Jason
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Beautiful
Did y’all see that ICE OUT carved into Lake Nokomis in Mpls today?
Apparently people filled it with luminaries so people on planes can see it at night
Apparently people filled it with luminaries so people on planes can see it at night
January 27, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Beautiful
This accurately describes life in Minneapolis right now
at this point I have no idea what day it is, keep forgetting to eat, and am getting approximately ten Signal messages a minute, so if I owe you an email or something it’s probably late, I’m sorry
January 26, 2026 at 7:20 PM
This accurately describes life in Minneapolis right now
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
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Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
After everyone left, the candles from the vigil are still burning bright. There must be justice for Alex Pretti's murder.
January 25, 2026 at 3:55 AM
After everyone left, the candles from the vigil are still burning bright. There must be justice for Alex Pretti's murder.
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from alex pretti’s parents:
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 AM
from alex pretti’s parents:
Jacob Frey's office number is 612-673-2100 in case anyone else needs a voicemail to scream into this morning.
January 24, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Jacob Frey's office number is 612-673-2100 in case anyone else needs a voicemail to scream into this morning.
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This is it.
The reality of our mythologies for America is that we have several. It’s not one or the other.
We pick which one we want to honor and which becomes the warning.
The reality of our mythologies for America is that we have several. It’s not one or the other.
We pick which one we want to honor and which becomes the warning.
Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
January 23, 2026 at 6:31 PM
This is it.
The reality of our mythologies for America is that we have several. It’s not one or the other.
We pick which one we want to honor and which becomes the warning.
The reality of our mythologies for America is that we have several. It’s not one or the other.
We pick which one we want to honor and which becomes the warning.
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“We’re just encouraging everybody in Minnesota, and I understand now it’s gotten national and international traction, to stand in solidarity on the 23rd that what is happening here is unconstitutional and is dangerous.”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘We have to stand together’: Minnesota economic blackout organizers push to take demonstrations nationwide
Minnesotans urged not to work, shop or go to school as part of protests against ICE and the death of Renee Nicole Good
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:42 PM
“We’re just encouraging everybody in Minnesota, and I understand now it’s gotten national and international traction, to stand in solidarity on the 23rd that what is happening here is unconstitutional and is dangerous.”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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When it all feels like too much, I ground myself in the directive to do what I can, with what I have, from where I am.
If all of us did just that, each day, we would all be doing enough to change everything.
If all of us did just that, each day, we would all be doing enough to change everything.
January 22, 2026 at 7:28 PM
When it all feels like too much, I ground myself in the directive to do what I can, with what I have, from where I am.
If all of us did just that, each day, we would all be doing enough to change everything.
If all of us did just that, each day, we would all be doing enough to change everything.
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I would like my local neighborhood news and my national crisis news to stop being the same thing.
January 22, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I would like my local neighborhood news and my national crisis news to stop being the same thing.
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They clearly believed that Minneapolis would riot after they killed one of us. We didn’t, we organized. We followed them, we monitored them. We alerted our neighbors. We fought them in the courts. And now they’re desperate, so they’re brutalizing us, without a hint of legitimate government purpose.
January 21, 2026 at 11:46 PM
They clearly believed that Minneapolis would riot after they killed one of us. We didn’t, we organized. We followed them, we monitored them. We alerted our neighbors. We fought them in the courts. And now they’re desperate, so they’re brutalizing us, without a hint of legitimate government purpose.
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This photo will be everywhere for the next week. Pls credit prominently.
Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minnesota Star Tribune
Every journalist covering ICE risks their lives.
Tsong-Taatarii has been an NPPA Photographer of the Year, rec'd a World Press Photo award, and was on a team that won a Pulitzer.
Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minnesota Star Tribune
Every journalist covering ICE risks their lives.
Tsong-Taatarii has been an NPPA Photographer of the Year, rec'd a World Press Photo award, and was on a team that won a Pulitzer.
Minneapolis, today.
Note how three agents holding the civilian down.
Why spray?
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Note how three agents holding the civilian down.
Why spray?
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 21, 2026 at 9:35 PM
This photo will be everywhere for the next week. Pls credit prominently.
Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minnesota Star Tribune
Every journalist covering ICE risks their lives.
Tsong-Taatarii has been an NPPA Photographer of the Year, rec'd a World Press Photo award, and was on a team that won a Pulitzer.
Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minnesota Star Tribune
Every journalist covering ICE risks their lives.
Tsong-Taatarii has been an NPPA Photographer of the Year, rec'd a World Press Photo award, and was on a team that won a Pulitzer.
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The craziest fucking thing you've ever seen is now happening multiple times per day, very close to where you live.
January 14, 2026 at 12:19 AM
The craziest fucking thing you've ever seen is now happening multiple times per day, very close to where you live.
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People are angry, of course, about the masked bullies rampaging through our city. But people are also hungry for actions to take that are concrete, specific, and practical.
How Can Artists Show up for Minneapolis? - Racket
I held a 500-person virtual workshop on how artists can meaningfully support the work to get ICE out of Minneapolis. Here's what I learned.
racketmn.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:21 PM
People are angry, of course, about the masked bullies rampaging through our city. But people are also hungry for actions to take that are concrete, specific, and practical.
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Military newspaper to become regime propaganda rag.
#BREAKING: The Pentagon announced it would take editorial control of independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes to refocus coverage on “warfighting” and remove “woke distractions.”
thehill.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Military newspaper to become regime propaganda rag.
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Need everyone’s help. I’m hoping to find people doing monitoring/protesting/guarding who do not have protester/progressive backgrounds (normies), to show resistance is broad. They’d need to be ok being ID’d but reporters would tell them in advance what’s being used. Friends, colleagues, you? DM me.
January 20, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Need everyone’s help. I’m hoping to find people doing monitoring/protesting/guarding who do not have protester/progressive backgrounds (normies), to show resistance is broad. They’d need to be ok being ID’d but reporters would tell them in advance what’s being used. Friends, colleagues, you? DM me.
This is the way
Instead of vouching for my neighbors in the Signal chats, I’ve decided to air very picayune grievances. “Fuck that guy, he parked his car in front of my house and blocked my path to the street for two weeks when he went on vacation.”
January 20, 2026 at 3:29 AM
This is the way
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I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:56 PM
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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I’m the one in the brown hat.
What you might not see is the victim in the car. His feet are pointing out the open car door. An agent is sitting on one of his legs. He’s only wearing crocs.
Bystanders found his legal work visa in his abandoned car.
#AbolishICE
What you might not see is the victim in the car. His feet are pointing out the open car door. An agent is sitting on one of his legs. He’s only wearing crocs.
Bystanders found his legal work visa in his abandoned car.
#AbolishICE
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I’m the one in the brown hat.
What you might not see is the victim in the car. His feet are pointing out the open car door. An agent is sitting on one of his legs. He’s only wearing crocs.
Bystanders found his legal work visa in his abandoned car.
#AbolishICE
What you might not see is the victim in the car. His feet are pointing out the open car door. An agent is sitting on one of his legs. He’s only wearing crocs.
Bystanders found his legal work visa in his abandoned car.
#AbolishICE
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I've seen a lot about DHS doing I-9 audits, speculating that they're looking for immigrants to target. And maybe that's the case.
But as somebody almost perversely familiar with the workings of form I-9, I think it's about fines.
But as somebody almost perversely familiar with the workings of form I-9, I think it's about fines.
January 19, 2026 at 4:43 AM
I've seen a lot about DHS doing I-9 audits, speculating that they're looking for immigrants to target. And maybe that's the case.
But as somebody almost perversely familiar with the workings of form I-9, I think it's about fines.
But as somebody almost perversely familiar with the workings of form I-9, I think it's about fines.
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The problem of expanding the smash and grabs to include all people who don't look American enough, regardless of citizenship or immigration status, is it becomes obvious we're not debating immigration policy. It's a government campaign of racialized, militarized street thuggery and harassment.
Nasra Ahmed, a U.S. citizen raised in St. Paul, recounts the encounter with a dozen ICE agents that led to two days at the Sherburne County Jail. She was taken for an MRI in arm and leg restraints, and then released Friday night without charges:
January 18, 2026 at 11:08 PM
The problem of expanding the smash and grabs to include all people who don't look American enough, regardless of citizenship or immigration status, is it becomes obvious we're not debating immigration policy. It's a government campaign of racialized, militarized street thuggery and harassment.