r/WeThePeopleAtWhipple

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Prior Lake, Minnesota: Reports and documentation emerging from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community show Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents operating on tribal grounds during a traditional Wacipi (powwow) at the Shakopee grounds.

The presence of federal enforcement officers at a sovereign Native gathering underscores a critical reality: these operations extend far beyond conventional immigration concerns, directly challenging tribal sovereignty and raising fundamental questions about the reach of federal policing on indigenous land.

I could be wrong, but it’s systemic destruction of a target population with deliberate physical and mental harm up to and include murder/suicide.

What if you could write a letter to the politician of your choice — your governor, your senator, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, whoever really grinds your gears — and have it arrive on their desk inside a clear, phallus-shaped plastic clamshell?

The Dildo Distribution Delegation is currently sitting on several thousand of these clamshells in a storage unit, and we are exploring the possibility of putting them to work.

We can't recycle them in any meaningful way. Throwing them out feels wasteful and frankly disrespectful to their shape. They are too weird to donate and too numerous to ignore.

But slide a rolled-up letter inside one and suddenly you have the most attention-grabbing envelope in the history of the United States Postal Service.

No staffer is throwing that away unopened. No intern is tossing it in the "constituent mail we'll get to never" pile. A letter in a dick-shaped clamshell gets read.

We have the inventory, the postage budget is being calculated, and we honestly cannot think of a better use for several hundred empty phallus containers than making sure your words cannot be ignored.

What do you think?

Credit: @solidarityorganizinginitiative

Credit: Mercado Media

MINNESOTA SUES GREG ABBOTT FOR BLOCKING EXTRADITION OF ICE AGENT CHARGED IN MINNEAPOLIS SHOOTING

Minnesota has sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Cameron County Sheriff Manuel Treviño, accusing them of unlawfully delaying the extradition of ICE agent Christian Castro. Castro is charged with four counts of second-degree assault and falsely reporting a crime after allegedly firing through the front door of a Minneapolis home and shooting Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis during Operation Metro Surge.

Castro fled Minnesota after the January shooting and was arrested by Texas Rangers on May 29. Minnesota says Gov. Tim Walz properly submitted the required extradition warrant, triggering a mandatory obligation under the Constitution, federal law and Texas law for Abbott to approve Castro’s return.

Castro remains jailed in Cameron County while Abbott withholds the rendition warrant. Minnesota is asking the court to force Texas to send him back so he can face prosecution.

Credit: Minnesota Indivisible Alliance

Minnesota's elections got tested…and we held. That didn't happen by accident.

For months, we've been wondering how the Trump regime would test our elections. Here's what we've learned.

First, the Trump administration has pushed Minnesota to turn over its voter rolls, seeking sensitive voter data and pursuing a federal investigation into supposed noncitizen voting. Minnesota pushed back, and yesterday a judge dismissed the Justice Department's lawsuit. She said the government had no right to engage in a "fishing expedition."

That's the 23rd straight loss for the Justice Department in lawsuits over states' voter data. They haven't won one yet.

Next, the Justice Department sent about 20 staff to monitor polling places in Hennepin and Ramsey counties. This wasn't anything new — they've done this work in previous elections under Republican and Democratic presidents.

What changed is this previously innocuous work was occurring under this regime. So this time, Ramsey and Hennepin counties had to remind them: Minnesota law did not allow them into the polling locations. They had to stay 100 feet away. To make sure the feds complied, Minnesota sent its own watchers to watch the federal ones.

Finally, a twist: a right-wing group led by activist James O'Keefe walked into Minneapolis polling places dressed in burqas, using fake foreign accents, and carrying hidden cameras. They tried to impersonate Muslim voters in an attempt to expose supposed cracks in Minnesota's voter-vouching law.

Poll workers spotted it immediately and reported it. Law enforcement is now reviewing the incident for any potential legal action. Secretary of State Steve Simon called the stunt "outrageous and totally unacceptable."

And despite all that attention from the regime and its allies, more than 1.1 million Minnesotans voted — the most ballots ever cast in a Minnesota primary, breaking a record that had stood since 2018.

Guess Minnesotans really like to vote.

None of that means we relax.

It means we understand that protecting elections takes a lot of Minnesotans: county election officials, city clerks, township clerks, election judges, poll workers, canvassing boards, lawyers, observers. Many of them volunteers. Many of them your neighbors, friends and family. Some of them, you, dear reader…and thank you.

Before any votes were cast, we tested the machines publicly. We established chains of custody. We recruited judges from the two major parties. And canvassing boards will meet to certify the result in public.

The work isn't especially dramatic. But there's a beauty and awe in doing the commonplace work of democracy.

And it's also where the rest of us come in.

If you've been wondering what you can possibly do to defend democracy, election protection may be one of the most useful places to invest some time.

One vehicle for that work is Indivisible's national election protection program, Hands Off Our Vote.

It's designed to help ordinary people understand how elections actually work — building relationships with local election officials, preparing for misinformation or intimidation, and getting ready to respond fast if something unusual happens.

Link to that initiative is in the first comment.

But there's another option that might work even better: join your local Indivisible chapter.

