Put me in your shopping cart and take me with you while you buy your groceries.. you dont have to buy me anything iâll just watch. But i wouldnt refuse a snack or a treatâŚ
I know I havenât posted regularly on this blog in years but Iâm not seeing a whole lot of posts on this site about whatâs happening in Minneapolis right now. And the posts I am seeing are not covering the scope of it. Iâm genuinely surprised because tumblr is usually where I find out about things organically through my feed. So Iâm 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 Harrisâ running mate in the presidential election. He starts the âtheyâre just weirdâ thing. Is folksy, Trump personally hates him.
November 2025: ICE starts showing up to âcrack downâ on âillegal immigrantsâ 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 exposĂŠ on daycare fraud. I didnât 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 âYUP nobodyâs hereâ as if they werenât 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 itâs more than a thousand more. They call it Operation Metro Surge. They are going everywhere. There are protests. People try to interrupt the arrests. Itâs 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 âfucking bitchâ 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 itâs 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. Iâm 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. Itâs 2-4 dudes to a car and 2-5 cars per pack. People are âcommuting withâ ICE agents to honk and alert people that theyâre there. People are going on patrols with their neighbors.
ICE is no longer asking âare you a citizen.â 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 donât comply. They are driving recklessly to just grab pedestrians and drivers alike (source). People are afraid to go get groceries. Itâs all over the state. I am learning names of cities in places I thought were just factory farm land and Iâve lived here my whole life because theyâre 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.
Itâs 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 thereâs 20+ ICE vehicles parked there now. Theyâre 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. Theyâre saying itâs because of fraud but I think itâs 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 Goodâs widow. 4 people have resigned about it. (source). I donât even want to read the article to see what theyâre saying.
So thatâs a brief history.
Unicorn Riot is doing a lot of good reporting and they donât 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.
Itâs 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 âcommutingâ theyâre doing and what theyâre seeing but people outside of the state are not seeing it. So if youâre also on that infernal app, try searching for Minneapolis or Minnesota and see what you see. Iâm kind of curious if this is true. Because Iâve been living and breathing ICE and doomsday prepping content for a week. Iâm sure those two topics arenât connected.
I donât really know what my goal with this post is. Iâm tired. Iâm in the first ring of suburbs, so itâs been pretty quiet. But I have friends in south Minneapolis. And Iâm worried for them. And I know itâs a matter of time before my quiet pocket is affected. Because theyâre coming door to door.
Pay attention to Minnesota, I think an example is being made of us.
Update- Minnesota republicans are taking this opportunity to try to impeach Govt Waltz, who has already declared that he will not seek re-election in November because of Republican death threats against him and his family. Because of the âfraudâ. But actually because Waltz is speaking very plainly about what is happening here.
St Paul has gone to partial virtual learning for anyone who doesnât feel safe sending their kids to school.
Every school I know now has safety patrols.
The school districts are not mincing words about the clear and present threat. Everyone in the area is completely clear that we are under violent occupation.
Most of the white people ICE grab, are released within days, because ICE canât even keep track of who was grabbed by who over what. However, they are still subjected to beatings, gassing, having their home and car windows smashes, etc.
Local police are advising compliance with the blatant human rights violations and total lack of due process, because they are cowards.
Even conservative Minnesotans are balking at the total lack of due process and open violence against unresisting people for doing things like taking videos. I know a guy who was in his house recording ICE, and they smashed his home window, dragged him out over the broken glass, beat him while screaming slurs, smashed his phone, and detained for three days.
We need your help to spread the truth about what is going on. Find the videos and share them on any platform you have. Make noise about whatâs happening. Get your âdonât tread on meâ relatives whipped up about it if you can.
We need republicans to be afraid, otherwise ICE plans to be here for half a year attacking us.
If human rights can be revoked because Trump doesnât like your state, then they arenât rights anymore, they are favors dispensed by your king.
South Minneapolis, here. All true. My fifth grade grandkids were furloughed for three days. On Tuesday they returned to school. They could have signed up for remote learning, but we went through that during kindergarten, and it was tough.
About the stateâs buying lunch for everybody⌠Initially that seemed unnecessary. As I thought about it, I realized that kids who relied on school lunchâchildren, innocentsâwould be less abashed if my kids dug in, too. It would be more like communion and less like charity.
My toxic fandom take is that I think that it’s awful how much we can talk to creators and get answers from them word of god style. We should be out here in a godless place rooting for scraps of lore in the media like truffle pigs out in the fields
my hot minecraft take is that all the mammals should drop the same meat we dont need pork and beef and mutton
my hot minecraft take is that all the mammals should drop different meat if u kill a cow it will say cow #48936 meat and if u kill a pig it will say pig #295 meat and if u kill a sheep with a name tag it will say jeb_ meat and it does this for wolves and dogs and cats and horses also. and the horse meat can be turned into glue. and also if you kill a villager it will say robert toolsmith meat and that is the only way to find out the villagers names. is by killing them. for their meat. and none of the meats are stackable u can’t combine white sheep #327 with white sheep #58297 and absolutely not with pink sheep #1 they all take up their own inventory space. and sometimes when u kill a cow it will say stephenie meat and you’ll be left to wonder why this particular unnametagged cow had a name.
my hot minecraft take is that flowers should drop meat
in this new year I want you to be alright. I hope you move out. I hope you have enough money to feel safe. I hope you abandon shame and forgive yourself. I hope you get enough sleep and some good news. I hope you laugh a lot and the heaviness of the world eases a bit. I wish you to be alright.
That’s it, Chap. Put that monocle and top-hat on. You don’t need to think anymore, you’re a proper Gentlemanly Chap now. Yes, drink your tea.. Now get in the fantastical steampunk flying machine..
