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Louisa

@louisathelast.bsky.social

Want to help Minnesotans currently under siege? Friends on the ground say this food bank is delivering to folks who are having to stay inside to avoid ICE harassment. www.2harvest.org

Second Harvest Heartland | Local Minnesota, Wisconsin food bank | 2harvest.org

There is more than enough food for everyone. As one of the nation’s largest hunger relief agencies, it’s our job to make sure healthy, nutritious food gets to the households who need it. Every day, we...

www.2harvest.org

January 21, 2026 at 3:13 PM

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Corey They Them Brickley

@coreybrickley.bsky.social

great point by bestie @teastainss.bsky.social in this article on banning AI at comic-con: with corporations, politicians, institutions: ALWAYS BE ANNOYING. At best they gravitate towards doing nothing and continue to do nothing until a fire is lit under their asses

www.404media.co/comic-con-ba...

Comic-Con did not respond to 404 Media’s request for comment, but Oreglia said she did hear back from art show organizer Glen Wooten. “He basically told me that they put those AI stipulations in when AI was just starting to come around and that the inability to sell AI-generated works was meant to curtail people from submitting genAI works,” she said. “He seems to be very against genAI but wasn't really able to change the current policy until artists voiced their opinions loudly which pressured the office into banning AI completely.”

January 21, 2026 at 4:36 PM

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arnicaxross

@arnicaxross.blacksky.app

Remember when that absolute fool of a politician tried to suggest a bill that ICE wear QR codes instead of name and ID number patches like literally everyone else and I said it would be the work of minutes for them to dummy up their own QR codes to access your phones?

I meant this.

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 9d

I have been told that this undercover ICE agent tried to get observers to scan a QR code “for his website”. The QR code did not resolve to a link.

DO NOT SCAN UNKNOWN QR CODES FROM STRANGERS.

This is a massive security risk! Bad things can happen to you if you do it!

Stay frosty, friends.

Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 9d

Every day some story breaks me some. Today it’s the guy who approached parents at a school patrol, told them he was with Indivisible, and asked about how the patrol system works. The parents gave vague answers, followed him back to his car — and of course it was ICE.

January 21, 2026 at 3:46 PM

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Meredith McClaren

@iniquitousfish.bsky.social

Okay.
Here's something nice.
www.window-swap.com

WindowSwap

Open a new window somewhere in the world

www.window-swap.com

January 21, 2026 at 6:30 PM

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🎇˚ʚ New Year's Belle drop ɞ˚ @ RIP 🎇

@torrent-empress.bsky.social

Hey I wrote this

TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · Nov 10

New article our on TrueRef! 🤍

Understanding AI: Facts, Myths & Protecting Your Work by @torrent-empress.bsky.social

Covering what AI really is, what it's costing us as a society and how you can protect yourself.

Read: trueref.io/blogs/news/w...

Understanding AI: Facts, Myths & Protecting your Work

As the world at large continues to talk about “AI”, creatives from all fields are left scrambling to save their work from companies using it to build data training sets to compete with them. In this a...

trueref.io

January 21, 2026 at 1:39 PM

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Hazel Newlevant

@newlevant.bsky.social

What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition

I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:

Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control

Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

January 16, 2026 at 3:17 PM

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Zander Cannon | ☘️ SLEEP #8 on sale in March! ☘️

@zandercannon.bsky.social

Artist! Quote with your horn art!

A watercolor illustration of a grotesque but not very scary Krampus, sporting appropriate prison tattoos, including "Mistlefoe," "Anti-Claus," and a visual representation of the Grinch's heart being 3 sizes too small. By beloved Minneapolis cartoonist Zander Cannon

January 21, 2026 at 6:19 PM

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MX MORGAN @ arts and arting

@mxmorgan.com

Don't Get Sentimental
Ink and watercolor, 2025

Original for sale: ko-fi.com/s/55fbdcfda6
Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmo...

ink and watercolor painting of two dogs in a gentle, tender embrace. one dog is white, the other is red. within the white dog is an exposed heart. the heart and the red dog have the same color palette. it is to represent vulnerability in tender intimacy, and bravely opening oneself to another and desire to feel unity with another individual.

September 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM

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Trung Le Nguyen

@trungles.com

Things continue.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

In a lot of ways, I'm really lucky. I work from home. I write and draw books.
I still experience a lot of the same normal creative issues. I'm burned out.
My current project frustrates me.

But a few things in my routine have changed.

Me: Hey, mom. Are the cousins okay? How's grandma? And your sisters?

Me: Oh, good.
Yeah. Okay, that's good.
I'll call you later.

Watching Bob's Burgers on repeat while I work.

My friends check in from time to time.

Text: I got rubber-bulleted by ICE just on my way back from work. Ouch.

Text: Hey I'm gonna observe tomorrow at the protest. I'll text every hour, and if you don't hear from me, please call [number] and give them my identifying information. I'd probably be at the Whipple. Okay?

Text: They knocked on my door, but I'm okay.
I demanded a signed judicial warrant, and they couldn’t provide one, so they left.

