Anyone who starts a fire is working for ICE whether they know it or not.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?"

No, stop. We cannot win this way. It’ll only destroy us.

ALL MN PROTESTERS Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.

They cannot destroy our city and our neighborhoods, but we can. Don’t give them what they want.

There are people on the ground right now who are excited to escalate. I talked to them, one said “isn’t it great?” They don’t care about ICE, the murder, our city. Do not let them control this situation. We are very close to the brink. Observe, protest. Don’t destroy.

1. Shoot people like dogs 2. Unrest 3. Martial law The plan is that transparent. Don’t let them

Very bad situation right now. ICE is either trapped or refusing to leave. Black bloc morons absolutely chomping at the bit to burn the neighborhood down, just got attacked by three of them for having a camera out. “Can’t wait to burn it all down tonight”

Phone is dying

If press want to contact a firsthand witness, DM me

Rapid responders still out there, tracking ICE. In spite of everything, even now. Heroes

Yes, this is what happened.

There’s video now. Worst thing I’ve ever seen. The entire ICE contingent needs to be arrested

Sounds like another extremely bad situation in Minneapolis this morning.

Initial report is that two observers got into a shoving match with eight agents, one observer was wrestled to the ground, and then an ICE agent pulled out a sidearm and shot the man on the ground five times.

This is all EXTREMELY fluid right now. The situation is very bad, that much is clear. But this is all initial reporting from observers. There will likely be video, maybe a lot of it.

well to be clear there’s a lot of space between “confronting and antagonizing” and “escalating in a violent way” I have so much video of me just yapping at them, I can’t help myself. it’s just important not to be like “oh we’re going to get you” because you might literally get shot

(they might shoot you anyway but it’s good to not give them a reason)

No, the opsec thing is a real problem, as many in activist channels will tell you. It makes it harder to join, makes people irrationally fearful of things that aren’t increasing their risk, and is a huge obstacle in getting information out, since people are scared to share media or talk to journos.

It also leads people to do things that greatly increase their risk because they wrongly believe it makes them safer (e.g., destroy recordings or even devices after a scary encounter with the feds).

I’m confused why you’re OK with masked thugs breaking into people’s houses without a warrant and without the sense they’ll have to prove who is or isn’t here legally, you bootlicking piece of shit

In short:

This administration has also rendered hundreds of thousands of lawful immigrants unlawful by revoking various programs through which they entered. SCOTUS has allowed this, but most people recognize that this kind of retroactive punitive measure is wrong.

Most undocumented immigrants have jobs and pay taxes, and being unlawfully present in the country in itself is only a civil offense, not a criminal one. Regardless, ICE is just disappearing people based on skin color, including citizens and lawful residents.

I’ll be honest, I have not come out of this particularly angry about the MPD. They’re massively outgunned and the idea of a federal-local armed conflict is scary. They’re also very noticeably nowhere to be seen whenever ICE conducts any operation. The mutual contempt is palpable

I’m sure there’s no shortage of MAGA and ICE sympathizers in the department. But it’s also a little unclear what they could do. And they have noticeably turned a blind eye to rapid response and done absolutely nothing to help the feds that I’ve seen.

If you steal my neighbors in the night, I do not care if they have all their documentation in order

Precisely! There are many, many, many families needing food delivery right now. If anything the people doing logistics for this are more heroic because they’re turning in massive amounts of anonymous labor for zero public recognition

I presume this mostly comes down to the fact that scion of wealth Arthur G Sulzberger probably is more conservative / GOP leaning than his parents.

I think the NYT took a decided right-wing turn some time during the easing of COVID restrictions and the impulse towards false balance or "both sides" journalism doesn't alone adequately explain the editorial bias we've seen since.

WHAT KEEPS YOU SAFE AS AN ACTIVIST, PROTESTER, OR OBSERVER Not breaking any major laws Not escalating tense situations Not carrying weapons Situational awareness Recording and documenting everything Carrying ID and emergency contacts WHAT DOES NOT KEEP YOU SAFE Keeping your identity secret

That’s not to say you need to wear a name tag or anything, but basically any major action you take to guard your identity is going to make you less safe along another dimension and probably make organizing harder too. It should be the LOWEST safety priority, not the highest

My youngest attends a Spanish immersion daycare. All of the staff are citizens but are scared to go out. We the parents organized grocery trips and rides to and from the center for them so they won't be alone.

Guys, ICE is attacking and harassing ANYONE WHO IS NOT WHITE, HAS A FOREIGN-SOUNDING NAME, OR HAS AN ACCENT. When they jump out and grab you, and carry you off screaming, it doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or not! They’re not asking! I’ve seen it happen multiple times with my own eyes.

There are VERY FEW undocumented people in Minnesota. A much lower rate than in a lot of the country. They’re not here for undocumented people, they’re here to terrorize the broader population, especially any minority.

I know many full US citizens who are afraid to leave their homes, because they are (or look) Asian or black or Latino

Read the caption and understand what is happening here in Minnesota. Our local schools are empty, many are at 50% or 70% absenteeism, it’s like COVID except with zero resources to support families or students. Because the federal government keeps specifically targeting them with terror tactics.

This is why we have patrols and watches and rapid response. Because cars that look like this, full of men who look like this, are slowly circling our schools, hospitals, and businesses. Idling in our alleys. At any moment they could jump out, heavily armed, and they do.

They don’t even like Trump’s policies in theory! When a Trump policy polls at 52% - his all-time ceiling for any proposal, more or less - it’s treated as a sweeping popular mandate. But when something polls at 40 or 20 or even 10%, or a Dem proposal polls at 65%, it’s all “well, we can’t be sure.”

Thus if Trump gets 45% support for anything he wins, and if we get 65% support, well, that’s marginal, that’s 50/50, it could go either way, really.

That’s basically why they’re so fixated on Trump’s base “still supporting Trump.” They see that 35% of Real Americans as what matters and our job as to somehow convince them. The other 65% doesn’t matter and efforts to galvanize this large majority of the population against Trump as pointless.

The share of Americans who disapprove of ICE tactics in polls: 60+ percent New York Times: “it’s really too complicated to say whether Americans approve of ICE killing Renee Good or not”

I think that’s because the Times sees its role in society as smugly lecturing liberals about why the right is correct and/or going to win, in the eternal liberal game of trying to feel smarter and more in touch with “real people” than the next liberal, of which it is the all-time world champion.

Oh, one last little thing - you have to love how they’ve placed all their stories about ICE beating up civilians and killing people and abducting children under the headline “Unrest in Minnesota.” From the bottom of my heart, this paper can burn in hell.

One thing that might get a little overlooked here is how important it is that DHS is massively exaggerating arrest totals (10k??). What people on the ground know is that immigration enforcement is barely occurring, and ICE/DHS are really conducting a terror campaign in the guise of enforcement.

Now obviously I’m not in favor of immigration arrests generally. But the right’s narrative here is that ICE is here doing immigration stuff, and the Minnesotans keep getting in the way. But you see ICE CONSTANTLY, and abductions much more rarely.

Mostly what they’re doing is running around in various degrees of secrecy and militarization, lurking in alleys (literally, this happens a lot, we run them out of alleys every day), watching people.

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We have to find our stolen neighbors and bring them home

every day it’s exhausting to think about going again the next day, and then every night come a flood of stories and images that make us wish tomorrow would come sooner and we’d gone out more

This is so fucking haunting.

ICE OUT NOW MINNEAPOLIS WILL WIN

WE FILL OUR VACANT RANKS WITH A MILLION FREEMAN MORE

this is OUR MFING CITY.

THEY WILL NOT BREAK US THEY CAN NOT BREAK US THEY DIDN'T BRING ENOUGH GUYS FOR EVERY ONE OF US THEY TAKE, ONE HUNDRED MORE TAKE TO THE STREETS THERE WILL FOREVER BE MORE OF US THAN OF THEM THEY STAND FOR NOTHING, WE STAND FOR EACH OTHER THEY WILL REGRET COMING HERE MINNEAPOLIS WILL WIN

I really want to hear the internal monologue of the ICE agents trying to escape their pursuers by running red lights, only to discover it doesn't work, because traffic literally stops to let us chase them

You're not being hunted by us. You're being hunted by THE ENTIRE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS

I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.

oh no, that joke is literally all they had and we've reclaimed it

my pronouns are changing to fuck/ice

I was out there. My legs were SO COLD, and I had to keep switching hands because even in my gloves my fingers STUNG trying to hold up my sign. And it was so worth it.

