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Demonstrators hurled insults and sex toys at federal agents outside a Minneapolis government building on Saturday to protest the Trump administration's deadly Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown on undocumented immigrants and their supporters, with state and local police arresting more than 50 people.
Dubbed "Operation Dildo Blitz," the protest outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building saw demonstrators place sex toys in a chain link fence while others handed out rubber phalluses to protesters who threw them at passing federal and local law enforcement vehicles.
Demonstrators shouted "Eat a dick!" and "Fuck ICE!" as they pelted the vehicles with dildos.
Activist Russell Ellis, who posted video of the demonstration on Instagram, said the protesters "showed real balls."
"Dildos coming your way! Dildos! Dildos!" Ellis barked as the toys rained down on vehicles, landing with rubbery thwunks. "It's raining dicks!"
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Anti-ICE activist William Kelly—who was arrested last month after taking part in a protest inside a St. Paul church—said at Saturday's demonstration: "The community here at Whipple today is, you know, doing the right thing and handing out the dicks. People are able to do whatever they want with the dicks, it's their choice."
One protester told VisuNews that they were attending the demonstration "because ICE likes to bend over for Daddy Trump."
Asked what inspired her to show up with a literal "bag of dicks," another protester said she was motivated by last month's fatal shooting of legal observer Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. The protest marked one month since Good's killing.
"The number one thing that you need to do right now is build community," the woman said. "You need to talk to your neighbors. You need to start organizing. The local police are not going to help you. They are not your friend... so we rely upon each other."
Later in the afternoon, police declared the protest an unlawful assembly before rushing in to arrest 54 demonstrators.
Far-right influencer and pardoned January 6, 2021 insurrectionist Jake Lang—who was arrested the previous day and charged with vandalizing an anti-ICE sculpture—crashed Saturday's demonstration. Limitless Media reported that Lang and others arrived in a U-Haul truck carrying a wooden cross and firing pepper balls and chemical agents at anti-ICE protesters before leaving the scene.
Hundreds of people also showed up for an Indigenous-led Saturday gathering in Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis to remember Good and Alex Pretti, who was also shot dead by federal immigration enforcers last month in the Minnesota city.
Rest in peace Renee Good. Thank you for supporting our immigrant neighbors. You’ll always be our hero. 🕊️ 💜
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— Jason Chavez (@jchavezmpls.bsky.social) February 7, 2026 at 11:56 AM“This is a generational burden that we carry, and we're seeing that burden again today,” said Gaby Strong, vice president of the NDN Collective, who called Good “the example of what it means to be a good relative, to be a good neighbor, to stand up for people beside you.”
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Depending on material, sex toys may have a very limited shelf life. When they show cracks, when there's grains coming loose, they obviously shouldn't be inserted anymore. Don't want one of these breaking in half inside somebody's body or to leave residue inside someone. Obviously glass or stainless steel dildos do not go bad just by sitting on a shelf or in a warehouse, and high-grade silicone can last ages as well if it's cleaned properly and if you avoid silicone-based lube (can't stress this part enough, nobody wants to ruin a cumtube dragon dildo retailing for $150 by using the wrong kind of lube in it). But there's a lot of low-grade trash out there. These jelly rubber thingies, they are basically throwaway items, as we have seen here. Wouldn't surprise me if a retailer had a bunch of leftovers that were in storage for several years and that they do not want to sell anymore.
Thank you for the detailed explanation! It didn't occur to me that the materials could break down over time just sitting on a shelf. When I heard expired dicks it seemed silly that there'd be an expiration date and I suppose that locked my brain out of working through the problem. Reminds me of when a FOAF told a story how when he was in college he'd spin glass as a hobby and make glass pipes. Naturally people's next question was, can you make glass dildos? And his reaction was basically please, for the love of god, whatever you do, do not insert this quality of glass.