Briar
@briarish.bsky.social
Minnesota enthusiast.
Time management skills of a carrot.
Time management skills of a carrot.
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ICE is out of control. They are the source of the violence and can never be its remedy. In the short term, the only answer is for them to cease operations in Minnesota and leave. Immediately.
In the slightly longer term, ICE must be dismantled and abolished. They cannot be reformed.
In the slightly longer term, ICE must be dismantled and abolished. They cannot be reformed.
January 15, 2026 at 2:43 AM
ICE is out of control. They are the source of the violence and can never be its remedy. In the short term, the only answer is for them to cease operations in Minnesota and leave. Immediately.
In the slightly longer term, ICE must be dismantled and abolished. They cannot be reformed.
In the slightly longer term, ICE must be dismantled and abolished. They cannot be reformed.
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Patricia Abrams channeling the entire city of Minneapolis: minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/14/s...
January 15, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Patricia Abrams channeling the entire city of Minneapolis: minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/14/s...
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🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 3:59 AM
🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️
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I just want it to be really clear, to people from out of the area, if they see pictures of fires in Minneapolis: THEY WERE STARTED BY ICE. NOT BY PROTESTERS. NOT BY RESIDENTS.
So not only are they shooting our citizens they are setting the city on fire. #MFD did respond. Someone get an Air Quality check in #Minneapolis with the volume of Flash Bangs & Chemical Irritants.
🚨BREAKING: Multiple fires have broken after ICE unleashed ANOTHER ONSLAUGHT of flash bang grenades and chemical gas at unarmed Minneapolis protesters in WAR-LIKE attack. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 3:54 AM
I just want it to be really clear, to people from out of the area, if they see pictures of fires in Minneapolis: THEY WERE STARTED BY ICE. NOT BY PROTESTERS. NOT BY RESIDENTS.
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i feel for the people of north minneapolis if they’re about to become a protest hot spot from outside the neighborhoods. this is an area often neglected and ignored by even its own elected officials. people not from over north should really be judicious in how they act coming over there
Near Lyndale and 24th Ave in Minneapolis tonight, feds have reportedly shot another person.
Preliminary info is shaky for now, hearing two people injured.
BORTAC just rolled up in an armored vehicle. A crowd is gathering outside the police tape—MPD presence as well.
Preliminary info is shaky for now, hearing two people injured.
BORTAC just rolled up in an armored vehicle. A crowd is gathering outside the police tape—MPD presence as well.
January 15, 2026 at 2:28 AM
i feel for the people of north minneapolis if they’re about to become a protest hot spot from outside the neighborhoods. this is an area often neglected and ignored by even its own elected officials. people not from over north should really be judicious in how they act coming over there
I know we don't have the details but a shooting after dark in N. Minneapolis seems calculated to provoke violence and divide the city (and State).
I don't think it will work, and I hope these goons will have every bit of the pain and terror they are inflicting on MN come back to them tenfold.
I don't think it will work, and I hope these goons will have every bit of the pain and terror they are inflicting on MN come back to them tenfold.
January 15, 2026 at 2:30 AM
I know we don't have the details but a shooting after dark in N. Minneapolis seems calculated to provoke violence and divide the city (and State).
I don't think it will work, and I hope these goons will have every bit of the pain and terror they are inflicting on MN come back to them tenfold.
I don't think it will work, and I hope these goons will have every bit of the pain and terror they are inflicting on MN come back to them tenfold.
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The so-called party of free speech and small government is happily supporting armed, masked government agents conducting “show me your papers” stops and brutalizing U.S. citizens.
Their real “party values” are terrorizing communities of color and anyone else who speaks out.
Remember this.
Their real “party values” are terrorizing communities of color and anyone else who speaks out.
Remember this.
January 14, 2026 at 9:30 PM
The so-called party of free speech and small government is happily supporting armed, masked government agents conducting “show me your papers” stops and brutalizing U.S. citizens.
Their real “party values” are terrorizing communities of color and anyone else who speaks out.
Remember this.
Their real “party values” are terrorizing communities of color and anyone else who speaks out.
Remember this.
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As it happens though, the framers of the US constitution did say it: in the 4th amendment, the 5th, the 10th, etc.
What they didn’t provide for is federal immigration enforcement of any kind, only “a uniform rule of naturalization.” Nor did they give the federal government a plenary police power.
What they didn’t provide for is federal immigration enforcement of any kind, only “a uniform rule of naturalization.” Nor did they give the federal government a plenary police power.
It goes without saying that in the US you’re not supposed to have a masked secret police that snatches people off the streets without knowing if they’ve committed a crime. That’s about as basic a requirement for a democracy as exists.
Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
January 14, 2026 at 5:12 PM
As it happens though, the framers of the US constitution did say it: in the 4th amendment, the 5th, the 10th, etc.
What they didn’t provide for is federal immigration enforcement of any kind, only “a uniform rule of naturalization.” Nor did they give the federal government a plenary police power.
What they didn’t provide for is federal immigration enforcement of any kind, only “a uniform rule of naturalization.” Nor did they give the federal government a plenary police power.
I am 100% with the punter on this. And the romance writer.
This. I am done returning to the status quo of what got us here. I want universal healthcare. I want a maximum wage tied to the minimum wage. I want omnipresent, cheap public transit and walkable neighborhoods. I want Supreme Court and police reform, and I want the rich to pay their fair share.
