Alpa Chino

Screenshot of interview with new Target CEO reading “AP: Why hasn't Target taken a stronger stand against ICE? I know businesses have to legally allow agents in stores. FIDDELKE: When I think about navigating the start of the year here, especially in our hometown in Minneapolis, the thing that we have kept front and center every single day is the safety of our team. And so the safety of the team and the safety of our guests has been our North Star for decision making, and that’s guided every decision that we’ve made.”

Photo of five masked and armed ICE agents brutalizing two 17 year old Target workers inside the entrance to the Richfield MN Target store.

“SaFetY of ouR tEam”
Try again, Target. #ICEOUT

If you want to play victim, you can never let up. You gotta go out there every day and be the biggest piss baby you can be if you want to make sure the establishment never stops giving you full deference.

A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

The second part of this is BAD for democracy! Progressives & leftists should oppose anything that takes powers away from the Council (a diverse body elected by smaller communities) and gives to the Mayor (a city-wide office disproportionately elected by wealthy, white areas of the city).
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Painting on a blue background of a closeup of a face with bright red lipstick and hand blowing a whistle. The painting is hanging outside in Minneapolis, MN on a pole in front of trees.

Love from Minneapolis.

Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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St. Paul bans ICE face coverings, requires identifying badges The ordinance requires law enforcement, including ICE and Customs and Border Protection agents, to work without identity-obscuring masks.

So much more to do, but some updates on what’s been done.

www.startribune.com/ice-masks-st...

What a great article about the Minneapolis resistance.

It's the first day of the Minnesota legislative session. All kinds of bills will be introduced this week, some will have a good chance of becoming law but many will not. Just something to keep in mind before you freak out about a particular bill. Yes this is a subtweet.

Where did they get those plates? We haven't used embossed blue characters in like 15 years

You know what? Fuck it, putting this on full blast.

In early December 2025, State Party Chair Richard Carlbom and I met for coffee and he solicited suggestions for reforms for the Code of Conduct Committee and asked me to ask my friends in the party to send their suggestions as well.

DHS: Our officer was ambushed and beaten with snow shovels and broom handles. This was an attempted murder of federal law enforcement.

ICE says federal agents appear to have lied about confrontation that led to shooting

Agents had initially said that two men — Alfredo Aljorna and Julio Sosa Celis – assaulted them with a broom and a shovel before one of them shot Sosa Celis. But that account was quickly called into question, and prosecutors now say “newly discovered evidence” contradicts the officers’ story.

The default assumption should be that they’re lying

Sheet outlining the rights of noncitizens detained at the Whipple building in Minnesota

Trump appointee orders ICE to give this sheet to every noncitizen they detain at the Whipple building

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UPDATE: He was just released. This shows that just indiscriminately took someone because they were Latino. Their illegal tactics continue so we still need neighbors to patrol, observe, and support our immigrant community.

Just a big hug to all the anarchists in the Twin Cities who get dismissed all the time but knew exactly what to do when shit went down here.

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“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”

The way he answers this, it seems like he might not be directly lying, but isn't being totally forthcoming. She tried to ask it a few different ways. I guess if enough people start losing their TSA Pre-Check, we'll eventually find out.

Twin cities! The food box distribution project at Andersen United middle school is short boxes for 50 families today. If you are free right now (Feb 12th) and can pick up everything on the following list and drop it off at Andersen middle school by 5pm you can make sure families get fed!

Many relationships went far deeper than the occasional cocktail-party photograph. Epstein and Kathryn Ruemmler, the White House counsel under President Barack Obama, swapped 11,300 emails from 2014 to 2019, with at least one direct message on 70% of days. Ariane de Rothschild, a banking billionaire, sent or received 5,500 emails; Larry Summers, a former treasury secretary, 4,300. In some cases Epstein grew close to family members: he was in touch with both Noam Chomsky, a linguist, and his wife, Valeria, and chatted with Soon-Yi Previn, Woody Allen’s wife, more than with Mr Allen himself.

I don't talk to anyone this much
www.economist.com/interactive/...

We need someone to redo this with some purple and MN blues.

Woah, this thread.

So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas?

It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death.

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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.

The individual who was being pursued by ICE suffered serious injuries in that collision, but they are alive. That person is currently in federal custody.

British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump' Lucy Harrison, 23, was alone in a bedroom at her father's home in Texas when she was shot dead.

A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump.

A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges.

Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.

Don Lemon hires former Minnesota federal prosecutor in church protest case Journalist Don Lemon has hired Joe Thompson, previously lead prosecutor in the Feeding Our Future case. Lemon is charged in connection with a demonstration at a St. Paul church he covered in January.

Quite the twist here.

Two former assistant U.S. attorneys who prosecuted fraud cases in Minnesota are now defending Don Lemon and Georgia Fort.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad