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Cullen

@hellocullen.bsky.social

not only are you a weird freak baby who wants to monitor your neighbors youre now in ICE

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13h

It was inevitable.

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

techcrunch.com

January 19, 2026 at 5:10 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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molly conger

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social

aside from work stuff, i mostly use social media to look at funny videos of dogs and subreddits about nail polish. you would not BELIEVE what the lacqueristas are getting up to over there, the anti-ICE nail art is flooding the feed.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2d

this is what the nail girlies are up to

ice agent slipping, painted on an acrylic @handittoheather on instagram

January 17, 2026 at 9:13 PM

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️

@napaaqtuk.bsky.social

As you talk about Greenland, please make sure you are talking about the >56,000 Inuit who have called the Island their home for thousands of years. Here are 2 stories that include their voices, concerns, and hopes.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buy...

‘Buying countries is Stone Age mentality:’ Inuit speak up on Greenland

Indigenous Greenlanders, who endured centuries of colonialism from Denmark, now face a new threat from Donald Trump’s United States

canadiangeographic.ca

January 16, 2026 at 11:22 AM

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Deb JJ Lee

@jdebbiel.bsky.social

Drew the MoCCA poster this year :)
Posters will be sold at the event!

January 19, 2026 at 4:53 PM

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Nathan Daniel Hernandez

@natedhernandez.bsky.social

You're gonna wake up tomorrow and the worst thing possible will happen or it'll be normal and it's gonna be like that forever and sometimes there's ice-cream

January 19, 2026 at 9:28 AM

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Kel McDonald

@kelmcdonald.bsky.social

www.kickstarter.com/projects/149... Hey folks! I'll be launching a kickstarter very soon! Please sign up to get told about it

Coming soon: Shards of Reflection

A newly made vampire searches for the vampire who made her while unable to trust her new senses and memories.

www.kickstarter.com

January 19, 2026 at 7:20 PM

Meredith McClaren

@iniquitousfish.bsky.social

Every hour.
Of every day.
I am waiting for my phone to buzz with that ONE emergency news alert.

January 18, 2026 at 7:25 PM

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

@ebonyteach.blacksky.app

You know, many of us said the post 9/11 War on Terror measures were Orwellian bullshit at the time, from DHS to ICE. The Patriot Act was chilling as well.

Some of us objected vociferously. Perhaps we didn't have the mics or the power, but we remember 2001-2005 as a terrible time in this country.

January 18, 2026 at 5:31 PM

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post malone ergo propter malone

@proptermalone.bsky.social

so Minneapolis has engaged both static and tactical defense

Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 2d

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

January 18, 2026 at 4:28 AM

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Tristan Brard - Commission open !

@tristanbrard.bsky.social

Clouds and brontosaurus

November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM

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Brian Tyler Cohen

@briantylercohen.bsky.social

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.

They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

January 17, 2026 at 5:36 PM

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Paris Marx

@parismarx.com

Another part of the Canada-China deal: Canadians will be able to visit China without needing a visa. Now to see when it gets implemented.

Visa-Free Travel to China Coming Soon for Canadians, Confirms Prime Minister Carney

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canadians will soon be able to travel to China visa-free, following an agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping aimed at strengthening tourism, ed...

www.travelpulse.ca

January 16, 2026 at 5:15 PM

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Trung Le Nguyen

@trungles.com

Cartoonists, I’d love to hear your stories! For local resources, please check out @defend612.bsky.social
defend612.com

ICE OUT
Cartoonists against ICE
Calling on cartoonists and artists to tell your stories about the ICE occupation of your towns and cities!

*4-panel comics*
*3:4 Instagram format*
Use this Blue: *There is a color drop block of blue to copy *

Use these hashtags:
#iceout[your city]
#iceoutmpls
#iceoutcomics

January 16, 2026 at 1:30 PM

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Blue Delliquanti

@bluedelliquanti.bsky.social

Five minutes, twenty degrees, a dozen people. #IceOutComics #IceOutMpls

January 16, 1 pm, Richfield (just south of the Minneapolis border)

fweet fweet
honk honk HOOOOONK

"Oh, jeez."

A van with tinted windows pulls into the parking lot of the strip mall, with a few cars on its tail.

This intersection's full of potential targets, even with all the locked foors and closures.

Cafe, restaurant (closed), grocery store, school (went virtual this week).

This isn't a crisis that ends at 60th Street.

But the observers show up here, too.

To my knowledge, the van drives off after five minutes without taking anyone.

January 17, 2026 at 5:02 AM

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Timchat Torah

@landbeforetim.bsky.social

You can support the Jacksons here as they heal from the trauma of them and their babies being bombed by ICE agents.

Donate to Support the Jackson Family After ICE Incident, organized by Destiny Jackson

Hello my name is Destiny. Myself , my husband Shawn and their 6 kids wer… Destiny Jackson needs your support for Support the Jackson Family After ICE Incident

www.gofundme.com

January 16, 2026 at 8:38 PM

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bob barker 🍸

@insortediaboli.bsky.social

Look at this absolute queen

When someone asked "Why would you as a business choose to piss off 1/2 of your potential customers? Just curious what sense that makes." the bakery responded with "I don't want those customers."

January 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM

Meredith McClaren

@iniquitousfish.bsky.social

I do wish.
At some point in my formative years.
That someone had let me know that there are circumstances in which rudeness was necessary.

And modeled for me how to be that kind of situationally appropriate human problem.

January 16, 2026 at 10:19 PM

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Bob Cesca

@bobcesca.bsky.social

This was reported two days ago. Making sure it doesn't get flushed down the Great American Memory Hole.
www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

January 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM

Meredith McClaren

@iniquitousfish.bsky.social

YES.
PLEASE.
I have watched more 'The Making of' documentaries than I have the actual shows and movies they were making.

It is my most favorite thing IN THE WORLD, to watch creative people making the things they are proud of.

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 3d

And now, an old man yells at clouds.

Hollywood, Please Bring Back Making-Of Documentaries

Remember when you could actually learn about how your favorite movies were made?

screencrush.com

January 16, 2026 at 10:10 PM

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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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Micah

@rincewind.run

MrBeast is less an actual person than physical manifestation of clout farming, there is absolutely no partnership he will not entertain if it might lead to Bigger Number

The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 4d

The YouTube phenomenon known as MrBeast has partnered with the LDS Church on philanthropy, and church President Dallin Oaks says he hopes lower missionary ages will lead to lower marriage ages.