The level of anger normal Minnesota people have at their elected representatives is palpable. It's not about party, but the perceived failure of local/state electeds to do anything of substance to protect residents who pay their taxes and get left facing off alone against masked, armed men.
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Also make a plan for how to help out on Election Day: be a poll watcher, worker, drive folks to the polls, canvass, register high school kids in advance of their 18th birthdays etc
I cannot over-emphasize how important it will be for people to make a plan to vote early in-person this year.
I’m thinking about order this morning wrt the ICE occupation & the people’s response to it.
Because the power brokers expect order through control & obedience to a set of rules they impose.
Except the people of Minnesota, while acting very orderly, have managed to subvert the coercive control.
Wow, it's perfect for this time! Thanks for the recommendation.
Here's the link to "A Year Without Sunshine" for those interested: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
I want to thank all our neighbors who continue to support our communities. I see you. You’re still helping deliver groceries, you’re offering rides, mutual aid, rent assistance, helping people on your block with daily tasks, and you continue to observe the illegal actions committed by ICE. 1/
A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
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Could this possibly be because every single person I know is either donating to rent funds or actively running one?? Is she truly unaware of the Herculean efforts being made to pay these landlords?
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.
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Good question!
There were a few, and we unanimously passed all our resolutions all at once, rather than individually.
The moral sustenance bit is so key! We have love, truth, compassion, and working towards a better future with our neighbors on our side!
What sustenance does ICE have? The nebulous idea of a "homeland," fear, and a grasping desire for power?
The best part was that we approved all the resolutions all at once, after simply reading out their titles. Saved so much time!
Minneapolis 10-6 had about 70 people, and everything went smoothly. We only had one walking subcaucus, for the county convention delegate, and that sorted itself out rather efficiently. Done in 2 hours 15 minutes.
They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
I just got off the phone with Elizabeth's dad...she and her mom were freed tonight! Updated story: sahanjournal.com/education/co...
they shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti and 1 out of every 10 Twin Cities residents volunteered to take their place
Reminder: in the first month of this year ice murdered 9 people in cold blood that we know about.
Renee good
Alex pretti
Keith Porter Jr
Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres
Geraldo Lunas Campos
Víctor Manuel Díaz
Parady La
Luis Beltrán Yáñez–Cruz
Heber Sánchez Domínguez
The Trump administration says it's reviewing thousands of cases to look for potential fraud. A judge ordered a temporary pause, saying refugees cannot be arrested "without warrants or cause." n.pr/4kbGpdT
If more landlords were local, this could be more effective. The problem is when the landlord is a giant faceless out of state venture capitalist corporation. We're just a number on a spreadsheet, not people, at that point.
Thank you for going in there and exposing the conditions.
My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis.
This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg
Rep. Morrison on conditions at Whipple: "She said, 'they are treating us like animals in here. The women that are in this cell with me, we slept on a cold concrete floor last night. We were begging for a blanket, & guards were cruel'... we have to resolve that every single person deserves dignity"
Sounds like a wonderful plan to me! I so appreciate your leadership.
ICE claims a man shattered bones in his face and skull — gave himself a traumatic brain injury — by running into a wall. Hennepin County Medical Center staff say that's not possible.
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A great way to support my neighborhood's vulnerable families today. Thank you! gofund.me/5b2ec951c
statement from jamael lundy, SD65 senate candidate, after he was arrested by federal agents for being part of the protest at a st. paul church that is led by an ICE agent
don lemon and georgia fort were arrested the same day for covering it
