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I was so proud to join labor, transit, and community leaders at the 19th Street BART Station in Oakland to announce my new bill - the RIDER Safety Act!

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

VICTORY! The emergency funding deal we fought so hard for in 2025 has finally been made! The state will issue a $590 million emergency loan to hold off disastrous cuts to BART, Caltrain, AC Transit, and Muni that would have started this July. (1/x)

Since last year, we’ve been reporting on ICE extensively. But every week brings new information, and it’s getting harder to keep track of what’s happening, let alone remember what’s already happened. So here’s a quick thread to help.

BART Irvington station is an important project, but BART is NOT throwing away money. They’re instead applying for funding for core infrastructure that will serve all riders. And if Sen Wahab thinks the station is important, she should have been working on this for years, collaboratively with BART.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

Federal agents cornered Marimar Martinez, shot her several times, boasted about it, arrested her, lied about her to the public and in the police report, and falsely charged her with assaulting them. Now the government wants to keep evidence of their lies secret to protect these agents' "privacy."

As federal agents have been going into private property without warrants, businesses and large buildings (apts & condos) should implement safety measures like locked doors, signage saying federal agents aren’t allowed, and clear instructions for property managers not to let secret police in, etc

I’m glad other ppl were thinking the same thing, blocking ICE agents from working in CA public service

He’s saying that using your first amendment to call out their brutality and lawlessness justifies killing Americans opposed to their unconstitutional actions. These people have no humanity

BART train #143 is coming to town for one night only! This Valentine’s Day, find love on a different kind of dating platform. Valentraine is pulling into 16th St. Mission Station on Saturday, February 14, for a night of speed dating (and friend making) Tickets: www.railgoods.com/bart-valentr...

Decades of restrictive housing policies by liberal cities and states are finally coming back to bite us in a major way. If we can't create the conditions for a massive blue state housing construction boom as soon as possible, we're cooked.

Build housing in California now!

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Federal agents know they have support from the top down to kill people on the streets and the detention centers. They’re itching to kill. Until people start getting prosecuted anyone opposed to the regime can be next

Alex Pretti was murdered while trying to protect a woman from being assaulted by federal agents

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."

I wonder if states can pass laws to prohibit people involved in federal civil rights abuses from being employed in government (within their state) and making public employees forfeit their pensions and benefits if they’ve been found to collaborate with these unconstitutional operations

recorded this last week

I want Oakland to become a city that can comfortably house 3 million people so we can make it more affordable, increase tax revenue, increase transit use, and very importantly to have more Congress members

The GOP has always had fascist elements but now it’s a full blown fascist organization. I think it’s fair to say from the national to state and county levels. They should not be treated like a normal political party

It increasingly seems like many of these ICE goons are masking not because they're worried we'll learn who they are out of uniform and more because they're worried what other uniforms they've worn.

Not only should the European Union boycott the World Cup and the Olympics, they should be blocking apps like Twitter and other businesses associated with America's pro-Trump oligarchs. We in this country fighting Trumpism need the assist.

This is the moment for Congress members to show whether they believe this administration is doing fine or causing harm across the country. If you think DHS is terrorizing communities don’t fund them. The only accountability measures we need are criminal investigations of them.

BART will run a Saturday schedule on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 19. Saturday service means BART will open at 6am and close at midnight, and there is less frequency on the Yellow Line (service is every 20 minutes).

ICE is violently and unduly targeting Somali and other Black, brown, and immigrant communities in Minnesota and across the nation. This behavior is not new and has existed in many forms throughout American history. But like before, we will not let this violence and terror go unchecked. (1/2)

When/ if Trump leaves at the end of his term does anyone actually believe the GOP will go back to what it was before 2016? The whole party is complicit in protecting the Epstein files and terrorizing communities across the country all while tanking the economy for the benefit of billionaires

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

capital structure complexity = log(annoying-ness of pivot tables) it's time for affordable housing finance in the US to start pandas-maxxing

Every additional capital source adds $5-10k in additional costs per unit and delays project start and completion. Policymakers need to internalize this and start acting like they’re investing public equity in projects rather than chipping in for a pizza.

If affordable housing financing had been simplified and sped up, all affordable buildings at El Cerrito Plaza BART would have already been completed or be under construction. Same is true about several other BART projects. We’d have homes for thousands of folks who are struggling ready today.

This is how many sources of funding over about ten years to finance a 240 unit building of Affordable housing. We need to make it easier to finance and build all types of homes

DHS lied again

MINNEAPOLIS — “The real criminals is ICE… Another person shot because of their skin color. Even if we’re citizens, they don’t care. Because they’re fucking racists.” A witness talks to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social after another person was shot, they say with a pregnant woman in the house.

President Trump didn’t just pardon the rampaging rioters who assaulted police officers on January 6, 2021, he began to hire them. House Judiciary Democrats demand answers from Attorney General Pam Bondi and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. Which insurrectionists are working for ICE?

The thing about what’s happening in this country right now isn’t that it’s just the administration, it’s the whole GOP. has any county or state party condemned what DHS is doing? No. How do you move forward with a group of ppl that are condoning and cheering the murder and torture of your neighbors?

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Watch my address on the ongoing federal presence in Minnesota: youtu.be/fGTsYXBWQgU

“3 flash bangs at my car. ICE knew we were trying to leave. My 6 month old can’t breathe.” Trump’s goons terrorize a Black family in Minneapolis, to the point where EMT’s have to come help his child get away from the gas and chaotic dangerous scene (H/T @thejfreakinc.bsky.social )

She says ICE agents mocked her: “The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock..." www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.

Bovino on the officer who killed Renee Good: "Hats off to that ICE agent"

In addition to Good's murder, ICE has been busy in Minneapolis causing car wrecks and traffic jams, filling the streets with tear gas and goons with loaded weapons, issuing specific threats and sewing general chaos. This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.

ICE snatched a NYC Council staffer following the law—going to a routine immigration appointment. This is an attack on due process, on our city, and on every immigrant here. Release them now.

Remember all the institutions and individuals who helped Trump and were complicit the past year. Make them earn their redemption as the rats the flee ship.

But Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize