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This is what ecocide looks like.

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.

"I demanded that they leave, and they didn't really listen to me at first. But there were enough people there blowing whistles that maybe they were just annoyed enough to leave on their own."

Council President Elliott Payne describing the moment his community annoyed ICE out of a police precinct parking lot will eventually rank alongside Lincoln's best civil war quote memes.

Nonprofit “affordable housing” providers showing up to testify against Pause Eviction Saves Lives is just further highlighting the way in which nonprofits & foundations have completely failed to meet this moment. This is why we need actual social safety nets, not the Nonprofit Industrial Complex.

"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."

Tomorrow we’re taking up Pause Evictions Save Lives, a policy that will temporarily extend pre-eviction notice from 30 to 60 days until August 31st. This will give residents more time to get resources and support so that families can stay together and we can keep people in their homes.

Can’t wait to wear this shirt.

At 8:30 PM on Saturday night we have ICE in the quarry parking lot and they start driving off erratically through the City the minute people go up and try to talk to them. Their lawlessness and terror continues so please continue to be out there looking out for your neighbors and staying safe.

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We’re asking for your help because it’s the end of the month & our neighbors need assistance. ICE is still here & many neighbors are at risk of eviction. We’ll keep working to ensure government does more to step up, but our neighbors need help now & there’s less mutual aid coming in than before.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to lift

Last night my state Rep. @aishagomez.bsky.social delivered a guy-wrenching tribute to Minnesota's fight against federal oppression.

It's a must-watch but this was my favorite part: They call us paid protestors because they can't conceive that we love our neighbors enough to stand up for them.

Ward 1 - Elliott Payne Council President Elliott Payne represents Ward 1, a collection of neighborhoods in Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis. Council President Elliott Payne

On Presidents’ Day, I’m proud to celebrate our President - by which of course I mean Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne.

We’re going to continue being out there and patrolling to protect our neighbors until every single last agent is gone. We’re also going to keep this connection going and continue building community for long after whenever this operation ends.

To commentate Valentine’s Day, community members and Recovery Bike Shop help put hearts along central at spots where our community members were taken. In the last 3 months at least 38 people have been taken around central Ave.

Tune in Sunday at 7 am ET for interviews with:
@douglasemhoff.bsky.social
@repangiecraig.bsky.social
@symonedsanders.bsky.social
@elliottpayne.org
Former Federal worker & Congressional Candidate J.P. Cooney
@zachdembo.bsky.social
& Former Federal Worker & Congressional Candidate Katrina Swanson

I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...

Pulitzer for this.

I’ll believe it when I see it. Everything they’ve said about this illegal occupation has been built on a lies.

We need accountability for our neighbors and for this whole corrupt department to be dismantled.

Stay out there, keep your connection to one another, and only believe your eyes.

This morning Tom Homan announced operation metro surge would end soon. I’ll believe it when I see it. We still need people out and staying vigilant until every last agent is gone and everyone wrongly taken to Texas or anyone else is back home.

Hell yeah we are. ❤️‍🩹✊❤️

This thread is beautiful. Thank you for sharing these thoughts, Ash!

And as always: “I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.”

At a time when Republicans are demanding MN voter rolls, our children are too afraid to go to school out of fear of being kidnapped by Trump’s masked killer goons, and attacking & slandering our Somali neighbors, the SD60DFL exec committee has revoked the Folk campaign’s access to our caucus data.

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

There was so much ICE activity today. A group of agents spent the whole morning inside Jimmy’s Bar and then ended up driving erratically all throughout the Holland & Como neighborhoods, eventually trying to park at the 2nd precinct police station.

Everything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began.

Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

This afternoon a group of us met at Recovery and rode down together to the bike ride to honor the life of Alex Pretti.

Keep getting out and connecting with other community members to find activities that sustain you because we are in this for the long haul and this is how we win.

Fundraising text from Governor Tim Walz reads: “Hey, it’s Tim Walz. I just got off the air with Anderson Cooper live in Minneapolis. Here’s what I told him: 𝙄’𝙫𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙖 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙣. Donald Trump is trying to make an example out of Minnesota. His message? Sit down, shut up, and fall in line. But here’s the catch: If he’s trying to make an example out of us, I’m damn proud of the example we’re setting. We’re meeting fear and division with decency and generosity, and we’re not backing down. The Trump administration is picking legal battles with me in the hopes that I’ll stop defending you. 𝗜𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. I will never give up on defending Minnesotans – but these legal fights are expensive by design. So if you have $10 or $20 to chip into my legal defense fund, it’ll go a long way: twalz.com/l/jFcQQd Thank you for all of your support. Whether you can donate or not, if” Remaining text continues on next screenshot.

Remaining fundraising message from Governor Tim Walz reads: “there’s one thing you take away from this message, let it be this: 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗼𝗸𝗲 𝘂𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴. Text STOP to quit”

@governorwalz.mn.gov, I’m thrilled to read via fundraising text that you’ll never stop defending Minnesotans. I agree: your constituents are meeting this moment.

We need you to defend us. Come Feb 1st, you can keep vulnerable families in their homes by enacting a statewide eviction moratorium NOW.

We’ve been on the streets all day with @bradlander.bsky.social and because we had so many patrols out, multiple abductions were prevented.

The world is looking to us for inspiration, and we will keep showing them how we show up for our neighbors.