Laurie Hertzel
@lhertzel.bsky.social
Book reader, book critic, author "News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist." Next memoir, "Ghosts of Fourth Street," pubs in 2026. I review for StarTribune, Washington Post, Boston Globe, LATimes and elsewhere. Teach in MFA program at UGA-Athens.
Oh, Minneapolis! If you win I know 100 percent you will not give the award away. We here across the river in St. Paul salute you and follow in your peaceful footsteps. @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/acti...
“The Nation” Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize
With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.”
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January 29, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Oh, Minneapolis! If you win I know 100 percent you will not give the award away. We here across the river in St. Paul salute you and follow in your peaceful footsteps. @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Yes!!
WERE NOT PROTESTORS WE JUST LIVE HERE AND DRINK COFFEE
January 28, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Yes!!
The journal @lithub.com.web.brid.gy has been running Letters from Minnesotans this week, essays by some of our most respected writers. Today's from Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong woman and a brilliant and honored writer, might break you. But all of them are powerful. lithub.com/letter-from-...
Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…”
Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as f…
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January 28, 2026 at 3:23 PM
The journal @lithub.com.web.brid.gy has been running Letters from Minnesotans this week, essays by some of our most respected writers. Today's from Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong woman and a brilliant and honored writer, might break you. But all of them are powerful. lithub.com/letter-from-...
She has a fundraiser to help her pay for security. The government does not protect her and she must hire her own guards. And the president continues to attack her verbally, including yesterday right before this attack.
The courage of Ilhan Omar to hold a public town meeting. I don't think Republican representatives do that anymore. And her courage to continue, after this man attacked her!
Here’s the face of the man who attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar with a spray. Pure rage.
Source: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Source: www.bbc.com/news/article...
January 28, 2026 at 1:50 PM
She has a fundraiser to help her pay for security. The government does not protect her and she must hire her own guards. And the president continues to attack her verbally, including yesterday right before this attack.
The courage of Ilhan Omar to hold a public town meeting. I don't think Republican representatives do that anymore. And her courage to continue, after this man attacked her!
Here’s the face of the man who attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar with a spray. Pure rage.
Source: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Source: www.bbc.com/news/article...
January 28, 2026 at 1:43 PM
The courage of Ilhan Omar to hold a public town meeting. I don't think Republican representatives do that anymore. And her courage to continue, after this man attacked her!
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Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Warning: video is hard to watch
Warning: video is hard to watch
January 27, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Warning: video is hard to watch
Warning: video is hard to watch
Hearing folks are bummed they missed the Eyes on ICE training - but good news, it's all recorded and public! We'll be holding more live trainings soon, but if you aren't one of 200,000 who already watched it, find it here: www.youtube.com/live/zqka9fU...
Eyes on ICE: Document and Record
YouTube video by No Kings
www.youtube.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Reposted by Laurie Hertzel
ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown
Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:42 AM
ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Dear Every Single News Outlet: OBSERVING IS NOT THE SAME AS PROTESTING. Please get it right. Words matter!
January 27, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Dear Every Single News Outlet: OBSERVING IS NOT THE SAME AS PROTESTING. Please get it right. Words matter!
He thought he was going to die that day.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
Alex Pretti was in earlier confrontation with federal agents who tackled him, broke his rib, sources say | CNN
Federal immigration officials have been collecting information on protesters and agitators, sources told CNN.
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January 27, 2026 at 5:47 PM
He thought he was going to die that day.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
he "got into an altercation" with federal officers. geeeeeeez the truth means nothing to them.
FOX NEWS: Are you standing by calling Pretti a domestic terrorist?
McLAUGHLIN: Well, we'll let this investigation ...
FOX NEWS: Ok. So I guess it stands.
McLAUGHLIN: Well, we'll let this investigation ...
FOX NEWS: Ok. So I guess it stands.
January 27, 2026 at 2:45 PM
he "got into an altercation" with federal officers. geeeeeeez the truth means nothing to them.
Reposted by Laurie Hertzel
🚨"What the f*ck is wrong with you!" -our @tinadesireeberg.com after she was attacked & gassed by Border Patrol agents while covering a protest at ICE hotel in Minneapolis. Immigration agents also fired rubber bullets at protesters from point blank range. It looks like a WAR ZONE ⬇️
January 27, 2026 at 12:52 AM
🚨"What the f*ck is wrong with you!" -our @tinadesireeberg.com after she was attacked & gassed by Border Patrol agents while covering a protest at ICE hotel in Minneapolis. Immigration agents also fired rubber bullets at protesters from point blank range. It looks like a WAR ZONE ⬇️
Reposted by Laurie Hertzel
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
this is an old post, 10 days old, a lifetime ago, and i am just here to say this is no longer the story that makes me the saddest.
One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.
January 26, 2026 at 6:52 PM
this is an old post, 10 days old, a lifetime ago, and i am just here to say this is no longer the story that makes me the saddest.
so I am not on X and have never used anything like Grok but i am wondering if it can remove the clothes, digitally, from women and children, couldn't it also remove face masks and sunglasses from thuggish goons? Just wondering.
January 26, 2026 at 6:51 PM
so I am not on X and have never used anything like Grok but i am wondering if it can remove the clothes, digitally, from women and children, couldn't it also remove face masks and sunglasses from thuggish goons? Just wondering.
Reposted by Laurie Hertzel
“We need to stop the fraud in MN. So I’m sending in the guy that won’t answer if he still has the 50 grand bribe he took that Im helping cover up.”
January 26, 2026 at 2:04 PM
“We need to stop the fraud in MN. So I’m sending in the guy that won’t answer if he still has the 50 grand bribe he took that Im helping cover up.”
Reposted by Laurie Hertzel
🚨BREAKING: Hours after federal immigration officers shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, Pam Bondi seized upon the incident to demand access to voter rolls, directly tying the Trump administration’s quest for voters’ unredacted personal data to its aggressive immigration raids across the state.
AG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal Border Patrol shooting
Her demand came as Minneapolis was reeling from a second fatal shooting by a federal agent this month.
www.democracydocket.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:30 PM
🚨BREAKING: Hours after federal immigration officers shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, Pam Bondi seized upon the incident to demand access to voter rolls, directly tying the Trump administration’s quest for voters’ unredacted personal data to its aggressive immigration raids across the state.
Reposted by Laurie Hertzel
The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.
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January 25, 2026 at 6:11 PM
The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.
wapo.st/49Zqv1L
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Before joining the Veterans Administration, Alex Pretti did medical research to help treat cancer. His work is published in medical journals.
January 25, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Before joining the Veterans Administration, Alex Pretti did medical research to help treat cancer. His work is published in medical journals.
Reposted by Laurie Hertzel
Minnesota believes in law and order. We believe in peace. And we believe that Trump needs to pull his 3,000 untrained agents out of Minnesota before they kill another American in the street.
January 25, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Minnesota believes in law and order. We believe in peace. And we believe that Trump needs to pull his 3,000 untrained agents out of Minnesota before they kill another American in the street.
from @hcrichardson.bsky.social: As G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers wrote: Republicans could stop this at any time they wanted to. “All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is ... 1/2
January 25, 2026 at 2:55 PM
from @hcrichardson.bsky.social: As G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers wrote: Republicans could stop this at any time they wanted to. “All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is ... 1/2
glad he is safe. my god.
January 25, 2026 at 12:08 AM
glad he is safe. my god.
first they took his gun away (which he was not holding--it was in his waistband). then they shot him 10 times and said it was self-defense.
January 24, 2026 at 11:02 PM
first they took his gun away (which he was not holding--it was in his waistband). then they shot him 10 times and said it was self-defense.
I can’t even
Noem's lies are mind blowing: "This individual attacked those officers, had a weapon on him and multiple, dozens of rounds of ammunition, wishing to inflict harm on these officers, coming, brandishing like that.
January 24, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I can’t even