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When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid

"The U’s budget tables for 2025 show $138.2 million in consulting and professional services spending from nonsponsored funds — meaning the operating budget, nothing tied to external funding like federal research grants." minnesotareformer.com/2026/10/02/w...

During the ICE surge, Lisa Demuth signed a letter thanking ICE and praising Kristi Noem for her "steady leadership."

Former 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...

From @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...

Breaking: 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.

Meet 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.

the 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

A 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...

MINNESOTAN 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...

“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…”

New: 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:

We need to abolish all of DHS—not just ICE www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...

FUCK ICE

if Naomi be Klein, you're doing fine. If Naomi be Wolf, oh, buddy, oof if Naomi be Kritzer, give her a Pulitzer

MN, 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

The 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

Furthermore, 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 example

WOW. 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.

To 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...

This 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.

big win for DC and for @freedcproject.bsky.social if this pans out

Here's an old post I wrote about fireworks... tcsidewalks.blogspot.com/2012/07/re-b...

HEY 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/

ICE/Geo drove into a demonstrator today.

(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.

special Fathers Day shout-out to paid family leave

List of Israeli airstrikes since Israel agreed to another ceasefire, an couple of hours ago (Local times)

Ayup, as expected: mndaily.com/campus/umn-l...

“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.”

ICE releases Andrea Pedro-Francisco, woman with large ovarian cyst, from Texas detention center minnesotareformer.com/2026/06/04/i...

I’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/