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Friends of the Boundary Waters @bwca.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🚨 BREAKING: The Minnesota DNR just canceled one of Twin Metals' state mineral leases. This is a HUGE win, and it happened because of YOU! Tens of thousands of you made calls and flooded the DNR's and the governor's inboxes, demanding action. Thank you for showing up for the Boundary Waters. 💚

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 25/07/2026

minnesota state senator john hoffman revealed tonight at the peggy flanagan rally in st. paul that angie craig asked him for his endorsement for US senate while he was still in the ICU after vance boelter shot him really appalling anecdote!

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Chris Hine @christopherhine.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Only Naz Reid could have become “Naz Reid.” My perspective from covering the heart and soul of the Timberwolves fanbase: www.startribune.com/naz-reid-fan...

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Naz Reid's personality is what made him "Naz Reid" to Timberwolves fans

Naz Reid endeared himself to Minnesota Timberwolves fans before being moved to the Charlotte Hornets in an NBA blockbuster trade for LaMelo Ball.

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Chris Hine @christopherhine.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Gotta admit I did not have Naz Reid getting compared to David Eckstein on the Bingo card tonight

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The first ever trillionaire will become a trillionaire by using political power to bend the rules of financial markets to force everybody’s retirement accounts to invest in his company

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/05/2026

I'd really like to see something written outside tech enthusiast blogs acknowledging the april 2026 local LLMs and whether they affect the calculation on data center expenditure, where suddenly a $1500-4000 macbook can run a 26B parameter model that's... 80%? as good at coding as the frontier model

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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B-Rye @gorillaengineer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

What made America special was a largely professional and uncorrupt bureaucracy that advanced science and technology to stratospheric levels, and then just gave it to folks to profit from. What is ruining the country is folks who benefited from that playing too many video games, thinking like this.

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Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This is who the Minnesota WILD GM wanted in the US Men's locker room to celebrate. Someone who is actively covering up the murders of 2 Minnesotans.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Well, it looks like those concentration camps just got a big thumbs up. It seems like only yesterday that the government was apologizing for the Japanese internment. I guess it was really, "sorry, not sorry."

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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 02/02/2026

The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports. Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...

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Aurin Chowdhury MPLS City Council Member W12 @aurinmpls.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Please Donate. Greater Longfellow Neighbors are coming together to raise funds for Neighbors throughout the region who are impacted by ICE activities. It’s Feb. 2nd the rent is due and the need is high. www.gofundme.com/f/Greater-Lo...

Neighbor
Relief Fund
Organizing for our neighbors throughout the region in need.
Greater Longfellow
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$4,733 raised of 100K

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 02/02/2026

Policing Holocaust analogies is more than occasionally justified, but I’d suggest Kip is just leaning into his priors & should stfu if he’s bleating from Kentucky. People, including citizens, ARE hiding in their homes, authorities ARE acting illegally. If not Anne Frank, read some Niemöller, Kip.

Hold the Holocaust analogies, please As a Jewish American, I feel compelled to speak out against recent public comparisons by Gov. Tim Walz and other Democratic politicians between the experiences of individuals in modern immigration detention and what Anne Frank - and millions of Jews - endured during the Holocaust. These statements are not simply misguided; they are profoundly offensive and
historically indefensible. The Holocaust was a systematic, state-driven attempt to annihilate an entire people. Jews were stripped of every right, hunted, deported, enslaved, starved and murdered solely because of their identity. Six million Jews were killed - not as a byproduct of policy but as the explicit goal of the
Nazi regime. To equate this genocide with the enforcement of immigration laws is to erase the reality of what happened. Immigration detention, whatever its flaws, is governed by legal processes, oversight and the basic obligation to provide food, shelter and medical care. People in these facilities maintain legal rights and the ability to seek counsel, hearings and appeals. These facts are not
remotely comparable to the machinery of extermination built by the Nazis. When public figures invoke the Holocaust to score rhetorical points, they trivialize the suffering of its victims and diminish one of the darkest chapters in human history. There are many ways to debate modern policies, but Holocaust analogies should not be one of them. This history is too
grave, too real and too deeply etched into the memory of my community to be used as a metaphor.
Kip Knelman, Paris, Ky. (formerly of Minneapolis

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Chris Hine @christopherhine.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Timberwolves warming up tonight in “Stand with Minnesota” shirts.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/01/2026

Pretty infuriating to see a guy so crooked he took a paper bag filled with $50k in exchange for doling out government contracts now proclaim he is going after criminals. How is this real life?

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

[every Minnesotan standing one by one]: “I am Kent Hrbek 420.”

