Rowzat
@rowzat.bsky.social
Mending. Whole grain baking. Up cycling. Waterfalls. St. Paul. Biking. If you want to DM, find me on LinkedIn.
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“The government shot a peaceful observer in the head and won’t be investigating.”
January 22, 2026 at 4:49 AM
“The government shot a peaceful observer in the head and won’t be investigating.”
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“Citizens, legal residents, and beloved neighbors are being ripped from cars, taken at gunpoint, rounded up and shipped off to detention camps…by the government.”
January 22, 2026 at 4:49 AM
“Citizens, legal residents, and beloved neighbors are being ripped from cars, taken at gunpoint, rounded up and shipped off to detention camps…by the government.”
I am about to lose it people...
An agent told hospital staff that “he got his shit rocked,” but did not share other information. A CT scan found that the man had “life-threatening bilateral skull fractures and hemorrhaging.”
Petition: Agents say man injured in ICE custody ‘purposely ran headfirst into a brick wall’
ICE officials haven’t commented on the man’s injuries, but DHS attorneys say agents noticed the man had a head injury while he was being processed at Whipple Federal Building near Fort Snelling. The m...
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January 22, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I am about to lose it people...
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Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.
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ICE took someone in Waite Park today while they were delivering food to their family. ICE violently smashed their car on a residential street and then started pointing guns at children in the neighborhood.
January 20, 2026 at 10:16 PM
ICE took someone in Waite Park today while they were delivering food to their family. ICE violently smashed their car on a residential street and then started pointing guns at children in the neighborhood.
I would imagine that in 1933 many Germans thought things would turn out ok for them personally because they were not Jewish, only to be led into a disastrous war.
January 20, 2026 at 3:07 AM
I would imagine that in 1933 many Germans thought things would turn out ok for them personally because they were not Jewish, only to be led into a disastrous war.
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I do not want to see any mealy-mouthed MLK remembrances from any Minnesota company that’s not doing shit about this ICE occupation.
January 19, 2026 at 3:22 PM
I do not want to see any mealy-mouthed MLK remembrances from any Minnesota company that’s not doing shit about this ICE occupation.
What I forgot to mention is that at one point the very young ICE agents in the car started playing Born in the USA and the neighborhood was like nah, that song is not what you think it's about.
This a car full of ice agents that was a block from my house this afternoon.
January 19, 2026 at 5:45 AM
What I forgot to mention is that at one point the very young ICE agents in the car started playing Born in the USA and the neighborhood was like nah, that song is not what you think it's about.
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If (when?) this happens in my city, may I have a tenth of this courage.
Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
This is so smart. I’m so impressed with all the different ways you’re helping your neighbors.
January 19, 2026 at 4:41 AM
If (when?) this happens in my city, may I have a tenth of this courage.
This a car full of ice agents that was a block from my house this afternoon.
January 19, 2026 at 4:39 AM
This a car full of ice agents that was a block from my house this afternoon.
It was pretty gratifying to see Jake in the window well, but just know at the same time ICE has been active in the East Metro. And has taken people.
January 17, 2026 at 9:23 PM
It was pretty gratifying to see Jake in the window well, but just know at the same time ICE has been active in the East Metro. And has taken people.
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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.
They were near my kid's high school at dismissal. The school had to direct the students not to talk and to get on busses straight away.
Heard from a public school staffer.
ICE agents follow school buses on their afternoon routes & target some parents picking up kids from bus stops.
If ICE knew anything abt particular parents, they'd go to homes.
Seems they're just leveraging kids' vulnerability & mixing with racial profiling.
ICE agents follow school buses on their afternoon routes & target some parents picking up kids from bus stops.
If ICE knew anything abt particular parents, they'd go to homes.
Seems they're just leveraging kids' vulnerability & mixing with racial profiling.
January 17, 2026 at 1:38 AM
They were near my kid's high school at dismissal. The school had to direct the students not to talk and to get on busses straight away.
We invited friends and family upside the family to a Zoom. It was therapeutic.
I truly appreciate how many check-in messages I've had from friends around the world and/but it's weird how I'm getting accustomed to providing two-sentence updates on some of the bleakest shit I have seen in my life
January 16, 2026 at 4:49 AM
We invited friends and family upside the family to a Zoom. It was therapeutic.
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I truly appreciate how many check-in messages I've had from friends around the world and/but it's weird how I'm getting accustomed to providing two-sentence updates on some of the bleakest shit I have seen in my life
January 16, 2026 at 3:52 AM
I truly appreciate how many check-in messages I've had from friends around the world and/but it's weird how I'm getting accustomed to providing two-sentence updates on some of the bleakest shit I have seen in my life
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What if the real occupation is the friends we made along the way?
On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.
January 15, 2026 at 5:53 AM
What if the real occupation is the friends we made along the way?
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Plenty of people peacefully protesting also getting brutalized tho….
January 15, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Plenty of people peacefully protesting also getting brutalized tho….
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FREY WHO STARTED THIS??? IT SURE AS SHIT WASN'T THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
January 15, 2026 at 4:35 AM
FREY WHO STARTED THIS??? IT SURE AS SHIT WASN'T THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
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Frost: For so long, the right wing has held up patriotism as a vibe, as an aesthetic. But patriotism is more than bald eagles and flags and beer. Patriotism is about loving the people who live in the damn country — every single one of them.
January 13, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Frost: For so long, the right wing has held up patriotism as a vibe, as an aesthetic. But patriotism is more than bald eagles and flags and beer. Patriotism is about loving the people who live in the damn country — every single one of them.
I deleted my post regarding Excel - not sure if it's true. Lots of wild rumors going around in addition to real stuff.
January 11, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I deleted my post regarding Excel - not sure if it's true. Lots of wild rumors going around in addition to real stuff.
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"they want to move quickly to seize the island before Russia or China makes a move"
Right yeah, should probably also factor in the possibility that Mars Attacks or Olympus decides to intervene.
Right yeah, should probably also factor in the possibility that Mars Attacks or Olympus decides to intervene.
January 11, 2026 at 2:10 AM
"they want to move quickly to seize the island before Russia or China makes a move"
Right yeah, should probably also factor in the possibility that Mars Attacks or Olympus decides to intervene.
Right yeah, should probably also factor in the possibility that Mars Attacks or Olympus decides to intervene.
With all due respect, you ain't seen what I saw in the Twin Cities these past couple days.
One of the takeaways of my current book is that the ability of the federal government to exert real power in domestic settings has always been largely overblown.
They don’t have the juice or manpower for it. This is not late 1930s Germany. There is no state monopoly on media. They are wildly unpopular.
January 10, 2026 at 10:42 PM
With all due respect, you ain't seen what I saw in the Twin Cities these past couple days.
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ICE is WHIPPING through my suburban neighborhoods — not uncommon to see them going 50 mph — race through red lights, veer across multiple lanes to get to off ramps, no blinkers. They’re going to hurt or kill someone (else)
One detail about the MPLS ICE invasion that I haven't seen many comment on: these goons drive like maniacs and they're eventually going to run someone over. They speed, run red lights every chance they get, and because they don't know the roads, they're constantly going the wrong way down one-ways.
January 10, 2026 at 9:32 PM
ICE is WHIPPING through my suburban neighborhoods — not uncommon to see them going 50 mph — race through red lights, veer across multiple lanes to get to off ramps, no blinkers. They’re going to hurt or kill someone (else)
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A federal court ruled Thursday that IU violated the First Amendment rights of pro-Palestine protesters it banned from campus in 2024 and found the expressive activity policy it passed that August unconstitutional.
www.wfyi.org/news/article...
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Court orders IU to remove reprimands from protesters' permanent records
A federal court ruled Thursday that IUviolatedthe First Amendment rights of pro-Palestine protesters itbanned from campus in 2024 and foundthe expressive activity policy it passed that August unconsti...
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January 9, 2026 at 1:05 PM
A federal court ruled Thursday that IU violated the First Amendment rights of pro-Palestine protesters it banned from campus in 2024 and found the expressive activity policy it passed that August unconstitutional.
www.wfyi.org/news/article...
www.wfyi.org/news/article...