A Minneapolis neighborhood school created a @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social registry of books to send home with kids for the summer, and Moon Palace is selling them at a 20 percent discount! Order the books for local students at this link by May 29 moonpalacebooks.com/gift-registr...

It is true that when you defeat a specific proposal, the people who believe in that proposal don’t just die or give up. It is unclear why this fact is such a big surprise.

We identified 273 individuals with valid work permits who were arrested during Operation Metro Surge. That number is almost certainly an undercount.

Loudon County has 200 data centers occupying 43 million square feet, with 47 million additional square feet being reviewed. County leadership admits their failure to regulate early and now residents are facing energy shortages, rate hikes and sale of parks. www.naco.org/news/countie...

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

If I can't live in, eat at, work in or be entertained by a data center why would I want it in my vibrant downtown?

Reporting here confirming that Anoka and Scott County are actively working with ICE handing people over. That may seem far away because we’re Hennepin county, but you have to remember Anoka county directly borders Minneapolis with Columbia Heights. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

5/ Minneapolis residents deserve a say in the future of our city. The moratorium keeps this conversation public and transparent, putting the public interest ahead of profit.

The growth of data centers is a nationwide issue, and Minneapolis is no exception, drawing the interest of data center developers for future projects. We currently do not have a comprehensive regulatory framework, what we have is outdated and insufficient to meet the moment. 🧵

Trump has eviscerated the refugee program and turned it from a program of humanitarianism into instead a piece in an overall white supremacist project. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

With permission from one of my habeas clients, I can share that the Bloomington Police Department is proactively cooperating with ICE to detain our neighbors. This is a screenshot of official ICE records which show that a BPD officer reached out to ICE to drop a dime on someone in local custody.

Andrea Corbin chaired a PAC that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost the mayor's reelection last year and she's blaming the moneybags at the supposed bike lobby. And spinning theories about a city council member from 3 terms ago as the person who drove the outcome on a county project.

Now: About 100 rank and file Legal Aid Society attorneys and allies are rallying outside Brooklyn Criminal Court after a woman was forced to give birth in arraignment. They’re discussing other instances of clients dying in custody & harsher punishments for NYC’s poor.

These are on sidewalks around Northeast. Important reminder: they’re still taking our neighbors.

Every time people cite construction as a reason for small businesses closing in Uptown, I think about how the Minneapolis City Council funded a $900,000 construction hardship program that Mayor Frey did not implement.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ This would have been support for small businesses in Uptown.

No country in the world has been or is majority-fascist, but I'd go so far as to suggest the US is more fascist than most in history. It has two different fascist parties, a rare feature. The very idea the US is center-left is delusional.

So proud of my city councilmember @jchavezmpls.bsky.social who fights for the community

BREAKING: 144 House Democrats Join 203 Republicans to Pass CORCA Which Gives DHS and ICE the Absolute Power to Collect Personal Information on Everyone Under Guise of Fighting Retail Theft, in Case the Democrats Weren’t Disappointing You Enough

It was also as the omicron variant was ripping its way through the population. Omicron would kill even more than delta. But the administration was simply unwilling to stand by public health in the face of attacks from the right and industry pressure.

I’m afraid that too many people don’t understand just how terrible the Biden pandemic response was—and how it contributed to Trump’s return. I also fear that given how much this administration has dismantled public health, the appetite for looking back and identifying points of failure is low.

This Day in Labor History: May 16, 1934. Truckers in Minneapolis went on strike in an action that would lead the way for the Teamsters to represent truckers across the nation and help lay the groundwork for the organization of industrial workers across the nation during the 1930!!!

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $270B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $210B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.” (Published Dec. 2022)

Enshittifying communities with their stupid fucking driverless cars www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

The City’s own survey results showed the community found that Rise & Remember's proposal was most closely aligned with their values and garnered the most strongly positive reactions overall. 1/

We desperately need to get away from arguments for the humanities that elevate them because of what they do for technology. The humanities should not be understood as service disciplines. They are an extension of us, and that is enough.

Make sure you’re tapping back into your local chats so you’re able to activate when needed. More than anything, spend your time outside on cultural corridors. Be a visible presence out there and you’ll be helping protect your neighbors while also enriching your life spending summer outside.

It wasn't until a responding officer told him to "just move" that it struck him "they don't care about my life." "It felt like they [MPD] were trying to kill me as well."

Moturi says dozens of calls to police failed to address neighbor's violence, threats. The first time he called 911, officer who showed up was one who'd profiled Moturi 3 mos earlier. Having that officer respond was "shocking, but not shocking at all when you're a Black person living in this city."

Georgia's governor signs a comically transparent law. It makes local elections in 5 big blue counties nonpartisan, to give GOP candidates a chance to win without a party label in places like Atlanta. And it doesn't change anything in the rest of the state, for red counties to know who's GOP.

After the long hard winter in Minneapolis, this sunny cool spring is so spectacular it feels like mother nature is working overtime to heal our moods.

Ever happy to blame the workers. Is it the real estate speculators driving up costs? The food suppliers with a functional monopoly on a supply chain? Never! It’s those greedy workers demanding a fair shake. www.startribune.com/higher-pay-f...

This is a good article. When you're depressed, every obstacle seems enormous. Not having enough money, not having enough food, not having access to affordable healthcare, & having to deal with means testing bullshit all makes it harder to stay in the world. People need real world support.

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

This is what journalism is supposed to be about.

I really fucking needed this. Not as bad as my client, who's been locked up by ICE for over a year. But his case really hurt and I needed to win it for him and for me.

Jane filed suit. The district’s lawyer responded with a letter stating “Regardless of plaintiff’s intentions, the message imprinted on school property contained an image that either was, or was reasonably interpreted as, an expression of anti-Semitism and support for a terrorist organization.”

EXCLUSIVE: A Long Island school district has settled a lawsuit with a former student for $125k after they erased her artwork in the school parking lot of a watermelon and a keffiyeh, both symbols of Palestinian solidarity. But what she really wanted—a public apology—ultimately eluded her. My story:

On May 21st, the Minneapolis City Council takes the first step to establish a data center moratorium. The tech lobby is already working overtime to kill it by swaying votes. 1/ www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

The boiling frog scenario may be scientifically incorrect but as a political metaphor it's pretty spot on. This alone, just this story, should get round-the-clock attention.

After a trough of relatively less activity, that is fewer people calling me for help, I'm back up to 10 active habeas cases. I do not want to cause anyone undue alarm, but ICE has changed tactics and seems more likely to detain people when they go in for routine appointments with ICE.

Thousands of immigrants were detained in Minnesota this winter. Many detainees left behind families that depended on them, who are now asking themselves whether they can safely stay, or even safely leave. (1) share.google/LU759CxFdYgG...

Reminder that, beginning next week and running through the end of the year, renters in Saint Paul are required to have 60-days’ notice before they can be evicted for non-payment of rent.

First, we denigrate, tariff, and threaten other countries. Next we deploy a thuggish state paramilitary force to arrest anyone they think looks foreign, frequently violating basic rights. Then we make travel a lot more expensive with a war of choice we can’t fix. Hey, why aren’t you coming here?

Minneapolis residents and businesses are invited to engage in a conversation regarding the commercial pre-eviction notice ordinance being proposed by Council President @elliottpayne.org and I. 1/

“Research shows evictions drive poverty and homelessness, smudge renters’ records and limit future housing opportunities. Evictions during pregnancy are associated with adverse birth outcomes.”

So the Feds did more to investigate VA workers who went to Alex Pretti memorial than those who killed him.

the next governor of Minnesota: school lunches are too glamorous

2 other points: 1st, clearance rates by police deter crime. The HCAO isn’t seeing chargeable cases on vandalism. Second, the HCAO has an effective program when police can’t bring us a chargeable case. Hear about the Youth Auto Theft Initiative below. There have been NO referrals from LE this year.

And yes, I have love and appreciation for this so called ‘pet project’ that was vetoed via the budget in 2024 by Mayor Frey. The city’s funding would never have been possible if we had not overturned that veto.