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Bovino’s retirement needs to be a cage. His command environment yielded Renee Good’s death, Alex Pretti’s death & Julio Sosa-Celis’ shooting. Failure to prosecute Bovino & everyone else materially responsible for these atrocities will be understood by ICE, CBP, etc as a green light for the next ones

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Aurin Chowdhury MPLS City Council Member W12 @aurinmpls.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

If they wanted this to end they could leverage their capital to do so. They don’t actually want the ICE operations that are widely unsupported to stop. They’ll still let ICE stage in their lots, let Bovino terrorize customers, and let their employees get attacked by ICE on the job.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

America should have spent this weekend dunking on the Steelers hiring Mike McCarthy but instead we’re watching lawless idiots defend an obvious murder while the mad king hosts movie screenings for billionaires

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 24/01/2026

He was legally observing He was helping other legal observers He was helping other potential victims He was not brandishing a gun May Alex Pretti’s memory be a blessing

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Yep. It's the correct term. That it makes people uncomfortable is more reason to use accurate language.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

There will now be enormous pressure on Democrats to reject the DHS funding bill next week. Their little plan to act angry and find just enough Senators to vote through ICE funding is doomed at this point

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Trump & Vance’s agents saw tens of thousands of people — of all ages & races — come out *in below zero temperatures* to protest their tax-funded violence, their murder of their neighbor. And the very next day, they executed another one. What can Americans conclude from this?

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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Yesterday, 50,000 Minnesotans peacefully protested to stop the terror being inflicted on our community. Today, ICE shot and likely killed another constitutional observer on the street. I can’t say this clearly enough: Congress has to stop this. The government is killing us. Congress has to act.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

They are executing unarmed people in the streets for trying to protect their neighbors with the full support of the federal government.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 24/01/2026

MPD are cutting off Nicollet southward starting at 24th, and headed all the way down to at least 28th. Tear gas was being deployed as I left to go home. If you are responding in the area, wear a respirator mask. ICE and MPD allowed a bus to drive through the scene as well.

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Douglas Farmer @douglasfarmer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Here comes the Minnesota State Patrol to assist ICE

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I’m sorry, I don’t care who this pisses off: yes, obviously this murder is on Trump and his ICE goons, but it is also on the feckless, cowardly authorities in the Minnesota government who didn’t do anything to arrest ICE agents the first time they murdered someone. This is the cost of inaction.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 24/01/2026

Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

🚨🚨🚨 ICE IS OUT IN FORCE IN SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS TODAY 🚨🚨🚨 If you are not at the march/rally, PLEASE bundle up and get out on the streets. Join your neighborhood chat, and if you see ICE blow your whistle, honk your horn and get video (horizontal). If you can't go outside, keep an eye out your window.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 22/01/2026

This family did every single thing they’ve been asked to in order to seek asylum here. Yet in less than 24 hours, this kid and his Dad were nabbed off our streets and sent to Texas, using tactics that can only be described as pure evil.

Photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, who was used as bait by ICE agents in Minnesota.

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Reclaiming the old racist flag has become a pathetic cause for the most loser dead-enders out there so of course Vance plays along.

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apardee.bsky.social @apardee.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Dead-enders really insistent on making the real MN flag a credible symbol of resistance

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Hey Tom you shameless soulless piece of shit, come to the Cities and find me ONE non-Minnesotan, I double dog dare you. Jesus will look you in the eye when you die and say "I never knew you."

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The combination of the image and headline

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Ashley Miller @amreports.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 21/01/2026

1/21/2026 - Minneapolis Federal agents abduct two teenagers (15 & 16) from a doctor's appointment At one point, it appears an agent tases one of the children

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 19/01/2026

Whenever I read @polgreen.bsky.social I am grateful for the care in her reporting and how she uses details (Marlboros in a truck cab) to make sure we see people as people, not just actors in a narrative. And also her ungoverned affection for Midwest weirdos. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

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Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

NYT writers referring to moms outside of their schools watching for ICE as "activists" is stupid and makes their reporters look like Cletuses. Local reporters know because their friends & loved ones are out there doing the same.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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When Argueta stopped at Mercado Central for lunch over the weekend, a business owner who knew him asked for help. She brought him upstairs, where Argueta saw two boys — one apparently about middle-school age and a young high-schooler — shaking and crying.

The brothers had been sheltering at home with their mother since the latest immigration enforcement surge began, but they were due for haircuts and were sick of being inside, Argueta said.

Their mother dropped them off at Mercado Central with some money to get haircuts while she walked a short distance to cash a check, Argueta said.

She never came back.

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