I love my job. I love what I do. I find deep satisfaction in fighting this fight. It’s exhausting. It’s mentally crushing. At times I daydream about doing something where I craft beauty and joy and bring folks happiness.

For 7 years, Mayor Frey has lied. He lied about no-knock warrants and Amir Locke died. He lied and said there were only 27 unhoused people in the city—facts prove him wrong. He even vetoed the Uber/Lyft wage bill after vowing to support it. Minneapolis needs a leader, not a liar.

remembering this from 2010 for no particular reason

I planned to vote early, but forgot I'd signed up to receive an absentee ballot in every election! It arrived yesterday and I already voted ❤️ for Fateh, Davis, & Hampton, Jason Chavez, EHB, Wilson, Olsen & Kedar ✔️ Here's where you can request an absentee ballot: mnvotes.sos.mn.gov/abrequest/in...

My client in a police misconduct lawsuit won his appeal to the 8th Circuit today! This was a heartbreaking case where he was tortured via pain compliance while locked down to equipment to protest the construction of Line 3 💔 Here's the 8th Circuit opinion: ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/25/09...

I lived in San Francisco from 2006-2012 & saw firsthand how rent control benefited tenants. Four years ago, Minneapolis voters authorized the City Council to craft a rent control ordinance. We still don't have rent control. But we have *one* mayoral candidate who supports it: @omarfatehmn.com 💯

A screenprint version of this popular image from Justseeds comrade John Fleissner! This print was originally created for students in Los Angeles leading walkouts against ICE raids. justseeds.org/product/no-p...

just a nice photo from yesterday taken by @joewmitchell.bsky.social

My law review article on the suppression of campus Palestine protests: “It is far easier to punish higher education institutions…and to disappear students from their dorm rooms…when campus protestors have been vilified over the course of more than a year.” scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcont...

It was an awesome performance. Took me back to playing "Hurt" with a close friend on acoustic guitars at a coffeehouse at St. Louis Park High School circa 2001 (so long ago! the Johnny Cash cover hadn't been released yet) 🎵❤️🎶 Also, loved to see so many NIN fans eating at J Selby's before the show!

Get ready for people pleading guilty based solely on AI-generated police reports: "six of the seven police departments that responded to Mother Jones’ public records requests had turned off features that required officers to review AI-generated reports." www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

BREAKING: The Cop City domestic terrorism charge against Jamie Marsicano has been dropped. DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Gregory A. Adams issued an order Thursday, stating that the 29-month delay in moving the charge forward violated Mariscano's speedy trial and due process rights.

From 2009-2011 in San Francisco, I regularly represented "unhoused people in traffic court to challenge the police citations they received for activities linked to their homeless status." At the time, I was a new lawyer & used an actual rubber stamp to place my contact information on business cards

they are murdering the people who tell the truth.

returned home from the north shore yesterday & got to see cloud cult with friends last night!

Large wildfires over 1K more than 3X in western US/Canada since 1970 due to hotter drier climate. 14+ million acres in Canada burned so far this year. Remote areas. Few roads. Impossible to extinguish at this scale. It's not Canada. It's climate change. #mnwx www.mprnews.org/episode/2021...

not to be hyperbolic but this is legitimately one of the greatest strikes i’ve ever seen

This St. Paul officer, Heather Weyker, was also a defendant in a police misconduct trial I won a couple years ago: www.twincities.com/2023/11/01/s...

Heartbroken to learn that Thomas Durkin, who Bernard and I co-counseled with on several Line 3 protester cases, has died 💔

now what is opposing counsel trying to say here? 🤔

RIP Dan Siegel. He was a real one.

Heard from a former client this morning & it looks like the settlement we reached has made a big difference in her life ❤️

timeline cleanse

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

a couple weeks ago I got the last loaf of chocolate zucchini bread at the farmers' market in clear lake, iowa 🎉

When I was a newborn I saved up and bought my own basket. We all did. This generation just wants a handout

We really needed a couple of good news stories this week!

I walked around Shulze Lake in Lebanon Hills Regional Park with my daughter this morning. We then swam in the lake. We walked around McDonough Lake afterward. Then we drove to J Selby's and had a nice lunch together. These are the kinds of things you only get to do like 200 times in your life ❤️🐠👣🥪

Minn. fed judge sides with intl student who challenged detention over pro-Palestinian speech: "a coordinated series of executive actions — retaliatory in focus, opaque in their justification, and deficient in process — that collectively offend foundational constitutional protections" buff.ly/92SuBQs

This is really interesting. The whole notion of the "car marshal" in the protest context is new to me, but makes perfect sense. I was in Charlottesville that awful day in 2017 when one of Trump's "very fine people" ran down Heather Heyer, a peaceful counterprotester of the far-right convergence.

great article on a case I took to trial recently!

The drive and the finish from Ant here is gorgeous

A friend & I saw Baroness at the Turf Club last night, which was fun. The last time I saw them was in a basement in South Minneapolis in July 2005 ... one of the best shows I've ever been to, especially because they were playing music from their First and Second EPs (check them out if you haven't!)

Today, Loevy + Loevy sued the Portland Police Bureau on behalf of Danyale Gill, who was framed at 18 for a shooting he had nothing to do with. Read our press release here: www.loevy.com/press-releas...

JUST NOW: the United States has filed a motion to dismiss the Minneapolis consent decree, stating that the U.S. "no longer believes that the proposed consent decree would be in the public interest."

Getting a text alert saying the National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning and just being happy knowing the National Weather Service still exists.

This morning the 8th Circuit is hearing three cases about law enforcement officers firing less-lethal rounds at protesters that caused significant injuries (broken fingers, head injuries). I represent 2 of the 3 plaintiffs. (The other case was in Iowa.) My co-counsel will present the oral arguments.

The Sanctuary Harpers Magazine harpers.org/archive/2020...

My sister who lives in Mexico City has been visiting Minnesota for the past two weeks. Yesterday evening a bunch of us went to the Twins game. An Orioles player threw a baseball to me & I gave it to a kid nearby who was there on his birthday. Super heartwarming moment for her last night in town ❤️⚾

these students are so fucking brave after everything that’s happened

happy mayday!

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Federal court says First Amendment bars government from arresting, deporting foreign students on basis of pro-Palestine advocacy. Important ruling from Judge Young just now in case brought by @aaup.bsky.social @mesa1966.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org. knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...

This is a great organization that you should all know about ... and there I am on the Zoom screen in this video, haha

Hey, I got some homemade maple syrup in the mail from a former client 🙌 "Honestly not a single week has gone by without me feeling immense gratitude for the work you did for me!" ❤️

RIP Tom Berg #mathrock #mn youtu.be/EFnutRjzQYE?...

I'm proud to have represented the whistleblower in this successful case. The company we sued has agreed to pay nearly $1.3 million to settle allegations of falsifying quality test results on government-funded road paving projects in Minnesota from 2017-2022. www.brainerddispatch.com/news/local/a...