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My latest, SILENT CREEK, has been launched into the world!!
I know the “if I wrote this my editor would say it’s too on the nose” joke is played, but OMG…
In 1943!!!

“Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun famously gave his Nobel medal and diploma to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as a gesture of admiration for the Nazi regime, following his support for the occupation….”
Reporter: Why would you want someone else’s Nobel Prize?

Trump: She offered it to me.
January 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Latest NYT video analysis.

The White House is lying.

Gift link.
Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Minnesotans knows how to handle ICE.
January 16, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Keep sharing this story. EVERYONE needs to see it. Call people who don't use social media and read it to them. This has to fucking stop.
Infant needs CPR after feds unleash flash-bangs on family van with 6 kids inside
The father of three children who were hospitalized in Minneapolis on Wednesday night accused federal agents of launching flash-bang munitions and tear gas into their family van after they were caught ...
www.rawstory.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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How you can tell the protesters aren’t paid agitators: Watch the videos. It’s the accents.

Those accents have a favorite Zorbaz.

Those accents can tell you EXACTLY where they were on 10/31/91.

Those accents have thrown a bra off the SkyGlider.

Those accents get emotional about Randy Moss.
January 16, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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Please read and share with anyone who might be planning on counterprotesting in Cedar-Riverside this weekend
January 15, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
January 15, 2026 at 4:10 PM
If we say that the COST of the federal invasion and occupation of my state is bothering us, will you do something about it then?
Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"
January 15, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Maybe point out that these people's beliefs about "the Cities" are objectively wrong and come from a steady diet of right-wing propaganda on places like faceboook? I have relatives who are convinced the entire city is still a burnt out husk where multiple people are shot every night.
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 2:38 PM
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To say a bit what people’s lives are like: both of my kids’ schools have chats that are connected to the parents and neighbors patrolling school grounds observing for ICE. Every a.m. other parents monitor them in case we need to quickly go to the school to help prevent a child from being kidnapped.
January 15, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Flashbang a dad trying to get his kids out of harms way
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
January 15, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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I’m obviously immediately suspicious, but one thing I never owned in an apartment was a shovel. Just saying.
January 15, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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They have fucking assault rifles and we have whistles and they’re scared shitless, because they know we’d rather be righteous and dead than ever be them.
January 15, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Any news outlet reporting the DHS statement without mentioning how they continually lied about Renee Good is not doing journalism.
January 15, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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Really want to stress that this crowd formed in a matter of minutes.
More feds showed up. Crowd chanting, "fuck ICE!"

These vehicles also reversing out now.
January 15, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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She says ICE agents mocked her: “The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock..."
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
‘I was flooded with fear’: Minnesotans describe their encounters with ICE, being detained
From an Uber driver to a school drop off, MPR News spoke with Minnesotans who were stopped or detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
www.mprnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Leadership.
January 15, 2026 at 1:37 AM
An Island of Decency
January 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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People who aren't in Minnesota might not know that if you drive or walk past pretty much any school, there's going to be a group of people, parents and childless, standing guard to make sure the kids are safe from feds. It's pretty remarkable. And very disturbing. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Twin Cities students walk out, decry ICE as surge continues
Hundreds of Twin Cities high school students walked out of school Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota. Officials are increasingly concerned about high absenteeism in some sc...
www.mprnews.org
January 13, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.

www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court
James Rodden, who the Observer identified last year as the operator of the account that routinely posted hateful statements, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.
www.texasobserver.org
January 14, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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💯
January 13, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Shit gets real tomorrow, you ghouls…
January 14, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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Yeah man all my friends in Minnesota are buying high viz vests and forming human chains at class dismissals because ICE is targeting and tear gassing schools. I wonder why parents would want information about that.
what the fuck are we doing here, @cnn.com?
January 14, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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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.
January 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM