MJ
@mjmpls.bsky.social
MN - Freelance Community & Sports Journalist, Bicycle Mechanic, Knife Sharpener/Consultant, Home Chef, Deep Diver on Various Subjects
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MJ
@mjmpls.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Loon lands at Allianz Field - Midway Como Frogtown Monitor
“This is the area that I grew up. This is the area that drives Midway and Snelling-University. It’s good to have something that represents and a part of the community,” remarked …
www.monitorsaintpaul.com
My first article for the Midway Como Frogtown Monitor combines many of my interests: art, soccer, community, and local politics.
Thanks to Andy Scott, Chris Dyson, Bill McGuire, Shari Ballard, Mayor Melvin Carter, and more, for your words.
www.monitorsaintpaul.com/stories/loon...
Thanks to Andy Scott, Chris Dyson, Bill McGuire, Shari Ballard, Mayor Melvin Carter, and more, for your words.
www.monitorsaintpaul.com/stories/loon...
This is one of the biggest stories in America, comparable in scale to what’s happening in Minnesota. The largest social media platform is transferred to Trump’s allies and immediately forbids you from saying anything bad about him. Absolutely totalitarian in nature. No different than China.
#TikTok has begun censoring anti-Trump and anti-Ice content
January 26, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Weird, I’ve taken pictures of people bringing firearms, loaded with multiple magazines to protests outside Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s home and the Minnesota State Capitol.
January 25, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Weird, I’ve taken pictures of people bringing firearms, loaded with multiple magazines to protests outside Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s home and the Minnesota State Capitol.
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Absolutely reprehensible that AG Bondi is offering ICE stand down in exchange for access to voting rolls. Outrageous and disgusting. It shows ICE is in Minneapolis is not for law enforcement purposes. Instead it’s a way to stir up shit in blue states and extort them.
In the wake of another fatal shooting in Minneapolis.
AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including:
"Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"
AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including:
"Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"
January 25, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Absolutely reprehensible that AG Bondi is offering ICE stand down in exchange for access to voting rolls. Outrageous and disgusting. It shows ICE is in Minneapolis is not for law enforcement purposes. Instead it’s a way to stir up shit in blue states and extort them.
NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”
National Nurses United (@nationalnurses.bsky.social)
The largest RN union in U.S. history, with more than 225,000 nurses nationwide.
nationalnurses.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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One thing you may not recognize if you’re not from here: This isn’t a puritanical town, but casual swearing in public is much less common here than elsewhere.
Now? Now, pretty staid folks say “FUCK ICE” like it’s a greeting and it’s on signs everywhere. The unofficial motto of Minneapolis.
Now? Now, pretty staid folks say “FUCK ICE” like it’s a greeting and it’s on signs everywhere. The unofficial motto of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 12:19 AM
One thing you may not recognize if you’re not from here: This isn’t a puritanical town, but casual swearing in public is much less common here than elsewhere.
Now? Now, pretty staid folks say “FUCK ICE” like it’s a greeting and it’s on signs everywhere. The unofficial motto of Minneapolis.
Now? Now, pretty staid folks say “FUCK ICE” like it’s a greeting and it’s on signs everywhere. The unofficial motto of Minneapolis.
They pistol whipped him on the ground multiple times before he was shot
January 24, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Twin Cities businesses supporting #GeneralStrike based on BringMeTheNews
Automated Message from R Bskyr Package:
Closed: 630
Closed during off hours: 5
Supporting: 21
Total: 656
Based on list by: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/growing-number-of-minnesota-businesses-announce-plans-to-close-for-jan-23-strike
Last checked: 2026-01-22 19:00 PM
Closed: 630
Closed during off hours: 5
Supporting: 21
Total: 656
Based on list by: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/growing-number-of-minnesota-businesses-announce-plans-to-close-for-jan-23-strike
Last checked: 2026-01-22 19:00 PM
bringmethenews.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Twin Cities businesses supporting #GeneralStrike based on BringMeTheNews
Meanwhile here in #Minneapolis 🇺🇲 . . .
guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Meanwhile here in #Minneapolis 🇺🇲 . . .
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For you out of towners, I need to point out:
❄️ Powderhorn Park is in the center of one area of recent heavy ICE activity
❄️ It’s right by where Renee Good was murdered
❄️ With the wind, it’s a bit cold today in Minneapolis
And yet South Minneapolis, doing its thing!
❄️ Powderhorn Park is in the center of one area of recent heavy ICE activity
❄️ It’s right by where Renee Good was murdered
❄️ With the wind, it’s a bit cold today in Minneapolis
And yet South Minneapolis, doing its thing!
January 17, 2026 at 10:34 PM
For you out of towners, I need to point out:
❄️ Powderhorn Park is in the center of one area of recent heavy ICE activity
❄️ It’s right by where Renee Good was murdered
❄️ With the wind, it’s a bit cold today in Minneapolis
And yet South Minneapolis, doing its thing!
❄️ Powderhorn Park is in the center of one area of recent heavy ICE activity
❄️ It’s right by where Renee Good was murdered
❄️ With the wind, it’s a bit cold today in Minneapolis
And yet South Minneapolis, doing its thing!
Jake Lang #Minneapolis march thread 🧵 from @unraveledpress.com
Downtown Minneapolis currently—
Jake Lang and a handful of other racists/RW propagandists are surrounded by about 50 cameras and some antifascists chanting him down. A banner the group arrived with has been broken.
Jake Lang and a handful of other racists/RW propagandists are surrounded by about 50 cameras and some antifascists chanting him down. A banner the group arrived with has been broken.
January 17, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Jake Lang #Minneapolis march thread 🧵 from @unraveledpress.com
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how much is the MN DFL paying this anti-union jackass?????
we just want interpreters at our caucuses and conventions 😭😭
do not give money to these out-of-state grifters, give money locally to Minneapolis mutual aid. like my north mpls school community: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
we just want interpreters at our caucuses and conventions 😭😭
do not give money to these out-of-state grifters, give money locally to Minneapolis mutual aid. like my north mpls school community: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
![According to the 2002 book How to Hack a Party Line: The Democrats and Silicon Valley, Rosenberg and NDN were instrumental in shifting control of the Democratic Party away from labor unions and toward Silicon Valley businesses.[3] Rosenberg said in 1999, "Our problem as a party is that the biggest source of our venture capital now comes from labor, which is a group that's becoming less and less important, and representing less and less of a percentage of American voters. ... We have to replace labor's investment in the party with investment from another source, and hopefully from a source that's growing."[3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rhmos2imdm4giz3tdlftm4zc/bafkreidzvcipdefisvk3aaelz7k5z7tqncddt3prwqly4iil6vsspopjom@jpeg)
January 17, 2026 at 2:49 AM
how much is the MN DFL paying this anti-union jackass?????
we just want interpreters at our caucuses and conventions 😭😭
do not give money to these out-of-state grifters, give money locally to Minneapolis mutual aid. like my north mpls school community: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
we just want interpreters at our caucuses and conventions 😭😭
do not give money to these out-of-state grifters, give money locally to Minneapolis mutual aid. like my north mpls school community: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
White people, listen to this on fear and oppression, please?
pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
January 15, 2026 at 10:06 PM
White people, listen to this on fear and oppression, please?
#ThreadOfTheDay 🧵
on threats of today
on threats of today
Even just a name can put in motion efforts that get someone released. If they're a citizen, we can get them jail support. If they're an immigrant, there are groups working overtime to file habeas petitions before they're whisked out of state. But it starts with a name.
If you see one, the most important thing to say is “WHAT’S YOUR NAME” because otherwise the person is gone for good, maybe. I witnessed one in an alley as the sole pursuit car, I was the only witness, I froze for a second and didn’t shout it in time, and the guy is just… gone now. I’ll never know.
January 15, 2026 at 5:36 PM
#ThreadOfTheDay 🧵
on threats of today
on threats of today
Immigration attorney: The arrest "during a Minnesota immigration crackdown that the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever, was a “blatant constitutional violation,” since the agents did not have a proper warrant..." www.minnpost.com/public-safet...
