Fuck 12.

This was first funded by the Minneapolis City Council in December 2024 but Mayor Frey refused to implement it. In December 2025, the Minneapolis City Council added it back to the budget and now we are seeing it be implemented. 3/

"The Minneapolis Police Department, under Barnette’s watch, racked up an eight-figure budget overrun in the last cycle. Worse, Barnette, who's paid over $300,000 to look after things, testified he wasn’t aware of this gargantuan scale until the year was nearly over."

y'all do not hate police enough.

A common refrain (including from me!) has been that, particularly in response to Metro Surge, Mayor Frey has done nothing which is partly but not fully true: he’s actively doing a lot of intentionally super destructive stuff with purpose!!

More people should be talking about how fucking destructive Jacob Frey is.

He’s not only a do-nothing smug-ass mayor, he’s also willfully destroying any mechanisms where people other than his funders and patrons get a say in how the city works, makes decisions, or prioritizes values and budgets.

Homelessness response is under Reg Services, which is overseen solely by the mayor. Council approval of department heads is a critical lever of oversight.

CPED, Public Works, and MPD are the ones doing the constant, brutal encampment clearings. They absolutely need oversight.

Memo to Charter Commission: Let the people decide the future of Minneapolis Police Department • Minnesota Reformer The Charter Commission should allow the residents of Minneapolis to decide the future of the Minneapolis Police Department, and whether we should have something new.

i read this piece again today by @bullycreative.bsky.social. it's so great minnesotareformer.com/2020/08/03/m...

They are also shitty neighbors who never shovel their sidewalk. Parking lot gets plowed tho.

Just like the cops in Atlanta murdered to get their cop city built, Minneapolis cops would not hesitate to murder to get their cop spa built.

RIP Tortugita. The fight continues.

question asked about possible protests if this MPD facility goes forward like atlanta saw with cop city. what will the city response be? we don’t want to see another neighbor shot, or a militarized aspect to building it

A department with a massive $220M+ budget can finance their own facility if they want one. If they can't? Sounds like inefficient use of resources to me. Skill issue.

let’s find projects that will help the residents of our city.

Whether it is major repairs to crumbling bridges, art in public places, street light replacement, building green and sustainable infrastructure, or making our streets and sidewalks safer and more accessible for all… 6/

Building the cops a private gym and spa is not reform. Be serious.

Minnesota Emergency: Organizers vs. ICE (the Inside Story) YouTube video by Movement Voter Project

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This week the City Council has the opportunity to meet this moment by supporting the data-driven and informed policy, Pause Evictions Save Lives, to give our neighbors a little breathing room while we work on connecting them to rental assistance.

Genuinely if we got rid of every agency that was created as a response to 9/11 and reduced every agency that was expanded as a response to 9/11 we would fix so many problems.

The idea that any leader in this city would entertain the notion of, much less “champion,” a Cop City, is absolutely disqualifying stuff.

A collection of 12 colorful signs hand drawn by kids using crayons, markers, pens and paint, hanging on a black fence. Messages on the signs include “I love my community” and “Immigrants are special”

A collection of 12 colorful signs hand drawn by kids using crayons, markers, pens and paint, hanging on a black fence. Messages on the signs include “Help Our Neighbors” and “Let Us Live”

A collection of 12 colorful signs hand drawn by kids using crayons, markers, pens and paint, hanging on a black fence. Messages on the signs include “Resist” and “We won’t Give Up”

A collection of 12 colorful signs hand drawn by kids using crayons, markers, pens and paint, hanging on a black fence. Messages on the signs include “We Love Our community” and “I Love All of My Friends”

Anti-ICE & related yard/window/street signs around Minneapolis. More from Stonebridge World School. A local hack recently wrote an outrage column about schools turning kids into activists. Kids shouldn’t need to be activists but these issues affect them directly and their opinions matter. Batch #26

He was really selling the 2 Klob delegates as a win. Paraphrase: Not bad! Well, 2 out of 21. But we know she’ll win. wink*

* No actual wink, but maybe a hint of eyebrow waggle.

This says EVERYTHING you need to know about so called police reform in Minneapolis, even after two consent decrees. There is no reforming this.

Gee, why did Question 2 remove the staffing level requirement (adopted by a former cop mayor)?

I am not even frey’s most vocal critic and I have been publicly asking why we have a police department since they don’t do anything to protect residents of our city. Take the mpd budget and put it all toward mutual aid.

Keep reminding folks that the “radical left” / “DSA aligned” groups that All of Mpls & Co. love to wring their hands about; those are the people leading the organizing efforts to protect our neighbors from ICE.

Frey and his ilk ride the messaging of “resistance” but they don’t want to do the work!

This is such a Frey / All of Mpls tactic. They seem to do this kind of closed door pushback with everything emergent that tries to take care of people, from behavioral crisis response to violence prevention to city civil rights work. I don’t know of any prominent exceptions, really.

You’re being too generous. Frey loves authoritarian strong mayor control.

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

Try this one! www.standwithminnesota.com

oh that’ll totally go well for her. let the Court ask her why they’re so over budget in one month (it’s because they’re brutalizing protestors and acting on behalf of ICE)

It’s hard to see how homelessness isn’t city policy at this point.

The cops haven’t been near enough to ICE in the last 3 months to see them hurt anyone but they’re rounding up homeless people the day before Frey vetoes the eviction pause.