ye olde prickle factory
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spicy meatball, midwestern bog witch, accounting lady turned geography lady turned lady in construction, waymore’s no. 1 shrew
half leslie knope, half ouiser boudreaux, fully ham on the like button
half leslie knope, half ouiser boudreaux, fully ham on the like button
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Minnesota nice is a social contract broken at your own peril
January 17, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Minnesota nice is a social contract broken at your own peril
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DE ICER
ICE OUT OF MN
Powderhorn Art Sled Rally
Minneapolis
ICE OUT OF MN
Powderhorn Art Sled Rally
Minneapolis
January 17, 2026 at 8:24 PM
DE ICER
ICE OUT OF MN
Powderhorn Art Sled Rally
Minneapolis
ICE OUT OF MN
Powderhorn Art Sled Rally
Minneapolis
Fellow Russian bots, repost with an obscure proof of life in MN.
January 17, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Fellow Russian bots, repost with an obscure proof of life in MN.
Paying federal taxes for two businesses is rage inducing right now. Every time I look at FUTA I see "F-U-ta, you're paying for us to terrorize your state".
January 16, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Paying federal taxes for two businesses is rage inducing right now. Every time I look at FUTA I see "F-U-ta, you're paying for us to terrorize your state".
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UNITE HERE Local 17 represents more than 6,000 workers. The majority of our membership is women, immigrants and people of color.
Minnesota is under attack by Federal ICE Agents indiscriminately targeting people of color.
WE NEED YOUR HELP — Please support this hardship fund.
Minnesota is under attack by Federal ICE Agents indiscriminately targeting people of color.
WE NEED YOUR HELP — Please support this hardship fund.
UNITE HERE Local #17 Hardship Fund | Working Partnerships
Help Working Partnerships meet their fundraising goal by sharing this campaign.
workingpartnerships.betterworld.org
January 16, 2026 at 8:34 PM
UNITE HERE Local 17 represents more than 6,000 workers. The majority of our membership is women, immigrants and people of color.
Minnesota is under attack by Federal ICE Agents indiscriminately targeting people of color.
WE NEED YOUR HELP — Please support this hardship fund.
Minnesota is under attack by Federal ICE Agents indiscriminately targeting people of color.
WE NEED YOUR HELP — Please support this hardship fund.
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I have been attempting to shine a spotlight on the kidnappings and terrorizing happening in smaller towns in MN. Here's another example in Circle Pines. Note that ICE is flying detainees out of the state as soon as possible.
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...
Fundraiser established for Circle Pines restaurant worker taken by ICE
The worker was reportedly moved to a detention facility in Texas within 12 hours of his arrest.
bringmethenews.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:53 AM
I have been attempting to shine a spotlight on the kidnappings and terrorizing happening in smaller towns in MN. Here's another example in Circle Pines. Note that ICE is flying detainees out of the state as soon as possible.
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...
I know they probably don’t care about blending in, but kind of amusing that this guy is in ground zero for the region of MN with camo hats and work boots and he just blew his cover anyway
Is he off his shift at Minntac? Ope, nope
Is he off his shift at Minntac? Ope, nope
January 16, 2026 at 4:51 AM
I know they probably don’t care about blending in, but kind of amusing that this guy is in ground zero for the region of MN with camo hats and work boots and he just blew his cover anyway
Is he off his shift at Minntac? Ope, nope
Is he off his shift at Minntac? Ope, nope
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that five second pause is the automatic actionable-threat suppressor kicking in
Evelyn Normielib (D-MN) has arrived at the scene of the ICE shooting in northern Minneapolis
January 15, 2026 at 9:42 PM
that five second pause is the automatic actionable-threat suppressor kicking in
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sharing a gift link for anyone who needs it because MAN that last paragraph is gonna get you through tomorrow defector.com/fascists-are...
I wrote about The Tantrum State and living in it. Personally I do not care for it very much. defector.com/fascists-are...
Fascists Are Pathetic | Defector
Two days before a shouting cluster of its agents surrounded the car of a Minneapolis mother and shot her to death last week, ICE was demanding answers from the Hilton hotel group on X.com. “Why did yo...
defector.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:59 PM
sharing a gift link for anyone who needs it because MAN that last paragraph is gonna get you through tomorrow defector.com/fascists-are...
If you’re a high follower account, I’m begging you to not take the word of barfly retirees in a small town as the gospel of outstate MN
You’re reinforcing the NYT’s reasons for doing these mooyuk safaris
These people go to the bar at 10AM! There are no conclusions to draw except that they’re dumb!
You’re reinforcing the NYT’s reasons for doing these mooyuk safaris
These people go to the bar at 10AM! There are no conclusions to draw except that they’re dumb!
January 15, 2026 at 8:06 PM
If you’re a high follower account, I’m begging you to not take the word of barfly retirees in a small town as the gospel of outstate MN
You’re reinforcing the NYT’s reasons for doing these mooyuk safaris
These people go to the bar at 10AM! There are no conclusions to draw except that they’re dumb!
You’re reinforcing the NYT’s reasons for doing these mooyuk safaris
These people go to the bar at 10AM! There are no conclusions to draw except that they’re dumb!
Himbo hockey player I knew in college, riding home from the bar in the back seat of my car: “when I get married, the first dance at my wedding’s gonna be ‘She Shook Me All Night Long’ by AC/DC”, and “my favorite food is ketchup sandwiches”
i feel like i see a lot of stolen himbo valor online and it pisses me off. you’re not a damn himbo! you’re nothing like the guy i went out with who told me his favorite artist was ‘leonardo the vinci’!
