Hearing that they just caused another crash on 252. Maybe hold off on the self-congratulation until they're actually gone.

I think maybe we could do with a little more communism. Or failing that, some Scandinavian socialism.

Wait, you guys are getting paid???

It's cute that they're pretending there's an investigation.

Seriously, though--nobody is attacking them and given that their operational posture is about as subtle as a fart in church, that's a testament to the high level of restraint being shown by the general public

7/ @governorwalz.mn.gov talks a good game but until we see state resources directed at basic law enforcement instead of abusing protesters, Minnesotans must question his intentions and the strength of his convictions. /fin

6/In the immediate aftermath of Pretti's murder, the BCA attempted and completely failed to secure the crime scene. This, maybe more than anything else, is the biggest failure of the state's response. Your officers have guns and body armor too. Start acting like it.

5/Meanwhile, we are witnessing multiple examples daily of reckless and dangerous driving on our streets and highways by ICE agents in rentals and their own vehicles. There is absolutely no reason that local/state police can't address that, except that they don't want to.

4/Of course we *have* seen the State Patrol guarding Whipple and breaking up noise protests at hotels, including using their LRAD in Maple Grove

3/Anecdotally the State Patrol has been missing in action on our highways for weeks. I normally see one or two cruisers per day on my weekday commutes. I have seen *two* in the past four weeks, and both this week.

2/the director of Driver and Vehicle Services sent a letter to DHS on 12/23/25 advising them that their license plate shenanigans were illegal. It would well within the power of state and local law enforcement to impound illegally licensed vehicles but they have not, to my knowledge, even once.

The fact that they're not is an indictment of leadership at the highest levels in this state.

Yes, they've been ramping up intimidating observers. Guns drawn, breaking out car windows. Several arrested from our area in the suburbs last week, all (I think) now released. Most with only citations. And no, we won't be ending the resistance.

And while you're at it, start impounding vehicles with illegally altered plates or no plates at all.

Why are we wasting state resources providing security at a federal building instead of keeping our higways safe?
@governorwalz.mn.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov

The only reason we know Ross's name is the vice president's attempt to garner sympathy for him gave the folks down at the Strib enough to connect the dots.