The dissonance of having a lovely lunch in the sunshine with a neighbor after our district’s school board vote while hearing what we assumed was “the individual” absolutely s c r e a m i n g unintelligibly somewhere in the distance from the edge of his restraining order(s).
Ok I actually had a lovely day at the Minneapolis City DFL Convention?? Made new connections with neighbors, good conversations with familiar faces, got business done relatively respectfully, and we even adjourned early. Thank you volunteers, candidates, and fellow delegates/sickos!!
Media reporter emeritus @dbrauer.net says the Star Tribune's obsession with a supposedly dysfunctional Minneapolis City Council overplays minor issues, lets the mayor off the hook, and obscures what the city has accomplished.
* Under Commissioner Barnette's supervision, MPD overspent their budget by nearly $20 million dollars. Commissioner Barnette concedes this oversight was due to the lack of engaged conversations with MPD leadership, and that he was not aware of the overspend until the third financial quarter of 2025. It is unacceptable for the City's senior leadership to make the kind of mistakes that come at a direct expense for taxpayers while undercutting the delivery of services. * City workers (AFSCME Local 9 ) in the departments under Commissioner Barnette’s oversight sent a letter describing his leadership which is disqualifying. * Under the leadership of Commissioner Barnette, the City Council was asked to approve contracts with an individual who disrupted a council meeting, hurled homophobic remarks at me, and made threats. * During Commissioner Barnette's tenure, council members received several complaints from contractors for lack of communication, delay in contract execution, and clarity on the broader strategy for violence prevention, for which they were selected to play a role. * Commissioner Barnette was absent and often unengaged from the work of Commissioner. He had a hard time answering questions the Council and the public had. He often seemed, and acknowledged, that he was uninformed about the ongoing work and issues of many of the departments he oversees. As Chair of the Public Health, Safety, and Equity Committee, I have had more direct engagement with the Office of Community Safety than nearly any other member of this Council. What I witnessed over the course of Commissioner Barnette’s tenure was a pattern of disengagement that left departments without direction and residents without answers. I am calling on Mayor Frey to establish a search committee effective immediately so that the Office of Community Safety can focus on rebuilding. Sincerely, Jason Chavez
Dear neighbor,
I wanted to tell you about why I voted against reappointing Commissioner Toddrick Barnette, and why Mayor Frey’s characterization of that vote is wrong and disingenuous. 1/
who helped create the life-or death situation, Angie!!
Feeling pretty confident in SD60’s choice for Data/Tech Officer.
The heckling that Dawanna Witt just received here at the SD60 DFL Convention, complete with the most Minnesotan ‘GIT OUTTA HERE’s was truly a thing of beauty. I love my Northeast Minneapolis neighbors so much. ❤️
Footage of me during the rules discussion of SD60’s DFL convention
Jacob Frey is a bad person. He vetoed an eviction moratorium for the city of minneapolis and is now claiming a city council sponsored idea of rent relief that he was against a month ago as his own.
A veto of the 60-day pre-eviction notice tells people that you want them evicted into the cold earlier and that you’re unwilling to protect our immigrant neighbors.
Let Mayor Frey know you want him to sign Pause Evictions, Save Lives.
- Phone: 612-673-2100
- Email: Jacob.Frey@minneapolismn.gov
3 ICE agents got McDonald’s and then went on a joy ride through the neighborhood tonight around 1 AM. This has nothing to do with public safety and is all about terrorizing people and burning through taxpayer dollars. This is why we can’t rest until every last agent leaves our state.
lmao just realized I only dreamt that I went grocery shopping and those items are not in my fridge.
We really need an eviction moritorium right now, Gov. Thousands of Minnesotans have not been able to leave their homes to work for months.
Dec. 5, 2025, 11:07 AM EST By Alex Tabet MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job. “If unlawful force is being used by any law enforcement officer against any person in this city and one of our officers is there, absolutely, I expect them to intervene, or they’ll be fired,” O’Hara said when asked how his officers should respond to excessive force by ICE agents. O’Hara noted that cases of “excessive” force that were “readily apparent” would merit officer intervention. A sergeant from O’Hara’s department later clarified that while Minneapolis Police Department officers may physically intervene in the case of unlawful force, they would stop short of arresting ICE agents.
December 5: Chief O'Hara says if his officers witness ICE using unlawful force, "I expect them to intervene, or they'll be fired."
February 23: MPD has no interventions to report.
lims.minneapolismn.gov/Board/Agenda...
i am so tired of screaming from the rooftops that we have a looming, avoidable crisis of evictions brewing.
everyone knows it, but yet government and philanthropy have no solutions. unpaid volunteers of rent funds are doing the work that the people who control the purse strings refuse to do
Saw someone talk about ICE the way some of us still try to talk about covid. "It's still here even though someone in power claimed it was over. It's still causing harm. Some folks are still stuck at home because of it. Let's not go back to normal let's build something better"
Hope we do this time
ICE was the quarry target this morning and then driving dangerously through northeast & downtown.
ICE is still very much here and we need to make sure we still have people out keeping watch for our neighbors.
After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.
This is Minneapolis:
The weekly newsletter from our elementary school includes:
-summer school registration link
-link to our mutual aid fund
-MN Attorney General federal action report form (to share how we've been impacted by ICE)
-Know Your Rights information
-resources for food insecurity
When I say our leaders aren’t helping us, this is what I mean. ICE is showing no signs of leaving but our senator, who is currently running for governor, doesn’t even know that. And she’s doing the administration‘s work for them.
Screenshot from standwithminnesota.com in a light purple background with dark berry text and buttons. Text reads DONATE TO OUR MATCHING FUND FOCUSED SOLELY ON RENT RELIEF AND EVICTION PREVENTION Donate to these rent funds where your donations will be matched up to $50,000 this week: phillips neighbors rent fund neighbors helping neighbors powderhorn park neighorhood fund yesod fund
Matching funds on all donations up to $50,000 for each of these Minneapolis area rent relief funds this week.
www.standwithminnesota.com/keepmnhoused
Some of the people of Minneapolis still can’t leave their homes. Nice sentiment, but we need more action from the city.
Could you please allocate more $ for the countless basic needs our immigrant neighbors have right now instead of whatever this is
ohhhhh y'all, this is amazing, we just cracked 11k (out of a goal of 50k, which is almost surely less than the actual need). That's $4,000 raised tonight!! 12.5k gets us a quarter of the way there. local networks are stretched so thin; can you help us get this in front of out-of-state eyes?
The kids are correct.
