Madi's work on this article is tremendous. It's so important to document this moment. This family's story about self-deportation is a sadly common one that I've heard variations on so, so many times. But it's the photo that rips me apart. The boy, Mateo, is the same age as my son. Heartbreaking.

I agree that the people obsessed with pushing poor people out of Uptown are making the place unwelcoming to all of us.

Axios: Mpls Council floats end of Office of Community Safety as “failed experiment.” I supported overarching public safety dept concept (beyond just MPD, to boost other public safety efforts) but Frey made it a $330,000 flak-catcher & responsibility-dodger for him. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

Never forget that if not for 1 brave teenager, the MPD would have gotten away with their craven murder of George Floyd. “Medical incident” It would have barely made local news. Has anything changed?

do you rent from a hornig building in minneapolis? the hornig tenants union are meeting this tuesday from 6-7:30!

We could’ve had Ben Wikler. Maybe we still will.

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

Leave Ken Martin alone. The real criminals are those who could smell the doofus on Ken Martin from a mile away but promoted him to DNC chair anyway.

This is so great!

Gotta say this is an all-timer from @maxnesterak.bsky.social, just legendary

imagining a world where blue state public universities pass policies giving in-state tuition to red state students wanting to escape to safety

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...

Nothing makes you look guiltier than forcing the Justice Department to promise never to investigate your taxes or prosecute you for anything they might find

Aimee Bock has received the sentence she deserves. I thank federal prosecutors for their years of hard work to hold fraudster-in-chief Bock and the other fraudsters accountable and congratulate them on this outcome. Justice has been done.

Every person that participated in a BLM protest, ICE protest, were targeted in an ICE raid etc, needs to apply to the bullshit slush fund for payment. Flood the zone. Put muck in the gears of the corruption machine. Make them work for their larceny...

This is at $525/$2300 which is over 22% funded! $1775 to go!

Good

There's people who want to actually address fraud, and fix it, and then there's the ones who want to use it as a way to cover their racist asses and fuel rage and division. Minnesota has been working on the former and now we've got RFK and his crew coming into town to do the latter. Disgusting.

The Biden Administration also wronged me, and I will now apply to Trump's "slush fund" and demand millions of dollars. I recommend that every American flood the system. Thanks @muellershewrote.com for the tip. I am no longer a silent victim!

I truly believe that the members of congress who have 7 months left after Trump dumped them can do something very important to turn our country around. I am rooting for you to do the right thing.

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/...

These are my last barn raisers under the Adopt A Rent umbrella. Y'all have come through for SO MANY RENTS that we've funded in this manner. Thank you!!!!

NEWS — Local prosecutors warn Trump: "If you send ICE to the polls, we'll put them in jail." District attorneys across the U.S. announced today that they’ll charge federal agents sent to conduct voter intimidation. “We’ll lock their asses up,” vowed Philly DA Larry Krasner.

This is going to help a lot of families this summer. MPS will have free meals for kids under 18, regardless of their enrollment in MPS school. No registration necessary, just show up. Locations in the link. www.mpschools.org/departments/...

The latest Hill & Lake Press displayed a pull quote from developer Stuart Ackerberg blaming Lisa for the Death of Uptown. I’ve done pleasant business with Stuart, but he also built a spec office building in Uptown & leased it to WeWork & then COVID happened so I think this is blame transference.

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.

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Good

I don't know how much it broke through to people who weren't on the ground in the Twin Cities during Metro Surge, but ICE agents were so horned up for violence that they did shit like shoot through closed doors and into childrens' bedrooms. It was all a power fantasy come to life for them.

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.

I’ve learned so much from @racketmn.com and I get so much joy from reading what regular commenters have to say! If you join today, you can get into the Friday open comment thread this week and sort through our nonsense!

Rent debt in Minnesota--the whole state!--may have as much as doubled in Jan-Feb due to Operation Metro Surge (estimated range of increase: 61%-115%) A calamity even for the families who weren't directly, physically harmed by ICE/DHS Even w/o OMS, typical MN rent debt is 10x rental assistance $

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.

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Think I’m gonna believe @aishagomez.bsky.social and the evidence over Elliot Engen

In the finest tradition of kids shitting on their GOP elected parents.

Another Great Migration.

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the abortion pill mifepristone can continue to be prescribed online or over the phone and sent through the mail. n.pr/42EBavp

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/

Well deserved.

Excellent

Wow

📣 Minneapolis! Choose your own civic engagement adventure tonight! 1️⃣ Property tax moratorium @ CANDO (3400 park) — 6pm 2️⃣ Data center moratorium @ Nokomis community center — 6pm 3️⃣ Cop Spa @ WCNO office (705 42nd ave N) —6:30pm

It will only get worse

This is an incredible idea & I love how many people are continuing mutual aid work & thinking about it all in so many different ways.

OMG everybody in Minneapolis take this survey NOW and don't go easy on them.

A Minnesota Star Tribune-KFF Health News investigation of hospital data and charity care programs shows most Minnesota hospitals provide little financial aid to patients and often make assistance difficult to get.

My U of MN department has launched a scholarship fund to honor Alex Pretti (BA '11) who got a Geography degree before becoming a VA Nurse. Here's how to give. The money goes to support students in our department. Thanks! makingagift.umn.edu/give/fund.ht...

ICE skulking around South Minneapolis today. Keep your eyes out and your whistles handy, neighbors