I’m worried all the time.

Very little in the news feels encouraging.

Headline: Mayor Kaohly Her says she was told to carry a passport amid ICE operations in Minnesota

St. Paul Mayor elect Kaobly Her says her office received reports of federal agents going door-to-door asking where the Asian people are. KARE11 January 16, 2026

And it makes me feel utterly untethered from reality when I have to live like this and just get back to work and draw my stupid little cartoons.
Nothing else feels real or important right now.

But my neighbors are doing such a great job staying engaged and finding needs to meet.

Text: I'm running to Costco and picking up some canned goods to run to the food shelf. Let me know if you want to donate anything.

Text: I'll throw in for some canned goods!

Text: Me too!

Text from me: What's your Venmo? I can contribute.

January 19, 2026 at 3:03 AM

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Trung Le Nguyen

@trungles.com

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

Just before Christmas, I got a puppy.
Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie.

I'm still learning how to understand her.

Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo?
Do you need to do a widdle piddle?

Minnie: Arf!

*I just call her "little baby" most of the time.

I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now.
Nobody tells you about that.

I got so lucky with my first puppy.
Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now.

Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport.

I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers.

I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless.
The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective.

I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition.
ICE will pick up anybody.

I know that.

So I tucked my passport away.

And I largely avoid leaving my house.

I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too.
And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized.
We'll do our best to get through this.

Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?

January 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM

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Simkaye 🌈

@simkaye.bsky.social

I updated my anti-ICE database this morning! If you have resource suggestions I missed, please reach out docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Anti-ICE Resource Directory

docs.google.com

January 21, 2026 at 8:39 PM

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Corey They Them Brickley

@coreybrickley.bsky.social

weird i must've been out sick when they first asked for permission to fuck up the power grid

Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 9d

Delicious to me

January 21, 2026 at 11:06 PM

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Dliok ・ᴥ・VGen Comms open!

@dliok.bsky.social

5 slots for February! 🐈‍⬛🐕

Dliok ・ᴥ・VGen Comms open! @dliok.bsky.social · Oct 20

Commissions are open on VGen!
Pet portraits and characters
🌸8 slots
Rt's are highly appreciated! 💕
vgen.co/dliok

#Vgencomm #VGenOpen #commission

January 21, 2026 at 11:57 PM

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Etherelle 🌈➡️BLM➡️🇺🇦FUCK▪︎ICE

@etherelleart.bsky.social

Here is the final result!! 🙌 He's delicious and is already missing his arm and leg. Thank you so for joining me yesterday evening for my yearly culinary chaos.

Etherelle 🌈➡️BLM➡️🇺🇦FUCK▪︎ICE @etherelleart.bsky.social · 9d

21/? If you had a grand time and a giggle, please consider tipping me with a Kofi! UwU7 It helps to pay for the baking supplies.
ko-fi.com/etherelle

You can also visit my Etsy and support me there while also grabbing some sweet fanart!
www.etsy.com/shop/Etherel...

January 21, 2026 at 11:58 PM

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Wander

@wanderbot.bsky.social

I’m not keen on the fact that DuckDuckGo already has AI search, but I’m very glad it’s optional.

But what if we vote no so hard they drop AI entirely?

voteyesornoai.com

January 17, 2026 at 1:31 AM

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Indivisible ❌👑

@indivisible.org

Every Democrat should be voting against this funding bill, and Democratic leadership in both chambers should be actively whipping their caucus in opposition.

Make sure your Members of Congress hear from you ASAP. Urge Democrats to answer the people’s call to stop ICE’s lawlessness.

Tell Congress to rein in ICE NOW

On Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good, an American citizen, was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This was a direct result of unchecked violence, impunity, a...

act.indivisible.org

January 22, 2026 at 1:24 AM

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Molly White

@molly.wiki

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

A red knitted cap with a pointed crown with a braided tassel. It's titled "Melt the ICE Hat" and it's by YarnCultMN

n the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal and punishable by law to wear, make, or distribute. As purveyors of traditional craft, we felt it appropriate to revisit this design.

The sample shown was knit in Blue Sky Fibers Skyland for the DK version.

All proceeds from the sale of this pattern go to the LynLake community of businesses who will distribute the funds to those impacted by the actions of ICE.

January 19, 2026 at 4:40 AM

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ceej

@ceej.online

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

January 22, 2026 at 3:31 AM

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

New— I wrote about the amazing success of the Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota (more than $18k raised just from bluesky!!!), how people far and wide are inspired by the fighting spirit, and why I feel it’s my duty as a journalist to use my platform for material change:

Calling Greg Bovino a "b*tch" raises thousands for Minn. immigrant rights

Spearheaded by The Handbasket, $18k+ in donations were made to spite the CBP commander.

www.thehandbasket.co

January 22, 2026 at 2:42 AM

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Mostly Leftist Supply Depot Bree

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

This thread is so much. 😭

Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 8d

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

January 22, 2026 at 4:23 AM