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Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

truth from Jenny Zigrino

A stacked set of two screenshots from a standup routine by Jenny Zigrino that say “I know the grim reaper is a white man because if anyone else was this bad at their job, they’d be fired”

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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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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Does Professor Wurman want to delineate which of the law students he teaches are from unassimilated groups that lack the habits of mind that make constitutional government possible?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026

John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

NEW: The Trump administration blitz that flooded Minnesota with immigration agents hobbled federal efforts to pursue serious crimes. By April, prosecutors had brought charged just eight people with drug or gun crimes, the fewest in more than two decades. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Unbelievable stuff from the Washington Post on behalf of Jeff Bezos today.

Opinion
Editorial Board
America’s income tax is progressive
The rich already pay more than their fair share

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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 01/04/2026

The DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses in order to pursue immigration cases. minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/01/t...

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Trump’s Justice Department dropped 23,000 criminal investigations in shift to immigration • Minnesota Reformer

The cases included an investigation into a Virginia nursing home with a recent record of patient abuse; probes of fraud involving several New Jersey labor unions, and an investigation into a cryptocur...

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KAL @blueflafighter.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M, to detain 4k people of whom only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Plus two citizens murdered. ~ Veterans for Peace

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

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Alysa Liu Is Skating Again, Her Way This Time

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 20/02/2026

Why don't the people of the Twin Cities just stay home and let DHS do as it pleases? Speaking only for himself, Mike Somes explains that he personally does it because he is an idiot who does it because he failed to realize that all that talk about inalienable rights was an elaborate joke all along.

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The Last Idiot Who Earnestly Believes in the American Experiment

Still left out of the joke, even now.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This episode has been a nightmare for my city and state, but I hope people realize it’s also a profound defeat and political catastrophe for Trump and DHS, who are slinking away having accomplished nothing. Minneapolis simply wouldn’t bend to them and they lost

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen: "We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."

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If we don’t create our dreams, who will? @newlife2024.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

BREAKING: 8 more U.S. Attorneys in MN resign from Trump’s DOJ in protest as backlash grows. This isn’t normal; isn’t routine reshuffling. It’s a rebellion. Last month, 6 veteran prosecutors quit in protest. Normal staffing for the MN DOJ’s office is around 50 attorneys. They’re down to just 9.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 27/01/2026

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Any comment from these useless, weak, pathetic, feckless pieces of shit that voted for ICE and DHS funding this week? Any comments from these 7 Vichy Democrats on ICE murdering Alex Pretti? Tom Suozzi Henry Cuellar Don Davis Laura Gillen Jared Golden Vicente Gonzalez Marie Glusenkamp Perez

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 24/01/2026

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows:
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.

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emilia-lou.bsky.social @emilia-lou.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

For those in Minneapolis, powderhorn art sled rally is going on this Saturday despite everything! For those who are able and feel safe, it’s a great celebration of the weird that makes Minneapolis the city we love! artsledrally.com

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Art Sled Rally 2026 Info

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 15/01/2026

My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 15/01/2026

the word "reportedly" belongs in here between "after" and "being attacked" if it was a Minnesotan saying ICE attacked them with a shovel you can fuckin bet that word would be present about 900 times

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The Supreme Court only cleared the way for Kavanaugh Stops four months ago and ICE now openly engages in violent racial profiling, snatching anyone who looks non-white and treating them as presumptively guilty of a crime. Remarkable how quickly our liberties can be crushed when courts go along.

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Dumb Megan @dmbmeg.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

WE GOT MORE VIDEO OF ICE FALLING ON ICE

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Brittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

When I spoke to local activists here in Minneapolis, they told me there is a palpable sense that ICE agents are out for blood, that they want a fight, and you can feel it. I finally saw that myself at the Whipple Federal Building. ICE feels emboldened by the state covering for murder. Untouchable.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 06/08/2025

The Tesla Diner is a perfect metaphor for the whole Tesla brand: a bad facsimile of something that already exists, made by people who don't understand what they're recreating, with a thin veneer of superficial futurism on top, for people with no taste or self-respect www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/d...

Tesla engineers built a proprietary tool to flatten patties for the smash burgers with crisp browned edges, held together with caramelized onions and cheese, which seemed to be on most tables. It lent the dish a superficial whiff of innovation, but the burger didn’t stand out in any meaningful way.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

The gerrymander in Texas is constitutional. The ones in New York and California are not. by Sam Alito, Amy Coney Barret, Neil Gorsuch, Bret Kavanaugh, John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18/06/2025

no, for sure, just go ahead and get rid of everything that makes me give a damn about this country

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