Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"

Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.

At Columbia Heights Public Schools leaders say the surge fundamentally changed their community. They feel like an attack by the federal government has not ended. “We tried to protect them,” said Maria Gorde who works at an early education center. “It’s not exaggerated. It was completely inhumane.”

AOC has changed the trajectory of American politics and inspired a generation to believe that government really can work for working people. I am deeply honored to earn her endorsement for US Senate. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u...

jacob frey and the city council centrists who voted against jim davnie (rainville, vetaw, warren and shaffer) want justin baylor reappointed back to the minnesota ballpark authority after his term ended anyway check out baylor's city of minneapolis elections donation history

This became another example of how hostile the federal government was to organized labor and created momentum for the workers movement of the 1930s to elect politicians that were pro-labor and take back some of the power they had lost.

In one case, a train engineer, not allowed to strike by his brotherhood so he was actually on the train, called a company guard a scab and the scab turned around and shot him dead. In Buffalo, railroad thugs killed two kids, the sons of a worker and shot his wife too, though she survived.

The cops and other military forces were absolute bullies and tyrants, pushing the workers around, often quite physically. They were the ones to ensure this would be a violent strike. They often fired on workers as well.

This Day in Labor History: July 1, 1922. the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins. Also known as the Railway Shopmen’s Strike, this action was the largest railway strike in the United States since the Pullman Strike in 1894. At least 10 died before the government and corporate America crushed it!

amie stager for workday magazine on the rally for the minnesota 15 today which was a show of support from union members workdaymagazine.org/an-attack-on...

Donald Trump has made more than $1 billion (yes, with a B!) from his crypto schemes. And last year, Angie Craig was the only Minnesota Democrat to vote to let Trump get rich selling crypto coins. It's just wrong - and we deserve better.

Proud to have co-edited this book with Amie Stager + May Day Strong. It’s about the Jan 2026 Minn shutdown, how it helped break ICE’s terror regime, what lessons we can learn from it & how we can build off the momentum towards a general strike. Preorder now!

To every transgender Minnesotan: you belong here. This decision does not change MN's law or our commitment to protecting LGBTQ+ people. Today's rulings remind us that defending the rule of law also means defending the rights and dignity of every person. I'll never stop fighting to do both. 8/8

The Right understands it is war.

Excellent messaging from the right. Keep telling people their hatred of Musk et al makes regular people the fools.

Today I proudly voted early for our DFL-endorsed candidates here in Hennepin County. Cedrick Frazier for County Attorney, Keith Ellison for Attorney General, Ilhan Omar for U.S. House, and Peggy Flanagan for U.S. Senate.

Argentine President Javier Milei’s Cabinet chief and close ally, Manuel Adorni, resigned following a corruption scandal that has roiled the government, undermining its flagship campaign pledge to stamp out endemic graft in the political elite.

look, I’ve written a lot of shit I’m quite proud of and would love to keep going, but if I got a quote this good even once, I might just hang it up. (from Jason Zengerle’s very good Hakeem Jeffries profile: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...)

If you are wealthy, I think you should spend more money on clothes. There's no pride in buying clothes for the lowest possible price, as this puts downward pressure on garment worker wages and increases the likelihood of exploitation.

Hourly school workers are the glue that hold our schools together. Nominate one (or more!) for our 2026-27 ESP of the Year award today: https://edmn.me/espofyear

Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.

This Day in Labor History: June 26, 1894. The American Railway Union, headed by Eugene Debs, called a nationwide boycott in solidarity with their striking members at Pullman, Illinois. This turned a small strike into a challenge over corporate control over America. The government crushed it!

Lunacy. Here's Emmer 10 years ago.

“Trump calls to drop Agent Orange on DC. Says “all options are on the table” when it comes to reflecting pool.”

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

BREAKING: A 63-year-old has died in ICE custody, marking the 51st death in detention since Trump retook office.

FDR told Congress, “A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling worker’s wages or stretching workers’ hours.”

