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If you're represented by one of these weasels, CALL THEM.
… The four who haven’t are Fetterman, King, Ossoff, Shaheen. (Yes, King is Ind, I know.) Not trying to interpret their lack of tweets, just tallying.
January 25, 2026 at 5:28 AM
If you're represented by one of these weasels, CALL THEM.
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Media keeps describing Pretti as a “protester” - “why bring a gun to a protest” - but he was something much more akin to a community-based first responder for ICE sightings. He likely wasn’t expecting to get beaten in the street by them or have any violent encounter. Just observe and alert.
You need to understand that there are not lengthy standoffs between protesters and ICE in Minneapolis. Alex Pretti was not a “protester” in a conventional sense. ICE lurks around the city and occasionally takes aggressive actions, and bystanders and observers document it and raise the alarm
obviously rioting is not what anyone wants to have happen, but does the NG's agenda being to control the protest suggest that they are there to support the federal agencies against the protestors?
January 25, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Media keeps describing Pretti as a “protester” - “why bring a gun to a protest” - but he was something much more akin to a community-based first responder for ICE sightings. He likely wasn’t expecting to get beaten in the street by them or have any violent encounter. Just observe and alert.
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in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
January 24, 2026 at 12:38 AM
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
-Edward R. Murrow
-Edward R. Murrow
January 23, 2026 at 8:01 PM
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
-Edward R. Murrow
-Edward R. Murrow
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for loring park, lotus will be open from 12-4 to anyone seeking shelter and will be serving free pho
January 23, 2026 at 4:08 PM
for loring park, lotus will be open from 12-4 to anyone seeking shelter and will be serving free pho
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They deployed ten times as many agents to a city 40% the size and then had them drive around in military convoys publicly snatching random pedestrians before launching tear gas. Also, they shot a lady in the face
Vance marvels at how much more “chaotic” operations have been here compared to even LA and Chicago, “It is unique to this city. What is it about Minneapolis that it has become so chaotic?”
Sir, maybe it is that you shot a woman in the face.”
Sir, maybe it is that you shot a woman in the face.”
January 22, 2026 at 9:54 PM
They deployed ten times as many agents to a city 40% the size and then had them drive around in military convoys publicly snatching random pedestrians before launching tear gas. Also, they shot a lady in the face
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Vance on Jan. 8: "You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action. That's a federal issue. That guy's protected by absolute immunity."
Vance today: "I didn't say that officers who engaged in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity. That's absurd."
Vance today: "I didn't say that officers who engaged in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity. That's absurd."
January 22, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Vance on Jan. 8: "You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action. That's a federal issue. That guy's protected by absolute immunity."
Vance today: "I didn't say that officers who engaged in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity. That's absurd."
Vance today: "I didn't say that officers who engaged in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity. That's absurd."
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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I would like my local neighborhood news and my national crisis news to stop being the same thing.
January 22, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I would like my local neighborhood news and my national crisis news to stop being the same thing.
In other news, I think the Blues Brothers just drove by?
January 21, 2026 at 7:28 PM
In other news, I think the Blues Brothers just drove by?
I thought I heard whistles in the distance and was trying to figure out ICE was but then realized it was just my cat snoring behind me. This kind of stress can’t be healthy long-term.
January 21, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I thought I heard whistles in the distance and was trying to figure out ICE was but then realized it was just my cat snoring behind me. This kind of stress can’t be healthy long-term.
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ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…
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January 21, 2026 at 4:13 AM
ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
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Maybe send your "blue lives matter, ICE is just deporting criminals" brother-in-law this video. (There are people who absolutely don't care but there are also people who are assuming things are fine and not paying close attention.)
Local police chiefs speaking up about ICE racially profiling and harassing police officers of color while off duty.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak09...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak09...
January 20, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Maybe send your "blue lives matter, ICE is just deporting criminals" brother-in-law this video. (There are people who absolutely don't care but there are also people who are assuming things are fine and not paying close attention.)
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TWIN CITIES FOLKS WHO WANT TO HELP AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START: I put together a big list of resources. Do you want to deliver groceries? do people's laundry? work in community defense? I want to help you get connected!
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...
How to Help: Twin Cities Residents
This is a post for people in Minnesota. I’m going to do a separate post for the non-Minnesotans when I’m done with this one. (If you’re in a hurry you can go to Stand With Minneso…
naomikritzer.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:40 PM
TWIN CITIES FOLKS WHO WANT TO HELP AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START: I put together a big list of resources. Do you want to deliver groceries? do people's laundry? work in community defense? I want to help you get connected!
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...
In happier news my favorite Uptown resident of the day was the guy standing on his roof with a cowboy hat and what looked like a mug of tea. May we all be kept safe under his watchful gaze.
January 19, 2026 at 10:18 PM
In happier news my favorite Uptown resident of the day was the guy standing on his roof with a cowboy hat and what looked like a mug of tea. May we all be kept safe under his watchful gaze.
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Eric Harris Bernstein with live coverage of art sledding at Powderhorn Park. Volume up.
January 17, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Eric Harris Bernstein with live coverage of art sledding at Powderhorn Park. Volume up.
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please stop copying and pasting any messages to spread any information if you aren’t personally verifying it’s accurate and what the source actually is, especially about saturday’s events. telling people to avoid downtown when you don’t know who is saying that isn’t helpful
January 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM
please stop copying and pasting any messages to spread any information if you aren’t personally verifying it’s accurate and what the source actually is, especially about saturday’s events. telling people to avoid downtown when you don’t know who is saying that isn’t helpful
Frey’s gonna use this to increase the police budget again, isn’t he?
January 15, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Frey’s gonna use this to increase the police budget again, isn’t he?
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My message to Noem, Miller, Bovino: You’ve lost. Go home. You can’t move without us following you. You can’t get out of your cars without 100 times your number descending on you. You’re setting millions of dollars on fire only to kindle a hatred against you that will never die.
January 14, 2026 at 9:46 PM
My message to Noem, Miller, Bovino: You’ve lost. Go home. You can’t move without us following you. You can’t get out of your cars without 100 times your number descending on you. You’re setting millions of dollars on fire only to kindle a hatred against you that will never die.
Weirdly felt safer walking on Lake Street this morning than I ever have, seeing dozens of neighbors committed to watching each other’s backs. Who knew this was what we needed to finally “revitalize uptown”? Just goes to show that real public safety doesn’t come from the police. #mpls #uptown
January 11, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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Just a reminder that LAST time Mpls was the center of a reckoning around police violence, we ended shoveling more money to police and less to social services. Minneapolis still feels the wounds of the last time, with an even richer police force.
This is what we need to guard against, yet again.
This is what we need to guard against, yet again.
January 8, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Just a reminder that LAST time Mpls was the center of a reckoning around police violence, we ended shoveling more money to police and less to social services. Minneapolis still feels the wounds of the last time, with an even richer police force.
This is what we need to guard against, yet again.
This is what we need to guard against, yet again.