January 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Himbo hockey player I knew in college, riding home from the bar in the back seat of my car: “when I get married, the first dance at my wedding’s gonna be ‘She Shook Me All Night Long’ by AC/DC”, and “my favorite food is ketchup sandwiches”
They could’ve walked literally two blocks from the Pickle to one of the shops in town and interviewed the owner (my wedding photographer!) who stocks the shop with cheeky progressive items like this:
January 15, 2026 at 4:16 PM
They could’ve walked literally two blocks from the Pickle to one of the shops in town and interviewed the owner (my wedding photographer!) who stocks the shop with cheeky progressive items like this:
My parents live in a town of less than 1,000 people in rural MN where the bar is the primary social venue and the 10AM barflies are the ones I pretend to not recognize when I see them at the grocery store because they melt their brains on booze and TV all day and contribute zero to the community
NYTimes has truly outdone itself with this latest in its "ask white guys in diner" genre. Thank goodness we get a perspective on what's happening in Minneapolis from people in **Nisswa** who probably mean Brainerd when they say they "prefer not to go the city anymore" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
One State, Two Very Different Views of Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:01 PM
My parents live in a town of less than 1,000 people in rural MN where the bar is the primary social venue and the 10AM barflies are the ones I pretend to not recognize when I see them at the grocery store because they melt their brains on booze and TV all day and contribute zero to the community
A loved one with dementia had the same kind of breath - my husband called it “gunpowder breath”, super dehydrated, prob due to decreased swallowing. This is a bad sign for him but a good sign for When It Happens.
If only he was moved into a care facility instead of trying to engage in war.
If only he was moved into a care facility instead of trying to engage in war.
Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.
January 15, 2026 at 8:22 AM
A loved one with dementia had the same kind of breath - my husband called it “gunpowder breath”, super dehydrated, prob due to decreased swallowing. This is a bad sign for him but a good sign for When It Happens.
If only he was moved into a care facility instead of trying to engage in war.
If only he was moved into a care facility instead of trying to engage in war.
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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They have fucking assault rifles and we have whistles and they’re scared shitless, because they know we’d rather be righteous and dead than ever be them.
January 15, 2026 at 3:56 AM
They have fucking assault rifles and we have whistles and they’re scared shitless, because they know we’d rather be righteous and dead than ever be them.
Has anyone doing patrols or observing seen agents in vehicles with MN plates with anything other than the standard issue plates?
January 14, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Has anyone doing patrols or observing seen agents in vehicles with MN plates with anything other than the standard issue plates?
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So when you frame it as Minneapolis & St. Paul (where, yes, again the population center is), you're indirectly feeding this urban/rural narrative that lets people get real comfortable about their safety, while these people will metaphorically and possibly literally shoot your townsfolk in the back
January 14, 2026 at 5:16 PM
So when you frame it as Minneapolis & St. Paul (where, yes, again the population center is), you're indirectly feeding this urban/rural narrative that lets people get real comfortable about their safety, while these people will metaphorically and possibly literally shoot your townsfolk in the back
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Also this quote makes me want to run through a wall
January 14, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Also this quote makes me want to run through a wall
The Heights are getting targeted HEAVILY - reposting this for those looking for another giving option.
Hi Ashley. Collecting funds for families in NE and the Heights, unable to leave their homes.
January 14, 2026 at 4:17 AM
The Heights are getting targeted HEAVILY - reposting this for those looking for another giving option.
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One thing I’d like to see is my senators and governor every day on tv at 5pm holding a press conference with video of every documented abuse that ICE is doing. Curate all of the witnessing we’re doing and show it to the press.
Local parents groups asking if adults can ride school buses to help protect children from ICE after a special ed bus got stopped this morning. Like a Dirty Harry movie except the villain in the federal government.
January 12, 2026 at 5:04 PM
One thing I’d like to see is my senators and governor every day on tv at 5pm holding a press conference with video of every documented abuse that ICE is doing. Curate all of the witnessing we’re doing and show it to the press.
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“You know, hangin’ in there…” They are dangerously close to their breaking point and the only thing keeping them from committing multiple felonies is determining the order of operations.
Check in on your MN friends. Ask how they're doing. If they say:
"Pretty good, you?" They're probably ok.
"Just fine, howryou?" They're struggling, exhausted, hanging on but close to the edge.
"Oh, doin ok" Send help. The situation is desperate.
"Pretty good, you?" They're probably ok.
"Just fine, howryou?" They're struggling, exhausted, hanging on but close to the edge.
"Oh, doin ok" Send help. The situation is desperate.
January 13, 2026 at 2:22 AM
“You know, hangin’ in there…” They are dangerously close to their breaking point and the only thing keeping them from committing multiple felonies is determining the order of operations.
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They really don't understand Upper Midwestern culture and how we view principle. It's a culture consisting entirely of oversocialized passive-aggressive moral rule keepers with an entirely Kantian deontological view of ethics and moral duty.
January 12, 2026 at 12:12 AM
They really don't understand Upper Midwestern culture and how we view principle. It's a culture consisting entirely of oversocialized passive-aggressive moral rule keepers with an entirely Kantian deontological view of ethics and moral duty.
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I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.
January 11, 2026 at 8:50 PM
I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.
Wayne from Letterkenny voice: I could watch federal agents fall on ice all day, I don't give a shit about federal agents.
January 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Wayne from Letterkenny voice: I could watch federal agents fall on ice all day, I don't give a shit about federal agents.