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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I read Kelly’s piece again this morning when I woke up at 5 and couldn’t get back to sleep. Which reminds me: here’s something you can do if you’re in the Twin Cities. Registration link for the training organized by Unidos MN on Feb 6: secure.everyaction.com/I89jws9qnkyv...

LEGAL WITNESS TRAINING
Are you ready to stand up and defend our communities?
The incoming administration has vowed to deport millions, starting in blue states. While the future is uncertain, we're preparing to act together and shine a light on injustice.
Join us for a legal witness training to support immigrant communities and join Unidos' rapid response network. Let's ensure no one faces the worst alone.

bit.ly/4j8tZ5E
Thursday, February 6, 2025
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM CT
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
2730 E 31st St, Minneapolis, MN 55406

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Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Today and tomorrow! Winter supply drive at Duck Duck Coffee, any winter and camping gear helps! Have a chill weekend, go get a coffee with someone you like, and help your unhoused neighbors ❤️

The storefront of Duck Duck Coffee with a sign that says "Sanctuary Supply Depot drop off till 2pm Sa/Sun" and several tables, plus a pile of supplies

Another angle of the same building front

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Austin Wardell @kaptainbadass.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I will probably be able to extend our motel stay until Tuesday or Wednesday. That means we will be on the street just in time for Thanksgiving. Please help us with a repost of this thread! Linked the USA Today story we were featured in. We need some help with a signal boost! @eve6.bsky.social

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Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Hey friends - we have been running out of tents, sleeping bags, and tarps every single week and it's getting colder. We know of at least one camp getting evicted this week. If you can help, $ goes farthest but you can also bring winter clothes and secondhand tents to any of our drop spots!

It's always a good day for mutual aid
All donation options at SupplyDepotMpls.com
PayPal: SupplyDepotMpls
Venmo: @SupplyDepotMpls
Cash app: $SanctuarySupplyDepot
Sanctuary Supply Depot is a fiscally sponsored project of GMCC (EIN-410693933), a Minnesota non-profit corporation that is described in Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3)

Map of Minneapolis with stars on the donation drop sites. Donations can be brought during regular business hours. Sites are Arbeiter Brewing, b Resale, Boneshaker Books, Duck Duck Coffee, Indigenous Food Lab, and Modist Brewing

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"Horrifying Monster" Ella Tailor 🎃🎃🐶🎃 @garaktailor.com · 03/10/2024

Community Kitchen MPLS needs your help Getting back in the black. Their fiscal host transition took longer than expected. Bills piled up, and they need your help to keep operating!

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Community Kitchen MPLS - Getting back in the black - Open Collective

Our fiscal host transition took longer than expected. Bills piled up, and we need your help to keep operating!

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natou @tichatnwa.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

this has been stalled out for awhile now i am still homeless and crashing in a dry cabin with no car i am out of water and meds and i need to reup on my phone in a few days thanks for all the help so far i fucking love you pls keep sharing cause i am v much still going thru it

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/09/2024

This is the order link, FYI. Get your free tests! special.usps.com/testkits

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COVID Home Tests | USPS

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🚲🕸️𝖘𝖈𝖔𝖔𝖕𝖘🕸️🚲 @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Workers at all three Mississippi Markets in St Paul are unionizing under UFCW 1189. Links here for ways to support the workers, including signing a petition or attending upcoming co-op meetings. linktr.ee/marketunion

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Halloween Rex @katyrex.meatjacker.social · 19/09/2024

PLEASE help, Community Kitchen is incredible and reliable and even when Open Collective disbanding meant they couldn't get donations they were still doing everything in their capacity to help, I am in awe of them

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 10/09/2024

My husband is probably going to be released from the psych ward today, and I am trying desperately to get him into a long-term facility, but they are all prohibitively expensive. Please share, support, or donate—every action counts. gofund.me/dc9a74d9

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Help Save My Husband’s Life: Support for Urgent Bipolar Care, organized by Ashley Fairbanks

Four years ago my husband had a major psychotic episode that … Ashley Fairbanks needs your support for Help Save My Husband’s Life: Support for Urgent Bipolar Care

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🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.com · 06/09/2024

I remember being on Twitter and watching people decide en masse that getting covid to be endemic was a goal because at that point it would just be normal and thus no big deal

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james, but scary. @abacadabber.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Sanctuary Supply Depot is providing peanut butter sandwiches to an encampment once a week. $20 buys one week. I just signed up for a $20 recurring on their Open Collective. Can anyone match me with a one time or recurring $20? opencollective.com/sanctuarysup...

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SanctuarySupplyDepot - Open Collective

The Sanctuary Supply Depot is a central hub that fascilitates the collection and distribution of basic survival supplies for our unhoused neighbors.

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Mike Hicks @mulad.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

The city of Minneapolis has a low-cost tree program that closes up for the year in a couple weeks. $30 per tree if you're looking to replace one taken out by this year's storms (and I think it's also intended for areas with fewer trees in general) www.mprnews.org/story/2024/0...

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After storms topple mature trees, city of Minneapolis reminds residents of low-cost tree program

The city of Minneapolis is offering residents, property owners and businesses low-cost trees in efforts to grow the city’s tree canopy.

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Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Many many tents were destroyed (see: a tree falling on someone), if you can help please check out donation links at supplydepotmpls.com!

Severe Storm Emergency Fundraiser
We anticipate needing to replace more than 40 tents, tarps, sleeping bags, and more due to the weather overnight. Donate @ Supplydepotmpls.com

Severe weather overnight shredded tents and tarps, and soaked the belongings of our unhoused neighbors

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gin. @showupforthis.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

The list itself is long but just a water bottle and composition books are left in the highest priority items for back to school. Between a donation I received to buy other supplies locally and folks sending some of the other items, we're almost there! Thank you all! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Check out my list on Amazon

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/08/2024

My niece is the first of my sister’s five kids to get into college and get off the reservation. They have like, no money for stuff for her dorm room. I can’t afford to buy out her wishlist, but if you have a few extra bucks and want to pitch in, it would be amazing. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Check out my list on Amazon

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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

Minneapolis' own Library Patron's Union has put up this post & it's in collaboration with Southside Harm Reduction, Trans Liberation Minneapolis, & Camp Nenookaasi 1/2 www.instagram.com/p/C-DIEU4u46...

Black background with digital rendering of almost blown-glass-looking fluted flowers. White text in the bottom right corner reads: “WHY THE LIBRARY"

Black background. Some of the same neon fluted flower design, as well as some purple neon sparkle shapes can be seen around the border. White text reads:

"There are many reasons in this current political moment why fighting for libraries to be the best they can feels essential.

Libraries are state institutions under capitalism and have oppressive dynamics. Libraries also have the possibility of being liberatory spaces!

Free, non-commercial spaces, where people from many economic and cultural backgrounds interact, where political education happens, mutual aide occurs, and the opportunity to practice abolitionist skills, conflict resolution, community care exist."

White Text on black background reads:

Social Services

Public Libraries across the United States are experiencing significant funding cuts with governments chipping away at social programs and the common good.

Hennepin County Libraries have had reduced staffing numbers year after year. 2024 was the first staffing increase for our library system since 2017. Meanwhile, the Hennepin County Sherrif's department experiences increased staffing annually.

Within this context of austerity cuts and huge increases in funding for policing we have to fight for dramatic escalation of support and funding for necessary public goods like libraries

Unhoused neighbors

Unhoused people are evicted over and over again in Mpls belongings destroyed, humanity denied. The supreme court decided recently that cities can punish people for sleeping outdoors, Simultaneously, climate change is leading to more days where it is unsafe to be outside.

