Karen Woodrow Lafield
stella-6.bsky.social
Karen Woodrow Lafield
@stella-6.bsky.social
kitty mama, home chef, former professor, researcher
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JUST IN: Judge Stearns has issued an order requiring DOJ to request that Secretary of State RUbio issue a student visa to a Babson student inadverntetly deported to Honduras.

The admin has apologized for the error in court.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 16, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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Ellison: "This was a family taking their kids from an athletic event and they ended up getting caught in the middle of the ICE behavior & protesters, & then, inexplicably, they shot tear gas too close to the car & that caused the infant to have some respiratory problems. CPR had to be administered."
January 16, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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My daughter was super excited to have her first day of organized basketball tomorrow. Thanks, Trump voters
They are canceling youth sports across the city in Minneapolis this weekend because lawless masked armed federal paramilitaries are targeting the children and families.
Minneapolis Parks and Recreation has canceled youth sports because ICE is terrorizing our community
January 16, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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"There comes a point where we have to start questioning whether or not he’s actually aware of what’s happening around him & the harm he’s doing. It’s similar to historical figures like Nero or Caligula. Their madness took over & they started doing wildly destructive things. Trump is in that place."
Simon Rosenberg on Trump’s no good, very bad year
"It’s grotesque. He’s become a grotesque figure."
www.publicnotice.co
January 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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ICE’s aggressive and dangerous tactics do nothing to make our communities safer. Due process is not delivered with aggression and violence.

I’m fighting to stop ICE from terrorizing our communities.
January 15, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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Renee Good had a pulse when EMS arrived. I’m not sure it would have made a difference if ICE had let that civilian physician render aid before EMS arrived, but now we will never know. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 16, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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The administration needs to be asked directly how many J6ers, and anyone convicted of seditious conspiracy, are now ICE agents with a badge and a gun.
January 15, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”
January 15, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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Minnesota will remain an island of decency, of justice, of community, and of peace.
January 15, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Worth every second
January 15, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities

This is exactly the opposite.

Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.
January 15, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.

That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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This is demented, sloppy, outrageous, unprofessional, undisciplined. And widespread and consistent.

Happening in America.

Every law enforcement pro and military veteran worth their salt would be ashamed to be in a unit that operated like this.
ICE raid on Minneapolis home a 'constitutional violation,' attorney says
YouTube video by Associated Press
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January 15, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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The First Amendment protects the public’s right to:

1. Film ICE in public

2. Photograph ICE in public

3. Observe what ICE does in public

ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
January 14, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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Frey: "You know what I don't want [ICE] focusing on? Hunting down a dad that just dropped his kids off at daycare, is about to go work a 12 hour shift who happens to be from Ecuador. That guy makes our city a better place."
January 14, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.

You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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READ: Arlington Community Remembers Renee Good And The Victims Of ICE Violence by John Zangas ⬇️
dcmediagroup.us/2026/01/12/a...

@dcmediagroup.us
Arlington Community Remembers Renee Good And The Victims Of ICE Violence - DCMediaGroup
Arlington, VA—The citizens of the Arlington community held a vigil for victims abducted and slain by federal Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officers over the last 11 months. Community leade...
dcmediagroup.us
January 13, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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when ICE asks you questions about your neighbors, you've never met your neighbors in your life. you've never even seen them from afar. neighbors? what neighbors?
ICE is targeting Hmong families in St. Paul as they go door to door looking for people to kidnap. they’re asking “do you have any Asian neighbors”
January 13, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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This is completely fucking unacceptable. Shut this terrorist government down until it stops brutalizing its own citizens.
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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So much wrong with this but…they sold his phone?!? Like, for profit?? Now ICE can just confiscate and pawn your property???
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 14, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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More resignations in the DOJ--these from career officials in Minnesota office objecting to DOJ's push to investigate the widow of Renee Good and reluctance to investigate the shooter, Ross. A seismic scandal - This is the biggest politicized mess of a case in memory and it's not going away.
January 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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I’m very grateful for the many brave Minnesotans we are seeing out in the streets fighting tyranny. Been inspiring beyond words.
January 13, 2026 at 4:10 AM