Shorts: ICE Out Of Minnesota. Na Na Na Na. See Ya Target. Hey Hey Goodbye

 

Target Asks Minneapolis Protesters To Leave

 

This clip is from the Target Sit-Ins, at its store on New Brighton Blvd in Minneapolis on 1/31/2026. Protesters had not been there long, and it had been peaceful from the beginning. The protest was organized at that location by the The Minneapolis Federation of Educators, Local 59. #iceoutofmn #target

"ICE Out Shut It Down/Hey Hey Goodbye" ICE Out Target Sit-Ins: 1300 University Ave Saint Paul MN

 

This is the end of the sit-in which had already been taking place. This short clip includes some of the chants of ICE Out, being told to leave, and singing "Hey Hey Goodbye" leaving the store. #iceoutofmn #target

We're Tired. They Keep Coming At Us. Everyone Keeps On Showing Up.

Somedays you have to take a rest.

Because you need a break, which is a privilege if you can do it.

Since my last post Alex Pretti was shot and murdered. 

We were tired but we came to the streets to rally again, a day after we all came together to shut it down for a day, for something so beautiful.

Now we are being told ICE can arrest protesters, onlookers, press. 

Basically anyone who is not pro ICE.

Today local Black journalist Georgia Fort was detained by federal authorities for covering the Citizen Church Protests (Don Lemon was also detained for the same reason).

There's a lot going on and I'm out there just like others, protesting, honking and whistling if I see ICE, documenting, being with family, trying to balance being safe but also not letting anyone intimidate myself or my family, buying from places I love, all immigant owned picking up a little more because that's what's needed. 

If you don't know, where Alex Pretti was shot and murdered was on Eat Street, an area which is filled with great restaurants, many immigrant owned and run. Everyone is coming together there to help. 

To be in community.

Tracy Wong from Mỹ Hương Kitchen opened her store to protesters and media who were being tear-gassed after Alexi Pretti was shot. 

"Wong says she spotted Solina, Yehl and protesters running toward her shop.

“People start running so close to my restaurant, and I see that ‘boom, boom, boom,’ then I start opening up the door,” she says. “I say, ‘Everybody, come on in. Please, come in. Come in to be safe in here.’

Pho 79 and Caravelle, a Vietnamese and Chinese restaurant on Eat Street about a 1/2 block from where Alex Pretti was shot was offering free meals to community as it processes the killing.

There's a lot that can be talked about and shared and documented. 

And there are so many amazing people who have been doing that (working on a list).

I just started documenting/posting up at https://www.pressandprotester.net.

Stay safe and warm and in community.

Jake Lang AKA The Lying Treasonous Anti-Somali Pro ICE Agitator AKA See Ya AKA Get That **** Right NY Times And Other Media

 Man - this guy, and remember what he did on January 6th - basically he's so dejected by the fact no one actually showed up for his right wing protest that he's got to lie about being lynched for being a White Christian. 

Please. 

And he says it was an anti-White mob of liberals and illegal immigrants.

One. There were plenty of good White People there to combat that statement (thank you White Allies). 

Two. Did he check the paperwork of anyone there?

No.

So how can he say anyone was illegal?

He can't.

It's just lies to incite more racism and xenophobia.

"Look at me! I'm a White Christian Man who got beat up by all these Non-White illegal immigrants!"

Again. Please.

Now did he get his ass handed to him by a bunch of counter protesters here in downtown MPLS?

Damn MF straight he did. 

Did they kill or maim him? No.

Water and some contact from being jostled around.

Did anyone spray tear gas, or pepper spray him? Did they detain him without a warrant?

Did they shoot him? Stab him to death?

No.

And I mean listen--this wasn't a protest to shine light on fraud. You don't plan to burn a Qur'an and hit the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood--this was an Anti-Islam Pro-Ice Hoped He Got Some Buddies To Play With "protest".

What did he expect would happen? 

After ICE murdered Renee Good? After they've taken people from their homes without warrant. Stopped people for no reason other than looking Brown and Black?

Nobody's going to let you do that here.

And let that be a lesson to any of you right wing zealots who want to come to our state and cities to incite more violence. 

You too will be headed back just as quick as you got here.

TO THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA LIKE THE NY TIMES...

Ummm--get your copy right:

"A protest at City Hall was organized by a conservative influencer to draw attention to a fraud scandal in the state. He was chased by counterprotesters lobbing water balloons in frigid temperatures."

This was an Anti-Islam, Anti-Somali, Pro ICE protest. 

Stop helping with the false narrative and making it out to be something it was not.

Do better and provide more context.

If You Are Not From MN...

This is something I wrote about five days ago on social media and am reposting here:

If you're from out of state and only seeing some coverage/messages, and maybe aren't sure what's going on or think MN is just going after federal agents--let me be clear: ICE is randomly stopping Brown and Black people to ask their status as citizens. They don't have judicial warrants and they have no probable cause outside of racial profiling. They are arresting or using force to bystanders who are not in their way and just documenting what is happening. It's like ten agents to one person. They are using force when no force is needed. 

They are the ones not following the rule of law and we are reacting. They are the ones who are being lawless and we have to deal with our emotions, how to prepare, where do we go, where do we not go. 

We have to carry documentation looking over our shoulders. 

Why should I or anyone from my family or anyone who looks like us have to carry around documentation to show we're citizens of the U.S. when others don't? 

They are going door to door in some areas looking to get their quotas. They are reports of them asking, for instance, to tell people where Asian Americans live so they can harass our community, among many other communities. 

So many businesses, and organizations, and schools have shut down not because they've done anything wrong, not because they are illegal--but because they are scared. Because they know that it is lock you up first and ask questions later. 

This is not American. This is the exact opposite of what America should be and what it was founded upon. 

And if you're religious, Christian--what is leading you? Politics and mainstream media, or acting out of love, having love for your enemies and those you disagree with, and keeping your heart and mind open to other narratives? People hide behind religion to do heinous acts and this time is no different.

There is a lot of soul searching this country, and its people will need to do.

For Those Of You Who Are Saying Renee Good Didn't Get Out Of The Car...

Well--as we tell our daughters if they were to ever face someone who wants to abduct them, they might as well just fight because who knows what happens to you if you ever get caught--I can only imagine what Renee Good was thinking as ICE agents are telling her to get out of the "fucking car" and what might happen to her if she was caught--because she was doing nothing wrong.

Ask yourself what happens to you in that situation?

Ask yourself why you should stop for masked men who can do basically whatever they want and could possibly put you in detention cut off from everyone, after they've beat you, because they don't believe you're legal regardless of what paperwork you have? Or because they just may not like you and one ICE agent is on a power trip.

Detained for months with no recourse.

I think I may run too, especially since no one was breaking any law and I really should be free to go.

They are saying this is Renee Good's fault, that she created this--but who created this environment where men in masks and plain clothes take anyone they think is illegal?

Renee Good didn't do that.

Renee Good didn't create an environment where we see ICE agents not de-escalating the situation but actually escalating it, even according to their own policies they should be de-escalating and using the minimum force needed:

Immigration agents are allowed by law to use force when they have "reasonable grounds to believe that such force is necessary," according to DHS policy.

However, the law states an immigration officer should "always use the minimum non-deadly force necessary to accomplish the officer's mission and shall escalate to a higher level of non-deadly force only when such higher level of force is warranted …"

And DHS policy encourages agents to use de-escalation techniques, less-lethal force and less-lethal devices, such as pepper spray and flashbang grenades, in achieving their goals. And they are to only use force that is "objectively reasonable."

Honestly--I'm probably trying to drive away too because I'd just want to get out of there.

But I would never think I would get shot point blank to the head trying to get away.

I mean why would I ever think that? Every law enforcement agency has said they are trained to NOT shoot into moving vehicles.

I guess that makes no difference now.

In my book Renee Good is a hero.

The Trump Administration And Kristi Noem Basically Are Giving ICE A License To Kill. Everyone Needs To Be Scared.

Listen--I could care what side of the political spectrum you are on at this moment. No matter where you are, you should be absolutely scared out of your mind. 

Some of you might be thinking you have nothing to worry about, because you're White--but remember that some of these untrained ICE agents, are agents of color--who can also take that out on you too. 

Crossing the road at an inopportune time while ICE agents were chasing someone? You were obstructing an arrest and should be taken into custody.

Reaching into your pocket even though you told them it was a phone? Someone didn't hear you so they shot you twice just for good measure because they didn't know what you were doing.

You shouldn't have been putting your hands in your pocket anyway. 

You deserved it.

Now, some of you can say that will never happen and these are just extremes and it's another oversensitive woke person who's making a mountain out of a molehill, but look what just happened to Renee Good.

Look at what this president had to say...I mean lied about:

I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital. The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!

How does he know the woman was a professional agitator?

How can he say Renee Good ran over an ICE officer when that never happened and that it's hard to believe that ICE murder is alive?

It's a grift and a complete lie--to keep him in the right and in power.

Sound like anyone else? There's a lot to choose from...

And that's what's scary. 

He's on his last lap around the White House and he's already pardoned murderers, assaulters, drug czars, and people that have committed true treason. 

And tonight, along with Kristi Noem--they've just sanctioned murder.

ICE can do whatever they want to you and you can't do a thing about it.

Even if you don't like us "WOKE MFs"--even you should realize this is getting out of control and is the exact reason the Second Amendment exists...

But I'll stand on the First with my right to peacefully protest against my government as is my right.

In Pictures: Get Out Of My MF State You Nazi ICE MFs AKA Community Always Wins AKA Rest In Peace Renee Good

Do you think you can scare this state and these Cities into not showing up to mourn the loss of a community member who was helping to protect families from what can only be described as the new SS of the new American Nazi Regime?

You cannot. Get the fuck out of our state you heartless motherfuckers. 

Thank you to all those who came out tonight in Community. 

Rest in Peace Renee Good. You were on the right side of this all.

Arden Cho On Making Peace With People Who Treated Her Like She Didn't Belong

From a BBC audio interview:

KPop Demon Hunters actor Arden Cho says she's made peace with the bullies who treated her as if she didn't belong...

Korean American actor Arden is the voice of Rumi, who must come to terms with being part-human, part-demon - and Arden says she knows what it's like to have a split identity.

"I'm not part demon, part human," she jokes - "[but] it just felt so comfortable and natural because I knew what that felt like, right? Being born in America, feeling American, but having people treat me like I'm not."

Arden was born and raised in Texas, US. She went to high school in Minnesota and college in Illinois, and when people ask, she tells them she's "sort of from everywhere."

She's the daughter of Korean immigrants, and faced racism growing up. Now she makes peace with this by reminding herself of the reasons behind it.

"If, like, teachers or adults were bullies to me and I experienced that, you know, now I know as an adult, like... they're hurt. They're broken themselves," she says.

Arden can't believe how much things have shifted, now that Korean culture is so popular worldwide.

"I can't believe I grew up so ashamed and embarrassed of my Korean culture, mainly because of bullies," she says. "And now those are the kids saying, oh, where do I find that food? Where do I listen to that music?"

Arden herself has become a leading role model for Asian American children - the kind she says she lacked when she was young.

"Now, like, all my nieces and nephews and all my friend's kids, they are so cool. They're like, they're just cool to be Korean, right? I mean, who knew?"

It's all been a revelation for her.

"This has been such a refreshing moment where for the first time I'm really proud to be Korean, to be Korean-American."

Listen to it in full here: https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct7x0q

The Slants + Last Christmas

 

Well...the holidays are all about chances...and this is a second chance to hear this classic remake.

Show some love if you are so inclined.

So December 7th Was Ronnie Chieng Day In NYC? What The...That's Just Awesome

Suni Lee VS Spice: Suni Lee Eats the Spiciest Meal of Her Life

"Olympic gold medalist Suni Lee has nailed perfect 10s in gymnastics - but can she survive a 10 on Chef Esther Choi’s Scoville lineup? Esther throws down a custom three course heat feast: spicy Korean fried chicken, a hot Choi pepper X pizza, and Khao Poon, Suni’s ultimate Lao comfort dish. Between bites, Suni plays a game of Agree or Disagree, sounding off on pop culture hot takes, and breaks down her biggest career moments while revealing how nervous she really was. And for the final test, Esther dares her to a spoonful of the Last Dab, a challenge fit for an Olympian."

