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Indigenous Activists Occupy Land Near Fort Snelling, Plan to Stay Until ‘Land Back’

4 months ago

Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling, establishing an occupation. Organizers demand land back in the form of "returning Fort Snelling" to the Dakota people, and invite state officials like Gov. Tim Walz, and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan to have a conversation.

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By Akičita Šuŋka-Wakaŋ Ska, Unicorn Riot

New Documents Reveal Florida Paid Over $573 Million to DeSantis-Connected Immigrant Detention Contractors in 2025

4 months ago

New documents provided to Unicorn Riot have revealed that the state of Florida gave at least $558 million to private contractors last year to work on two immigrant detention centers — including the notorious ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Some of these contractors have been directly linked to…

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By Dingane Xaba, Dan Feidt, Unicorn Riot

Federal Agent in Coon Rapids: ‘The more people that you lose in Minnesota, you then lose a voting right to stay blue.’

4 months ago

A masked federal agent in a convenience store parking lot in the northern Twin Cities suburb of Coon Rapids told legal observers that Minnesota's status as a blue state is linked with the removal of residents.

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By Dan Feidt, Unicorn Riot

ICE in Minnesota – Days 65-66: Feds Make Arrests in Government Center as Local Police Advance Collaboration

4 months ago

Operation Metro Surge has entered its 66th day, representing more than two months of continuous incursion into the Twin Cities and the state as a whole by aggressive, anonymous, and largely unaccountable federal agents.

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ICE in Minnesota – Days 63-64: Gov’t Lawyers Quit En Masse, Pretti Killing Ruled Homicide, Minneapolis Peace Prize Nominee

4 months 1 week ago

Minneapolis – On the heels of a supposed “drawdown” in federal immigration enforcement throughout the Twin Cities metro area, protesters are continuing to show up and confront the federal occupation of Minnesota. 

Tactics have evolved, with communities setting up anti-ICE check points to hinder ICE…

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ICE in Minnesota – Days 57-62: Masses Protest ICE While Violence Continues and Feds Indict Journalists

4 months 1 week ago

Minneapolis, MN – In the week after the third shooting, and second killing, by federal law enforcement in the Twin Cities, the landscape has somewhat shifted while the federal occupation under Operation Metro Surge has continued its violent ways; tens of thousands of community members…

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Key Minnesota DFL Leader Resigns After Vehicular Homicide Charge; Party Under Pressure Risks Major Rifts

4 months 1 week ago

Cyndy Martin, the former chair of the Democratic Party across the vast 8th Congressional District, is awaiting a grim vehicular homicide trial, after being charged in Itasca County with killing Carter Haithcock.

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By Dan Feidt, Unicorn Riot

Independent Journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon Arrested by Feds Along With Three More Activists

4 months 1 week ago

A week after arresting three activists over protesting an ICE director who pastors in a church, federal agents made five additional arrests, this time targeting two journalists who covered the protest -- Georgia Fort and Don Lemon -- and three other participants.

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By Niko Georgiades, Unicorn Riot
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