Hennepin County Library banishes patrons for grooming in bathrooms, falling asleep, expressing frustration when security peers through bathroom stalls at them. (March 2024 data) Guards increase length of trespass (to 1 year) and threaten arrest if people return to the library before their banishment is over. Of course, criminal records make it even harder for people to access housing.

Libraries are key places for unhoused people, because they are free, non-commercial spaces and so the ways un-sheltered neighbors are treated in libraries is an important part of defending their lives and humanity.

It is imperative that Hennepin County Library changes their policies and practices to stop criminali

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 28/07/2024

My hometown’s river is no longer flammable because of public policy! And our lake (Erie) was once considered dead and now it is slowly recovering, thanks largely to environmental regulations. Public policy works, pass it on.

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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Minnesotans asking how to help dislocated Rainbow Health workers who just abruptly lost their income & medical insurance: Latifah needs urgent help. gofund.me/ef8b9a99 Every little bit you can donate will make a huge difference. Could you donate or share to spread the word? Thanks a lot!

Hey folks, AJ here!

As many of you know, Rainbow Health was abruptly dissolved last Thursday. This shocking closure left us all unemployed (day of) with no severance or even PTO payout.

As luck would have it, one of my beloved colleagues just received horrible news that she has a thoracic spinal tumor. The timing couldn't be worse, as she'll lose her current health insurance at the end of July and already owes $1136.72 in medical expenses that insurance did not cover. Her surgery to remove the tumor is scheduled for August 5, so it would be great to raise funds before then.

Please help Latifah pay her outstanding medical bills during this time of need! Contributions of any amount help and are deeply appreciated.

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MashedBex | trying to kick cancer's ass @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

i need a flood of $10s/$20s/$30s to come my way right now. my lights are being disconnected tomorrow. my rent is officially 2 months overdue tomorrow - they're sending a 2nd notice tmrw. please help me to stop both. i am drowning. i am reaching out for help. please 🙏🏽 paypal.me/thelongestroad

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Tinu @tinu.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

I was all like “please help me afford to stay on the chemo pills insurance won’t cover so I won’t end up on IV chemo.” So anyway here’s me yesterday. WAY more expensive so if you can spare it please help. Venmo/CashApp TinuWrites PayPal.me/TinuWrites

Picture of me, a dark skinned black woman in a black fancy bonnet, a pink shirt, seated in an infusion chair wearing a pink shirt, receiving a chemotherapy infusion.

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Kevin @kevinpetrie.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

While I'm somewhat in favor of traffic cameras for speed enforcement, a system of speed cameras is not entirely race-blind like their proponents suggest. Unsafe streets that encourage speeding are most often placed in neighborhoods with lower incomes.

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Slug Punk @slugpunk.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Banned from campus for being a weeb

An email with the name of the university blanked out reading:
“Today, June 11, 2024, at approximately 3:55 PM, an individual entered the east entrance of the public library on Blank University’s campus. Security personnel observed that the individual had what appeared to be a sheathed samurai sword protruding vertically from their backpack.

The individual did not pose a threat to themselves or others. Security immediately addressed the situation and requested that the individual leave the library premises. The individual complied without incident and departed Blank University property at approximately 4:03 PM. No disruption or further incidents occurred, and the individual was cooperative with security staff.

As a precaution, the individual has been verbally trespassed from Blank University property, and a BOLO is issued across our safety collaboration network.”

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Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

If we can make $900 by tomorrow we can double the amount of tents available at tomorrow's pop-up, and it still won't be enough but it will save some lives. Help if you can, the cruelty is overwhelming right now

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Slug Punk @slugpunk.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

Someone is recruiting for the cult I grew up in at the next table in this coffee shop. I want to get up and yell “don’t join, eventually you’ll believe that you can remember your own birth and that sugar and ibuprofen is the opiate of the masses!”

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caztastrophe 🐦🦝🏳️‍🌈 @caztastrophe.gay · 29/04/2024

Fellow covid-cautious Minneapolitans: Total Solace Massage on Lake St. Mischa & Sasha wear & require masks, they're queer & trans, & they're *genuinely top tier* massage therapists. Go give them your money if you can.

