Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialProject True North @projtruenorth.bsky.social · 9hDuring the ICE surge, Lisa Demuth signed a letter thanking ICE and praising Kristi Noem for her "steady leadership." 4224134
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialFrederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press) @frederickmelo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Former St. Paul City Council Member (and 1-time mayoral candidate) Dai Thao has a podcast, and Mayor Her went on it last week to dish for an hour in Hmong. Getting this translated was a bear 🐻 — ask 2 people to translate a turn of phrase, expect different answers: www.twincities.com/2026/09/30/m... 4377
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialFrederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press) @frederickmelo.bsky.social · 11hFrom @jaredography: "Cool new event alert: The inaugural Midway Music and Arts Fest runs Friday through Sunday with performances, open classes, studios, literary readings and workshops, vendor markets and more across some 25 venues." midwaymusicandart.org" www.twincities.com/2026/09/30/f... 222
feznander.bsky.social @feznander.bsky.social · 11hMayor Her states that she brought eggrolls to the SPPD following this incident, in recognition of their hard work. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...documentcloud.orgSt. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her sexual harassment investigation reportThe city of St. Paul released the full, redacted, report Oct. 1, 2026, from an outside investigation commissioned after Police Chief Axel Henry made claims of sexual harassment against Mayor Kaohly He... 12416
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialTexas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.texastribune.orgICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identifiedThe federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte... 20566393344
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialPacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is · 21/09/2026Meet ICE agent Steve Rivas, of Chicago, IL. Rivas is one of the agents who brutalized the U.S. citizen in Evanston yesterday. Rivas has been involved in multiple questionable use of force incidents in Illinois and Minnesota. Rivas and his wife have been active in the local Chicago swingers scene. 10413249
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026the lesson from the right is not that their obsessions with trans volleyball, anti Haitian blood libel, or reversing the change in teen pregnancy rate are actually the well framed kitchen table issues of the volk but simply that political discourse becomes about things people say often and loudly 221496305
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialFrederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press) @frederickmelo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A stillborn birth. Limited emergency access. The homeless encampment at Randolph Avenue tripled from 40-60 people to at least 140 people overnight, and some say over 200. A month later, no one is calling the clearing of the Pig's Eye encampment a success story. www.twincities.com/2026/09/02/s...twincities.comSt. Paul: Randolph Avenue homeless encampment has grown by at least 100The Randolph Avenue woods, once home to some 40 or more people, now encompass at least 140 to 150 people, according to the city. The site, which is woodsier and more dispersed than Pig’s Eye, lacks ea... 43011
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialtaylr @taylordahlin.com · 01/09/2026MINNESOTAN RENTERS: if you rented from a large property mgmt company between 2018-2025, you may be able to get money from a recent settlement as they were colluding to drive up rents i found the brentwood apartments in loring park on there! www.realpagerentalsettlement.com/property-loo...realpagerentalsettlement.comProperty Lookup - In re RealPage, Inc., Rental Software Antitrust Litigation (No. II)In re RealPage, Inc., Rental Software Antitrust Litigation (No. II) 511788
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account. 230114225345
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialGreg Shill @gregshill.com · 16/08/2026“Whether or not those who operate this fundraising model recognize or intend it, fundraising spam runs on similar psychological levers to those that federal law enforcement and consumer-protection groups identify as hallmarks of elder financial exploitation…” 13212
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialWill Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 15/08/2026“The snow samples from the winter showed elevated levels of lead and chromium in particular around major tear gas use sites, Walker said. That includes near the site where Pretti was shot and killed, and outside the Whipple federal building where protests lasted for weeks.”startribune.comWhat did a winter of tear gas leave in Minneapolis soil? U of M researchers are trying to find out.The study aims to determine whether chemical munitions used by federal agents left contaminants in neighborhood gardens and soil. 1179103
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/08/2026New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:unraveledpress.comChicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to VirginiaA federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu... 6236781975
feznander.bsky.social @feznander.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I walked alone out of a store to find three vehicles backing into a Chinese restaurant parking lot, agents pulling up face gaiters. I whistled and pointed, and we all stared at each other with the whistle screaming until they peeled out and drove away. I've never felt so vulnerable or so powerful. 310925
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialJoey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 12/08/2026[whispers] It’s coming for them, too. 0253
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialstar @foundbysara.bsky.social · 12/08/2026if Naomi be Klein, you're doing fine. If Naomi be Wolf, oh, buddy, oof if Naomi be Kritzer, give her a Pulitzer 533955
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 10/08/2026MN, please vote for Peggy Flanagan today or tomorrow! Angie Craig who voted to thank ICE is trying to buy this race, and we have done way too much to protect our neighbors to let her win 3606226
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The story though about the electorate that I think we should be telling is DESPITE years of lying & propaganda, MOST people want ICE abolished. Despite AIPAC MOST people have negative views of Israel. Organizing & activism works & it’s not true that most people are okay with cruelty & unmoveable 228577
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialDave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Furthermore, the evidence shows that when center-left parties adopt right wing policies, it does not help them win votes. In fact, it only makes the right more powerful because its seen as a legitimization of right wing grievances. People will vote for the real fascists. UK Labour being the exampletheguardian.comAdopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’Study of European electoral data suggests social democratic parties alienate supporters by moving towards the political centre 2347147
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press. 27188293149
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 14/07/2026Horrible day. ICE is preparing a deportation flight to Laos so some of my former, current, and were-to-be clients are being brought to the Whipple Building and shipped off to Louisiana for final removal. Lots of calls from them, their families, and friends. So much pain visited on our community 5730181003
