Thank you Bichota Coffee for hosting our Office Hours! Bichota is one of the amazing small businesses rooted in community that make Ward 8 such a special place. Make sure to stop by and check it out!

youtu.be/sOJ_uaffG5s?... "Community" is where it's at...not a singular hero.

youtu.be/UHgzkbXiQ-U?... "Ven, dame tu mano...somos hermanos..Donde hay sombras hay también calor...donde el odio se oculta, hay también amor." ("Come, give me your hand...we're brothers...Where there are shadows, there's also warmth. Where hate hides, there's also love...") - "A New World" - J.S.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o... "Watching Hegseth rant about limitless killing, I remembered the words of Aimé Césaire (from 1950): “The hour of the barbarian is at hand..The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.” -Lydia Polgreen

ward 9 and minneapolis as a whole are so lucky to have jason chavez. he has always been a presence in the community, and even moreso now during the ICE siege when he seems to be working nonstop to keep people safe

Please help me help my neighbors: gofund.me/4fcec19c3

"Precious resources had been spent arresting, processing, prosecuting and trying [a person who failed to pay the fare on public transit] all for the loss of a few dollars. This is a daily feature of how we criminalize poverty in America."- Emily Galvin Almanza www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...

I realized during a community conversation that a big part of what I am grieving right now is the reality of segregation. I can FEEL the absence of neighbors...I SEE faces missing on the bus, students missing from class, businesses with lights out. Neighhbors who are missing/have been stolen...

WE NEED YOUR HELP❗️It’s February 10, 2026, & rent is past due. I’m working with 7 different families who have been impacted by ICE & are now struggling to pay rent. I’m hoping to raise $6,082 to help pay the month of February rent for all of them. Cash app: $jasonchavezcruz Venmo: @ LiamDavisTemple

Bad Bunny's performance at the Super Bowl may have been his biggest audience yet, but for the people he has represented since his start — his fellow Puerto Ricans — it meant something special. n.pr/4ksBgOJ

Listen to Berta Cáceres...May her presence and vision remain with us <3 youtu.be/AR1kwx8b0ms?...

Down with the School of the Americas, down with Alligator Alcatraz, down with Guantanamo, down with Krome, down with Dilley, down with Whipple... youtu.be/UL1439YADS8

Fwiw: Before Bad Bunny, before Ricky Martin, there was for me, JON SECADA. Every album he released had at least 2 songs in Spanish on it. It was through him that I--as a white girl from a small town in Vermont--came to understand this country as a multiracial & multilingual one in a way I hadn't.

Finally, a food-related article that makes a modicum of sense to me!! It's good to see *someone* articulate a less anthropocentric, individualistic approach, and rather point to the well being of the planet and help us think about other creatures besides humans! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

"Founded to enforce a racist law, the Border Patrol has long held extraordinary powers to stop and interrogate citizens and immigrants alike in vast stretches of the country."- Reece Jones, "The Border Patrol Was Always Out of Control" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

remember what JD Vance said of the ICE agents that arrested this little boy: “what did you expect them to do?”

Springsteen just came out with this! Feeling the solidarity here in the City of Lakes <3 youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

We need an EVICTION MORATORIUM NOW. Our neighbors risk being separated from their families when they go to work. They also run the risk of being displaced if they don’t. Sadly, Mayor Frey refused to sign the resolution calling on the Governor to enact this moratorium.

The North Star Chapter of the @sierraclub.org stands with our neighbors in demanding #ICEOut of Minnesota now. It's time to suspend the normal order of business to demand immediate accountability for federal agents, and for Congress to immediately intervene.

Minneapolis resident Patty O’Keefe, who was violently arrested by ICE, says one agent told her that "obstructing" agents is "why that lesbian bitch is dead,” referring to Renee Good. See our full report on community resistance: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/20/minneapolis_minnesota_ice

The solidarity between our communities in Minneapolis has never been stronger. You can help by replacing your trips at Target and do your shopping at immigrant owned businesses on our cultural corridors instead. @jchavezmpls.bsky.social @kayforparks.bsky.social

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

Ways to helps support Minnesotans who are defending their communities from ICE!!! ❤️ www.standwithminnesota.com

US citizen detainee tells @janashortal.bsky.social ICE agents are offering money in exchange for the names of protest organizers. Also offering amnesty for any undocumented relatives.

"An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good" - by Danez Smith "Neighbor, you should have made it home to your child, to the bright warmth of his laughter, but our country is at war with its people, and your goodness makes you an enemy, a citizen insurgent." www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

For those wondering what this was referencing. I posted a thing over on the meta platforms. Outside is the good place.

In order for our neighbors and communities to feel safe we need to get ICE out of our city and state. I call on elected leaders at every level of government to work alongside the City Council and community leaders towards this goal.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o... "All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience"- Michelle Goldberg

Wednesday’s shooting happened a day after the Department of Homeland Security announced that “the largest DHS operation ever is happening right now in Minnesota.” (via @mprnews.org)

One of my uncles was kidnapped by ICE yesterday. He was always there for my family and even helped my family afford my graduation party when I graduated college. 💔 Anything helps. ICE has no humanity. Hard workers literally being torn from their families. gofund.me/d84e22b46

So: I have this hypothesis: and to be clear it is a hypothesis, as there is tremendous uncertainty here. But I would not be surprised to see that the 21st century is one of inversion www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b... "Across the United States, someone is missing..."- article by Lydia DePillis & Campbell Robertson

This, to me, is a crucial part of the antidote to these atomized times. We are fundamentally social creatures and thrive best in community with others. When we deny ourselves connection, we deny ourselves a key ingredient to our health and happiness www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...

Always love re-reading/re-listening to this poem by Joy Harjo this time of year... www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/...

This article brought tears to my eyes. Very moving <3 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

I've learned a lot from Marianne Hirsch's work over the years, and respect her a great deal. It was affecting to hear this recent conversation she did with M. Gessen...It lays out a number of critical things to think about. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

A new-ish take on one of the most powerful justice-focused songs of all time. Long live the memory of Victor Jara. <3 youtu.be/wlfAf2AibA8?...

A very important and sobering listen. www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/m...

An insightful article by Andreas Reckwitz on facing the limits of the ideology of "modernity and/as progress" in our current era: "If we once dreamed of abolishing loss, we must now learn how to live with it..." This helped me work through some things. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Statement on what I'm hearing on the doors about Gaza:

Some good news in the midst of everything...here's to the well-being of our beautiful oceans and all the creatures who call them home 💙 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...