RedsPaintings

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Mpls painter, reader, runner, writer, tragic optimist. Class Conscious Existential enthusiast and question-asker by trade. Multitudes not so contained. She/her

so. it's really easy for me to make a "MN fights back" post. and. if you're Somali, what he said is lies, it's dogwhistles meant for his supporters, and those whistles are loud. and ours are louder. if you need or want direct support, whatever that is for you, i got your back. (lots of us do).

Honestly. If that guy’s strategy is to wear us down, then he doesn’t understand Minnesota and our winters. We endure and thrive because of each other. To my Somali neighbors and friends - you are needed and loved.

We’re sick of ICE terrorizing our neighbors. Sick of it. Like the brave people of Minneapolis, we have zero tolerance for federal agents lawlessly unleashing violence on our streets.

On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.

Tonight at our Board of Estimate & Taxation meeting we deadlocked on deciding the maximum levy for the City and the Parks. I voted in full support of the park board’s levy request and the city’s request throughout every single amendment brought forward, but we could not find consensus on that.

Jadah Green lives near the Alex Pretti memorial and has been taking care of it since the beginning. Now, she and the neighborhood group called Whittier Alliance are calling on their neighbors to help plan for something more permanent.

Caretakers of Alex Pretti memorial begin planning for more permanent remembrance site

Neighbors have been taking care of a makeshift memorial for Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti since he was shot and killed by federal agents in January. Now, they’re making plans to create a more permanen...

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we tracked months of rent payments to an estimated 13,000 families. the expected cost of rehousing those families, had they entered eviction, would be north of $218 million dollars. keeping them housed cost around $38-40 million

Labor Day Pop quiz!📝 Why does my opponent have 0 Labor union endorsements? A) Because he is a partner at the country’s most notorious union-busting law firm. B) Because he worked for Trump. C) Because he has spent a majority of his career defending corporations and getting rich.

In the coming days and weeks I and my fellow Commissioners will continue to communicate with you in greater detail the importance of fully funding our parks. As we do so, I hope you will join us and let your council members, BET reps, and the Mayor know you want to fully found our wondeful parks!

Reminder that the Secretary of State’s website updates every ten minutes on :07, so there’s no need refresh the page every thirty seconds. (This reminder is for me)

El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."

Riley Gaines came all the way to Minnesota today just to watch Sophie Cunningham make only 1 shot and her team lose to the Lynx. Riley & Sophie are proof cancel culture isn’t real because they both are deeply mediocre athletes that only have big followings due to their bigotry.