chris pohlad, chief of staff at united properties, who were protested last week by CTUL for refusing to stand up to ICE to protect their workers, has an op-ed in strib about the gap between mayor jacob frey's media appearances and actually serving the city
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"Emily Green, who lives in Longfellow, said her neighbors raised $200k in less than a month to help 95 families. She said there is $75k left & 116 people on a waiting list, leaving many families on the brink of losing their homes.
“It should not be on us to take care of the citizens of this city."
It’s wild that so called “affordable housing” providers were advocating for people to face eviction & have to sleep out on the street. Residents have already been subsidizing their nonprofits w/ millions in mutual aid for their tenants to pay their rents. Remember this next time they beg for money.
"I fear some [council members] are indifferent." Have you paid someone's rent, organized a fundraiser, gone on patrol, found someone an attorney, done someone's laundry, delivered groceries, held a baby of someone sheltering in fear? "If not you may be too far removed to have good judgment."
Today SEIU Local 26 Rideshare Drivers stood w/ allies to say we need to "Slam the breaks on Waymo" as we stood w/ Sen. Sen. @erinmayequade.bsky.social & Rep. Sencer-Mura who are authoring a commonsense bill at #mnleg that makes sure we're protecting MN workers & streets. More to come!
Let how exhausted I look here give you a window into how hard mutual aid organizers have been pushing to keep our neighbors safe and housed when no one else will. Please write to your councilmembers and the mayor and urge them to pass Pause Evictions, Save Lives!
this is brian flakne, who represented landlord john wall in the suit robin wonsley and michael wilson had to file against him last summer for violating voters' rights by not allowing them to doorknock his buildings!
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Not to belabor the point but Melvin Carter's decision to go to war with the city workers unions over civil service rules two weeks before election day—on top of trying to ax library and rec center hours and eliminate overnight EMS—remains a jaw droppingly bad decision.
"In the end, the new contracts will deliver a $1 across-the-board wage increase April 1 and increases of 3% and 3.5% on Jan. 1 of the next two years. Workers also gained a floating holiday, bereavement leave and a deferred-compensation match."
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This is disgusting. There’s no accountability in the Sheriff’s Department.
This will continue to happen if Sheriff Witt runs unopposed. It will send a message that this is totally okay when it’s not.
dawanna witt's hennepin county sheriff's deputies are once again hiding their faces at the whipple building, just like ICE and CBP do
A message from the Wonderwall
Thousands of our neighbors are struggling to pay rent. Mayor Frey is sending scolding letters painting small business aid and rent assistance as fiscally irresponsible. MPD blew $4.3 million on overtime last month.
And now the Frey administration wants $38 million for MPD’s own cop city?
rep angie craig, running for US senate, spoke to UMN student dems in last night and finally had to address her vote in favor of the laken riley act! she was asked if she regretted it, or if her opinion had changed, and she said NO
even after all the terror ICE brought to MN!
970 The number of agents deployed in Operation Metro Surge that currently remain in Minnesota. 407 The number of agents deployed in Operation Metro Surge and will remain in Minnesota into March.
This shows why you can’t trust headlines or press conferences from the Trump administration. We still need people out keeping watch and staying vigilant until every last agent is off of our streets.
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No seriously, what the fuck was MPD doing these last two months that would require overtime, because it sure as fuck wasn’t protecting the community
Dec. 5, 2025, 11:07 AM EST By Alex Tabet MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job. “If unlawful force is being used by any law enforcement officer against any person in this city and one of our officers is there, absolutely, I expect them to intervene, or they’ll be fired,” O’Hara said when asked how his officers should respond to excessive force by ICE agents. O’Hara noted that cases of “excessive” force that were “readily apparent” would merit officer intervention. A sergeant from O’Hara’s department later clarified that while Minneapolis Police Department officers may physically intervene in the case of unlawful force, they would stop short of arresting ICE agents.
December 5: Chief O'Hara says if his officers witness ICE using unlawful force, "I expect them to intervene, or they'll be fired."
February 23: MPD has no interventions to report.
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The level of anger normal Minnesota people have at their elected representatives is palpable. It's not about party, but the perceived failure of local/state electeds to do anything of substance to protect residents who pay their taxes and get left facing off alone against masked, armed men.
Screenshot of a graph reads Figure 1. Projected total excess rent debt since the beginning of Operation Metro Surge given different scenarios about the proportion of immigrant households behind on rent in January and February 2026.
New study from @curaumn.bsky.social: "We estimate that 30–50% of immigrant renters may be at least one month behind on rent by February 2026."
Researchers estimate that excess statewide rent debt linked to ICE's occupation reached between $27.4 million to $51.3 million by February 2026.
I assume the reporters and editors didn't see that as newsworthy. Only a tiny portion of press conferences end up being aired.
"The buyers are betting on a growing need for more smaller data centers near urban centers. Such sites can help improve response time for uses such as...self-driving cars, English said.”
Let's quick ban Waymo before Frey uses it to claim we need more data centers downtown.
Todd Raaen at KSTP
Wow it’s that easy huh, @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social
i’m at city hall for a press conference with city council democratic socialist minority caucus members robin wonsley, jason chavez, aisha chughtai and soren stevenson on the economic impacts of the ICE surge in minneapolis and what they are doing to address it -
This is going to be a very hard conversation for a whole lot of people who have bought the propaganda coming out of our state from the mayor and the governor, but the reality is the wealth class in Minneapolis is more concerned that businesses may be impacted more than fascist death squads.
I think some strategically parked snow plows and road graders as quasi chicanes on a few major roads would make reckless driving by ICE much more challenging.
Call your Council Member! Going to be a close vote on the renewals.
