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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026
i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 29/09/2026
The claim says Williams didn’t threaten or resist agents on Jan. 7 but was held down, slammed into the ground and choked. During the drive to Whipple Federal Building, Williams says agents laughed about Renee Good’s killing earlier that morning and said, “hopefully we don’t have to kill you, too.”
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Roosevelt High teacher files federal claim over violent detention by agents
Roosevelt High School teacher Quentin Williams has filed a claim against the federal government alleging agents violently detained him, falsely accused him of assault and violated his civil rights.
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meagan3478.bsky.social @meagan3478.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A cool slug chomping on a mushroom
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 17/09/2026
Billionaire Glen Taylor’s right-hand man is a political player supporting Lisa Demuth for governor.
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Billionaire Glen Taylor’s right-hand man is a political player supporting Lisa Demuth for governor • Minnesota Reformer
House Speaker Lisa Demuth won the Republican primary for governor despite losing the Minnesota Republican Party’s convention endorsement — a first since 1994. Now she’s putting up a credible challenge...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 16/09/2026
Law enforcement arrested Lipps in Tennessee last year in connection with a case of bank fraud in Fargo. Police said they used facial recognition software to link Lipps to the suspect, and she was held in jail for six months. But Lipps said she had never been to North Dakota.
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Tennessee woman sues Fargo, city detective over AI-aided arrest
In a federal lawsuit, Angela Lipps said she was falsely arrested and jailed after police used artificial intelligence to investigate her.
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Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We all saw ICE treat Jake Lang as a dignitary, but now we get word that a (sympathetic???) cop in the Minneapolis PD was working with Lang, AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY, helping to coordinate his team. And now we can't press charges... www.startribune.com/jake-lang-no...
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Hennepin County Attorney: No felony charges related to far-right activist Jake Lang’s Minneapolis confrontation
Mary Moriarty said there was prior communication between police and Lang’s security detail before he drove onto the sidewalk and raised a large sign with a racial epithet on it.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 21/08/2026
State Rep. Paul Anderson co-hosted a town hall forum on the Appleton Detention Facility — formerly known as the Prairie Correctional Facility — which will begin housing people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers later this year.
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Appleton residents voice concerns about new ICE facility
State Rep. Paul Anderson co-hosted a town hall forum on the Appleton Detention Facility — formerly known as the Prairie Correctional Facility — which will begin housing people detained by Immigration ...
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 21/08/2026
The federal government doesn’t pay local property taxes. That’s an issue for Swift County and the city of Appleton, where CoreCivic recently sold a prison to the Department of Homeland Security to be used as an detention center. Appleton’s revenue could shrink by as much as 30%.
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Appleton area could lose more than $800,000 per year in revenue following government prison purchase • Minnesota Reformer
APPLETON — The federal government’s purchase of a 1,600-bed prison in Appleton for an immigrant detention facility could deal a major blow to city, county and school finances.  The prison had been own...
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meagan3478.bsky.social @meagan3478.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is the 2nd Mike Lindell sign I’ve seen. This one is big, prob about 3x4’ and just went up today. It says you can get a free copy of his book so I looked it up and apparently he used campaign money to buy books from himself and is distributing them as campaign material
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meagan3478.bsky.social @meagan3478.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Mike Lindell sign sighting there’s at least one person out here crazy enough to vote for him 🫠
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meagan3478.bsky.social @meagan3478.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
lol
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meagan3478.bsky.social @meagan3478.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I’ve received at least half a dozen flyers in the mail campaigning for Lisa Demuth for MN governor in the past month and all have been about fraud but the two I got this week are now pivoting to communism
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meagan3478.bsky.social @meagan3478.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Him saying this just days after two people were brutally murdered by ICE in the span of one week is breathtaking
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Morgan @larubia22.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
28 years of cyclosporiasis testing Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. All are back because of this science denying administration.
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 01/07/2026
Who is the billionaire supporting Lisa Demuth’s campaign for Minnesota governor?
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Who is the billionaire supporting Lisa Demuth’s campaign for Minnesota governor? • Minnesota Reformer
If House Speaker Lisa Demuth becomes the Republican nominee for Minnesota governor in August, she’ll have one donor in particular to thank: Richard Uihlein. Uihlein owns one of North America’s largest...
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redtailboa.bsky.social @redtailboa.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
There’s an ICE facility being built in secret in St Cloud/ Waite Park, Mn. Just learned about this last night. Time for everyone to know so we can stop it. Please spread the word so organizers can get this is the public and stop it! Please share, share, share!!!
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meagan3478.bsky.social @meagan3478.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
men shouldn’t be allowed to hold any political office until they prove as a group that they can act right
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2026
Trump: "I even had a conversation with Theodore Roosevelt. I said, 'What do you think about the Panama Canal? Do you consider that your greatest achievement and how do you feel about the fact that the Democrats gave the Panama Canal away to Panama for $1?'"
