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#ActuallyAutistic • #ADHD • #AuDHD • Parent of autists • HS Math/SpEd teacher • Fat-finger typos • Trying, but burned out • Minneapolis area • He/Him
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A (pinned) reintroduction is in order now that The Third Exodus from Xitter seems to be total and lasting.
Hi All,
I chose Halvar as my internet moniker because a) disabled parent of disabled children & state employee and b) a single story passage meant so much to me.
Hi All,
I chose Halvar as my internet moniker because a) disabled parent of disabled children & state employee and b) a single story passage meant so much to me.
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They have fucking assault rifles and we have whistles and they’re scared shitless, because they know we’d rather be righteous and dead than ever be them.
January 15, 2026 at 3:56 AM
They have fucking assault rifles and we have whistles and they’re scared shitless, because they know we’d rather be righteous and dead than ever be them.
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The four Oglala Lakota men detained by ICE in South Minneapolis have been partially identified, according to a Tuesday night statement from Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 15, 2026 at 1:58 AM
The four Oglala Lakota men detained by ICE in South Minneapolis have been partially identified, according to a Tuesday night statement from Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
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Yeah man all my friends in Minnesota are buying high viz vests and forming human chains at class dismissals because ICE is targeting and tear gassing schools. I wonder why parents would want information about that.
January 14, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Yeah man all my friends in Minnesota are buying high viz vests and forming human chains at class dismissals because ICE is targeting and tear gassing schools. I wonder why parents would want information about that.
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The Powderhorn Park neighborhood has been the biggest target of immigration enforcement in Minnesota. It’s home to a large immigrant community who is now struggling to pay rent. Kidnappings are on the rise because people cannot stay home. Please help us out. Link is in my bio.
gofund.me/350c67697
gofund.me/350c67697
Donate to Support Powderhorn Families with Urgent Rent Relief, organized by Powderhorn Neighbors
We are a small group of Powderhorn neighbors, and we have cre… Powderhorn Neighbors needs your support for Support Powderhorn Families with Urgent Rent Relief
gofund.me
January 14, 2026 at 5:17 AM
The Powderhorn Park neighborhood has been the biggest target of immigration enforcement in Minnesota. It’s home to a large immigrant community who is now struggling to pay rent. Kidnappings are on the rise because people cannot stay home. Please help us out. Link is in my bio.
gofund.me/350c67697
gofund.me/350c67697
Thankfully, went off without incident. About half our tiny school with signs and bullhorns, cheering as neighbors came by honking in support.
Proud as hell.
Proud as hell.
This went viral with students and is planned today. I'm worried, because a large number of Minneapolis metro schools are closed/online, making my small school (within a mile of an ICE hotel) one hell of a target.
January 13, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Thankfully, went off without incident. About half our tiny school with signs and bullhorns, cheering as neighbors came by honking in support.
Proud as hell.
Proud as hell.
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this is absolutely part of the equation. Look at how virulently angry they are at Renee Good and her wife.
I've been telling people that the reason this is happening in no small part is because they see urban white Minnesotans as race traitors. For having a semi-integrated society at all, but also for 2020.
January 13, 2026 at 6:16 PM
this is absolutely part of the equation. Look at how virulently angry they are at Renee Good and her wife.
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I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota.
If you have places for me to add, please DM me.
If you have places for me to add, please DM me.
Places to Donate to in Minnesota
Buy/Donate Materials: Help buy dashcams for legal observers Bethel Church Food Pantry TC Food Justice: Donate food Mutual Aid Funds: Lyndale School Mutual Aid Fund Rent Relief Fund for Southside Fami...
docs.google.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota.
If you have places for me to add, please DM me.
If you have places for me to add, please DM me.
This went viral with students and is planned today. I'm worried, because a large number of Minneapolis metro schools are closed/online, making my small school (within a mile of an ICE hotel) one hell of a target.
January 13, 2026 at 12:24 PM
This went viral with students and is planned today. I'm worried, because a large number of Minneapolis metro schools are closed/online, making my small school (within a mile of an ICE hotel) one hell of a target.
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Sorry if I seem angry. I've been keeping myself informed.
January 13, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Sorry if I seem angry. I've been keeping myself informed.
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here’s a glimpse into ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis. This map is wiped DAILY and shows critical, active, and observed 🧊activity
January 13, 2026 at 2:59 AM
here’s a glimpse into ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis. This map is wiped DAILY and shows critical, active, and observed 🧊activity
Show up early to print tests, organize donations, and do foot patrol of unloading zones.
Have 19 different discussions with students about occupation and precautions.
Patrols at pickup.
Inform tutoring group agents going door-to-door in their neighborhood.
Try to be a dad.
Just another Monday 🫠
Have 19 different discussions with students about occupation and precautions.
Patrols at pickup.
Inform tutoring group agents going door-to-door in their neighborhood.
Try to be a dad.
Just another Monday 🫠
January 13, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Show up early to print tests, organize donations, and do foot patrol of unloading zones.
Have 19 different discussions with students about occupation and precautions.
Patrols at pickup.
Inform tutoring group agents going door-to-door in their neighborhood.
Try to be a dad.
Just another Monday 🫠
Have 19 different discussions with students about occupation and precautions.
Patrols at pickup.
Inform tutoring group agents going door-to-door in their neighborhood.
Try to be a dad.
Just another Monday 🫠
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i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.
January 13, 2026 at 1:54 AM
i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.
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Feeling this in my soul right now.
January 12, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Feeling this in my soul right now.
Feeling this in my soul right now.
January 12, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Feeling this in my soul right now.
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Too many people are trying to differentiate between ICE and police.
I will hold your hand as I say this:
Police in the US treat marginalized people the way ICE treats everyone. They're far more similar than you want to admit.
Defunding the police and abolishing ICE are the same fight.
I will hold your hand as I say this:
Police in the US treat marginalized people the way ICE treats everyone. They're far more similar than you want to admit.
Defunding the police and abolishing ICE are the same fight.
January 10, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Too many people are trying to differentiate between ICE and police.
I will hold your hand as I say this:
Police in the US treat marginalized people the way ICE treats everyone. They're far more similar than you want to admit.
Defunding the police and abolishing ICE are the same fight.
I will hold your hand as I say this:
Police in the US treat marginalized people the way ICE treats everyone. They're far more similar than you want to admit.
Defunding the police and abolishing ICE are the same fight.
Some good news instead.
BREAKING and HUGE news for transgender people: The bipartisan final negotiated text for these spending bills REMOVED language to restrict gender-affirming care as part of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program.
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
January 12, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Some good news instead.
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Please understand this is happening in literally dozens of locations around the city simultaneously. If an ICE vehicle stops, community members materialize in seconds and do everything they can to stop the kidnappings. We are under siege and using every tool to fight back.
430k of us vs. 2k of them, we're gonna win this
Cedar & 31st I think
Cedar & 31st I think
January 11, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Please understand this is happening in literally dozens of locations around the city simultaneously. If an ICE vehicle stops, community members materialize in seconds and do everything they can to stop the kidnappings. We are under siege and using every tool to fight back.
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Door-to-door nazi-style raids have begun in St. Paul with personal oversight from modern-day Ernst Röhm Greg Bovino. Appears they are shutting down blocks at a time.
Victoria & Thomas on the border of East Midway & West Frogtown near Billy's Victorian Bar
Victoria & Thomas on the border of East Midway & West Frogtown near Billy's Victorian Bar
January 11, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Door-to-door nazi-style raids have begun in St. Paul with personal oversight from modern-day Ernst Röhm Greg Bovino. Appears they are shutting down blocks at a time.
Victoria & Thomas on the border of East Midway & West Frogtown near Billy's Victorian Bar
Victoria & Thomas on the border of East Midway & West Frogtown near Billy's Victorian Bar
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Outside the Whipple building in Minneapolis—
Feds just emerged and unleashed pepper spray on demonstrators for approaching the driveway, sprayed one man directly in the face repeatedly. Pepper balls.
Air is toxic, there were children out here in strollers. Reporters caught unprepared.
Feds just emerged and unleashed pepper spray on demonstrators for approaching the driveway, sprayed one man directly in the face repeatedly. Pepper balls.
Air is toxic, there were children out here in strollers. Reporters caught unprepared.
January 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Outside the Whipple building in Minneapolis—
Feds just emerged and unleashed pepper spray on demonstrators for approaching the driveway, sprayed one man directly in the face repeatedly. Pepper balls.
Air is toxic, there were children out here in strollers. Reporters caught unprepared.
Feds just emerged and unleashed pepper spray on demonstrators for approaching the driveway, sprayed one man directly in the face repeatedly. Pepper balls.
Air is toxic, there were children out here in strollers. Reporters caught unprepared.
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the fundamental problem of a war of occupation is that yesterday's neutral bystander becomes tomorrow's resistance fighter after today's outrage
cannot stress enough that they are abducting legal observers left and right and people are hearing about this happening to other people and still immediately going “alright where can i go to help now”
January 11, 2026 at 8:14 PM
the fundamental problem of a war of occupation is that yesterday's neutral bystander becomes tomorrow's resistance fighter after today's outrage
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Assume that if you have been ICE spotting in the city that you are on a list.
Do not share photos of protests with faces visible. Lock down your shit and make a plan.
Do not share photos of protests with faces visible. Lock down your shit and make a plan.
Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
January 11, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Assume that if you have been ICE spotting in the city that you are on a list.
Do not share photos of protests with faces visible. Lock down your shit and make a plan.
Do not share photos of protests with faces visible. Lock down your shit and make a plan.
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The real story behind child care fraud in Minnesota is far less nefarious than what is purported.
Here’s what we actually know about child care fraud in Minnesota and elsewhere, and how day cares and families may be impacted by the new changes.
@chabeli.bsky.social reports.
Here’s what we actually know about child care fraud in Minnesota and elsewhere, and how day cares and families may be impacted by the new changes.
@chabeli.bsky.social reports.
Here's what's really happening with child care fraud in Minnesota
Evidence is nowhere near the epidemic levels a viral YouTube video would suggest — but it hasn’t stopped a crackdown on child care funding. Here's a fact check.
19thnews.org
January 9, 2026 at 7:25 PM
The real story behind child care fraud in Minnesota is far less nefarious than what is purported.
Here’s what we actually know about child care fraud in Minnesota and elsewhere, and how day cares and families may be impacted by the new changes.
@chabeli.bsky.social reports.
Here’s what we actually know about child care fraud in Minnesota and elsewhere, and how day cares and families may be impacted by the new changes.
@chabeli.bsky.social reports.
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Another video "showed a young man, who identified himself as Native American, dragged from his car by ICE agents. The man was detained by ICE shortly after he and his aunt were stopped and questioned in the parking lot of a Hy-Vee in Robbinsdale..." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Twin Cities Native American community members share resources, support amid ICE operations
Incidents involving ICE agents and Native American community members have prompted tribal leaders and Native advocacy groups to mobilize resources and provide guidance to tribal citizens and families.
www.mprnews.org
January 11, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Another video "showed a young man, who identified himself as Native American, dragged from his car by ICE agents. The man was detained by ICE shortly after he and his aunt were stopped and questioned in the parking lot of a Hy-Vee in Robbinsdale..." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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The MPD union, at least, has made it clear which side they are on.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
January 10, 2026 at 9:31 PM
The MPD union, at least, has made it clear which side they are on.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
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You are doing the right thing. It sucks to be under siege but you are under siege. And you won't be free while these law enforcement agencies continue to exist.
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 11, 2026 at 12:09 AM
You are doing the right thing. It sucks to be under siege but you are under siege. And you won't be free while these law enforcement agencies continue to exist.