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01/15/2026

Hundreds walked out of class and marched to St. Paul, filling the steps with chants, hand-painted signs, and a level of energy that hasn’t let up since the shooting of Renée Good.

The walkout drew students from multiple schools, community members, and organizers who’ve been mobilizing daily as the surge intensifies.

Ellison stepped up to the mic and addressed the crowd directly. He reminded them he’s “the people’s lawyer” and confirmed he filed a lawsuit this week on behalf of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul to challenge DHS over the massive federal deployment across the metro.

He accused the surge of breaking the law and disrupting everyday life — from families afraid to leave home to kids missing school — and connected that escalation to the death of Renée Good.

Students kept the pressure on from the steps, leading chants in the cold and refusing to stay quiet as federal operations continue around their neighborhoods.
This is what unfolded at the Capitol on January 13th 2026.

Video Journalist: Matt Kowalski

01/15/2026

Seven days after an ICE agent shot and killed Renée Good, Minneapolis was hit with another federal shooting tonight.

Officials say an agent shot a man in the leg after a confrontation involving a snow shovel and a broom. Both the man and the agent were taken to the hospital.

Within minutes, crowds showed up at 24th & Lyndale — and federal agents fired off flash bangs, chemical irritants, and less-lethal rounds as tensions spiked. This is already on top of a week of raids, protests, SUVs swarming the city, and national rhetoric heating up by the hour.

Add to that the threat of the Insurrection Act sitting over Minnesota right now…
and now a group of people was filmed breaking into a federal vehicle and removing a weapons locker in the middle of the chaos.

So here’s the real question:

Are we watching coincidence after coincidence… or is someone trying to spark something bigger here?
Is this chaos just fallout — or is this the setup?

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Attorney General Keith Ellison was in attendance and addressed the crowd on the lawsuit Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. ...
01/14/2026

Attorney General Keith Ellison was in attendance and addressed the crowd on the lawsuit Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul filed to push back against the federal surge.

Video coming shortly.

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01/14/2026

People terrified in a Costco parking lot
Unrest at the Whipple and more protests breaking out
More pushback from federal units across the city
Early clips showing a motorist being tear gassed
Planes taking detainees out at MSP as the unrest continues

Well… bye.Top federal prosecutors in Minnesota just resigned — not over the shooting itself, but because the Justice Dep...
01/13/2026

Well… bye.

Top federal prosecutors in Minnesota just resigned — not over the shooting itself, but because the Justice Department pushed to investigate the victim’s widow and sidelined traditional oversight of the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good.

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, which normally handles potential unlawful use-of-force cases, was blocked from participating in the investigation. Several high-level career attorneys quit in protest.

If you’ve been following the Renee Good case — a 37-year-old Minnesota mom killed by an ICE agent during an operation — this adds another layer to why this story keeps getting darker: federal decisions, excluded local authorities, internal resignations, and politicized prosecutorial choices.

Do you see this as a trend — people inside the system resigning because the normal process of investigating a deadly use of force wasn’t allowed?

The White House says Somalis under TPS have until March 17 to leave the U.S. Think about the timing. We’re already in a ...
01/13/2026

The White House says Somalis under TPS have until March 17 to leave the U.S. Think about the timing. We’re already in a week where federal agents are rolling through Minnesota with full tactical units, a U.S. citizen was killed during an ICE encounter, and now one of the largest Somali communities in America is being told their protection is over.

It raises the same question people have been whispering for years: where does this stop? What’s the end point of this level of power? At what stage does enforcement become something else entirely, and how far are people willing to let it go because their team is the one doing it?

The language of resentment, isolation, and punishment. When leaders start governing through that lens, it’s the same energy — just wearing a suit instead of carrying a pistol.

So here’s the real question for anyone applauding this right now: as a Minnesotan, as a citizen, what’s your line?

What could the government do — to your neighbors, to your community, to people you’ve lived beside for decades — where you’d finally say “that’s too far”?

Or does the applause just keep going no matter how bad it gets as long as it’s happening to someone else first?

Much love. Thanks for the engagement.

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You know how to get to Carnegie Hall, don’t’cha?“Can you legally record ICE?”The Trump administration’s position is that...
01/12/2026

You know how to get to Carnegie Hall, don’t’cha?

“Can you legally record ICE?”

The Trump administration’s position is that filming ICE agents in public is “doxing,” “harassment,” even “violence.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that recording officers where they’re operating can “encourage people to come and throw things,” and DHS officials have pushed to prosecute people for posting videos online.

But federal courts have said something very different.

Multiple circuits — including in Chicago, where “Operation Midway Blitz” led to arrests of protesters, reporters, and clergy — have ruled that citizens do have a First Amendment right to record government agents in public.

Judges have issued injunctions saying the government’s attempts to blur the line between filming and violence “shock the conscience.”

Minnesota doesn’t need a lecture on cameras.
We lived through a moment where a teenage girl won a Pulitzer with her phone.

So... can you record ICE?

I don’t know — can you?

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Fyi — Reports are circulating that ICE allegedly detained a large portion of the staff at Hong Kong Buffet in Elk River ...
01/12/2026

Fyi — Reports are circulating that ICE allegedly detained a large portion of the staff at Hong Kong Buffet in Elk River tonight. Applebee’s in Monticello was reportedly hit as well.

If you’re hearing confirmations or contradictions, drop them below. Still trying to verify what happened.

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01/11/2026

Crowds marched through the park in freezing temps, carrying signs, floats, and banners while organizers called for an end to the federal immigration crackdown that has swept across the Twin Cities this week.

Speakers accused ICE of bringing “chaos,” “fear,” and “violence” into local schools and neighborhoods, urging support for immigrant communities instead of escalated enforcement. Marchers echoed those themes as they moved through the park following activist-led vans.

The demonstration was organized by MN Immigrant Rights Action Committee and a coalition of local migrant-rights groups.

All of this comes after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by a federal ICE agent on January 7 during an immigration operation — a shooting that sparked citywide outrage and competing narratives from federal and state leaders.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called Good’s actions “domestic terrorism,” while President Trump claimed she “ran over” the agent. Governor Tim Walz pushed back, urging Minnesotans not to “believe this propaganda machine” and calling for a full investigation.

Meanwhile, hundreds of federal officers remain deployed across Minneapolis as part of the White House’s intensified immigration enforcement drive. The tension on the ground hasn’t eased.

Filmed and edited by Matt Kowalski Kowala Media

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I’m sure if he did, his material would still be what it’s always been — thoughtful, layered, interesting, controlled — e...
01/11/2026

I’m sure if he did, his material would still be what it’s always been — thoughtful, layered, interesting, controlled — each one expanding the larger tapestry he was weaving.

Short-form doesn’t have to be disposable; it can be breadcrumbs, atmosphere, tension-building, little windows into a much bigger story taking shape.

And when people follow along because they choose to, not because you begged an algorithm to notice, that’s when it stays organic, authentic, and real.

That’s when the work finds the audience it’s supposed to.

Long game.

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