Bet your ass there are more of us than there are of them.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

people aren't protesting because they want to make a point, they're doing it because they feel like they have to. because they've been forced to. because circumstances are totally and completely intolerable

(by the way this picture is from the times, not me) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

I'll say it again: Minneapolis will be their Gettysburg

they are going to regret coming here, before the end

I was going through my videos and I have to share this incredible image from Wednesday. Hero

I didn't even realize this happened until watching it just now.

This guy should print this out as a card for his wallet and he can drink free for life in South Minneapolis

If any local journalists want a horror story about a Mexican mother who was seized and disappeared by CBP at a routine appointment, and possibly deported back to a life-threatening situation, and whose children’s whereabouts are now unknown as a result, please DM me

Another illustration of the evils being inflicted on our neighbors, and her acquaintances are trying to raise the alarm in the hopes of finding her, if it’s not too late

I’m sorry but the people saying “wear a mask and break your phone and carry a gun” are fedposting, not the people saying “yes there’s risk, but safety comes from recruiting staggering numbers”

I think some of you just don’t really understand what the feds are worried about. They can win a guerrilla war with 100 diehard revolutionaries in an afternoon. There is not one thing they can do about 50k marchers and 15k rapid responders

There are more of us than there are of them. Our goal is to make that more true every single day

at the very least if a death squad is at some point out for protesters, who was or wasn't a protester becomes pretty immaterial

You absolutely do not need to worry about being assassinated in a retaliatory hit for basically any kind of remotely legal activism where you’re doing something that tens of thousand of other people are doing. That’s like, the darkest doomer fantasy imaginable. It won’t happen!

Again, the real concern is that something goes wrong WHILE YOU’RE DOING THE ACTIVISM, but anonymity and lack of cameras and guerrilla style tactics make that considerably MORE likely, not less.

It’s funny because my actual advice for anyone worried about opsec is “help get aid to home bound families,” because the easiest way to stay off the feds’ radar is simply not follow them, and not do anything they’ve argued is illegal. But weirdly the opsec guys also usually want to be in the action.

You really can’t avoid this, unless you think that rapid responders need a fake license plate, burner phone, face mask, which means we’d have far too few to even do the job effectively. As someone said, your safety comes from DDoSing them: making the list so huge it’s useless.

Oh my favorite opsec discussion: the guy (always a guy) who advises you to not sign any list or bring your ID but also advises that you open carry on ICE patrol. Do not do this! This man is 180 degrees from the actual truth!

People keep talking about “risk profiles” but the reality is that many people worried about opsec are basically incapable of evaluating the risk of respective actions. “I can’t be photographed at a protest but I’ll tail federal officers with no phone or ID” - you have inverted the relative risk.

What I suspect is that the people who are extremely interested in opsec, and especially ones who are giving OTHER people instructions on it, tend to be people who are role playing guerrilla a little bit, and not understanding how easy they are to find and ID. Actual safety comes from boring stuff.

Having cameras present decreases your risk, but too many activists oppose it because they’re scared of being identified. Having your phone and ID decreases your risk. Recording everything decreases risk, but I’ve seen activists advise each other to destroy all recordings.

I mean, if EVERYBODY is on the list, what good is the list?

Real problem. People won’t talk to journalists, share important footage. Too much time spent obsessing over anonymity in situations where there’s no reason for it, or your identity is trivial to determine. People make it hard to get links to organizing channels like rapid response.

Yes, someone tasked with infiltrating our networks could literally do it in ten minutes, and they’re getting paid to do so. What all the cloak-and-dagger stuff is raise the barrier of entry for people who are hesitant or less motivated, definitionally not feds but the exact people we are recruiting.

Yes, frankly, if you’re a noncitizen you should be extremely careful about following or responding to ICE. We’re here to protect you and you should protect yourself.

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ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

the incredulous "this is bullshit, are you fucking kidding" tone here is a sign that you have turned someone into a lifelong radical against you and people like you this is a stupid tactic used by stupid people who don't have any other ideas