Nikhil P. Yerawadekar

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

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until recently, i was a dumbass. but no longer.

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Jan. 17, 1961: Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was Executed Prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, was executed with the assistance of the governments of Belgium and the United States.

"We are going to keep watch over the lands of our country so that they truly profit her children." -- Patrice Lumumba, democratically elected prime minister of Republic of the Congo 6/30/1960

#tdih 1961: Lumumba was executed 💔 with help of U.S. & Belgium. ⬇️🧵
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Places to Donate to in Minnesota Buy/Donate Materials: Help buy dashcams for legal observers Bethel Church Food Pantry TC Food Justice: Donate food Mutual Aid Funds: Lyndale School Mutual Aid Fund Rent Relief Fund for Southside Fami...

I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota.

If you have places for me to add, please DM me.

Is Spotify running ICE recruitment ads? Here are the facts The advertising "is part of a broad campaign the US government is running" across various platforms — not just Spotify, a spokesperson told Snopes.

Cancel SPOTIFY.

They are running ICE ads.

F them.

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ah they all just think being personally unpopular is the same as being oppressed lmao

a reminder that most of the time what appears to be hypocrisy is in fact a coherent statement of values

this site is bad! it's going to fail! its user base has plateaued! it's not making any money! nobody here is smart except for me! everybody here is stupid! nobody is having any good discussions! i don't like being here! ok that's it for now. be back in 90 minutes

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Some people hold them on a Beatles level

Very cool 🙏🏽

OJ verdict. They paused class for it

El Puente in Wburg perhaps?

Respect 👊🏽

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Natasha Cloud what a G!! Fully bypassed my 15 year waitlist to be considered a “real New Yorker”

Fantastic Seun interview 💡

Hey, he’s a musician, not a businessman!

India Walton's Advice for Zohran Mamdani "I think that for him, the race 'til November needs to be staying on message—we can't start to water it down because we think it's going to attract a more moderate Democrat."

The last time a DSA-backed upstart overthrew an establishment Democrat in a NY mayoral primary, what happened next wasn't pretty. India Walton has some hard-won advice for Zohran Mamdani about what to expect, and how to handle it:

Resign! Racist, closet republican.

My statement with @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social on Senator Gillibrand’s racist, Islamophobic comments about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

Seemed disappointed! Damn

Might be a good thing for Sliwa to have some legs, hopefully independent Cuomo and him beef and split votes among regressive/Islamaphobic NYers. Though I guess ranked choice makes it complicated… maybe Brad should run as an independent too???

Where are you getting “most” from? They count the votes you know

So sorry for you loss. Condolences to you and your fam from a daily listener 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

🙏🏽 brilliant

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.

While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.

This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

Any human artists here wanna show off your awesome NBA art in contrast to this AI gabbage?