Jennifer Thorvig
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January 16, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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if you don’t live in minneapolis and you’re just watching from afar you need to get familiar with ring theory and stop venting your anger at us, it’s inappropriate and not helpful to have people who do not live here replying to us with negative emotions. stop putting that on us
January 16, 2026 at 7:41 PM
if you don’t live in minneapolis and you’re just watching from afar you need to get familiar with ring theory and stop venting your anger at us, it’s inappropriate and not helpful to have people who do not live here replying to us with negative emotions. stop putting that on us
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We want to hear from people in Minnesota about the surge of thousands of federal immigration agents in the area
People in Minneapolis and St Paul: what is life like in the Twin Cities right now?
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:21 PM
We want to hear from people in Minnesota about the surge of thousands of federal immigration agents in the area
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Do your thing, MN folks
We want to hear from people in Minnesota about the surge of thousands of federal immigration agents in the area
People in Minneapolis and St Paul: what is life like in the Twin Cities right now?
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Do your thing, MN folks
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Because the media does not know how to frame what is happening, they keep referring to regular Minnesotans as protesters. But there is very explicit training that so many people done to learn how to be a constitutional observer. People are bearing witness to kidnappings, with phones and whistles.
by @democraticwins.bsky.social CNN just aired a devastating compilation of all the times ICE brutally attacked Americans. Remember, Donald Trump sponsored this. This is done at his command.
January 16, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Because the media does not know how to frame what is happening, they keep referring to regular Minnesotans as protesters. But there is very explicit training that so many people done to learn how to be a constitutional observer. People are bearing witness to kidnappings, with phones and whistles.
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This is the thing. There ARE protests here but the bigger story (and what you see in most of the clips online) is that many people here are just going about their daily lives **but constantly vigilant and running in to help the second it's needed.**
(Many others, of course, are hiding for safety)
(Many others, of course, are hiding for safety)
Regular people are, at a moment’s notice, dropping everything to go watch armed masked goons. They blow whistles to notify other neighbors to come out of their homes and record what is happening and get the vulnerable inside. ICE hates it because they don’t want people to know what they are doing.
January 16, 2026 at 5:38 PM
This is the thing. There ARE protests here but the bigger story (and what you see in most of the clips online) is that many people here are just going about their daily lives **but constantly vigilant and running in to help the second it's needed.**
(Many others, of course, are hiding for safety)
(Many others, of course, are hiding for safety)
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This could be the unified Dem position. It is wildly popular. Puts the regime on defense on two fronts at the same time. Good policy, good politics.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...
Progressive Caucus Backs Bill To Redirect ICE Money To Affordable Housing
www.huffpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:29 AM
This could be the unified Dem position. It is wildly popular. Puts the regime on defense on two fronts at the same time. Good policy, good politics.
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Just another way to try and be helpful— if you are in another place where ICE decides to ramp up and would like to create a resource like standwithminnesota.com for your state, let me know and we can clone the site and set you up to get started.
January 16, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Just another way to try and be helpful— if you are in another place where ICE decides to ramp up and would like to create a resource like standwithminnesota.com for your state, let me know and we can clone the site and set you up to get started.
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Note: Minnesota is full of great writers who need work. Stop putting your dudes on planes and start hiring local writers. I've now connected two folks. I can find you more.
*I do not want this work I have a syllabus to finish this ain't about me.
*I do not want this work I have a syllabus to finish this ain't about me.
January 16, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Note: Minnesota is full of great writers who need work. Stop putting your dudes on planes and start hiring local writers. I've now connected two folks. I can find you more.
*I do not want this work I have a syllabus to finish this ain't about me.
*I do not want this work I have a syllabus to finish this ain't about me.
Nothing like being tailgated by a black SUV that's so close, you can't see the front license plate until they back off to go around you.
Front plate was Minnesota. Back plate was Illinois.
Front plate was Minnesota. Back plate was Illinois.
If you’re in the Twin Cities and want to do the most minimal thing to annoy ICE, drive the fucking speed limit. These goons get so angry when 20 is plenty.
January 16, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Nothing like being tailgated by a black SUV that's so close, you can't see the front license plate until they back off to go around you.
Front plate was Minnesota. Back plate was Illinois.
Front plate was Minnesota. Back plate was Illinois.
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If politicians keep telling me to turn down the temperature, I’m going to start turning violent
open.substack.com/pub/wburdine...
open.substack.com/pub/wburdine...
Turning Down the Temperature
I wrote recently to try to capture some of what it feels like to be in Minnesota right now.
open.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:49 PM
If politicians keep telling me to turn down the temperature, I’m going to start turning violent
open.substack.com/pub/wburdine...
open.substack.com/pub/wburdine...
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They're pulling over St. Paul Public School kids in district-owned vehicles. I have a little more detail about this incident that I can't share, but I promise you, it's horrifying. www.fox9.com/news/st-paul...
