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honestly this whole revenge quest seems silly now that i’ve dug these two graves. turns out physical labor is a great way to work through feelings of anger.
for sale:
two graves,
never filled by the guy i wanted revenge on, and also me,
it’s just like they say. the best revenge is regular cardio and proper emotional management skills.
oh this is wonderful, someone already dug two graves for my revenge quest! now i can focus an ever-increasing amount of hatred and rage into self-destructive habits without release of physical labor!
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.
Iâve been monitoring this closely because I have friends in the area, and because I think every city in the country is at risk of having the feds come to do what theyâre doing in Minnesota, and we all need to get ready.
There are some Twin Cities activists who have been very clearly laying out what theyâre doing, and why itâs effective at slowing down ICE. It sounds like all you really need, is neighborhood group chats where people can let one another know when and where ICE is present, and then people show up, start recording, and blowing whistles, and then ICE will leave again more often than not. This VERY SHORT thread by a Twin Cities activist outlines what to do and how it works.
Also: Minnesota Public Radio has been doing great coverage of whatâs happening, and the local NBC affiliate has some excellent interviews with activists who were arrested and detained for hours.
in the whole greenland conversation i feel like thereâs not nearly enough acknowledgement of the fact that greenland is already suffering under imperial rule. seeing wayyyyy too much tacit validation of denmarkâs possession of greenland on socials today. look into reproductive abuse against greenland inuit women by the danish state. US acquisition of greenland would be bad but the status quo is not good. this is not a matter of sovereignty, i only wish it were a matter of sovereignty, itâs just a bunch of imperial powers playing RISK with indigenous peopleâs lives again
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[Kiera] was nervous going to the doctor, because she says she had previously been given the ultimatum either to have an abortion or face the baby being taken away after the birth. She agreed to undergo another parenting competency test in an attempt to cooperate. But in the session, the psychologist brought up her previous abortions and asked her to show her parenting skills by playing, singing and talking with a doll, checking whether she made eye contact. âThe problem is, I didnât grow up with a doll,â she says, adding that her real baby, Zammi, was busy kicking in her stomach. âThey made me draw and they were criticising it, that I didnât draw a face. I drew a mum and baby.â
On Friday morning, I walk through Keiraâs open front door as rain falls in torrents outside, to find her sitting in her living room under soft fairy lights and the silently flickering television, arranging flowers. Every week she takes a different arrangement to Zammi so that she will associate them with her motherâs visits. This ceremonial act of devotion is part of how Keira survives.
While she is there, she thinks only of Zammi. Her own feelings can wait till she gets home. It is always hard. Before she gets out of the car, she puts into words the pressure she is under. âIt feels like somebody holding your throat. And they decide how much you can breathe.â
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