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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 09/10/2026
Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.
The marquee at Cedar Culture Center with the message "We love our Somali neighbors" written out.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“ICE never left. Things became less public, became less of a spectacle, but immigrants are still being targeted and persecuted,” Barham said. “And from rumors I'm hearing, things I've seen, I suspect that they're about to amp up again.” story via Cait Kelley www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...
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Catch, release, catch: Inside ICE's new 'farce' tactic
Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal buildin...
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 23/09/2026
Here are the slides from my presentation at today's Documenting the Impact of DHS Activity in Minnesota conference at the U of M - Watching ICE Air at MSP: How many are they taking away? This work is done entirely by volunteers; help MN50501 cover our airport parking fees: mn50501.org/donate 🧵👇
Watching ICE Air at MSP
How many are they taking away?
Nick Benson, MN50501, September 22, 2026Background

Self-employed
* Smart flight alert app for airplane nerds
* Got interested in aviation angle of ICE’s detention apparatus in early 2025
* Got serious about ICE in October 2025
* The most important work I’ll ever doWhat is ICE Air?

*ICE Air is a conglomerate of charter airlines that fly detainees between local prisons, detention centers, and out of the country
* “Shuffle” flights are domestic
* Detainees are shackled before/during/after
* Denver Air Connection / Key Lime, Global Crossing, Eastern Air Express
* Akin to FedEx or Amazon, hub/spoke
* ~65,000 currently in ICE detention,
~70% don’t have a criminal conviction ICE Air at MSP

* Shuffle flights, taking detainees to detention centers via Alexandria, LA and El Paso, TX

* 2-3 flights per day during Metro Surge; now 2-3 per week

* ICE vehicles carry detainees to/from the airport from Whipple

* Loaded at Signature Aviation, the private jet terminal

* Started counting in November
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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 20/09/2026
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The world may have moved on from Minneapolis but its immigrant community continues to struggle. We spoke to single mothers who hid from ICE for months, ran through their savings, and now can’t pay to renew their DACA applications. At least dozens are in this situation. 19thnews.org/2026/07/ice-...
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Single mothers lost months of income hiding from ICE — and now can’t afford to renew immigration papers
They survived ICE's takeover in Minneapolis. But now their DACA protections are set to expire, leaving dozens scrambling to afford hundreds of dollars in fees to maintain their legal status.
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catikelly.bsky.social @catikelly.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Wooooo Aurora!!!
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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A giant chunk of our consultant class has no idea how to fight Republicans. They want milquetoast candidates with nothing behind them because they have no idea how to push back on lies and negative attack ads. 1/
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Inflation has a new catalyst: America’s massive artificial-intelligence build-out is beginning to push up prices on everything from smartphones to electricity. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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The Data-Center Boom Is Sparking a Third Wave of Inflation
Demand for memory chips is pushing prices higher. Will AI’s promise of increased productivity come in time to temper that inflation?
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/06/2026
People have been asking me if I know of a resource like StandWithMinnesota for New Jersey, and I haven't found something comprehensive. So, for the moment, I have put together all the links to NJ orgs, crowdfunding links, events, and stuck them on a page of SWM. standwithminnesota.org/jersey
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New Jersey — Stand With Minnesota
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 13/05/2026
At the peak of the ICE surge, Minnesotans raised and distributed millions of dollars in quick, low-barrier rent aid. Now some organizers of rent relief funds say they’re seeing an increase in requests for help as the number of evictions ticks upward and the amount of individual donations drop.
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Need for rent relief remains high as eviction filings increase and individual donations slow down
Some organizers of rent relief funds say they’re seeing an increase in requests for help as the number of evictions ticks upward and the amount of individual donations drop.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 07/05/2026
The Trump administration blitz that flooded Minnesota with immigration agents also dramatically slowed other federal investigations and prosecutions into an array of serious crimes, a Reuters review of federal court records found.
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Trump vowed to fight crime in Minneapolis. Prosecutions plunged
The Trump administration blitz that flooded Minnesota with immigration agents also dramatically slowed other federal investigations and prosecutions into an array of serious crimes, a Reuters review o...
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ward 9 baddie @naomi111.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
@taylordahlin.com coming in with another barn burner. Minneapolis is giving $30,000 of money earmarked for Operation Metro Surge recovery to the 50th and France business association so that they can put on concerts in the plaza… in Edina. Email your councilmember. taylordahlin.com/f/minneapoli...
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Minneapolis Small Biz Recovery Grant Funding Edina Activation
The 50th & France Business Association is among the 34 community-based organizations that received grants from the City of Minneapolis meant to help "revitalize neighborhood business districts and sup...
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 21/04/2026
This was never about the worst of the worst. We have continually demanded answers about how many of our children were taken into federal detention. Trump’s DHS has continually refused to give us information. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
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ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals
Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.
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Rachael @rachaelt.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I do not and will not care that “he’s all talk” because 1. he’s all talk until he’s not, abusers escalate and 2. his all talk held the world hostage today. that isn’t a leader, that’s a terrorist. so get off your blog boy butt and force our elected officials to grow up.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
my youngest grandson returns from The Waste. No food again, just metal scraps. But he's so proud, and wants a reward. "Tell me again about The Great Before. Tell me why The Green went away," he begs. "in the Before," I begin, "people had questions about who should participate in women's sports..."
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 12/03/2026
Despite an Atlanta megachurch pastor saying otherwise, organizers of the boycott against Target for ending its DEI initiatives say their work continues. “We speak for us, and we will never sell out our community for crumbs or a seat at Target's corrupt table," said organizer Nekima Levy Armstrong.
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Boycott of Target over DEI cuts still active, local organizers say
Organizers of the efforts to boycott Target Corporation say the boycott that began in in February 2025 has not ended.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 03/03/2026
video taken in downtown minneapolis today of reported bounty hunters PULLING A GUN on someone standing in the road in front of city hall. (business on the van is fake.) hennepin county sheriff’s deputies were right behind and did nothing video by government employee who saw it on their lunch break
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far. In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.
A screenshot of People Over Papers’ ICE reporting map. The map resets at 4 am ET every day. In Minnesota, over 100 reports have been filed today, with the overwhelming majority in and around the Twin Cities. 

