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Kate Black

@justkateblack.bsky.social
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Proud Frogtown resident. Union-ing about town.

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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can everyone please stop being stupid
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Instead of universal healthcare we’re getting the takeover of all health systems by ever-expanding conglomerates 🙃
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dems please run on fixing the student loan crisis/higher ed for all and universal healthcare and that’s it, please
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WhinterQueen @whinterqueen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has detained almost 30 people this week in bismarck, nd
目 bismarcktribune.com 

The sweep by agents with U.S Customs and Immigration Enforcement appeared to have begun Monday and lasted at least through the workweek, with nearly 30 people who are allegedly in the U.S. illegally being booked into the Burleigh Morton Detention Center over those five days. Two of the people arrested by ICE were reportedly employees at the Bismarck restaurant Charras, prompting the business to temporarily close.
Several of the protesters said they were spurred to act by the news of the Charras employees being arrested.
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Liam Davis Temple @liam2manynames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This article lays out so many self-inflicted wounds from MPS again. If this backlog isn’t cleared by 10/1 it’s more money left on the table. Clean up all the issues of mismanagement within the Davis Center before hugely consequential plans that close schools. sahanjournal.com/education/mi...
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Minneapolis Schools has backlog of 700 students waiting to enroll
Minneapolis Public Schools officials confirmed on Friday that they are working through an enrollment backlog of 700 students — just as the district has unveiled a plan to close up to 16 schools.
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Another miss, indeed. Our ward needs actual representation
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My perfect baby angel neighbor cat, Pix, sunning herself in direct view of my kitchen window is responsible for all serotonin in my life right now
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.com · 19/09/2026
"...legalized gambling increases the impact of upset losses on IPV [intimate partner violence] by 10 percentage points. The effect is larger in states with mobile betting, where higher bets were placed, around paydays, and for teams on a winning streak." direct.mit.edu/rest/article....
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Sports Betting Legalization Amplifies Emotional Cues and Intimate Partner Violence
Abstract. This study explores the relationship between legalized sports gambling, unexpected emotional cues stemming from NFL home team upset losses and reported intimate partner violence (IPV). Using...
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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
MSP folks: there's a letter writing campaign going around in support of bakery workers at Lunds & Byerlys, who are represented by BCTGM Local 22. You can send you letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/help...
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Help BCTGM Local 22 Members Secure a Fair Contract with Lunds & Byerlys!
Members of BCTGM Local 22 (Minneapolis, Minn.) have been in negotiations with Lunds & Byerlys in Eden Prairie, Minn. for over four months. The workers produce bakery products for the company, and...
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My new student loan payment under Tru*p is more than the highest monthly rent I ever paid while in college 🙃
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AFSCME @afscme.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AFSCME President Moran: "Many AFSCME members have proudly dedicated their careers to providing these essential services...This is all part of a cruel plan to break the program so it can be eliminated entirely, an explicit goal of Project 2025.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Was in Willmar for work & joined locals in protesting a Core Civic hiring event; no detention of our neighbors, no profits from these evils
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I love the Minnesota State Fair
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
On a walk in my neighborhood with people biking with buckets of Sweet Martha’s hanging from their handlebars. I love my neighborhood & I love Minnesota.
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

Jennifer Nelson
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
When workers stand together, we have the power to build a fairer, more just, more prosperous future for everyone. That’s the power of @afscme.bsky.social. That’s the power of solidarity.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The “anesthesiapocalypse” has been multifactorial, but it’s not the only staffing issue. It’s a fabulous hospital providing outstanding care, but like all parts of the federal government, it has suffered www.startribune.com/staffing-sho...
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Staffing shortfall disrupting surgeries at Minneapolis VA
“Is the VA leadership allowing the hospital to fail?”
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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Packed house at the VFW in Appleton, MN for a round table with elected officials about the new immigrant detention center opening up in the former Prairie Correctional Facility.
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AFSCME Local 590 DC 47 @afscme590.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Fair Contract Now for Penn Libraries and Dining Service Workers. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fa...
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Fair Contract Now for Penn Libraries and Dining Service Workers
Penn Libraries and Dining Service workers are the backbone of the University—we're here with a hot meal and a safe space to study when students are far away from their families. The Libraries and Dini...
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Convention report: 84% humidity 🫠
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
BREAKING: An undercover federal operation at a Minneapolis church this spring may have violated a federal court injunction barring the government from enforcing civil immigration laws on the church’s properties. Here's what happened according to recent legal docs: (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Feds spying in Minneapolis church may have violated court order
Homeland Security spied on a Minneapolis church in May as part of an investigation into alleged anti-ICE activities, potentially violating a court order barring federal agents from enforcing civil imm...
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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is interesting. I'm always so pleased when I run into a stretch of road that has that cool tunnel effect because of excellent trees.
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
DOJ spending my tax dollars to surveil me & figure out where I work, meanwhile I‘m wearing an AFSCME t-shirt 3 days per week
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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
These court documents are the clearest picture we have yet of Homeland Security's surveillance apparatus during Operation Metro Surge. Story:
minnesotareformer.com
Documents show how feds spied on protesters, left-wing organizations and unions during Metro Surge • Minnesota Reformer
Homeland Security investigators secretly recorded conversations, infiltrated Signal chats and obtained financial records for labor unions and progressive groups as part of a wide-ranging surveillance ...
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Minneapolis/St. Paul zoom of the precinct results map for the Minnesota Senate DFL primary is really something www.startribune.com/how-minnesot...
Precinct-level results map showing nearly all of Minneapolis and St. Paul shaded in dark purple for strong support for Flanagan
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Saint Paul taxpayers pay for empty squad cars to sit outside of the Midway Target, blocking the sidewalk, all across the street from a precinct
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Touching grass at the Twin Cities Solidarity Picnic at Boom Island
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Dan Marshall @danmarstp.marshallwords.com · 08/08/2026
🧵 A few thoughts on the geography of #SaintPaul 's shifting homeless encampments. The Fish Hatchery camp that Mayor Her forcibly cleared this week was on some of the most isolated land in the city, over 2 miles from downtown StP, surrounded by RRs, river, highways, & cliffs.
Map of Pig's Eye park.
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 03/08/2026
On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.
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Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer
The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
EUROPE / MENA: Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and Genocide inthesetimes.com/article/dock...
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Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and Genocide
Unions representing workers at 40 ports in Europe and the Mediterranean are calling for an international day of action on October 30.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 29/07/2026
Is this why they call it hump day
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 22/07/2026
jacob frey, the mayor of minneapolis who only stood up to ICE by swearing on TV instead of joining city residents even just for a school patrol shift, is now featured in north star dawn’s new ad on behalf of angie craig and it’s being funded by dark money
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My student loan payment(100% public loans) is going from $129/mo to $535/mo due to Tr*mp & the HR1 changes to student loans. Great news!
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
An armed guard shot a woman over an argument outside the Aurora ICE facility. When corporate prison guards open fire on citizens for speaking out, we are in a police state. This violent act shows what happens when you embolden an unhinged system. coloradonewsline.com/briefs/color...
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Colorado ICE detention center employee arrested, accused of shooting protester | Colorado Newsline
The shooting occurred just outside the facility, where the victim had been among a group of demonstrators protesting against ICE detention.
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🇨🇦Holylifton🇨🇦 @holylifton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Can we all agree that Mark Zuckerberg is a scumbag?
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Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, lawsuit claims
Twenty-six former employees of Meta Platforms have filed a ​lawsuit against the tech company, accusing it ‌of using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or who...
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 15/07/2026
In what could be a portentous signal for the fate of a healthcare mega merger, opponents from labor unions filled a St. Paul church this week to voice concerns — sometimes raucously so — about the proposed joining of two big nonprofit health systems: Allina Health and Sutter Health.
minnesotareformer.com
Hospital CEOs meet union skepticism over out-of-state acquisition of Allina Health • Minnesota Reformer
In what could be a portentous signal for the fate of a healthcare mega merger, opponents from labor unions filled a St. Paul church this week to voice concerns — sometimes raucously so — about the pro...
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Dave @davemn80.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is worth the read
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Minnesota's paid leave rollout was a success. Here's what we can learn from that. • Minnesota Reformer
Minnesota's paid family leave program was launched successfully — no glitches, on time and under budget.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ICE murdered two people in less than a week. Claimed they were “ramming their vehicle”. They said the same about Marimar Martinez who they shot FIVE times. She survived. Went to court to get the body cam footage released. Proved them wrong. Every shooting since they’ve left no survivors:
newyorker.com
The Preschool Teaching Assistant Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist”
When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, wi...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 13/07/2026
The Buckthorn Removal Singles Club meets every Sunday at a Minneapolis park to remove invasive plant species and create connections.
mprnews.org
Twin Cities singles trade dating apps for buckthorn removal
The Buckthorn Removal Singles Club meets every Sunday at a Minneapolis park to remove invasive plant species and create connections.
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
At least the new Little House on the Prairie series made a railroad tycoon the villain. The fact that he’s from Saint Paul? Rude
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ISAIAH @isaiahmn.org · 10/07/2026
📣 This week, Donald Trump attacked Somali kindergarteners celebrating their graduation in St. Paul. But that won't stop Minnesotans from showing up for every child in our state – no exceptions.
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 09/07/2026
Sheriff Fletcher padding his list of SOMALI GANG violence to include Columbus OH. You can tell they're being rigorous with this list because it says "May or may not be MN related." youtu.be/Jf51sC0sFc0?...
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I apologized to an avocado I dropped on the floor today for a window into the life of a woman in the upper Midwest
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Synchro is officially an Olympic event for 2030! I disagree that the 9 team format is the best way to showcase the discipline, both for athletes & spectators, but I’ll take any synchro I can get at this point
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 07/07/2026
Valerie Castile has a room in her home dedicated to other tributes to Philando: paintings, photographs and proclamations cover the walls. MPR News host Nina Moini talked with her there about how her life has changed and how she remembers her son now.
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For Valerie Castile, every day is a tribute to her son Philando
Valerie Castile lost her son Philando 10 years ago on Monday when he was killed by a police officer in a traffic stop in Falcon Heights. Since then, she’s worked to honor his memory by pushing for pol...
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Walk into any nursing home or home care situation and 9 times out of 10 the nurse or caregiver is an immigrant.
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The U.S. healthcare system is in crisis. A Supreme Court ruling could make things worse
Mass deportations would be felt across hospitals and emergency rooms, which already face persistent staffing shortfalls. The long-term healthcare sector will suffer the greatest disruptions, experts s...
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Kate Black @justkateblack.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Watching Porsha Williams’ grandfather in a James Baldwin film is all my interests converging
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