Nice work if you can get it.

 

Please Call ICE For This Exact Reason (AKA The ONLY Use For The Online ICE Tip Form)

Please call 1-866-347-2423 aka 1-855-DHS-2-ICE to report an undocumented girl named Anne Frank hiding in the attics of Republican lawmakers AND/OR to report a pregnant foreigner seeking shelter in a local manger (who will also have a bunch of foreign visitors who need to get taxed for those gifts they will be bringing).

Keithphan885: BOOTLICKER

 

And I think that's all we need to say on this one...well maybe not.

I mean I get having pride in the community, but to say that Somali Americans don't have all those things either and are working on building things up amid EXTREME RACISM is just being a DDM (I'll let you all crack that one). 

At the same time he references our time in America (1975) as something to point to as far as assimilation (which we can talk about more later) - but when did Somali Americans start coming into MN?

Oh yeah 1992.

So by Keithphan885's own adminission AKA Bootlicker the Somali American community has about another 20 years to "keep up" with the Viets (and really we started coming out here in the 50's and 60's---not en masse but in smaller numbers).

And they are only about 1/4 the size with less resources.

And just for the record--no Somali American in MN here EVER had me speak anything but English (but that's okay for me to learn).

And I LOVE my SOMALI neighbors and community members.

So hope that shit tastes good BOOTLICKER.

I'm sure it goes good with the dance you're doing or them.

Dance MF Dance!

Music + Viet Am Goodness + 3x: SAILORR

From repping Viet culture and having some banging tunage to opening up for the Dojo Cat, prepare to keep on hearing from Kayla Le aka SAILORR.

For Your Download: Trump Đụ Má Trump Đụ Mẹ

Cartoon: President Trump Sniffing Cocaine In The White House (AKA Bad Decisions)

I asked ChatGPT to make pics of Donald Trump "doing things", which it could not do, but understood where I was coming from, so we settled on this instead. 

Yang Hansen Makes First NBA Start

Here's a little clip from the ESPN article.

Yang Hansen, the 7-foot-1 rookie out of China, made his first NBA start in a game Sunday against the Memphis Grizzlies.

Hansen, picked 16th in last summer's draft, moved into the starting lineup after the Portland Trail Blazers primary centers -- Donovan Clingan and Robert Williams III -- missed the game. Williams was a late scratch due to an illness, and Clingan missed his second straight contest with a left lower-leg contusion [...]

Yang entered the game averaging 2.5 points and 1.5 rebounds. He had a season-high nine points in a 127-110 home loss to the Phoenix Suns on Nov. 18.

He finished Sunday night's game with four points on 2-of-5 shooting and five rebounds in slightly more than 19 minutes. His four points came in the third quarter, which included a spin move and a dunk over 7-foot-3 Zach Edey.

Random Katie Fang + 7 Million TikTok Followers

 

From the Forbes video:

"Anybody can go viral on the TikTok algorithm. Before Katie Fang was a content creator with over 7 million followers, she was an overworked and miserable restaurant server. In 2023, she filmed herself crying while getting ready for yet another long shift—a video that unexpectedly went viral. People came for the relatability but stayed for Fang’s makeup tips and unfiltered personality. Now Fang, who is still an undergrad at NYU, raked in an estimated $4 million in earnings last year as a beauty influencer. Her fellow sophomores probably marvel at her doing brand deals with the likes of Dior, becoming the face of skin care company Cetaphil’s campaigns or appearing on billboards for cosmetics brand Kosas. What’s her growth strategy? “My brand is all about being unapologetically yourself and not being afraid to show the raw emotions,” she says. “I don’t plan my content; that feels too curated. I film when I’m in the moment and have something to say."

Nice work if you can get!

And getting that college degree at NYU!!!