Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotDr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago 202100222461
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotLe Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedlemonde.frAmnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedIn a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States. 390198456369
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotAlex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There are a lot of things about this winter that I still find hard to believe or process, but one of them is that the federal government singled out a state and city, more or less at random, upon which to intentionally inflict massive economic damage. 26622
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 21/09/2026This is happening to my clients. Makes it impossible for me to know if they're still in Minnesota or even in America. ICE can shuttle them around without my knowledge and, unless they get word to me, I have no way to access them as counsel 1197121
Reposted by Tom van de Laarschotmollypeonies @mollypeonies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026NEW! How MPD Built a Police Surveillance Operation Around Renee Good’s Memorial — and What It Cost the Community MPD dedicated 101 personnel to a memorial deployment where just seven people were holding vigil. It was part of a four-day MPD operation that generated $1.92 million in overtime.thisisbydesign.comHow MPD Built a Police Surveillance Operation Around Renee Good’s Memorial — and What It Cost the CommunityRecords reveal a coordinated system of drones, city cameras, command-post intelligence, body-worn and helmet cameras, person and vehicle checks, and evidence preservation around the memorial site as p... 14231145
Tom van de Laarschot @tlaar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I don't doubt it, those are all good ingredients. But at first glance I was sure that was a word AI made up. 020
Tom van de Laarschot @tlaar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026TIL there's a real thing called Banoffee Pie en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banoffe...en.wikipedia.orgBanoffee pie - Wikipedia 131
Tom van de Laarschot @tlaar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026With construction on 1st Ave, Franklin, and 15th this year, I've felt a little boxed in. 000
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotAlex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Phase II, next year. Hennepin County opted to work with two crews to pack most of the Franklin work done this year. I can't speak to why they chose that approach, but it explains the unusual pace of construction you're seeing. 052
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotWedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 15/09/2026Payne: Other city departments manage within their budget. MPD "lacks the basic administrative competency... Perhaps we need to treat this department differently." 410022
Tom van de Laarschot @tlaar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I always pick up the weird oreo flavors, because I must know. But there's been an escalation, I cannot keep up with all this insanity at once. 010
Tom van de Laarschot @tlaar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Anyone who would object to the very idea of Somali (or Latino) participation in one of the most important public safety decisions the city makes does not belong on said panel. 130
Tom van de Laarschot @tlaar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It also shouldn't be hard to have a member of the Somali community involved. 140
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotDavid Brauer @dbrauer.net · 11/09/2026Anyway, here’s a section that will cut you to your core. Odds are 1-2% of the local Latino population has been deported & one community member thinks 25% have left. 21441146
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 09/09/2026If I hadn't taken my new job, I was about to put my private practice all in on public records lawsuits. The City of Minneapolis has been wantonly violating the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act for years, basically taunting us while they do it. So much low-hanging fruit. 39018
Tom van de Laarschot @tlaar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026MPR reporting on a St. Paul Somali man (a legal immigrant without a criminal record) currently being held in Guantanamo after being taken by ICE in December. Adam Abdullah also says there are several other Somalis from the Twin Cities with him at Guantanamo. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...mprnews.orgSt. Paul man arrested in ICE surge sent to Guantanamo BayAdam Abdullah has no criminal record, but the government is holding him at a military prison set up for terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. 000
Reposted by Tom van de Laarschottaylr @taylordahlin.com · 09/09/2026the city of minneapolis had to pay the star tribune $31,500 to settle public records lawsuits already this year... what a waste of taxpayer dollars and they're apparently risking even more by continuing to refuse to hand over data www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...startribune.comMinneapolis to pay Star Tribune $31,500 to settle public records lawsuitsThe news outlet sued over the city’s failure to turn over the name of a homicide victim, and the names of people who filed misconduct complaints against a former police chief. 14815
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotWedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 03/09/2026In addition to the shooting, serious crash involving MPD outside Target on Nicollet Mall. 129631
Reposted by Tom van de Laarschottaylr @taylordahlin.com · 02/09/2026law enforcement have moved us back away from nicollet mall at grant st and down to lasalle ave. man who shot 2 cops is holed up inside loring towers 49637
Reposted by Tom van de Laarschottaylr @taylordahlin.com · 02/09/2026more law enforcement keeps arriving to grant and nicollet in loring park in minneapolis after 2 cops were shot. someone here said that a guy living in the tower shot his baby mom, a property manager, other residents and holed up inside 69543
Reposted by Tom van de Laarschottaylr @taylordahlin.com · 01/09/2026MINNESOTAN RENTERS: if you rented from a large property mgmt company between 2018-2025, you may be able to get money from a recent settlement as they were colluding to drive up rents i found the brentwood apartments in loring park on there! www.realpagerentalsettlement.com/property-loo...realpagerentalsettlement.comProperty Lookup - In re RealPage, Inc., Rental Software Antitrust Litigation (No. II)In re RealPage, Inc., Rental Software Antitrust Litigation (No. II) 511688
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotDavid Brauer @dbrauer.net · 31/08/2026So I’m not sure how this is possible but … I’m in Germany to help pick up an international peace prize, as one does. A very cool organization in Aachen, Germany is honoring Unidos/Monarca & Smitten Kitten for Metro Surge resistance. Browser-translate the release: www.aachener-friedenspreis.de 1/ 2439455
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotTim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops 6277292026
