Nick Hall
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The bravery, resilience and sacrifice of many in our city to protect and support vulnerable communities show the world Minneapolis’ values. We’re honored the city was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize – and it’s because of your courageous solidarity to promote democracy, human rights and peace.
February 6, 2026 at 9:03 PM
The bravery, resilience and sacrifice of many in our city to protect and support vulnerable communities show the world Minneapolis’ values. We’re honored the city was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize – and it’s because of your courageous solidarity to promote democracy, human rights and peace.
The clergy here are delivering some righteous truths and if DeLauro refuses to consider them, she's unfit for office, plain and simple.
“Renee Goodman [sic], Alex Pretti – there are no words,” DeLauro said.
“You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’”
www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...
“You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’”
www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...
DeLauro to pressing clergy: 'I will not vote to abolish ICE'
The Connecticut U.S. representative found herself at odds with faith leaders.
www.ctpublic.org
February 7, 2026 at 5:08 AM
The clergy here are delivering some righteous truths and if DeLauro refuses to consider them, she's unfit for office, plain and simple.
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credit where due, NBC doesn’t put scare quotes around “racist”
February 6, 2026 at 4:46 PM
credit where due, NBC doesn’t put scare quotes around “racist”
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centuries pass and still it sings. what a gift it is, how time flattens under the weight of a practiced voice. how irreplaceable
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 6, 2026 at 4:17 AM
centuries pass and still it sings. what a gift it is, how time flattens under the weight of a practiced voice. how irreplaceable
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After decades of serving as a reliable, authoritative public repository of basic information about countries, their economies, and their people, The World Factbook disappeared from the internet on February 4 with no advance notice. https://cnn.it/4kqanLy
February 6, 2026 at 12:01 AM
After decades of serving as a reliable, authoritative public repository of basic information about countries, their economies, and their people, The World Factbook disappeared from the internet on February 4 with no advance notice. https://cnn.it/4kqanLy
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NEW: Native dancers held a jingle dress healing ceremony at the memorials of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis — prayer, culture, and solidarity. This is a movement! Share so everyone is aware!
February 3, 2026 at 7:39 PM
NEW: Native dancers held a jingle dress healing ceremony at the memorials of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis — prayer, culture, and solidarity. This is a movement! Share so everyone is aware!
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In Minneapolis, people are literally singing resistance before marching to the hotels where ICE agents are staying—inviting them to defect and join us in solidarity. It’s an action rooted in compassion, courage, and collective humanity. Transforming fear into shared power.
February 4, 2026 at 3:23 AM
In Minneapolis, people are literally singing resistance before marching to the hotels where ICE agents are staying—inviting them to defect and join us in solidarity. It’s an action rooted in compassion, courage, and collective humanity. Transforming fear into shared power.
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Folks, as of right now the stunningly talented artist Frazier Irving is homeless and needs your help. He hasn’t got a fundraising page because he doesn’t want charity but he is selling pages. Please give his shop a look and buy something that appeals if you can.
frazerirving.bigcartel.com
frazerirving.bigcartel.com
Frazer Irving
Frazer Irving art, prints, comics.
frazerirving.bigcartel.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Folks, as of right now the stunningly talented artist Frazier Irving is homeless and needs your help. He hasn’t got a fundraising page because he doesn’t want charity but he is selling pages. Please give his shop a look and buy something that appeals if you can.
frazerirving.bigcartel.com
frazerirving.bigcartel.com
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Starbucks workers are asking customers to delete the mobile app amid their ongoing strike to push the corporation to reach a first contract with the union and to stop union busting
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Striking Starbucks workers urge customers to delete coffee chain’s app
Unionized baristas continue to fight for a fair contract and ask public for solidarity as strike stretches into third month
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Starbucks workers are asking customers to delete the mobile app amid their ongoing strike to push the corporation to reach a first contract with the union and to stop union busting
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
In the theater for IRON LUNG
February 3, 2026 at 11:25 PM
In the theater for IRON LUNG
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On the long list of demands that would have been preferable to body cams: stop using chemical weapons that are banned in war on civilians.
Also, Abolish ICE.
Also, Abolish ICE.
Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.
“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...
www.propublica.org
February 3, 2026 at 5:18 AM
On the long list of demands that would have been preferable to body cams: stop using chemical weapons that are banned in war on civilians.
Also, Abolish ICE.
Also, Abolish ICE.
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New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.
These are their stories:
These are their stories:
What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids
Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack
www.thehandbasket.co
February 3, 2026 at 1:25 AM
New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.
These are their stories:
These are their stories:
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the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
January 30, 2026 at 4:40 PM
the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
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📍Rev. Kenny Callahan, a Minneapolis pastor, said “I’m not afraid.”
ICE pointed a gun in his face.
🧊 Then said: “You’re white. You wouldn’t be fun anyway.”
This was fear and Intimidation
PAXIS trains you to hold the line—legally, emotionally.
➡️ paxis.app
ICE pointed a gun in his face.
🧊 Then said: “You’re white. You wouldn’t be fun anyway.”
This was fear and Intimidation
PAXIS trains you to hold the line—legally, emotionally.
➡️ paxis.app
January 30, 2026 at 4:28 PM
📍Rev. Kenny Callahan, a Minneapolis pastor, said “I’m not afraid.”
ICE pointed a gun in his face.
🧊 Then said: “You’re white. You wouldn’t be fun anyway.”
This was fear and Intimidation
PAXIS trains you to hold the line—legally, emotionally.
➡️ paxis.app
ICE pointed a gun in his face.
🧊 Then said: “You’re white. You wouldn’t be fun anyway.”
This was fear and Intimidation
PAXIS trains you to hold the line—legally, emotionally.
➡️ paxis.app
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Fear, faith and preparation as ICE closes in on an Ohio community: In Springfield, faith-based coalitions are creating emergency hubs to care for children — and churches are preparing for their sanctuaries to be breached. 19thnews.org/2026/01/ice-... via @19thnews.org
Fear, faith and preparation as ICE closes in on an Ohio community
In Springfield, faith-based coalitions are creating emergency hubs to care for children — and churches are preparing for their sanctuaries to be breached.
19thnews.org
January 28, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Fear, faith and preparation as ICE closes in on an Ohio community: In Springfield, faith-based coalitions are creating emergency hubs to care for children — and churches are preparing for their sanctuaries to be breached. 19thnews.org/2026/01/ice-... via @19thnews.org
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"
“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti
In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.
www.vanityfair.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"
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Hey can we also pause and unpack what “quotas” means
Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
www.independent.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Hey can we also pause and unpack what “quotas” means
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Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
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After the Minneapolis shooting, the AP reports an angry crowd gathered and screamed profanities at federal officers, calling them “cowards” and telling them to go home.
One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: “Boo hoo.”
One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: “Boo hoo.”
Man shot during Minneapolis immigration crackdown has died, hospital record shows
A 51-year-old man shot by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis has died, a hospital record obtained by The Associated Press shows. Gov.
apnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:19 PM
After the Minneapolis shooting, the AP reports an angry crowd gathered and screamed profanities at federal officers, calling them “cowards” and telling them to go home.
One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: “Boo hoo.”
One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: “Boo hoo.”
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The StarTribune live blog is paywall free:
- The man shot by federal agents this morning has died
- Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building.
- ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- The man shot by federal agents this morning has died
- Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building.
- ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 4:47 PM
The StarTribune live blog is paywall free:
- The man shot by federal agents this morning has died
- Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building.
- ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- The man shot by federal agents this morning has died
- Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building.
- ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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As clergy pray, arrests begin
January 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
As clergy pray, arrests begin