Thomas Leeper
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This is Minneapolis's first homicide of 2026.
I don't really have words to characterize my feelings about this adequately.
The wife and attorney of a man detained in Rochester last week say he finally has access to life-saving medication following a kidney transplant.
However, they added that federal authorities are still not giving him the correct dosage or the full regimen.
However, they added that federal authorities are still not giving him the correct dosage or the full regimen.
Kidney transplant recipient in ICE custody is finally getting meds, wife and attorney say
Javier Abreu-Vasquez, a kidney transplant recipient, was arrested by ICE in Rochester last week without his anti-rejection medication and he may have gone for days without receiving it. His wife and h...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 12:31 AM
I don't really have words to characterize my feelings about this adequately.
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This technology already exists and is widely used. It doesn't involve 'government surveillance' and would not allow ICE or any other government agency to stop individual cars.
Just say you think thousands of kids dying every year is worth it so you can speed!
www.autoweek.com/news/a615322...
Just say you think thousands of kids dying every year is worth it so you can speed!
www.autoweek.com/news/a615322...
Speed Limiters Now Mandatory in All New EU Cars
Intelligent Speed Assist (ISA) isn't an ironclad speeding prevention system, but could be just annoying enough to spark a backlash.
www.autoweek.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:16 PM
This technology already exists and is widely used. It doesn't involve 'government surveillance' and would not allow ICE or any other government agency to stop individual cars.
Just say you think thousands of kids dying every year is worth it so you can speed!
www.autoweek.com/news/a615322...
Just say you think thousands of kids dying every year is worth it so you can speed!
www.autoweek.com/news/a615322...
Ice shanties against ICE. #ThisIsMinneapolis
February 8, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Ice shanties against ICE. #ThisIsMinneapolis
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Counterpoint: no serious person in the Twin Cities is worried about any meaningful amount of "destruction" by observers/protestors. Get real.
Friends in Minneapolis are very worried about this development. Both in terms of state police's role in arresting protestors and the worry that this could set off the kind of spiral of distrust and destruction that followed George Floyd's murder.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
At Least 50 Arrested After Protests Escalate Outside Minnesota Federal Building
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Counterpoint: no serious person in the Twin Cities is worried about any meaningful amount of "destruction" by observers/protestors. Get real.
I'm interested in how this changes timeslines for projects, also. I've found that sizing that has become very difficult. Like, "I think this would take two weeks if someone did it by hand but I might be able to vibe code this 90% of the way there today."
February 8, 2026 at 2:09 PM
I'm interested in how this changes timeslines for projects, also. I've found that sizing that has become very difficult. Like, "I think this would take two weeks if someone did it by hand but I might be able to vibe code this 90% of the way there today."
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
It's also changing the need for the entry-level (degree-required) jobs that those skills were valuable for.
February 8, 2026 at 2:02 PM
It's also changing the need for the entry-level (degree-required) jobs that those skills were valuable for.
Abolish ICE. Impeach the Executive Branch.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Abolish ICE. Impeach the Executive Branch.
The government is currently run by vengeful, pathetic people whose main - or perhaps only - goal is to hurt people.
HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today.
Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Five-Year-Old Liam Ramos Is In His Asylum Hearing Right Now
www.huffpost.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
The government is currently run by vengeful, pathetic people whose main - or perhaps only - goal is to hurt people.
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Tonight at 8:30 PM our constituent Ricky was pepper sprayed by ICE on 18th & Polk. 2 agents parked their car, got out and approached observers, started pepper spraying Ricky on public property, and then drove away and left.
Nothing is changing on the ground in Minnesota. ICE must be abolished.
Nothing is changing on the ground in Minnesota. ICE must be abolished.
February 6, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Tonight at 8:30 PM our constituent Ricky was pepper sprayed by ICE on 18th & Polk. 2 agents parked their car, got out and approached observers, started pepper spraying Ricky on public property, and then drove away and left.
Nothing is changing on the ground in Minnesota. ICE must be abolished.
Nothing is changing on the ground in Minnesota. ICE must be abolished.
Proposing to kill 500k-700k people is an interesting twist that was not on my 2026 bingo card.
Dr Oz: "We project that America will lose about 100 million pounds this year, which will make folks a lot healthier."
February 6, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Proposing to kill 500k-700k people is an interesting twist that was not on my 2026 bingo card.
Donald Trump is killing the heart of South Minneapolis.
“The Lake Street Council estimated that the corridor’s more than 1,000 immigrant-owned businesses lost a cumulative $46 million in December and January.” 1/
www.startribune.com/ice-economic...
www.startribune.com/ice-economic...
