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Emmy Kegler

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Queer Christian, wife, mama, and pastor.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
People are still trapped in their homes in my neighborhood here in Jason's ward, unable to go to work (at jobs which may not even exist anymore), sick with worry over how they’ll pay utilities and remain housed. It's not over. ICE is still here, and the least we can do is afford families more time.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 03/03/2026
This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned
A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.
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jkbeitz @jkbeitz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Just got a message from a signal group saying ICE was photographing *children* getting on and off a school bus today.
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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Today, ICE engaged in a dangerous, high-speed chase in Saint Paul. Their recklessness and disdain for the safety of our residents led directly to a multi-car collision, even if ICE vehicles weren't the ones to hit other cars.
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Despite what people are claiming, ICE is still actively threatening the safety and well-being of Minnesotans. Their disregard for the lives of the people of the Twin Cities is evident. These agents are a threat to all of us, and they must leave Minnesota.
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Riley Bruce @rileybruce.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This is Minneapolis:
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Liam Davis Temple @liam2manynames.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
When they boxed Elliott and I in and came to my car they literally said to us right away: “This is your first and final warning we have license plate readers and facial recognition we know who you are”
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simi @simifresh.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
the bushes were people 😂
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 08/02/2026
Counterpoint: no serious person in the Twin Cities is worried about any meaningful amount of "destruction" by observers/protestors. Get real.
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Jason @jasonsamuels.net · 07/02/2026
They're doing amazing work helping people who are already going through so much. This post from earlier this week illustrates what happens when they can't locate the family in time and the car gets impounded instead of returned to them.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
It’s like people have been “raptured” to hell: “Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where these abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars. The drop-offs are often emotional for the families and Leon's crew.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/02/2026
Ciji Graham’s is the seventh case ProPublica has investigated in which a pregnant woman died after she was unable to access standard care in a state that has significantly restricted abortion. Read her story: propub.li/4r4VQr4
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 06/02/2026
A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
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Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says
State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...
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Becca Patterson @mreauow.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I've been thinking a lot about our current movement and the role of individuals. Each of us is just a drop. Enough drops fill a bucket. Enough buckets fill a pool. Enough pools make an ocean. Each of us will do our little piece. 1/
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Beth Hawkins @bethhawkins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
ICE surge news: Minneapolis Public Schools has extended *optional* distance learning until April 6.
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Spamantha Risk 👸🏻 @spamantharisk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
And the percentage of those detainees who have NO criminal convictions continues to rise — up from 70% in December to 74% in January.
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emerald @f12.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Struggling to articulate how weird it feels that a subset of affluent, mostly white Minnesotans are enjoying concerts, restaurants, markets, and other fun consumption “for a good cause” while many of us are essentially in hiding and waiting for those dollars to trickle down.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:
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Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind”
“We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.
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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered. 18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
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Bluntzkrieg420 @bluntzkrieg420.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Wait wait wait, this "drawdown" is because sheriffs agreed to break state law to help DHS with nazi crimes on the stipulation their legal costs are covered when people rightly say hey fucko thats illegal? This isn't a drawdown, it is just replacing some DHS goons with regular cops
Attorney General Keith Ellison in February of last year concluding that “Minnesota law prohibits state and local law enforcement agencies from holding someone based on an immigration detainer if the person would otherwise be released from custody.”

In the footnotes of that opinion, which was issued as a result of concerns raised by Ramsey County Attorney John Choi about the legal ramifications of holding people on immigration detainers, Ellison noted that there is a legal gray area in state law around “written agreements with local law enforcement agencies to enforce immigration laws.”

