Alleen Brown

Enbridge paid police to protect one pipeline. Now it wants to do it again in Wisconsin. The Bad River Band is fighting to stop Line 5 and protect its watershed. Meanwhile, local sheriffs are already tallying the cost of riot gear.

My latest for @grist.org: Pipeline giant Enbridge will pay for police to respond to potential Indigenous-led protests as it begins construction of the controversial Line 5 reroute around the Bad River reservation

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SLAPP’d The story of an Indigenous nation fighting for its water, an environmental nonprofit facing extinction, and an energy giant using the courts to punish protestors.

A judge entered the final judgement in the Energy Transfer vs. Greenpeace case: $345 million in damages for Greenpeace. They will appeal, but it's an existential crisis.

To understand what the hell happened, check out my podcast with @drilledmedia.bsky.social SLAPP'd

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10 Years After Berta Cáceres’ Murder, Why Is Honduras Still So Dangerous for Environmental Activists? Despite some prosecutions, the criminal masterminds behind the Indigenous leader's murder remain at large, while illegal land grabs, international finance and attacks against defenders continues with ...

Must-read: 10 years since Berta Caceres' murder

"To understand why Honduras remains among the deadliest places in the world for land rights & environmental defenders, it’s crucial to understand the context in which Cáceres lost her life."

drilled.media/news/berta by @ninalakhani.bsky.social

When cold weather becomes a death sentence Inmates across the country have died or been hospitalized due to hypothermia. Climate change is poised to make winter in prison even worse.

Anthony Lamar Walker died of hypothermia at Georgia’s Dekalb County Jail, after his clothing was taken away and no blankets provided, then temperatures dropped into the teens. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Watch out @ghost.org users -- just got what appears to be a phishing attack posing as Ghost.

Subject line is "Billing / Verification-Related Suspension," and it asks you to log into your account. Don't do it!

ICE agent who killed L.A. man accused of child abuse, racism in court filings The off-duty federal immigration agent who shot and killed a Los Angeles man on New Year's Eve was previously accused of child abuse and making racist remarks about Black people and immigrants, court ...

the name of the ICE agent who murdered Keith Porter is Brian Palacios www.latimes.com/california/s...

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Again.

Dismantling state sponsored paramilitary aparatus is not easy... ask people of Guatemala, Honduras. El Salvador, and Nicaragua where corrupt governments, armed forces and economic elites continue to reactivate them decades after the end of the Cold War

Great thread about Minnesotans showing up. Thinking of my suburban Disney adult mom friend who's been driving to the federal building regularly. And my high school friend's sports dad, who I thought was apolitical, now standing on a corner with an anti-ICE sign. I didn't know they had it in em!

Fear factor: Intimidation becomes a calling card as Twin Cities ICE surge widens Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, observers say there are signs that federal agents are employing violence more frequently and with little apparent restraint against citiz...

This is what “absolute immunity” looks like

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"The officers stopped in front of O’Keefe’s car, fired pepper spray through her windshield vent and smashed her car’s windows even though the doors were unlocked"

Minneapolis duo details their ICE detention, including pressure to rat on protest organizers Two Minneapolis friends who have been monitoring immigration officers’ actions during the Trump administration’s latest crackdown say they were detained without charge for several hours in distressing...

"An immigration officer who questioned him Sunday even offered him money or legal protection if he gave up the names of organizers or neighbors who are in the country illegally."

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3 Oglala people detained by ICE are still in custody — at Fort Snelling

“The irony is not lost on us,” said Oglala Sioux Tribe president, Frank Star Comes Out.

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After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.

Data centers are being proposed for contaminated sites that Black communities fought for years to get cleaned up.

capitalbnews.org/data-center-... by @adamlmahoney.bsky.social

The concentration camp at fort Snelling was not a death camp, and Dakota people were not systematically exterminated there. The camp was, however, part of the genocidal policies pursued against Indigenous people throughout the U.S.

Whipple Federal Building at Fort Snelling

It is still blows my mind that Fort Snelling — a former concentration camp for Dakota people — is now the site of an ICE detention center as well as the court where judges decide to deport people.

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4 unhoused citizens of the Oglala Lakota Nation were reportedly detained by ICE near the Little Earth housing project in Mpls. The nation's president Frank Star Comes Out saw it necessary to draft a statement tribal members can read if ICE attempts to detain you

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Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she nurtured kindness On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

"We had whistles. They had guns."

Devastating statement from Renee Good's wife, Becca Good.

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Correction: these are in Minnesota but I'm not sure they're all in Minneapolis proper. 5/

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ICE left after they demanded a warrant for access to the property, people with whistles showed up, and the woman said she was broadcasting on TikTok. She initially called the police, who said if she didn’t give up the Door Dash lady they’d charge her + her partner would be charged with harboring 4/

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These people ordered Door Dash, and ICE showed up attempting to arrest their delivery person.

“I’m Native American My fucking family already died for y’all to work here. Caused by Abraham mother fucking Licoln — 38+2”

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Here they are showing up at Little Earth, a housing project for Native people.

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In Minneapolis, ICE agents have repeatedly harassed Indigenous people over the last couple days.

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Live updates: Noem says ICE agent justified in killing woman Renee Good, 37, was identified as the woman shot and killed Wednesday morning by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis. ICE said Good was shot while trying to run over agents with her car. Mayor Jacob Fre...

Next ICE showed up at Roosevelt High School, handcuffing staff, shooting pepper spray and breaking windows, "dragging a person on a sidewalk outside of the high school and tussling with another person as bystanders blow whistles and shout."

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

ICE agents have shot at people in vehicles at least 6 times in recent months Since July, the Department of Homeland Security has reported at least six instances of a federal immigration agent shooting at someone in a vehicle.

A rundown of six of the ICE shootings

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Meanwhile ICE has shot at people in vehicles at least 9 times in recent months. In Chicago, they killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez.

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2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people

At least 32 people died in ICE detention in 2025, the largest death toll in 2 decades. The Guardian profiled each

"I hugged him, I tickled him on his ribs and I gave him a kiss on his cheek,” she said of their goodbye. “I never saw him again.”

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Really worth watching this interview with a bystander who witnessed the ICE shooting in Minneapolis: "I'm pretty right-leaning. But seeing this, this is not how we're supposed to be doing things in America.”

NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning.

“SAY HER NAME!”
“RENEE GOOD!”