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Kat Gonzales, MPH

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Public Health DrPH student at @gwu Twin Cities, MN Curious human. Part-time explorer. "Of all the paths you take in life, make sure some of them are dirt." -John Muir

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Wishing blessings upon blessings to Juan Leon, the owner of Leo's Towing. The tow truck company has been returning abandoned vehicles to families for free after ICE arrests, despite death threats. Not all heroes wear capes.
Towing business returning cars abandoned by arrested immigrants to their families for free (01:55)
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Juan Leon had only been running his Twin Cities tow truck business, Leo's Towing, for a few months when he noticed a pattern that kept repeating itself.
Cars were being left behind across the metro area - parked on streets, in parking lots, sometimes for days at a time. The owners were gone, and in many cases, they had been arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 27/01/2026
The people, united, will never be defeated. ✊
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Life on the ground in St. Paul right now, from Council Member @mollycoleman.bsky.social—including a dispatch from "day care patrol," now a feature of everyday life, when parents try to stop ICE agents from kidnapping toddlers and teachers. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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In Minnesota, the Fight Against ICE Is Also the Fight Against Authoritarianism
The community is pulling together. It has been eye-opening.
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José Antonio Zayas Cabán @yeswaydrjose.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
- Donate: www.standwithminnesota.com - Uplift this call to action: ask others to volunteer and give - Volunteer - Reach out to philanthropic partners: urge them to contribute immediately - Call and email your elected representatives: demand real relief, not just words
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE
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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
BREAKING: Hennepin County DA @marymoriarty.bsky.social and the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension file federal lawsuit against DHS, demand preservation of evidence from the murder of Alex Pretti this morning: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72185...
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Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension v. Noem, 0:26-cv-00628 - CourtListener.com
Docket for Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension v. Noem, 0:26-cv-00628 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Ah, off-cycle election night. Time to start obsessively following the returns for a faraway candidate I just learned about an hour ago.
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 04/07/2025
Goodbye to All That www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
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Goodbye to All That
My resignation from the FBI. 
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Kat Gonzales, MPH @justkatg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
In less than 30 hours, the #madrefire has exploded to over 52k acres. Insane growth in a day.
Watchduty screenshot showing start of Madre fire.Watchduty screenshot showing rapid start of Madre fire after a couple hours.Watchduty screenshot showing explosive growth of Madrew fire, up to more than 52,000 acres in a day.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/07/2025
The Trump administration declined to release nearly $7 billion in school funding that helps pay for after-school programs and other services. trib.al/CIBxpaX
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Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation
The money, which was allocated by Congress, helps pay for after-school programs, support for students learning English and other services.
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Kat Gonzales, MPH @justkatg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
They can fuck all the way off. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...
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Trump Administration Will End L.G.B.T.Q. Suicide Prevention Service
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Breaking: The FDA has approved a vaginal swab that will allow people to screen for HPV — which causes almost all cases of cervical cancer — at home instead of getting a Pap smear, which can be painful and/or traumatic for many
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F.D.A. Approves First At-Home Alternative to the Pap Smear
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The new pope
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Gotta love legacy media innocently dropping the term "rawdogging" into a discussion on the conclave because they, apparently, aren't aware of its origin.
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ABC7 Eyewitness News @abc7.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Long Beach, LA ports brace for major tariff impact abc7.la/3Gwmmal
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Trump tariffs: The impact on jobs at the ports of LA and Long Beach
The Port of Los Angeles is expecting a 35% drop in imports during the first week of May, year over year.
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Trans Lifeline @translifeline.org · 28/04/2025
Please help us correct misinformation! Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans". We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community. Find out more @ translifeline.org
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Home - Trans Lifeline
Radicalcommunity care Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for our community that’s been divested from police since day one. We’re run by and for
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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 28/04/2025
ICYMI: Minneapolis is expected to experience severe storms this afternoon and early evening. Please review these storm preparedness tips and sign up for emergency alerts: www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2025/ap...
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City asks residents to prepare for severe storms Monday
The City of Minneapolis is asking residents to be weather aware and take precautions as severe storms are anticipated Monday afternoon and evening.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The Trump Administration Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat. apnews.com/article/poul...
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USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This is a very, very complex and exceedingly thorough process that involves extensive use of the president’s TiVo remote, so please, please, everyone, give it time www.npr.org/2025/04/21/n...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/04/2025
Van Hollen: "This case is not only about one man, as important as that is. It is about protecting fundamental freedoms and the fundamental principle in the Constitution for due process that protects everyone who resides in America."
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has blocked the Trump administration from deporting foreign nationals under the Alien Enemies Act. Thomas, Alito dissent.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/04/2025
WOW. SCOTUS has BLOCKED the administration from deporting class members under the Alien Enemies Act until further order of SCOTUS. This is the case Boasberg couldn’t issue a TRO in earlier because he didn’t have jurisdiction. I’m honestly shocked.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/04/2025
BREAKING: Senator meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over his return to U.S. after mistaken deportation.
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Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen has met in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who was sent there by the Trump administration in March despite an immigration court order preventing his deportation.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This is the kind of shit I want to see from every single Democrat
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Senator Chris Van Hollen has arrived in El Salvador to advocate for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Video is saved
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ABC 10News @abc10news.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
WATCH: Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park react to Monday's 5.2 magnitude earthquake that shook San Diego County. The elephants formed an "alert circle" meant to protect the young and the entire herd from any threats, according to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Since the Trump admin continues to claim Mr. Abrego Garcia is a gang member, I thought I'd take the time to put together a timeline, based on all the documents filed in court, which lays out all the "evidence" the government has ever offered. As you'll find out, there's very little "there" there!
TIMELINE
ABREGO GARCIA GANG ALLEGATIONS - SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION. 

2011-2019: Entry and Early Life: Kilmar Abrego Garcia flees El Salvador to the US at age 16, after M-18 gang members extort his family and threaten to kill him and rape his sisters if they didn’t keep paying. He moves in with his US citizen brother in Maryland and lives there without trouble for years.

March 28, 2019: PGPD Arrest. Kilmar is arrested for loitering outside Home Depot while looking for day labor. A Prince Georges County PD detective grills him about whether he’s a gang member. He denies any involvement. Four hours later, he is transferred to ICE custody, without PGPD charging him for any offense.

April 2019: ICE Allegations: At a bond hearing, ICE claims Kilmar is part of MS-13. They submit one piece of evidence: a “Gang Field Interview Sheet” (GFIS) filled out by the PGPD detective that claims Kilmar is part of MS-13. The GFIS says (1) he was wearing Chicago Bulls gear, and (2) a “confidential informant” allegedly claimed that Kilmar was a ranking member of the “Westerns” clique, which is in Long Island, a place he has never lived in.Summer 2019: Investigation: Kilmar’s lawyers reach out to PGPD to investigate these claims. They find out that (1) the police did not even file an incident report about his arrest, and (2) the detective that filled out the GFIS has been suspended for an unknown reason.

August 2019: IJ Decision: At his final bond hearing, ICE declines to offer any evidence of gang membership other than what’s in the GFIS. The IJ denies bond, finding that the GFIS is sufficient proof of membership at this time, despite noting its obvious flaws. Kilmar appeals this decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals.

October 2019: Withholding Win: The immigration judge rules that Kilmar is ineligible for asylum because he filed the application too late. But the judge does grant “withholding of removal,” finding that it was “more likely than not” that he would be subject to persecution if deported to El Salvador. A removal order is issued, but with a restriction that the one country he cannot be deported to is El Salvador.December 2019: BIA Decision: Kilmar appeals the bond decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals. The appeals board declines to find “clear error” in the immigration judge’s decision to rely on the GFIS document. However, he is released anyway because he had won withholding of removal.

2019-2025: Normal Life: Kilmar lives a normal life in Maryland with his U.S. citizen wife, their biological son, and his two stepchildren. With his work permit, he gets a job as a sheet metal worker, joins a union, and raises his family in a DC suburb. He doesn’t get into any trouble with the law.

