In her defense, Sen. Fateh was the lead author on legislation that enabled comprehensive plans, like the 2040 plan, to be exempted from environmental review, which helped end lawsuits against it. Probably why she is bringing it up.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
A beloved workers' rights organizer in Minnesota, known for *successfully* fighting against wage theft and labor trafficking, has been detained by federal immigration agents and is now locked up in New Mexico. His family is calling for his urgent release. inthesetimes.com/article/work...
YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents**
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once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street
photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.
this photo. minneapolis. 💜
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Federal agents pinned a man to the ground in south Minneapolis and sprayed him with chemical irritants directly in the face.
Minnesota Star Tribune photographer Rich Tsong-Taatarii did not witness the man put his hands on agents.
Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much!
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Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”
People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
“Tincher has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Because she witnessed 🧊 kidnap her neighbors.
More great reporting from @jcollins.bsky.social 🙏🏼
There are no primaries for municipal elections in Minneapolis. Minneapolis deserves to have posters who know what they are talking about.
Kinda funny that the only candidate running in Ward 2 can’t be appointed to fill the vacancy since he is already on the park board.
The article was written by another outlet and reprinted by the Reformer.
Minnesota also has a couple of primaries for state special elections on August 26th.
Hoffman is a longtime supporter of Fateh. Hoffman endorsed him in 2020 when he challenged Jeff Hayden in the primary.
Candidates for Minneapolis Mayor answer our questions about housing.
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Great way to help support abundant homes in Minnesota! Gotta keep organizing to make the changes we know we need, and support from people like you makes organizing better and more effective!
They are both in attendance. Baskins is seated in the first row and looks quite bored.
People need homes.
We’re short 100,000 homes in MN.
In OR, they figured out how to build more.
Yet, the #mnleg has failed to make meaningful progress to make it easier to build more homes.
Why? City pressure. Talk to your city about why they oppose real fixes to our statewide housing shortage.
These funds are not currently frozen.
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Join him, and bring @amyklobuchar.com too.
I was at the Ward 2 caucus tonight. When Michael Baskins came into our room, I asked him what neighborhood he lived in and he said Prospect Park.
Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff
They would purchase electricity from the broader MISO market. Utilities do not directly purchase electricity from each other. This article explains the issue pretty well. www.startribune.com/why-ontarios...
