Ash Chudgar

This is true and really hard to swallow 😞

Excerpt from Myor Frey’s letter reads: “ood, there is no data to show that it does good. Pande”

oh okay, apply this standard to mpd funding

throughline from covid through epstein through genAI is CONSENT. our ability to engage in meaningful consent over our lives and collective futures is one way we describe our relative freedoms or liberation as communities

Better
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Hear hear. I will NEVER go back there, ever.

I won’t be going back. Target has been a safe haven for ICE and that’s unforgivable. ICE continues to feel safest in the Quarry Target parking lot and using their handicap spots without intervention.

Don’t shop at Target, shop at immigrant owned businesses and co-ops instead.

I absolutely loved this book review

From the Strib: Both Camacho's son and Aljorna's 18-month-old were relinquished to friends the next day under legal documents called a Delegation of Parental Authority (DOPA). They immediately returned the children to their respective grandmothers, who share an apartment in the Twin Cities. None of the occupants or their relatives were allowed back into the duplex, now an active crime scene, so the children could not retrieve any belongings. In the days that followed, Camacho's little boy asked his teacher to deliver some toys - a dinosaur, Play Doh and a Lightning McQueen car. His grandmother had another request: a baby bottle. The 18- month-old had not yet mastered drinking from an open cup, and the family did not feel safe leaving their apartment to go buy a bottle. Tricia Armstrong, a speech therapist who began working with the older boy last spring, dropped off the groceries and a few extras. "They're a wonderful family," she said, lambasting the DHS' attempt to paint them as "evil criminals" in their statements about the shooting. "The way it's spun makes it seem like [Sosa- Celis] is one of these dangerous, murdering rapist gang members from Venezuela." In reality, he has no criminal record beyond driving infractions. "It's cruelty on top of cruelty on top of cruelty."

One horror in this Strib story on ICE’s lies & violence against a North Minneapolis family hit home to this grandparent: an 18-month who couldn’t be fed for 24 hours because their mom was kidnapped & the grandmas couldn't leave their house to buy a baby bottle. www.startribune.com/federal-agen...

the way ive lost shame abt asking for $$, or randomly talking to people i don't know (when my normal mn reserve wld indicate i shldn't be annoying), my video footage of how i spoke to ICE agents, all of it absolutely blows my mind sometimes.

u don't know u got that loon in you until u just do it.

Hundreds of lawyers put aside the need to make money, forfeited sleep, and took on habeas cases. When you pass the bar you are deemed competent to practice every type of law. The reality is, you are not competent to practice any. But you learn. And you learn how to become competent at new areas.

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I’ve always been baffled that she didn’t become a huge star after that. She was absolutely brilliant as Adriana, a character that now has a permanent place in my imagination

Mpls mutual aid t-shirt update: 2 unisex styles — white ringer sizes XS-3XL & blue unisex fitted XS-5XL. Cost: $37.50, includes shipping; 100% after production costs to Lucy Laney School mutual aid fundraiser on north side; only 10% funded right now. Order site up Thursday. givebutter.com/lucy-laney

For some reason I find it just profoundly shocking that literally any grown-ass adult would lie about his shoe size and then just … commit to it. A minute ago I would have flatly denied the possibility

I don’t understand why they do not simply send an aide to the store to get them the same shoe in a size that fits them. Utterly baffled by this

Oh buddy. It’s so rough right now ❄️

Oh man, I feel this so hard. I’d give you a big hug if I could.

Helped my neighbor scan some documents he needs ahead of an immigration hearing: asylum application, birth certificate, police report from Ecuador. He said his wife had guarded the documents ferociously all the way here. He showed me how she held them above her head as they forded the Rio Bravo 11/x

After detainments and deportations, the lives left behind in Minnesota From abandoned possessions to unpaid rent, many Minnesotans had to lean on family, friends and community organizations for help with their unfinished business.

“Eight days after Paco’s arrest, Mercedes found some of his clothing in the gap between his side of the bed and the wall. … Mercedes realized she could still smell his scent on them. She cried and then put the clothes back.”

Extraordinary reporting from @emmamarienelson.bsky.social and JP Lawrence

We literally watched videos literally every single day of ICE literally assaulting people violently for no reason. What the fuck, man

Evictions are far more costly than 30 extra days and it’s not close. Especially when the 30 extra days will often result in landlords getting money they’re owed from their tenants anyways.

I think it is good to crowdsource therapeutic processing here!

MPD's "duty to intervene" is meaningless when his police force worked through the last few months without a single intervention. He should just acknowledge there was no amount of lawlessness federal agents could've done that would have triggered an intervention.

i got tear gassed three times dawg

Police Oversight Commissioner to Chief O'Hara: "There are thousands of people like me who took time from their daily life to patrol and do dispatch. We feel hung out to dry. I wanna know when the next surge happens if you are gonna be able to provide any support when they threaten our lives again."

I went to the hospital with cracked ribs, I guess I'm not a person.

thank you council president elliott payne for keeping us safe on the emergency bike ride tonight, truly a leader 🫡

@elliottpayne.org

New signs of liberation in #SaintPaul

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

I almost don’t want to say it out loud, but Central was just really lively! Families returning, [redacted] was almost full!

I haven’t seen it like that since November. Beautiful day. Nature is healing.

Donate to Help Kelsey, Adam and Abel Rebuild After House Fire, organized by Claudia Stephens Kelsey Anderson (my niece) is a hardworking single mother and ski… Claudia Stephens needs your support for Help Kelsey, Adam and Abel Rebuild After House Fire

There was a serious house fire earlier this week on Polk street. Not only is the family suffering from the damage to their house, but early in the morning after the fire their house robbed and belongings were stolen. Let’s help our neighbors in Waite Park recover.

gofund.me/37db535f8