The BOA, which is a written agreement, could potentially include a clause that would stipulate the federal government pay damages or legal fees that sheriffs might incur if they were sued for breaking state law — a situation that has happened several times in Minnesota.
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house? —Isaiah 58
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River Side Casino @riversidecasino.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The veil between this world and the next has been pierced. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 03/02/2026
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 04/02/2026
Ociel is the father of four daughters. He is a legal resident in Minnesota who went to court for a hearing about his status, and was detained. His family needs funding for legal help: www.gofundme.com/f/community-...
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Donate to Community for Ociel: Fund Legal Help, Protect His Rights, organized by Anna Sletten
Our friend, neighbor and community member Ociel needs our help. … Anna Sletten needs your support for Community for Ociel: Fund Legal Help, Protect His Rights
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 04/02/2026
See, I'm a target fanboy. It's my go-to for everything, and my wardrobe in particular is mostly Target stuff. I haven't been in a target for like, two weeks now because they're allowing ICE to stage in their lots and said nothing when agents brutalized one of their employees on the clock.
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Racket @racketmn.com · 04/02/2026
As Operation Metro Surge continues, community-led mutual aid efforts are feeding and housing Minnesotans in need—but there’s lots more work to be done.
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They Asked for Donations to Buy $10 Burritos. They Raised More Than $10K. - Racket
As Operation Metro Surge continues, community-led mutual aid efforts are feeding and housing Minnesotans in need—but there’s a lot of work yet to be done.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/02/2026
Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak. But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.
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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
At my MN precinct caucus tonight, a resolution calling on ICE to be more professional & follow the law got all Nays, but an "Abolish ICE" resolution got a unified resounding "AYE".
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Emmy Kegler @emmykegler.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is such great reporting -- not just capturing the scale and diversity of resistance in Minneapolis but also being beautifully direct in joining with that resistance. Thank you, @racketmn.com .
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar. If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.
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SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9
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Judge Blackwell had ordered the SHOW CAUSE hearing because he was frustrated that in 5 Habeas cases he was presiding over, he felt his orders were being ignored, leaving immigrant detainees unconstitutionally locked up for days. Ms. Le said that govt lawyers just cannot keep up.
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Catesby Holmes @catesby.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It's live. Get your tissues. “I’m OK with crying in front of him," said a mom, "but he’s come up to me a couple times and said, ‘It’s OK mama, I’ll protect you.’ That’s my job as a mom. I need to protect you.” Vera, 5, is taking matters into her own hands: She sets traps to catch the "naughties."
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‘Bad Guys Are Taking Mommies and Daddies’: ICE Upends Minneapolis Kids' Lives
In Minneapolis, parents must figure that out, while teachers face half-empty classrooms as students stay home for fear of abduction.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/01/2026
Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.
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All about "reactionary centrism"
Michael Hobbes joins me to diagnose the pundit class's obsession with scolding the left while the right burns down the house.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
World's least surprising stat, now with alt text:
Finding that at least 4,913 Border Patrol agents and CPB officers were arrested over a 20-year period, Graff testified: "Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and officers was higher per capita than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas. Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member. We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.
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My Daughter Lived the Liam Ramos Nightmare. It Turned Out Worse for Us.
The constant threats took a toll on my health. My daughter’s health deteriorated even faster.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
So they’re just chasing people around the park with guns drawn via @apnews.com
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mspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It’s day 63 of the ICE occupation of MSP. Today another district had to cancel school- this time for a bomb threat after going public about the impacts of the ICE surge on their district. All kids deserve to go to school without fear. But that’s impossible for our kids right now.
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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
annoying thing about a united front is that a lot of people in it are gonna be super wrong about a lot of other stuff
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 03/02/2026
Story of the fraud crackdown so far: Flood the streets with masked far right militia. Stalk people on their way to work. Target anyone who doesn't look American enough. Federal prosecutors resign in disgust. Capacity to prosecute fraud disintegrates. www.startribune.com/another-wave...
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Another wave of departures in Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney’s Office
14 attorneys have left this year, which prosecutors are calling unprecedented.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A new poll finds that 1 in 4 Minnesota voters took part in the Jan 23 shutdown against ICE, or have a loved one who did. Of those, 38% DID NOT WORK, either because they made the choice to stay out, or their workplaces closed. By me, @thomasbirm.bsky.social, @bloomekatz.bsky.social
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Poll Shows Massive Participation in Minnesota Shutdown Against ICE
1 in four Minnesota voters took part in January 23 day of action, or had a loved one who did.
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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Conditions in the Whipple Federal Building are violations of state law, federal law, international law, human rights, civil rights, and basic fucking humanity. racketmn.com/how-dhs-turn...
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How DHS Turned the Whipple Federal Building Into a House of Horrors - Racket
Plus the sycophantic MN GOP, an uplifting Alex Pretti Memorial Ride, and how you can help in today's Flyover news roundup.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
"About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments..." www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
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Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
"That reminds me of Anne Frank,” said the CEO of one Jewish senior residence reeling as Temporary Protected Status for Haitians is set to end.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.
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‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 03/02/2026
Woman with legal status taken from her family home in St Paul by ICE, flown to Texas, held for two weeks before being ordered released by a judge. She lost her job. She's afraid to go outside because agents keep coming to her home. www.kare11.com/article/news...
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After ICE release St. Paul woman, she says agents keep returning to her home
Thi Dua Vang legally came to the U.S. two years ago. So when ICE showed up, she thought it must have been a mistake.
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Dax (David J.) Schwartz @snurri.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
One of the things that keeps me going is that we are trying to protect something--community--and in the process we are strengthening that very thing. Their goal is simply to destroy. They have the guns and we have the whistles, but every day we become stronger and they do not.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 02/02/2026
I do not need an AI to match my drink to my mood, because if I'm reduced to getting a drink at Starbucks, I am either punishing myself with burnt coffee (drip) or so hypoglycemic I cannot think straight (seasonal latte).
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