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@hinds_mela61795 I would love to vote for Pete, however this country unfortunately isn’t going to elect a gay man. He’s one of the best politicians we have.

Pete Buttigieg hinted about making a presidential run in 2028. Would you vote for Mayor Pete? YES or NO? ✋

@ick_real Seriously, I think many of us feel like we are still in our 40s mentally. Age is relative to how you live daily life.

When people get in their 50s and 60s and up, do you start thinking about how many years you have left? I’m curious

@WorkElizab B you can shine too

Ladies, I need your help! 😍💚 My granddaughter is getting married soon, and I’m trying to choose the perfect dress… Which one would you wear for your granddaughter’s wedding? I honestly can’t decide! 😅

@Matt_Pinner Wtf yes!!!

Be honest… If you could go back, would you make the same choice about the COVID shot?

@MrDanielBuck Thank you!!!

Hear me out: If a student calls their teacher a "f---ing b-tch," they don't need a hug, a bag of Takis, and some time to cool down in a bean bag chair They need to get marched out of the school

@Mr_Husky1 Organization is the key. Everything has a place. Then create simple checklists for him to visually see what is expected and what he needs to pick up. Teach, work together, reward with encouragement., and schedule time each evening to clean prior to bed.

Just want genuine advice, Mom to Mom here. I have a 7 1/2 year-old who refuses to help pick up his room. He gets overwhelmed and angry and dismissive every time I ask him to help. I understand that his room gets out of control and I try to get him to pick it up after the end of each day and it is an incredibly huge fight that honestly, I am exhausted in fighting. From one mom to another what should I do? I am seriously open for all suggestions!

They were going to be the helpers that Mister Rogers said to look for. In early January, Natalie Ehret brought her sons to the Henry Whipple Federal Building -- the nerve center of ICE's months-long operation in Minneapolis -- to hand out cookies and hand warmers to the protesters keeping watch across the street. She didn't know people were being released from detention there in the frigid Minnesota winter. Then one of her sons called her over. He'd found two young women who had just been released. They were freezing with no phone, no ID, and no ride. He'd already brought them to the family's car, given them food and water, and handed them a phone to call home. Within days, the Army veteran and mom of two sons had founded Haven Watch -- a round-the-clock volunteer operation stationed at the gate of the Whipple building. Because what her son stumbled into that afternoon wasn't an anomaly. It was happening every single day. "From his act of kindness," Natalie later told MPR News, "that's what we do every day." Like most Minnesotans, Natalie had no idea that federal agents were simply releasing people into the dead of a Minnesota winter with nothing. But the pattern, once she saw it, was unmistakable. And appalling. Detainees were being turned loose from Whipple at all hours -- day and night -- almost always stripped of their phones and identification during detention. No phone call before release. No one waiting for them outside. They walked out in whatever they'd been wearing when they were grabbed. Often without a coat. Into temperatures that regularly plunged into the single digits. One volunteer, Kim Gerdes, described the moment it clicked for her: "They released someone in front of the Whipple Building in no winter clothes. It was freezing cold. She was just out in the cold." Gerdes gave the shivering woman everything she had on her -- her gloves, everything. "That's when I realized there was this immense need." Another time, a mother and two children, ages 2 and 6, walked out of Whipple without coats. They had been detained in a facility in Texas holding thousands of people before being returned to Minnesota and released with nothing. "These kids are traumatized," Gerdes said. "They're out in the cold. They're shaking, crying. They just went through something so horrible." The stories of who was being swept up and dumped back outside defied belief. Natalie estimated that 60 to 70 percent of the people she met at the gate were American citizens. Detained for nothing more than observing ICE operations. Blowing a whistle at an agent. Being the wrong color in the wrong place. Stories like these have poured out of Minneapolis for months -- citizens tackled on sidewalks, dragged from cars, detained for hours, and nearly always released without charges or explanation. Mubashir Khalif Hussen, a Somali American born in the United States, described a masked agent sprinting at him at full speed, tackling him, and dragging him handcuffed through the snow. "I told him, 'I'm a U.S. citizen.' He didn't seem to care." Hussen was taken to Whipple and eventually released -- told to walk the seven miles in the freezing cold back to where he'd been grabbed. Others -- legal refugees, immigrants with valid documentation -- were pulled from cars on the way to work, showed their IDs, and still dragged to Whipple. "To say that they're not criminals is a total understatement," Natalie said. "They're business owners and kids." Gage Garcia, a U.S. citizen, was shackled and held for hours after blowing a whistle in an agent's face. He could see immigrant detainees through one-way windows -- "crying, curled up in a ball, distraught." Inside Whipple, the conditions were horrendous. A Star Tribune investigation -- based on interviews with 30 detainees and nearly 200 court records -- documented a facility designed for 12-hour holds that had devolved into something far worse. Cells meant for 20 crammed with 100 people. Barely any food. Bleeding and injured people denied medical care. A young Muslim woman was shackled at the ankles and locked in a bathroom with three men for 24 hours. Many people are held overnight or even multiple days in a facility with no beds, forcing people to sleep on concrete floors in freezing conditions with no blankets. Natalie described how she's had several teenagers in her car after being released "crying and shaking, telling me how cold they were." "After some of these I just go cry in the parking lot because it's so devastating," Natalie reflects. "I just don't know how we got so lost that we can traumatize these people that are our community members." For its part, DHS issued the same statement it always does -- that detainees receive "proper meals, medical treatment, and opportunities to communicate" -- but in a court hearing last week over its own failures to comply with release orders, a Department of Justice attorney admitted what everyone already knew: the system "sucks." And for those that were released -- many of them hungry, sick, or injured -- they were walking into a Minnesota winter where exposed skin can develop frostbite in under ten minutes. Where being released outside without a coat isn't just cruel -- it's potentially lethal. But as they have again and again over these past few months, ordinary Minnesotans stepped up when they saw their neighbors suffering. Here, they did it again -- with Haven Watch. Volunteers in orange vests now station themselves outside the Whipple building around the clock. They never know when someone will walk out -- but someone always does and the need has only grown. Natalie told MPR News this week that "if anything, we're seeing more people coming through." So the volunteers wait with warm cars idling -- all day and all night. Piles of donated coats in the backseats. Burner phones charged and ready. Snacks and water on hand. When the gate opens, they cross the street, bring the person to a car, hand them a phone, and stay with them until a ride arrives or drive them home themselves. "So many of us were sitting at home doom-scrolling, watching it on the news wanting to make a difference," said volunteer Sarah Haraldson. "This was a way to do that." But the work is devastating. The day-to-day vigils -- hours spent waiting in their cars, never knowing when someone will walk out -- are physically taxing. And the emotional toll of meeting person after person who has been traumatized, abused, or injured by their own government is relentless. "Most people are upset, no matter how long they were in there and why they were taken in," Haraldson said. "I have had more grown men cry in my car in the last week than anyone should see." For Haraldson, it's personal. She has a 20-year-old son, adopted from Ethiopia as a baby, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen. "It scares me every day when he is out that they could pick him up and put him in that building based on the color of his skin and nothing else." The message Haven Watch carries to every person who walks out of that gate is simple. "We want people to know as they come out of that building that we love them, and they are our friends, they are neighbors, they are family, and people love them and want to support them." The story of what Haven Watch was doing spread quickly, and with it came a wave of support that stunned even its founders. A GoFundMe campaign launched on January 17 has raised more than $700,000 from over 9,800 donors -- and support keeps growing. What started with phone calls and car rides has grown into something much larger. Haven Watch now operates a full website and has expanded into a broader community resource: legal and immigration questions, healthcare referrals, lost wages, rental assistance for families whose breadwinners are too afraid to leave home. Countless Minnesotans have stepped up as volunteers, embracing the group's motto: "No One Walks Alone." The need is not going away. Even with a drawdown of 700 agents from the area, there are still over 2,000 federal agents in the Twin Cities area. This is a massive number. It is still one of the largest occupations of an American city by the federal government in history. People are still being grabbed. Still being held. Still being released with nothing into the bitter cold. For many of them, the first kind face they see belongs to a Haven Watch volunteer in an orange vest. "After I've seen who comes through that gate, I just can't be at home thinking we're missing someone," Natalie reflects. "Emotionally it feels unsustainable. But that's being human. I shouldn't pick my son up from soccer and pretend I didn't just hear a story that's so painful that it changed me." The toll is immense. But so is the resolve. "We won't stop," she says. "But we are tired." The simple act of waiting at a gate with a warm car and a charged phone is not a small kindness. It is the thing standing between a stranger and the cold. And right now, thanks to Natalie and the volunteers of Haven Watch, no one walks out alone.