We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.
January 14, 2026 at 4:52 PM
I am 100% with the punter on this. And the romance writer.
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My partner @jasoncapsaicin.bsky.social made a step by step guide on how to break up ice in your neighborhood in Minnesota. Enjoy!
January 14, 2026 at 4:19 AM
My partner @jasoncapsaicin.bsky.social made a step by step guide on how to break up ice in your neighborhood in Minnesota. Enjoy!
Call your senators. Call your reps. Democrats and Reoublicans--call them.
This, this, this. Tired anytime someone whines that Democrats don't have any power, can affect no change. When the GOP were out of power, they ground the gears of government to a halt -- and when they got going again, they did so slowly, on the GOP's terms. (In part because Democrats were passive!)
“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?”
1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore.
2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions.
3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day.
1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore.
2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions.
3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day.
January 13, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Call your senators. Call your reps. Democrats and Reoublicans--call them.
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ICE is outside Washburn High School in Minneapolis. The school is on lockdown.
January 13, 2026 at 6:12 PM
ICE is outside Washburn High School in Minneapolis. The school is on lockdown.
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Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.
January 13, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.
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AOC just crystallized what should be the Dem’s messaging going into midterms.
What you’re seeing in the streets—all that funding for ICE—that’s your healthcare. Your skyrocketing premiums are paying for this.
What you’re seeing in the streets—all that funding for ICE—that’s your healthcare. Your skyrocketing premiums are paying for this.
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 3:30 AM
AOC just crystallized what should be the Dem’s messaging going into midterms.
What you’re seeing in the streets—all that funding for ICE—that’s your healthcare. Your skyrocketing premiums are paying for this.
What you’re seeing in the streets—all that funding for ICE—that’s your healthcare. Your skyrocketing premiums are paying for this.
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This is brutal 🤬
In Minneapolis, an ICE Goon point-blank pepper-sprayed a peaceful protester without any apparent reason. (1/12|26)
In Minneapolis, an ICE Goon point-blank pepper-sprayed a peaceful protester without any apparent reason. (1/12|26)
January 12, 2026 at 10:37 PM
This is brutal 🤬
In Minneapolis, an ICE Goon point-blank pepper-sprayed a peaceful protester without any apparent reason. (1/12|26)
In Minneapolis, an ICE Goon point-blank pepper-sprayed a peaceful protester without any apparent reason. (1/12|26)
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It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
This is the corner where Wrecktangke Pizza and Smitten Kitten are located ... two Mpls businesses that have been very outspoken about ICE presence and about offering community support through mutual aid. There's so much of this bullshit it's hard to say if it's a targeted attack, but...
Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
January 12, 2026 at 10:38 PM
This is the corner where Wrecktangke Pizza and Smitten Kitten are located ... two Mpls businesses that have been very outspoken about ICE presence and about offering community support through mutual aid. There's so much of this bullshit it's hard to say if it's a targeted attack, but...
Very proud of my fellow MPLS residents.
430k of us vs. 2k of them, we're gonna win this
Cedar & 31st I think
Cedar & 31st I think
January 12, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Very proud of my fellow MPLS residents.
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This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
January 11, 2026 at 4:55 AM
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
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This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV.
The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.
This is not protection. This is occupation.
The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.
This is not protection. This is occupation.
January 10, 2026 at 7:23 PM
This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV.
The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.
This is not protection. This is occupation.
The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.
This is not protection. This is occupation.
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This is the moment two Drive-up workers were arrested by Customs and Border Protection agents at the Target store in Richfield on Thursday.
More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/video-border-agents-descend-on-richfield-target-store-arrest-drive-up-workers
More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/video-border-agents-descend-on-richfield-target-store-arrest-drive-up-workers
January 8, 2026 at 7:39 PM
This is the moment two Drive-up workers were arrested by Customs and Border Protection agents at the Target store in Richfield on Thursday.
More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/video-border-agents-descend-on-richfield-target-store-arrest-drive-up-workers
More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/video-border-agents-descend-on-richfield-target-store-arrest-drive-up-workers
What is this headline @startribune.com ?? "Protesters"? No. This was ICE showing up at a HIGH SCHOOL after they murdered a citizen. These weren't "protesters," they were students, parents and teachers trying to protect each other.
January 8, 2026 at 9:55 PM
What is this headline @startribune.com ?? "Protesters"? No. This was ICE showing up at a HIGH SCHOOL after they murdered a citizen. These weren't "protesters," they were students, parents and teachers trying to protect each other.
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Mpls Parents are raising funds for families at South HS impacted by ICE raids. Money will go towards food, necessary supplies, and rental assistance. We appreciate your love and solidarity during these difficult times. ❤️ Please share widely with friends and family! gofund.me/e32d501a3
Donate to Support South High School Families, organized by Rachael Staab
South High School parents are holding a special fundraiser specifically to s… Rachael Staab needs your support for Support South High School Families
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December 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Mpls Parents are raising funds for families at South HS impacted by ICE raids. Money will go towards food, necessary supplies, and rental assistance. We appreciate your love and solidarity during these difficult times. ❤️ Please share widely with friends and family! gofund.me/e32d501a3