Exclusive: #ICE officers in #Minnesota directed not to interact with 'agitators' as they carry out #Trump #immigration crackdown, according to new orders reviewed by Reuters.

The new guidance, offering the most detailed look so far at how operations would change after 2 fatal #shootings of #US citizens protesting in #Minneapolis, also orders ICE officers only to target immigrants who have criminal charges or convictions.

#law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #DueProcess
reuters.com/world/ice-officers…

Tens of thousands gather in downtown Minneapolis for ‘ICE Out’ day

“Tens of thousands of Minnesotans marched in downtown Minneapolis Friday in a negative 30 degree windchill to protest the federal government’s continuing surge of immigration enforcement — demanding civil rights and a withdrawal of the 3,000 officers sent here by the administration of President Donald #Trump.”

minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/… #MinnesotaReformer #Minnesota #ice #iceout #iceoutofMinnesota #reneegood

To be clear, a public-nuisance suit would face daunting odds. It might seem implausible on its face to say #ICE is a “nuisance,” especially before one accounts for the #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti killings. But #states need to reach for every possible tool to meet the moment. And the legal theory behind a public-nuisance ICE injunction stands on firmer ground than the #TenthAmendment suits filed in recent weeks by #Minnesota & #Illinois.

#law

In practical effect, this would be a device to transform ICE’s #obstruction into not just a violation of #state #law, but also of a #federal-court order.

#Criminal #liability by its nature comes too late to stop harms from happening. #States such as #Minnesota should also look to #CivilLaw as a basis for stopping baleful & unlawful #ICE tactics. This also requires some creative thinking—taking a legal tool designed for other purposes & fitting it to our new reality.

#Minnesota, & other #BlueStates, should also enact new laws that make #federal #obstruction harder. The #AlexPretti case shows that #ICE officials were willing to ignore a #state-court #warrant. Perhaps anticipating that, Minnesota officials went to federal court on Saturday, potentially after the scene of Pretti’s #shooting had been compromised, & obtained a temporary restraining order about #evidence preservation. The legal basis for such orders, however, may be fragile.

#law

When a #shooting victim then dies, penalties in #Minnesota for failing to aid the injured person can involve up to 2 yrs imprisonment.

In l #AlexPretti’s case, the #obstruction of key #evidence-gathering steps gives #state #prosecutors another potent opening, especially because #ICE agents acted in overt defiance of a #judicial #warrant. Minnesota has a #criminal #ObstructionOfJustice statute that applies to situations in which someone prevents officers from carrying out official duties.

#law

Drilling down on these facts reveals specific paths forward for #state #prosecutors even when a direct investigation is blocked.

Evidence of these 2 kinds of #crimes has already emerged in the 2 recent #ICE killings. After #ReneeGood was shot, ICE agents blocked a physician from aiding her. #Minnesota #law not only imposes misdemeanor liability for failures to aid in general, but in #shooting cases obligates the person who fired the wounding shot to “render immediate reasonable assistance.”

As a result, key forensic #evidence was almost certainly lost. This comes after state officials were excluded from the investigation into #ReneeGood’s death.

#Federal #obstruction of #Minnesota’s #criminal investigation merits more creative pushback from the #state: Leaving investigations in the hands of #DHS alone sends a powerful message to #ICE officers.

#law

American citizens have been brutalized, pepper-sprayed, & killed on the streets of #Minneapolis. For many, one particular breakdown is a final, damning cause for despair: Minnesota’s apparent inability to investigate & potentially prosecute the #FederalAgents responsible. The #DHS on Saturday reportedly blocked #Minnesota officials from examining the scene of #AlexPretti’s #shooting. Access was refused even after #state officials got a #judicial search #warrant.

#law

This morning in #Minneapolis and the surrounding #Minnesota suburbs there's been a sharp increase in #ICE abductions - breaking down doors to kidnap people from their homes, raids on restaurants, and violence against observers in south Minneapolis including breaking an observer's car window and deploying of chemical sprays.

This is 2 days after the beginning of the deployment of an additional 2,000 federal agents to the area - an intensification of the Trump admin's attacks on the Somali community here and upping of the stakes after thousands of locals have made our own deployments in the form of observers, noise demos, know-your-rights crews, and much more.

If you're in the #TwinCities area and aren't already pitching in to protect your neighbors, you need to do so: this is an escalation unlike any ICE activity seen in other cities so far. The number of homeland security agents in the Twin Cities now exceeds the number assigned to the entire state of Arizona.

