"The dollar amounts are so big, but they also don't capture the serious emotional toll," Bean says. "Whatever tax bill that I could conceivably get ... that is nothing compared to what any one of these families has already been through." racketmn.com/we-asked-tax...

taxes! they're confusing! we hate paying them! but are you gonna have to, if it's money you moved around for mutual aid? the answer is probably not, but also maybe, depending on how you collected funds! but also hopefully not!

paid 61 bucks to register the ol baj just yesterday, baybeeeee

subscriptions to COYOTE have slowed down by a LOT. and yes, I’m worried, but I also know that people are generally terrified out there. I’m just glad we’re still committed to giving people the knowhow to survive. stories like this one will be free to read forever www.coyotemedia.org/i-hosted-a-m...

The news crews have left town, but my neighbors in south Minneapolis are still here, and we continue to look for resources to keep them housed — can you contribute to our neighborhood rent fund?

Every single sentence of these two passages gets worse. But if this opinion piece was just "Anders Folk is a partner at Jones Day," that would be enough to make him my enemy.

I regret to inform you the article has been updated with the Halloween costume pictures.

Just got a report from Patric that there's currently a 90-minute wait at the MOA Hooters. CC: @danawessel.bsky.social

Royer Perez-Jimenez, a teenager stopped for a traffic violation in Florida, is at least the 49th person who has died in detention since Trump took office for his second term in January 2025.

Grateful to the folks at @racketmn.com for thinking of me to help cover this monumental loss to our Twin Cities community. I told them I would only do it in conversation with @biketrouble.bsky.social so that I didn't turn in 5000 words on Hooters history. Gift link: racketmn.com/we-went-for-...

i sincerely love hooters and i’m sad that the moa location is closing. fellow hooters appreciator @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social and i stopped by to pay our respects earlier this week:

I spent some time reporting last week in Hermantown, which could become home to a 1.8 million-square-foot hyperscale Google data center.

this was the first winter i lived in minneapolis lol, i will never forget🫡

cannot stop evangelizing these meat pies! get a bunch! keep 'em in the freezer! they're the absolute perfect easy lazy dinner!

i am so obsessed with the fact that duck duck: repeatedly hosts famous actors and comedians and musicians, barely publicizes the events, and also does not film or record them. iconic.

Meat the most unusual market in town.

i love this story!

It's inspiring when we pay each other's rent, but we are not allowed to ask why the communities terrorized by the state are expected to pay rent at all. Can't even ask for a delay. No infringement upon the rights of the ownership class.

We ate so much good food here. And then we went grocery shopping!

some of us are really enjoying the warm fool’s spring sunlight

I swore many years ago that I would never pay for journalism because I am a jerk. I now happily pay for @racketmn.com. Here is a great selection of some important Racket articles.

"I didn’t go in thinking I wasn’t gonna have a great time in Minneapolis, but I remember having a moment halfway through the show where I was like, 'Holy shit, I’m having fun. These people are so great.'”

coming soon to southwest minneapolis... minnesota's first farm stop!

For @racketmn.com, I wrote about The Gathering for Good, the huge fundraiser Mancini's Char House & Lounge--yes, that one--held two weeks ago for ICE victims in St. Paul's West 7th neighborhood. One of my best, huge thanks to everyone involved. racketmn.com/yes-that-man...

Can't make it tomorrow morning? Send an email now: bit.ly/pauseevictions

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Community defense is different here. Scary. Lonely. There's (some) safety in numbers, and they're hard to come by in our red exurban and rural communities. We're standing up anyway. So, today's front page print headline seemed quite fitting: Emotion, defiance as ICE roams western WI FUCK ICE.

I wanted to talk with Steve because it's amazing he came out of retirement to publish independently. I had no idea he'd been forced to RELEARN HIS ARTFORM WITH HIS LEFT HAND. Anyway, great guy and a state treasure.

The Jacket is the last thing you see before a St Paul dad hands you a Hamms

the last few weeks in MN have been the greatest moment of nonviolent protest i've seen in my lifetime. i spoke to the organizers of marches and demonstrations, bike rides and ice fishing protests—and even a puppeteer—about this winter of protest in minnesota.

The Central neighborhood in South Minneapolis has been disproportionally impacted by ICE. Our neighbors are struggling to stay in their homes. This fund will help with direct rent and mortgage support to Central Minneapolis neighbors in need. gofund.me/03278b181

WE DESERVE AN ABOLISH ICE PLOW

We are trapped in the belly of a horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death and also winning gold, baby

A week or two ago, a member of one of the families we’ve been supporting shared this piece with me. She said that writing has been helping her get through this time, and after reading it, I asked if I could help her get it published. Thank you again to @racketmn.com for giving it a home

This case is insane: ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.* The young man they killed had no criminal history. All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs. We don't know officers' names. We don't have footage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

A first-person account of life in hiding.

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

“the one we went to last week at sanag restaurant, i came with my son, and we were at the front door with a bunch of other people—the owner was trying to hand out menus but didn’t have enough for all the people. i thought, ‘this is a good problem to have.’”

“Now livestreaming has transformed the media landscape,” @unicornriot.bsky.social co-founder Niko Georgiades observes. “There's right-wing cats that've infiltrated all these places. You see 16-year-old kids with selfie sticks on TikTok. It's the content-creation game; it's the new game of media."

Friends, can you chip in to support our NE neighbor? He’s lost his family, and he’s staring down the barrel of an immigration hearing at Whipple next month gofund.me/39d8aaed4

it’s still abolish ICE baby, it’s always abolish ICE

First they came for the immigrants, and the freakiest people you know threw the fuck down because it was never going to end with immigrants.

for @autostraddle.bsky.social, i wrote about how minnesota's queer-owned businesses (and queer folks in general) are standing up to ICE and defending their communities:

holy shit y’all, in just over an hour you raised more than $5,000 to help a local family. blown away. i’ll share receipts soon, and we’ll coordinate with stand with minnesota to get any additional funds where they’re needed most. I LOVE THE TWIN CITIES.

we’re up over $4,000, so let’s hit that $4,785 total and meet this family’s need today!!! just a lil over $500 to go💗 V: @em-cassel PP: @biketrouble

y’all are incredible—we’re 3/4 of the way to our goal within the hour. i’m in awe. please keep donating! V: @em-cassel PP: @biketrouble

Run it up

can I get one of my out of state followers and buds to match me? If we each do $50 that’s $100!!!

y’all have already donated over $1,000! can we meet this mom’s need today?? i would love to see it!!! V: @em-cassel PP: @biketrouble

In addition to @racketmn.com being a wonderful source of Twin Cities news (support them with a subscription), they’re also all good people. Help them help others!