Time for another report on how we’ve been doing! As of today, we’ve spent nearly $18k at local, immigrant-owned businesses & have provided ~2000 meals to people experiencing unhoused homelessness or food insecurity. Thank you so much to everyone who has donated, shared, or lifted up our efforts!

ICE is still here in MN, and our neighbors are still in hiding. Rent is due TODAY, and I’m scrambling to raise funds to keep immigrant families in need out of eviction court. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and give if you can! Thank you! 🌷

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

Fuck off no he has not

This is disgusting. There’s no accountability in the Sheriff’s Department. This will continue to happen if Sheriff Witt runs unopposed. It will send a message that this is totally okay when it’s not.

Something you notice in the winter is that cyclists and pedestrians have to justify maintenance of their infrastructure in a way that drivers never do

This is a policy of genocide.

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…” @nondriver.bsky.social in @motherjones.com #Accessibility

Yeah, dunking on strangers on the internet is fun, but have you tried meeting people in your actual community and showing up to organize and make your communities better?

Not ICE. Not Border Patrol. Just the same rotten local cops we've always had

In St. Paul, Minnesota, Hennepin County deputies brutally assaulted peaceful anti-ICE protesters.

Anywho, there's no better time than now to put your ideas out there and invite other people to do things with you. Might as well try. You don't have to know everything before starting. You can just start.

I'm not gonna tell you how to live your life. But if someone invites you to an annual soup party, you better go to that soup party.

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

I’ve been saying!

Here at the Whipple building for the final day of a week of action where people from across the country came to Minneapolis to help and learn from us for when the federal government comes for their City. This isn’t over until ICE is abolished & Whipple with its inhumane conditions cease to exist. 1/

From what I saw today firsthand it was the sheriffs today constantly escalating at people protesting peacefully. The sheriffs were masked up like ICE while working hard to agitate and provoke the residents they were sworn to protect, all so they could provide security for ICE who murders people.

"Seeks revenge" is a bizarre way to describe "suing over discrimination".

about 30 people were arrested at whipple this morning for unlawful assembly, and many first hand reports say hennepin county sheriff's office were escalating. people were arrested when they were retreating, and people were knocked down by law enforcement

Again, it is interesting that a single generation was entrusted with the richest, most advanced empire the world had ever known and was just uninterested in keeping it going

This is the future liberals want.

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

It just can’t be said enough that for months the federal government waged war on the people of Minnesota, kidnapping them off the streets, driving families into hiding, and killing 2 of people. And if you cannot call that out or state that clearly, you’re not one of us. You’re one of them.

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

It's all connected

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’” GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

ride a bicycle

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

Melissa Hortman was known for reaching across the aisle in the MN House. Mike Lee (R UT) said she deserved to be assassinated by a wannabe SA dude. There is no amount of nice that will save you or your neighbors from fascist violence. Do not be nice.

At 8:30 PM on Saturday night we have ICE in the quarry parking lot and they start driving off erratically through the City the minute people go up and try to talk to them. Their lawlessness and terror continues so please continue to be out there looking out for your neighbors and staying safe.

There’s an increase of activity at the Whipple building today. 50-60+ vehicles have been reported to exist the Whipple building. We need community to be on alert and for neighbors to observe and patrol. Thank you for everyone that continues to support our immigrant neighbors. Jason Chavez 1/

90% of evictions in MN are for nonpayment of rent. I did a sample a week ago and found the avg nonpayment eviction in Hennepin County would take $5,122 to stop. Studies (before the high inflation of the past few years) suggest stopping an eviction saves $6,832 in public costs. It just makes sense

some amazing news to start the weekend with!

The problem with this godsforsaken country is we make it completely optional for boys to become decent human beings.

The degree to which people were manipulated into transphobia by Jeffrey Epstein is just unnerving as fuck and also horrifying. (I also listened to those episodes.)

Here's how shameless Elizabeth Shaffer is. She killed a plan to build a ramp here, and cost us the million dollars in federal funding that would've paid for it. Then a year later, in one of her final acts on the park board, she took a victory lap on the adoption of a plan with no money behind it.

Got the Brickmania MN ICE Out Legos and they look pretty great TBH. www.brickmania.com/minnesota-oc...

Bright to you by All Ages and Abilities bike infrastructure. The only kind we should be building. Can't wait for this to be possible on Lyndale soon too.

The current plan for the updated garden space includes a gravel path, which will only be slightly more passable/accessible during winter & spring but won't hold up well bc it's so well used and at a 3-5% grade. The Mpls Park Board needs to change the plan to a *paved* path instead of gravel.

Both paths through the Soo Line Garden between street level and the Greenway look like this right now.

I know there are a lot of mutual aid asks coming out of Minneapolis right now, but both of my kids graduated from South High and it would mean a lot to me for people to contribute to this rent fund for my fellow South families. I’ll match the first $1000 if you post receipts. Tiger Pride 🧡🖤

For the next 24 hours (by noon on Friday 2/27) any donations to our school rent support GoFundMe will be matched (up to $5k) thanks for generosity of a neighbor. If you haven’t donated yet, now is a great time to double your impact! No extra steps needed, just donate and we’ll get the match.

we've shipped out 984,000 whistles pretty much entirely driven by this website, and sent about $25-30k worth of requested supplies to the twin cities on top of it, AND we've begun bulk buying red cards for various immigrant rights groups. bluesky gets shit done.

Thousands of our neighbors are struggling to pay rent. Mayor Frey is sending scolding letters painting small business aid and rent assistance as fiscally irresponsible. MPD blew $4.3 million on overtime last month. And now the Frey administration wants $38 million for MPD’s own cop city?

remarkably tone-deaf move by a-klo as she launches a gubernatorial campaign in the state that has been under violent siege from ICE for months.

it is simply bonkers the degree to which we as a society protect the income of landlords

Eavesdropping on some of the conversations around me at Black Hart: high speed trains, sociology, and burlesque (I'm here for a burlesque show). Yes, these are my people.

Our country has so much potential

this continues the assertion that the big scary socialist is basically just leslie knope

Need to transport 2 extra neighbor kids to/from school? There’s a cargo bike for that! My car can’t safely fit this many kids, but my cargo bike can. It felt SO good to use my bike again for school drop off. Day maker for all 5 of us, I think. 🚲❤️