Gnome Chumpsky, III, esq

March 11, 2026 Minneapolis City Council 350 South 5th Street Room 370 Minneapolis, MN 55415 Dear Council President Payne, Council Vice President Osman and Council Members: This letter is to inform you that I have vetoed Ordinance No. 2026-002 to extend the pre-eviction notice for renters to 60 days. I understand the authors’ intent, but the experience from COVID-19 and guidance from shelter and affordable housing providers shows that this strategy has not worked. We have heard over and over again from shelter and affordable housing providers that longer timelines produce worse outcomes for residents. In their words, when rental assistance isn’t available, time is a debt trap that becomes a barrier to securing future housing. I heard a call for more financial assistance, and I believe that is the best path forward. Rental assistance is working and getting to renters quickly – rent collections are better in 2026 than 2025. That’s why I’m proposing to spend $1 million from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund for emergency rental assistance administered through Hennepin County. While a 60-day pre-eviction notice period sounds good, there is no data to show that it does good. Pandemic era eviction moratorium allowed many renters to accumulate huge amounts of debt that they are still paying off today. When property owners carry the losses, the housing system experiences upward pressure on rents to replenish reserves, catch up on missed mortgage, insurance, utility, payroll, and property tax payments, and cover increased costs associated with deferred maintenance. I believe most landlords are working with tenants to develop payment plans and access rental assistance. But for bad actors, I worry that the proposal gives them reasons to report tenants to ICE or use minor lease violationswhich don’t require as much notice and are harder to expunge – to evict tenants. We will continue to monitor the data. If something substantially changes, I am committed to working with the City…

mayor jacob frey has vetoed the pause evictions, save lives bill the minneapolis city coucil approved that would've extended the eviction timeline from 30 days to 60 days temporarily to held families impacted by the ICE invasion catch up paying rent

A Friend's Death to Mourn, and to Serve Time for - Bolts An Alabama teen was shot alongside his friend, then prosecuted for his killing. His case highlights a particularly harsh doctrine in American criminal punishment: felony murder.

The Alabama governor commuted the death sentence of a man, set to be executed, who was convicted under the felony murder doctrine — meaning he wasn’t the person to commit a murder.

Bolts reported last year on how Alabama is extraordinarily prone to prosecute people for murder under felony murder.

human toll of ICE occupation is immense, says suitor. education deficits a child subject to eviction faces can follow them throughout their life

each eviction costs the private & public sector about $6800. the average eviction now in minneapolis is about $5200. keeping people housed saves money

U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

Rest in peace Rubin Ray Martinez. 🙏🏽

Chinga la migra. Abolish the whole dam system.

Asked about the administration’s plan for Iran after the war, that official responded: “Whatever.”

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

In Gaza, Israel and Biden normalized war crimes beyond anything we have seen before.

And now, Israel and Trump are using that model against Iranian civilians.

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says

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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

been replaying in my head joe biden warning the entire middle east/world no one better interfere with what israel was doing while he was still in office. a supposed man of decency. just monstrous, empty people pulling the strings and now trump is the ultimate vessel for outward, unrepentant violence

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.

It’s wild that so called “affordable housing” providers were advocating for people to face eviction & have to sleep out on the street. Residents have already been subsidizing their nonprofits w/ millions in mutual aid for their tenants to pay their rents. Remember this next time they beg for money.

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Angie Craig: I regret my vote on the Laken Riley Act That regret has "only strengthened my resolve to stand up to the Trump administration’s cruel immigration policies, call out my spineless Republican colleagues and impeach Homeland Security Secretary ...

it’s way too late for angie craig to FINALLY admit she regrets voting for the laken riley act. being unable to recognize it as harmful at the time & only changing her mind after the terror her vote helped bring to minnesota isn’t good enough. the damage was done

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video from iceout.org earlier today at the whipple outside minneapolis shows a hennepin county sheriff’s deputy shoving the head of a protestor who was already tackled into the ground

we need someone to challenge dawanna witt for sheriff. this brutality happening under her watch is unacceptable

We were literally watching our community provide a ceremony at the Whipple building.

Hennepin County Sheriff’s then began to escalate tensions. This was disrespectful to our community, our culture, and our ancestors.

This created fear and was an attack on our right to peacefully assemble.

about 30 people were arrested at whipple this morning for unlawful assembly, and many first hand reports say hennepin county sheriff's office were escalating. people were arrested when they were retreating, and people were knocked down by law enforcement

Why Minnesota United didn’t say more about local ICE raids Amid the federal immigration raids in Minnesota to start this year, Minnesota United remained quiet on the subject. Loons supporters, which might be the most-progressive fanbase in Minnesota, took …

Just my 1 appearance on MSNOW raised $200k for the Hamline Midway Supply Hub. Imagine if MNUFC had used their platform to raise up orgs like that. They abandoned their community.

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man….”A report released by center this week showed that a person died behind bars in West Virginia every 6.3 days between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec. 31. 2025; one in four people who died were legally innocent and awaiting trial”

Refugee released by Border Patrol found dead, sparking outrage Surveillance video obtained by The Post shows Border Patrol agents releasing the partially blind refugee, who went missing for days before being found dead.

"abolish ice" does in fact require defunding the police because they are the same system causing harm.
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Donate to March Rent Neighbor-2-Neighbor Fund for Central Neighborhood, organized by Central Neighborhood Care and Resistance The neighbors of Central Minneapolis have stood strong for mo… Central Neighborhood Care and Resistance needs your support for March Rent Neighbor-2-Neighbor Fund for Central Neighborhood

The Central neighborhood in South Minneapolis has been disproportionally impacted by ICE. Our neighbors are struggling to stay in their homes. This fund will help with direct rent and mortgage support to Central Minneapolis neighbors in need.

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Never forgiving a single one of the fucks responsible for this

Trump administration plans to take Homan’s Minneapolis immigration playbook nationwide | CNN Politics The Trump administration plans to double down on targeted immigration enforcement, taking Tom Homan’s playbook in Minneapolis and applying it to multiple cities nationwide, according to current and fo...

The most important thing about Tom Homan's "tactics" are that they rely on many people's desire to have "good police" who will "do things the right way." A reminder that to resist ICE requires resisting the impulse to demand help from law enforcement.
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I guess what abolitionists told us about MPD and all other forms of bloated, expensive, violent and ineffective law enforcement was true - we keep us safe. As it always has been and will be.

I gasped at this part: “In 2025, several prosecutorial offices asked Hudson to use the Supreme Court’s ‘inherent authority’ to protect courthouses by enacting a policy to prevent or limit immigration enforcement, noting that 11 state supreme courts had already done so. Hudson declined.”

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault.

LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith”

In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted

DOJ keeps lying and losing:

White House, Minnesota Supreme Court chief justice quietly negotiated deal over ICE enforcement in courts Four days later, chaos unfolded inside the Hennepin County Government Center.

This is disturbing. The Chief Justice of the MN Supreme Ct met with Homan, worked out an agreement, and never announced it publicly. ICE appeared to violate it days later by violently tackling a person in the Gov Center w/out a judicial warrant. We need transparency.

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.

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

Left, my story about how the right wing ex-Honduran president was given special treatment after he was pardoned for drug trafficking - and had his ICE detainer dropped.

Right, a story about a man who spent 43 yrs in prison for a wrongful conviction & was deported once his convicted was overturned

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Children are suffering in a for-profit prison.

Send them home. Abolish ICE. And ban private, for-profit prisons forever.