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialSam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 12/07/2026To stop the Project 2025 takeover of science, public comments are half a plan. But they won't get us all the way there. Here's the second half of the plan - and what you can do: samwang.substack.com/p/building-h...samwang.substack.comComments are Half A Plan To Stop the Takeover of Science......here's the second half. 211276
feznander.bsky.social @feznander.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This really underscores the fact that not only do we need ICE abolished, but we need full permanent legal status for everyone who's been affected by this campaign of terror. We can't leave the threat of deportation hanging over anybody's head as we work our way out of this. 010
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026big win for DC and for @freedcproject.bsky.social if this pans out 8470103
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialBill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Here's an old post I wrote about fireworks... tcsidewalks.blogspot.com/2012/07/re-b...tcsidewalks.blogspot.comRe-Blog: Fireworks are What Cities Feel LikeYou can't explain fireworks. There's something deep about how they mesmerize, about how a hundred exploding lights in the sky enthrall. It's... 121
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/06/2026HEY CHICAGO! The city wants to sell your parking meter company to the same private-equity firm that owns Omni Air International, the worst of the worst of ICE's charter airlines. The city council's finance committee is meeting about it TOMORROW. 1/ 171319740
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 24/06/2026and they see a chance to make a bunch of money by warehousing those people while relieving themselves of the burden of having to see them on the street. 317510
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Big props to Brad Lander on winning his primary. Dude has done the moral thing many times and put his body on the line against ICE. He even came to Minnesota during the ICE Occupation to see the injustice firsthand. It’s nice to see moral courage rewarded by voters. 22108861462
feznander.bsky.social @feznander.bsky.social · 23/06/2026This does not seem that complicated to me. People look to right-of-center parties for austerity, restriction, and exclusion. They look to left-of-center parties for generosity, liberation, and inclusion. 1/ 100
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialtalia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 21/06/2026ICE/Geo drove into a demonstrator today. 6436131715
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.social[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 21/06/2026(3) if elites are of the opinion that a 'progressive' stance on some issue is a liability, the rational response is to not talk about it rather than priming an issue the right defines itself on by taking a weak-sauce 'me also' position, thereby reinforcing the idea that the right is correct. 17813
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026special Fathers Day shout-out to paid family leave 11626124
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/06/2026List of Israeli airstrikes since Israel agreed to another ceasefire, an couple of hours ago (Local times) 1283177
feznander.bsky.social @feznander.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Another U tidbit that could be worth a journalistic look: the Continuing Ed and Conference Center on the St. Paul campus has apparently been quietly retired from University use, and appears to be used exclusively for cross-departmental police trainings. 100
feznander.bsky.social @feznander.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Ayup, as expected: mndaily.com/campus/umn-l... 000
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialBill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I did not know that we have dung beetles in Minnesota, but, courtesy of this video from the younger kid up near Hackensack, I can report that we do: 4286
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialeric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Think about this research nearly every day now reading the news. 261342376
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 05/06/2026“Darryl Brown, a sergeant in the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, was caught with the missing items after the photojournalist [Angelina Katsanis, on assignment at Delaney Hall for the AP] used a geo-tracking device to trace her missing gear to his home, the state’s attorney general said Thursday.” 1590210
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialmax nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social · 04/06/2026ICE releases Andrea Pedro-Francisco, woman with large ovarian cyst, from Texas detention center minnesotareformer.com/2026/06/04/i...minnesotareformer.comICE releases Andrea Pedro-Francisco, woman with large ovarian cyst, from Texas detention center • Minnesota ReformerAndrea Pedro-Francisco, a 23-year-old asylum seeker who has been pleading for medical treatment for a large ovarian cyst since being arrested by immigration agents in Minnesota in February, was unexpe... 021048
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialJason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I’m deeply appreciative of our neighbors, patrollers, observers, watchers, and everyone who helps with mutual aid. I also think it’s important to acknowledge our immigrant neighbors who have resisted, shown courage, and persevered in the face of a devastating occupation. 2/ 111313
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialMara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Shout out to the Newark folks showing up for those in detention at Delaney. Solidarity from Minneapolis! 💜 05711
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialThe Embodiment of the Paradox of Tolerance @seltsamerweise.bsky.social · 29/05/2026NOW BRING US JONATHAN ROSS. 05112
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialAnat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Just saw updated demands: Release everyone beginning with most vulnerable first (young, elderly, sick) and better conditions including edible food, drinkable water and access to attorneys. 03210
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialJJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026🧊✈️ HEADS UP NEW JERSEY ⛓️😲 ⚠️ Delaney Hall Clearout⁉️ ICE Air coming to Newark GlobalX A319 – Tail: N316NV ETA: 3pm 👀 33720
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialBill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Lebanese deli at Pump n Munch and this place next door for pho pho79now.com#aboutUspho79now.comPho 79 - St.Paul, MNDiscover Yum. 4245
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/05/2026Hey, it's late, but a year ago today, ICE tried to sneak eight migrants to South Sudan via private jet. I wrote all day about catching them in the act, and what has been unleashed since. Go easy on me, it is very sincere. 🙏 gillianbrockell.com/the-private-...gillianbrockell.comThe Private Jet to Hell, One Year LaterThe Trump regime tried to take eight migrants to a prison in South Sudan via private jet without anyone noticing. 9349123
Reposted by @feznander.bsky.socialErik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news 157114295
![MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 13: A federal agent [Steve Rivas] exits his car on January 13, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Trump administration has deployed over 2,400 Department of Homeland Security agents to the state of Minnesota in a push to apprehend undocumented immigrants. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v4suqsx5woxqrcmca545wzuq/bafkreigmt3fyv55a4hckgjmg34psb4q3fx464w3c7pnptjz5epsw6klz6m)
