Nat’s Stray Thought Collection

Council Member Jason Chavez's Statement on  Mayor Frey’s Veto of Pause Evictions, Save Lives Dear neighbor, I am disappointed that Mayor Jacob Frey vetoed the Pause Evictions, Save Lives Ordinance. This policy would have temporarily given residents 60 days before an eviction is filed for the non-payment of rent. This is an anti-displacement measure, would help prevent evictions, give residents more time to pay rent, and would keep families together amid the occupation of our city by the federal government. There’s been months of work and millions of dollars raised by thousands of our residents to help keep people in their homes. Minneapolis residents have been heroes and their tenacity has kept people safe and in stable housing. Unfortunately, Mayor Frey’s veto will lead to the mass displacement of our neighbors. This veto is a slap in the face of our immigrant neighbors who have been demonized and forced back into the shadows and the community who has spent months fundraising to keep families together.  The cameras may have left Minneapolis, but the majority of this city believes in supporting our immigrant neighbors. The data is clear, and we need solutions to address this crisis. Unfortunately, due to Operation Metro Surge, Minneapolis has: * At least $203.1 million in impact to Minneapolis in one month alone. * An additional 76,200 people citywide may be experiencing food insecurity as a result  and there's an estimated $9.75 million in additional monthly food assistance costs. * At least $15.7 million in rent assistance is needed each month for households impacted to be able to pay rent. This estimated cost likely underestimates the need. * $47 million monthly estimate in lost wages.  Pause Evictions, Saves Lives is a strong tool meant to prevent eviction, displacement, and unsheltered homelessness due to Operation Metro Surge. It is always more humane and cost-effective to prevent eviction than to try and re-house families who have been evicted. Mayor Fr…

Council Member Jason Chavez's Statement on  Mayor Frey’s Veto of Pause Evictions, Save Lives

Dear neighbor,

I am disappointed that Mayor Jacob Frey vetoed the Pause Evictions, Save Lives Ordinance. 1/

The Democratic party is as unpopular as it is because its own voters find the party feckless and weak.

Blueskeeee

The audacity to say posted instead of skeeted.

They are incredibly expensive to maintain. 😭

Investigation: DHS increasingly targeting U.S. citizens A new Wall Street Journal investigation finds the department is increasingly turning its wrath on U.S. citizens, punishing them for filming or observing officers.

A new Wall Street Journal investigation finds DHS is increasingly turning its wrath on U.S. citizens, punishing them for simply filming or observing officers.

Belle Cushing is one of the reporters behind the investigation. She spoke with MPR News guest host Emily Reese about it.

Nearly every home outside downtown St. Paul and Minneapolis are like this until you get to the suburbs.

Minnesota Senate Minnesota Senate Building 95 West University Avenue Saint Paul, Minnesota 55155 Minnesota House State Office Building 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvo Saint Paul, Minnesota 55155 March 10, 2026 Dear Mayor Frey, As elected officials who represent Minneapolis, we ask you to sign Pause Evictions Save Lives (legislative file 2026-00099). Temporarily extending the pre-eviction notice from 30 to 60 days gives our residents extra time that is desperately needed to help find resources to prevent eviction. We've all been amazed by our shared constituents' resiliency and resolve in the face of ICE's illegal occupation of our City. Our residents banded together to protect one another, even raising millions of dollars in mutual aid funds to help keep their neighbors in their homes. It's our duty as elected officials to match the commitment in our residents to try and keep as many of our neighbors in their homes as possible. We look to Minneapolis to lead the way and are working on similar bills to extend pre-eviction notices statewide to help our neighbors. Signing the Pause Evictions Save Lives measure will bolster our efforts and reinforce our message to our colleagues about the way in which pre-eviction notices help prevent families from being evicted. We've been so proud of the work of the City of Minneapolis to respond to this unprecedented federal invasion. Your work to increase funding for immigration legal services, rental assistance, and creating a small business resiliency fund has shown how elected officials can meet the moment. Signing Pause Eviction Save Lives is the next step in helping our residents recover and ensure none of them are left behind. Sincerely, DoaChh Senator Doron Clark Minnesota Senate District 60 Senator Melissa Wiklund Minnesota Senate District 51

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elected officials in the minnesota state senate and house representing minneapolis have sent a letter to mayor jacob frey urging him not to veto the pause evictions, save lives bill which would extend the notice period from 30 days to 60 to address the financial impact of the ICE occupation

Finally reading

These Violent Delights
Our Violent Ends
By Chloe Gong

Every Shakespeare class should include these R&J retellings in the course. Read the original-hate it because you don’t fully understand it—then read these two books to finally get it.

I keep thinking about how my entire childhood was made for pedo eyes and it bleeds into my few positive memories of it. Nothing about my childhood was ok, on a personal and global scale.

And every day that the United States of Israel exists only makes me angrier.

Exile him to the sun, on one of Musk’s rockets with the other billionaires.

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

People are so upset about the price of gas as if you can’t just run a car on racial slurs

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Just an overhaul?

No. It needs to be abolished.

“Western civilization” is and always has been powered by colonization, enslavement, and the murderous exploitation of other nations’ resources

Photo credit: @Ravensblossom on instagram The bishop Henry whipple federal building in Minnesota—where ICE detainees are held—is shrouded in a heavy layer of fog in the morning. The building and the land it sits on is surrounded by concrete barriers and tall metal fences to keep people out.

Credit for image: @ravensblossom.bsky.social

#Minnesota #ICE #ICEOUT

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

They are literally rounding up immigrants right now. The police state that makes this possible was built on abusing and incarcerating Black, Indigenous and Mexican people. All of us are on the list, all of us are in danger, just different places on the white supremacy hitlist

Deserved. Sinners is a fantastic movie and he did a phenomenal job. It was easily some of the best performance work I’ve seen in years.

You can encourage people to become more civically involved without downplaying the importance of voting.

Voting is just one part of it... but it is an important part.

So is being active in your community and speaking up for the causes that you believe in.

Both matter greatly.

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.

the best time to stand up for us was years ago when we told you where this was all heading

until cis people decide to stop this,
it’s gonna continue

you see where this is heading

the second best time to stand up for us is NOW

Block by block, our South Minneapolis neighborhood got through February by tapping our networks to cover rent for immigrant families, but rent is due again on Sunday and we need to raise at least $26K to make sure our neighbors aren’t evicted givebutter.com/corcoran-nei...

I had a friend who needed to put in an IUD in a red state. Doctors pushed back every step of the way, several flat out refused her. She even crossed state lines to get one in before a doctor near her agreed to it, not after belittling her of course, 2 kids isn’t enough to them apparently.

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

Part of the problem here is a long-standing issue of mine: The public gets a huge benefit from beat journalism—but the journalism industry does not, by and large, recognize beat journalism for its value or when it comes to awards and prizes. Those go to investigations and "one big thing" features.

One of the kind of fucked up parts of the ICE occupation here is that a lot of folks want to believe it’s over, and the media seems to tell us it’s over, but folks on the ground are still seeing tons of activity and vulnerable people are still (rightfully) terrified to go outside. We can’t stop yet.