Personally vouching for this South MPLS request. Husband/father taken by ICE at his normal immigration appointment, he’s been the sole earner for the family here and his parents in Ecuador.

This sweet family has a little baby and a teenager. They went through so much to be here. Please give if you can.

This sweet family has a little baby and a teenager. They went through so much to be here. Please give if you can.

Thanks to a surge of support from a handful of local librarians (you know who you are!), we’re down to needing just $2000! Here’s a new graphic if you’d like to share on other platforms.

God, Brandi Carlile just makes me want to be gayer … somehow?

I've been friends with my best friend so long, our grandmas were high school best friends!

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

Just remember that DHS is building concentration camps, and, if you built it, they will get filled.

Good morning. Abolish ICE. I’m going to highlight some fundraisers with low numbers in the thread.

My sister lives in Baldwin and ICE has been on the ground taking people for weeks, including dairy workers. As someone who grew up in rural northwestern Wisconsin, abducting and disappearing folks in less population-dense areas is TERRIFYING.

Justice Page is our neighborhood middle school and I've talked to kids that attend. They miss their classmates, they have frequent "code yellow" lock downs. Please help if you can.

This is why expanded IMLS funding isn't really a good thing under the current regime--funding is the tool through which they will seek to push and control a narrative that will unmake and disassemble our libraries under the fascist image of trump's big government plan that we likely will never undo.

$1420/$3000! I bet we can crack two bills by tonight, at this rate?

I am accepting this challenge and raising $1200 for one Minneapolis family to cover their overdue rent today. Venmo me at nkkritzer and I will send the money to that family once it's raised. I believe in us. Cat photo because you know who likes cat photos (everyone, everyone likes cat photos)

Can vouch for Alexis -- please help if you can!

"The propaganda is going to get a lot worse and more pervasive before it gets better... our tax money was given to a private business actively destroying our public education systems, [and] none of the grant money allocated for libraries and museums will go to actual libraries and museums."

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

My playbook:

As a parent it’s your instinct to comfort tears, almost a knee jerk response to say “it’s okay.” But it’s not, and when your child is old enough they look you in the eye and say “no, it’s not. Explain to me how it’s okay.” And you can’t because the knee jerk response is a lie.

Please share this far and wide. beyondbeurreblanc.substack.com/p/support-ea...

A suggestion if you’re emailing someone in Minneapolis and you don’t live there: don’t start your email with anything like “hope your year is off to a great start!”

I am a multigenerational Minnesotan who has always known my family's immigration history. My grandfather came from Croatia, my grandmother's parents were still recent immigrants when she and her siblings were born. My Irish great-grandfather brought many of his family to St. Paul.

Minneapolis question: I know there's a local need for blood. Does it matter in any way if I donate through Red Cross vs Memorial Blood?