St. Paul Schools van full of teachers, students pulled over by ICE agents
St. Paul Public Schools says one of its contracted transport vans was pulled over by ICE agents with both students and staff on board.
www.fox9.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:31 PM
They're pulling over St. Paul Public School kids in district-owned vehicles. I have a little more detail about this incident that I can't share, but I promise you, it's horrifying. www.fox9.com/news/st-paul...
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@dbrauer.net I put together a whistle version with the Monarca number on them. This whistle design works best and prints best for me: www.thingiverse.com/thing:7273282
Please help me spread the word to folks with #3DPrinters for #3DPrinting and sharing out into the MN community.
Please help me spread the word to folks with #3DPrinters for #3DPrinting and sharing out into the MN community.
Emergency Whistle - MN Community ICE Response - Monarca Phone # by Morjax
Whistle with Monarca MN "Report ICE" number of 612-441-2881 (https://monarcamn.org/about). These whistles are the best ones I've found after testing a couple dozen designs that: print most consistentl...
www.thingiverse.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:34 PM
@dbrauer.net I put together a whistle version with the Monarca number on them. This whistle design works best and prints best for me: www.thingiverse.com/thing:7273282
Please help me spread the word to folks with #3DPrinters for #3DPrinting and sharing out into the MN community.
Please help me spread the word to folks with #3DPrinters for #3DPrinting and sharing out into the MN community.
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I know for many using Mpls as a place name is shorthand for this area, but I do feel like it minimizes the scope and intensity of what’s really happening here to the outside world. I can’t go outside without seeing 🧊 and its effects. And they’re all the way up in the Iron range.
January 16, 2026 at 3:54 PM
I know for many using Mpls as a place name is shorthand for this area, but I do feel like it minimizes the scope and intensity of what’s really happening here to the outside world. I can’t go outside without seeing 🧊 and its effects. And they’re all the way up in the Iron range.
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Blowing whistles works. ICE was at 40th and Victory Memorial pulled to the side after they talked to Robbinsdale Police and holding down my horn and whistle for 5 min brought out 10-15 neighbors nearly all with whistles.
January 16, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Blowing whistles works. ICE was at 40th and Victory Memorial pulled to the side after they talked to Robbinsdale Police and holding down my horn and whistle for 5 min brought out 10-15 neighbors nearly all with whistles.
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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Minneapolis residents are painting tunnels onto brick walls and ICE agents are running into them. This is not funny.
Naaaaaaailed it
January 15, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Minneapolis residents are painting tunnels onto brick walls and ICE agents are running into them. This is not funny.
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At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
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I care more about supporting the people being harmed by ICE than I do about abortion or gay rights -& those things are the work of my life
Right now I care about punishing the people attacking my city more than I care about healthcare policy.
… and I have probably published fifty essays on Medicaid and related programs over the years.
… and I have probably published fifty essays on Medicaid and related programs over the years.
January 15, 2026 at 11:52 PM
I care more about supporting the people being harmed by ICE than I do about abortion or gay rights -& those things are the work of my life
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Local parents groups asking if adults can ride school buses to help protect children from ICE after a special ed bus got stopped this morning. Like a Dirty Harry movie except the villain in the federal government.
January 12, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Local parents groups asking if adults can ride school buses to help protect children from ICE after a special ed bus got stopped this morning. Like a Dirty Harry movie except the villain in the federal government.
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Right now I care about punishing the people attacking my city more than I care about healthcare policy.
… and I have probably published fifty essays on Medicaid and related programs over the years.
… and I have probably published fifty essays on Medicaid and related programs over the years.
January 15, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Right now I care about punishing the people attacking my city more than I care about healthcare policy.
… and I have probably published fifty essays on Medicaid and related programs over the years.
… and I have probably published fifty essays on Medicaid and related programs over the years.
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crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
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"Their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness."
North Minneapolis ICE shooting: 6 children hospitalized after flash bang hits van
A family was caught in clashes between protesters and law enforcement during civil unrest in north Minneapolis, leading to six children, including a 6-month-old baby, being hospitalized.
www.fox9.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:56 PM
"Their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness."
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THREAD of offers of guest lectures (via Zoom) for Minneapolis-area classes so faculty can offer their students a top-quality education while dealing with other crises
Seeing tons of extremely generous offers. I'll try to post 'em all here--please add your own w topics you can cover & how to contact
Seeing tons of extremely generous offers. I'll try to post 'em all here--please add your own w topics you can cover & how to contact
Finally, a note to the many professors in my networks: One other specific, small thing you can do from outside of Minneapolis is reach out to colleagues who are heavily affected (because of their own or their family's risk, or because they're very busy protecting neighbors) and offer a guest lecture
January 15, 2026 at 7:43 PM
THREAD of offers of guest lectures (via Zoom) for Minneapolis-area classes so faculty can offer their students a top-quality education while dealing with other crises
Seeing tons of extremely generous offers. I'll try to post 'em all here--please add your own w topics you can cover & how to contact
Seeing tons of extremely generous offers. I'll try to post 'em all here--please add your own w topics you can cover & how to contact
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Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats
January 15, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats