Exactly 💯

May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.

“But spring is the insidious disease of the North; it rots and dissolves the life that winter has jealously guarded and protected within its prison of ice.” Winter’s austere beauty and the putrescence of onrushing Spring in Curzio Malaparte’s KAPUTT

I know it feels like the day-to-day intensity of the ICE occupation in Minnesota has calmed down, but there are so many lagging problems that need solving, right as people’s attention goes elsewhere. Financial assistance, like help with rent, and legal help for the detained. These horrors persist.

Americans rise up against your government.

There were many aspects of Alex’s film, WTO/99, made entirely of archival footage, that broke my brain. Every location was very familiar, I remembered names of politicians and tv journalists buried somewhere in the deepest recesses of my brain. It was also very prescient. I recommend you see it.

Letter From Minnesota: Waiting For the Barbarians to Get the F*ck Out When I came home from prison in 2022, I moved back to the Powderhorn Park neighborhood where I grew up. I was 21 years old when I left, I was 44 when I returned. It was supposed to be a much differ…

Author and editor, Zeke Caligiuri, on Minneapolis, home, and the importance of place to a person and community. lithub.com/letter-from-...

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

Money for restaurants impacted by ICE $2500-$10000 grants for small and independent restaurants Apply by February 23 The Salt Cure Restaurant Recover fund graphic on a salt shaker QR code thesatcurefund.org

Twin Citizens: If you frequent a small, independently owned restaurant that would benefit from a grant for lost business during the siege, let them know about the Salt Cure Fund. It’s a small ($2500-10000) grant, and the deadline to apply is 2/23.
I made a flyer you can share out, DM me for the PDFs

Wish I had come up with the name of U.S. freestyle skiier Mac Forehand

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Letter From Minnesota: We Are a People Born and Bred of Organizers Before the current ICE occupation, many folks in the activist community moved off Facebook, Meta, X, and went to, at the time, more secure communication platforms. I asked a Lakota friend, activist…

"It’s not about bravery, it’s about making sure to do the right thing, at the right time, for the other human—because we too are human." Marcie Rendon in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy : lithub.com/letter-from-...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

The same guys who leave laughing emoji on ICE articles would have been shooting the buffalo 150 years ago

Vikdun Quisling was the infamous Norwegian collaborator with the occupying Nazis whose name has become synonymous with betrayal. His legacy is overwhelmingly that of a man who sold out his country for personal and political gain. A man for our time. "Quisling Culture" should be a term of discourse.

​Book cover for Place-Keepers: Latina/x Art, Performance, and Organizing in the Twin Cities by Jessica Lopez Lyman. Color graphic blending musical bars behind two people smiling and gesturing toward the Taco Taxi restaurant’s marquee over a spray-painted facade.

Book cover for We Miss You, George Floyd by Shannon Gibney. Illustrated cover showing a young black woman in a green shirt holding a sign displaying the title of the book against a purple background.

Book cover for We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, edited by Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura. Title in large sans-serif black font against blue-sky background; in lower third, orange ground serves as backdrop for an upside-down Minneapolis skyline.

Book cover for The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives by David Mura. Image of an extremely thick book that displays the title and author name in black text on white cover. Background is a glaring, solid red.

Books for Understanding ICE in Minnesota: a curated list of titles to aid in understanding the profound and disturbing events that have so deeply affected our communities. www.upress.umn.edu/books-for-un...

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

ICE agents tried to quietly get Mexican food in Minneapolis, local neighbors and protesters found out and shamed then out of the neighborhood!

Ms. Omar, visibly shaken after the assault, insisted to her staff and security that she would continue. She asked for a napkin and told them: "Just give me 10 minutes. I beg you. Please don't let them have the show." Ms. Omar then turned the crowd. "Here's the reality that people like this ugly man don't understand," she said. "We are Minnesota strong, and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us." Someone in the crowd later thanked Ms. Omar for staying and continuing after the assault, which had shaken not only her but the entire room. "I learned at a young age you don't give in to threats," Ms. Omar said.

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

DHS Says Critical ICE Surveillance Footage From Abuse Case Was Actually Never Recorded, Doesn't Matter Court records reveal the incredibly sad state of ICE's evidence retention systems.

New: DHS now says that two weeks of missing surveillance footage from ICE's Broadview Detention center isn't "missing," it was never recorded in the first place and thus can't be produced in an abuse lawsuit. An utter shitshow:

www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...

“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…

So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

They are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic thinking it'll fix the hole caused by the iceberg. But we are the iceberg.

on eat street today, pho 79 was giving out no-cost community meals; luna and the bear had free coffee for folks; cheapo had a sign up encouraging folks visiting alex pretti's memorial site to come in, warm up, and use the bathroom. good city full of good people imo.

This is a win and it's worth celebrating.

The Border Patrol thugs we've seen while out patrolling Northeast MPLS and for sure some of the most aggressive and unhinged people I've ever seen personally. Horrific stuff. Worse than ICE, if you can believe it.

Bauer, who is 49, struggled to maintain her composure as she described the day early this month when ICE showed up in force outside her school. Agents had been circling the school since December, seemingly learning its routines, and they arrested some parents just before the winter break. But this time, agents leapt out in riot gear and began entering the apartments just across from the school, where many students live. “We had to lock down and keep the kids inside, and parents linked arms to block the school entrance,” Bauer said. “We had a student who was looking out the window and saw them break into his apartment and just sobbed, ‘That’s my house. That’s my home.’ And we shut the blinds, but it was too late.”

The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

if you're wondering how insane things are here now

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.