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotNaomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Also, there's a Green in the Governor's race and on one hand I am deeply wary of splitting the vote just because you think the DFLer has it in the bag and on the other hand 5753
Reposted by Tom van de Laarschotjan rabari @bushyt0p.bsky.social · 22/08/2026what a friggin banger 010115
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotD.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Thank you photographer Chris Juhn (and Minneapolis Spiderman of course) for this banger. 4546126
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotAsh Chudgar @chudgar.com · 23/08/2026Minneapolis! We must defend Spider-Man at all costs. Here is a legal aid fund for him gofund.me/04d657426gofund.meDonate to Support Spider-Man’s Legal Defense, organized by Neil Ashvin ChudgarI am raising funds for SPIDER-MAN, a local protester and hero here in Minneapol… Neil Ashvin Chudgar needs your support for Support Spider-Man’s Legal Defense 20802499
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotMinnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/08/2026Far-right agitator Jake Lang was arrested Saturday after the vehicle he was in drove onto a sidewalk in front of Minneapolis City Hall and towards a crowd of people.bit.lyFar-right agitator Jake Lang arrested on suspicion of rioting in MinneapolisTwo vehicles drove towards a crowd outside of City Hall before a planned rally by Lang. 1319270
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotJared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Jake Lang got his ass whooped by a guy in a Spider-Man costume as soon as he rolled up. His whole time on scene was maybe two minutes. Lots of pepper spray in the air during those couple of minutes. Police have retreated into city hall for now. 34879210
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotHarry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 22/08/2026You'd better believe it. 634061713
Reposted by Tom van de Laarschotfunctional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 20/08/2026wisconsin is such a weird state because if you drive with a small amount of unopened weed in your car it’s a felony but if you drive while extremely drunk they give you a medal 0262
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotMinnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 18/08/2026Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is suing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, accusing Abbott of holding up the extradition of ICE agent Christian Castro, who is charged with assault in the Jan. 14 shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis.minnesotareformer.comAG Keith Ellison sues Texas governor for failure to extradite ICE agent charged with assault • Minnesota ReformerMinnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is suing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, alleging that Abbott is holding up the extradition of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer charged with assault in t... 316659
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotBanmarNJ @banmarnj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Polling firm closes down after it faked Hong, Bass pollsthehill.comPolling firm closes down after it faked Hong, Bass pollsMedian Strategies, the company that released polls showing Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) and former Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong ahead with wide margins in their respective r… 2219
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/08/2026Michele Tafoya claims that Liam Ramos, who was detained in Minnesota by masked ICE as he returned home from pre-K and then flown to San Antonio, was “treated very humanely, very kindly by a couple of ICE enforcement agents when they couldn’t find his father, and they took him to get some food” 117783167
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotMelody Hoffmann @phmelody.bsky.social · 13/08/2026In Loring Park: 063
Reposted by Tom van de Laarschotmadi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026A motion filed this morning in the "Minnesota 15" case details extensive surveillance of labor unions, leftist organizations and racial justice groups by the federal government during Operation Metro Surge. Here's the motion — reading through it now and will have a story up later today.storage.courtlistener.comExhibit(s) 3 – #212, Att. #3 in United States v. Sant (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cr-00115) – CourtListener.comMOTION for Discovery by Isaac Auman Sant. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit(s) 1, # 2 Exhibit(s) 2, # 3 Exhibit(s) 3, # 4 Exhibit(s) 4, # 5 Exhibit(s) 5, # 6 Exhibit(s) 6, # 7 Exhibit(s) 7, # 8 Exhibit(s) 8, ... 8237112
Reposted by Tom van de LaarschotUmmSqueaky @ummsqueaky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Minnesota will never forget. We will never forgive. Fuck ICE and all the rest. Go get ‘em Peggy. (Art by La Gata Fea Linocut) 11622154
Tom van de Laarschot @tlaar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Dang, I buy like one of these a week. If they have to shut down, apparently lettuce can't come from here. 000
Tom van de Laarschot @tlaar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026In a lot of states, Major Metro + College towns are all you need. Seems like candidate quality has more weight than faction this cycle, but we'll see how that goes next week in MN + WI. 010
Tom van de Laarschot @tlaar.bsky.social · 04/08/20263. So the real practical effect is that the mayor gets 3 strikes to nominate a replacement, but this loop keeps him from advancing to strike one until there is a veto override. 4. Time and public money was spent on this Rube Goldberg logic, and I don’t like that. 000
Tom van de Laarschot @tlaar.bsky.social · 04/08/20261. Thanks, that’s exactly what I wanted. 2. I can’t help but agree with the 1976 opinion that allowing veto of a denial is absurd. The CAO’s opinion is essentially that it IS a never ending loop, but that isn’t absurd. 101
Tom van de Laarschot @tlaar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Can you explain the procedural logic of 'failing to override the veto of the denial of the nomination'? Does this mean that a 2/3 council majority is effectively required to deny a mayoral appointment, but a simple majority can put it in some kind of limbo state? 100
Tom van de Laarschot @tlaar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026If so, more credit to Mushishi for being so original. I've never read the manga. Other anime I'd call out as a casual fan: Baccano is great in a Cowboy Bebop way, and Last Exile might be a bit shounen, but I liked the worldbuilding. 120
Tom van de Laarschot @tlaar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Mushishi is a really good anime, just a little strange/surreal, slower paced, and an interesting window into Japanese folklore (at least I presume its based on folk tales). 120
Tom van de Laarschot @tlaar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The Strong Mayor makes a surprise annexation to become the first Twin Cities Mayor. 010
