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At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
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‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods
Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make their job as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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the post-general campaign finance report was due yesterday, so here are my favorite expenditures of this city election season

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Best Campaign Expenditures of the 2025 Minneapolis City Elections
Dan Orban's Vehicle Advertisement by JP Bullfrog: $450.00
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December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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They should do MyChart Wrapped
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Dear neighbor, I want to let you know that we are witnessing increased enforcement actions by agents in South Minneapolis. There continues to be reports of residents being followed while driving, stopped and taken away. 1/
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I'm deleting the ice incidents thread because enough of us have seen it & I can't stand to have it blowing up all day.

They're extremely active in South Minneapolis 12/1 & 12/2 with several verified incidents of people being taken, even leaving kids in vehicles in this cold.

Look out for people.
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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“Labeled as ‘domestic terrorists’ by the administration, these targets include anti-ICE protesters and anyone who allegedly funds them — all of them part of a supposed left-wing conspiracy to violently oppose the president’s agenda.”
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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This is your 2 minute whistle training.

Now you’re ready to use a whistle if you spot ICE.
Neighbors - you do not need anyone's permission to sound your whistle when you spot ICE. Nor do you need to attend a whistle training first. Here's everything you need to know.
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Statement from President VanDassor on the actions of HSI in St Paul this morning
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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We have got to collectively help people understand that of course the local* cops are acting as an arm of the machine. That is their purpose.

People need to grow their minds & grieve what they've been conditioned to believe about cops being there to help/serve/protect.

(*wherever you are)
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Shit St Paul ICE agent aims gun
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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More Monarca training in St Paul on Saturday 11/29.

Learn your rights as a legal observer. Join the rapid response network.

Also 12/15 in Uptown.

monarcamn.org/training
Training — Monarca
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November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Strib: look at those unruly protestors
MPR: one of the cops shot us
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Whenever I wear my Free Them All rice bag shirt, people ask where I got it - now you can get your own and support the MN8 Deportation Defense & Relief Fund: www.bonfire.com/free-them-al...
Free Them All (Rice Bag) | Bonfire
This product's profits will be donated to the MN8 Deportation Defense & Relief Fund.. The MN8 Deportation Defense & Relief Fund aims to support Southeast Asians currently...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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New "How to Report ICE" zines up today:

#Nashville
#Asheville (In North Carolina folder)
#TwinCities Metro Area (in Minnesota folder)

#NewYorkCity en Español!

I am working on the backlog and will have more out tomorrow!!

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SALUTE zines **BE SURE TO PRINT AT 100%!** - Google Drive
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November 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Erik Alarcon, whose uncle and cousin were detained in Tuesday's operation, says the family had planned to gather for Thanksgiving next week. Now, they’re trying to figure out where their relatives were taken and whether they can contact them.
'We’re very in the dark': Families say they can’t reach loved ones detained in St. Paul ICE operation
Families and advocates say they’re trying to reach their loved ones who were detained at a St. Paul manufacturer during a federal law enforcement operation on Tuesday.
www.mprnews.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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More than 24 hours later and no comment from our governor on the federal agents that violently escalated things in his capital city yesterday.

Legal witnesses run down with cars, chemical agents sprayed at people. Multiple injuries.

I see. I see.
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Listening to Sarah Marshall's "The Devil You Know" series on the Satanic Panic and @annieknk.bsky.social's "Truly Tradly Deeply" series on trad wife culture is feeling a little too full circle.
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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COPAL is hosting a community vigil tomorrow morning at 9am.

At the site of the raid today.
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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If you were in St Paul today, thank you.

We need more observers. There’s a thin line between protesting and observing. You don’t have to be on the front line!

If you see staging activity, call a response hotline! Describe what you see.

Resources and upcoming trainings here.
Hey twin cities friends!

There’s a new website for the Mn Rapid Response network, now called Monarca.

It has the hotline to call if you see 🧊 activity as well as Know Your Rights information and lists upcoming community trainings.

A great resource. Please share widely!

monarcamn.org
Monarca
monarcamn.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Know any twin cities small-business owners?
I'm hosting a gathering of businesses against fascism on Wed. Nov. 19 @6pm.
Working w/ ISAIAH to connect business owners with a broader anti-authoritarian movement with shared demands. Please send anyone you know who might be interested my way!
The plan:
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Thank you to all the folks giving updates from the DFL listening session. 🫡
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM