BREAKING: In just six weeks, Minnesota workers lost over $100 million in wages due to Operation Metro Surge.

This means millions of dollars didn’t make it to Minnesota families and small businesses, a conservative estimate that likely understates the full impact.

Heard today there’s a severe translator shortage for regular immigration appearances at Whipple. Does anyone know if there‘s a community effort (à la Haven for released folks) to supply translators for these hearings? If not it sounds like we desperately need one.

My son’s teacher is from Ecuador. Her husband was abducted by ICE a month and a half ago. They have a special needs child.

Her husband was just now released from custody and reunited with his family. 6 weeks in a concentration camp. 6 weeks away from his family.

Fuck ICE. Fuck their apologists.

Economic Response Fund Grant Guidelines Small businesses in Minnesota that have experienced operational disruptions in recent weeks may now apply for emergency financial support through the Economic Response Fund.

I'm going to promote the heck out of this:

The Minneapolis Foundation has $4 million in grants available to small businesses for everything from rent and payroll costs to legal help and temporary relocation.

More details and the application here: www.minneapolisfoundation.org/stories/comm...

Awesome work! Thanks for organizing!

People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy.

But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.

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And the canon that instructs us to draw understanding of a statute’s meaning from its title. The list goes on.

The government’s argument for why it is entitled to strip residents of their due process rights and lock them away indefinitely is easily the most frivolous argument I’ve ever seen.

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A lot of the suburbs around Minneapolis & St. Paul are getting hit hard, including people just walking and getting snatched off the street.
They also are continuing to be extra aggressive towards observers.

Like Carrie said: NOTHING HAS CHANGED.

Ice is being very aggressive with arresting observers this afternoon.

The PRESIDENT.

Of these United States.

Has a personal vendetta.

Against a FIVE YEAR OLD.

In a BUNNY hat.

Holy cow!! Hope you managed okay!!

What I'm hearing about the Timberwolves' very real pursuit of Giannis

The Wolves and Giannis. Looking at all of the circumstances surrounding Minnesota's very real interest in the Bucks superstar.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...

When is the last time Noem outsmarted anything? What a dolt! You can tell she doesn’t believe those words herself!!

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

One of my frustrations during Nixon was how long it took to get America to turn on him
Trust me, we are wayyyy ahead with this asshole and everyone in his gangster party

This question, over and over, and until every elected monster who supports this is on the record and shamed from society for the rest of their miserable lives.

are they not monsters?

If they are going to kill us and call us bitches, we need to be bigger bitches.

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning.

I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

Just saw a picture of stuffed animals in the woman's car and man...I really am struggling to find the words right now. This is all just so unspeakably devastating, and I don't know how we come back from it.

ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It | Defector On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street. O...

As always, Defector gets it right: defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

All I want is for Democratic leaders to at least act like they understand that the Trump Regime is a criminal enterprise and that we're in an unprecedented Constitutional crisis. I know they can't stop it right now. I just want them to acknowledge it. And most of them can't even fucking do that.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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Over the last eight games, the Timberwolves have the No. 1 fourth quarter defensive rating in the league (99.0).

That's one big reason why they've won 7 of 8 -- and they've done that multiple times without Gobert on the floor in some cases. Their 4Q defensive reb% is 3rd.

Their lamp-adjacent enthusiasm during This Must Be The Place has never been topped in cinematic history. Not even by Brick Tamland.

I believe in you, Craig!!

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.