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I do media & politics in Minnesota.
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Patty has been leading to make our beloved Minnesota community better for years. I’m so grateful that she is sharing her story of being detained and what she observed. It’s terrible. ICE agents are dehumanizing and harming our community. m.youtube.com/watch?si=FKo...
Taken by ICE & Detained | Breaking the News Plus
YouTube video by KARE 11
m.youtube.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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Immigration officers received a "legal refresher" reminding them that personal insults and rude gestures are legal, per documents leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigratio...
January 13, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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You are trying to explain why it is bad to kill people to folks who are fine with 13 year old girls being raped.
January 12, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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Sorry, what? The federal “investigation” into ICE’s killing of an American is investigating the *victim*?
January 13, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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A Minnesota state representative said two Richfield Target employees detained by U.S. Border Patrol on Jan. 8 were U.S. citizens and were both injured in the incident.
Target employees detained by federal officers were U.S. citizens, legislator says
Minnesota Rep. Michael Howard, who represents Richfield, said the employees also were injured in the incident.
bit.ly
January 13, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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PBS Frontline: “Our whole crew got pepper sprayed today. Are you planning to do anything about that?”

Ellison asks them to file a report.

“Thanks for having us here. So, our PBS journalists were literally pepper sprayed this morning” is a hell of a thing.
January 12, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.

(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
January 12, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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For lawyers in Minnesota who want to resist the ICE occupation: forms.gle/YK9mVYTft1Lt...

So many folks in our legal community are ready and eager to get involved. But right now, a lot of work is being done in a decentralized way, by groups without bandwidth to organize. Let's coordinate efforts.
Minnesota Immigration Legal Response Clearinghouse intake form
MILRC is an attempt to coordinate legal resources between the various coalitions and organizations responding to the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities. By submitting information, you agree that we may...
forms.gle
January 12, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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Fundraiser for Minneapolis ICE shooter that’s already raised $178,000 casually points out that the mayor is Jewish 😬
January 12, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison corporations making bank off his deportation agenda.

Trump has unleashed billions of dollars worth of funding for these companies while offering them "no-bid" contracts.

Cashing in on cruelty.
January 12, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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How many rural hospitals could we keep open with this money?
How many meals could we get to the hungry?
How many educators could we hire?
How many houses could we build?

These aren't abstract questions, these are real tradeoffs our policymakers are *choosing* to make every time they fund this.
Here is what I would like to see reported - how much is the ICE action in Minnesota costing per day? And I mean total cost - transportation, vehicle rental, hotel, per diem, hazard pay, overtime pay, kristi noem's glam squad giving her hourly lip injections, etc. What is it costing us?
January 12, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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We did a ride along. Not with law enforcement. But with the Minneapolis residents defending their communities from those very officers.

@premthakker.bsky.social's front-row seat at ICE's psychological warzone in Minnesota — and how residents are banding together against it:
January 12, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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Brown Minnesotans, use your white people today. I let someone deliver some aid rather than go pick it up. I might have a friend bring me lunch and hold space with me later.

Don't have white people? If we are real life friends, I can send you some
January 12, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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At city-owned but privately operated Target Center, a fan with an ICE OUT shirt was not only asked to remove it, but allow it to be confiscated. The fan, a lawyer, refused to let it be taken. Arena operator later apologized. www.nytimes.com/athletic/696... (No gift link available, sorry)
Target Center security apologizes after telling Timberwolves fan to remove ‘ICE OUT’ T-shirt
Tim Phillips, a civil rights attorney, said that he wore the shirt in response to the increased presence of ICE agents in the Twin Cities.
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:03 PM
They literally do not care if we die preventable deaths. And the policy decisions seem to indicate that maybe that’s actually their goal.
January 12, 2026 at 6:46 PM
My Subway Hot Take is that anyone who voted for this deserves a life without seasoning, just bland tasteless food for the rest of their life.
Restaurants closing, because staff too afraid to go to work.

Their campaign of terror is working.

A city without immigrants is not able to function. They are trying to cripple our way of life.
January 12, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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Democrats need to drain ICE’s budget with massive settlements with everyone victimized by this regime.
January 12, 2026 at 4:24 PM
What’s more: OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE FUNDING SECRET POLICE ABUSING OUR CIVIL RIGHTS!!!!
A new level of BS from @wccoradio.bsky.social personality Blois Olson’s newsletter today, making suggestions of fraud and providing no evidence. “People are saying Jews eat Christian babies” kind of crap. In the most dangerous time we’ve ever seen in MN, he’s pouring gasoline.
January 12, 2026 at 2:35 PM
If you’re in Minnesota and have a relationship with Blois, have ever acted as a source for him, it’s important to let him know he is very dangerously crossing a line here.

He has had very bad takes before but he is unnecessarily peddling misinformation in a moment of high tension. Beyond reckless.
A new level of BS from @wccoradio.bsky.social personality Blois Olson’s newsletter today, making suggestions of fraud and providing no evidence. “People are saying Jews eat Christian babies” kind of crap. In the most dangerous time we’ve ever seen in MN, he’s pouring gasoline.
January 12, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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A new level of BS from @wccoradio.bsky.social personality Blois Olson’s newsletter today, making suggestions of fraud and providing no evidence. “People are saying Jews eat Christian babies” kind of crap. In the most dangerous time we’ve ever seen in MN, he’s pouring gasoline.
January 12, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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Wait but also that “paper beats rock” avatar is uhhhh
January 12, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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The news outlets that have so far covered this have omitted the description of the GoFundMe from the creator himself: "The stupid cunts wanna make a go fund me for the stupod bitch that got what she deserved i made one for the ice officer that did his job lets get this man some money." /
January 12, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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some of these guys feel that they're showing remarkable restraint by passing up murders they're entitled to commit
ICE agent screaming a threat: "Did you not learn from what just happened?"
www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
January 12, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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Saw more of these today, seen on Lake Street in Uptown Minneapolis.

Person walks past large wheat pasted posters of Renee Good that read:

"Renee Nicole Good"
"American Mom"
"Murdered by ICE"
January 12, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM