Michael Corey
@mikejcorey.bsky.social
Geospatial, Technology, and Data Lead, Mapping Prejudice. Previously: Star Tribune, Reveal. Racial covenants, public history, mapping, data journalism. Team St. Paul.
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The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
They do not understand -- this weather only makes us stronger. They are locked up in here with us now.
Outside agitators? Please. You think anyone who didn’t live in Minnesota would be outside in this?
January 22, 2026 at 11:11 PM
They do not understand -- this weather only makes us stronger. They are locked up in here with us now.
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🤞 A good paper with good journalists deserves better management.
BREAKING: An investor group led by former Penguins biz president Kevin Acklin has formed and is looking to convert the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette into a nonprofit, he tells me. Development comes after PG announced earlier this month is would fold in May www.axios.com/local/pittsb...
Group trying to rescue Post-Gazette as nonprofit
A team of investors hopes to preserve Pittsburgh's largest paper by shifting to a nonprofit model.
www.axios.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:32 PM
🤞 A good paper with good journalists deserves better management.
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1/ We are entering year 3 of bargaining for a fair contract that protects both the workers who produce our award-winning, high-impact journalism as well as the quality of that work. We are also entering year 3 of @propublica.org management fighting against a fair contract. tinyurl.com/43znke28
January 21, 2026 at 4:22 PM
1/ We are entering year 3 of bargaining for a fair contract that protects both the workers who produce our award-winning, high-impact journalism as well as the quality of that work. We are also entering year 3 of @propublica.org management fighting against a fair contract. tinyurl.com/43znke28
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They are consistently proving our worst fears and suspicions. ICE is an irredeemable enterprise.
“ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
“ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:27 PM
They are consistently proving our worst fears and suspicions. ICE is an irredeemable enterprise.
“ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
“ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
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The combination of the image and headline
January 21, 2026 at 9:43 PM
The combination of the image and headline
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Welcome to Minneapolis. Our neighbors have witnessed too many war crimes at this point. Federal agents even left weapons on the ground.
January 21, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Welcome to Minneapolis. Our neighbors have witnessed too many war crimes at this point. Federal agents even left weapons on the ground.
It's time for St. Paul to cancel school on Friday so we parents can make some freaking plans. Whether it's for the strike or because it's going to be actually really unsafely cold, let's get on with it!
January 21, 2026 at 4:59 PM
It's time for St. Paul to cancel school on Friday so we parents can make some freaking plans. Whether it's for the strike or because it's going to be actually really unsafely cold, let's get on with it!
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ICE agents will come to the school patrol asking who the organizers are believing they’re like Soros shadow figures, and it’s like a bespectacled software engineer who didn’t know the names of more than 5 parents two weeks ago.
January 21, 2026 at 4:02 PM
ICE agents will come to the school patrol asking who the organizers are believing they’re like Soros shadow figures, and it’s like a bespectacled software engineer who didn’t know the names of more than 5 parents two weeks ago.
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I love that the country is inspired by MN. That’s great. Stop telling me that. We get it.
Tell us what you’re doing to help.
Are you organizing your community?
Sending us lawyers?
Pressuring your reps?
Boycotting? Who and how?
Donating to our very public mutual aid efforts?
HELP US.
Tell us what you’re doing to help.
Are you organizing your community?
Sending us lawyers?
Pressuring your reps?
Boycotting? Who and how?
Donating to our very public mutual aid efforts?
HELP US.
January 21, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I love that the country is inspired by MN. That’s great. Stop telling me that. We get it.
Tell us what you’re doing to help.
Are you organizing your community?
Sending us lawyers?
Pressuring your reps?
Boycotting? Who and how?
Donating to our very public mutual aid efforts?
HELP US.
Tell us what you’re doing to help.
Are you organizing your community?
Sending us lawyers?
Pressuring your reps?
Boycotting? Who and how?
Donating to our very public mutual aid efforts?
HELP US.
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I have been told that this undercover ICE agent tried to get observers to scan a QR code “for his website”. The QR code did not resolve to a link.
DO NOT SCAN UNKNOWN QR CODES FROM STRANGERS.
This is a massive security risk! Bad things can happen to you if you do it!
Stay frosty, friends.
DO NOT SCAN UNKNOWN QR CODES FROM STRANGERS.
This is a massive security risk! Bad things can happen to you if you do it!
Stay frosty, friends.
Every day some story breaks me some. Today it’s the guy who approached parents at a school patrol, told them he was with Indivisible, and asked about how the patrol system works. The parents gave vague answers, followed him back to his car — and of course it was ICE.
January 21, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I have been told that this undercover ICE agent tried to get observers to scan a QR code “for his website”. The QR code did not resolve to a link.
DO NOT SCAN UNKNOWN QR CODES FROM STRANGERS.
This is a massive security risk! Bad things can happen to you if you do it!
Stay frosty, friends.
DO NOT SCAN UNKNOWN QR CODES FROM STRANGERS.
This is a massive security risk! Bad things can happen to you if you do it!
Stay frosty, friends.
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And if you’re considering a run in the future you better believe we’ll be reviewing the record
If you are an elected official in the Twin Cities right now and you aren’t boots in the snow with your constituents, you’re doing it wrong.
January 20, 2026 at 11:00 PM
And if you’re considering a run in the future you better believe we’ll be reviewing the record
Genuinely this is the encouragement I needed today.
January 20, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Genuinely this is the encouragement I needed today.
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i personally think “don’t fund the gestapo” is a relatively small ask in the face of an illegal violent occupation of a US city that has killed at least one citizen and terrorized countless more. any elected who cannot clear even that modest bar is dead to me
January 20, 2026 at 12:18 PM
i personally think “don’t fund the gestapo” is a relatively small ask in the face of an illegal violent occupation of a US city that has killed at least one citizen and terrorized countless more. any elected who cannot clear even that modest bar is dead to me
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They can kidnap you, they can shoot you dead in the street, they can terrorize your neighbors and threaten World War 3, and the Democrats will always sign the check.
Congress clinches $1.2T funding deal for DHS, Pentagon, domestic agencies
House and Senate leaders are trying to clear the package before the Jan. 30 shutdown deadline.
www.politico.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:01 PM
They can kidnap you, they can shoot you dead in the street, they can terrorize your neighbors and threaten World War 3, and the Democrats will always sign the check.
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is it good when a trump appointee refers to the actions of a federal government lawyer and the arguments advanced by doj in filing joined by the attorney general and deputy attorney general as a 'charade'?
BREAKING: Federal court in Virginia—noting DOJ's filing "falls far beneath the level of advocacy expected from litigants in this Court, particularly the Department of Justice"—rules that Lindsey Halligan cannot hold herself out as "United States Attorney," striking that language from case filings.
January 20, 2026 at 7:22 PM
is it good when a trump appointee refers to the actions of a federal government lawyer and the arguments advanced by doj in filing joined by the attorney general and deputy attorney general as a 'charade'?
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NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 20, 2026 at 6:53 PM
NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her also subpoenaed, spokesperson confirms.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has been subpoenaed by the DOJ in connection with a federal investigation into whether he impeded immigration enforcement by making public statements.
The latest: Department of Justice calls Minnesota lawsuit against ICE surge ‘frivolous’
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, along with the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, sued the federal government in an attempt to end ICE’s Operation Metro Surge.
bit.ly
January 20, 2026 at 7:24 PM
St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her also subpoenaed, spokesperson confirms.
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People attempting to visit detainees from Minnesota at the Fort Bliss immigration holding facility have been turned away following the death of a Nicaraguan man.
From @elpasomatters.bsky.social
From @elpasomatters.bsky.social
Minnesota detainees denied visitors after 3rd death at ICE facility
People attempting to visit detainees from Minnesota at the Fort Bliss immigration holding facility have been turned away following the death of a Nicaraguan man.
sahanjournal.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:44 PM
People attempting to visit detainees from Minnesota at the Fort Bliss immigration holding facility have been turned away following the death of a Nicaraguan man.
From @elpasomatters.bsky.social
From @elpasomatters.bsky.social
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This is CRITICAL. I know you’re all putting your back into mutual aid & a thousand other great things, but if there’s anything left here, so many folks depend on these front-line lawyers right now.
I spoke to a friend on the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota board. They need financial donations to keep up with the heightened demand for their services: www.ilcm.org
ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND
ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND
Home - Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
www.ilcm.org
January 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
This is CRITICAL. I know you’re all putting your back into mutual aid & a thousand other great things, but if there’s anything left here, so many folks depend on these front-line lawyers right now.
Since I can't be out today, spending some time researching the history of people who feel the need to justify their often commented upon use of masks. My god they are so whiny, too.
January 19, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Since I can't be out today, spending some time researching the history of people who feel the need to justify their often commented upon use of masks. My god they are so whiny, too.
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An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says
After the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights probe into the shooting. The Justice Department says no such case now exists.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:59 PM
An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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it is -10 here today. I was supposed to go do a volunteer shift standing outside loading groceries into people’s cars to deliver to families stuck at home. just got a call not to come in because they have too many volunteers already. if you were wondering if the cold would stop us.
January 19, 2026 at 5:09 PM
it is -10 here today. I was supposed to go do a volunteer shift standing outside loading groceries into people’s cars to deliver to families stuck at home. just got a call not to come in because they have too many volunteers already. if you were wondering if the cold would stop us.
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Good luck to everyone at the University of Minnesota tomorrow as the semester starts. If you‘re nervous or afraid—fear not: the president and board of regents have declared us “institutionally neutral“ which everyone knows protects against violence fascism!
January 19, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Good luck to everyone at the University of Minnesota tomorrow as the semester starts. If you‘re nervous or afraid—fear not: the president and board of regents have declared us “institutionally neutral“ which everyone knows protects against violence fascism!
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Half a century ago, the American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded on Franklin Ave. in Minneapolis in response to police violence targeting indigenous residents.
Today, as ICE invades the city, AIM patrols are back, watching over elders, youths and aunties along the same avenue.
Today, as ICE invades the city, AIM patrols are back, watching over elders, youths and aunties along the same avenue.
'Full Circle': AIM patrols back on Minneapolis streets as tensions rise - ICT
Supporters are pouring in from across Indian Country to protect the Minnesota community from ICE
ictnews.org
January 19, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Half a century ago, the American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded on Franklin Ave. in Minneapolis in response to police violence targeting indigenous residents.
Today, as ICE invades the city, AIM patrols are back, watching over elders, youths and aunties along the same avenue.
Today, as ICE invades the city, AIM patrols are back, watching over elders, youths and aunties along the same avenue.