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Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.

Here are the slides from my presentation at today's Documenting the Impact of DHS Activity in Minnesota conference at the U of M - Watching ICE Air at MSP: How many are they taking away? This work is done entirely by volunteers; help MN50501 cover our airport parking fees: mn50501.org/donate 🧵👇

Two prominent right-leaning legal groups are backing an effort by Minnesota 15 defendants to obtain more discovery from the feds, including correspondence they believe could show the prosecution is politically motivated or intended to suppress 1A activities. share.google/VkgxP7qohIWx...

47 on today's ICE Air flight, the largest on a single flight we've seen here in Minnesota since early February. The national ICE surge other flight trackers are noticing is happening here at MSP as well. Elderly women and construction workers chasing the American dream, sent away in chains. 🧵👇

“The U.S. is starving Cuba like Israel is starving Gaza. The U.S. is laying siege cruelly cut off all fuel and humanitarian aid, power is out, leaving hospitals without electricity. Dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others will die. Food is rotting. Water pumps stopped working.” M. Safa

Tacos Al Pastor will always defeat fish and chips. Love you Mexico! #worldcup #fifa #mexico

Yesterday, 33 shackled ICE detainees were flown away from their homes in Minnesota, bringing the week's total to 70, the most since the end of Metro Surge. Stats: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data

During this—call your rep now! This is what they are trying to put in this reconciliation packages which will destroy the boundary waters and could impact all public lands #bwca #publiclandsnotforsale

Yesterday, for the first time that I've witnessed, there was a detainee boarding the MSP ICE Air flight without shackles. "Oh! A new loophole the lawyers could use to improve treatment," I thought. I pinged @gillianbrockell.com - she pointed me to the ICE Air handbook exemption for pregnant women.

THE SENATE IS VOTING ON THE BOUNDARY WATERS RIGHT NOW! Tonight, while most people are watching TV or putting their kids to bed, the U.S. Senate is taking a vote that could permanently end protections for one of the most beloved wilderness areas in America.

This is urgent!! The vote will happen this afternoon!!!! Call your senators and every senator NOW!! They need to vote NO on HJR 140 to save the boundary waters and protect our public lands!! Please share and call!!

So far in April, Adopt A Rent has covered 69 rents for Minnesota immigrant families in need. Nice! Want to adopt a rent? You can sign up here: www.standwithminnesota.com/adoptarent

Two chained women are inspected before being loaded onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP. Empty shackles, returning from El Paso, will be brought to Whipple. The number of people loaded here this week, 67, is the highest since Feb 7-13, when Homan announced the end of Metro Surge.

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MN State Capitol. #NoKings

The work we’ve been doing at the airport is some of the most important I’ll ever have a chance to participate in; thank you for covering it so eloquently, @maddow.bsky.social.

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

Stand With Minnesota is out of donors for Adopt A Rent, and we currently have way more rent needs than we can cover! Want to directly support a MN immigrant family in urgent need to help keep them safe and housed? Fill out our form here: standwithminnesota.com/adoptarent Thank you! 💐

February 22, 2026

I feel like Rage Against the Machine was too optimistic.... and gave us a false impression when they said... only "SOME of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses." "Some" was definitely an under-estemate.

SpaceX in 2012: We will return to the moon and put a man on Mars SpaceX 2026: you know the data centers that make on-demand child porn possible? now they're satellites!

⛓️CONCENTRATION CAMPS & INCINERATORS—D.H.S. is setting up a huge network of camps. They are converting the U.S. as a region for ‘expeditionary military deployment’ & no-bid no-public-comment contracts to build a “ghost network” of 10,000-person concentration camps. Jesus. Thread 🧵

Overturning the 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining in the Boundary Waters watershed would benefit Twin Metals, a subsidiary of Chilean mining company Antofagasta. Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them to vote NO on H.J.Res 140! wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/boundary-wat...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I have shed a lot of tears today. Alex Pretti was a hero. He will forever be known as a hero. ❤️ We will not stand for this here in MN. If they thought this would soften our resolve, they were dead wrong. We are more motivated and united than ever! ¡Chinga La Migra!

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry. "They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

I cannot tell you how essential this is! Call reps now, every single one, and specifically these: #bwca #protectpublicland