Karlee Weinmann
@karleeweinmann.bsky.social
Researcher @energyandpolicy.org. Midwest exceptionalist, South Minneapolis specifically.
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In addition to rent, groceries, and other essentials, utility bills are becoming a major need and are depleting mutual aid funds in our community. Please consider a contribution if you can: bit.ly/UtilityBillF....
February 12, 2026 at 6:21 PM
In addition to rent, groceries, and other essentials, utility bills are becoming a major need and are depleting mutual aid funds in our community. Please consider a contribution if you can: bit.ly/UtilityBillF....
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I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...
February 12, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...
Thousands of Minnesota families haven’t been able to work or leave home for two months due to ICE. Utility bills are stacking up big time.
Anyone can give to this fund to directly and immediately help with those expenses. Xcel, CenterPoint, and other for-profit utilities should be pitching in too.
Anyone can give to this fund to directly and immediately help with those expenses. Xcel, CenterPoint, and other for-profit utilities should be pitching in too.
🔌💡 LIGHTS ON, HOMES WARM FUND 🏠🤝
In partnership with the Energy CENTS Coalition, CUB is launching a fund to provide support to Minnesotans struggling with utility bills. Support the fund with a donation today: bit.ly/UtilityBillFundMN #LightsOnHomesWarmMN
In partnership with the Energy CENTS Coalition, CUB is launching a fund to provide support to Minnesotans struggling with utility bills. Support the fund with a donation today: bit.ly/UtilityBillFundMN #LightsOnHomesWarmMN
February 12, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Thousands of Minnesota families haven’t been able to work or leave home for two months due to ICE. Utility bills are stacking up big time.
Anyone can give to this fund to directly and immediately help with those expenses. Xcel, CenterPoint, and other for-profit utilities should be pitching in too.
Anyone can give to this fund to directly and immediately help with those expenses. Xcel, CenterPoint, and other for-profit utilities should be pitching in too.
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He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational
Homan: "Operation Metro Surge is ending. In the next week, we're going to deploy the officers here on detail back to their home stations or to other areas of the country where they're needed."
February 12, 2026 at 2:44 PM
He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational
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Minnesotans are traumatized, businesses have been decimated, entire communities have been in hiding and the educational and emotional cost to our children is immeasurable. There will be so much relief after these violent goons leave our streets but it will take a long time to rebuild.
February 12, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Minnesotans are traumatized, businesses have been decimated, entire communities have been in hiding and the educational and emotional cost to our children is immeasurable. There will be so much relief after these violent goons leave our streets but it will take a long time to rebuild.
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tell it to the hague, buddy
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
tell it to the hague, buddy
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this was yesterday.
i hope tomorrow is better.
i hope tomorrow is better.
This photo from St. Paul yesterday. (Leila Navidi for the Minnesota Star Tribune)
February 12, 2026 at 2:41 PM
this was yesterday.
i hope tomorrow is better.
i hope tomorrow is better.
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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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Need met! People are the best!
Everything over the $1600 we collected will be put toward another family’s needs.
Everything over the $1600 we collected will be put toward another family’s needs.
My household is supporting a South Minneapolis family unable to work or leave home due to ICE. If we can raise some or all of their $1600 rent, we can avoid drawing from high-demand assistance funds and ensure there's more to go around.
Venmo @karleekarleekarlee with 🏠 in the memo to help.
Venmo @karleekarleekarlee with 🏠 in the memo to help.
February 12, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Need met! People are the best!
Everything over the $1600 we collected will be put toward another family’s needs.
Everything over the $1600 we collected will be put toward another family’s needs.
Tell your friends! Tell your family! Especially if they have disposable income and live outside Minnesota! We're past the halfway point with $810/$1600 so far.
My household is supporting a South Minneapolis family unable to work or leave home due to ICE. If we can raise some or all of their $1600 rent, we can avoid drawing from high-demand assistance funds and ensure there's more to go around.
Venmo @karleekarleekarlee with 🏠 in the memo to help.
Venmo @karleekarleekarlee with 🏠 in the memo to help.
February 11, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Tell your friends! Tell your family! Especially if they have disposable income and live outside Minnesota! We're past the halfway point with $810/$1600 so far.
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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
My household is supporting a South Minneapolis family unable to work or leave home due to ICE. If we can raise some or all of their $1600 rent, we can avoid drawing from high-demand assistance funds and ensure there's more to go around.
Venmo @karleekarleekarlee with 🏠 in the memo to help.
Venmo @karleekarleekarlee with 🏠 in the memo to help.
