Breaking: In a 50-49 vote, the U.S. Senate passed the measure allowing sulfide mining in areas near the Boundary Waters.

Former Star Tribune union steward here! It’s important to know that the AI issue Propublica is striking over (getting assurances from management that they won’t replace journalists with AI) is a fight the Strib is also having.

The Minneapolis “dirtbag lawyer” challenging ICE detentions—and winning “It’s all hands on deck for the legal community.”

The Minneapolis “dirtbag lawyer” challenging ICE detentions—and winning

The Minneapolis council member on the front lines of the resistance to ICE • Minnesota Reformer When heavily-armed federal agents and Minneapolis police officers surrounded a Lake Street taco shop in June, Minneapolis City Council Member Jason Chavez was incensed.  “This is completely wrong,” Ch...

I profiled Jason Chavez, the Minneapolis city council member who has been embedded in community efforts to combat ICE.

“To leave your constituents to face off with a racist fascist regime on their own, without having someone that has some power…I could not let my constituents be out there alone.”

One of these companies is Toka, which offers products that hack into specific vehicles to harvest real time location data, as well as onboard camera and even microphone feeds.

Toka was co-founded by Epstein confidant/partner and former Israeli PM Ehud Barak.

Amy Klobuchar’s Record on Trump Is Shameful - Racket As Minnesota's senior senator runs to replace Tim Walz as governor, her votes and positions on Trump, ICE, and labor should be disqualifying to progressive voters.

As Minnesota's senior senator runs to replace Tim Walz as governor, her votes and positions on Trump, ICE, and labor should be disqualifying to progressive voters.

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:

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Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans trained as constitutional observers The Immigrant Defense Network works with more than 100 organizations to help train constitutional observers. At the end of November, there were 2,500 trained observers. That number has soared as more ...

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

How ICE is watching you • Minnesota Reformer Once delivered via text message — no link required — Paragon’s spyware gains broad access to a phone’s contents, including encrypted messages.

Facial recognition cameras, AI-powered social media analyzers, license plate readers, fake cell towers, cell phone spyware—ICE has broadened its arsenal of surveillance tech, alarming privacy advocates, lawmakers, and ordinary community members. minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/03/h...

How Racket, Minneapolis’s Worker-Owned Newsroom, Is Covering Its Hometown Fascist Invasion “This is the worst fucking time. But watching people’s response to ICE has been the most affirming thing in the world.”

"This is the worst fucking time. But watching people's response to ICE has just been the most affirming thing in the world.” We interviewed our friends over at @racketmn.com about what it’s like to cover the crisis in Minneapolis as community-centered journalists

I will believe that ICE enforcement has changed on the ground when I stop getting daily notices that armed, masked goons are circling my kids’ schools and trying to sow fear in the parent patrols.

MN ICE Watch Jan. 12-16: Daily Updates on Trump's Invading Troops - Racket Your one-stop shop for real-time ICE watching.

The Twin Cities are still occupied, and we're still documenting the invasion.

Amy Klobuchar voted for one of Trump's nominees the day after a woman in her state was murdered by ICE.

The closure is not even directly because of the murder yesterday btw. It's because, while that was going on, ICE was also body-slamming teachers in high schools

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Video Shows ICE Agent’s Fatal Shooting of Civilian in Minneapolis Video from the scene of the Minnesota ICE shooting contradicts DHS’s narrative that locals were rioting and threatening agents’ lives.

Video from the scene of the Minnesota ICE shooting contradicts DHS’s narrative that locals were rioting and threatening agents' lives.

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.

Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

ICE Prison’s 911 Calls Overwhelm a Rural Georgia Emergency System The 911 operator couldn’t send an ambulance because it was already responding to another call from ICE’s Stewart Detention Center.

The 911 operator couldn’t send an ambulance because it was already responding to another call from ICE’s Stewart Detention Center.

Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year.

Now you're upset?

Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.

The Star Tribune will give you 1500 words on a Black muslim socialist candidate's wife but wont give you 3 words on your typical Wayzata wealthy developer couple lying about their residency to game the whole of Minneapolis elections and policy votes for the next 4 years.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, after failing to secure more than 30% of the vote for endorsement at the Minneapolis DFL convention, instead opted to have a small group of allies within the MN state DFL overturn the endorsement of Omar Fateh for mayor. They left all other endorsements intact.

I’ve seen a lot of false information circulating in the weeks following the Minneapolis DFL convention. Some of it feels like reading Jan 6 voter conspiracy theories, so as the person who stepped in as head teller + audited the voting system, I’d like to set the record straight🧵

The 35 richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $2.5 billion. They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich.

Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.

Headline: “After rain delay, Twins show their [sic] ready”

(Sighs so deeply all the pilot lights in the neighborhood go out)

Today, May 1, is International Workers' Day! It commemorates the sentencing to death of eight anarchist workers in Chicago who were framed for throwing a bomb at police who attacked a strike demonstration in May 1886 shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...

Tesla Profit Sinks, Hurt by Political Backlash The auto maker’s net income fell 71% in the first quarter.

Breaking: Tesla’s net income sank 71% in the first quarter, hurt by competitive pressure and a reputational hit from Elon Musk’s polarizing role in the Trump administration

Social media companies are like tobacco companies; tax their products for their harms • Minnesota Reformer In a bad budget year, it’s refreshing to see legislators fighting to make more profitable corporations pay their fair share.

“Big tech is increasingly leveraging in-depth user knowledge to extract maximum profit. To allow these practices to proliferate…without any fiscal compensation is simply foolish.” says Eric Harris Bernstein in this new commentary. minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/22/t...

Mexico bans ‘foreign propaganda’ after US anti-migrant ad US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem appeared in commercials aired on Mexican TV warning that anyone crossing the border illegally would be prosecuted and deported.

Mexico bans ‘foreign propaganda’ after US anti-migrant ad