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meagan3478.bsky.social @meagan3478.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Translation: “I have a primitive culture”
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meagan3478.bsky.social @meagan3478.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I found a book by Carl Hiassen at a thrift store and enjoyed it, then found out my uncle loves his books and has all of them so he borrowed me his collection. I just finished “Double Whammy” (1987) today and this specific detail struck me as funny as I read it right after watching Rubio’s hearing
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meagan3478.bsky.social @meagan3478.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Republicans are so far gone they don’t believe the outcome of any vote even when it’s only amongst their own party
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/05/2026
Yesterday I signed a bill to return 3,400 acres of land to the Fon du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa - a joint effort between the Tribe, the state, and the University of Minnesota.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/05/2026
ESPAILLAT: What happens to a child if a family is split bc they're thrown out of a home bc of the status of the dad? TURNER: Families have to make good decisions E: So the child should pay, even if the mother is a citizen & the child is too? T: If a family is breaking the law, everybody suffers
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/05/2026
wow -- Trump appears to call Rachel Scott a "bitch" as he finishes taking questions from reporters
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/05/2026
TAPPER: Allen does say - I apologize for using this language - 'I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist & traitor to coat my hands w/his crimes' PIRRO: That's outrageous. There's a lot of other things you could've read T: But is he talking about Trump? P: Ask him. I don't really care
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meagan3478.bsky.social @meagan3478.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Found a few interesting books at the thrift store on my way home from work. “War & Genocide” really called to me today for some reason
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 31/03/2026
Federal agents arrested more than 3,700 Minnesota residents during the federal government’s surge into the state this winter, according to new data. It shows fewer than one-quarter of those arrested had a criminal conviction on their record.
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Data shows three-quarters of ICE arrestees in Minnesota had no criminal record
The new data shows fewer than one-quarter of those arrested by immigration agents in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge had a criminal conviction on their record. A little more than 13 percent of ...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Walz: We will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here's our pledge to you, our Somali Minnesotans, your great grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/03/2026
"You can’t drink the water here. The smell is bad, and it hurts our stomachs a lot." "I have been served raw meat at Dilley. One woman became so sick from eating the food that she began vomiting blood." First-person accounts paint a bleak picture of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.
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Wormy food, intimidating guards, sick kids: Inside ICE’s only family detention center
First-person accounts paint a bleak picture of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone] Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/03/2026
GOP, you good with this?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/03/2026
Chris Murphy: "It won't be the billionaire children of Donald Trump and his buddies that die. It's going to be the children of middle class and poor families all across this country that are gonna die for a war of choice, a war of vanity, an illegal war."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/02/2026
Mike Rounds says Republicans just want to make you show your document with a yellow star in order to vote
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 11/02/2026
Investigators say one immigration official abused his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he sexually abused a woman in his custody. A third is charged with taking bribes.
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As ICE expands, an AP review of crimes committed by agents shows how their powers can be abused
Investigators say one immigration official abused his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he sexually abused a woman in his custody. A third is charged with taking bribes.
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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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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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MPR News @mprnews.org · 06/02/2026
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
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DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Live: Judge orders release of suspects in alleged shovel attack on agent
Department of Homeland Security says agent fired in self-defense after being attacked with a snow shovel and broom.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice'
In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Must read: "Holding facilities were so crowded that immigrants in one cell had to take turns lying down because there was no space, according to a refugee detained there for one night in January. Basic human needs like food and medical care were sometimes denied." www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...
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‘No humanity’: Detainees describe conditions inside Whipple Federal Building
Immigration sweep brings overcrowded rooms and overflowing toilets. Lawyers say they can’t visit their clients. The Department of Homeland Security says “all detainees receive full due process.”
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/01/2026
Maria Santay, a U.S. citizen and community observer, live-streamed masked ICE agents detaining her after they boxed in her car from all sides and smashed her window. Local police showed up and did nothing. She was denied access to a restroom, and forced to pee in the parking lot while handcuffed.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/01/2026
Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 28/01/2026
A 2-year-old’s detention is part of an accelerating trend of what an attorney describes as ICE agents sending children and adults with legal immigration status out of state to avoid dealing with accountability from the federal court system.
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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 sending them to Texas within hours — in at least two cases against a judge’s order. ...
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Maple Grove, MN - As a dispersal order is called on the hotel noise demonstration, a group of men on the top floor are gesturing at the protesters.
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meagan3478.bsky.social @meagan3478.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Small town MN where the sheriff is working with ICE and holding people for them in the county jail
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Time to delete TikTok if you haven’t! They’re asking specifically for immigrant status and transgender or nonbinary status, which should make people nervous about where we are heading
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🚨"Theyr're dumping people in the woods" - Medical workers are flagging potential cases of federal agents releasing injured detainees in the most inhumane method possible. LIVE NOW⬇️
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Ashley Miller @amreports.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/01/2026
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
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Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
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