Minneapolis businesses losing millions in sales each week as ICE operation continues
Immigrant-owned businesses are bearing the brunt of the losses from Operation Metro Surge, but effects are widespread.
www.startribune.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Donald Trump is killing the heart of South Minneapolis.
I've never been honked at more than when driving 20mph on a parkway.
February 5, 2026 at 8:36 PM
I've never been honked at more than when driving 20mph on a parkway.
As with almost everything ICE does, the follow-up to that viral photo of Rahman being ripped from her car in S Mpls is actually far worse than it seemed.
I spoke with Aliya Rahman, the autistic woman whom ICE ripped out of her car, about her experience of being in a viral video, what she experienced in detention and why she thinks we might be in bigger trouble in the future.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
ICE dragged me from my car after I told them I’m autistic.
Exclusive Details: Aliya Rahman speaks to Eric Garcia about her ordeals — on the streets of Minneapolis, in a grim ICE detention center where she was mocked over her condition and through the public t...
www.independent.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 6:27 PM
As with almost everything ICE does, the follow-up to that viral photo of Rahman being ripped from her car in S Mpls is actually far worse than it seemed.
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You guys this is what they do. They drive around in circles in parking lot. Ice has to be the most dip shit inefficient organization on the planet.
February 5, 2026 at 5:11 PM
You guys this is what they do. They drive around in circles in parking lot. Ice has to be the most dip shit inefficient organization on the planet.
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My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
February 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
ICE doing criminal property damage, inevitably uncompensated.
I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.
February 5, 2026 at 1:18 PM
ICE doing criminal property damage, inevitably uncompensated.
Liam's GoFundMe raised nearly half a million dollars. These lower-profile cases haven't led to the same outpouring of money.
There is so much hardship here. So many families need help.
This isn't sustainable.
All of this needs to end.
There is so much hardship here. So many families need help.
This isn't sustainable.
All of this needs to end.
February 5, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Liam's GoFundMe raised nearly half a million dollars. These lower-profile cases haven't led to the same outpouring of money.
There is so much hardship here. So many families need help.
This isn't sustainable.
All of this needs to end.
There is so much hardship here. So many families need help.
This isn't sustainable.
All of this needs to end.
There is a GoFundMe to support her and her family, verified by the Guardian and organized by her school.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring...
Donate to Help Bring Elizabeth and Rosa Home, organized by Caro Gtz
Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano is a 4th-grade student in Columbia Heights who has been part of … Caro Gtz needs your support for Help Bring Elizabeth and Rosa Home
www.gofundme.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:14 AM
There is a GoFundMe to support her and her family, verified by the Guardian and organized by her school.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring...
Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano is an 11-year old girl kidnapped by ICE from the same city as Liam Ramos and held in the same child prison.
She's coming home.
Abolish ICE. Leave our children alone.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
She's coming home.
Abolish ICE. Leave our children alone.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Columbia Heights girl and her mom released from ICE detention after school district speaks out
Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano was detained nearly a month ago with her mother on their way to school in Columbia Heights, the same district as 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos. She and her mother were release...
www.mprnews.org
February 5, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano is an 11-year old girl kidnapped by ICE from the same city as Liam Ramos and held in the same child prison.
She's coming home.
Abolish ICE. Leave our children alone.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
She's coming home.
Abolish ICE. Leave our children alone.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan.
It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.
“ICE GTFO OF MN”
Minneapolis February 4, 2026
It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.
“ICE GTFO OF MN”
Minneapolis February 4, 2026
February 4, 2026 at 11:07 PM
A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan.
It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.
“ICE GTFO OF MN”
Minneapolis February 4, 2026
It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.
“ICE GTFO OF MN”
Minneapolis February 4, 2026
If you travel around Mpls still to this day, there are literally hundreds of civilians standing on various street corners on their phones, whistles in hand, patrolling.
ICE are outnumbered and Minneapolis is still all in on this battle.
ICE are outnumbered and Minneapolis is still all in on this battle.
Homan in Minneapolis: "Effective immediately, we will draw down 700 people effective today."
February 4, 2026 at 8:31 PM
If you travel around Mpls still to this day, there are literally hundreds of civilians standing on various street corners on their phones, whistles in hand, patrolling.
ICE are outnumbered and Minneapolis is still all in on this battle.
ICE are outnumbered and Minneapolis is still all in on this battle.
We already knew this but ICE blindly fired live rounds at babies in North Minneapolis last month.
Babies.
Babies.
They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
February 4, 2026 at 3:02 AM
We already knew this but ICE blindly fired live rounds at babies in North Minneapolis last month.
Babies.
Babies.
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This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 3, 2026 at 8:46 PM
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.