I know I haven't posted regularly on this blog in years but I'm not seeing a whole lot of posts on this site about what's happening in Minneapolis right now. And the posts I am seeing are not covering the scope of it. I'm genuinely surprised because tumblr is usually where I find out about things organically through my feed. So I'm making a post about it.
A brief summary of events, from someone who pays attention and also lives here, best taken with a grain of salt and some fact checking:
2020: George Floyd is murdered by Minneapolis police. There are weeks of protests about it. It makes national news. Protests happen in DC. The infamous Trump and his bible photo shoot happens.
2024: Gov. Tim Walz is Kamala Harris' running mate in the presidential election. He starts the "they're just weird" thing. Is folksy, Trump personally hates him.
November 2025: ICE starts showing up to "crack down" on "illegal immigrants" in our Somali community. I may remember the numbers wrong, but something like 90% of our Somali neighbors are either naturalized or were born here. People distribute ICE whistles and are on high alert. Localized to the twin cities.
December 2025: Nick Shirley is paid by a bunch of MN Republicans to do an exposé on daycare fraud. I didn't hear much about this. All I really know is this was an ongoing investigation that MN officials were already taking care of and some of the guilty parties have already gone to court from a COVID era food assistance program. Mostly, if not all, legal US citizens. He did a really bad job at doing journalism and just showed up to day cares with a camera crew and went "YUP nobody's here" as if they weren't in lock-down procedure because some fuck ass white men showed up with camera equipment that could easily be mistaken for guns. I believe. I will fact check all of this and will correct myself in a reblog if necessary. (source but not all the details that I remember hearing about but they said there was no recorded evidence of fraud)
Conservative internet explodes. Kristi Noem sends a mess of agents. I know it's more than a thousand more. They call it Operation Metro Surge. They are going everywhere. There are protests. People try to interrupt the arrests. It's a lot.
1/7/2026: Renee Nicole Good is shot by an ICE agent in the middle of a protest. A few blocks away from where George Floyd was killed. Broad daylight. In front of a crowd. While she was following instructions to turn her vehicle around. Jonathan Ross, the piece of shit Nazi who did it, was recording on his phone the whole time, switched his phone to his non dominant hand so he could more effectively shoot her in the face from 2 feet away. Claims self defense, several angles immediately disprove him. He releases his video, he calls her a "fucking bitch" as her corpse drives away. Does not help him at all. (source) He has not been seen since. Some photos/reports exist of a bunch of agents showing up to his house and taking some tubs and art away. His wife is an immigrant. (source but it's the daily mail so grain of salt.)
Not hours later they go raid a school and tear gas a bunch of kids. (source). Minneapolis has switched to distance learning. I'm not sure about St. Paul.
The last week: There are up to 3,000 ICE agents here. Keep in mind Minneapolis and St. Paul only have 600 or fewer police officers each. So these dudes are roaming in packs. It's 2-4 dudes to a car and 2-5 cars per pack. People are "commuting with" ICE agents to honk and alert people that they're there. People are going on patrols with their neighbors.
ICE is no longer asking "are you a citizen." They are simply walking up to you and taking you into custody. They are going door to door. They have started just breaking the door down if you don't comply. They are driving recklessly to just grab pedestrians and drivers alike (source). People are afraid to go get groceries. It's all over the state. I am learning names of cities in places I thought were just factory farm land and I've lived here my whole life because they're doing raids there. I had to text my family in the suburbs because I saw reports of my small little hometown an hour away getting door knocks today.
It's insane and I am not doing it justice. There are thousands of masked federal agents roaming around all of Minnesota with no warrant or specific goal. They are just trolling around looking for people. They are detaining anyone and everyone. They are beating people. They are pepper spraying people. They are kidnapping people. They are acting unconstitutionally, aggressively, and unpredictably. They are creating situations that are dangerous so that they can try to justify beating or shooting their way out. I will run an errand and then get fed a tiktok that was shot from the Cub Foods that I just left and there's 20+ ICE vehicles parked there now. They're taking people from work, from day care, from schools, from shopping centers.
Iceout.org tracks ice sightings. This is a screen shot with the date set to 12/1/2025.
And from today.
They have cut off SNAP and WIC benefits. Just for us. Not any other state, just Minnesota. They're saying it's because of fraud but I think it's because they hate that we use federal funds to give free breakfast and lunch to every public school student.
And this is breaking just now, 1/13/2026: the DOJ is trying to investigate Renee Good's widow. 4 people have resigned about it. (source). I don't even want to read the article to see what they're saying.
So that's a brief history.
Unicorn Riot is doing a lot of good reporting and they don't seem to have the spin that a lot of local news stations will have where they downplay everything. This article specifically goes into a lot of the specific instances of brutality.
It's also a rumor on TikTok that all of the videos of ICE and protests and the such and the like are being geo locked. So my feed is all footage of people being detained and talking about the "commuting" they're doing and what they're seeing but people outside of the state are not seeing it. So if you're also on that infernal app, try searching for Minneapolis or Minnesota and see what you see. I'm kind of curious if this is true. Because I've been living and breathing ICE and doomsday prepping content for a week. I'm sure those two topics aren't connected.
I don't really know what my goal with this post is. I'm tired. I'm in the first ring of suburbs, so it's been pretty quiet. But I have friends in south Minneapolis. And I'm worried for them. And I know it's a matter of time before my quiet pocket is affected. Because they're coming door to door.
Pay attention to Minnesota, I think an example is being made of us.
I don’t know anybody in Minnesota, but I am very concerned for the people who lived there.
I just checked tik tok and there were posts about this on my feed without searching, but I would be surprised if they weren't still suppressing a lot. They love censoring
"no specific goal" yeah not one they'll fucking admit to I bet
I’m in CA and I can view videos on TikTok but there don’t seem to be many new ones, some are from yesterday but a lot are days old. No videos of actual things happening, just people talking about it after.
This is the kind of thing that makes me want to exercise my second amendment rights
Hey man, you really need to be careful posting cheeky stuff like this. Even if you're not actually planning on doing something "concerning your second amendment rights" as you put it, posting anything about it even if you think you worded it in a way to give you plausible deniability, is only inviting some fuck ass loser to try and get you in trouble. When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, a man was arrested for mentioning on Facebook how Republicans were treating that "tragedy" vs. school shootings where children were being killed. It's not safe to assume your first amendment rights will protect you.
But both parties were just as bad right? But Gaza! But her emails! But but but...fuck all of y'all if you stayed home and didn't vote.
keep blaming the gerrymandered voters, that's totally the only reason for the increase in right wing extremism the past couple of years 🙄 voting is what got us into this situation. stricter and more egregious border + immigration policies were happening under the years obama ran. the sooner you get out of the headspace of blaming your fellow neighbors and not the dipshit pedos in power who are only in it for themselves and their associates (regardless of their political standing), the better
@brutallus there were never roving gangs of thousands of ICE goons under obama or any democrat, you dumb fuck. voting for kamala would have very much prevented this, and you are BEYOND delusional if you think otherwise.
@brutallus ask the average minnesotan which president they would have preferred right now, i’m willing to bet good money you’re not going to hear an ounce of ‘both sides’ horseshit. just admit people like you enable fascism and embrace your moral bankruptcy already.
So I live in a fuckshit town of about 10k an hour north of the cities. They’re here. It’s not just the metro — not only do a lot of immigrant families come up this way to settle because it’s quiet and small but SO many shitty organizations hire migrant workers and pay them pennies for agricultural work (because we’re farming communities, of course), and I’m seeing so little, if any, reporting about this. Last night some batshit lady called ICE on her neighbor and let them into their apartment building and an agent held a fucking gun to this man’s head interrogating him about his Hispanic neighbor. Several people have been taken and those are just the ones I’ve heard about. Yes, percentages of the town are cheering these chuds on but also please know that we have a robust organization and mutual aid network being loud and helping these people and protesting. There are at least two walk-outs scheduled, protests on the highway, and I’ve been nonstop 3D printing whistles which local businesses are making available to those who want them. The rural/urban divide is realer than ever right now, so I just want yall to know it isn’t just a red hellscape outside the twin cities — we are out and we are helping!
And those are the christians coming for you.
And they are creating living Hell on Earth.
Many of us are horrified by what is happening there, and anyone who isn't is part of the problem. I've started getting news from the Stephanie Miller Show on Free Speech TV.
Please don't give up. Please tell your community not to give up. They do NOT have the money and personnel to keep doing this (seriously this costs SO MUCH MONEY). They are trying to make you an example, but they don't have the staying power. We've seen it over and over again - the blitz runs aground and shatters against dogged, stubborn resistance. You have the home ice advantage (literally, lol), and you have the same strength that propelled human evolution throughout history - our ability to work together and give a shit about our neighbors. They lack that entirely. Every one of them only cares about themselves. When the pressure feels overwhelming remember: you don't actually have to be smarter, stronger, or more violent than them. You just have to refuse to move. Persistence wins. The rest of us are thinking about you, and protesting in our own cities and protecting our own neighbors. You're in our hearts.
i've been getting a lot of tiktoks from minneapolis and i'm a few states away. most of them don't go into detail about the brutality and extent though
