01/26/2026
Please do not take my absence as complacently.
I am not ok. We are not ok.
It has taken me a very long time to gather my thoughts that were coherent enough to share. Each day fluctuates between anger, anxiety, sadness, frustration, outrage, helplessness, grief and most recently, hopelessness. I am not ok. We are not ok.
Just to be clear, we do not stand with ICE, the current administration and the liars and sycophants that do not care about us or our country. But they were right about one thing. There are domestic terrorists here…but they’re the ones wearing ICE on their chests.
We are under attack from an occupying force that wants to destroy our beloved city, culture and communities we’ve built. A Minnesotan culture that they could never understand. I wish I was being hyperbolic but this is our reality. And we are not alone. We were just the first stop. None of us are ok.
I cry for Renee Good and Alex Pretti. I cry for Liam and all of the precious children kidnapped by ICE. I cry for everyone that has to encounter ICE as I know the trauma that it brings. I cry for my friends that look like me and are huddled in their homes for fear of being harassed, detained or worse, despite being American citizens. I cry in rage over the lies government agencies and politicians propagate and the many Americans that believe it. I cry in pride and gratitude for the thousands of Minnesotans (and around the country) that are rising up and standing proxy for people like me that are too afraid to because our faces have become targets. I am not ok. We are not ok.
There are many other people that are much more eloquent, witty and intelligent than me on this subject and way better at social media but I just wanted to come here and say thank you to Minnesota and we stand with our community. We are not ok. But we will be ok.
Looking for the cliff notes?
F**K ICE
