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Trung Le Nguyen
@trungles.com
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Minneapolis. Cartoon fellow. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. He/him, They/them

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · Nov 16
Hey, I’m Trung! I’m a comic artist and author. Here are my books! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2192...
Angelica and the Bear Prince’s cover is blue featuring a dark-haired girl in a red cardigan and pink skirt holding hands with a blond non-binary person with short hair. The Magic Fish has a green cover fearing a young boy in tattered jacket reading a book. A mermaid is behind him.
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bbwolfevox.com
“Pop one right out” :o
kellybarnhill.bsky.social Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 5h
- Your teeth will get brittle in the cold. Don't use them to open water bottle tops. I've seen people pop one right out.
- shove extra gloves in your pocket. You might need them.
- And you know this already, but layers are your friend.
January 23, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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riotousmuse.bsky.social
This is a St. Paul diaper fund to be uplifted if you need another one
January 23, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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adamjst.bsky.social
If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.
It is the misfortune of Minnesota’s ICE contingent to have invaded the state with the second-highest levels of social trust, trailing only Utah. Many activist networks were formed in 2020; we are seeing, Petrus says, Minnesotans call upon the “muscle memory” of the George Floyd protests. In mid-January, a neighborhood organization for a part of town called Whittier put out a call for a meeting to organize a “Neighborhood ICE response”; more than 800 people showed up at the local elementary school and formed a tidy line extending well beyond the door. (“Why a line?” I ask someone later. “Because we are in Minnesota,” he says.) In the cafeteria, in their big coats, adults struggled to get their legs through benches attached to long lunch tables. Because there were too many Minnesotans to fit in a single room, officials and parents and teachers went room to room giving the same speeches about how to help neighbors in hiding. They then gridded out the rooms, dividing the neighborhood into smaller subdivisions. Close neighbors met one another (“Oh, you live on the other side of the museum”) and formed hyperlocal Signal groups. At the first sighting of an agent, someone could ping the group and draw them outside. Their favored tactic was noise. They would make it impossible for ICE to conduct raids in secret.
January 23, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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kerryhowley.bsky.social
I wrote about Minneapolis.

nymag.com/intelligence...
The People vs. ICE
Renee Good’s death galvanized a city eager to push back against Trump’s invasion.
nymag.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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jackjenkins.me
Arrests calmly ongoing.

This is going to take a while. There are a lot of clergy risking arrest.
January 23, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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megugu.bsky.social
"Thank you, my friend."

I can finally post the full finished version, I hope you like it 🥹✨

#digitalart #illustration
January 23, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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minnmax.com
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
January 23, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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jphillll.bsky.social
Today is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism.

www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...
The first General Strike in 80 years
We're at war, and now people are fighting back like never before
www.jphilll.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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jackjenkins.me
Police have arrived. Arrests seem imminent. The crowd chants “let them pray” and “Minnesota nice means prosecute ICE”
January 23, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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willalex.bsky.social
Sending love to Minneapolis.
a black and white cartoon with a speech bubble that says " strike i tell you strike "
Alt: A black and white cartoon in which a rabble-rousing fowl stands on a crate of eggs and calls for a strike. The gathered crowd of angry birds roars out "WE STRIKE" in response. These are almost certainly chickens refusing to produce more eggs, but I like to think of them as loons (the state bird of Minnesota).
media.tenor.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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freedom.press
Read Rümeysa Öztürk's piece in Vanity Fair last year about what the administration put her through just for co-authoring an op-ed and what she witnessed in ICE prison.
January 23, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Enrichment is so important
A sphinx attempts to catch a harpy in her claws. The harpy looks deeply unamused.
January 22, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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Remember to stretch www.patreon.com/posts/148897...
A sphinx with white fur and pink hair with little dove wings does a big stretch. A small harpy flies overhead judgmentally.
January 23, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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farnaby.xyz
Randomly remembered this today.

www.livescience.com/loon-stabs-b...
Loon stabs bald eagle to death
Here's why.
www.livescience.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
Top headline on NYT.

Some things are just too big for even them to ignore
Hundreds of Minnesota Businesses Take Stand Against ICE After protesters called for a pause on economic activity and work to strike against the federal immigration crackdown, many business owners won’t open their doors on Friday.
January 23, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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kellybarnhill.bsky.social
Friends, we got this.

