iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 20h

I wonder what Chris Phelan's gotten up to since becoming chair of CEA? www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

5243

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/09/2026

Program's up! 30+ teams share evidence abt impacts on health, educ, & econ + community response. Great folks @ziibiing.com @ottergoose.net @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @chrisuggen.bsky.social @casemcnich.bsky.social @ngraetz.bsky.social @craigstetter.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Documenting the Impact of US DHS Activity in MN

Conference Date: Sept 22, 2026

Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Purpose

In December 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began a significant, sustained agent surge in Minnesota that affected the daily lives of many residents, but had severe impacts on immigrant communities and communities of color.

This one-day, in-person convening provides researchers from across disciplines and organizations with an opportunity to share and discuss research related to the effects of Operation Metro Surge and Operation PARRIS.

722363

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 07/09/2026

Registration is open, free, limited, & required. Great set of research presentations lined up on education, health, economy, mutual aid & more. Learn about the frontier evidence and connect with those working to generate it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

218884

casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Me trying to explain to my parents how all my friends know each other (minus twin cities intramurals)

020

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Don't forget to vote! If you live in Minneapolis or St. Paul and hit a down-ballot race you've done no research on, my blog has a roundup (with my recommendations but also links to info) and you can find links to all my primary season posts here: naomikritzer.com/2026/08/06/p...

naomikritzer.com

Primary Election 2026 Sample Ballot / Index of Posts

Minnesota’s primary election is TUESDAY, AUGUST 11TH, which is this coming Tuesday as I post this. For the convenience of everyone looking up races from the voting booth (or the people who ar…

613964

casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Happy to see our work (w/ my amazing advisor) out!

051

casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

accidentally went to work at a coffee shop that all the Morocco fans were at and instead of work they fed me dinner and taught us all the cheers. I love the world cup.

0120

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/06/2026

Oh, so they have NOTHING nothing

1495145523487

casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

at least one of us is happy to be living in the living room during this heat wave 😂😂

030

casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

when you're just tryna nap and get woken up by people talking about economics 😂

040

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Bring Me The News @bringmethenews.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

German soccer team awards peace prize to St. Paul bar owner More: bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifest…

06418

casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

cars: 🚫 skiing down main roads: ✅✅

0112

Reposted by casey mcnichols

LA Star @lastar.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

5330632666

Reposted by casey mcnichols

busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The important lesson for the Feds to take away from this is that if anyone interfered with their operations this afternoon, or tracked them, there's a minimum of this much still in reserve.

116636

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Thorpe Langton @mspdawg.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The combined populations of Mpls and St. Paul is about 740,000 (thats not even counting the metro area). If just 0.8% of us show up that’s easily more than double the goons ICE has sent.

229738

casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

unfortunately ICE being here has made me finally learn my cardinal directions :/

060

Reposted by casey mcnichols

da birchman @brch.mn · 10/01/2026

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.

2767142

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

People outside Minneapolis: Star tribune sucks: @mprnews.org and @sahanjournal.bsky.social and @racketmn.com are trusted news sources.

38737

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Something apparently kicking off in Minneapolis: we're awaiting formal confirmation but it looks like ICE shot and killed someone

110857

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

2875882182

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

George Borjas posting a paper about researchers selecting models that best fit their ideological assumptions

3395

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 03/01/2026

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

5133444014

Reposted by casey mcnichols

L S D @lsdaif.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.

13563231469

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Don't just repost this and think "I did a politics." Put the number in your phone as a contact. The Goon Squad got their budget multiplied by 10x next year and not if - when you see them you're not gonna remember the tweet or the number so put it in your phone now.

58652

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.

MNSPJ condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists

The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists strongly condemns attacks on journalists by law enforcement on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, during a federal operation in St. Paul.

At least three local photojournalists were injured by less-lethal munitions deployed by St. Paul police officers while covering the story. One was transported to the hospital in an ambulance. All three journalists were clearly identified as press with badges and/or vests, in addition to having cameras in hand, clearly at work. All three photojournalists and multiple other local journalists on scene were also injured by chemical irritants.

