Brenda Natala

Can somebody please explain to me why somebody who was convicted of trafficking children for sex is being treated better than people who have committed no crime but are still incarcerated in inhumane ICE detention facilities?

Why do we have to fight, yell and scream to get innocent people released from ice detention?

What happens to the detainees who have no one to fight for them? Do they just disappear, are they just a body that funds the Ice concentration system?

Our tax money is funding those private prisons. 😡

Immigrant kids detained in ‘unsafe and unsanitary’ sites No access to basic rights and services

As the Trump team seeks to end protections, children in immigration detention are held in “prison-like” settings across the U.S.

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WHAT MAKES A CONCENTRATION CAMP? MASS DETENTION WITHOUT TRIAL People are imprisoned without due process or legal recourse TARGETED GROUP PERSECUTION Detention based on race, religion, ethnicity, political views, or identity STATE OR MILITARY CONTROL Operated or sanctioned by the government or armed forces HARSH, INHUMANE CONDITIONS Overcrowding, abuse, starvation, disease, or forced labor ISOLATION & SURVEILLANCE Separated from society, often heavily monitored and controlled 4 FEAR AS A TOOL OF CONTROL Used to intimidate or silence communities, dissenters, or rivals ALT

Every single day the concentration camps stay open is a travesty that our country will never live down. Our elected officials should be barging down those walls with the military behind them, arresting every guard within, and then removing the GOP from power because of these human rights violations

State Rep. Kaohly Her announces bid for St. Paul mayor The filing period runs July 29 through Aug. 12, and Carter announced in January every intention of running again.

HER is in for mayor, apparently: www.twincities.com/2025/08/04/s... Story by @xanderosier who dug and found her announcement

This is Virginia Guiffre's statement to Ghislane Maxwell, read by Guiffre's attorney in court the day Maxwell was sentenced.

via @denisedwheeler.bsky.social

While you’re at the Little Africa Festival on Snelling, check out the new Mama’s Market and Deli cafe, a new art gallery and the new HQ of African Economic Development Solutions. Try the chicken masala panini…foot-long my brother I got it foot long! twincities.com/2025/08/01/l...

The United States is torturing immigrants. Do you care?

Because if you're American, this is being done in your name.

I'm a daughter, granddaughter, great-granddaughter of immigrants. What if they did this to my family? What if they did it to yours?

#OnYourSide

What could go wrong with big tech having our health data?

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

I'm four minutes in and like a half dozen BS talking points from anti bike/ped folks have already been parroted...

So close to just turning this off...

Guys… @mollycoleman.bsky.social endorsements include:

Sierra Club
Sustain Saint Paul
STP Building Trades
Liuna
Carpenters
Painters
49ers
IBEW
St Paul Chamber
SP Historic Preservation

Melvin Carter
Clare Oumou Verbeten
Garrison McMurtrey
Saura Jost
Cheniqua Johnson
Amy Brendmoen
Kathleen Vellenga

The salmon is so serene and peaceful and the bread and cheese are so cozy. I need both.

Rioters with bricks and stones in pursuit of an African American man during the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. Photo credit: Jun Fujita / Chicago History Museum, via Getty Images.

#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1919: The Chicago Race Riot begins after Eugene Williams, an American teenager floating on a raft with friends in Lake Michigan, is stoned and drowned for drifting into an area tacitly reserved for whites. /1

Most US adults say child care costs are a 'major problem,' a new AP-NORC poll finds A new poll shows most Americans see child care costs as a major issue, and majorities support the federal government offering free or low-cost day care and requiring employers to provide paid family l...

Americans agree: our country’s child care system is fundamentally broken.

Democrats' Child Care for Working Families Act would cut the cost of care to just $15 a day.

It's a commonsense solution. So why are Republicans standing in its way?

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SCRAM, SCAM!: I got mine. Did you get yours? All the cool kids get hit up by +63 970 525 3598…

Molly Coleman for Saint Paul City Council — Vote August 12!

BONUS: Forgot to say, she’s endorsed by tons of labor and community folks too. An absurd coalition of supporting orgs and individuals for @mollycoleman.bsky.social

Check out her whole site here: www.coleman4council.com

SHORT VERSION: If you haven’t heard, there is a special election on August 12th for the Ward 4 City Council seat in Saint Paul. I’m backing @mollycoleman.bsky.social as my first choice and it’s not particularly close. Please vote!

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'Rising Tides' by contemporary US painter Samantha French #UnlockingWomensArt

Also, Saint Paul folks, donate to Molly Coleman for city council here: secure.actblue.com/donate/colem...

Cc: @mollycoleman.bsky.social

Headshot of Molly with campaign logo, “community endorsement,” and “SP Historic Preservation Political Committee.”

History and progress go hand-in-hand. As we build Saint Paul, we know we must look to what’s best about our past—walkable, bikable mixed-use neighborhoods, world-class architecture, and more. I’m proud SP Historic Preservation believes in my vision of a vibrant Saint Paul grounded in our history.

The official numbers just dropped on Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.

Trump officially made the biggest cuts to health care in US history.

Trump made the biggest cuts to food stamps in US history.

Trump added $4.1T to the debt to give tax cuts to the ultra-rich and corporations.

Statement from Council Member Anika Bowie, who says efforts to work with the store were exhaustive:

Bike theft is a major issue right now.

I used to shrug it off bc the only bike theft I’d experienced before this year was an unlocked bike taken from our yard 10+ years ago.

What’s happening in Mpls right now is next level, w/ break ins to locked garages, secure apartment storage areas, etc.

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USDA wants states to hand over food stamp data, to “validate the accuracy of eligibility, determination and strengthen SNAP and government program integrity”

If that sounds like bs to you, let them know in the link below. So far there are less than 50 comments. And the window closes on the 23rd.

Philando Castile had a heavenly birthday yesterday.

(7/16/83- 7/6/16)

On 7/6/16 Philando was fatally shot during a traffic stop by cop Jeronimo Yanez in the Minneapolis, MN.

#SayHisName #PhilandoCastile #BlackLivesStillMatter

#ReeseWaters

1491 by Charles Mann

Although if you have read nothing and been taught nothing, this book is really good at giving folks an orientation. He is not Indigenous. Just beautifully fed-up with how this history STAYS hidden:

What about legal residents who are not yet citizens? How will this make us safer and more prosperous?

Hortman was good at disagreeing, which is the essence of democratic politics • Minnesota Reformer If we are to learn anything from Melissa Hortman’s example, it must be the belief that disagreement, even sharp, principled, partisan disagreement, is not a danger to democracy, but its design.

"Everything I’ve read ... demonstrates that she stepped into public life not to erase disagreement, but to organize it and to make it productive."

Today, we recognize Black Women’s Equal Pay Day.

For every dollar a white man earns, a Black woman earns just 66 cents.

That’s not just a wage gap—it’s a justice gap. We demand equal pay and economic justice for Black women and ALL women.