If you're not local, MN needs your help. Intensify your action against la migra wherever you live; hold demonstrations against the companies that are supporting ICE (hotels, tech spy firms, defense contractors...) wherever you are. Throw wrenches in the gears. Spread them thin so they will regret their attempted occupation of this city.

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once."

#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs."

#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. …

Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America."

#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"Finally, there are those most at risk of coming into violent contact with federal agents, a group that’s come to be popularly known as ICE Watch, although the designation is unofficial. …

If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it 'neighborism'—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from."

#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"The largest is the protesters, who show up at events such as Friday’s march in downtown Minneapolis, and at the airport, where deportation flights take off. ...

Then there are the people who load up their car with food, toiletries, and school supplies from churches or schools to take to families in hiding. They also help families who cannot work meet their rent or mortgage payments."

#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"Tens of thousands of volunteers—at the very least—are risking their safety to defend their neighbors and their freedom. They aren’t looking for attention or likes on social media. ...

The number of Minnesotans resisting the federal occupation is so large that relatively few could be characterized as career activists. They are ordinary Americans—people with jobs, moms and dads, friends and neighbors. They can be divided into roughly three groups."

#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"Maybe they had assumed that they would find only a caricature of 'the resistance'—people who seethed about Trump online but would be unwilling to do anything to defend themselves against him.

Instead, what they discovered in the frozen North was something different: a real resistance, broad and organized and overwhelmingly nonviolent, the kind of movement that emerges only under sustained attacks by an oppressive state."

#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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In a must-read essay, Adam Serwer puts his finger on why courageous people in Minnesota have been able to force the Trump regime to backtrack:

"The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions. ...

Perhaps the Trump-administration officials had hoped that a few rabble-rousers would get violent, justifying the kind of crackdown he seems to fantasize about."

#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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I read this as a non-subscriber at Archive Today.

theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/…

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong

^{Adam Serwer (The Atlantic)}

"This is, in a deep, deep way, Americans almost like flexing this Constitution, rule of law, democracy muscle that I think... we'd all forgotten that they had."

#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"This is something different, what's happening in Minnesota, what has happened in Portland. These are not simply people showing up and expressing disapproval. These are people showing up and saying, you cannot search homes without a judicial warrant. These are people showing up and saying, you cannot pepper spray me simply for holding up a sign."

#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
/7

"We are seeing in Minnesota, in my view, the embodiment of Americans caring about these inchoate non-voting issues like the First Amendment and the Second Amendment and the Eighth Amendment and the Ninth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment. And I think it's really worth understanding, and we should unpack this maybe together, these aren't protests anymore."

~ Dahlia Lithwick

#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
/6

davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/r…

Real Heroes: The People of Minnesota are Standing Up to Trump's Terrorists

Minnesotans have shown the entire country how to stand up to this administration.

^{David Rothkopf (Need to Know by David Rothkopf)}

"The people of Minneapolis have shown such incredible bravery the leadership in Congress needs to prove that they are worthy of that and that they're willing to stand up as well because the fight in Congress is nothing compared to what the average person in Minneapolis is just doing for their neighbors."

~ Edwin Eisendrath

#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
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lincolnsquare.media/p/bye-bye-…

Bye-Bye Bovino | Edwin Eisendrath & Susan Demas LIVE

Trump and MAGA are In a tactical retreat thanks to Minnesotans saying, ENOUGH.

^{Susan J. Demas (Lincoln Square)}

"The state ranks near the top in quality of life, health care, education, and happiness. It has low childhood poverty, high insurance coverage, and long life expectancy. Walz believes the administration resents the fact that progressive policies work, that a system built on the idea that everyone matters produces real results."

#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
/4

"This moment is not about party. Walz was emphatic on that point. What is happening in Minnesota, and across the country, is a moral question. It is about empathy, basic decency, and constitutional rights. Minnesota’s record undermines the narrative the administration wants to sell."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
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meidasplus.com/p/i-just-spoke-…

I Just Spoke with Gov. Walz about Trump's Attacks on Minnesota

Watch my exclusive interview now

^{Ben Meiselas (Meidas+)}

"Fallows says he's writing his post 'to document this crucial moment in history and what some people have said and done over these past three chaotic days. I’ll focus on individuals in Minnesota who have exemplified the courage, discipline, and morality that, through this crisis, have distinguished their state as a whole.'"