Kerem Yücel, with MPR News, was hit by a less-lethal munition in the shoulder and was transported to a hospital by ambulance. He has since been released and is recovering. Tim Evans, a freelance photojournalist with Reuters, was struck in the stomach with a pepper ball round. Aaron Nesheim, a photojournalist with Sahan Journal, was struck in the head with a pepper ball round. Evans and Nesheim did not require hospitalization.

The three journalists hit by munitions shared with MNSPJ that they believe they were targeted by law enforcement for doing their jobs. Photojournalists are on the frontlines of documenting history and it is imperative that they are kept safe and their First Amendment rights are protected.

Attacking journalists sends a message to both journalists and everyday citizens that their First Amendment rights will not be respected. The First Amendment protects the rights of journalists to report on their communities and provide information that communities need — information that, on Tuesday, was not transparently available from any law enforcement agency.

We demand answers from St. Paul city leadership about why the city’s police department attacked our colleagues and a commitment to seeing that this will never happen again.

271079663

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Shit St Paul ICE agent aims gun

74819431

casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

St Paul police = cowards breaking their own ordinance

060

casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Watched these agents attack man with a walker today

010

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

WTF 🤬 Federal agents are using chemical aerosol spray on protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota.

126805669

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Minnesota 50501 @mn50501.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Federal agents (including ICE) used tear gas on peaceful protestors at Bro-Tex Inc. in St. Paul today.

Protestors recovering from tear gas in St. Paul, MN 11/18/25

31811

casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

As a St Paul renter, this is such an interesting read!

010

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

117102855626

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Dan McNichols @danmcnichols.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Big day for this guy! @ischeneydeadyet.bsky.social Did anyone get the pre-approval from J.D. Vance and the thought police? Are "Dick Cheney is finally dead" jokes allowed or not?

151

casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Twin cities folks - get to a training and join the ice rapid response network! monarcamn.org

000

Reposted by casey mcnichols

disgruntled lesbian of Minneapolis @phoenix-rights.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Looks like Kristi Noem is coming to Minneapolis to discuss ICE operations here in the Twin Cities. Stay ready.

FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY ***
MEDIA ADVISORY: Secretary Noem to Hold Press Conference in Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS, MN. - On Friday, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem will hold a press conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota to discuss ICE operations and update on the Trump Administration's immigration enforcement operations in the Twin Cities.
WHAT: Press conference
WHO: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi
Noem
WHEN: Friday, October 24, 2025, at 4:30 pm CT,
5:30 pm ET
*Media attending must arrive no later than
2:30 pm CT
WHERE: Minneapolis, Minnesota (address provided upon RSVP)
Livestream will be available at this link:
Homeland Security LIVE
***All press is required to RSVP to MediaInquiry@HQ.DHS.Gov and must present credentials upon arrival. This event

33223

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Ehren Ohkneel @ehrenohkneel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

More reporting about how that ICE raid in South Shore might have been as much about evicting all the residents of the building for Wells Fargo as it was to kidnap migrants without due process.

6258152

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I’m so struck by this video. A regular day in Logan Square in front of a grocery store and ICE pulls up and tear gassed people. Funston Elementary School is right across the street as well. This is a major corridor in Logan Sq. No concern for human safety Video from: www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

32486290

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Anders @derzquist.net · 11/09/2025

My wish would be that any Minnesota elected who made a statement today about violence having no place in politics, will have an equally poignant statement about police brutalizing striking U of MN workers on their picket line today.

39920

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Kategod 🐉🧿🦑𓅛🪬 @kategodart.northsky.social · 27/08/2025

the state of mn needs your blood to help treat all the wounded from shootings we just can't seem to do anything about stopping ever bleed for the gun gods our country worships

1178

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The Government of Israel explains its plans with Gaza.

11611

Reposted by casey mcnichols

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

kfor.com

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

12692177813592