Okay, I'll believe this when I see it, but:
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#Via Spencer Ackerman / attackerman
9:44 AM · Feb 12, 2026"He literally says in the clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota 'quick reaction forces' — a military term — to go after 'agitators.' Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior 'deescalation' was a ruse and ICE is still operational."
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#Via Spencer Ackerman / attackerman
9:44 AM · Feb 12, 2026"He literally says in the clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota 'quick reaction forces' — a military term — to go after 'agitators.' Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior 'deescalation' was a ruse and ICE is still operational."
#Via Atrios /eschatonblog.com
10:20 AM · Feb 12, 2026"Rhetorical question but how is it ice's job to go after agitators"
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#Via Atrios /eschatonblog.com
10:20 AM · Feb 12, 2026"Rhetorical question but how is it ice's job to go after agitators"
#Via Woj
@swojack
10:32 AM · Feb 12, 2026"The official White House reason for why they even went there in the first place is supposedly to hunt for childcare fraud by nonwhites so as far as I know nobody is even pretending that ICE and CBP have anything to do with immigration enforcement/administration anymore."
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@LaNaehForaday Not enough, she still has a job, but yes
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@LaNaehForaday Hmmmm...if they had really wanted to kill pedophiles
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#Via Woj
@swojack
10:32 AM · Feb 12, 2026"The official White House reason for why they even went there in the first place is supposedly to hunt for childcare fraud by nonwhites so as far as I know nobody is even pretending that ICE and CBP have anything to do with immigration enforcement/administration anymore."
From someone in Minneapolis
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https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116058263244984578Until ICE is actually out of Minnesota, I don’t believe them that they’re leaving.
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From someone in Minneapolis
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https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116058263244984578Until ICE is actually out of Minnesota, I don’t believe them that they’re leaving.
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From someone in Minneapolis
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https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116058263244984578Until ICE is actually out of Minnesota, I don’t believe them that they’re leaving.
@fsinn Yeah he admitted they're still keeping occupation forces there
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@fsinn Yeah he admitted they're still keeping occupation forces there
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Yes
Mother Bones (@_L1vY_@mstdn.social)
Okay, I'll believe this when I see it, but:
Mastodon 🐘 (mstdn.social)
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@NilaJones "needed"
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#Via Jen Bendery / jbendery
9:28 AM · Feb 12, 2026"Border czar Tom Homan announces ICE's surge in Minnesota will conclude. Homan says the ICE drawdown in Minnesota is 'already underway this week, and will continue into the next week.'
A 'small footprint' will remain, he says. But Trump's ICE surge in Minneapolis is officially over. 'Operation Metro Surge is ending,' Homan says. ICE officers will be sent home.
Homan said he proposed ending the ICE surge in MN, and Trump 'has concurred.' "
@L1vY@mstdn.social Right, to start it elsewhere instead because they've used Minnesota as their proving grounds for what tactics to use next? We know their plans, this is just one phase in controlling people through terrorism.
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#Via Woj
@swojack
10:32 AM · Feb 12, 2026"The official White House reason for why they even went there in the first place is supposedly to hunt for childcare fraud by nonwhites so as far as I know nobody is even pretending that ICE and CBP have anything to do with immigration enforcement/administration anymore."
#Via Kyle Cheney / kyledcheney
7:00 PM · Feb 12, 2026"The Trump administration has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.
The judge: Trump appointee Nancy Brasel."
[pdf link]
https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Dist.Minn_._0-26-cv-00749_95.pdf -
#Via Kyle Cheney / kyledcheney
7:00 PM · Feb 12, 2026"The Trump administration has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.
The judge: Trump appointee Nancy Brasel."
[pdf link]
https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Dist.Minn_._0-26-cv-00749_95.pdf#Via Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@ReichlinMelnick
8:01 PM · Feb 12, 2026"Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel.
One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest. This will have a huge impact on the availability of habeas for people who are still being arrested in Minnesota."
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#Via Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@ReichlinMelnick
8:01 PM · Feb 12, 2026"Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel.
One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest. This will have a huge impact on the availability of habeas for people who are still being arrested in Minnesota."
#Via Steve Vladeck
@stevevladeck
8:03 PM · Feb 12, 2026"In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing)."
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#Via Steve Vladeck
@stevevladeck
8:03 PM · Feb 12, 2026"In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing)."
#Via Gillian Brockell
@gbrockell
12:59 AM · Feb 14, 2026"For the first time since Jan. 5, there were no ICE flights out of Minneapolis Friday, probably because of this ruling.
Got to have an impromptu celebration IRL tonight with @ottergoose and JJinDC
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#Via Gillian Brockell
@gbrockell
12:59 AM · Feb 14, 2026"For the first time since Jan. 5, there were no ICE flights out of Minneapolis Friday, probably because of this ruling.
Got to have an impromptu celebration IRL tonight with @ottergoose and JJinDC
."#Via Nick Benson
@ottergoose
3:55 AM · Feb 14, 2026"It’s too early to spike the football, but last night we raised a glass - here’s to many more days without ICE Air operations in Minnesota."
