Last night’s ICE abduction near 20th & Central didn’t happen in a vacuum. Friday morning they were found stalking people at Huset Park and earlier in April they kidnapped someone near East Phillips community center.
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.
Minnesota State Patrol has been loudly circling for the past 30 minutes. It’s almost 11 pm at night. Can someone tell me how this is useful for investigating or making arrests?
A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Anyone who looks to fairly judge nominees based on their current job performance would come to the conclusion that Toddrick Barnette is unfit for the role. In any normal job, if someone oversaw a department that unexpectedly overspent its budget by $20 million you would be immediately fired.
Aliya Rahman's attorney filed a federal tort claim against Homeland Security, alleging agents violated her rights during a forceful arrest.
Progressive council led & passed 7M in small biz support, 3.8M in rental assistance, progressing on safe parking for unhoused neighbors, emergency housing vouchers, funding for traffic calming, funding for street and bridge projects—the list goes on & on— but the mayor starts the term with division
I don't mean to imply any pants were pissed. Just that she really wanted that outcome.
IMPORTANT: Under federal law, it's very hard, at times near-impossible, to sue federal law enforcement officers for civil rights violations. But legal theorists have said for decades that there is a possible way to sue under state law instead.
This is a VERY big test case.
After 16-year-old Ariel’s dad was abducted by ICE at his construction job, he became his family’s breadwinner. “Ariel works for the same construction company as his dad … As the summer progressed, he took over his father’s construction job, managing a team of workers and making sure they were paid.“
The city of Minneapolis is getting ready to deploy millions of dollars in emergency funding to help those struggling to pay rent in the aftermath of Operation Metro Surge.
Written by Katrina Pross.
“A group of new accounts on the prediction market Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for these new customers”
"Graphite uses what is known as "zero click" technology so that it can gain access to encrypted messages on a targeted device even if the user never clicks on a link." www.npr.org/2026/04/07/n...
Explore one of Lake Street’s great cultural hubs, and score some irresistible pupusas, tamales, and pan dulce in the process. mspmag.com/eat-and-drin...
A woman arrested in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge must remain in an immigration detention facility in Texas pending deportation proceedings even as she suffers excruciating pain from a large ovarian cyst at risk of rupture, a federal judge ruled. minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/07/t...
Minneapolis as a verb! 👇🏼
KONDABOLU: “You get burnt out from all the talk and all the things that…whether it's safety pins or some other thing to show, like, I'm on your team. Like, after a while, it's like, I don't need that. I want you to Minneapolis this s***.”
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Dems in array. Good job Team Fight.
Find out if your representatives have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts.
A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all
St. Paul opens applications TODAY to apply for emergency rental assistance.
The application window will remain open for two days.
Our office was made aware of an incident involving two bounty hunters pointing weapons at civilians who were chanting at them from alongside and in front of the bounty hunters’ van.
Both have been charged with felony threats of violence and displaying a replica of a firearm.
Quentin Williams says he felt like he was moments from death after several Border Patrol agents piled on top of him and choked him on Jan. 7 while pursuing someone else.
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They keep stealing shit from the people they detain. Remember how they took that kid’s cell phone and sold it for cash? Just straight up lawless gangsters
"'There is something particularly craven about transferring a nursing refugee mother out-of-state,' U.S. District Judge Michael J. Davis wrote in a particularly sharp rebuke ordering Lah’s release." Another tough but important story by the Strib's Susan Du www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...
In a new court filing as part of an ongoing lawsuit against ICE actions in Minnesota, DHS says nearly 500 officers remain in the Twin Cities metro.
Minneapolis Council Member Elizabeth Shaffer voted against "Urging European financial institutions to divest from companies that enable" DHS and ICE, saying that it may somehow harm the city's litigation against the federal government.
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instagram from elizabethshaffermpls: photo of a banner in the council chambers that says "STOP COP CITY!" Shaffer text: "Drama today in council chambers ended by bringing us all the way back to 2020. Minneapolis we are better than this."
Ward 7 Council Member Elizabeth Shaffer with the one-two punch:
-Her colleagues on the city council are so much drama, aren't they?
-Stoking mansion dweller PTSD over the worst thing to happen in Minneapolis in the year 2020: mild anti-police rhetoric.
I’m in D.C. again today as several U.S. Citizen families share their stories about their (often violent) arrests by immigration agents
In this picture: Anabel Romero of Idaho speaking while her 14YO, 8YO & 6YO listen behind her. All are citizens detained during an FBI-ICE raid in Idaho last year
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office (HCAO), the State of Minnesota, and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension sued the federal government today for access to evidence related to the shootings of Renee Good, Julio Sosa-Celis, and Alex Pretti.
www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/20...
