Flan
@flanknits.bsky.social
she/her. South Minneapolis
Community organizer. Fiber Artist. Political news junkie. Quaker.
Time split between my day job and mutual aid @ SupplyDepotMpls.
Community organizer. Fiber Artist. Political news junkie. Quaker.
Time split between my day job and mutual aid @ SupplyDepotMpls.
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You've probably been following the story about fraud in MN. I wrote about the people who provide services who are being driven into bankruptcy, thanks to the Walz' administration decision to hire Optum AI to screen all payments. It's a disaster.
Perry: Trusted providers are being unfairly swept up in Minnesota’s fraud crackdown
As the state's new anti-fraud screening system went into effect, the Holland Center expected to receive $212,000 in payments. It instead received $22,000, David M. Perry writes. If nothing changes soo...
www.startribune.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:53 AM
You've probably been following the story about fraud in MN. I wrote about the people who provide services who are being driven into bankruptcy, thanks to the Walz' administration decision to hire Optum AI to screen all payments. It's a disaster.
Every year I cast on a knitting project on January 1. Here’s 2026.
January 2, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Every year I cast on a knitting project on January 1. Here’s 2026.
My less online spouse and the kiddo did snowblower guy duty today, suited up for the wind.
December 29, 2025 at 3:32 AM
My less online spouse and the kiddo did snowblower guy duty today, suited up for the wind.
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I found a healthy one: give a few $$ to mutual aid folks.
unhealthy coping mechanisms for the holidays
December 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I found a healthy one: give a few $$ to mutual aid folks.
Our extended family sings Joy to the World to start Christmas Eve dinner.
Us: 🎶Let earth receive her king🎶
Kiddo (age 8): “Didn’t we fight a whole war to not have kings in this country?? No Kings!”
2025 is a mood.
Us: 🎶Let earth receive her king🎶
Kiddo (age 8): “Didn’t we fight a whole war to not have kings in this country?? No Kings!”
2025 is a mood.
December 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Our extended family sings Joy to the World to start Christmas Eve dinner.
Us: 🎶Let earth receive her king🎶
Kiddo (age 8): “Didn’t we fight a whole war to not have kings in this country?? No Kings!”
2025 is a mood.
Us: 🎶Let earth receive her king🎶
Kiddo (age 8): “Didn’t we fight a whole war to not have kings in this country?? No Kings!”
2025 is a mood.
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This is your chance to do a quick ICE WATCH training!
Dec 24, 1pm – 2pm, on Zoom.
Learn how to document, coordinate and monitor ICE activity, and how to connect with others doing ICE WATCH in your community.
DO IT!!!
Dec 24, 1pm – 2pm, on Zoom.
Learn how to document, coordinate and monitor ICE activity, and how to connect with others doing ICE WATCH in your community.
DO IT!!!
ICE Watch welcome, a Christmas Eve special! – Wednesday 12/24 1pm-2pm
Minneapolis and the Twin Cities has begun to experience another massive surge in abductions and disappearances.
New to ICE Watch and want to get involved?
(1/3)
Minneapolis and the Twin Cities has begun to experience another massive surge in abductions and disappearances.
New to ICE Watch and want to get involved?
(1/3)
ICE Watch Welcome!
defend612.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This is your chance to do a quick ICE WATCH training!
Dec 24, 1pm – 2pm, on Zoom.
Learn how to document, coordinate and monitor ICE activity, and how to connect with others doing ICE WATCH in your community.
DO IT!!!
Dec 24, 1pm – 2pm, on Zoom.
Learn how to document, coordinate and monitor ICE activity, and how to connect with others doing ICE WATCH in your community.
DO IT!!!
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Contact your reps.
Talk to your neighbors.
If you're out there keeping other neighbors safe, you can show up for these ones, too.
Mpls 💗
Talk to your neighbors.
If you're out there keeping other neighbors safe, you can show up for these ones, too.
Mpls 💗
Can we stop anti-trans bills in the Senate?
Absolutely.
We stopped a sports ban, we stripped bad provisions out of the OBBB and a number of other bills. There's no reason we can't stop these care bans too.
But we will need to call, and engage and make sure folks know this is a priority.
Forward.
Absolutely.
We stopped a sports ban, we stripped bad provisions out of the OBBB and a number of other bills. There's no reason we can't stop these care bans too.
But we will need to call, and engage and make sure folks know this is a priority.
Forward.
December 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Contact your reps.
Talk to your neighbors.
If you're out there keeping other neighbors safe, you can show up for these ones, too.
Mpls 💗
Talk to your neighbors.
If you're out there keeping other neighbors safe, you can show up for these ones, too.
Mpls 💗
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The ACLU of Minnesota and several law firms filed the suit Wednesday on behalf of six Minnesotans who say they’ve been detained or threatened by federal agents while lawfully observing ICE operations, including Susan Tincher of Minneapolis who was detained when she confronted ICE agents.
Lawsuit alleges ICE is violating rights of people observing immigration operations in Minnesota
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is facing a lawsuit, alleging its agents have violated the rights of Minnesotans who’ve been observing recent immigration operations in the state.
www.mprnews.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The ACLU of Minnesota and several law firms filed the suit Wednesday on behalf of six Minnesotans who say they’ve been detained or threatened by federal agents while lawfully observing ICE operations, including Susan Tincher of Minneapolis who was detained when she confronted ICE agents.
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This is a great example of how Hennepin County as an institution is governed by the Hennepin County Board but the Sheriff is independently elected and HCSO doesn’t report to the County Board in any meaningful way.
This is good… but the Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt instructed/authorized officers to assist ICE with crowd control when they took two people from Karmel Mall on Monday 😢
December 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This is a great example of how Hennepin County as an institution is governed by the Hennepin County Board but the Sheriff is independently elected and HCSO doesn’t report to the County Board in any meaningful way.
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Last week City Council unanimously strengthened our Separation Ordinance.
Yesterday, MPD helped ICE by doing crowd control while they kidnapped neighbors. Mayor Frey continues to let MPD use a loophole to work with ICE and only he can stop what residents witnessed yesterday.
buff.ly/gllRzKu
Yesterday, MPD helped ICE by doing crowd control while they kidnapped neighbors. Mayor Frey continues to let MPD use a loophole to work with ICE and only he can stop what residents witnessed yesterday.
buff.ly/gllRzKu
ICE agents call for backup during Minneapolis traffic stop, bystanders hurl insults and snowballs
Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call for help from an agent who said 60 to 70 “agitators” were “fighting them.”
www.mprnews.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Last week City Council unanimously strengthened our Separation Ordinance.
Yesterday, MPD helped ICE by doing crowd control while they kidnapped neighbors. Mayor Frey continues to let MPD use a loophole to work with ICE and only he can stop what residents witnessed yesterday.
buff.ly/gllRzKu
Yesterday, MPD helped ICE by doing crowd control while they kidnapped neighbors. Mayor Frey continues to let MPD use a loophole to work with ICE and only he can stop what residents witnessed yesterday.
buff.ly/gllRzKu
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This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.
Re: the ICE actions in south Minneapolis Monday. DHS said "rioters" attacked officers with rocks and pepper spray. Note: I received lots of evidence and didn't see any rocks, the only pepper spray I saw was ICE agents sometimes spraying each other. I did see snow and possibly ice being thrown. (1)
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.
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It's getting mega cold this weekend, can you hit the @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social Venmo to help keep folks warm? Put a 🌴 in the Venmo comment so we know
December 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It's getting mega cold this weekend, can you hit the @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social Venmo to help keep folks warm? Put a 🌴 in the Venmo comment so we know
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This whole thread is essential reading.
While it doesn’t go as far as providing the services & housing we need, this ordinance is a step towards transparency & accountability.
The bar is in hell & this is literally the floor. @angry-grandma612.bsky.social gave incredible testimony to this fact.
The bar is in hell & this is literally the floor. @angry-grandma612.bsky.social gave incredible testimony to this fact.
December 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
This whole thread is essential reading.
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Friends, we have some positive news tonight out of the Constitution, Bylaws, and Rules Committee re: the DFL Feminist Caucus.
The TL;DR of it is the entire feminist caucus leadership has to either undergo extensive training, or resign within 10 days.
The TL;DR of it is the entire feminist caucus leadership has to either undergo extensive training, or resign within 10 days.
December 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Friends, we have some positive news tonight out of the Constitution, Bylaws, and Rules Committee re: the DFL Feminist Caucus.
The TL;DR of it is the entire feminist caucus leadership has to either undergo extensive training, or resign within 10 days.
The TL;DR of it is the entire feminist caucus leadership has to either undergo extensive training, or resign within 10 days.
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ICE was in Cedar Riverside today. Amazing community turnout, be mindful of the layer of pepper spray in the snow all over the neighborhood
December 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
ICE was in Cedar Riverside today. Amazing community turnout, be mindful of the layer of pepper spray in the snow all over the neighborhood
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To those that wanna express solidarity with Minneapolis this week in $ form, we are trying to get whistles out to every good hearted neighbor!
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December 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
To those that wanna express solidarity with Minneapolis this week in $ form, we are trying to get whistles out to every good hearted neighbor!
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This is the way, neighbors!
We encountered an ICE immigration enforcement action on Park Ave. in Minneapolis today. When my colleague Ben Hovland and I arrived there were only a couple observers, but there were dozens blowing whistles by the time ICE agents left without making an arrest.
www.instagram.com/reel/DR3DO1I...
www.instagram.com/reel/DR3DO1I...
MPR News on Instagram: "Nearly two dozen community members surrounded a house on the 3100 block of Park Avenue in Minneapolis when Homeland Security Investigations officers detained an East African ma...
Residents of Minneapolis's Park Avenue neighborhood respond to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation with a community watch, as reported by MPR News. The community watches as federal agents...
www.instagram.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
This is the way, neighbors!
It’s -6 before windchill and one of the school buses for kiddo’s school is running an hour behind this morning.
Just brutal.
Just brutal.
December 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It’s -6 before windchill and one of the school buses for kiddo’s school is running an hour behind this morning.
Just brutal.
Just brutal.
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He said that with his whole self.
We need to believe the monsters when they say they are monsters.
We need to believe the monsters when they say they are monsters.
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
He said that with his whole self.
We need to believe the monsters when they say they are monsters.
We need to believe the monsters when they say they are monsters.
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Given the events of the last 36 hours, we’re rolling this out even faster.
Please sign up to be a hub or help print whistles!
Please sign up to be a hub or help print whistles!
MSP Whistle Hubs, rolling out this week!
Do you want to host a whistle hub for your neighborhood? Or are you a 3D printer hobbyist who wants to donate whistles to hubs?
Find out more and sign up here:
Do you want to host a whistle hub for your neighborhood? Or are you a 3D printer hobbyist who wants to donate whistles to hubs?
Find out more and sign up here:
Encrypted Document
CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite
cryptpad.fr
December 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Given the events of the last 36 hours, we’re rolling this out even faster.
Please sign up to be a hub or help print whistles!
Please sign up to be a hub or help print whistles!
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It's wild, but whistles that cost less than a dollar have been an effective tool in Chicago and other places for alerting people to the presence of ICE/Nazis. Want to help distribute, purchase or 3-D print whistles in Minneapolis? Here's the info you need!
MSP Whistle Hubs, rolling out this week!
Do you want to host a whistle hub for your neighborhood? Or are you a 3D printer hobbyist who wants to donate whistles to hubs?
Find out more and sign up here:
Do you want to host a whistle hub for your neighborhood? Or are you a 3D printer hobbyist who wants to donate whistles to hubs?
Find out more and sign up here:
Encrypted Document
CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite
cryptpad.fr
December 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It's wild, but whistles that cost less than a dollar have been an effective tool in Chicago and other places for alerting people to the presence of ICE/Nazis. Want to help distribute, purchase or 3-D print whistles in Minneapolis? Here's the info you need!
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This fight has never been about undocumented people. Take a look at how they are treating American citizens.
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This fight has never been about undocumented people. Take a look at how they are treating American citizens.
This is an important thread for parents and caregivers. Your child should not be with you when protesting ICE.
If you have your kid with you and you spot ICE, alert the hotline (Monarca in the Twin Cities). That's why we have rapid responders.
If you have your kid with you and you spot ICE, alert the hotline (Monarca in the Twin Cities). That's why we have rapid responders.
I'm steamed about it but, as circumspect as I can be, just going to say that parents should not be having conversations about the safest way to observe/protest ICE while your kids are present. You're asking for the safest way to stick a fork in an electrical outlet. Not possible! You can't do it!
December 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This is an important thread for parents and caregivers. Your child should not be with you when protesting ICE.
If you have your kid with you and you spot ICE, alert the hotline (Monarca in the Twin Cities). That's why we have rapid responders.
If you have your kid with you and you spot ICE, alert the hotline (Monarca in the Twin Cities). That's why we have rapid responders.
Shelter Connect report from this afternoon: ZERO shelter beds in Hennepin County tonight, and zero beds for men in Ramsey County.
And this is just the first week of sustained cold weather this winter.
And this is just the first week of sustained cold weather this winter.
December 2, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Shelter Connect report from this afternoon: ZERO shelter beds in Hennepin County tonight, and zero beds for men in Ramsey County.
And this is just the first week of sustained cold weather this winter.
And this is just the first week of sustained cold weather this winter.