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Kit
@katjakaboom.bsky.social
Minneapolis mischief muse
Ope I think I wrote this 2 days too early.

This is all unfolding faster than our nervous systems & psyches can handle.

There's just too much going on to manage effectively.

If you're overwhelmed right now, make time to do nothing or engage in mindful play.

You don't have to go til you drop.
Love note to my comrades in the fight:

Beloved, remember - first and foremost, we must care for ourselves. Knowing & honoring our own capacities, and trusting in our communities to keep the work of resistance & mutual aid going while we rest & recharge, is fundamental to long-term sustainability.
January 25, 2026 at 6:07 AM
This declaration from a witness to Alex Pretti's execution moved me deeply to read. Direct no-nonsense observations of what happened & clear expressions of their own subjective experience, incl. their terror now about what retribution they may face for coming forward, & why they're doing so anyway.
JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF
www.documentcloud.org
January 25, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
"Let this radicalize you, rather than lead you to despair" -Mariame Kaba

We're just gonna keep channeling our outrage into solidarity. Yes, it's fucking scary, but do the numbers -- you saw the march yesterday. The more of us join, the safer we all are.
🧊🔥 Join us tomorrow, January 24th from 1-3pm at Eagles 34 in Minneapolis for a Legal Observer Training led by Twin Cities DSA! You'll learn best practices for non-violent peaceful action as a Legal Observer within your community. Register here: buff.ly/uU0WOYf
January 24, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Stringing another 300 whistles today for people who have been waiting for this to all go away, who instead of being cowed will be radicalized and ready to get in the resistance seeing this.
Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
January 24, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Another ICE murder this morning here in Minneapolis, in Nicollet near Glam Doll. For those who don't want to watch the video, 5 agents tackle and beat an observer, then one starts shooting them after they are already on the ground. The scene is erupting now.
January 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
January 23, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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Concentration Camp: a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitation or punishment.
CNN’s Jake Tapper cuts off bookstore owner after clash over ‘concentration camps’ remark
YouTube video by Erik De La Garza
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Meanwhile while tens of thousands of folx marched downtown, untold numbers kept up patrols and mutual aid runs, clergy shut down part of the airport, little protests all over the metro, businesses closed everywhere...and these folx barricaded ICE from going in or out of Whipple for over half an hour
Today is #ICEout day in MN with high temps reaching -11°F & masses are protesting at MSP Airport while hundreds are outside the Whipple Fed Building. On one side a blockade prevents ICE vehicles from driving thru while ice balls are thrown at vehicles on the other side. At least 2 arrests so far.
January 24, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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Rogers Park resident and Ice Watcher here. Give credit where credit is due. La folks started the whistle thing and the first zines were put together by the Pilsen Arts Collective. We're just a neighborhood of old hippies and young immigrants with no patience for this bullshit.
January 24, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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Minneapolis's anti-ICE organizing grew, in part, from seeds planted in the 2020 uprising. And as Minneapolis organizers @jonathanstegall.bsky.social & @annekosseffjones.bsky.social write, "By protecting our neighbors from ICE, we are practicing abolition."

truthout.org/articles/min...
Minneapolis’s 2020 Uprising Laid an Abolitionist Groundwork for ICE Resistance
The George Floyd uprising laid foundations for the politicized networks of care that are organizing against ICE now.
truthout.org
January 24, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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Minneapolis says no to ICE.
January 23, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Essential reading

"White MNs have come to understand that MN is racist to MNs of color in many ways. Doing nothing to change that doesn’t fit the MN persona, so honestly, we have no choice but to work to create solidarity.

It’s, like, the nice thing to do!"
ohdionne.substack.com/p/why-is-min...
Why is Minneapolis like this?
A Minnesotan's opinion on what's got us fighting the feds in the streets.
ohdionne.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:08 PM
The whistles are fantastic. That tactic - and a TON of the whistles - came from a group of organizers & activists in Rogers Park, Chicago, where Bovino and his goobermensch were before coming here. This is a global resistance.
Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
January 23, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Where is the Amber Alert for Chloe? 😭
January 23, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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🚨✈️ MN clergy minutes before being arrested at MSP Airport, as they prayerfully demanded airline companies like Delta stand with Minnesotans and say #ICEOutOfMN.

❄️🔥 In -20° weather, across every background and every corner of our state, Minnesotans will always show up to protect our people.
January 23, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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The clergy just keep coming to this anti-ICE protest.

Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.
January 23, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Love note to my comrades in the fight:

Beloved, remember - first and foremost, we must care for ourselves. Knowing & honoring our own capacities, and trusting in our communities to keep the work of resistance & mutual aid going while we rest & recharge, is fundamental to long-term sustainability.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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Hi, this is what I've been working on this week.
Voices of the MN Occupation - Racket
A real-time oral history of the ICE assault on Minnesota
racketmn.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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We’re out here every day. Watching over our streets. Making sure our kids get to school safely. Delivering groceries to our neighbors. We’re doing everything we can to protect one another.

But it’s not enough. On Friday Jan 23, we shut MN down. No work. No school. No shopping. ICE out of MN now.
January 22, 2026 at 6:57 PM
After getting an Amber Alert for a 7yo missing from the outskirts of the Twin Cities metro tonight, I can't stop thinking about how much more unsafe I feel with 3,000 ICE and CBP agents in the area
A thread of ICE and CBP sex offenders and credibly accused sex pasts. Content-warning descriptions of abuse

Yuma Sector CBP agent Ramon Marquez, 31, was arrested in May 2025 and has been charged with 15 felonies including 14 counts of sexual conduct with a 16-year-old between Dec 2024 and Apr 2025.
January 22, 2026 at 6:16 AM
Here in the occupied Twin Cities Metro, we got an Amber Alert tonight for a missing 7yo -- terrible, and I wish for them to be found swiftly and unharmed -- AND, someone tell me how Liam's kidnapping deserves any less horror and expenditure of resources to get him home.

ABOLISH ICE.
This is who federal agents are ripping out of their communities and shipping across the country. This is the danger we're being protected from.
January 22, 2026 at 6:05 AM