Choosing to close my brain to any thoughts about national or international politics and use that mental space to instead think about how the Timberwolves are never going to lose again

Maybe some of you think tonight’s Wolves game was “a blowout” or “a disheartening loss.” To me, it was an “I got on the Jumbotron for Bongo Cam” huge success.

One of the greatest bollard walks in history.
#WorldBollardAssociation

Order on Motion for TRO – #95 in The Advocates for Human Rights v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00749) – CourtListener.com ORDER: Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order (ECF No. 17 ) is GRANTED IN PART. See Order for specifics. Signed by Judge Nancy E. Brasel on 2/12/2026. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A) (RMM) ...

This is a simply incredible decision from Judge Brasel. Stunning. In that you will be stunned.

She captures perfectly the experience of trying to locate and help clients disappeared by ICE.

And the stories of detainee’s experience while ICE plays hide-and-seek with their lawyers are soul crushing.

Hey Chris, here in Minneapolis we’ve seen electeds @doronclark.bsky.social, @jchavezmpls.bsky.social, and @elliottpayne.org providing actual leadership, sacrifice, and risk to protect our city and our neighbors. They have perspectives that are much more useful and interesting than our mayor’s.

If you do a little ctrl-f work here you can learn that I beat one of the greatest American athletes of all time when she was 14 www.birkie.com/wp-content/u...

My precinct, 2-7, is a college precinct and we didn’t see the huge numbers other folks are talking about tonight. Still, we had 13 people, and some years it’s been 3 people (2 from my household). Undecided 7, Klobuchar 4, and somebody nominated @marymoriarty.bsky.social who ended up with two votes.

Trying to figure out where to fit “caucus convener” on my resume

As it was prophesied, Wolves fans will redeem the Republic

This makes me very happy in a way that would have been totally unintelligible six months ago

Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents. “There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me. If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Welcome to the American Winter In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

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Controversial take: The Star Tribune is meeting this moment and doing right by the public!

Another fact that people outside of MN might find hard to believe:

I cannot participate in any kind of observation of ice activities because they will put me in a database, and follow me when I make deliveries of supplies to vulnerable people, so they can abduct them.

'Picking the thing we know how to do' Minneapolis civil rights lawyer Tim Phillips, who wore an 'ICE OUT' shirt to a Wolves game that security asked him to remove, shares his experience.

here's a guest essay i wrote about wearing the ICE OUT shirt to the timberwolves game 🏀

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Isn’t sixteenth like definitionally midsize?

Target Center security apologizes after telling Timberwolves fan to remove ‘ICE OUT’ T-shirt Tim Phillips, a civil rights attorney, said that he wore the shirt in response to the increased presence of ICE agents in the Twin Cities.

Tim Phillips, a Minneapolis civil rights and criminal defense attorney, told The Athletic that he wore the shirt in response to the increased presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Twin Cities in recent weeks.

More details:
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Many are arguing that they wouldn't be acting this way if they thought they were subject to free & fair elections.

Plausible. But another explanation is that they see the writing on the wall--generational backlash--and they're attempting increasingly desparate hail marys

@brandonbeck4.bsky.social they did goosebumps in the arena for Randle’s first-half and one

Are those on their court or superimposed on the MN broadcast?

Ant 14 points on 3/14 shooting

Shout out to @brandonbeck4.bsky.social and @fiveburger.bsky.social. Your jokes make it more fun to be a wolves fan.

I also think defense attorneys are bad, but for the morally correct reason (antagonism toward anyone who attends law school).

Proud to be in this photo. The feeling of gathering with neighbors to protect ourselves was so powerful and positive. The tingle of pepper spray I felt in my knuckles, fingertips, eyes, and lips aren’t much compared to the feeling that we will win. Major thanks to the people leading this resistance.

A black SUV with a covered license plate and undercover police lights parked diagonally at Cedar Ave and 6th St in Minneapolis. A masked federal agent is standing near the driver's door. Several dozen regular people are standing on the other side in the street about six feet from the car, many recording with their phones. More people are on the curb, snow is falling beautifully, and several tall apartment buildings rise in the background

One more shot from the ICE activity in Cedar Riverside this afternoon.

So fucking proud of everyone who showed up to document, yell, give the finger to feds, and care for our beloved immigrant neighbors. We keep us safe

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This is just an incredible moment in history. It feels like it’s turning and this might be a low point but it’s really really bad!

You’re on an incredible run today

About 30 cars of ICE and DEA agents staging st Newell park in St. Paul

An actual factual Australian family was right behind me and the vibes were off the charts