Beth Fraser
@yofraze.bsky.social
In the fight against authoritarianism / for policies that will allow all to thrive; progressive political and elections nerd, LGBTQ-, gun sense-, racial justice-, small biz activist. Posts are my own. She/ her
The Senate is supposed to vote on DHS funding next week. There shouldn’t be a single Democratic vote for it.
Defund the whole thing.
Defund the whole thing.
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
How many more murders will it take? US Senators have a chance to prevent funding for ICE. Will they speak out and stand up? We’re waiting….
@klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov
@klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov
January 24, 2026 at 5:28 PM
How many more murders will it take? US Senators have a chance to prevent funding for ICE. Will they speak out and stand up? We’re waiting….
@klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov
@klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov
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This is one of the very rare times where no matter what lens you use (moral, political, logical, financial, liberal, conservative, whatever) the answer is the same.
This is not partisan. This is human.
This is a failed operation. End it. Now.
This is not partisan. This is human.
This is a failed operation. End it. Now.
This has to stop! MINIMUM demands at this point:
- ICE out of Minnesota now
- arrest and charge the shooters, those associated
- no more funding for ICE, associated depts
- abolish ICE, reallocate funding to real needs
- shut down the government to do so, halt tax payments to do so
- ICE out of Minnesota now
- arrest and charge the shooters, those associated
- no more funding for ICE, associated depts
- abolish ICE, reallocate funding to real needs
- shut down the government to do so, halt tax payments to do so
“Federal agents briefly detained our reporter at the scene, who says he was tackled to the ground and had a gun put in his face.”
January 24, 2026 at 4:49 PM
This is one of the very rare times where no matter what lens you use (moral, political, logical, financial, liberal, conservative, whatever) the answer is the same.
This is not partisan. This is human.
This is a failed operation. End it. Now.
This is not partisan. This is human.
This is a failed operation. End it. Now.
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Content warning. ICE fascists pistol whip a person, pile on him 5-1, and then murder him in broad daylight. Do not believe a word of the story from ICE or DHS. This is a fascist regime and they will lie. We must abolish and prosecute ICE. This cannot go on.
youtube.com/shorts/2IqIn...
youtube.com/shorts/2IqIn...
ICE KILLS ANOTHER CIVILIAN
YouTube video by Qasim Rashid
youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Content warning. ICE fascists pistol whip a person, pile on him 5-1, and then murder him in broad daylight. Do not believe a word of the story from ICE or DHS. This is a fascist regime and they will lie. We must abolish and prosecute ICE. This cannot go on.
youtube.com/shorts/2IqIn...
youtube.com/shorts/2IqIn...
Target is a MN company and has seen the terror that ICE is wreaking on their employees and our communities first hand. Yet they remain silent. I’m so glad that the Target CEO is meeting with clergy tomorrow to discuss taking a stand that we need ICE out of Minnesota now. #ICEOUT
January 19, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Target is a MN company and has seen the terror that ICE is wreaking on their employees and our communities first hand. Yet they remain silent. I’m so glad that the Target CEO is meeting with clergy tomorrow to discuss taking a stand that we need ICE out of Minnesota now. #ICEOUT
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Coverage of yesterday's press conference on demanding ICE out of childcare centers! (And the whole state)
https://www.twincities.com/2026/01/10/child-care-providers-complain-of-ice-actions-traumatizing-kids/
https://www.twincities.com/2026/01/10/child-care-providers-complain-of-ice-actions-traumatizing-kids/
Minnesota child care providers complain of ICE actions ‘traumatizing’ kids
“We are all used to in Minnesota snow days, but we are now having ICE days,” state Rep. Samantha Sencer-Mura said.
www.twincities.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Coverage of yesterday's press conference on demanding ICE out of childcare centers! (And the whole state)
https://www.twincities.com/2026/01/10/child-care-providers-complain-of-ice-actions-traumatizing-kids/
https://www.twincities.com/2026/01/10/child-care-providers-complain-of-ice-actions-traumatizing-kids/
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People worried for my safety asking earnestly if I think I want to move out of Minneapolis.
Hell no.
We stand our ground. Because it doesn’t stop with us. Infection spreads. You cannot run from it.
Hell no.
We stand our ground. Because it doesn’t stop with us. Infection spreads. You cannot run from it.
January 12, 2026 at 12:56 AM
People worried for my safety asking earnestly if I think I want to move out of Minneapolis.
Hell no.
We stand our ground. Because it doesn’t stop with us. Infection spreads. You cannot run from it.
Hell no.
We stand our ground. Because it doesn’t stop with us. Infection spreads. You cannot run from it.
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BREAKING: In a major win for voters, a federal court blocked key parts of Trump’s anti-voting executive order.
The judge ruled Trump had no authority to rewrite election rules, target mail-in ballots or force new barriers to voter registration.
The judge ruled Trump had no authority to rewrite election rules, target mail-in ballots or force new barriers to voter registration.
Federal court blocks key parts of Trump’s anti-voting order, restores states’ control over elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
BREAKING: In a major win for voters, a federal court blocked key parts of Trump’s anti-voting executive order.
The judge ruled Trump had no authority to rewrite election rules, target mail-in ballots or force new barriers to voter registration.
The judge ruled Trump had no authority to rewrite election rules, target mail-in ballots or force new barriers to voter registration.
In the wake of ICE murdering a civilian today, Congress must act to:
1. Get ICE out of MN
2. Arrest the ICE officer responsible and hold him accountable
3. investigate and hold this Administration accountable for federal overreach.
@klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @mccollum.house.gov
1. Get ICE out of MN
2. Arrest the ICE officer responsible and hold him accountable
3. investigate and hold this Administration accountable for federal overreach.
@klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @mccollum.house.gov
January 8, 2026 at 4:17 AM
In the wake of ICE murdering a civilian today, Congress must act to:
1. Get ICE out of MN
2. Arrest the ICE officer responsible and hold him accountable
3. investigate and hold this Administration accountable for federal overreach.
@klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @mccollum.house.gov
1. Get ICE out of MN
2. Arrest the ICE officer responsible and hold him accountable
3. investigate and hold this Administration accountable for federal overreach.
@klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @mccollum.house.gov
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This is the only correct position, and the inevitable response from knee-jerk centrist reactionaries of "it won't work" is not a valid objection. Every member of Congress has a duty to say that what Noem has been doing is not acceptable.
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
January 8, 2026 at 1:28 AM
This is the only correct position, and the inevitable response from knee-jerk centrist reactionaries of "it won't work" is not a valid objection. Every member of Congress has a duty to say that what Noem has been doing is not acceptable.
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We honor the dead by fighting like hell to remove the regime. Let us mourn with Renee's loved ones and vow to act in her honor, unrelenting in pursuit of justice. #BraveOfUS #MurderedByICE
"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
‘She was an amazing human being:’ Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent
Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.
www.startribune.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:58 PM
We honor the dead by fighting like hell to remove the regime. Let us mourn with Renee's loved ones and vow to act in her honor, unrelenting in pursuit of justice. #BraveOfUS #MurderedByICE
🚨NEW: Federal officers like ICE agents have been routinely prosecuted by states for violating state laws, up to and including murder, since the 1800s.
Minnesota has every ability to do this with today's killing of a motorist by an ICE agent.
prospect.org/2026/01/07/i...
Minnesota has every ability to do this with today's killing of a motorist by an ICE agent.
prospect.org/2026/01/07/i...
ICE Agents Can Be Charged With Murder - The American Prospect
As a killing in Minneapolis is documented, the law clearly stipulates that federal agents do not have universal immunity.
prospect.org
January 7, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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Arrest ICE for murder. Remove ICE from our communities.
January 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Arrest ICE for murder. Remove ICE from our communities.
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Based on the reporting, it seems there were Minneapolis police in the vicinity when this ICE agent killed her. How is it not standard operating procedure to take the shooter into custody?
Arrest the shooter, for chrissakes. It's murder. Arrest the shooter.
January 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Based on the reporting, it seems there were Minneapolis police in the vicinity when this ICE agent killed her. How is it not standard operating procedure to take the shooter into custody?
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They need to arrest the guy who did this before Noem just whisks him out of the state.
It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead
January 7, 2026 at 4:45 PM
They need to arrest the guy who did this before Noem just whisks him out of the state.
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Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
January 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
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Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, are asking Trump to remove the false posts about their parents' killing:
January 5, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, are asking Trump to remove the false posts about their parents' killing:
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Any media outlet whose diagnosis of what's wrong with corporate media is *this* is about to deliver dogshit coverage the likes of which we've never seen
Corporate media lost its way due to cowardice, profit motive, anti-intellectualism, and confusing neutrality with objectivity
Corporate media lost its way due to cowardice, profit motive, anti-intellectualism, and confusing neutrality with objectivity
January 2, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Any media outlet whose diagnosis of what's wrong with corporate media is *this* is about to deliver dogshit coverage the likes of which we've never seen
Corporate media lost its way due to cowardice, profit motive, anti-intellectualism, and confusing neutrality with objectivity
Corporate media lost its way due to cowardice, profit motive, anti-intellectualism, and confusing neutrality with objectivity
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This sort of energy we need going forward. President Obama and Biden both were mistaken to not prosecute those who committed torture, committed fraud and broke laws in the financial crisis during Bush 2 years and obviosly all the Trump attempt to overturn the election and stealing classified docs.
I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
January 2, 2026 at 12:58 AM
This sort of energy we need going forward. President Obama and Biden both were mistaken to not prosecute those who committed torture, committed fraud and broke laws in the financial crisis during Bush 2 years and obviosly all the Trump attempt to overturn the election and stealing classified docs.
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I'm glad to hear that Trump backed down from his initial threats to withhold federal funding for child care. Amazing what happens when you stand up to a bully.
Faced with the real impact on families, child care facilities, and the economy, Trump backed down. Standing together across race and place and powerfully sharing our stories creates change. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Trump administration tightens US childcare reporting requirements, no funds frozen in Minnesota
A day after the U.S. deputy secretary of Health and Human Services announced on social media that federal childcare funds for Minnesota were being frozen, a spokesperson for the department said that i...
www.reuters.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:56 AM
I'm glad to hear that Trump backed down from his initial threats to withhold federal funding for child care. Amazing what happens when you stand up to a bully.
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Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 1, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
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Suggested 2026 resolutions for Congress:
(1) Stop members of Congress from stock trading
(2) Ban corporate PAC money from politics
(3) Overturn Citizens United, make elections about the people, not the dollars
(1) Stop members of Congress from stock trading
(2) Ban corporate PAC money from politics
(3) Overturn Citizens United, make elections about the people, not the dollars
January 1, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Suggested 2026 resolutions for Congress:
(1) Stop members of Congress from stock trading
(2) Ban corporate PAC money from politics
(3) Overturn Citizens United, make elections about the people, not the dollars
(1) Stop members of Congress from stock trading
(2) Ban corporate PAC money from politics
(3) Overturn Citizens United, make elections about the people, not the dollars
Yesterday parents and child care providers stood together and shared the utter devastation that would occur if Trump cut federal childcare funding to Minnesota, including parents leaving jobs and child care facilities closing without these funds. www.fox9.com/news/minneso...
Minnesota child care operators say federal funding freeze ‘devastating’
Child care operators in Minnesota say if federal funds are lost, thousands of families will pay the price.
www.fox9.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Yesterday parents and child care providers stood together and shared the utter devastation that would occur if Trump cut federal childcare funding to Minnesota, including parents leaving jobs and child care facilities closing without these funds. www.fox9.com/news/minneso...
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Stephen Miller's argument that the U.S. shouldn't take immigrants from "failed societies" overlooks the fact that the failure of other societies is what drives people to seek a better life here. It's what Miller's own ancestors did.
January 1, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Stephen Miller's argument that the U.S. shouldn't take immigrants from "failed societies" overlooks the fact that the failure of other societies is what drives people to seek a better life here. It's what Miller's own ancestors did.