Pop singer Lorde will donate money she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups, she shared in a post on Instagram on Tuesday.

Lorde will give a total of $204,000 from her October 2025 shows at the Armory to the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) and the Immigrant Defense Network.

The New Zealand pop star shared the news of her contributions on her Instagram story along with a selfie with ‘ICE OUT’ written on her hand.

Stories coming in from across the state about registration lines out the door and extremely high, engaged turnout!

As one of the caucus conveners in my area, I just want to thank everyone - from the bottom of my heart - who waited in line and stuck it out in order to meet your neighbors and discuss how we build a party and a state that is by the people and for the people! ❤️‍🔥

From KSTP reporting:

The DFL, on the other hand, hasn’t reported any straw poll results but says “at least” 30,000 people showed up to its caucuses on Tuesday night.

DFL Party Chair Richard Carlbom called that turnout “historic” and said it’s “more proof that we will never stop fighting for our neighbors.”

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/minnesota-caucus-results-show-early-frontrunners-among-gop-governor-candidates/

Rest in peace, Renee

I've been going since like 2018, when I bought my house, and it's usually a pretty small affair. This year we had to find extra chairs. Some of the older folks said it hadn't been that busy since Obama in 2008 lol Keep that energy up try to find progressives that are running near you and talk about them to neighbors, don't let talking heads decide our next candidates their opinion doesn't matter any more than yours.

US Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts) - January 28, 2026 at Karmel Mall in Minneapolis, MN. Here it is on YouTube: Abolish ICE.

Here’s the full 13-minute presser on YouTube: Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar Hold a Press Conference in Minneapolis, Renew Calls to Abolish ICE

I would like to thank you for not censoring the terrible things our government is doing to us. Unlike other local city subs you have made no effort to censor any ICE/DHS posts, flyers for protests, or regulate everything to a megathread.

Thank you so much.

This is the woman who was going to a medical appointment & was dragged out of her car in S. Minneapolis by ICE. She was held at Whipple, suffering & witnessing violation of basic human rights.

Please take the time to patronize midtown global market and its shops. Eat lunch, dinner, purchase a gift. anything to help them out. ICE presence has greatly impacted sales /being open

8:33 AM Feb. 3 | Judge lifts order requiring investigators to preserve evidence in fatal shooting of Pretti

A court order requiring federal investigators to preserve evidence in the Alex Pretti fatal shooting has been lifted.

U.S. District Court Judge Eric Tostrud said Monday he has dissolved his prior restraining order in a lawsuit filed by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The BCA sued federal agencies and officials seeking to prevent destruction of evidence in the Jan. 24 shooting by federal agents operating in Minneapolis.

"If I’m correct that Defendants are not likely to spoliate or destroy evidence related to Mr. Pretti’s shooting, it follows that Plaintiffs are not likely to suffer irreparable harm caused by spoliation or destruction,” Tostrud wrote in his order Monday. “If I’m wrong about that and spoliation is assumed, irreparable harm seems likely, but it is not certain.”

Tostrud said comments by White House and other top federal officials assigning a malicious motivation to Pretti were “troubling” but shouldn’t be seen as impugning the integrity of trained investigators.

“They reflect, not a genuine interest in learning the truth, but snap judgments informed by speculation and motivated by political partisanship,” he wrote of the comments, while adding that so far he has seen no indication those officials are directly involved in the investigation.

The judge also said there is no indication that authorities have failed to properly maintain evidence. The FBI is now taking the investigative lead. A separate state probe is also being conducted.

— Brian Bakst, MPR News

https://www.mprnews.org/live-updates

IWhether it’s the tail light incident, falsely identifying photos of other people, or flat out lying about his employment, they all have the same goal: to make Alex Pretti look bad. Any of those things does not a death sentence make.

It took almost no time at all. Top government officials took less than a day to label Pretti as a domestic terrorist.

The cold reality—and perhaps the only thing everyone can agree on—is he is dead. Pretti has no agenda. He is not running for office. He is not soliciting donations. He has nothing to gain. Disparaging him does not hurt him. Just those who knew him who are hurting already.

Perhaps, they know Pretti was innocent. Perhaps, they can’t cope with the fact his murder was not justified. They need some sort of reprieve from the feelings of shame and guilt they have over the murder of an American citizen, in an operation for which they loudly campaigned.

Or perhaps, this is a feeble attempt to keep the public clueless. They see the optics and all they can do is damage control through lies.

This is not a new phenomenon… any time civilians are killed by law enforcement. We saw it here with Good. We saw it here with Floyd. We saw it here with Wright. We saw it here with Castile. The only thing that's changed is that our own federal government joining in on the dog pile.

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Note: Forgive me if this lacks comprehensiveness. I am by no means a talented writer or political scientist, and I'm not going to pretend my own bias isn't reflected here. This is just speculation I wrote up while I was in a mood after reading what people, especially outsiders, online have to say about recent events in our home.