I am still so furious and also so heartbroken. This feels like the least I can do, and maybe you can too.

Donate to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social and Rising Waters: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup... risingwatersmutualaid.org

Please donate. Any amount helps.

Notably, they've got some footage from @unicornriot.bsky.social in there near the end, which is a good collaboration of media for the people.

It's also not been the answer to revitalizing downtown, nor is it about who parks are or are not for. This documentary episode covers historic angles of Indigenous Relocation, Missing & Murdered Indigenous Relatives & the Wall of Forgotten Natives. Share this widely. Host screenings & discussions.

Germane to the Twin Cities today: just watched TPT's "Return to Skid Row" covering up to ~2021 & shows bulldozing has never been the answer to "social blight" AKA the social plight of our cities' most vulnerable. @mayorher.bsky.social & @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social ought to reflect on such history.

$9300!!! Getting closer!!

I just donated $50. Who can match me?

Please pause a minute and consider how much money municipalities spend on displacing and hurting people, destroying what few possessions they have (including ID documents and in-process paperwork for help), disconnecting them from community and aids to climb out of their situation... 1/3

In Minnesota, girls sell lemonade on the street to help their sisters arrested by ICE. Stephen Miller’s goons are very much still here. Sign reads, “Please help us raise money for my sisters because they were arrested by ICE” & this has been confirmed by trusted community members.

There is no end to the harassment faced by our unhoused neighbors. Soon many of our neighbors will lose their only source of shelter. The Supply Depot helps as many as they can, but they will need additional funds to help people displaced by the upcoming evictions.

Saint Paul is importing Mayor Frey's failed policies, putting unhoused people at great risk. Help Sanctuary Supply Depot prepare people for what's about to be lost.

it's hot as shit out and St Paul is prepping to displace our neighbors. please link up below and maybe we could start a little dono train. I'm starting a bit big but every bit is gonna help coming up here 🤍 we got us.

Supply Depot has raised about half the funds needed to order supplies ahead of this eviction. Help if you can! SupplyDepotMpls.com

$7,728/$15,000!!! Y'all are incredible, the one thing Minneapolis always does is Show Up.

The Bond Between and AHS’s programs have such long waitlists…and truly, nobody wants to or separated from their pet or their human partner. I’d rather take an alley or a tent and stay together than split up at night (or for months with the temp pet housing)

Tapping the sign

I have been saying for months that Kaohly Her is terrible on homelessness. Now she’s going to evict an encampment of 200 people. Where will they go?

You don’t get to say ‘ICE Out’ during the height of the occupation by the federal government and then support policy that hands ICE more people to deport. Pick one.

The goal of a harm-reduction approach like this is to explore options. NOT requiring sobriety to qualify for housing assistance is relatively new, demonstrably more effective at helping both homelessness AND substance use disorder, and has made it clear that Housing First is crucial to recovery.

This is NOT to say that people are actually using it on drugs. I'd say even anecdotally that is far from the majority. But if it's going to happen and you're morally opposed to that, please know that's still better than the alternative.

While I need us to always challenge the narrative, every day, that homeless people have substance use disorders, I also need us to acknowledge the ways in which, when those do intersect, it is more complicated than that shallow and dismissive narrative also.

People associate drugs with homelessness partly because they're told to, because it makes it easier to throw people away and dismiss the problem, but also for the same reason people associate accumulated garbage with homeless people - there's nowhere to hide it. Housed people just do drugs inside.

Things your unhoused neighbors can use this summer, aside from the obvious: - candy (I get asks for this more than almost anything) - sunscreen (high SPF pls!) - lip balm (bonus for SPF) - electrolyte packets for water - cash - gift cards for fast food and/or accessible grocery stores 1/

To say that our city is not going to have encampments requires us to first say that we have an alternative plan in place to ensure that every single person who currently lives in an encampment will receive the housing and support that they need.

This is murder, plain and simple. If you live in St. Paul, call the mayor's and your CM's offices and tell them you don't want this to happen.

We have about $10k left to raise. linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...

This is NOT how we treat our neighbors. No one involved has been able to answer what "alternative housing" will be available for the people they are intentionally displacing in preparation for a Minnesota winter. Shelters are full, and not every shelter is suited for every person... Please help 💕💸

Jacob is only going to harass and assault them. please help @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social and @commkitchenmpls.bsky.social ACTUALLY help with material support. How can people turn their lives around with nothing stable to stand on? How can they find stability when Jacob's pigs take everything?

Going to be HOT IN THE CITY next week. Pick up some extra water and crystal light packs for our houseless neighbors. Always a good time to donate to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social or Smitten Kitten is collecting water donations.

Also! Did you know that Powerade makes freezie pops? They have electrolytes ✨

freeze soda bottles almost full of water and hand those out, if you freeze enough of them you can switch out thawed ones for frozen. hot/cold fast can make the plastic crack so keep a bucket handy, but holy crap this is super useful. i had a frozen bottle at mpls ppls pride on saturday in the cart

check in with your unhoused neighbors and help treat for heat illness! just gave out the last of my instant cold packs and ordered more 🙃

How to recognize &/ treat Heat Exhaustion / Heat Stroke Source: www.health.mn.gov/heatplanning

There are free Narcan vending machines at fire stations 5, 14, and 21!

I worry about connect drugs and homelessness in a way that could conflate them, but the Supply Depot takes a harm reduction approach to a lot of things and that includes drug use, so it's worth bringing up! Heat makes ODs more likely, so being extra aware is good.

If you're able to drive around for a bit today, grab a bunch of cold water bottles (or even better, frozen!) and hand them out to people signing at traffic lights. People can use it frozen next to their body as a personal AC and then drink it when it thaws!

there’s never enough masc’s anything. i used to trade the wet shelter femme’s toiletries for masc’s clothes & shoes, because they got the most and we got the least (teens exist and many of them need masc clothes & shoes) generally there was enough gender neutral soaps for them to use. that’s it.

Our capacity to sort new clothes donations is pretty low right now but if you specifically have masc pants PLEASE bring them to one of our drop-off locations. Every other clothing resource organizer I've talked to has this issue too, there are just not enough masc pants ever 😭

Also, all y'all with eyes on Minneapolis right now, the overlap between immigration and houselessness is sizeable and ICE has been staking out shelters and warming centers and even sent armed agents inside Dorothy Day. Our unhoused neighbors have nowhere to hide.

Reupping 👇🏻 #MutualAid #Minneapolis

I am SO MAD because what do you mean someone picked up tents during my shift from @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social and TEN MINUTES after distribution, at like 7pm, the city was already doing another eviction. THERE IS NOWHERE FOR PEOPLE TO GO.

These folks were looking for hats and scarves a week and a half ago as well as the below list. bsky.app/profile/supp...

If you want to donate to us, please donate to the heat fund instead right now, it is getting dangerously and critically low Venmo electric-tumbleweed ❤️

I love my community

I just want people outside of Minneapolis to watch this and imagine listening to that noise over you literally all the time

Rest in peace Alex Pretti. You will be remembered as a hero. I saw my immigrant neighbors out tonight mourning. You’ve touched the hearts of our immigrant community. We will not rest until justice is served.

This, the vigil, people running groceries for neighbors, someone donated to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social because I mentioned them I love this city and I love this state 💙🩵