Breaking: In a 50-49 vote, the U.S. Senate passed the measure allowing sulfide mining in areas near the Boundary Waters.

Former Star Tribune union steward here! It’s important to know that the AI issue Propublica is striking over (getting assurances from management that they won’t replace journalists with AI) is a fight the Strib is also having.

The Minneapolis “dirtbag lawyer” challenging ICE detentions—and winning

I profiled Jason Chavez, the Minneapolis city council member who has been embedded in community efforts to combat ICE. “To leave your constituents to face off with a racist fascist regime on their own, without having someone that has some power…I could not let my constituents be out there alone.”

One of these companies is Toka, which offers products that hack into specific vehicles to harvest real time location data, as well as onboard camera and even microphone feeds. Toka was co-founded by Epstein confidant/partner and former Israeli PM Ehud Barak.

As Minnesota's senior senator runs to replace Tim Walz as governor, her votes and positions on Trump, ICE, and labor should be disqualifying to progressive voters.

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

Facial recognition cameras, AI-powered social media analyzers, license plate readers, fake cell towers, cell phone spyware—ICE has broadened its arsenal of surveillance tech, alarming privacy advocates, lawmakers, and ordinary community members. minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/03/h...

"This is the worst fucking time. But watching people's response to ICE has just been the most affirming thing in the world.” We interviewed our friends over at @racketmn.com about what it’s like to cover the crisis in Minneapolis as community-centered journalists

I will believe that ICE enforcement has changed on the ground when I stop getting daily notices that armed, masked goons are circling my kids’ schools and trying to sow fear in the parent patrols.

The Twin Cities are still occupied, and we're still documenting the invasion.

Amy Klobuchar voted for one of Trump's nominees the day after a woman in her state was murdered by ICE.

The closure is not even directly because of the murder yesterday btw. It's because, while that was going on, ICE was also body-slamming teachers in high schools bsky.app/profile/pete...

Video from the scene of the Minnesota ICE shooting contradicts DHS’s narrative that locals were rioting and threatening agents' lives.

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

The 911 operator couldn’t send an ambulance because it was already responding to another call from ICE’s Stewart Detention Center.

Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year. Now you're upset? Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.

The Star Tribune will give you 1500 words on a Black muslim socialist candidate's wife but wont give you 3 words on your typical Wayzata wealthy developer couple lying about their residency to game the whole of Minneapolis elections and policy votes for the next 4 years.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, after failing to secure more than 30% of the vote for endorsement at the Minneapolis DFL convention, instead opted to have a small group of allies within the MN state DFL overturn the endorsement of Omar Fateh for mayor. They left all other endorsements intact.

I’ve seen a lot of false information circulating in the weeks following the Minneapolis DFL convention. Some of it feels like reading Jan 6 voter conspiracy theories, so as the person who stepped in as head teller + audited the voting system, I’d like to set the record straight🧵

The 35 richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $2.5 billion. They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich. Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.

(Sighs so deeply all the pilot lights in the neighborhood go out)

Today, May 1, is International Workers' Day! It commemorates the sentencing to death of eight anarchist workers in Chicago who were framed for throwing a bomb at police who attacked a strike demonstration in May 1886 shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...

Breaking: Tesla’s net income sank 71% in the first quarter, hurt by competitive pressure and a reputational hit from Elon Musk’s polarizing role in the Trump administration

“Big tech is increasingly leveraging in-depth user knowledge to extract maximum profit. To allow these practices to proliferate…without any fiscal compensation is simply foolish.” says Eric Harris Bernstein in this new commentary. minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/22/t...

Mexico bans ‘foreign propaganda’ after US anti-migrant ad

The FBI Can't Find ‘Missing’ Records of Its Hacking Tools 🔗 www.404media.co/the-fbi-cant...

new Bike Farmer vid features Seth from Recovery Bikes giving Andy a tour of Northeast Minneapolis by bike: youtu.be/GiNDQNEcYKI?...

A Reformer analysis of ICE contracts finds that UMN and several municipalities lease gun range time to ICE, while a manufacturer in Anoka, Minn. provides more ammunition to the agency than any other contractor. minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/18/w...

A U of M English prof on how his bosses are silencing faculty.

Joann Fabric may be going out of business, but these #TwinCities metro-area stores have a lot to offer local sewists and other crafters who work with fabric. #TwinCitiesGeeks twincitiesgeek.com/2025/04/6-tw...

NEW: Whistleblower’s Account of Corruption and Administrative Abuse Within Cook County Jail Correctional officer claims retaliation after he refused unsafe “cross-watch” monitoring of inmate housing units, a practice DOJ tried to quash. unicornriot.ninja/2025/whistle...

Read thousands upon thousands of words on that big-ass lumberjack we call Paul.

A Hennepin County District Court judge handed down Minnesota’s first wage theft conviction this week, six years after state lawmakers made it a felony minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/10/p...

“Relying on the NLRB right now to support union organizing and collective bargaining may be a bad strategy,” Ben Sachs, a professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard, says. Under this administration, workers are dealing with a situation "far less friendly" to the NLRB www.wired.com/story/hundre...

Excellent overview of how and why the Supreme Court's trans healthcare case could impact sex discrimination and gender inequality writ large. "Tennessee’s argument would call into question the longstanding freedom we all enjoy to live our lives as we wish, regardless of sex."

Wrote about a trio of young Democrats -- @katmabu.bsky.social , @georgehornedo.bsky.social and Deja Foxx -- and how their bids for office signify rising frustration among young voters with the status quo. “It’s time to pass the torch” - @amandalitman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Podcast: The FBI Secretly Ran a Massive Money Laundering Ring 🔗 www.404media.co/podcast-the-...

Clips I see (possibly self-selected!) show what a pro-Frey engine local TV news is. Might be a fruitful place to to put some progressive energy into pushing back, getting appearances. (I know there are structural issues, not having mayor or police chief pedestals.) But many voters inhale TV news.

SCOOP: The Trump administration filed NO NEW EVIDENCE in its case to deport Mahmoud Khalil and rests solely on a letter written by Marco Rubio, according to a source who has read the filing. ✍️@theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/04/10/d...

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.