Karlee Weinmann
@karleeweinmann.bsky.social
Researching utilities and fossil fuel interests with @energyandpolicy.org. Midwest exceptionalist.
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Neighbors are raising funds to ensure families in our community impacted by 🧊 can maintain stable housing. Rent is due Jan 1st. These are our people. My kids know their kids. And I believe in the power of this community to take care of each other. givebutter.com/H6lQkA
December 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Neighbors are raising funds to ensure families in our community impacted by 🧊 can maintain stable housing. Rent is due Jan 1st. These are our people. My kids know their kids. And I believe in the power of this community to take care of each other. givebutter.com/H6lQkA
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Please donate to help families in South Minneapolis who are afraid to leave their homes, are unable to work and need to pay rent, utilities, groceries and other essentials.
We keep us safe.
We keep us safe.
Local, vetted fund for helping families in SE Minneapolis who’ve lost income because of 🧊 activity
givebutter.com/H6lQkA
givebutter.com/H6lQkA
Rent Relief for South Minneapolis Families Impacted by Federal Immigration Operations
¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!
givebutter.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Please donate to help families in South Minneapolis who are afraid to leave their homes, are unable to work and need to pay rent, utilities, groceries and other essentials.
We keep us safe.
We keep us safe.
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ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
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Mpls Parents are raising funds for families at South HS impacted by ICE raids. Money will go towards food, necessary supplies, and rental assistance. We appreciate your love and solidarity during these difficult times. ❤️ Please share widely with friends and family! gofund.me/e32d501a3
Donate to Support South High School Families, organized by Rachael Staab
South High School parents are holding a special fundraiser specifically to s… Rachael Staab needs your support for Support South High School Families
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December 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Mpls Parents are raising funds for families at South HS impacted by ICE raids. Money will go towards food, necessary supplies, and rental assistance. We appreciate your love and solidarity during these difficult times. ❤️ Please share widely with friends and family! gofund.me/e32d501a3
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Americans are paying record-high utility bills, and it’s not just inflation or extreme weather. A new @harpers.bsky.social investigation by @nickbowlin.bsky.social lays out how utilities, regulators, and Wall Street work together to lock in rising costs for customers. harpers.org/archive/2026...
Power Brokers, by Nick Bowlin
What’s really behind your soaring utility bills
harpers.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Americans are paying record-high utility bills, and it’s not just inflation or extreme weather. A new @harpers.bsky.social investigation by @nickbowlin.bsky.social lays out how utilities, regulators, and Wall Street work together to lock in rising costs for customers. harpers.org/archive/2026...
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Why are Americans’ electric and gas bills skyrocketing? A new Harper’s investigation shows how regulators across the US are failing customers while protecting utility profits. harpers.org/archive/2026...
Power Brokers, by Nick Bowlin
What’s really behind your soaring utility bills
harpers.org
December 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Why are Americans’ electric and gas bills skyrocketing? A new Harper’s investigation shows how regulators across the US are failing customers while protecting utility profits. harpers.org/archive/2026...
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This story from @nickbowlin.bsky.social does as good a job as any journalism I've read of explaining how utilities have largely captured their regulators, and why that dynamic is driving skyrocketing utility bills. harpers.org/archive/2026...
Power Brokers, by Nick Bowlin
What’s really behind your soaring utility bills
harpers.org
December 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This story from @nickbowlin.bsky.social does as good a job as any journalism I've read of explaining how utilities have largely captured their regulators, and why that dynamic is driving skyrocketing utility bills. harpers.org/archive/2026...
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Resharing one way to support a vital St. Paul grocer (El Burrito Mercado) AND a person or family who may need groceries. 👇👇👇
Heads up: Want to buy an El Burrito Mercado gift card for a family/individual in St. Paul who may need it? Use the contact form and the owner will get back to you with an email address you can use to get the gift card to a local organization they are working with ❤️
www.elburritomercado.com/contact/
www.elburritomercado.com/contact/
December 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Resharing one way to support a vital St. Paul grocer (El Burrito Mercado) AND a person or family who may need groceries. 👇👇👇
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PLEASE donate to our Venmo! We have trusted friends and collaborators bringing heat sources to as many people as we can find but we are running out of money and it is unbearably cold. Your neighbors need your help.
@supplydepotmpls 💕💸
@supplydepotmpls 💕💸
Hey Minneapolis, these temps are brutal.
@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social provides critical resources to people experiencing food and housing insecurity.
Donations make an immediate, tangible difference in the well-being of your neighbors and community:
opencollective.com/sanctuarysup...
@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social provides critical resources to people experiencing food and housing insecurity.
Donations make an immediate, tangible difference in the well-being of your neighbors and community:
opencollective.com/sanctuarysup...
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.
opencollective.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
PLEASE donate to our Venmo! We have trusted friends and collaborators bringing heat sources to as many people as we can find but we are running out of money and it is unbearably cold. Your neighbors need your help.
@supplydepotmpls 💕💸
@supplydepotmpls 💕💸
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The warming center at MIWRC is open this weekend (Fri Dec 12 at 6PM through Sun Dec 14 at 11AM). This work is currently entirely volunteer led & NOT funded, so we need your support! Please consider a gift and note in the "in honor of" section that your gift is for the warming center.
Thank you!
Thank you!
December 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The warming center at MIWRC is open this weekend (Fri Dec 12 at 6PM through Sun Dec 14 at 11AM). This work is currently entirely volunteer led & NOT funded, so we need your support! Please consider a gift and note in the "in honor of" section that your gift is for the warming center.
Thank you!
Thank you!
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A Somali man from Minneapolis says officers refused to view his I.D. and drove him to immigration court and ICE offices before releasing him.
Written by Katelyn Vue.
Written by Katelyn Vue.
U.S. citizen offered to show I.D. but was arrested by immigration officers in Cedar-Riverside
A Somali U.S. citizen, Mubashir, was arrested by federal immigration officers in Cedar-Riverside Tuesday during a mass enforcement.
sahanjournal.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A Somali man from Minneapolis says officers refused to view his I.D. and drove him to immigration court and ICE offices before releasing him.
Written by Katelyn Vue.
Written by Katelyn Vue.
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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
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A Minneapolis woman & American citizen was arrested early Tuesday after confronting ICE officers over the arrests of three neighbors in north Minneapolis. She appears to be the first observer arrested since ICE launched a Twin Cities immigration surge last week. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
A Minneapolis woman & American citizen was arrested early Tuesday after confronting ICE officers over the arrests of three neighbors in north Minneapolis. She appears to be the first observer arrested since ICE launched a Twin Cities immigration surge last week. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Gov. Wes Moore's team enlisted an employee of the American Gas Association, the trade group that lobbies on behalf of monopoly gas utilities, to help select Maryland's utility regulators energyandpolicy.org/wes-moore-pu...
Documents reveal American Gas Association staffer joined interview process for open Maryland Public Service Commission seats
An American Gas Association staffer joined interviews for Maryland Gov. Moore’s appointments to the Public Service Commission.
energyandpolicy.org
December 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Gov. Wes Moore's team enlisted an employee of the American Gas Association, the trade group that lobbies on behalf of monopoly gas utilities, to help select Maryland's utility regulators energyandpolicy.org/wes-moore-pu...
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FYI: If you have news tips regarding ICE activity in the Twin Cities, especially if you have friends or relatives who have been detained, please contact me securely on Signal.
December 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
FYI: If you have news tips regarding ICE activity in the Twin Cities, especially if you have friends or relatives who have been detained, please contact me securely on Signal.
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At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
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‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods
Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make their job as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
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A new tax filing from a DTE Energy-funded group reveals $3 million in political giving that was previously secret.
DTE-funded group wrote six-figure checks to aid these Michigan leaders last year
A new tax filing from a DTE Energy-funded group reveals $3 million in political giving that was previously secret.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
A new tax filing from a DTE Energy-funded group reveals $3 million in political giving that was previously secret.
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“In an interview with Sahan Journal, Amano Dube, the director of Pillsbury United Communities’ Brian Coyle Center, which oversees multiple programs, said he had received reports that Tuesday night, ICE agents entered the C Building at Cedar-Riverside. They knocked on doors, but no one answered.”
“…in the past 48 hours, since ICE agents were spotted in Cedar-Riverside, the entire neighborhood has been under lockdown due to fear of being detained.”
‘Creating fear and chaos’: ICE officials target Somali neighborhoods, scoop up U.S. citizens in sweep
Local activists reported a series of arrests across the Twin Cities, including outside Somali housing areas, malls and at a Latino day labor spot, after a contingent of ICE agents descended on the Twi...
sahanjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“In an interview with Sahan Journal, Amano Dube, the director of Pillsbury United Communities’ Brian Coyle Center, which oversees multiple programs, said he had received reports that Tuesday night, ICE agents entered the C Building at Cedar-Riverside. They knocked on doors, but no one answered.”
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California gas utilities are using your money to push gas on LA wildfire survivors.
California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, but created an exception that allows rebates for them in wildfire rebuilds.
California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, but created an exception that allows rebates for them in wildfire rebuilds.
California gas utilities are using your money to push gas on LA wildfire survivors
California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, but created an exception that allows rebates for them in wildfire rebuilds.
lapublicpress.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
California gas utilities are using your money to push gas on LA wildfire survivors.
California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, but created an exception that allows rebates for them in wildfire rebuilds.
California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, but created an exception that allows rebates for them in wildfire rebuilds.
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We've got 2 great stories today in our series about drivers of the affordability crisis.
First up by James Baratta: Electricity rates are set by public utility commissions. But that process has become captured, with corporate utilities pushing through rate hikes and extracting profits.
First up by James Baratta: Electricity rates are set by public utility commissions. But that process has become captured, with corporate utilities pushing through rate hikes and extracting profits.
Lightning in a Bottle - The American Prospect
Regulatory capture is at the root of the affordability crisis in electricity. Public power could offer a way out.
prospect.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
We've got 2 great stories today in our series about drivers of the affordability crisis.
First up by James Baratta: Electricity rates are set by public utility commissions. But that process has become captured, with corporate utilities pushing through rate hikes and extracting profits.
First up by James Baratta: Electricity rates are set by public utility commissions. But that process has become captured, with corporate utilities pushing through rate hikes and extracting profits.
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Don't just repost this and think "I did a politics." Put the number in your phone as a contact. The Goon Squad got their budget multiplied by 10x next year and not if - when you see them you're not gonna remember the tweet or the number so put it in your phone now.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Don't just repost this and think "I did a politics." Put the number in your phone as a contact. The Goon Squad got their budget multiplied by 10x next year and not if - when you see them you're not gonna remember the tweet or the number so put it in your phone now.
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Top lawyers for Consumers Energy and DTE Energy have donated to a Michigan AG candidate’s primary race, raising conflict of interest questions about whether the utilities are trying to influence a prosecutor who may handle their legal and regulatory cases.
From Tom Perkins for @michiganadvance.com
From Tom Perkins for @michiganadvance.com
Utility lawyers’ donations to Michigan AG candidate raise conflict-of-interest concerns • Michigan Advance
Top lawyers for Consumers Energy and DTE Energy have donated to a Michigan attorney general candidate’s primary race, raising conflict of interest questions about whether the utilities are trying to i...
michiganadvance.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Top lawyers for Consumers Energy and DTE Energy have donated to a Michigan AG candidate’s primary race, raising conflict of interest questions about whether the utilities are trying to influence a prosecutor who may handle their legal and regulatory cases.
From Tom Perkins for @michiganadvance.com
From Tom Perkins for @michiganadvance.com
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Family of one of the men taken in Saint Paul by ICE is trying to raise another $460 for legal assistance: gofund.me/e6d651172
Donate to Ayudemos a Jeffrey Suazo, organized by Daniela Contreras
Mi nombre es Deylin (pareja de Jeffrey) y hoy quiero pedir apoyo para Jeffrey, un joven de … Daniela Contreras needs your support for Ayudemos a Jeffrey Suazo
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November 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Family of one of the men taken in Saint Paul by ICE is trying to raise another $460 for legal assistance: gofund.me/e6d651172