Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

“Rebecca Michalski, who’s disabled, was forced to take out a loan this winter to pay her electric bill due to high heating costs. Her February charge was $940.08 — more than her fixed income and mortgage.” She's still behind on her utility bills. Just devastating. apnews.com/photo-essay/...

It's really striking, even for those of us who live here. The signs truly are all over *every single block*

Thousands of children have been separated from one or both parents amid heightened immigration enforcement in Minnesota and nationwide. The impact, from immediate adult responsibilities to chronic stress, is lasting, therapists say. By @bzosiad.bsky.social

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

Remember when DHS agents had no choice but to shoot two Venezuelan men because the men had attacked them with a snow shovel and a broomstick? New video shows they were lying about that one, too. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

The Trump administration plans to close two northern Minnesota U.S. Forest Service research facilities, including one in Grand Rapids that led globally recognized research on the impacts of climate change on forests and peatlands.

This is a multigenerational sin that isn’t really reparable

Of those who were deported from Minnesota, about 45 percent were labeled as collateral arrests, meaning federal agents encountered them in a public place or during an operation targeting another person, rather than targeting them explicitly. (5) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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🧵What's it like in Minnesota now? To me, it feels like we're in the re-witnessing phase of the occupation, where local reporters do the hard, necessary work of telling us in detail what we saw in terrified flashes three months ago. Every day, there's a story like this. 1/2

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Xcel Energy is lobbying Minnesota lawmakers to make permanent a controversial program that enables it to charge customers hundreds of millions of dollars for fossil fuel infrastructure upgrades without standard regulatory review energyandpolicy.org/xcel-guic-pi...

Springsteen: Well, this past winter federal troops brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis. They picked the wrong city. Your strength and your commitment told us that this is still America. And this reactionary nightmare and these invasions of American cities will not stand.

Holy shit, every single aspect of this story is so tremendously infuriating. How many of these kids are there, forced to suffer?

Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

"For most Americans, when they pay their electric bill every month, a big chunk of that bill – probably bigger than they think – is going to their utility’s corporate profits," @davidpomerantz.bsky.social told @silviomarcacci.bsky.social: thepowerline.substack.com/p/power-bill... 🔌💡

Reader, I sighed & then teared up. This is such massive help. $16 million helps 2,750 families cover rent through June. He’s trying to raise the other half. And the dude also delivered laundry during the siege.

An immigration judge has ended asylum claims for Liam Conejo Ramos and his family and ordered their removal. Their lawyer says an appeal is underway.

Here's a report about the steadily-rising profits of utility executives.

Here’s a (not-so) radical idea: your energy bills should not be paying for higher CEO salaries. We’re fighting for legislation to prohibit Minnesota’s utility companies from raising rates or using the money they make from energy bills to pay for C-suite salaries.

I started [gulp] a substack. It’s called Utility Watch, and will feature @energyandpolicy.org's research, with opinions and analysis from me. My first post is on utility profits, and why the politicians increasingly going after them are smart to do so. utilitywatch.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

Video I obtained through a public records request on behalf of MN50501 shows Liam and his dad boarding a Delta Air Lines flight at MSP. Delta was silent when workers were being snatched up by ICE at MSP, but was a vocal supporter of the Big Beautiful Bill, which increased ICE’s funding.

If you want to help ensure we can continue to keep this family housed, venmo @karleekarleekarlee with a 🏠 in the memo. Anything beyond what’s needed for them will go to other families in our South Minneapolis neighborhood who’ve been similarly impacted by ICE and need help catching up.

If you want to help ensure we can continue to keep this family housed, venmo @karleekarleekarlee with a 🏠 in the memo. Anything beyond what’s needed for them will go to other families in our South Minneapolis neighborhood who’ve been similarly impacted by ICE and need help catching up.

Xcel Energy’s electric subsidiaries earned about 17 cents on the dollar in 2024 and about 15 cents on the dollar in 2025. minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/12/y...

A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Tonight I heard from a Southside family we’ve been helping that their landlord is raising their rent from $1600 to $2000 and threatening to kick them out if they don’t pay. This family has been without income for three months because ICE is still here. Frey’s veto is monstrous.

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"There is no data showing this is true" is just... false? We did a study less than two years ago showing a pre-eviction notice CAN help! If you want to say you disagree with the study that's one thing, but it's another to deny that any data exists.

Mayor Frey’s veto today will contribute to mass evictions of residents in our city who were targeted by Operation Metro Surge. It is always more cost-effective to prevent eviction than to try and re-house families who have been evicted. It’s commonsense policy, rooted in compassion.

“This veto is a slap in the face of our immigrant neighbors who have been demonized and forced back into the shadows and the community who has spent months fundraising to keep families together.” - Council Member @jchavezmpls.bsky.social

This email from Elliott Payne sounds like he is fuming with rage

We have come together & collectively raised $34,634 to support Minnesotans who can’t keep up with utility bills. That's enough to support ~68 households. Please know: the need is great. The funds that have been raised are nearly all committed now, and CUB's phone line rings all day, every day.

This is what ecocide looks like.

A man who was held at an ICE detention facility in Texas before being deported to the Netherlands told the AP that he heard a guard talking about a staff betting pool on which detainee would be next to commit suicide

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

“I get so tired of the idea that progressives have gone too far in asserting that every human being deserves human rights when people are being shot in the streets of Minneapolis.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

Months of work and millions of dollars raised by thousands of our residents to help keep people in their homes comes down to the signature of one person. We’re calling on Mayor Frey to sign Pause Evictions, Save Lives. This policy temporarily gives residents 30 more days to help prevent evictions.

For those helping Minnesota families impacted by ICE: @cubmn.bsky.social is hosting a webinar on 3/12 at 6:30pm on how to set up payment plans for past-due utility bills, access utility bill assistance programs, and other helpful info. Register here: cubminnesota.org/utility-bill...

Most people might interpret this as a common-sense approach to buy immigrant families time to catch up and stay housed after ICE forced them into hiding, without income, for months. Mayor Frey, on the other hand, appears poised to veto it despite the catastrophic implications.

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Minneapolis Council Member Aisha Chughtai to Chief Brian O'Hara: “You show up to the scene and you see federal agents pointing their weapons at people, and you don’t feel a duty to protect the residents of this community and instead choose to leave the scene?” (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I profiled Jason Chavez, the Minneapolis city council member who has been embedded in community efforts to combat ICE. “To leave your constituents to face off with a racist fascist regime on their own, without having someone that has some power…I could not let my constituents be out there alone.”

"I fear some [council members] are indifferent." Have you paid someone's rent, organized a fundraiser, gone on patrol, found someone an attorney, done someone's laundry, delivered groceries, held a baby of someone sheltering in fear? "If not you may be too far removed to have good judgment."

A major beneficiary of this news is private equity giant BlackRock, which recently acquired the utility that will provide power to this data center. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission signed off on BlackRock's Minnesota Power takeover despite strong objections from consumer advocates.

Hennepin County Attorney debuts new evidence portal. Submit evidence you may have of federal agents conducting lawless rampages. www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/20... Note: this is different from the now-closed portal for evidence related to the Renee Good and Alex Pretti murders.