Becky Mac

The numbers do speak for themselves. In fact, our neighbors know this because they feel it on the ground. They expect us to do more.

How about you stop telling us behind closed doors that we shouldn’t fund immigrant legal assistance, rental assistance, or support for our small businesses!

Also, if you're not calling to Abolish ICE completely, you don't love your neighbors. If ICE leaves Mpls (big IF), they'll just go terrorize other states and cities who don't deserve that.

I saw countless electeds standing with our neighbors to patrol our streets, help with mutual aid drives and protest the brutality of our federal government. Jacob Frey was busy on a press tour, just planning his next political move. Thanks for nothing.

It is so Mayor Frey to congratulate himself for standing with his neighbors while he was actually on a press tour. He wasn't signing an eviction moratorium, or standing with the handful of Council Members observing our streets, or managing massive mutual aid drives. You don't care about us.

Not ward 9 CM being asked to share direct aid requests from north Minneapolis residents because ward 4 & 5 CMs are not willing or able to meet this moment.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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Jacob Frey - "I said 'Fuck ICE,' you're welcome, lowly constituents"

Constituent, after Frey has done nothing to help Mpls - "Fuck you"

Jacob Frey - *with the smarmiest look you can imagine* "hey, saying 'fuck' to ME isn't helpful"

What is helpful @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social ? Can you do it?

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.

We don't need #karenthecamera spying on everyone, everywhere. Get rid of your surveillance cameras, people. They won't help you find your dog or your stolen packages, they'll just help the government spy on your neighbors, and you.

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Alright folks, I’m back on my barnraising bullshit with @ziibiing.com and Stand With Minnesota. 🌻

There are 2 rent needs im barnraising for this weekend: one for $800 and one for $2600.

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I believe Walz, Frey, Witt, O'Hara genuinely want the ICE surge out of MN and Minneapolis. Some of them genuinely might want all of ICE out for good. At the same time, the ICE surge is not an existential threat to their jobs/careers. The appearance of disorder in the streets is. An uprising is.

From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.

From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.

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So Whipple roads get to be as blocked off as the Feds and HennCo sheriff want to protect evil, but Frey/MPD say neighbors don’t get to do partial blocks of roads at all to prevent evil. Cool.

The Democratic Party needs to listen to their constituency and call for full Abolishment of ICE and restorative justice for all of their victims.

People deserve to immigrate here with our full support.

#AbolishICE

And we are passionate about keeping our city safe from ICE. Even the old guard, who are typically anti-progress, supported these resolutions and agreed that ICE is a destructive force. We're united in these beliefs and we spent 3+ hours of our evening to do what we can to try to help.

We passed resolutions to keep ICE away from schools, keep remote learning as an option & to ban un-enrolling students who miss school due to ICE. We also passed resolutions to repeal the Laken Reilly Act & to support an eviction moratorium.

Many of my neighbors were caucusing for the first time...

Pro tip for Amy Klobuchar.

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman

Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.

It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.

ICE MUST GO‼️

If my caucus was any sort of indication, national Dems really need to wake the fuck up about what voters want them to do about ICE.

Another great Representative, @emmagreenman.bsky.social stopped in and responded to a question about data centers with, "Oh yeah, f*ck them!" She also had inspiring words about our strong democracy and community in MN ❤️

Just got the most heartwarming speech from @aurinmpls.bsky.social stumping for Senator Mohamed and God, we're so lucky to have these 2 amazing people representing us.

Duh! I'm also strongly supporting @zaynabmmohamed.bsky.social and Commissioner Conley!

I'll post some updates for my fellow lovers of hyper-local politics, but probably not a lot bc this school's wifi is awful.

I'm here at my Mpls Precinct Caucus. Proud to support @repilhan.bsky.social and @christin612.bsky.social and @ltgovflanagan.mn.gov and I don't really know who else bc my brain has been elsewhere the last few months. Not too excited about our Governor prospects.

You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something.

Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.

I’m *extremely concerned* about the way folks are reforming their image of the cops in light of everything that’s happening, even though we only have a handful examples of them disagreeing with ICE, while still being responsible themselves for the murders of Black and brown people across the country

I try not to be this person all the time, but I'm gonna be this person this time.

This is what it's like to be not white, to be poor, to be on the receiving end of these very American activities in other countries.

I do need white folks to listen, if this is who you need to hear it from. ⤵️

After the 18 day 4th precinct occupation when Jamar Clark was killed, I got really sick and didn’t bounce back for months, even years. It absolutely contributed to my slide into complete disablement by chronic illness.

Saying this to Minnesotans who might need to start pacing differently.

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