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How many people went for the picnic?

@Acyn Get a life!!

Steele: I couldn't understand a darn thing he said. It’s a celebration of American football. Down in the other countries, football is soccer. This is ours and I'm frustrated that the NFL and Jay-Z chose to do something so outside of what our demographic with American football wants

@VinegarMartini @YinYang18175500 @danielsgoldman And getting all the documents takes time, money, and resources to access the correct court documents.

@YinYang18175500 @danielsgoldman I’m will type slowly so you understand, sweetie: A woman who takes the last name of the man (or woman) she marries and that name is on her drivers license- that name won’t match her birth certificate! She will not be allowed to vote.

Do you have a passport? Do you know where your birth certificate is? If the answer to both is no, then you cannot vote under the SAVE Act. The SAVE Act is NOT a voter ID bill. It’s a voter suppression bill.

@charise_lee Thank you for speaking the truth and using your platform to do so. You’re one of our heroes in this country of ours.

RESPECT‼️

I hope every person on Earth listens to this. America is not gone yet. youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?si…

The video is even more powerful. youtu.be/GDaPdpwA4Iw?si… via @YouTube

They tried so hard to suppress this video today. But because of YOU, it is now TRENDING. Please RETWEET and QUOTE TWEET this important video reminding us all WHO WE WERE BEFORE TRUMP

Do You Remember America Before Trump? NEW VIDEO! WATCH! TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK. Let's get this to 1 million views fast. Please retweet and quote tweet.

From @springsteen : I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free, Bruce Springsteen

@Acyn What the actual f are you smoking!!!!!

Mullin: A deranged individual who came in to cause massive damage with a loaded pistol was shot and killed. How much more does it have to go on before the Democrat leaders take responsibility for their words?

@JDVance I know you will never see this, but we are not blind and stupid. Watch the video sir.

This level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis. It is the direct consequence of far left agitators, working with local authorities.

@highbrow_nobrow How stupid do you think we are???? We all have seen multiple videos. He was coming to the aid of the woman who was slammed to the ground by the ice agents.

Greg Bovino: An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol agents with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The agents attempted to disarm the individual, but he violently resisted. Fearing for his life, a Border Patrol agent fired defensive shots.

History is indeed rhyming — And if a chill is not running down your spine, then you are either ignorant, in denial, or both. 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯👇