R. O. H.
@rohest.bsky.social
Good morning!
Riding bikes in Minneapolis.
Petting cats.
Crunching numbers at SPPS.
Riding bikes in Minneapolis.
Petting cats.
Crunching numbers at SPPS.
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I can vouch for Matt as a lamer more outdated version of me. Please vote for Matt for St Paul DFL chair.
I consumed things like @streets.mn, did random wayfinding projects to encourage folks to do more of their trips as a pedestrian, and started being known for live tweeting public meetings and events (think a lamer St Paul @wedge.live for the mid 2010s). 8/
January 18, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I can vouch for Matt as a lamer more outdated version of me. Please vote for Matt for St Paul DFL chair.
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Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
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i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.
Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
January 18, 2026 at 4:39 PM
i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.
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Because these international grocers need your support now more than ever, especially during these times, here’s a guide to the international grocers of the Twin Cities that I wrote for @racketmn.com: racketmn.com/guide-intern...
A Guide to the International Grocers of the Twin Cities - Racket
The Twin Cities is home to over 40 international grocers, and they deserve your dollars, too.
racketmn.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Because these international grocers need your support now more than ever, especially during these times, here’s a guide to the international grocers of the Twin Cities that I wrote for @racketmn.com: racketmn.com/guide-intern...
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Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.
January 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.
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Another video, taken by a north Minneapolis resident from across the street…shows federal agents firing numerous times into the house, breaking a second-floor window.
…at least five people, including one small child, are in a house while law enforcement lights flash outside.
…at least five people, including one small child, are in a house while law enforcement lights flash outside.
Videos add new detail to 2nd Minneapolis ICE shooting in a week minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/v...
Videos add new detail to 2nd Minneapolis ICE shooting in a week • Minnesota Reformer
Two videos add new details to what happened before and after an immigration agent shot a man in the leg in the Hawthorne neighborhood in north Minneapolis Wednesday night. One video, a livestream of a...
minnesotareformer.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Another video, taken by a north Minneapolis resident from across the street…shows federal agents firing numerous times into the house, breaking a second-floor window.
…at least five people, including one small child, are in a house while law enforcement lights flash outside.
…at least five people, including one small child, are in a house while law enforcement lights flash outside.
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How could you not want to live in a city where this happens?
January 18, 2026 at 1:19 AM
How could you not want to live in a city where this happens?
As predicted by @trufelman.bsky.social in the very excellent Articles of Interest, “Gear: Chapter 5.”
articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/gear-chapt...
articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/gear-chapt...
January 18, 2026 at 12:03 AM
As predicted by @trufelman.bsky.social in the very excellent Articles of Interest, “Gear: Chapter 5.”
articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/gear-chapt...
articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/gear-chapt...
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wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.
Opinion | This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:28 PM
wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.
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If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
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Fraud is a serious crime that merits laying siege to an entire city and collectively punishing every immigrant from Somalia.
It's also a crime for which you can be pardoned and relieved of compensating your victims, so long as some of the money you stole finds its way to the president.
It's also a crime for which you can be pardoned and relieved of compensating your victims, so long as some of the money you stole finds its way to the president.
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Fraud is a serious crime that merits laying siege to an entire city and collectively punishing every immigrant from Somalia.
It's also a crime for which you can be pardoned and relieved of compensating your victims, so long as some of the money you stole finds its way to the president.
It's also a crime for which you can be pardoned and relieved of compensating your victims, so long as some of the money you stole finds its way to the president.
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New at Can We Still Govern?
"I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government."
Please read, share, help. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
"I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government."
Please read, share, help. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
Dispatch from the occupation
What life is like in Minneapolis now
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:49 PM
New at Can We Still Govern?
"I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government."
Please read, share, help. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
"I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government."
Please read, share, help. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
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Spot on picture of Minneapolis rn daughternumberthree.blogspot.com/2026/01/scar...
Scarry Times
Third of four daughters, raised in a rural area. Finally cleaning out the filing cabinet and loading it to the cloud.
daughternumberthree.blogspot.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Spot on picture of Minneapolis rn daughternumberthree.blogspot.com/2026/01/scar...
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Here is the full story, they’re stopped two special ed busses in Saint Paul and now the school district is taking two days off so that teachers can prepare virtual options for the indefinite future. Special ed kids cannot go to school safely without being hassled by armed and masked federal goons.
St. Paul Schools van full of teachers, students pulled over by ICE agents
St. Paul Public Schools says one of its contracted transport vans was pulled over by ICE agents with both students and staff on board.
www.fox9.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Here is the full story, they’re stopped two special ed busses in Saint Paul and now the school district is taking two days off so that teachers can prepare virtual options for the indefinite future. Special ed kids cannot go to school safely without being hassled by armed and masked federal goons.
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There is no recalibrated or sanitized way to conduct the war that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now. That’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror.
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
January 16, 2026 at 7:40 PM
There is no recalibrated or sanitized way to conduct the war that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now. That’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror.
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
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If there is anyone left who doesn’t know the history of AIM…they’re about to get a quick lesson.
American Indian Movement (AIM) patrol trucks have been spotted around NE and folks are flagging them as suspicious and giving them unwelcoming glances because they don’t know who they are. This is the AIM logo and flag, which you might see on their trucks. They are friends!
January 16, 2026 at 7:52 PM
If there is anyone left who doesn’t know the history of AIM…they’re about to get a quick lesson.
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For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
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Instead of shopping there, I urge everyone to consider supporting small businesses and family-owned grocery stores in our community instead. Support small businesses who have been devastatingly impacted by immigration enforcement.
Jason Chavez 3/
Jason Chavez 3/
January 16, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Instead of shopping there, I urge everyone to consider supporting small businesses and family-owned grocery stores in our community instead. Support small businesses who have been devastatingly impacted by immigration enforcement.
Jason Chavez 3/
Jason Chavez 3/
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As the Council Member who represents this area, I am calling on Target to speak up, take action to make its parking lot and stores safe, and to be on the right side of history. 2/
January 16, 2026 at 5:15 PM
As the Council Member who represents this area, I am calling on Target to speak up, take action to make its parking lot and stores safe, and to be on the right side of history. 2/
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How you can tell the protesters aren’t paid agitators: Watch the videos. It’s the accents.
Those accents have a favorite Zorbaz.
Those accents can tell you EXACTLY where they were on 10/31/91.
Those accents have thrown a bra off the SkyGlider.
Those accents get emotional about Randy Moss.
Those accents have a favorite Zorbaz.
Those accents can tell you EXACTLY where they were on 10/31/91.
Those accents have thrown a bra off the SkyGlider.
Those accents get emotional about Randy Moss.
January 16, 2026 at 1:13 AM
How you can tell the protesters aren’t paid agitators: Watch the videos. It’s the accents.
Those accents have a favorite Zorbaz.
Those accents can tell you EXACTLY where they were on 10/31/91.
Those accents have thrown a bra off the SkyGlider.
Those accents get emotional about Randy Moss.
Those accents have a favorite Zorbaz.
Those accents can tell you EXACTLY where they were on 10/31/91.
Those accents have thrown a bra off the SkyGlider.
Those accents get emotional about Randy Moss.
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this was amazing to see in north minneapolis. we are going to win. if you can make noise your neighbors got you.
Blowing whistles works. ICE was at 40th and Victory Memorial pulled to the side after they talked to Robbinsdale Police and holding down my horn and whistle for 5 min brought out 10-15 neighbors nearly all with whistles.
January 16, 2026 at 4:08 PM
this was amazing to see in north minneapolis. we are going to win. if you can make noise your neighbors got you.
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Because the media does not know how to frame what is happening, they keep referring to regular Minnesotans as protesters. But there is very explicit training that so many people done to learn how to be a constitutional observer. People are bearing witness to kidnappings, with phones and whistles.
by @democraticwins.bsky.social CNN just aired a devastating compilation of all the times ICE brutally attacked Americans. Remember, Donald Trump sponsored this. This is done at his command.
January 16, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Because the media does not know how to frame what is happening, they keep referring to regular Minnesotans as protesters. But there is very explicit training that so many people done to learn how to be a constitutional observer. People are bearing witness to kidnappings, with phones and whistles.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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I spoke to @theintercept.com about what this unprecedented ICE surge looks like in Minn., how national orgs wrongly frame around protests & how people in power have turned constitutional protections upside down to protect government officials rather than citizens. theintercept.com/2026/01/16/t...
Trump’s War on America
“It’s not just clashes between protesters and ICE; it’s an attack on basic rights that we’ve taken for granted,” says Minnesota Public Radio reporter Jon Collins.
theintercept.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
I spoke to @theintercept.com about what this unprecedented ICE surge looks like in Minn., how national orgs wrongly frame around protests & how people in power have turned constitutional protections upside down to protect government officials rather than citizens. theintercept.com/2026/01/16/t...
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For every ICE arrest that draws a crowd with cameras and whistles, there are an untold number happening quietly when no one is watching.
These are the arrests you’re not seeing • Minnesota Reformer
A man shelters alone under the heaters of a south Minneapolis bus stop on a cold January morning, the hood of a grey sweatshirt pulled over his thick dark hair. He unzips his black outer coat and look...
minnesotareformer.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:37 PM
For every ICE arrest that draws a crowd with cameras and whistles, there are an untold number happening quietly when no one is watching.