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[bunnydracula]

tastefully concealing the identities of my students in this photo from last saturday’s live workshop event

[korpuscat]

Canadian Immigration: 01/23/2026

We went to pick up the citizenship application photos today. They handed it to me in an envelope, so I thanked them and went to the car and immediately opened it up to take a look. My daughter's photo was perfect: face centered, no more than 36mm long, no shadows. Perfect.

Mine were... well my face was HUGE. Big head problems I guess. Or incorrect cropping. And I just wanted to go home, I had so much to do... but I had to think it through. If I send in these photos, it takes 9 months to be processed and viewed and either approved or rejected. Nine months! And the Canadian government is known for being very picky with the photos, people get theirs rejected all the time for small things. So if mine is rejected, it'll take another nine months to resubmit/process/approve or deny.

That adds almost another year to our goal to move. Another year steeped in fascism and fear and dwindling civil rights. Another year with legislation being passed that puts my daughter in danger.

So that settled it. I went back in to Karen.

I say "Karen" but I went in and apologized a lot and asked if they could please re-crop and print mine. The lady behind the desk was very annoyed and I felt awful. And then the printer tried to die while they were printing mine. It took a long time...a long time. And my kiddo was waiting in the car the whole time, too.

My saving grace was somehow or other horses got brought up and apparently the annoyed lady is a horse girl, so I used what little people skills I have as an autistic adult (People love to talk about themselves and their pets, ask to see photos, ask lots of questions) and by the time the printer was fixed and my pictures were cut, everyone was in a better mood. Thank fuck.

So one more step closer to Canada...just waiting on my Grandma's death certificate so I can ask for the Birth Certificate, after which I send our applications off with a kiss and a prayer to the old gods for speedy processing.

[coshayphinelove]

I know I haven't posted regularly on this blog in years but I'm not seeing a whole lot of posts on this site about what's happening in Minneapolis right now. And the posts I am seeing are not covering the scope of it. I'm genuinely surprised because tumblr is usually where I find out about things organically through my feed. So I'm making a post about it.

A brief summary of events, from someone who pays attention and also lives here, best taken with a grain of salt and some fact checking:

2020: George Floyd is murdered by Minneapolis police. There are weeks of protests about it. It makes national news. Protests happen in DC. The infamous Trump and his bible photo shoot happens.

2024: Gov. Tim Walz is Kamala Harris' running mate in the presidential election. He starts the "they're just weird" thing. Is folksy, Trump personally hates him.

November 2025: ICE starts showing up to "crack down" on "illegal immigrants" in our Somali community. I may remember the numbers wrong, but something like 90% of our Somali neighbors are either naturalized or were born here. People distribute ICE whistles and are on high alert. Localized to the twin cities.

December 2025: Nick Shirley is paid by a bunch of MN Republicans to do an exposé on daycare fraud. I didn't hear much about this. All I really know is this was an ongoing investigation that MN officials were already taking care of and some of the guilty parties have already gone to court from a COVID era food assistance program. Mostly, if not all, legal US citizens. He did a really bad job at doing journalism and just showed up to day cares with a camera crew and went "YUP nobody's here" as if they weren't in lock-down procedure because some fuck ass white men showed up with camera equipment that could easily be mistaken for guns. I believe. I will fact check all of this and will correct myself in a reblog if necessary. (source but not all the details that I remember hearing about but they said there was no recorded evidence of fraud)

Conservative internet explodes. Kristi Noem sends a mess of agents. I know it's more than a thousand more. They call it Operation Metro Surge. They are going everywhere. There are protests. People try to interrupt the arrests. It's a lot.

1/7/2026: Renee Nicole Good is shot by an ICE agent in the middle of a protest. A few blocks away from where George Floyd was killed. Broad daylight. In front of a crowd. While she was following instructions to turn her vehicle around. Jonathan Ross, the piece of shit Nazi who did it, was recording on his phone the whole time, switched his phone to his non dominant hand so he could more effectively shoot her in the face from 2 feet away. Claims self defense, several angles immediately disprove him. He releases his video, he calls her a "fucking bitch" as her corpse drives away. Does not help him at all. (source) He has not been seen since. Some photos/reports exist of a bunch of agents showing up to his house and taking some tubs and art away. His wife is an immigrant. (source but it's the daily mail so grain of salt.)

Not hours later they go raid a school and tear gas a bunch of kids. (source). Minneapolis has switched to distance learning. I'm not sure about St. Paul.

The last week: There are up to 3,000 ICE agents here. Keep in mind Minneapolis and St. Paul only have 600 or fewer police officers each. So these dudes are roaming in packs. It's 2-4 dudes to a car and 2-5 cars per pack. People are "commuting with" ICE agents to honk and alert people that they're there. People are going on patrols with their neighbors.

ICE is no longer asking "are you a citizen." They are simply walking up to you and taking you into custody. They are going door to door. They have started just breaking the door down if you don't comply. They are driving recklessly to just grab pedestrians and drivers alike (source). People are afraid to go get groceries. It's all over the state. I am learning names of cities in places I thought were just factory farm land and I've lived here my whole life because they're doing raids there. I had to text my family in the suburbs because I saw reports of my small little hometown an hour away getting door knocks today.

It's insane and I am not doing it justice. There are thousands of masked federal agents roaming around all of Minnesota with no warrant or specific goal. They are just trolling around looking for people. They are detaining anyone and everyone. They are beating people. They are pepper spraying people. They are kidnapping people. They are acting unconstitutionally, aggressively, and unpredictably. They are creating situations that are dangerous so that they can try to justify beating or shooting their way out. I will run an errand and then get fed a tiktok that was shot from the Cub Foods that I just left and there's 20+ ICE vehicles parked there now. They're taking people from work, from day care, from schools, from shopping centers.

Iceout.org tracks ice sightings. This is a screen shot with the date set to 12/1/2025.

And from today.

They have cut off SNAP and WIC benefits. Just for us. Not any other state, just Minnesota. They're saying it's because of fraud but I think it's because they hate that we use federal funds to give free breakfast and lunch to every public school student.

And this is breaking just now, 1/13/2026: the DOJ is trying to investigate Renee Good's widow. 4 people have resigned about it. (source). I don't even want to read the article to see what they're saying.

So that's a brief history.

Unicorn Riot is doing a lot of good reporting and they don't seem to have the spin that a lot of local news stations will have where they downplay everything. This article specifically goes into a lot of the specific instances of brutality.

It's also a rumor on TikTok that all of the videos of ICE and protests and the such and the like are being geo locked. So my feed is all footage of people being detained and talking about the "commuting" they're doing and what they're seeing but people outside of the state are not seeing it. So if you're also on that infernal app, try searching for Minneapolis or Minnesota and see what you see. I'm kind of curious if this is true. Because I've been living and breathing ICE and doomsday prepping content for a week. I'm sure those two topics aren't connected.

I don't really know what my goal with this post is. I'm tired. I'm in the first ring of suburbs, so it's been pretty quiet. But I have friends in south Minneapolis. And I'm worried for them. And I know it's a matter of time before my quiet pocket is affected. Because they're coming door to door.

Pay attention to Minnesota, I think an example is being made of us.

[leebrontide]

Update- Minnesota republicans are taking this opportunity to try to impeach Govt Waltz, who has already declared that he will not seek re-election in November because of Republican death threats against him and his family. Because of the "fraud". But actually because Waltz is speaking very plainly about what is happening here.

St Paul has gone to partial virtual learning for anyone who doesn't feel safe sending their kids to school.

Every school I know now has safety patrols.

The school districts are not mincing words about the clear and present threat. Everyone in the area is completely clear that we are under violent occupation.

Most of the white people ICE grab, are released within days, because ICE can't even keep track of who was grabbed by who over what. However, they are still subjected to beatings, gassing, having their home and car windows smashes, etc.

Local police are advising compliance with the blatant human rights violations and total lack of due process, because they are cowards.

Even conservative Minnesotans are balking at the total lack of due process and open violence against unresisting people for doing things like taking videos. I know a guy who was in his house recording ICE, and they smashed his home window, dragged him out over the broken glass, beat him while screaming slurs, smashed his phone, and detained for three days.

We need your help to spread the truth about what is going on. Find the videos and share them on any platform you have. Make noise about what's happening. Get your "don't tread on me" relatives whipped up about it if you can.

We need republicans to be afraid, otherwise ICE plans to be here for half a year attacking us.

If human rights can be revoked because Trump doesn't like your state, then they aren't rights anymore, they are favors dispensed by your king.

[whosintheattic-now]

I am not near the Twin Cities, but last month ICE abducted a mother and her child from the front of a building four doors down from my home.

A friend of mine was downtown and said he saw a bunch of people being loaded by force onto a freight train car by ICE.

Things are scary.

[mysharona1987]

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[korpuscat]

Canadian immigration progress: 01/22/2026

Today we got our citizenship application photos taken. Their printer was down in the shop so I have to go back tomorrow to pick them up. The Canadian embassy recommended this place to me, so I’m trying to trust their expertise, but….

The location was in the yuppy insufferable part of town and the folks working there were weirdly tense when I came in. Not sure what that was about. They also acted surprised that I was there for citizenship photos and not passport photos, despite me making the appointment for exactly that a week ago.

Little nervous because passport photos have different dimension requirements. If I pick the up tomorrow and they don’t meet specs I’m going to shit myself. $50 and an uncomfortable appointment should at least guarantee me what I came for.

I did another 6 hours of data analyst classes today. Literally a whole units worth of modules, and I continued until about 10m ago, when my brain felt like it would implode if I crammed one more thing into it. Yes implode, not explode. I crammed so much into my brain today it became dense enough to form a singularity if I learn one more goddamn thing.

Now I’ve got The Batman (2022) playing, I indulged in some õuide, and I ate my snacks. Relaxing.

In health news today, I asked to be put on the estrogen gel instead of the pill. for those that don’t know, I had both ovaries, my cervix, and my uterus out almost a year ago. I knew it would mean HRT for the rest of my life, but I was so sick of PCOS and endometriosis making me suicidal, it seemed like a small price to pay. And truly I don’t regret it despite my high prescription costs. I feel at peace for the first time in my life, and the way perimenopause started at 30 for me and made me develop disaster OCD… worth it. Always worth it.

Excited to start the gel. The pill is hideously infective and has an elevated risk of danger. The gel? Nope. Almost nobody has a bad thing to say about out it on the online forums.

Menopause ain’t so bad, with HRT.

I can’t imagine being back in perimenopause with a news cycle like we’ve been having. I’d be ready to mercy kill myself to achieve peace, some reprieve from the constant barrage of hatred and fear and a looming sense of doom summoned by a love of history and supreme pattern recognition.

Hence Canada.

But where to go?? I’m leaning into astrocartography to see where I should live. Ontario looks very nice. Toronto as well. Can’t do broader Quebec because French is going to be the bane of my existence (still going to learn it though.) and the the worst of it all: my beloved Newfoundland is smack dab on my Saturn and Pluto lines. And Chiron.

For those of you not well versed in astrology or astrocartography, that means Newfoundland=Absolute Suffering and Emotional Agony + some puffins.

The puffins almost make it worth it. Almost. But what torment. What absolute cosmic irony that my ancestral home, the place I grew up hearing stories about that formed themselves into fairy tales in my head, this land of beauty and milk and honey…. Is the one place I shouldn’t live in. Balls.

So Ontario looks promising. TT_TT

It’s all that’s getting me through these days. I’m determined. I’m going to Canada with my kid. I’d love to go with my girlfriend too, but… part of me thinks she won’t. She always squirms or shies away from the topic. I can’t make her go, but I want to keep her safe. She’s brown, naturalized, and visibly gender nonconforming. She’s a massive target for ICE and I want her to come with me so I can get her to safety because I love her with my whole heart.

But she’s also delaying our engagement. She’s also shying away from discussing it. I can’t make her marry me either, and I don’t want to go above and beyond and put my neck so far out for someone who isn’t 100% sure and ready and enthusiastic about marrying me. Cuz that’s a big step.

The idea of leaving without her hurts so bad. Leaving her to…this. This fascism. But I can’t make her do anything.

And after three years, that stings.

That depressed the hell out of me. I’m going to end it here for tonight.

[politijohn]

Source

[antifainternational]

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.

Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For the TLDR crowd:

“The vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence.

ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their *disapproval.* And the noise has the added benefit of drawing large crowds of bystanders who can quickly outnumber the ICE agents, who then have to decide if they want to escalate a situation or perhaps abandon their activity altogether.

In Minneapolis, we’re already seeing the success of ICE Watch. There are countless videos from ICE Watch observers that show agents leaving without detaining anyone after they encounter resistance. There are currently about 3,000 ICE agents in Minnesota, but the Department of Homeland Security claims they have only arrested 2,400 people — less than one person per agent.

ICE Watch organizers have also observed that it takes many more agents to make a single arrest when they are around. In other cities, ICE traveled in groups of two or three, but in Minneapolis, we primarily see groups of 6 to 12 agents. The Department of Homeland Security has pulled agents from other cities to ramp up efforts in Minnesota, which guarantees there will be fewer deportations from the places they left. Plus, ICE’s fixation on breaking up ICE Watch groups and detaining observers — often white citizens — has interrupted its original mission.

The entire operation is becoming slower and more resource-intensive. There is good reason to believe that more immigrants are with their families tonight because of ICE Watch.”

[billydean63]

As if a two bit common low-life hooker that would sleep with someone she knows to be a pedophile has anything to say that anyone else needs to know!

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

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[korpuscat]

BEHOLD: My new motivational phone screen. Just finished painting it up in procreate.

Our citizenship applications are literally just waiting on the photos (tomorrow at the studio!) and my grandmas birth certificate (pending) and then they can be sent off.

I’m putting 6 hours a day into this data analyst certification to unlock better jobs, and I’m going to focus on learning French to help in Canada as well.

I’ve started over with nothing before. No job experience, no money, nothing but a kid and a dog to my name. Starting over with certifications and loads of job experience and good references and a decent savings account? Piece of cake.

[itsmythang]

Australia does a better job at covering political news in America than our news coverage.

[ellewantsrevenge]

while the ICE officer violently attacked the targeted person "two subjects came out of a nearby apartment" and rushed to the aid of the victim utilizing "a snow shovel and broom handle" to defend themselves. once the victim was freed, they were able to get one of the items and also "began striking the officer with a shovel or broom stick". after that, the three people got into the apartment safe

#fuckice

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