Meanwhile in Minneapolis

 A city under seige.

UPDATE 02/22/2026:

They haven't backed away.  Just the opposite.

At Trump's favorite sport!

 Surely many of these people are MAGA.

It does sound like the whole arena.

Minneapolis is serious

 

Real Christians

 

Minneapolis citizenry score a win in the ICE invasion battle

 

If we're playing Where in the World is Greg Bovino, where do you think he'll end up next?  Things are reportedly heating up in Main.  

UPDATE 01/27/2026:  Unfortunately, Bovino's removal was probably for his own protection rather than a concession to anti-ICE protests.  Here's his replacement:

Although that's just doubling down, I don't think it's going to be the threat he thinks it is.

Federal building in Los Angeles

 

Click the graphic (or here) - it's animated.

(On YouTube)

Eyes on ICE

I was reading posts on the Nextdoor website this morning.  The mayor of my city had notified citizens that ICE is on the West Side (lots of Latinos).  One area resident responded with, "Why do I need to know this?  Leave them alone and let them do their work."  Actually, "there work".  

Sure, you can close your windows to the world around you.  You don't NEED to know if you don't want to know, I suppose.  But if you don't want to know what your government is doing, please don't vote; you're not really qualified.  

Clergy organizing in Minneapolis - and being arrested

Today is the date of the hastily called national support for Minneapolis under seige of Trump's Gestapo.  

The clergy showed up.  

Around 200 faith leaders fanned out across the city on Thursday (Jan. 22) to observe and document the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with some clergy confronting Department of Homeland Security agents, adding a visible religious presence to widespread efforts to counter the president’s mass deportation campaign in the region.

The faith leaders, who are in Minneapolis as part of a larger convening focused on religious pushback to ICE, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS agents have been most active during an ongoing campaign known as Operation Metro Surge. The clergy, who hail from a range of traditions and worship communities across the country, sang on the buses as they ventured out into the street.

[...]

Rev. Hierald E. Osorto, a local ELCA pastor who serves a majority immigrant congregation [...] noted that immigrant communities like his are also heavily active in pushing back against ICE, even if much of it is less public.

“For more than a year we have prepared for this moment,” he said. “Our families drew up paperwork — delegation of parental authority forms — so that if they were put in detention, their children would not be alone. We found people lawyers, so they could navigate the legal system where no one else is looking out for them.”

He added: “We anticipated this time of trial, but we still pray: líbranos del mal — deliver us from evil.”

  Religion News

 

National anti-ICE rallies - January 23

 

UPDATE 01/23/2026:

Around 200 faith leaders fanned out across the city on Thursday (Jan. 22) to observe and document the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with some clergy confronting Department of Homeland Security agents, adding a visible religious presence to widespread efforts to counter the president’s mass deportation campaign in the region.

The faith leaders, who are in Minneapolis as part of a larger convening focused on religious pushback to ICE, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS agents have been most active during an ongoing campaign known as Operation Metro Surge. The clergy, who hail from a range of traditions and worship communities across the country, sang on the buses as they ventured out into the street.

[...]

Rev. Hierald E. Osorto, a local ELCA pastor who serves a majority immigrant congregation [...] noted that immigrant communities like his are also heavily active in pushing back against ICE, even if much of it is less public.

“For more than a year we have prepared for this moment,” he said. “Our families drew up paperwork — delegation of parental authority forms — so that if they were put in detention, their children would not be alone. We found people lawyers, so they could navigate the legal system where no one else is looking out for them.”

He added: “We anticipated this time of trial, but we still pray: líbranos del mal — deliver us from evil.”

  Religion News

 

March against ICE

UPDATE 01/22/2026:

 

Resistance

I hope they're going to stand on a protest line somewhere instead of just staying home.  Maybe like these Philadelphians...

 

Resistance pays off

 

Because there aren't nearly enough Minneapolis police.  There are 3,000 Gestapo goons deployed in the area. 

This is crazy.  National Guard to protect from Federal Agents.

Resist

 They're trying to take out journalists, too.  Like all tyrannical governments.

Journalist checklist/guide in this authoritarian regime

Dropkick Murphys for the win (again)