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
Warmer today, friends!
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 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I just remembered that when 20yo was little, his imaginary friend’s name was
Christmas Kid.

😭🤣😭😭😭🤣

He was from Hawaii (we’ve never been) and when he eventually stopped talking about his friend, when we asked he said he moved back to Hawaii.
December 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I have a bag of plastic whistles if someone can pick them up
December 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Just when I get excited about a win, immediately get info about someone else being kidnapped.

It’s like the cylons every 33 minutes. Relentless.
December 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
First of all, did KARE 11 verify the claim from DHS at the top of this piece? This administration lies.

More importantly!!! This GM KNEW TO ASK FOR A JUDICIAL WARRANT AND THEY HAD TO LEAVE!!

The training works! It’s all so awful but silver lining.
Great Moments in Immigration Enforcement

"I asked them if they had a judicial warrant. They said they didn't need one. I said yes you do."

Employees then captured video of agents leaving and turning the wrong way on a one way street.
youtu.be/C9t9HE9vmX0?...
South Minneapolis restaurant says ICE entered without warrant, staff push back
ICE's presence is keeping many on edge, including one Minneapolis restaurant, which says it had its first ICE encounter since opening more than a decade ago.
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Target is now allowing 🧊to stage raids in their parking lots in Minneapolis. Maybe plan your holiday shopping according to whether it will be dorectly responsible for the abduction and disappearing of your neighbors.

#ClearTheIceFromOurStreets
#TargetTarget
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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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