Right-wing influencers are drawing tenuous parallels between the usernames found in Minneapolis neighborhood Signal groups and claiming they are the handles of public figures involved in an insurrectionist conspiracy enveloping Minnesota.

Operation Metro Surge continues to weigh on Minneapolis, St. Paul and Minnesota as a whole. The federal government has increasingly targeted the state government and local leaders who have engaged in widespread and organized resistance to ICE’s campaign in the region.

Resistance has continued, and…

A noise demo at a hotel suspected of housing ICE was interrupted by federal agents, who filled the street with tear gas and threatened arrests while escorting masked people out the back.