Mara
mauratwit.bsky.social
Mara
@mauratwit.bsky.social
Umbraphile. Vaccine enthusiast. Minneapolis. Interested in police abolition, immigration rights, MPS and mutual aid.
She/her.
Trans rights are human rights.
Xer Mom to 2.
Free Palestine.
Bluesky joiner #442,075
Canadian.
Posting my way through it.
Pinned
Hey twin cities friends!

There’s a new website for the Mn Rapid Response network, now called Monarca.

It has the hotline to call if you see 🧊 activity as well as Know Your Rights information and lists upcoming community trainings.

A great resource. Please share widely!

monarcamn.org
Monarca
monarcamn.org
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Read this!

You are now whistle trained.

Go forth and multiply.
Neighbors - you do not need anyone's permission to sound your whistle when you spot ICE. Nor do you need to attend a whistle training first. Here's everything you need to know.
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I’m inspired by my neighbors and friends who are pushing back. Here’s another opportunity: Monarca’s Upstander Training on Sunday December 7 at 4PM in Richfield.

Sign up, get trained, and help keep your neighbors safe.
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
To those that wanna express solidarity with Minneapolis this week in $ form, we are trying to get whistles out to every good hearted neighbor!

⬇️
December 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1726
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Free Palestine.
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This is a @senatordoronclark.bsky.social appreciation post.

Not even a year in office, and has faced unbelievable challenges. A mover and a shaker. Shows up everywhere. I’m so glad he’s my senator!
December 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Ogow xuquuqdaada
Know your rights!
Conce sus derechos

Join Legal Aid Attorneys Michelle Gonzalez and Ahmed Madey on Facebook (@ legalaid) or YouTube (Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid). Replays will be available on both platforms.

Monday, Dec. 8.
• Soomali - 12 p.m.
• English - 12:30 p.m.
• Español - 1 p.m.
December 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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…the fascists are explicitly performing evil. In response, yes, we have to do more than perform good, but performance IS part of culture-shifting work.

Sometimes it’s about making solidarity cool, other times making it “normal,” other times just being one more voice in the chorus. Keep going, MN.
December 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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An evergreen connection between poetry and activism:

Big changes can start with *small* actions: that tiny choice to show up to a training, wear a button, post online, wear a whistle as a necklace, stuff that is too easy to cynically write off as performative. Every small action opens a door.
December 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Hey, I want to offer some helpful tips for coping with the cold for ICE folks who might have come from warmer places.

1. Wear cotton socks! Cotton is nice and soft next to your skin and will absorb your sweat so your feet stay warm. Cotton everything but ESPECIALLY socks!
Good morning to fuckers in our neighborhood kidnapping our neighbors! Can you see the city skyline? No? You’re wondering if Minneapolis burned down again overnight? Oh no, sweetie. That’s ice crystals in the air . It looks like it will get to around -8F without windchill! Please enjoy your stay!
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I don’t know how the wind can be coming from every direction but it is.
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If you can’t make this you can still just walk your neighborhood later!
from UNIDOS:
Press conf TODAY Thu, Dec 4
@ 2:30pm @ Target on Lake St in the midst of this attack on Somali community, to demand Target prohibit use of property for ICE staging, & ask people demand a stronger separation ordinance of the mayor & city council. It should be about a 30-60 min event.
December 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Twin cities I know it’s cold but I’m begging you if you’re able to walk the main business corridors in your neighborhood.

They’re everywhere.

It’s not showing up in regular media.
December 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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I've had a lot of people reach out about the presence of ICE on park board property. Unfortunately, they are legally allowed to be on our land because it is completely public. This is a gross abuse of the sanctity of our parks and can't be tolerated.

We will do all we can to keep these spaces safe.
December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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When I walked through there at 8:30-9:00 last night I saw a total of three people out. Show up for our neighbors however you can.
December 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This is a @jchavezmpls.bsky.social appreciation post.

You are meeting this moment, thank you.

Keep going. We got you.
December 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Yes yes yes to this. Our neighbors deserve to be safe from kidnapping and brutality because they are people and all people are precious, not because of specific "value" they add to community as defined by white people.
Thinking a lot about Perfect Victims and the rush to affirm the Somali communities of Minnesota as worthy by virtue of hard work etc (mostly hard work.) I understand it but as always, leaving room for criminalization is the way we got here in the first place.
December 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We’re going to freeze I.C.E. out of Minneapolis
December 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is a @zaynabmmohamed.bsky.social appreciation post.

You are amazing. We got you. 💜
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Minneapolis, ICE is fucking your city up, stealing your neighbors. A lot of us are showing up, chasing ICE off, coordinating with business, protecting schools at release. Good on you, and thank you!

There are LOTS of ways to show up! Connecting with your neighbors is step 1.

Love, and solidarity!
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Minnesota, here's a sign to show your support for Somali neighbors. Share it, print it, pass it on.

**updated PDF link**

PDF here >> www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s89ru...
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Starting to get painful cold out there.

Take care of our neighbors and support @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social

All while wishing a painful polar vortex week to visiting Feds.

Walk. Chew gum.
December 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM