I admire Council Member Chavez’s strong, steady leadership in Southeast Minneapolis and am so grateful for how he showed up during Operation Metro Surge. Our city has greatly benefited from his leadership. I am thankful for his support and look forward to working with him to strengthen our schools!

Last term, Council President Payne led the most productive council in recent history. We aren’t stopping this term either. Progressives are delivering. I don’t want to hear about a lack of “priorities” when progressives are the only ones bringing policy and solutions forward. 2/

This is all just a set up. Most productive council in history, most diverse, and people who just work really hard for our neighbors. We get made to be punching bag to tee up for the charter amendment on the ballot to strip council power and in turn constituent power. Don’t fall for it.

Anyone who looks to fairly judge nominees based on their current job performance would come to the conclusion that Toddrick Barnette is unfit for the role. In any normal job, if someone oversaw a department that unexpectedly overspent its budget by $20 million you would be immediately fired.

There’s been lots of news about the City Council voting down the appointment of Toddrick Barnette. This is a public memo from my office on the ways his leadership has missed the mark and what we want to see from the next Commissioner of Community Safety. lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/Fil...

Sam Stroozas’ MPR article explains how the largest raid on a bathhouse occurred in Mpls. The Health Commissioner at the time presented that closures would not decrease HIV transmission & folks would go elsewhere. Yet, stigma led to the ban passing. Today, the Mayor’s rhetoric still feeds into that.

When LGBTQ+ issues are regularly treated as distraction or luxury; it’s a flattens both policy and community. Working on bathhouses isn’t frivolous, it’s about public health, economics, safety, dignity, and repair. You might not use them, that’s fine. Some people do, let’s have the conversation!

Mayor Frey on April 8, 2026: “A spokesperson for Mayor Jacob Frey said he's supportive of city staff continuing to look into the proposal.” What changed? Also, his lack of awareness regarding the LGBTQIA+ community should be a surprise to no one. 1/

Very in depth piece on the history of bathhouses in Minneapolis. Sam’s actually been attending the coalition meetings and researching the topic for years which is MPR’s articles have actually been well researched and not just sensationalized looking for clicks.

They know what they are doing. We mentioned the process multiple times. The headlines form them all week have been misleading.

The comments from some CMs on this subject yesterday were completely out of touch and frankly ignorant. As a queer person, to see how so many campaigned as “LGBTQ+ champions” and then completely dismiss this issue as “unimportant” is just disappointing.

Parties and events that operate as adult sex venues already occur in the shadows and we are trying to ensure that they are safe for patrons, especially when LGBTQ+ individuals are under attack by the federal government. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

The City Council will decide Tuesday, April 7, whether to have city staff research several ordinances that would allow adult bathhouses and sex venues to operate again after a 38-year ban.

All of Minneapolis won’t tell you the truth. Council Member Shaffer and Council Member Palmisano voted against the $2.8 million in rental assistance. How is this effective policy? This proposal was proposed by the progressives on the city council.

NE legend and the heartbeat of Pilllar Jamey Erickson is raising money for a neighbor that needs help making their mortgage payment for April. Jamey’s always looking out for everyone so when he says someone needs help it’s important. Venmo @JameyErickson to help us raise $1,000 for our neighbor.

The same moderate CMs that claim that the progressives are “too focused on intl issues” are the same ones that have brought forward ZERO policies to support our neighbors in the wake of the ICE invasion of our city. You can bring forward multiple policies at the once. It’s called doing your job.

This is completely false. The council member met with us and I made it very clear to him that I would not be introducing such a bill.

This is simply not true. The Frey administration has been clear about what’s planned inside “cop city”. They even released a one-pager. The real issue is priorities. Some of us would rather invest $38M in affordable housing, renewable energy, and traffic calming; not massage stations for police.

It’s definitely meant to mislead the public. Moving forward with $6 million is signing up for the city to pay $38+ million. Whenever progressives fund any initiatives we get told by this colleague that we don’t have the money and that we will increase property taxes. Interesting change of tune.

When I think about the atrocities the federal government has committed against the residents of Minneapolis and Minnesota for the past few months “not calling state leaders before they did it” is really not high up on my list.

Apparently we’re too broke to address affordability but we have enough money for a shooting range. I’m a NO.

Miriam and Sandra, a mother and a daughter who are both pregnant, were taken from their car & thrown into the snow, and then illegally detained. These are two North Minneapolis residents who need our support to come home. We are close to the goal, please help! givebutter.com/bring-pregna...

The city of Minneapolis account left out that their vehicles are parked in front of city hall right now in MPD and electronic media only parking spots

They’re still here trying to terrorize our neighbors. Frey showed today that since the cameras are gone he’s no longer interested in pretending to care about immigrants. But our community has continuously shown they’ll fill the gaps left by his leadership void and keep stepping for each other.

I’m proud to be Latino. Sadly, my community has been disproportionately impacted by “Operation Metro Surge” and has literally been forced back into the shadows. It’s very well known that elected officials have always disregarded my community and our livelihood. The little people will win one day.

History will look back on the leaders of Minneapolis and what they did to stand up for our residents during and after Trump’s invasion of our city.

Thank you to all of these orgs for showing us how quickly you will throw away your mission to evict residents if it messes with your money. Minneapolis residents have subsidized you with millions in mutual aid and in turn you couldn’t wait 30 more days to throw the people you serve on the street.

I won’t be going back. Target has been a safe haven for ICE and that’s unforgivable. ICE continues to feel safest in the Quarry Target parking lot and using their handicap spots without intervention. Don’t shop at Target, shop at immigrant owned businesses and co-ops instead.

mayor jacob frey has vetoed the pause evictions, save lives bill the minneapolis city coucil approved that would've extended the eviction timeline from 30 days to 60 days temporarily to held families impacted by the ICE invasion catch up paying rent

This is a powerful letter from Minneapolis Legislative Delegation asking Mayor Frey to sign Pause Evictions, Save Lives. 16/17 state legislators who represent Minneapolis signed onto this letter. It’s time for Mayor Frey to sign this ordinance and support our immigrant neighbors.

Last week Council Member Rainville and I sent a letter to MNDOT expressing our support for incorporating an “Art Walk” in the reconstruction of Central Ave. We have the #1 arts district in the country and this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to forever incorporate it on Central Ave.

It’s impossible to fully capture how much Ivonne & Jason have done. They’ve not only been patrolling their community 24/7 since December, but hundreds of families they don’t even know from all across the city ask them for rent help, translation help, legal help & more and they help them immediately.

We need your help bringing two pregnant women back home from ICE detention! On January 22nd Miriam and her 18-year old daughter Sandra were targeted and pulled over by ICE. Miriam and Sandra were forced out of their vehicle at gunpoint. 1/ givebutter.com/bring-pregna...

Pretty wild to be watching the Minneapolis City Council meeting and see the officer who killed Amir Locke presenting about “officer wellness”. Truly no shame. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

It’s wild that so called “affordable housing” providers were advocating for people to face eviction & have to sleep out on the street. Residents have already been subsidizing their nonprofits w/ millions in mutual aid for their tenants to pay their rents. Remember this next time they beg for money.

Nonprofit “affordable housing” providers showing up to testify against Pause Eviction Saves Lives is just further highlighting the way in which nonprofits & foundations have completely failed to meet this moment. This is why we need actual social safety nets, not the Nonprofit Industrial Complex.

ICE was still riding around dangerously at 1 AM last night. That’s why we can’t rest until every single one of them is gone

Angie Craig saying that she regrets the vote that tons of Minnesotans told her not to make at the time and saying it now only after everyone has suffered for two months of a federal occupation that has killed two Minnesotans and destroyed thousands of neighbors lives. Fuck off.

There is no need to trip all over yourself and galaxy brain a statement like this. Just say war is bad, what Trump is doing is illegal, and that he’s a liar when he said he wouldn’t get the US into any wars. It’s really not hard but democrats love to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Mobile home parks are constantly targeted by ICE because they’re often more isolated from more visible residential neighborhoods. There’s 21 families that need help paying March rent and @amyudiaz.bsky.social is in direct contact with the landlord to make it happen. Help donate! gofund.me/93ad595bc

Today, I spoke w/Maggie Bott and Bob Kolstad, Hennepin County Public Defenders, and Brandon Garcia, a policy aide to Minneapolis City Council President Elliot Paige to discuss how the people of Minneapolis organized to resist DHS's occupation of the city. open.spotify.com/episode/2Qf9...

Okay @brandontgarcia.bsky.social 🤏🏽🤌🏽🔥

There’s no reforming this! End it!

Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

minneapolis city council member jason chavez saw hennepin county sheriff’s office doing crowd control enabling ICE to kidnap latino neighbors. “if we don’t like when ICE pepper sprays or throws gas bombs, why should we support local law enforcement doing those same tactics?” @jchavezmpls.bsky.social

Abolish the whole dam system.

Ramadan Mubarak to all those celebrating tonight. The diversity of our community is what makes our City such a great place to live.

Spending money on promoting empty words while fighting providing monetary support for businesses impacted by the illegal ICE occupation is very on brand

When council discusses the $5 million Small Business Resiliency Fund tomorrow, prepare for at least one of the conservative members to say the problem is too big and the SBRF won’t make a difference so they shouldn’t do anything at all.