This Day in Labor History: June 25, 1938. FDR signed the Fair Labor Standards Act. This groundbreaking piece of legislation set the standards of labor that defined post-war America, including minimum wages, overtime pay, and the banning of most child labor. Like everything, it was also incremental.

The report was issued by Effective Law Enforcement for All, the group responsible for monitoring the policing agreement. It found that Minneapolis police in the past often wrongly routed discipline cases to coaching rather harsher discipline, and that cases went unresolved for long periods of time.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is backing progressive Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, breaking with party leadership and intensifying a battle over the party’s direction.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Today’s layoffs hit the journalists who do the most and get the least credit. The editors, the copy desk, the page designers, the librarian and archivist, the news assistants. My editor led our immigration coverage during Operation Metro Surge and they just…let her go.

This Day in Labor History: June 22, 1916. Cops shot a Croatian miner named John Alar who was part of the Industrial Workers of the World-led strike in the Mesabi Range of Minnesota. Let's talk about this brave but failed strike in some of the worst conditions in the nation!

Angie Craig’s campaign has repeatedly lied to Minnesota voters, saying she has not taken money from AIPAC and that she is not endorsed by them. She's listed on AIPAC’s “who we support” web page. AIPAC has hosted at least a dozen fundraisers for Craig this cycle AIPAC 🤝 Angie

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This Day in Labor History: June 21, 1877. Ten alleged members of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society blamed for labor radicalism in the anthracite country of Pennsylvania, were executed. Let's talk about the Mollies, or at least what we know about this pretty secret organization!

The World Cup is here. On this week's episode of Reveal, reporters Alex Shephard, Tim Murphy of Mother Jones, and Reveal producer Artis Curiskis follow the money, power, and politics behind the World Cup and ask who gets to be part of the world’s biggest game.

Congresswoman Craig stood by her vote for the Laken Riley Act while ICE was in the streets terrorizing Minnesotans. After Alex Pretti was killed, she was asked if she regretted her vote. She said no.

This Day in Labor History: June 20, 1947. President Harry S. Truman vetoed the odious Taft-Hartley Act, the most vile piece of labor legislation in American history. But Congress immediately overrode it, showing how weak organized labor was even at its strongest point in history!

There's a big difference between Congresswoman Craig and me. She does the bidding of corporations and crypto bros. I don't.

But Moriarty’s filing counters that while ICE agents may have faced hostile situations while carrying out their duties, that was not the reality when Morgan drew his weapon and pointed. www.startribune.com/where-should...

NEW: On OpenAI's hiring of Noam Shazeer, now-former Google Gemini co-lead and, before that, a cofounder of Character.AI -- a deeply strange and often alarming AI platform linked to multiple teen suicides and many other safety/moderation issues. futurism.com/artificial-i...

It kinda got lost in the madness, but the federal conspiracy case against anti-ICE activists in Minnesota - the Minneapolis 15 - is a big deal It's not just the 1st Amendment abuse. It's part of their plan to crush dissent ahead of a stolen election My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

I’m voting for her. I am so furious at the Democratic Party that I will not vote for any establishment candidates. The message to fight is not getting through and the party keeps telling me to VOTE! You got your wish.

On the 161st anniversary of #Juneteenth, America’s unions celebrate and commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. We’ll continue organizing and mobilizing across the country to fight for and protect our civil rights and bring economic justice to all workers.

What Medicare for All would feel like in your day-to-day life.

the minneapolis park and recreation board passes jason garcia’s resolution to decommission the off leash minnehaha dog park no later than december 31, 8-1, with cathy abene the lone vote against it

Dismantling the Department of Education hurts children & workers! School aides, bus drivers, custodians & educators, are the backbone of schools, yet they’re being pushed aside while the rich get tax cuts. Public education needs more funding. This is a way for the powerful to damage workers' lives.

It's very interesting that the only institutionally racist organisation over the past decade and half appears to be the Labour Party, but in a very specific period and then suddenly everything got better. Weird. Curious. Definitely not something to look into.