February 11, 2026 at 3:45 PM
My household is supporting a South Minneapolis family unable to work or leave home due to ICE. If we can raise some or all of their $1600 rent, we can avoid drawing from high-demand assistance funds and ensure there's more to go around.
Venmo @karleekarleekarlee with 🏠 in the memo to help.
Venmo @karleekarleekarlee with 🏠 in the memo to help.
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We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
February 10, 2026 at 6:47 PM
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
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⚠️ There have been multiple reports of ICE agents using disguises and deceptions as their presence in Minnesota continues. Reports have included agents posing as construction workers, delivery drivers, and even electrical workers.
February 9, 2026 at 8:38 PM
⚠️ There have been multiple reports of ICE agents using disguises and deceptions as their presence in Minnesota continues. Reports have included agents posing as construction workers, delivery drivers, and even electrical workers.
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The Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building looms in the background of the camp at Coldwater Spring, or Mni Owe Sni, at Fort Snelling along the Mississippi River — where the U.S. government in the mid-1800s killed hundreds of Dakota people and imprisoned more than 1,600 in a concentration camp.
Native activists set up prayer camp outside Minneapolis ICE detention center • Minnesota Reformer
Tribal members and descendents set up tipis and a fire at a Fort Snelling Park for four days of prayer for those detained by ICE
minnesotareformer.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:30 AM
The Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building looms in the background of the camp at Coldwater Spring, or Mni Owe Sni, at Fort Snelling along the Mississippi River — where the U.S. government in the mid-1800s killed hundreds of Dakota people and imprisoned more than 1,600 in a concentration camp.
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Anyone in Minnesota will tell you that this matches the eye test. They are simply grabbing anyone who's not white. Full stop. There is no other strategy to this at all. It's a racist, heinous federal occupation.
Dismantle the agencies.
Prosecute everyone involved.
Redistribute all the funding.
Dismantle the agencies.
Prosecute everyone involved.
Redistribute all the funding.
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Anyone in Minnesota will tell you that this matches the eye test. They are simply grabbing anyone who's not white. Full stop. There is no other strategy to this at all. It's a racist, heinous federal occupation.
Dismantle the agencies.
Prosecute everyone involved.
Redistribute all the funding.
Dismantle the agencies.
Prosecute everyone involved.
Redistribute all the funding.
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Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
February 10, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.
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We should not normalize smashing in people's car windows. That alone is a civil rights violation!
Federal agents abducted two people in Uptown, Minneapolis this morning at 6:45am. Boxed in their car in the middle of a major commercial street (Lagoon) and smashed out their window.
February 10, 2026 at 4:55 PM
We should not normalize smashing in people's car windows. That alone is a civil rights violation!
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Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
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Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.
February 9, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.
This is eerily similar to an abduction I responded to in mid-December, nearly two whole months ago. While the national media gaze shifts elsewhere, in Minnesota we're still under daily threat.
I arrived too late to an abduction yesterday. Ice vehicles boxed in a food delivery driver on the highway. They took him, and when I came on the scene (with a few other neighbors in cars), his keys were still in it. We found his phone, a debit card, his car title and registration.
February 9, 2026 at 9:37 PM
This is eerily similar to an abduction I responded to in mid-December, nearly two whole months ago. While the national media gaze shifts elsewhere, in Minnesota we're still under daily threat.
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This direct mutual aid fund is tax deductible and your employer can match it, if any of my followers have been looking for one like that!
New mutual aid option just dropped (OK, maybe it didn't just drop, but I just found out about it): a direct aid fund run by Shir Tikvah. Takes donations by credit card or ACH.
www.yesodfund.org
www.yesodfund.org
Yesod Fund | Learn, Support, Make a Difference
Support those in need in the Twin Cities with the Yesod Fund. Providing direct aid for housing, food, and emergencies, fostering community stability and resilience.
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February 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
This direct mutual aid fund is tax deductible and your employer can match it, if any of my followers have been looking for one like that!
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When they boxed Elliott and I in and came to my car they literally said to us right away:
“This is your first and final warning we have license plate readers and facial recognition we know who you are”
“This is your first and final warning we have license plate readers and facial recognition we know who you are”
Trump admin is building a list of people to retaliate against for engaging in legal, 1st amendment protected activity.
Watching the watchers: ICE uses facial recognition to track citizen observers in Minnesota, federal court filing says
Federal immigration enforcement agents are using facial recognition technology to track and record U.S. citizen observers, according to a federal court declaration in Minnesota.
kstp.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:35 PM
When they boxed Elliott and I in and came to my car they literally said to us right away:
“This is your first and final warning we have license plate readers and facial recognition we know who you are”
“This is your first and final warning we have license plate readers and facial recognition we know who you are”
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