

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Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Live: Appeals court pauses order mandating ICE not ‘retaliate’ against protesters A federal judge previously issued an injunction meant to prevent immigration agents from detaining and pepper-spraying ‘peaceful’ observers.

A federal appeals court has paused an injunction barring immigration agents from “retaliating” against peaceful protesters and observers in Minnesota.

This photo from today shows a federal agent spraying a protester on the ground with a chemical irritant.

The Trump administration calls them the ‘worst of the worst.’ Here’s what we found. The federal government has identified only a fraction of the immigrants it has detained. Many have violent criminal records, but few were wanted by police.

The @startribune.com has done a ton of amazing and important work in recent weeks, but this story might be the best.

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Voting for Trump — and regretting it Sharif, the Madina Mall shop owner who fears she may have to return to the bad old days of having a boss, gave out an exasperated sigh. “Would you believe if I told you I voted for this man?” she said, referring to Trump. Sharif is not politically active, but in 2024, some campaigners came to her shop and told her that Trump would be good for business and against the LGBTQ agenda. “I was immediately hooked,” she said. She voted Republican for the first time. Now, chagrined, she said, “I never thought the man I put in office would come for my family, make me financially struggle and cause me so much fear that I carry my passport when I go to the bathroom,” she said, pointing at the mall’s bathrooms. “I feel as though the weapon I built is coming to kill me and my people,” she said.

Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...

How the whistle became an anti-ICE rallying cry in Minneapolis From street corners to City Hall, the sight and sound of whistles have become common around the Twin Cities amid the ongoing immigration operation and organized resistance.

Observers and concerned neighbors are using whistles to bring attention to the scene of ICE raids on the streets of Minneapolis. Here's how the whistle became the symbol of the anti-ICE resistance @startribune.com
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Should also say that the obvious reason observers are mostly white is many of my POC friends are staying home. The narrative of the occupation is largely about white people because POC folk are laying low, but are paying a much bigger price.

With the Twin Cities Under Siege, Restaurants Become Hubs of Solidarity - Racket Restaurants, bars, and coffee shops are collecting donations, handing out whistles, and acting as gathering sites for volunteers and observers.

pow wow grounds, moona moono, briar bar, a bar of their own—i spoke with these folks and many more about their role in this ongoing federal invasion, and about the "overwhelming support" and "massive" scale of donations that are flooding in to support immigrants, organizers, and ICE observers.