'The cards found last month in Eagle County harken back to that brutal heritage. They were the same general size and shape as those shoved into the mouths of dead Vietnamese: black and white 4×6-inch cards with an “A” over a spade in their top left and bottom right corners. A larger ornate black-and-white spade dominates the center of the card. Above it is the phrase “#ICE Denver Field Office.” '

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ice-death-cards-vietnam/
#ICEraids #ICEdetentions #ICEterror #USpol #USpolitics #stateViolence

The Disturbing History of ICE’s “Death Cards”

The Vietnam-era practice is yet another example of ICE agents thrilling to the brutality they have been encouraged to cultivate.

The Nation

"[A]mid the redoubts of normality, a wide network of organized resistance and mutual aid had sprung up. The #Minneapolis - St. Paul metro area has a population of about three million. Immigrants comprise a fraction of this figure—about 10 percent—but it’s as if the entire city had mobilized in their defense."

https://thebaffler.com/latest/minnesota-nice-young
#MinneapolisResists #ICE #resistingICE #ICEraids #ICEterror #ICEoutOfMN #USpol #USpolitics #stateRepression #activism

Minnesota Nice | Becca Young

The spotlight may have moved on, but ICE raids in Minneapolis continue—as does the resistance.

The Baffler

"For all the horror wrought by the regime, intended to stun its opponents like iguanas in the cold, this feels like a period of flux. Mass noncompliance has revived the promise of life amidst death. As it did during the pandemic after the murder of George Floyd, #Minnesota has altered the political temperature."

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/life-in-death
#USpol #USpolitics #ICE #resistingICE #ICEterror #ICEraids #MinneapolisResists #policeViolence #activism #ICEoutOfMN

JoAnn Wypijewski, Life in Death — Sidecar

Trump and Minneapolis.

Sidecar

"Organizers across #Minnesota have for years been building one of the most robust progressive political ecosystems in the country. #Minneapolis is the birthplace of the American Indian Movement and the city that sprung into action after the 2020 murder of George Floyd..."

A great ep of #TheDigRadio talking about how #MinneapolisResists

https://thedigradio.com/podcast/minneapolis-fight-back-w-emilia-gonzalez-avalos-greg-nammacher-janae-bates-imari/
#USpol #USpolitics #ICE #ICEraids #ICEterror #resistingICE #ICEoutOfMN #FuckICE #stateViolence #generalStrike #activism #mutualAid

Minneapolis Fight Back w/ Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, JaNaé Bates Imari

Featuring Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, and JaNaé Bates Imari on how Minneapolis achieved its fight back against ICE/Border Patrol occupation. A decade building aligned mass movements has made Minneapolis among the best organized cities in the country. Those carefully-built structures, however, had to be nimble in confronting the federal onslaught.

The Dig

"Neighbors juggling jobs, kids, and their own fears are up against three thousand federal agents. (For comparison, three hundred were deployed to Chicago.) The size of #OperationMetroSurge is delirious, outlandish. As state and local officials grandstand at press conferences and file lawsuits, people do what they can to protect each other and hang on."

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/01/30/fifteen-below-zero-resisting-the-minneapolis-surge/
https://archive.ph/7q7rZ
#USpol #ICE #ICEterror #ICEoutOfMN #FuckICE #MinneapolisResists #resistingICE #activism

Fifteen Below Zero

Driving to St. Paul from the airport you pass under Fort Snelling, an enormous limestone structure from the early nineteenth century. In November 1862,

The New York Review of Books

"What's behind the organization of protests in #Minneapolis? The city has seen the mobilization of local rapid response networks, mutual aid groups, and observers like Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by federal immigration agents. Organizers are drawing on lessons from movements that emerged after the 2020 police killing of George Floyd..."

w/ Marcia Howard, pres. Loc. 59 Minneapolis Federation of Educators

https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/they-picked-the-wrong-state-how-minneapolis-is-fighting-back
#USpol #ICE #ICEterror #FuckICE #ICEoutOfMN #stateRepression

'They picked the wrong state': how Minneapolis is fighting back - The Take

What's behind the organization of protests in Minneapolis? The city has seen the mobilization of local rapid response networks, mutual aid groups, and observers like Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by federal immigration agents. Organizers are drawing on lessons from movements that emerged after the 2020 police killing of George Floyd, building a sustained movement for community defense. In this episode:  Marcia Howard (@marciahoward38thstreet), President of Minneapolis Federation of Educators, Local 59, Community Steward of George Floyd Square  Episode credits: This episode was produced by Chloe K. Li and Sarí el-Khalili, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Tamara Khandaker, Tuleen Barakat, and our host, Malika Bilal. It was edited by Alexandra Locke. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhemm. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.  Connect with us: @AJEPodcasts on X, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube

And governor Tim Walz sounds pissed off.
I mean REALLY pissed off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssVUGIhsSOo

#Minneapolis #ICE #ICETerror #StateTerror

Gov. Walz to Trump: 'Remove this force from Minnesota'

YouTube

Rachel Sayre, director of the Emergency Management Department for the City of Minneapolis visibly shaken at pc after the fatal shooting of a second civilian:

"My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones [YE, HT, SY, IQ, UK]. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorising people."

https://youtu.be/fCxlumOjNrQ?t=411

#Minneapolis #ICE #ICETerror #StateTerror

Mayor Frey to Trump after another fatal shooting: 'Put America first -- and end this operation'

YouTube

"Among the most fascinating and most studied stories of the #Trump era will someday be how and why so many of these apparently titanic centers of power—from Congress to the Ivy League to Big Law to the Fourth Estate—crumpled so easily, though we already have a sense of the basic mechanics of cowardice, of anticipatory obedience, which is so often couched in the bloodless language of pragmatism."

https://thebaffler.com/latest/states-of-denial-de-la-hoz
#USpol #ICE #ICEterror #resistingICE #stateRepression #activism #ICEoutOfMN

States of Denial | Felipe De La Hoz

When it comes to the Trump administration’s occupation of Minneapolis, we can no longer afford to be in denial.

The Baffler

An internal #ICE memo just leaked - (this vid was last week, but send THIS vid to someone living invthe U.S. who thinks #ICETerror won't happen to them)

#BradBernstein

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/tmVJ9uiquwU

#4thAmendment #NaziUSA

An internal ICE memo just leaked

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