Rob Spence

@xspence.bsky.social

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🌀 Youth Soccer Advocate 🌀 Co-Founder MN Aurora FC 🌀 Loons & Spurs 🌀 Reigning Minnesota United FC Season Ticket Holder Potluck Hotdish Champion

The 2026 Pulitzer Prize winning photo featuring a very artistic composition.
1. PANEL REMARKS FOR US CONFERENCE OF MAYORS IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT MEETING Thursday, January 29, 2026 Mayor Jim Hovland Fellow mayors, I come to report plainly what we have seen and felt in our towns and cities of Minnesota. The work of federal enforcement has entered our neighborhoods, our workplaces, our schools, our churches and our medical facilities. The effects are not abstract; they are human, immediate and consequential and, as presently carried out, are reshaping our cities in ways none of us who were elected to lead our communities can ignore. We are told the actions are precise -they are not. We are told their effects are contained. They are not. Fear has not confined itself to a single household or status. Citizens withdraw alongside non-citizens. Law abiding residents learn that invisibility feels safer than participation. We have observed, first, a deep chill of uncertainty settle over many lawful, hardworking residents --citizens and noncitizens alike, and we have seen enforcement as visible, sudden and physical; it does not stop neatly at the door of those it seeks. It spreads outward, touching mixed status families, lawful permanent residents and even long-standing citizens who share a name, an accent, a color or a fear. Attendance falls at schools putting kids behind in their education; patients delay care and risk adverse outcomes and faith and worship becomes a private matter. Trust, once shaken, is slow to return. Second, there is the economic reckoning. In Minnesota, our restaurants, food-processing plants, construction sites, elder-care facilities and hospitals rely upon immigrant labor. When enforcement actions are abrupt, entire workforces can vanish overnight-not only undocumented workers, but legal employees who choose silence or absence over risk. Third, we face the paradox of public safety. Local law enforcement, sworn to protect all residents, finds its work harder when communities fear that any interaction may carry federal consequen…
Info regarding a constitutional observer training session in St. Paul MN
a bag of Watermelon See Protien Powder
meme featuring Obi Wan Kenobi and the text "THE SHAME WILL BE WITH YOU. ALWAYS."
seal of the minnesota national guard
a cat displaying the words "THE MORE YOU KNOW" in a rainbow
Text message that reads " I just finished my last patient of the day- 14 month old. Mom took off sleeper and there's a BIG phone number written around the baby's torso in grease pencil. Mom said "Oh, that's gramma's number in case something happens to me with what's going on around here". That's after I had two patients cancel since the parents don't want to leave the house. Don't tell me people aren't feeling terrorized"
image of a one of a kind hoodie that says "minnesota noice"
screenshot of CNN Sports page featuring MN Aurora
Screenshot of Tottenham Hotspurs Son Hueng-Min online store.
overtly racist t-shirt featuring a pioneer farmer watching a Native American riding into the sunset
headline that reads" Andrew Giuliani to lead Trump's FIFA World Cup task force, Trump says"
tesla bumper sticker that reads "I bought his before elon went crazy."
illustrated map of the Phi Phi Islands in Thailand
letter detailing how Trump's tariff shenanigans are chipping away at the free flow of commerce