Attorney: No proper warrant for Minneapolis man's arrest in home
The arrest of Garrison Gibson came in a city increasingly on edge after an immigration agent shot and killed Renee Good last week.
www.minnpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
In NE #Minneapolis
2 days ago
2 days ago
2 more people were taken on Central Ave tonight. People at Pilllar Forum went to legally observe and then were maced, pepper sprayed, and beaten by ICE.
Corey from Pilllar is talking about the impact ICE terrorizing our community is having on his business, staff, and our neighbors.
Corey from Pilllar is talking about the impact ICE terrorizing our community is having on his business, staff, and our neighbors.
January 15, 2026 at 1:40 AM
In NE #Minneapolis
2 days ago
2 days ago
And in #Minneapolis 🇺🇲 . . .
🚨BREAKING: Our cameraman Jon Farina was just struck in the leg by a flash bang ICE fired at unarmed protesters in Minneapolis. "My leg is hurting!"
ICE also fired pepper balls and tear gas. This is happening in AMERICA. LIVE NOW ⬇️
ICE also fired pepper balls and tear gas. This is happening in AMERICA. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 12, 2026 at 2:57 AM
And in #Minneapolis 🇺🇲 . . .
Meanwhile in #SaintPaul 🇺🇲
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ICE totaled this car, abducted a woman, and then left it in the middle of Snelling Avenue, one of the busiest streets in the Twin Cities.
This isn’t law and order, this state sanctioned terrorism. It’s fucking disgusting.
This isn’t law and order, this state sanctioned terrorism. It’s fucking disgusting.
January 12, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Meanwhile in #SaintPaul 🇺🇲
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This piece of 💩 wannabe NAZI bragging about the murder of #ReneeNicoleGood is proof MAGA is a bottomless flame of garbage! #Pinks #SheShed #FuckICE #ImpeachKristiNoem
January 11, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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I remind myself that for how impossible things feel in Minneapolis, every brownshirt they send here to deal with our whistles and icy roads and protests is one that isn't operating in another city and state. They can't do this everywhere. Maybe not even in two places. Bog 'em down.
Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make thousands of arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Federal officers are leaving Louisiana immigration crackdown for Minneapolis, documents show
Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that federal border agents are pulling out of a Louisiana immigration crackdown and heading to Minneapolis.
www.mprnews.org
January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
I remind myself that for how impossible things feel in Minneapolis, every brownshirt they send here to deal with our whistles and icy roads and protests is one that isn't operating in another city and state. They can't do this everywhere. Maybe not even in two places. Bog 'em down.
I just watched two women get kidnapped right in front of me in Northeast Minneapolis.
ICE is still terrorizing our city.
ICE is still terrorizing our city.
January 8, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Reminder!
Also a reminder that this account isn’t a Rapid Response account!
If you witness ICE activity, call Monarca 612-441-2881. The number can also accept texts.
Here’s a guide to reporting:
If you witness ICE activity, call Monarca 612-441-2881. The number can also accept texts.
Here’s a guide to reporting:
January 8, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Reminder!
#ICE out of MN . . .
Seeing local TV news running Trump's statement claiming an ICE agent was "run over" and is now "recovering in the hospital" juxtaposed against endless video of the agent not being run over, killing a woman, and walking around perfectly fine after.
January 7, 2026 at 11:37 PM
#ICE out of MN . . .
Meanwhile in #SaintPaul, MN 🇺🇲
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Shut down blocks of Payne Ave in St Paul for their fucking propaganda
Hunger Games shit.
Hunger Games shit.
January 6, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Meanwhile in #SaintPaul, MN 🇺🇲
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even if you don't live in #Minneapolis, you can help
I’m teaming up with some fellow community members to place a big order with a restaurant that has seen its business disrupted by ICE presence on the south side. And what better way than to get food for neighbors in need?
Burritos are about $10 each- please donate to help us provide 50+ meals!
Burritos are about $10 each- please donate to help us provide 50+ meals!
January 5, 2026 at 3:14 PM
even if you don't live in #Minneapolis, you can help