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Video: Girls flag football players, Vikings advocate for fast-growing sport At Content Capture Day hosted by the Vikings at TCO Performance Center, high school athletes across the Twin Cities gathered to create content to promote the upcoming season.

“I would always try to play football with my friends, but when I was younger, it used to be considered a man’s sport, so I could never play, so now playing flag football, I feel like I’m a role model for younger girls who have the same aspirations.” varsity.startribune.com/minnesota-vi...

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Nearly 40 years later, the current council could reverse this ban. As treatment for HIV has changed, advocates want the code to as well. & they say Minneapolis is actually an outlier as many cities reversed their bans already or never closed bathhouses to begin with. 👩🏻‍💻

The health commissioner did a study in 1977 proving that closing the bathhouses would do nothing. They were a place people learned about safe sex and the sex would continue, just in less safe environments. In 1988 the council passed an ordinance to ban them 11-0.

While MPD got a more liberal chief in 1980 — the damage was done. Bathhouses were now in the main stream as everyone debated their existence. The first positive HIV test was in 1982, and then researchers tell me officials used bathhouses as a scapegoat to the AIDS crisis.

Earlier that year, there was a more ~ unofficial raid ~ the head of vice, deputy mayor and a buisness man were out drinking and went to Big Daddy’s Bathhouse. They dragged 30 people out of bed, screaming homophobic remarks. Witnesses say the three men were so drunk they could barely walk.

On Dec. 1, 1979 the MPD vice team conducted the largest bathhouse raid in history. Over 100 people were ticketed and 9 were arrested with the then-felony of sodomy. Police reports from that night show MPD relied on humiliation and fear. Nine years later, all the bathhouses would be closed.

Adult bathhouses were a part of Minneapolis nightlife. Then police and panic pushed them out Forty years after the adult bathhouse ban was passed, the city council is considering reversing it. A myriad of components led to the ban, but for several decades, public sexual spaces in Minneapolis ...

🧵 Everyone’s talking about the bathhouse ban in Minneapolis right now — but why did they actually close? Sources say bc increased police surveillance, a fear of AIDS and gentrification. In this deep dive I talk to all the key players about how closing them likely did more harm than good.

I’ll be on @mprnews.org morning edition Wednesday at 7:20am talking about my big story that’s coming out — the history of adult bathhouses in Minneapolis, tune in! 📻

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As Minneapolis reconsiders the adult bathhouse ban, here’s what to know about the history In the 1970s and 1980s, the bathhouse scene in Minneapolis was plentiful. Some activists say it’s time to update outdated language in the 1988 ordinance banning them and create an opportunity to bring...

for the last year and a half i’ve been following the bathhouse ban for mpr 🔎 in 1988 minneapolis made adult bathhouses illegal. the rise of hiv cases made people worried, but the queer community also lost institutions because of this fear. nearly forty years later, the city may change the ordinance.

Drone sightings drove surveillance fears as ICE surged in Minnesota Some Minneapolis residents who took to the streets to document U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids believe federal authorities used drones to record and intimidate them. Despite laws govern...

A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

i am working on a story about the effects of the ice surge in MN on repro health and sexual health. are you a clinician who has been worried about your patients? are you someone in hiding that has missed prenatal meds, HIV treatment, etc? are you helping distribute items? dm or 📧 sstroozas@mpr.org

have you or someone you know had to find care for your pet after being detained by ICE? are you in hiding and worried about vet care? i am working on a story about what happens to pets during the ICE surge. DM me or email sstroozas@mpr.org

It was a Christmas gift from Maurices! And it is very soft.

i dried them and then cleaned them. they had a few shards of glass in them, but i was able to salvage!

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Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...

hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.

‘Time to speak up’: In Columbia Heights, school leaders stepped in to protect families as ICE surged As federal immigration agents descended on Columbia Heights families, the school superintendent expected to stay silent. Then federal agents came for 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, and s...

Seven children from this MN school district have been detained by ICE. 2 of them are still in ICE custody in TX. The district has lost track of how many parents have been taken. At just one elementary 26 parents have been detained by ICE

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These sex workers in Minneapolis never thought they would own a gun. Then ICE came to town More than 8,200 permit to carry applications were filed in the state in January. For populations worried about their safety during the ICE surge, ownership seems like a path to security.

More than 8,200 permit to carry applications were filed in the state in January. For populations worried about their safety during the ICE surge, ownership seems like a path to security.

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As I said on NPR this morning, @mprnews.org Minnesota Public Radio has done a fantastic job all month—has it only been a month?—covering the hardest of stories and often informing the whole country through reports heard on NPR.

‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...

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The latest on ICE in Minnesota Live updates on ICE enforcement in Minnesota, with the latest developments and links to deeper reporting as events unfold.

Here's today's @mprnews.org liveblog on the ICE surge in Minnesota. News happening already this morning www.mprnews.org/live-updates