Elections are local. And what matters in one county can look completely different from what matters in the next.

One chapter might need people willing to serve as election judges. Another is keeping an eye on county meetings. Another is building a relationship with the local election administrator before there's a crisis. Another is helping voters navigate a polling-place change. Another is getting ready to correct misinformation the moment it starts spreading. Another is already working with local partners who've done this for years.

And local chapters are doing the work of building plans now.

So connect with a chapter and learn what your community needs most: election judges, hotline workers, certification observers, disinformation responders, rides to the polls, or trained people ready to respond to the unknown.

Minnesota has a good election system, one that usually leads the nation in turnout. A trained and prepared public can help make sure it stays among the best in the country.

So no doom scrolling or panic. Preparation, contingency planning, training, education, building communications links — all the work you did during the Surge can be redeployed in this new moment.

Get trained. Get connected. Join a chapter. Learn how elections work where you live.

Then when November comes, we won't just be hoping Minnesota's democracy holds. We'll be part of why it does.

ICE's total annual funding reached roughly $85 billion (combining a ~$10 billion base budget with portions of a $75 billion multi-year supplemental allocation).

The Department of Homeland Security reported that the U.S. government carried out over 600,000 formal deportations and removals during 2025

$85 billion (annual 2025 budget)

~ 600,000 (deportations/removals during 2025)

$85 billion / 600,000 = $141,666.67

So in 2025 we spent over $140k per person deported or removed… To cause this suffering and pain… imagine what that money could have made our communities look like had it been spent to help the people.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-5674887/ice-budget-funding-congress-trump

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12/10/thanks-president-trump-and-secretary-noem-more-25-million-illegal-aliens-left-us

EDIT: FYI this is underestimated because I did not include the budget for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other related agencies. Had I included all agencies the numbers work out to over $400k per person but I always start more conservative so people can’t protest the values and lose focus.

Credit: @thejenniwren

They put migrant children out for bid.

The Trump administration is shopping for contractors to build an "emergency influx facility" that can hold up to 3,000 unaccompanied kids. The specs: eight children per room, eight children sharing one toilet, one shower, one sink. An eight-foot perimeter fence. Contractors are told to be ready to fill 400 beds within 30 days of signing.

Officials call it "speed."

This is happening while the government guts the one protection those kids are legally owed. Roughly 20,000 unaccompanied children lost their lawyers overnight when the Acacia Center contract ended in July. The no-bid replacement, worth up to $244 million, went to Our Rescue, an anti-trafficking group whose own founder resigned amid sexual abuse and trafficking allegations. A Texas firm with zero experience representing migrant children was floated for a separate $150 million contract before quietly withdrawing.

Removal orders for immigrant minors have topped 10,000 a month under this administration, more than at any point in Trump's first term. Lawyers are already describing coercion and threats used to push children into self-deporting.

They are building bigger cages and taking away the lawyers who are supposed to keep kids inside them safe.

Share this before the contract gets signed.

Call HHS at 1-877-696-6775. Then call your senators and rep at (202) 224-3121. Tell them no to this contract

Sources: The Independent, ProPublica

Credit: @sunrise.twincities

Homeland Security has been using invasive tactics to target our organizing, but it's not working. We're stronger than ever, and our numbers are growing.
Mass, nonviolent youth movements are particularly resilient against authoritarian overreach and have toppled dictators in the past. Now, we're proving our power here in the U.S.

Curious about how to organize against fascism while staying safe? We have a few guidelines, including:

1. Organize in public - We're loud about our goals and tactics. Want to investigate us? You won't find anything surprising.

2. Treat large group chats like social media - Only share sensitive information with people you've directly vetted.

3. The greatest risk of all is not taking action or not organizing for a better world. Organizing always carries some risk. We think it's worth it.

Take action with us! Become a Sunrise Movement member at smvmt.org/membership

Federal taxpayer dollars are funding massive catering contracts for the Broadview ICE detention center in Illinois. Video evidence reveals dozens of unopened catered meals being tossed into open dumpsters, mixed directly alongside used DNA testing kits and biohazard medical waste.

Why is ICE over ordering and trashing fresh provisions from Nimbus Kitchen while completely ignoring both federal and Illinois Good Samaritan Food Donor Acts?

The facility is choosing to dump perfectly edible provisions into open refuse containers alongside potentially hazardous Bode Technology DNA testing supplies. This demonstrates a complete failure in basic operational oversight and waste management.

Read the full forensic breakdown and view the evidence docket here: https://www.eyesonice.net/p/taxpayer-waste-and-biohazard-negligence

Relevant Contact Information for Public Inquiry:

Broadview Service Staging Center (ICE): 708.449.2985

Bode Technology (DNA Supplies): 703.646.9740

Nimbus Kitchen (Catering): Commercial inquiries routed through nimbuskitchen.com

I work at Braemar Office Park, 7900 West 78th Street, Edina, MN and this guy just handed these out at our office. He said they are on the East lot and I went out and checked a bunch of cars and there are verified ICE  vehicles and it shows they have been involved in abductions. What’s going on? Is the office I work in like Whipple now?