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taylr @taylordahlin.com · Nov 26
i really have not wanted to make a patreon because i feel weird about it all and don't want to use it to like offer anything exclusive there but @wedge.live says i can just make it and forget it so

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prospect.org
Trump’s immigration surges in Minneapolis and across the country are a localized economic heart attack not unlike the one that hit the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic. He and the rest of the Republicans are job-killers who will ruin the economy for the sake of deportations.
ICE Is Strangling the Minneapolis Economy - The American Prospect
Trump’s masked kidnappers are recreating the effects of the COVID pandemic in miniature.
buff.ly
February 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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nobleideas.bsky.social
A Minnesota progressive in an exurban district that you should send $100 for his re-election.

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@bradtabke.bsky.social
February 13, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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omarfatehmn.com
My statement on the ICE withdrawal from Minnesota.
Senator Omar Fateh Statement on ICE Withdrawal From Minnesota SAINT PAUL, Minn. - Senator Omar Fateh (DFL-Minneapolis) released the following statement today after Tom Homan announced the removal of ICE and Border Patrol agents from Minnesota: "ICE agents finally getting out of Minnesota is only the beginning of restoring the rights and livelihoods of people harmed by this invasion. Far too many Minnesotans were unlawfully detained, assaulted, harassed or imprisoned by these masked, unaccountable agents. In my district, two of us, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, were killed. Minnesota is proud of them, and of other community members for standing up to Donald Trump's police state by bearing witness to their crimes and protecting neighbors with time, donations and resources. The effect of ICE chaos in the streets, combined with missing and terrorized people on schools, hospitals and small businesses has been devastating. Next, we need real accountability for the perpetrators and the leaders that sent them here, and help for the Minnesotans they harmed. That means honest investigations into violent crimes committed by ICE agents, passing legislation to empower Minnesotans to sue the agents and agency that wronged them, and reinvesting in communities to stabilize small businesses, household budgets and neighborhoods traumatized by this lawless invasion."
February 13, 2026 at 6:28 PM
taylordahlin.com
dave chappelle coming back to the varsity theater like the 2022 protest over his transphobia didn’t even happen. several of my friends got arrested that day for things as ridiculous as vandalism for CHALK
February 13, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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dwnels83.bsky.social
@thedailyshow.com - this is someone you really should have featured, over the “get the fuck out but I still support ICE” dork.
taylordahlin.com taylr @taylordahlin.com · 4h
right wingers have been very mad at rep brad tabke for openly helping ICE resistance and everything they share just makes him look cool as hell

and don’t forget he won this seat by only 14 votes!
February 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
taylordahlin.com
ricardo levins morales on sun spaces & moon spaces. sun spaces where the people are hold the power and movement and energy. moon spaces like the legislature draw their strength from sun spaces

source: www.rlmartstudio.com/moon-spaces/
A lot of movements find themselves, at one time or another, negotiating for power in what I call a “Moon Space.” By a “Moon Space” I mean the places like union negotiating tables, peace treaty negotiations, court rooms, legislatures, the places where contending forces try to settle their differences and come up with a decision. I call them “Moon Spaces” because they don’t generate power. The moon doesn’t generate light - it reflects light from the sun. The “Sun Spaces” are where the people are. The Sun Spaces are where the power is generated, where the movement, where the contending forces represented in those moon spaces get their energy and their strength from If we’re in a negotiation that’s not going well, where we don’t have a lot of leverage, a lot of times it’s not about our skills. It’s about the fact that we would actually need to be on the street, we don’t need to be at the table. We’re often fighting for a place at the table, but that may or may not be to our advantage. Sometimes it’s to our advantage to be doing more organizing, creating more alliances, raising the level of militance. Building power in the Sun Spaces. These and other things are what is going to give us more energy at our backs when we go into that Moon Space to do the negotiations. People who spend a lot of time in the Moon Spaces often come to believe that that’s where the power is, that that’s where the story is being written. They think of themselves, especially if they didn’t go in with a real strong power analysis, as being the spear when they’re really just the point of the spear, and the hands holding that spear are on the outside. In order to really be able to take advantage of these spaces, there needs to be an organic connection. It’s not so important whether it’s inside the system or outside the system, but whether your feet are firmly planted in the community where the power really originates.
February 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM
taylordahlin.com
right wingers have been very mad at rep brad tabke for openly helping ICE resistance and everything they share just makes him look cool as hell

and don’t forget he won this seat by only 14 votes!
February 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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deanon.bsky.social
Can confirm the southern suburbs are still SWARMING with ICE and they are still doing door knocking and abducting people from cars this morning. At least one abandoned car on the 101 bridge and a raid on an apartment complex in downtown Shakopee. It’s not even noon. Drawdown my fat ass.
February 13, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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wedge.live
"It’s not hard to see why ICE has expanded its reach beyond the Twin Cities. The qualities that have hindered ICE’s operation in Minneapolis and St. Paul — density and walkability; a large, almost exclusively left-of-center population — are absent here."
www.theverge.com/policy/87871...
The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns
The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.
www.theverge.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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bringmethenews.bsky.social
The Walker Art Center will be free all weekend. More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/the-walker-art-center-will-be-free-all-weekend
February 13, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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jenniferdavisart.bsky.social
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February 13, 2026 at 2:07 PM
taylordahlin.com
on today's "local leaders standing up" livestream hosted by minneapolis ward 12 city council member aurin chowdhury: sen mary kunesh of SD39, minneapolis ward 10 city council member aisha chughtai, and minneapolis school board member collin beachy. starts at noon - www.youtube.com/@metroiceout...
Local Leaders Standing Up
Inter-governmental community updates and resources from local and state officials. Live Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 12:00 p.m.
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:36 PM
taylordahlin.com
and mark would know what's weird and what's not at whipple
reportermark.bsky.social Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 5h
Taking a closer look and these trucks appear full so somewhere between 20-40 troops staged here right now. Looks their leadership is talking with a DHS agent but it might be HCSO. I cannot repeat enough how fucking weird this is.
February 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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reportermark.bsky.social
Absolutely. It looks just as busy as any other day with masked agents driving in and out of their little base. Just more NG.
February 13, 2026 at 4:16 PM
taylordahlin.com
all the media being stenographers for the feds and just repeating the drawdown nonsense should go to the whipple building today so they can see the same amount of masked men leaving in convoys of vehicles, and whatever this is too, and report accurately what’s happening on the ground in minnesota
reportermark.bsky.social Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 5h
So this is weird. The National Guard is staging at the Whipple building this morning. This is what you do when preparing for a mission.
February 13, 2026 at 4:13 PM
taylordahlin.com
SD61 town hall meeting on 2/18 at 7:30 with sen scott dibble and reps katie jones and jamie long. RSVP for location: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 13, 2026 at 4:05 PM
taylordahlin.com
too many liberals on here who think criticizing democrats from a further left position means you are just helping republicans. as if these democrats are above reproach and we should support them unconditionally and not want them to move left as republicans keep shifting the overton window rightward
February 13, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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katiecashman.bsky.social
Since I moved into Loring Heights in 2021, I have been amazed by the inclusion, diversity, creativity and humility of our neighbors. Right now we need your help — so for the love of Loring please chip in what you can. Thank you 🫶

chuffed.org/project/1689...

www.gofundme.com/f/stevens-sq...
Support Innocent Victim of Viral Right-Wing Attack
In Somali, “albi” means heart. Before 2026, when the surge of federal agents, right-winged agitators and social media influencers came to town, Albi Kitchen was thriving. A place of community and lovi...
chuffed.org
February 13, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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katiecashman.bsky.social
Loring and Steven’s Square neighbors need your help. The federal attack on our city has left our diverse and majority-renter neighborhood in dire straights. Immigrant residents can’t pay the rent. Somali restaurants can’t pay their employees. But our community is resilient.
Screenshot of the Steven’s Square and Loring Heights Rent Relief Fund Screenshot of the Albi Kitchen support fund.
February 13, 2026 at 3:22 PM
taylordahlin.com
anders folk has united strategies hired for his campaign and sam schulenberg, jacob frey’s 2025 campaign manager, is working the folk campaign for united. i wrote about the conservative DFL / republican alliance last year and am very surprised they’re doing it again

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February 13, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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eshockmanwrites.bsky.social
Seven children from this MN school district have been detained by ICE. 2 of them are still in ICE custody in TX. The district has lost track of how many parents have been taken. At just one elementary 26 parents have been detained by ICE

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
‘Time to speak up’: In Columbia Heights, school leaders stepped in to protect families as ICE surged
As federal immigration agents descended on Columbia Heights families, the school superintendent expected to stay silent. Then federal agents came for 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, and s...
www.mprnews.org
February 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM
taylordahlin.com
you hate to agree with the republican party of minnesota on amy klobuchar
February 13, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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wedge.live
MSNOW can't get enough of our heartthrob mayor. Which means we are the spouse watching our man be delightful at a party while thinking, if you like him so much, take him home with you.
February 13, 2026 at 3:35 AM
taylordahlin.com
katie jones’ husband peter schmitt says their baby coming in 2 weeks is gonna be knocking some doors soon. “tonight we’ve heard a lot about hope for the midterms and getting the house back. hope is great. but action is what gets you that hope.”

donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/katie...
February 13, 2026 at 2:31 AM
taylordahlin.com
rep katie jones lists policies they want to pass with a DFL house majority like banning masks for law enforcement, making it possible to sue agents for violations. talks about program partnering her safe district with uncertain district that needs doorknocking. she just wants hers on a transit line
February 13, 2026 at 2:19 AM