Stay safe. Fuck ICE.
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Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 12/02/2026
Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
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Dan Wade @dwade.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us. Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
It’s fucking heartbreaking watching the pleas from MN residents start echoing the pleas from Gaza residents
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
One of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
And by "the theater," Tom Homan (paid by us) means the occupation (paid for by us) by state agents (armed & paid by us) of a state that annually sends $44 million more in taxes to DC than it gets back in federal support for the 5.8 million Americans who live there - or, as they might say, "us."
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Simply put, this is unacceptable. The entire agency is rotten to the core. There is no reforming or retraining a culture of lawlessness, there is only uprooting every part of it and then trying something different. Call your senators and demand they abolish and prosecute ICE and the DHS
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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 26/01/2026
Live updates: Free to access * More than 200 in Maine arrested by ICE so far, DHS says * Asylum-seeker taken by ICE had no criminal history in Maine, attorney says * Wife of detained man says he was moved despite habeas petition and judge’s order
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Live updates: More than 200 in Maine arrested by ICE so far, DHS says
The uptick in federal immigration activity in Maine continues to unfold after a 2nd U.S. citizen was fatally shot in Minnesota.
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Pixel Pushers Union 512 @ppu512.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Yup. This is so important to remember: Even if It Happens, the State apparatus is still there. If anything, it may even tamp down dissent as the discourse shifts to "Everyone come together now that the bad man is gone." and there's even less pushback from politicians out of misplaced decorum.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/01/2026
Protests happen, but most of what is happening in Minneapolis isn’t protesting. More accurate terms: - observers - witnesses - volunteers - neighbors - residents - people
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The whole interview is worth it
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/01/2026
Appears this is also true for fascism.
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Carin @mrotzie.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A brutal reminder for Minnesotans.
A tweet from Republican congressman Tom emmer thanking his Minnesota congressional colleagues including democratic senate candidate Angie Craig for helping to pass the Laken Riley act a year ago today.
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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I know it’s being slightly semantic but i get really mad when people refer to the occupation as if it’s only happening in Minneapolis. It’s not only stupid, but erasing that this is not confined to an urban core
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
It is important to acknowledge who is standing up and who is just trying to get by. Every day Americans are standing up while the powerful are mostly standing by. Why aren't law firms standing up and sending lawyers to Minneapolis. Why aren't the corporations speaking out? Why isn't the media?
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
My governor and federal reps should be holding press confs and going on tv telling people that one of the largest school districts is closed because of a federal gov’t-led ethnic cleansing campaign run by armed, masked goons who are brutalizing citizen observers and disappearing non-white neighbors.
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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped from Minneapolis. He was my neighbor and he died in an American concentration camp. He was not "illegal," he was a human being made in the image of the divine. May his memory be a blessing, and may the rest of us fight like hell until we stop this brutality.
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I'm just going to point out that ICE is about 23 years old. It was formed as part of the response to 9/11 and was reactionary, performative, and racist from the start. Its not eternal. This is not a thousand-year Reich.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
@angiecraigmn.bsky.social was the ONLY Minnesota Democrat to vote for the Laken Riley Act. The only one to vote to praise ICE. Even today, with ICE in our streets, she stands by her pro-Trump votes.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Folks, here is another local place that works with a lot of vulnerable kids and their families that could use your help.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Local cops & ISP helping ICE allows them to do their awful shit at Broadview & elsewhere. Among many things to do, let’s not forget to ask politicians why they’re spending money on hundreds of state & local cops protecting ICE despite IL Trust Act which forbids helping feds. They ARE helping, daily.
Cook county sheriffs police arresting a peaceful, unarmed protester at Broadview ice facility. The Illinois trust act forbids local and state cops from helping federal agents and yet every single day, state and local cops are doing exactly that.Local cops doing the important work of standing around and looking at their phones while penning into a small area peaceful, unarmed protesters at Broadview ice facility. The Illinois trust act forbids local and state cops from helping federal agents and yet every single day, state and local cops are doing exactly that.Several dozen Illinois state, police and other kinds of law-enforcement ranged in front ofpeaceful, unarmed protesters at Broadview ice facility. The Illinois trust act forbids local and state cops from helping federal agents and yet every single day, state and local cops are doing exactly that. Moments after this picture was taken, protestors were hit with pepper spray and beaten by ISP with wooden billy clubs.NIPAS, in northern Illinois consortium of police departments that Fields a riot police group that you see in this photo, in front of peaceful, unarmed protesters at Broadview ice facility. The Illinois trust act forbids local and state cops from helping federal agents and yet every single day, state and local cops are doing exactly that.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*. workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
Only a few hours after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Minneapolis resident and mother Renee Good on January 7, federal immigration enforcement agents descended onto Roosevelt High School property during school dismissal as students were exiting the building. MFE members say that ICE agents tackled and detained a school staff member and union member who was working at the time. The MFE member was since released, according to a union spokesperson. The agents also deployed a chemical irritant against students and staff on school grounds, MFE says. A school official, speaking to MPR News on condition of anonymity, said many students sheltered in a nearby library.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/01/2026
It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Masked ICE agents, it seems, are now killing American citizens on American streets. Any Democrat who doesn’t support abolishing ICE should be instantly primaried and run out of the party. This is non negotiable. You cannot support the continued existence of this fascist murderous secret police.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/11/2025
Mark Kelly on the Trump/Hegseth boat strikes: "If orders are illegal, not only do they not have to follow them, they are legally required not to follow them."
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 22/12/2025
If you’d like to know what it was really like inside CECOT for an innocent man who was wrongfully deported by this administration, we interviewed a pro soccer player and youth coach named Jerce Reyes two weeks ago: youtu.be/vlz3eGwHZBY?...
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Trump Deported an Innocent Athlete. This Is His Story of Resistance.
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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Popular Science @popsci.com · 18/12/2025
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
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