there are TOO MANY NEIGHBORHOODS in Ward 1

I still don’t know who Kash Patel is or what his job was before the FBI but he seems woefully incompetent

I still don’t know what possessed my children to bend over and stick their butts up in the air at Perkins

I'm not an abolitionist of all of psychiatry. The drugs are great so thanks. I know if they cared about mad people the drugs wouldn't destroy our bodies but I digress. I'm an abolitionist of caging people for madness. It's well possible for people in mental crisis to be cared for in community.

We went to Perkins for dinner tonight to celebrate Christmas just our immediate family and it was a disaster and sometimes parenthood is just not the clean homes and calm scenes you see on Instagram

Elect Jason for everything. 🩷

this liar said he vetoed an ordinance that required humane treatment for large homeless encampments, including toilets, handwashing, trash pickup and fire safety, for the sake of homeless people. Seriously fuck this dude and yall who voted for him yall deserve the same scorn

I’ll put out an ask and see what we can do. I’ll drop anything to vote on an override.

Anyway, the Rise & Remember plan - which wouldn't require city funding - is just an all around better plan and has the blessing of George Floyd's family. The city needs to get it's act together and move forward w what is IMO the only truly viable proposal.

A white male Star Tribune columnist has opinions about George Floyd Square and spends zero time talking to George Floyd’s family members, or the Community Visioning Council. Wow.

Maybe the city didn't fund the Urban League proposal bc the city funded the UL's Sharon Sayles Belton Center just a few blocks up 38th back in 2002, which UL sold only 13 years later. Now that bldg is a for-profit pre-school that received a huge tax abatement last year.

Designating fentanyl a WMD will worsen fentanyl misinformation, which does not prevent overdoses -it makes them deadlier- & harms anyone who could ever need pain treatment, anesthesia, & more. Patients already refuse one of the safest, best studied, easiest-to-dose pain meds because of such misinfo!

Yesterday, Frey said he “will continue to work collaboratively with the Council” and that “voters were clear in their call for a collaborative approach from City Hall.” Waiting until Council couldn’t vote to override his humane encampment ordinance veto was cowardly and cruel to unhoused people.

MPD assisted ICE with escorting their vehicles. One of the vehicles had a pregnant woman detained. The woman was forced out of the vehicle and was never shown a judicial warrant. MPD ENABLED A KIDNAPPING when they assisted ICE on 12/15 at 29th and Pillsbury.

This is a deterioration of democracy, politics, games, and complete disregard for unhoused people and public health. We had the votes to overturn the veto, so we are now seeing anti-democratic maneuvers being played which will ultimately hurt unhoused people. 2/

The City Council scheduled an override session yesterday to consider the Mayor’s vetoes. Instead, Mayor Frey waited until there were no more council meetings to prohibit an overturn of the humane encampment response ordinance (even though he said he would veto it last week). 1/

LA did this first and set the tone for the rest of the US

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year. (Published July 2024)

the good that you do persists in this world

IN WARD 9 WE LOVE OUR NEIGHBORS

Hell is not hot enough

This is my first year as an MPS parent and I have to say that my son’s public school is a DREAM

Everything is terrible so here is a December highlight.

I bought groceries today and my children have already eaten half of them AMA

Wanted to take cute photos of my kids in their Christmas pajamas and instead I have videos of them wrestling

We have received so many donations and we are still almost out of blankets AGAIN. If you have extras, if you can go to the Goodwill By the Pound locations, if you can find a bag sale, we give them out at the same rate as we are getting them in, it is dangerously cold out.

I’m thinking about our unhoused neighbors who have been facing below freezing temperatures. It’s a fact that there are barely enough shelters available for our neighbors who continue to be kicked out from block to block. They have also been turned away from a lack of shelter capacity. 1/

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People are sleeping in storefronts, which is MORE DANGEROUS for them, because people like the author of this piece and our ~mayor~ don’t let them stay in encampments. Can’t cause a problem and then complain about it, Kevin Norman! minneapolistimes.com/update-a-cry...

The busiest bus line in the most populous county in Minnesota is the D Line. These photos were taken within a block of it on either side. Even if sidewalk clearing occurred, parking clearing took precedent. Municipal sidewalk clearing is a moral obligation. Frey opposes it, Schaffer opposes it.

All I’m saying is that Santa Claus is real and she lives in South Minneapolis and you just might know her.

thanks to the 50+ community members who came to my pop-up in Cedar-Riverside today 🩵 in 2 hours, we raised $800+ for local organizations assisting our immigrant community special thanks to Trinity Lutheran for hosting today’s ICE Observer / Community Defense training & our screen printing workshop

PLEASE donate to our Venmo! We have trusted friends and collaborators bringing heat sources to as many people as we can find but we are running out of money and it is unbearably cold. Your neighbors need your help. @supplydepotmpls 💕💸

if you're sharing tips of how to stay warm while protesting ICE now in minnesota, or if you're cheering on those protestors, please contribute if you can or share this. there's a lot of energy around that effort now compared to the unhoused people living outside and we have to show care for them

Keeping people warm is a lot harder this year with the mayor preventing people from forming encampments. Can you imagine being out there and not being able to come together and work collectively?

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Mayor Frey says he is already planning to veto this. A bare minimum policy. This is in addition to his refusal to implement emergency housing vouchers & the expansion of stable homes stable schools earlier this year. There’s no plan and no will to implement solutions that are funded.

When Frey says that he's going to veto the humane encampment response ordinance while maintaining his administration's encampment policies, that is him telling us that he's okay with this sort of thing. Same goes for the CMs that voted against the ordinance.

I’ve seen a lot of people saying rude things about unhoused people wearing Jordans but as a parent of two young children I can tell you that Jordans are really good shoes that last forever

MPD blew through their budget this year… and for what? Women of color like Allison Lussier and Mariah Samuels died after MPD neglected them. MPD left victims of racist violence like Davis Moturi left without answers. Amir Locke’s murderer was promoted to use-of-force training.

They should invent a city that doesn't spend 60% of its budget on cops

And pro-cop liberals/progressives are to blame for swallowing the propaganda that police/feds are on our side, working professionally to protect us. Consequently for supporting most of the budget, staffing and infrastructure growth that has made this immigration brutality possible.

I would love for Minneapolis public works to have some COMMON SENSE and not plow school streets during dropoff and pickup times

"They came up with one wildly racist and false smear campaign after another against Senator Omar Fateh—demonizing him, darkening his image, and weaponizing similar rhetoric we are seeing today...it is not surprising that [Trump] hopped on the bandwagon to scapegoat our community."

I find it disheartening how little LA is mentioned when it comes to organizing and ICE response. LA is going on month 7 of ICE occupation and organizers are still doing shifts in Home Depot parking lots, fundraising to keep street vendors home, and serving unhoused people.

$140K is a lot of money and if Jacob Frey wanted a higher paying job he could have not run for reelection and instead gone to work at a law firm or as a lobbyist. We had 3 other great candidates who would have gladly taken $140K to be mayor.

My parents had to work up to 3 jobs each growing up just to barely make it by. I believe that we make more than enough. I cannot justify these increases while my constituents are paid poverty wages. I do this job because of public service not because of money.

He threw out homeless people's tents with his bare hands. I'm not exaggerating, he did it on camera, on purpose

I thought tonight we’d make some nice family memories by listening to Amy Grant’s Christmas album and baking Christmas cupcakes. I miss the person I was 2 hours ago