Hey terrible news! Mn Sen. Ann Rest has cut the HCMC-saving sales tax plan from 1% to .25%, hiked the Twins’ skim (from $7m to $9m, way above current $1.1m). The sales tax will fall far short of what HCMC needs, so will do more to save the Pohlads than the hospital. assets.senate.mn/committees/2...

A Trump administration executive order that would require banks to collect citizenship information from customers is in "process," U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday, as experts warn it could leave millions of Americans without access to a bank account.

They think of this as success

Breaking: ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota county investigates ICE arrest of Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping and false imprisonment.

IRELAND: A man climbed onto the wing of a U.S. military Lockheed C-130 Hercules at Shannon Airport and struck it with an axe, causing “extensive” damage before being arrested, authorities said.

19 people freed in just 9 days. That’s 19 people back home, with their families, their friends, their communities, after enduring the trauma of detention. So far this year, we’ve secured 150 releases.

Finally caught a glimpse of Lake of the Isles' mythical rat boy. He's out there. The legend lives on. Believe and you will see.

ICE pulled over a man in Patterson, CA + shot him 6 times, hitting his face. ICE now says he is part of a gang in LA – a city he has no connection to. Carlos Mendoza Hernandez, 36, now in ICU, says he's "never ever been in a gang" + was shot without justification www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"All you had to do was pay us enough to live" Forces of capitalism, these are the Canaries in your coal mine. Pay attention to them. Might be important. Just might be. "All you had to do was pay us enough to live" www.instagram.com/reel/DW412NV...

Great idea to cut transit funding right at the outbreak of a prolonged oil shortage. Minnesota lawmakers should do precisely the opposite of what Walz is proposing. streets.mn/2026/04/07/t...

What outcome do you think is more likely if we eliminate confirmation votes for a handful of very important city department leaders appointed by the mayor? They become more professionalized and insulated from politics? Or the jobs tend to go to barely qualified friends of the mayor?

Very important read. Shit’s still happening! The oppression and violence is familiar but the resistance looks different in different places. 🧵⤵️

i really can't believe jacob frey never even did a photo op wearing a high-vis vest and whistle and doing school patrol to convey the message that he is part of the minneapolis community and with us on the ground in resisting ICE. guess the scars of 2020 run deep.

BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. I'll explain it all in 45 minutes on @meidastouch.com here: www.youtube.com/live/H-D8SzR...

And for his grand finale, Tim Walz gives us nothing! The wealth of the top 1% is at its highest, and the establishment continues to defend the status quo. News flash 🚨 – the status quo isn’t working.

Recommendations from the Urban Land Institute's "Uptown Rebound" study (paid for by the city) include removing half the street space on the Mall in order to add park space (sounds familiar). They make a similar recommendation for 31st St.

To give a sense of the enormity of the moment: the airplane nerd who became a resistance hero by taking photos at the airport got a prime speaking slot between Bruce Springsteen and Bernie Sanders and punctuated his speech in front of an impossibly large crowd with a remarkably subdued "fuck ICE."

Make sure to rotate your pronouns periodically, so that if your gender becomes compromised, attackers can only access it for a short period of time.

If the cops had shown up to a church for one (1) grocery packing trip I bet this shit would have passed

If you have a problem with the provision of city services, the way a city department operates, a lack of coordination with other levels of government, the first thing to incorporate into your activism is the knowledge that Minneapolis has a strong mayor.

Does everyone know about this really savvy and useful resource tracking real time evictions in Minneapolis? If you click on the "top evictors in Minneapolis" button it takes you to a proton drive showing neighborhood level eviction tracking updated most recently on 3/23. www.612landlordwatch.org

MPD abandoned the people of Minneapolis.

So MPD was getting calls about ICE harassing kids at schools … less than six months after Annunciation … and they just didn’t respond

I hate petroleum I hate cars I hate highways I hate driving

At recent meetings, the Minneapolis City Council has taken time to read and acknowledge resolutions of solidarity from far away city councils, and I hope they wrote back to tell those cities to stop wasting their fucking time.

oh my god

Fascinating poll on how pervasive ICE invasion was in the central cities. Almost one-fifth of St. Paul encountered ICE; more than a quarter of Minneapolis did. Either figure is astounding & awful; indicates Mpls enforcement was roughly half again more intense than St.P.

In three months, @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social has: -Vetoed an eviction extension that'll cause mass homelessness of our immigrant neighbors -Never stepped out on a patrol during federal occupation -Private meeting with Tom Homan with records deleted -Told ICE to fuck off, did nothing about it

Please, I am begging people: never again repeat the claim that only two people were killed in the occupation of Minnesota.

Jacob Frey is a bad person and a worse mayor.

CW: extreme police violence. A trans masc attorney in Oklahoma was arrested while in court for "contempt of court." The police kicked him and put him in a chokehold while he screamed that he couldn't breathe.

Seeing "trans kids given deadline to segregate themselves" and "trans women banned from yet another part of society" headlines *every single day* while everyone you know and every organization stays breathtakingly silent takes such a damn toll on your heart.

NEW: The government tells Americans to use VPNs to protect their privacy. The government also automatically presumes communications of unknown origin are foreign. Foreign communications don't require a warrant to wiretap. Lawmakers who've done the math want answers. My latest @wired.com:

don’t be under the impression that hao nguyen is a fellow progressive alternative to cedrick frazier for hennepin county attorney. he attended latonya reeves campaign kickoff for cd5! that’s him next to martha holton dimick, who ran against mary moriarty in 2022 and lost! frazier is the only choice

“The Adventures of Jester Jackalope” OUT NOW everywhere 😅❤️🎶 thank you for this life

Fill out this form to email the city council urging them to vote in favor! This resolution will go for a vote of Committee on Tuesday March 24th and final Thursday, March 26th buff.ly/ZyQuLpz

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

“Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment … But, in the end, we lose our humanity when we are thrilled by the destructive power of our military. … The longer we remain blind to the terrible consequences of war ...

Everyone needs to be talking about this.

Whelp. Just spent 2 days of my spare time watching congressional hearings and migrating all my stuff from Google to Proton. So, this is lovely news. Now what to do. 🤷‍♀️ I'm done for today, I think.

The joke is on you, far left defund the police wackos. You spent all that time complaining about how useless the police are. And now you're shocked and appalled when it's shown to be true.

Don't know if this adds up. -$5.2 million on police overtime -50,000 calls -1,000 days off cancelled -500 shift extensions -9 officers injured -14 PTSD cases -strengthened regional partnerships -deepened community relationships -0 interventions or cases submitted related to rampaging federal agents

If not rich, then why building valued at 9 MIL!? General counsel for John Wall (Wall Companies) and Steve Minn (Lupe Development) and lives in a $500,000 home (not gonna post the address but it’s true). Who can take the hit here? Flakne or a family of 6 on a HUD voucher living paycheck to paycheck?

They're calling her the goat, the greatest to ever do it, the genius of the 21st century, the most vindicated bitch who ever lived, her haters in shambles her doubters in tears she's loosed the faithful lightning of her terrible swift sword, HER TRUTH IS MARCHING ON MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED

Some stuff I've been drawing lately

Scenes from a Stump Party