Remember:
- Your hand and boot warmers only last 4 hours, and less if they've been on your shelf awhile. Bring extra, for you and someone else.
- Neck gators get damp and will freeze. Bring a spare.
- Ski goggles will keep your eyelashes from getting iced up.
January 23, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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heatherrandell.bsky.social
This is entirely driven by small businesses, for whom a day of lost revenue is a big deal.

Who is not participating? Minnesota’s 17 Fortune 500 companies. “Those organizations have not spoken publicly about the federal immigration activity.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...
‘Enough Is Enough’: Hundreds of Minnesota Businesses Take Stand Against ICE
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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kellybarnhill.bsky.social
Wait. DHS told lies? Well. I'm shocked.
dlknowles.bsky.social Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6h
The one big Republican talking point on Minneapolis has been that the state government doesn't cooperatem in handing detained criminal foreigners to ICE, so they "have to" go around grabbing people off the street. This piece says that's nonsense

www.startribune.com/paul-schnell...
Minnesota prisons chief accuses Homeland Security of peddling ‘misinformation’ on ICE surge
Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell offered video evidence to refute DHS claims, suggesting it’s spreading “pure propaganda.”
www.startribune.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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jdavnie.bsky.social
A reminder that @bradtabke.bsky.social won his seat by 14 votes and it took Melissa Hortman 6 weeks of a DFL boycott to get him seated in the Minnesota House. He's been leading efforts in Shopee since ICE targeted his community. F'ing hero, putting it all on the line.
dbrauer.net David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 17h
New action just dropped: local developer Opus wants to profit off mass detention and mass misery in Shakopee. See below, from @bradtabke.bsky.social (original skeet deleted due to need for follow-up from me)
Minnesota House of Representatives Rep. Brad Tabke PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Nathaniel Leonard Nathaniel. Leonard @house.mn.gov (952) 807-5001 January 22, 2026 Rep. Tabke statement on ICE's proposed detention facility in Shakopee Shakopee, MN - Following reports of ICE's proposed plans for a 1,500 person detention facility at the Opus Group's River Valley Business Park in Shakopee, State Representative Brad Tabke (DFL - Shakopee) released the following statement: "Shakopee has been a focus of ICE's unjust operations in recent weeks, abducting our neighbors and sowing fear in our immigrant communities. Now, the federal government desires a brick and mortar foothold by forcing the construction of a detention facility right here in town - adding to the fear, intimidation, and lawlessness." "You don't need to crack open a history book to understand how horrific it is for an unaccountable pack of masked agents to disappear residents by the thousands and hold them indefinitely in rotating locations. ICE wants Shakopee to house the latest facility where they can hide Minnesotans from the families and communities they were ripped from. "We continue to see a widening gap in the reality of what the federal government is telling us and what Minnesotans can see with their own eyes. No one in Shakopee is asking for this. No one voted for this. To try and build this facility without the community's voice involved highlights ICE's complete disregard for Minnesotans. "We are building a coalition of city, county, law enforcement, and business leaders to fight this and urge Opus to not lease or sell these buildings to the federal government.
January 23, 2026 at 4:21 AM
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lindaholmes.bsky.social
I do not romanticize Minnesota, even though I loved living there very much. It has the same problems most places have, and much work to do. But I am incredibly proud of everybody there who is working so hard to come together and take care of each other. It’s quite a thing.
rsgat.bsky.social Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 6h
It's -20 in Minneapolis and organizers are in the streets before dawn getting ready for actions related to the general strike. They've had locals training out-of-town volunteers on how to prepare for and endure the cold. AND IT IS WORKING. THE STRIKE IS HAPPENING. THE CITY IS DOING THE DAMN THING...
January 23, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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whitneycwimbish.bsky.social
ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.
January 23, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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I let my dog out for a second and almost couldn’t open the storm door to get back in because the weather warped it, and I got a little frost burn just from holding the handle without a glove. So. Stay safe out there, Minnesotans.
January 23, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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gregpak.com
Finally made a fumetti! A photo comic! Been thinking about this for ages, and it was a blast to put together my work as both a photojournalist and a comics creator - particularly for an initiative as key as #ICEoutComics.
January 23, 2026 at 4:39 AM