One St. Paul native dubbed Mancini’s “the supper club most likely to be chosen for cop retirement parties.” But, this winter, the timeless steakhouse became an unlikely hub of anti-ICE activism.
For a story: I'm looking to speak to people of all ages about how uncertainty around access to SNAP and high cost of food is impacting mental health and well-being, especially as new restrictions/work requirements have taken effect. rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com, Signal rstauff.20
Ashley Fairbanks @ziibiing.com launched Stand With Minnesota standwithminnesota.com, a mutual aid repository supporting residents under ICE's siege, in early Jan. in the weeks since, it's facilitated covering people's rents and flown folks detained back home from Texas.
she can help you do it, too.
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"Journalists have not only the right, but the responsibility to observe and report events in the public interest. It is not illegal to document a protest against the federal government. The fact that the protest took place in a church does not negate journalists’ First Amendment rights to report."
Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
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Tall bikes, porchfest, giant puppets, Battle Train, jucy lucys, dive bars, breweries, banh mi, unicycles, sambusas, Cat Tours, Open Streets, pho, taco trucks, Mercado Central, the lakes ands creeks, Al's, 10 pm dusk, and the too long winters that always end and the spring that's never let us down.
beautiful
i was there in spirit
damn without me
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene.
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The man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis this morning has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
A federal appeals court has paused an injunction barring immigration agents from “retaliating” against peaceful protesters and observers in Minnesota.
This photo from today shows a federal agent spraying a protester on the ground with a chemical irritant.
The @startribune.com has done a ton of amazing and important work in recent weeks, but this story might be the best.
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Voting for Trump — and regretting it Sharif, the Madina Mall shop owner who fears she may have to return to the bad old days of having a boss, gave out an exasperated sigh. “Would you believe if I told you I voted for this man?” she said, referring to Trump. Sharif is not politically active, but in 2024, some campaigners came to her shop and told her that Trump would be good for business and against the LGBTQ agenda. “I was immediately hooked,” she said. She voted Republican for the first time. Now, chagrined, she said, “I never thought the man I put in office would come for my family, make me financially struggle and cause me so much fear that I carry my passport when I go to the bathroom,” she said, pointing at the mall’s bathrooms. “I feel as though the weapon I built is coming to kill me and my people,” she said.
Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...
Observers and concerned neighbors are using whistles to bring attention to the scene of ICE raids on the streets of Minneapolis. Here's how the whistle became the symbol of the anti-ICE resistance @startribune.com
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Should also say that the obvious reason observers are mostly white is many of my POC friends are staying home. The narrative of the occupation is largely about white people because POC folk are laying low, but are paying a much bigger price.
pow wow grounds, moona moono, briar bar, a bar of their own—i spoke with these folks and many more about their role in this ongoing federal invasion, and about the "overwhelming support" and "massive" scale of donations that are flooding in to support immigrants, organizers, and ICE observers.
If 3,000 federal agents land in Minnesota, their footprint will be bigger than the 10 largest metro police departments combined.
People can find whistles at businesses across Minneapolis, including at spots like Pilllar Forum and Smitten Kitten. Since December, women’s sports bar A Bar of Their Own in the Seward neighborhood has handed out more than 1,500 whistles, said owner Jillian Hiscock.
Small, colorful and often 3D-printed whistles have become synonymous with anti-ICE activity in Minneapolis.
The tool, which originated during immigration enforcement blitzes in other cities last year, have come to the Twin Cities by way of downloadable design files and social media. bit.ly/4jCnEAd
In the car with the Minneapolis community patrols working to disrupt ICE operations @minnesotareformer.com minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/13/i...