#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
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"I’ve got a question for all of you, What side do you want to be on?

We’re no longer having a political debate. We’re having a moral debate."

~ Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Jan. 25, quoted by James Fallows.

#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
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fallows.substack.com/p/were-no…

“We’re No Longer Having a Political Debate. We’re Having a Moral Debate.”

The federal killings in Minneapolis have revealed some people in authority as cruel, lying cowards. The crisis has proven many other people to be generous, compassionate, and brave. Some examples.

^{James Fallows (Breaking the News)}

A federal judge has blocked the possible #deportation of a 5-year-old & his father for now

A #Minnesota preschooler detained in #Texas with his father cannot be imminently deported, a federal judge ruled Monday.

Liam Conejo Ramos, 5, was taken away from his family’s suburban #Minneapolis driveway last week after federal agents apprehended his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias.

#LiamRamos #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Trump #law #immigration #ICE #CBP #WhiteSupremacy
cnn.com/2026/01/27/us/judge-bl…

Maybe stick to silence, then. You can't have it both ways.

Tech Crunch: Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs condemn ICE violence, praise Trump techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/anth… @TechCrunch #OpenAI #Anthropic #Minnesota

Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs condemn ICE violence, praise Trump | TechCrunch

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman spoke out against ICE enforcement tactics following Minneapolis violence, with one addressing concerns publicly and the other in an internal message.

^{Rebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)}

A new #Minnesota website lays out evidence to counter #federal #misinformation after #immigration agents fatally shot 2 residents during the #Trump admin’s immigration crackdown, deepening an unprecedented divide, experts said Monday.

Minnesota also went to court to preserve evidence from the Saturday shooting of #AlexPretti after its own investigators were blocked from the scene by federal authorities.

#ReneeGood #law #murder #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP
apnews.com/article/misinformat…

Nationwide shut down

January 30

NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO SHOPPING

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#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
#Minnesota #MInneapolis #fuckICE #JUSTICE #FreeSpeech
#politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #whitesupremacy #imperialism #protest #activism #resistance #unitedstates #classwar #racism #lgbtq #indigenous #poverty #Immigration #education #US #tiktok #antifa #labor #labour #unions #AlexPretti

The wind kept blowing out the candle, so I lit it inside.

In solidarity with Minnesota. In honor of Alex Pretti, Renee Nicole Good, Keith Porter, and every person — citizen or not — killed, abducted, and terrorized by ICE and this fascist regime, in MN and everywhere else.

ABOLISH ICE NOW.

#abolishice #ice #iceout #iceoutforgood #minnesota #minneapolis #resist #resistance #uspol

When even Jonathan Rauch admits it….

"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus. Fascist best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse. That is not because of any one or two things he and his administration have done but because of the totality."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/19

theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/…

Yes, It’s Fascism

Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

^{Jonathan Rauch (The Atlantic)}

"The point of the regime’s counter-attacks was to muddy the waters, causing the media and the MAGA base to focus on the victims’ actions and their alleged politics instead of the crimes committed against them. It’s the equivalent of blaming a rape victim for what she was wearing. And unfortunately, for a significant portion of the MAGA base, it works."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/18

"For many people, one of the more shocking parts of the White House response was its quick leap to blame the victims and to smear them as 'domestic terrorists' and violent assailants who, by inference, got what was coming to them. But this move is only surprising if you’re unfamiliar with Cohn’s second rule: always counter-attack."

~ Jay Kuo

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/17

statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-r…

The Roy Cohn Playbook Is Failing

The Trump regime leaned hard into Roy Cohn’s playbook in Minneapolis, but the strategy is backfiring

^{Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)}

"This is unprecedented in the United States of America, a governor believing that he must use his powers to call up the state national guard in order to defend and protect the citizens of his state from a federal militia that has invaded the city of Minneapolis as if its armed and masked members are an enemy army."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/16

luciantruscott.substack.com/p/…

First step in a civil war

This is an image of the Minnesota National Guard moving into Minneapolis to assist local police in enforcing the law.

^{Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)}

"This is not immigration enforcement. This is extortion. This is the use of state violence to seize control of elections in a swing state. This is the thing itself, undisguised, in plain sight."

~ Mike Brock

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/15

notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-c…

The Crisis, No. 1

On the lie that nothing can be done

^{Mike Brock (Notes From The Circus)}

"Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception."

~ Kyle Clark

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism #media
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