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Policy counsel, ACLU-MN. Formerly mnleg. MN by way of NJ. Views my own

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Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty @hennepinatty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Now a Regional Emmy-nominated story: At 16, Marvin Haynes was wrongfully convicted of murder. He spent 20 years in prison. "Justice Reimagined" tells his story and asks how an office confronts past failures to prevent them from occurring again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOsv...
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Justice Reimagined: Preventing the Next Wrongful Conviction (HCAO Conviction Integrity Unit)
YouTube video by HennepinAttorney
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
And it's clear that ICE is using both familiar and novel tactics to maximize arrests, from jail transfers to so-called 287(g) agreements that deputize local police forces to carry out immigration enforcement on ICE’s behalf.
A chart that breaks down the trend of immigration arrests into four categories:

- Immigration enforcement in communities
- Transfer from jail or prison
- Local police
- Other
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 24/09/2026
The ACLU of Minnesota is suing a school district and four school board members for banning rainbow LGBTQ pride stickers on classroom doors.
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ACLU, parents sue Detroit Lakes schools for banning LGBTQ Pride rainbows
The families of two students say the ban violates free speech, human rights and open meeting laws.
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JBoehler @johnboehler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
3y/o just asked “who’s that” during a Nick Saban commercial so I’m sorry ye report he’s now a qualified corporate media executive @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social
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Neighbors for More Neighbors (N4MN) @moreneighbors.org · 08/09/2026
Calling all Neighbors! 📣 We are excited to host Sibling Rivalry II: Here We Go Again! N4MN and Sustain Saint Paul will go head-to-head to raise organizational funds, supporting more homes. The need-to-knows: 🏡 Black Hart of Saint Paul 🏡 Thursday, October 8th, 6-8pm 🏡 Tix: $30 Reserve your place
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Sibling Rivalry Fundraiser - More Neighbors vs. Sustain Saint Paul
Join housing advocates from across the Twin Cities for an evening of drinks, catered food, conversation, light-hearted rivalry, and a high-stakes fundraising face-off to see which city can raise the…
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ACLU of Minnesota @aclumn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The ACLU of Minnesota strongly condemns the reopening of former Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton as a 1,600-bed immigration detention center. Read our full statement at ow.ly/Gm0m50Zz2oe
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JBoehler @johnboehler.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Yes, we use that framing (dragnet/targeted) for surveillance purposes and not necessarily for due process concerns around the actual prosecution of the offense
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JBoehler @johnboehler.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We try to draw the line between the targeted surveillance of red light/bike lane parking cameras v. the dragnet style ALPRs. Targeted systems like the red light cameras (should) only retain data when someone commits an infraction while the ALPRs just retain a record of every vehicle for X # of days
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CURE @curemn.org · 22/07/2026
ICE wants to reopen Appleton’s failed private prison as a 1,600-bed detention center. CURE’s Andy Pearson and Misty Butler push back in a new Daily Yonder article: this isn’t inevitable. Appleton deserves a real say. #AppletonMN #NoICEDetention
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ICE Seeks “Zombie Prison" in Rural Minnesota | The Daily Yonder
An empty 1,600-bed private prison has sat idly on land that was once a soybean field in rural Appleton, Minnesota since the prison failed and, as a
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New from 404 Media: a leaked document shows the surveillance tech at ICE's fingerprints. We obtained the document, called "ICE Wide Analytical Tools" and are publishing it in full here. It includes everything from phone location data, to facial rec, to tracking cars www.404media.co/leaked-docum...
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Leaked Document Shows the Surveillance Tech at ICE’s Fingertips
From phone location data, to social media monitoring, to online undercover tools, a document obtained by 404 Media lays out the surveillance tech available across ICE agency wide.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 20/07/2026
Some police departments in the Twin Cities suburbs left Flock camera data accessible to far-flung law enforcement agencies. Those agencies searched the data for immigration purposes at the height of last winter’s brutal federal crackdown.
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Police searched Twin Cities license plate cameras for immigration enforcement during ICE surge
Federal agencies were able to access the typically confidential data through partnerships with law enforcement around the country.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/07/2026
Polls consistently show that people across the political spectrum want to build a working immigration system that protects our immigrant neighbors and loved ones. It's time for Congress to heed our calls and stop ICE from terrorizing our communities.
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Naureen Shah, ACLU immigration director: ‘This administration’s politics of hate do not represent the views of Americans’
The lawyer, who leads the civil liberties group’s immigration policy and advocacy work, says the Trump government has created a police state in which no one is safe
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Joel Feder @joelfeder.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Thank God our kids weren’t with us. I’m not sure if I would’ve been able to react as calmly." Just published the absolute craziest story of my entire career. www.thedrive.com/news/how-flo...
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How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me For Days over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me
A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.
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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights just sent out a press release reiterating that the Minnesota Human Rights Act protects transgender people from discrimination.
U.S. Supreme Court ruling does not trump anti-discrimination protections under Minnesota law
[St. Paul, MN] Today, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., the Minnesota Department of Human Rights released a statement from Commissioner Rebecca Lucero:

“In 1993, state legislators made Minnesota the first state to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. Today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling does not erase rights guaranteed under Minnesota law for transgender and gender expansive students.

“Minnesota has long believed that government should not be in the business of embedding discrimination into the law. The Department of Human Rights is committed to enforcing state civil rights laws so Minnesotans can live free from discrimination.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
That's right.
During the ratification debates, Senator Cowan took aim
at the Roma people too, characterizing them as undeserving
of birthright citizenship because they “wander[ed] in
gangs,” “infest[ed] society,” and “impos[ed] upon the simple
and weak everywhere.”49 And again, Senator Conness dismissed Senator Cowan’s prejudices: “The only invasion of
Pennsylvania within my recollection was an invasion very
much worse and more disastrous to the State, and more to
be feared and more feared, than that of Gypsies. It was an
invasion of rebels [at Gettysburg].
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Kat Rohn @rohnkat.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The *may* part is really, really important to stress here. Other states may choose bans, but in Minnesota we can continue to support inclusion.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m coming to understand that maintaining hope is radical.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Wow. Minnesota now has 3,866,086 registered voters, an all-time high so far as I can tell. Given population growth, new records do get set repeatedly. But normally not in June of a midterm year. Normally new peaks coincide with presidential elections. This is a new phenomenon.
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404 Media @404media.co · 18/05/2026
NEW: The FBI wants to buy access to automated license plate readers (ALPRs) nationwide, which would likely allow the agency to track the movements of vehicles—and by extension people—across the country without a warrant, according to FBI procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.
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The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
Only a couple vendors could likely fulfill what the FBI is after, namely Flock and Motorola.
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JBoehler @johnboehler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Sorry our position is what?
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 29/04/2026
• Trump using race criteria to enact travel bans is constitutional In short—race criteria that centers white people is constitutional, but race criteria otherwise is unconstitutional😐 3/3
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 29/04/2026
• ICE fascists using race criteria to target people of color is constitutional, BUT • State legislatures using race criteria to counter historical voter suppression is unconstitutional, BUT 2/3
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 29/04/2026
This SCOTUS rulings so far: • Universities using race criteria to counter historical racism in admissions is unconstitutional, BUT 1/3
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
My New One at Slate: “The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century; This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.” @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...
Wednesday’s 6-3 party line decision in Louisiana v. Callais will go down in history as one of the most pernicious and damaging Supreme Court decisions of the last century. All six Republican-appointed justices on the court signed onto Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion gutting what remained of the Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters, while pretending they were merely making technical tweaks to the Act.

This decision will bleach the halls of Congress, state legislatures, and local bodies like city councils, by ending the protections of Section 2 of the Act, which had provided a pathway to assure that voters of color would have some rudimentary fair representation. It’s the culmination of the life’s work of Chief Justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito, who have shown persistent resistance to the idea of the United States as a multiracial democracy, and a brazen willingness to reject Congress’s judgment that fair representation for minority voters sometimes requires race-conscious legislation. It gives the green light to further partisan gerrymandering. It protects Alito’s core constituency: aggrieved white Republican voters. It’s a disaster for American democracy.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
There's a lot of alarmist coverage of the Supreme Court. Rick Hasen does not engage in it. This isn't stuff he'd write lightly.
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🎃ℌ𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 ℑ𝔞𝔫👻 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I thought Walz's closing was moving, so I'll add that here as well for those interested. No more Norm talk, but some baseball talk.
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Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Hell yea @normcharlatan.bsky.social
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.
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“I Cannot Be in Favor of War” — Pope Leo XIV's Wide-Ranging In-Flight Press Conference From Africa
On the flight back from Africa, Leo addressed Iran, migration, the death penalty, and LBGTQ issues. He said he carries a photo with him of a Lebanese boy who was killed in the conflict.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
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Steve Rose @mermansteve.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
New Gallup Poll Results: A Record High 79% of Americans Now Say Immigration Benefits the United States news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
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Surge in U.S. Concern About Immigration Has Abated
The percentage of Americans wanting less immigration has dropped by nearly half this year to 30%, with 79% now saying immigration benefits the U.S.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 09/04/2026
Let us be clear: We have a First Amendment right to record federal agents working in public.
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marymoriarty.bsky.social @marymoriarty.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
When Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced the charges against the two bounty hunters, she also asked legislators to pass new laws requiring licensing, bonding and training for bounty hunters.
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Cedrick Frazier @cedrickfrazier.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We deserve a Hennepin County Attorney with clear priorities and a real plan to prosecute ICE. Here is how I will get it done: www.cedrickfrazier.org/accountability
Prosecute ICE Vote Frazier graphic
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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/04/2026
BREAKING: President Trump has issued an unlawful executive order attempting to severely restrict mail-in voting. The Constitution is clear: Only the states or Congress can change election laws.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 31/03/2026
Folks in Minnesota are starting to get these. If the Feds are issuing you a citation for your work protecting our neighbors, contact our local National Lawyers Guild. They're working to coordinate legal defense of these petty offenses. nlgmn.org/contact/
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Contact – National Lawyers Guild Minnesota
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Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty @hennepinatty.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Our office was made aware of an incident involving two bounty hunters pointing weapons at civilians who were chanting at them from alongside and in front of the bounty hunters’ van. Both have been charged with felony threats of violence and displaying a replica of a firearm.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Thanks to a FOIA lawsuit from @deportationdata.org, Minnesota is getting its first credible numbers on arrests during the federal government's surge here this winter. About 3,800 Minnesota residents were arrested. Most from Latin America (only 106 from Somalia). (1)
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
AOC: Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly the data and privacy of the American people, keeping track of everything that they say and do. And sending it to a militarized government.
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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
No Kings #TwinCities
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/03/2026
We are estimating more than 200,000 people at the flagship No Kings rally in the Twin Cities. #NoKings
A screengrab of the huge crowd at the flagship No Kings rally in the Twin Cities.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Sanders: When historians write about this dangerous moment in American history, when they write about courage and sacrifice, the people of Minnesota will deserve a special chapter.. In the face of unprecedented occupation, this community fought back and won.
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Aleesa @akuzee.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
In a new court filing as part of an ongoing lawsuit against ICE actions in Minnesota, DHS says nearly 500 officers remain in the Twin Cities metro.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.
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Peter DiCampo @peterdicampo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Each of the people I photographed scoffed at the idea that they were paid agitators, or led in their efforts by state or city officials. Here’s my full story about my neighbors, in their city, in their own words.
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Trump Called My Neighbors “Paid Agitators.” This is Who They Really Are.
After ICE came to Minneapolis, ProPublica journalist Peter DiCampo saw his community step up to patrol the streets, drive strangers to work and provide aid to families in hiding. These are his neighbo...
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 23/03/2026
“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 19/03/2026
ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.
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ACLU of Minnesota @aclumn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The ACLU of Minnesota supports Rep. Brad Tabke's bill, HF 4205, which will limit the use of data collected from ALPRs which were misused during Operation Metro Surge. www.aclu-mn.org/press-releases/alpr…
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Rep. Brad Tabke, ACLU of Minnesota, Impacted Minnesotans, Discuss Need to Limit Use of Data from Automatic Driver License Plate Readers - ACLU of Minnesota
SAINT PAUL – Rep. Brad Tabke (DFL-Shakopee) authored a bill that would protect Minnesotans’ safety and privacy by placing clear restrictions on the use of license plate data by private entities. The bill will be heard by the House Judiciary Finance and Policy Committee at 10:15 a.m.
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JBoehler @johnboehler.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
If time sensitive yes so it can make all committees of jurisdiction. Alternatively, given the tie (if the bill isn’t going to move) to ensure that the various goals of the bill are discussed where they’re relevant.
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