Minneapolis readers, how are you? We’re watching the information and fascinated about you on a regular basis. My buddy, who lives in south Minneapolis, instructed me that ICE got here to his daughter’s college final week; brokers threw the vice principal on the bottom, shot tear fuel right into a crowd of scholars, and hauled off two academics and a scholar. Elliott Payne, the president of the Metropolis Council, instructed the New York Occasions that “it appears like a navy occupation.”

This morning, I requested my buddy how issues had been feeling within the metropolis, and right here was his reply:

“Scary. Unhappy. Enraging. I don’t imagine these ICE ways will ever look good in historical past. There’s a sturdy group spirit right here, and we’re doing our greatest to look out for one another. There are occasions after I form of numb out to the present injustices, after which I’ll watch a video and simply bawl. I really feel totally different impulses at totally different instances. My strongest intuition is to ask ‘Who can I feed?’ Who’s struggling proper now? The college is gathering meals/rest room paper/fundamentals for people who find themselves scared to go away their houses. I even have a powerful intuition to be a witness and guarantee my children/neighbors are protected. My mind can address the absurdity of this inhumane upside-down world by assembly it with extra absurdity. Proper now as an alternative of hollering ‘fuck you,’ I fantasize about going as much as ICE brokers, asking a barrage of dumb questions like, ‘So, what do you want most about your job? Hey, are you able to guys please cease all of the folks making an attempt to work round right here? Hey, if you guys are finished right here, may you go as much as the border and cease the ounces of fentanyl coming down from Canada?’ I actually hope cooler, kinder heads will finally prevail.”

I’d love to listen to, when you’re up for sharing: How are you feeling, when you’re in Minnesota? How are you feeling, when you’re watching the information from elsewhere? What information sources or retailers do you discover useful? (We usually take heed to The Each day and Pod Save America.) And listed below are methods to assist these in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Sending a lot love, as at all times.

(Photograph of a memorial for Renee Good taken by Charly Triballeau/Agence France-Presse.)