March 2025: Sent to CECOT: On March 12, 2025, ICE comes to Kilmar’s home and arrests him in front of his children. Three days later he’s transferred to Texas, where, thanks to an “administrative error,” he is put on a plane to El Salvador and sent to CECOT
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Kat Rohn @rohnkat.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Lots of good community resources: tcqueertransplants.com mntirnetwork.org www.twincitiesquorum.com/Relocation-G... Other orgs leading support work: TC Pride, Transforming Families, OutFront, Family Tree Clinic & there are others doing great work in this space too! And shoutout to PFund for funding!
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
10 national unions repping 3 million members demand the release of abducted immigrant workers and call for employers and university admins to refuse to cooperate and elected officials to “find their spines.” This is the way. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
Ten national unions and dozens of locals representing more than 3 million members have issued a joint statement demanding the release of immigrant workers recently snatched by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The statement names farmworker union leader Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, who was picked up in what appears to be blatant retaliation for his organizing; SEIU Local 925 member Lewelyn Dixon, a University of Washington lab technician detained on her way home from visiting family; SEIU Local 509 member Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student whose detention by federal agents was captured in chilling footage; sheet metal worker Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a SMART Local 100 apprentice who was sent to El Salvador’s notorious prison complex; and United Auto Workers Local 2710 member Mahmoud Khalil, abducted by federal agents in front of his eight-months-pregnant wife.

The unions are also calling on employers, university administrators, and local governments to refuse to cooperate—and demanding that elected officials “find their spines.”
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Nurses For America @nursesforamerica.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Statement: Nurses for America Stands in Solidarity with the American Public Health Association Executive Director’s call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy. Read their statement here: apha.org/news-and-med... @apha.org
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates
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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/04/2025
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27
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South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This shit is scary AF
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ABC7 Eyewitness News @abc7.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
#BREAKINGNEWS: Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for a 9-month-old baby missing from Anaheim. abc7.la/4csED4q
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Amber Alert issued for 9-month-old baby missing from Anaheim
Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for a 9-month-old baby missing from Anaheim.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
75% have no criminal records. Just sit with that. www.cbsnews.com/news/what-re...
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U.S. sent 238 migrants to Salvadoran mega-prison; documents indicate most have no apparent criminal records
The U.S. sent 238 Venezuelan migrants to a Salvadoran mega-prison. The Trump administration says they're all gang members, but 60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75 percent of them.
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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This is what kicking fascism’s ass looks like. #HandsOff
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CNN @cnn.com · 04/04/2025
CNBC's Jim Cramer tells CNN's Erin Burnett he feels let down by the Trump tariffs, saying their implementation has been "bush league." Follow live tariff updates: cnn.it/4iWELvr
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ABC7 Eyewitness News @abc7.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
#BREAKINGNEWS: The first case of measles in seven years in Riverside County prompted health officials on Thursday to urge precautions and vigilance among residents. abc7.la/42fe39X
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Riverside County reports first confirmed case of measles countywide since 2018
The first case of measles in seven years in Riverside County prompted health officials on Thursday to urge precautions and vigilance among residents.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/04/2025
SAVE THE PENGUINS. STOP TRUMP’S TARIFFS.
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Joel Montfort @montfort.me · 03/04/2025
You mean to tell me throwing up tariffs doesn't grow US manufacturing?
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Kat Gonzales, MPH @justkatg.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
For anyone breathing.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Welcome to Idiocracy.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This is true: The Trump administration said it has imposed a 10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory, whose only inhabitants are the U.S. and U.K. service members at the military base on Diego Garcia.
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
JESUS RUBBERNECKING CHRIST ON A CRACKER THIS MAN'S BRAIN IS COOKED INTO OLD PUDDING
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Kat Gonzales, MPH @justkatg.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Fantastic.
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Kat Gonzales, MPH @justkatg.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
University of Minnesota @smith.senate.gov @marcelias.bsky.social @amyklobuchar.com @agellison.bsky.social @governorwalz.mn.gov
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/03/2025
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
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