i literally cannot cancel medicaid because i cannot get through to hennepin county. i’ve tried calling over a dozen times since january. been on hold for 90 mins this time and i need to give up soon for a work call. i’m trying to get fewer resources! there has to be a better process than this. 😵‍💫

it’s incredibly unsettling to watch white liberals & leftists triumphantly appoint themselves the leaders of post-drawdown neighborhood organizing across the city while Black & brown folks quietly burn out from pushing them to be less racist and awful

ACAB includes means testers

Anyone know anything about the new MPD substation coming soon in the Wedge area on Hennepin? Hearing from landlords that MPD has been canvassing property managers to advertise more foot policing and anti-homeless violence with the new presence.

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

ICE was very active in Minneapolis today, they kidnapped multiple people. ICE didn't leave, the media has moved on but we are still under federal occupation.

There’s an increase of activity in and out of the Whipple building this morning. If you have capacity, please observe in your neighborhood and help alert our neighbors of any ICE presence. Jason Chavez 1/

Every agency assisting ICE is ICE.

I hate that literally everything is now packaged in zip lock bags that you have to pry apart by gripping the 1 mm of plastic margin left over

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

I miss NYC in the snow so much it hurts. Wishing them a safe blizzard today.

no government builds concentration camps without the intent to fill them. we are in the intermediate stages of an atrocity, crimes against humanity undersells what this country is building up to … and we can still stop it.

Yesterday with your help, we paid the rent for five Minneapolis immigrant families in need. Rent’s coming up, donations are down, and there’s still so much need here. Let’s help as many as we can today! V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and give if you can! Thank you!

Not calling anyone out but calibrate your messages to reflect two truths: 1. ICE is shifting their enforcement emphasis to the suburbs, exurbs and greater Minnesota. 2. ICE is still very much in the central cities.

I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.

The new LGBTQNJ+

Haven Watch is the group that meets people who are being released from Whipple (usually because they were illegally detained), often without coats or phones or any way to get home.

We’re at less than 10% of the goal right now. I’ll match the next $500 in donations folks post here! Let’s make it happen for this family. Thank you 🩵

We’re fundraising for bond to bail a community member out of detention. This family runs a beloved South Minneapolis restaurant that was already targeted by ICE. Now one of them has been abducted. Thank you for anything you can contribute. I’ll keep y’all updated. 🩵

This is a profound betrayal of all immigrants and people of color in Minnesota. Our leaders purchased comfort for white American citizens with our lives.

MIRAC’s Erika Zurawski spits fire on MPR: MN leaders agreed to “quiet violence.” “[S]tay in the streets; ICE isn’t done. Quiet violence is still violence, and we have to put it to a stop. We are solely responsible for making that happen because we saw our state leaders will not do it for us.”

I heard about a killing of a Black man in DC by US marshals on a call from someone in the neighborhood then saw it confirmed by the organization @harrietsdreams.bsky.social & here. A Black man in DC was killed by the state today. Make the same noise for him as for anyone else when we have his name.

My defense of the traffic calming checkpoints in South Minneapolis. www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

It has never been more clear that all we have is each other.

I generally think whirlwind organizing is not meant to be long term organizing, but that what people do in the whirlwind creates possibilities for what they will do when it lessens. For Minneapolis, I think it’s very important that we realize that when we think people have stopped paying attention.

The mayor has been lying to the public the entire time he has claimed to be against them.

Hosting the border czar and ICE agents in City Hall (and its parking areas) is a violation of the City’s separation ordinance and broader City policy. These are in place to protect our residents and City staff.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

"nooo! the stormtroopers came and abducted my workers instead of merely terrorizing them into submission like i was hoping they would!" explains the least sympathetic business owner in america

I pulled together a small list of body camera-related resources, just in case anybody is curious about how abolitionists think about them. - Mariame Kaba wrote a blog post in 2014 about police reforms to oppose: www.usprisonculture.com/2014/12/01/p...

Hennepin County and State Patrol officers can be seen in images from Whipple on Sat concealing their faces, which is against a MN law that also applies to cops. In was 26 degrees on Sat. They cannot claim it was “protection from weather.”

ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, exploiting children, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

/r/Minneapolis is a great place to post creative writing about the times your local filter blockade demanded to see your ID, searched your vehicle, and harassed your wife.

The right wing 10 year cultural delay phenomenon has them all using millennial therapyspeak right when the left has dropped all civility. Really funny times ahead

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

they’re kicking us while we’re down

free them all

Today would’ve been Trayvon Martin’s 31st birthday. He should still be here.

Reading through Sourav Roy and Tuhin Bhowal’s fine anthology of contemporary Hindi poetry, PERENNIAL, I was stopped cold by Seth Michelson’s razor-sharp translation of Rati Saxena’s devastating “Refugee”—a poem for our time, for all times. “…like kites holding tight / to the ruins…”

Here's something fun: since the day the Department of Labor allowed Bitcoin to go into 401(k)s, Bitcoin has underperformed all of the most boring, mainstream, "anyone can do it" retirement options available. If you were in Bitcoin, you've earned 33% less than change in your couch

Struggling to articulate how weird it feels that a subset of affluent, mostly white Minnesotans are enjoying concerts, restaurants, markets, and other fun consumption “for a good cause” while many of us are essentially in hiding and waiting for those dollars to trickle down.

Come the fuck on. Does they want to see all of our donation transactions????? This pisses me off. I'm glad rent collections are normal but it's because all of us neighbors are chipping in on top if our own rent & mortgages!!!!!