Anthony Bourdain said it best: "Everything important I ever learned, I learned as a dishwasher and as a cook." Dishwashers hold the kitchen together. We don't appreciate them enough, so let this be a start. The full story: lataco.com/dishwashers-... By Lauren Bethke

Was given the immense honor of following around firefighters working on putting down the Sandy Fire in Simi Valley, CA today. Zooming in on a photo realized I got the droplets from a helicopter drop.

With permission from one of my habeas clients, I can share that the Bloomington Police Department is proactively cooperating with ICE to detain our neighbors. This is a screenshot of official ICE records which show that a BPD officer reached out to ICE to drop a dime on someone in local custody.

soren stevenson is a survivor of MPD police violence after his eye was shot out in 2020. says council already voted for $100 million in upgrades to MPD facilities. MPD keeps overspending meanwhile communities in need of housing, green infrastructure, potholes filled

haskins’ numbers has the MPD cop city project costing closer to $200 million. cites north commons construction costs, and atlanta’s cop city too, how both overspent by millions. doesn’t think this will stay on budget currently no support at state legislature for funding this either. all taxpayers

wonsley says this will take at least $40 million to complete. city council already voted down the land purchase but frey is bringing it back before council again MPD keeps going over budget by millions. “important we are not spending our precious resources inefficiently and on wish lists”

at the city council meeting for another vote on purchase of land for the minneapolis police department training & wellness facility aka “cop city” mike forcia here in an allison lussier shirt, this is his first time back at a city council meeting since michael rainville got a restraining order

For no particular reason two Poe stories always come to mind when the ballroom is mentioned. The first being The Masque of the Red Death. The second being The Cask of Amontillado.

change your air purifier filters in ~3 days if you’re in LA County

As for that other trio I adore, this is the best audio capture yet of a still unreleased track. We’ve heard three so far from the upcoming album and each has been a banger. youtu.be/xXg1JNV4y-U?...

These three are right at the beginning of being young adults and I already love what they’re doing. I hope they stick together for many more years. youtu.be/BbnnrKFRK98?...

10 seasons 3 points 2 hat tricks

Her daughter, who survived a school shooting in 2003:

Minnesotans, you’ll want to grab the Watch Duty app if you haven’t already.

84' | Shots on the night are 23-6 in the Crows favor. Caw. 6-0 | #MNCvCDL | #path2pro

And Akale completes his hat trick on a forced turnover, it's 6-0 @mplscitysc.bsky.social

Can't make it to the stadium on this beautiful spring day? We've got you: youtube.com/live/br_tjLzNvDc?si=U1R7diIU0x2u0bU1

Taking the subway with the new stops to the Red Bull Soapbox race, swinging by the LGBT Mercado, filming death match wrestling, then watching a bunch of punk kids have a show where they’re likely to damage a bunch of property. God damn I love Los Angeles.

Minneapolis wants to spend $38 million on a MPD cop city. The PD which ripped through 260% of the OT budget to let residents get kidnapped & killed. The PD which is on pace to blow $23+ mil past budget again. The PD which got 22% raises.

After being stuck in late autumn the southern half of Minnesota gets a couple days of heat. If you can load up some water or hook up a local group for distribution you will make somebodies day.

The only MN rep to vote against CORCA to expand DHS/ICE data collection was Ilhan. Dems McCollum, Morrison, and Craig joined the GOP in voting for. Angie Craig’s already hollow anti-ICE ads running on every tv ad break now all the more funny. Over in the Senate, Klobuchar is co-sponsor.

Even if you feel like you've read everything that's been written about Davis Moturi's story, it's worth listening to his full remarks to the Minneapolis City Council yesterday. "I hope that one day I can become a fraction of who I used to be."

Vetaw always has such enthusiasm for expansive policing & surveillance. For anyone that has played Half-Life 2, she always seems like someone that would collaborate with the Combine. Ward 4 as her own little City 17.

We’ll see what the neighbors think. One thing I recall about Agape is a representative in an interview about GFS having nothing but contempt for homeless people. They remind me of sketchy protest yellow vesters.

Came across two guys while doing the cleanup of mom’s disastrous flood. Two guys rolled up, asked if they could grab some of the metal (of course!). Struck up a conversation, it’s a father and son operation. They’re big fans of Sanford & Son, and have a model F-1. Cool dudes.

Chicagoland has seen a steady pace of ICE sighting + abduction alerts all week. After one person was taken in Waukegan yesterday, this morning feds are dispersed broadly across the burbs again. Seen in Round Lake Beach and Joliet so far. A worker was snatched at a Bolingbrook Burger King at 5:30am.

This is just a bizarre story that deliberately omits naming the engineering firm responsible for this clusterfuck www.startribune.com/small-towns-...

🧵1/5 A Simi Valley, CA man is stealing the public memorials activists have placed for the kidnapped victims of ICE terrorists. His name is David Griggs and he recently bragged about his hateful activities to the Simi Valley city council. (He also mentioned poker night with council member Mike Judge)

i found minneapolis police department's interest in drones as first responder program in emails from jan with mayor and police chief's approval and have been waiting on another data request since march for all emails. latrisha vetaw is introducing it to council now taylordahlin.com/f/minneapoli...

Microsoft fires head of Israeli subsidiary and other managers over surveillance of Palestinians following an internal investigation. "The center of the controversy is the use of Azure Cloud storage by Israeli intelligence units in their surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank."

Episode 1 of The Southlander’s new podcast, “Through the Labyrinth,” is now available on all podcasting platforms. Find out how these families and their lawyers navigate the challenges of the U.S. immigrant detention system, with some succeeding and others walking away empty-handed. rb.gy/7zx1z1

As promised, my contribution to #OliveArt #ArtClub really enjoyed seeing everyone’s different takes. Feels like a real art class pin-up Went for a fairly literal watercolor translation but I’m inspired to challenge myself to do something different next week Looking forward to next week’s

Happy Mother's Day! The print shop is on a 20% discount for the next 24 hours if you're looking for prints. New photos added, including several taken of deathmatch wrestlers in Las Vegas. seanbecknercarmitchel.shootproof.com

not to distract from the main point, but as an additional example: one of the first "disasters" declared by congress was compensation to slavers fleeing the Haitian revolution

People are mad because of this D. This D will ruin Beverly Hills. Everyone riding the D is flooding into the community. Why is everyone laughing? I’m merely trying to tell you all that this massive D will bring trains to one of the wealthiest cities in the US. www.metro.net/d-line-exten...

The law says I can’t get dirt cheap Djarum Blacks shipped in from Indonesia. But the USPS may start shipping guns.

Seems a good time to remind Minnesotans that Fridley police began doing this last year. They issued grants to apartment buildings and businesses to install Flock systems.

⚠️ This is a *tactic* not an isolated incident! "The police chief was personally coordinating the recruitment of private businesses to host #surveillance cameras, using the same private property workaround that Flock’s sales team had explicitly documented to avoid VDOT requirements." #deflock #alpr

Cops can basically get away with anything. Officer William Dorsey Jones killed 14 y/o Valentina Orellana-Peralta. A jury found LAPD not liable. Dude came amped to kill. Sprinted past everyone to open fire on a dude in crisis with a bike lock, and killed Valentina in a changing room.

So Mamdani knows an illegal sale of stolen Palestinian land is occurring in his city, yet his NYPD is out there protecting it. What a hero y’all have chosen again.

Ed Bastian is also the CEO that got the Biden admin and CDC to slash covid19 quarantine periods when he decided they were too much of a drag on profits.

YouTube has started restricting most of our recent videos. You can still watch them if you turn off "Restricted Mode," but this may result in the material being inaccessible within libraries, universities, and other public institutions 🫤 1/

while our city was under attack by the federal government, MPD sat at their homes in the suburbs collecting overtime (stealing money) from our city — money that could have been used to help keep our neighbors housed

for what it’s worth, i doxxed way more guys back when i was using twitter. i’m kind of just chilling over here. i doxxed a cop on christmas day on twitter once. got him fired before dinner.

We condemn a nation built on stolen land, by massacring & imprisoning its indigenous population, & kicking more out of their homes daily. We condemn apartheid always, everywhere. This isn’t about “Israelis” or even Netenyahu.

We continue to hold ceremony and pray for Pe’ Sla and that the courts uphold our treaty rights and halt this drilling project immediately. Ways you can help protect Pe’ Sla: 📍Supplies can be dropped off at Wambaliska at the Woyatan Lutheran Church. For inquiries call NDN HQ at +1 (605) 791-3999

Update from Pe’ Sla Protectors Camp: It’s another beautiful morning at the Pe ‘Sla Protectors Camp. We got some tipis set up and our spirits are high from being on our land, all the support we are receiving, and this opportunity to protect Unci Maka and Pe’Sla for future generations.