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R!ot NOW! 🪶 @alyciaart.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

Everyday, Hamdy asks me how *I'm* doing 😭💗 Please donate to his gofundme and help his family escape if you can 💗 www.gofundme.com/f/gaza-emerg...

Hamdy in front of the rubble that was his home in Gaza

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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

There's an employee fund going around for the folks employed by the 19 — the Minneapolis bar is the oldest gay bar in the state, & there was a fire caused by a vehicular + electrical accident on Friday, 03/23/24 www.gofundme.com/f/employees-...

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Employees of the 19 Bar Minneapolis, organized by Jason Miska

Today we heard about the 19 bar being on fire. There are 8 employees we know and love … Jason Miska needs your support for Employees of the 19 Bar Minneapolis

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🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.com · 28/02/2024

These days you can't even stab at someone from hell's heart or spit your last breath at them for spite's sake without someone calling you a homophobe for it

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/01/2024

Trader Joe’s United said it’s *not* calling for a customer boycott at this time in response to the company arguing the NLRB is unconstitutional. But they *are* asking people to sign a customer strike pledge if they call for a boycott in the future. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/forms/stand-...

Screenshot from Trader Joe’s United on Instagram. It’s a shopping bag with the text overlaid

TAKE ACTION

SIGN THE CUSTOMER Strike

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

unlike glaze, though, you should run EVERY image you post through nightshade: memes, screenshots, food photos, literally everything you can, because they WILL be scraped and every time they are, it fucks the dataset up a bit more

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Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

If you have them, we need warm clothes and especially coats and boots. Drop offs are Arbeiter Brewing, Modist Brewing, b Resale, Duck Duck Coffee, Boneshaker Books, and Indigenous Food Lab ❤️

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

This is what BIPOC mean when we say a lot of Europeans and Americans support Ukrainians and not Palestinians bc of whiteness. Borders quickly show who is racialized and how

@lalaidris:
FYI to further add to the fact that it is white
supremacy, the measures given to Sudanese
people fleeing the war resemble those given
for Gaza and came 10 months after the war
broke out.
davideV @criticofpolecon . 1d
This is what it means to exist in a supremacist global system
cipmeofficial post on Instagram:
CANADA'S QUOTA ON GAZA FAMILY
REUNIFICATION SHOWS DOUBLE STANDARD
Canada's emergency measures for Gaza
(2023)

3-year temporary visa

Limit: 1,000 people

Eligible: extended family of Canadians

No financial aid from Canada; requirement for family to financially support them

Canada's emergency measures for Ukraine (2022)

3-year temporary visa

No limit, over 600,000 people approved

Eligible: Ukrainians with or without Canadian
connection

Fees waived and two weeks of temporary accomodations available

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Anonsee Storyweaver 🕸️ @anons.ee · 14/12/2023

Hey y’all, I’m maintaining a modlist specifically for antiblackness and transmisogynoir, The Pit. I have some help behind the scenes as well, but feel free to @ me with their name and what they did in order to have someone added going forward. Reskeet this for general awareness, please 💖

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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Target run successful & we're working overtime to help in a way that they feel safe & supported & know that their best interests are top priority. There will be more incidentals, but meeting the initial $500 means we'll have covered most of this past week's needs. $450/$500 V: HumanHummingbird

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Anonsee Storyweaver 🕸️ @anons.ee · 26/12/2023

If y’all can donate to or share Roman’s GFM, I’d really appreciate it. They’re the one I drove down from DC to Tennessee to pick up after their family kicked them out on Christmas, but we need to get them stuff like a bed, replacing most of their clothes, and other stuff we couldn’t fit in my car.

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

singing "Siiiimply haaaaving a wonderful kitten time!" as my cat stares, uncomprehending and disapproving

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