Jason Weidemann
@fiveoclockbot.bsky.social
Writer, dog dad, Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press
If the events on the day of Renee Good's murder are replicated, ICE will go on the attack today.
January 24, 2026 at 4:08 PM
If the events on the day of Renee Good's murder are replicated, ICE will go on the attack today.
Another person shot by ICE in Minneapolis this morning.
January 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Another person shot by ICE in Minneapolis this morning.
Oh gosh!
Empty parking lot at a Minneapolis Target during a statewide strike with many businesses closed today. Target has remained open.
With negative temperatures and a lot of outdoor protest today, the one product people may go in for is sold out at their stores - hand warmers.
With negative temperatures and a lot of outdoor protest today, the one product people may go in for is sold out at their stores - hand warmers.
January 23, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Oh gosh!
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I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.
Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
January 23, 2026 at 2:28 PM
I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.
We're going to find out one day that Trump's Greenland sabre-rattling was just a really bad UTI.
January 23, 2026 at 4:13 PM
We're going to find out one day that Trump's Greenland sabre-rattling was just a really bad UTI.
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Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.
January 23, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.
Holy shit they ARRESTED Nekima Levy Armstrong?
January 22, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Holy shit they ARRESTED Nekima Levy Armstrong?
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"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'"
www.startribune.com/preschooler-...
www.startribune.com/preschooler-...
Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says
The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.
www.startribune.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:23 AM
"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'"
www.startribune.com/preschooler-...
www.startribune.com/preschooler-...
The cruelty and depravity of ICE knows no bounds.
ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’
The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...
www.mprnews.org
January 22, 2026 at 2:32 AM
The cruelty and depravity of ICE knows no bounds.
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This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
January 22, 2026 at 1:41 AM
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
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When you run a fascist out of Minneapolis, you are entitled to a traditional feast that honors your Minnesota ancestors.
January 17, 2026 at 10:02 PM
When you run a fascist out of Minneapolis, you are entitled to a traditional feast that honors your Minnesota ancestors.
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In Sickness and in Health
An urgent and deeply affecting account of America's failure to provide meaningful support to its chronically ill and disabled citizens and our resulting...
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January 15, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Amid all that is happening, I urge you to pre-order my new book. As our systems further collapse and the state chooses to spend its funds terrorizing communities rather than investing in our collective care, we need to bear witness 1/5 www.harpercollins.com/products/in-...
I grew up in rural N. Minnesota. There's a fascinating diversity of people all over the fucking place. But yeah, if you only interview people day drinking and watching Price Is Right on TV in some dive bar, then yes, you are likely to meet the area's incurious and unintelligent contingent.
NYTimes has truly outdone itself with this latest in its "ask white guys in diner" genre. Thank goodness we get a perspective on what's happening in Minneapolis from people in **Nisswa** who probably mean Brainerd when they say they "prefer not to go the city anymore" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
One State, Two Very Different Views of Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I grew up in rural N. Minnesota. There's a fascinating diversity of people all over the fucking place. But yeah, if you only interview people day drinking and watching Price Is Right on TV in some dive bar, then yes, you are likely to meet the area's incurious and unintelligent contingent.
Left my home in Longfellow for a morning doctor's appt in Uptown. ICE all over my neighborhood streets. Neighbors standing on streetcorners bundled up, guarding elementary schools. Horns honking outside the doctor's office as a kidnapping force drives by.
January 14, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Left my home in Longfellow for a morning doctor's appt in Uptown. ICE all over my neighborhood streets. Neighbors standing on streetcorners bundled up, guarding elementary schools. Horns honking outside the doctor's office as a kidnapping force drives by.
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A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
January 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM
A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
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We are a small group of neighbors in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis, and we have created this fund to administer individual support to meet the urgent needs of families in crisis in our neighborhood. Please give/share if you can! tinyurl.com/helpinglongfellow
January 12, 2026 at 8:30 PM
We are a small group of neighbors in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis, and we have created this fund to administer individual support to meet the urgent needs of families in crisis in our neighborhood. Please give/share if you can! tinyurl.com/helpinglongfellow
This is Lyn-Lake, a commercial hub of South Minneapolis and one of the busiest corridors for traffic and transit in the city.
Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
January 12, 2026 at 10:34 PM
This is Lyn-Lake, a commercial hub of South Minneapolis and one of the busiest corridors for traffic and transit in the city.
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i don't know what's going to happen, but I hope everyone remembers this invasion of minneapolis forever, and dedicates some part of their lives to holding them accountable, from the fascists on the street to the fascists in DC. I know I will.
They’re gassing Lake & Lyndale?
Love having a bit of tear gas in my rental car.
January 12, 2026 at 10:30 PM
i don't know what's going to happen, but I hope everyone remembers this invasion of minneapolis forever, and dedicates some part of their lives to holding them accountable, from the fascists on the street to the fascists in DC. I know I will.
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i believe the photographer who is taking the photo is Christopher Katsarov of the Canadian Press, and here is his photo
January 11, 2026 at 8:18 PM
i believe the photographer who is taking the photo is Christopher Katsarov of the Canadian Press, and here is his photo
During the uprisings in 2020, Walz sent Minnesota National Guard troops into South Minneapolis to terrorize my neighbors.
State and local law enforcement know the communities they serve. They’ve built the trust and know how to keep us safe.
As Minnesotans express their first amendment rights, I encourage you to remain peaceful and know that local law enforcement has one goal in mind: your safety.
As Minnesotans express their first amendment rights, I encourage you to remain peaceful and know that local law enforcement has one goal in mind: your safety.
January 11, 2026 at 2:26 PM
During the uprisings in 2020, Walz sent Minnesota National Guard troops into South Minneapolis to terrorize my neighbors.
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January 11, 2026 at 2:23 PM
It’s the last day to visit @uminnpress.bsky.social at #MLA26, but you can still visit our books online and take advantage of our sale at z.umn.edu/mla26
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The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.
if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed.
everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.
everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.
January 10, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.
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A Red Lake Ojibwe descendant was snatched by ICE in Minneapolis, and a Plains Cree woman was questioned.
This is in addition to the four Oglala Lakota men who reportedly were grabbed by ICE.
ictnews.org/news/i-felt-...
This is in addition to the four Oglala Lakota men who reportedly were grabbed by ICE.
ictnews.org/news/i-felt-...
‘I felt like I was kidnapped’: Ojibwe man recounts ICE detainment - ICT
At least five Native American men have been detained by ICE around Minneapolis following significant immigration raids
ictnews.org
January 10, 2026 at 3:19 AM
A Red Lake Ojibwe descendant was snatched by ICE in Minneapolis, and a Plains Cree woman was questioned.
This is in addition to the four Oglala Lakota men who reportedly were grabbed by ICE.
ictnews.org/news/i-felt-...
This is in addition to the four Oglala Lakota men who reportedly were grabbed by ICE.
ictnews.org/news/i-felt-...