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Ukrainian Nadia 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
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Ukrainian-American Minnesotan | Descendant of Holodomor survivors|kid+dog mama | work in food-health-ag | GoBlue football | herbalist/farmer | BLM | #NAFO | Слава Україні, героям Слава! ї 💙

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Amplifying Ukrainian voices here and everywhere. I have family in Kharkiv and Crimea and a pile of family history enduring Russian aggression. If we are going to learn from history, we need to tell our stories. I run with a pack of rowdy shibas.
This is what we're facing. Abolish ICE.
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."

ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
January 28, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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Something to keep in mind about Minnesotans protesting unarmed with guns being pointed at them is that they more or less ALL have access to a gun, but are choosing not to bring one.

Bravery isn't holding a gun. Bravery is standing up to other people holding a gun.
January 27, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
January 27, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Periodic reminder that ICE still isn’t going after “hardened criminals”

We would all support that.

What do we gain from yanking this father away from his wife and child? What do we gain from deporting people who have been here for 20 years and never been in legal trouble?
Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking.

Warning: video is hard to watch
January 27, 2026 at 9:20 PM
“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. (1/4)
January 27, 2026 at 7:18 PM
My bluesky friends, we've raised nearly $7K for St. Paul families harmed by the ICE invasion here. We're on our way, but we know rent is coming due Feb 1., and many families are sheltering in place, unable to work. If you haven't given to MN yet, can you spare a bit? Pls share. givebutter.com/4GPbcT
January 27, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Okay. Time to call your democratic senators and tell them that Bovino’s demotion and humiliation WILL NOT SUFFICE to fund DHS.
January 27, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Bovino leaving doesn't feel like winning... Replacing with Homan isn't measurably better...families are still sheltering in place, kids afraid to go to school, and the 8th district trampling on our constitutional rights to protest peacefully. It's an attempt to placate and divert negative attention.
January 27, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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The only difference between Homan and Bovino is that Homan understands that you keep the human rights violations out of public sight so people have plausible deniability to say “they didn’t know” later
CNN calling Tom Homan "well respected" and "not as hardline as Bovino" is an interesting choice. The dude took a $50,000 bribe in a fucking Cava bag and says all the same fascist shit as Bovino and Noem.
January 27, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
January 26, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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Life on the ground in St. Paul right now, from Council Member @mollycoleman.bsky.social—including a dispatch from "day care patrol," now a feature of everyday life, when parents try to stop ICE agents from kidnapping toddlers and teachers.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
In Minnesota, the Fight Against ICE Is Also the Fight Against Authoritarianism
The community is pulling together. It has been eye-opening.
slate.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Friends, a group of neighbors is crowd-funding to help families harmed by ICE in our St. Paul N'hood. We know of several families already that need help making rent because they are sheltering in place. Give, if you can, and please share. It's also on the www.standwithminnesota.org page. ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Mutual Aid for St. Paul Families Harmed by ICE
For Families in West 7th, Highland and nearby schools
givebutter.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
January 26, 2026 at 1:40 AM
WE DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH TIME NOW. Timothy Snyder knows about this shit.
If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.
January 26, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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The emergency protest in downtown Minneapolis today (1/25) drew thousands.
January 26, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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Statement by President Clinton
January 26, 2026 at 12:53 AM
"Nonviolent demands more than outrage; it demands action."
January 25, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Minnesota is living through the age where dozens of parents are stationed outside a school on a Saturday, on ICE watch during a Lego tournament. Read that again.
January 25, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.
Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
January 25, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 25, 2026 at 3:50 PM
It's pretty damn fucked up that it took ICE murdering a white dude working for the VA, legally carrying a firearm, for some people to take notice of the tyranny. But a white mother of three, also shot in cold blood? Or ANY number of the people of color murdered? Nope.
January 25, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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A word of warning to all the gun-owning Americans who believe in the #2ndAmendment: ICE is now saying that simply carrying a gun on the streets of America is a crime punishable by death. You think they’re not coming for you?
January 24, 2026 at 8:55 PM
THIS is who they murdered.
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Our neighborhood candlelight vigil for Alex Pretti tonight. May he rest in power and justice.
January 25, 2026 at 1:52 AM