Police Brutality and Homelessness in Minneapolis

Since June 2020 hundreds of homeless people have been camping in Minneapolis parks. The parks issued camping permits to help ease the demand on shelters because of the Covid crisis. In September, Police made unannounced sweeps of those camps, confiscating camping equipment and attempting to move people out of the parks, putting their health at risk by forcing them into over crowded shelters.

Above: Police mace protestors and homeless advocates attempting to prevent sweep of Powderhorn Park which had the largest homeless encampment. Photo “courtesy” of the Star Tribune.

Not all parks were swept and some still have people living in tents. Today we had our first real snow of the year, about 6 weeks early. Four inches so far and it’s still falling. The snow is wet and heavy and will collapse any tent not designed for year-round camping.

I have a post that has 40k notes about community organizations that were helping people survive in the areas effected by the May uprisings. (One of the casualties of that uprising was an apartment complex being built for low income residents.) I’m asking folks who reblogged that post to reblog this list of organizations in Minneapolis who help the homeless camped in parks. While I believe that this a problem that our government could solve if it had the will to do so, I also see this as a humanitarian emergency.

Please vote on November 3. If you live Minneapolis, please participate in the local elections to replace a city council who have not managed to address police brutality or homelessness.

The list of local organizations helping homeless in Minneapolis parks is here:

Beltrami Park Encampment relief

Logan Park Encampment help

Chowgirls Greenhouse Project

Project Back to Home (Lake Harriet encampment)

literally sitting here hysterically laughing and close to tears because the UK government missed over 16,000 covid 19 cases in the past week and therefore failed to trace them or publicize correct infection statistics BECAUSE THEY WERE USING EXCEL TO KEEP TRACK OF THEM AND THE SPREADSHEET RAN OUT OF COLUMNS

every week there's another news item that immediately tops the list of real life events that sound like an overwrought politics SNL sketch and every week all i can do is laugh because otherwise i'd be resorting to arson

this year is a cosmic joke and i am absolutely terrified of the punchline

ENOUGH is EnOUgH

Anyway, as we enter cold & flu season in the YEAR of corona, this will come in very handy.

This was created by Vox and if you look at small print, you'll find the sources used to create the table.

Obviously there are exceptions and we're getting conflicting and new information about covid-19 all the time but by mid-august, I believe we certainly had observed enough cases for experts to put this together at least.

FFS.

Kellyanne Conway didn't even care about protecting her child when she knew she'd tested positive for Covid. Lied to her about her test result, so she didn't even have the option of protecting herself from her mother's infection.

Claudia Conway is 15 years old and is bravely exposing her mother’s lies and standing up for her beliefs. I could not have been that brave at that age. I wasn’t that brave at that age, sneaking and lying and trying my best not to incur judgment. I would never have stood up to my parents in front of millions of people. Hell, I’m 32 and I’m reluctant to publicly criticize my parents still.

I hope she doesn’t face too much stress at home for speaking out. I hope people keep watch and prepare and safe space for her if she has to cut ties. I have so much respect for her, and she deserves support and kindness.

Claudia Conway said today that she's tested positive for Covid-19 now, too.

Republicans don't have the moral high ground, in fact, they reside in a selfish cesspool of idiocy.

Enjoy the GOP dark ages.