Bill Emory
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THREAD:
For those of you who don’t live in the Minneapolis area, you need to know the following:
1) Our city and some neighboring communities have been placed under a large-scale military occupation.
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2) Law enforcement officers are practicing an astonishing well-coordinated, wholesale violation of people’s civil rights.
3) Community cries to reform one of the most racist policing systems in the country have been roundly ignored for nearly a year at every level of government.
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I don’t know how many of you are plugged into Christian Twitter, but right-wingers are trying to paint ELCA Lutherans (Walz denomination) as far-left radicals and I can’t stop laughing at the absurdity of that idea.
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4) Journalists & reporters are being rounded up, catalogued, arrested, & driven away from protests to prevent them from documenting illegal actions by law enforcement.
5) LEO’s are firing chemical weapons & less-lethal munitions on protesters, even when kneeling or prone.
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Dude lives almost an hour away. Is this… stolen valor?
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6) No level of government has spent any resources to date to guarantee access to healing spaces or opportunities to grieve for mourning residents.
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8 ) Law enforcement has provided virtually no protection for protesters from the threats of white supremacists & other right-wing extremists.
9) Law enforcement HAS spent thousands of $$$ safeguarding the private property of the officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright.
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10) The criminal case against the officer who killed Daunte Wright is currently being led by a prosecutor who has provided volunteer legal services to the MN Police Chief’s Association for nearly 30 years.
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7) The law enforcement apparatus overseeing all of this is a murky multi-jurisdictional apparatus called “Operation Safety Net” where decision-making is unclear and residents have very little ability to express concerns or practice accountability.
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And that’s without even MENTIONING all the trauma and bullshit associated with the ongoing murder trial against Derek Chauvin.
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Police kill someone. People protest. Mayor brings in more police. Police kill someone. People protest. Mayor brings in more police. Police kill someone. People protest. Mayor brings in more police. Police kill someone. People protest. Mayor brings in more police. Police kill some
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Well, this 🧵 has really taken off.
Here are a list of some journos I’m getting my news from:
@UR_Ninja
@ByGeorgiaFort
@webster
@efrostee
@jaspercolt
@bzosiad
@benjovland
@paulmgoyette
@ByLizSawyer
@AndrewMannix
@MDVancleave
You can go ahead and follow all of them.
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Here’s a list of MN electeds I trust to help make change happen:
@IlhanMN
@CedrickFrazier
@jeremiah4north
@AthenaHollins
@epmurphymn
@RepAishaGomez
@RepJayXiong
@RepSamanthaVang
@OmarFatehMN
@CunninghamMPLS
@emmagreenman
@go4esther
@RepFueLee
@Lindsey_Port
Follow them too!
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Too late. Maine needs a new Senator now.
Collins warns it would not be appropriate for Trump to retaliate against impeachment witnesses
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Here are a bunch of people who do amazing work and say thoughtful things on this website all the time:
@BullyCreative
@patiencezalanga
@SeanLimMN
@NotoriousDGP
@JoelleStangler
@Chandasbaker
@AngelaRMyerssr
@nvlevy
@JigmeUgen
@aurinmpls
@whenlulawerks
Follow them as well!
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I find Minneapolis fireworks culture so maddening. Just hundreds of the least courteous people in the city going hog wild for 72 hours or more. So stupid.
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It’s wild to me, as an informed Minnesotan, to watch people recommend Tim Walz to be VP based on a list of all of the things Melissa Hortman and Kari Dziedzic got passed in 2023.
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Some have asked “Wait, what is Operation Safety Net anyways?”
Operation Safety Net (OSN) is the Orwellian name assigned to the hydra-headed mutual aid agreement between most police/military jurisdictions in Minnesota, set up to quell protests during/after the Chauvin trial.
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Tim Walz Paul Gazelka
🤝
Generously funding the police state while punishing Twin Cities residents for opposing the police state.
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And here I thought the perfect MN political meme didn’t exist…
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@BlakeJB22
Thanks. I am quick to acknowledge that I’m very privileged in this conversation. I know that no one has a target on my back.
So many people in the Twin Cities have spent a full year or more now on high alert. The stress and psychological toll of that must be just staggering 😢
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For those of you who are confused by this concept, I give you “Singing With The Lutherans” by Garrison Keillor. These are the people MAGA is trying to paint as far-left radicals 😂
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Wild to watch
@mngop
leaders call on
@GovTimWalz
to spend MORE surplus &$$ on direct cash payments to everyday Minnesotans.
If I didn’t know better, I would think they were calling for redistribution of wealth through taxation and public spending.
But that can’t be right.
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In recent years, the
@StarTribune
has repeatedly endorsed political candidates who are:
*Wildly unqualified
*Ineligible for the office sought
*Prejudiced against the communities they claim to serve
Cancel your subscription now and stop subsidizing their harmful politics.
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I think it’s notable that 10/11 states most dependent on federal funding are GOP-dominated states.
Minnesota (14.6%) is the third-least reliant on federal money on a percentage basis, just behind Vermont (12.8%) and California (14.5%).
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@EdCarney172811
This isn’t even true. His positions on these three issues are popular as reflected in national opinion polls. You might be in a bubble, Ed.
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If your business model requires paying workers poverty wages in order to function, then your business model doesn’t work.
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@pepperedchef
@RanqueBenoit
@IanColdwater
If we do that they will strike back harder, except they will always strike back hardest against people with the most marginalized identities.
Please keep that in mind and try to follow the lead of the young, BIPOC, queer, disabled, and other oppressed leaders whenever possible.
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It is very strange that having a gun is apparently an acceptable pretext for police to kill you in a country where there are more privately owned firearms than there are people.
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Nearly ten thousand armed officers and soldiers are under its jurisdiction.
Who’s in charge? It’s not really clear, we keep getting different answers.
What is OSN doing? Patrolling grocery stores and tear gassing journalists, for the most part.
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I strongly encourage you to take a minute and mute/block @(CrimeWatchMpls) now. No need to poison your brain or your timeline with that nonsense ❤️
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What can you do about it? Call your legislators and the Governor’s office and tell them you don’t want to live in a police state. Also, exercise your constitutional right to protest.
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Imagine how popular Democrats would be if they tried to ban Outlook instead of Tik Tok.
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How is it funded? Well we’re not totally sure about this either, but rest assured you ARE paying for it.
How can I learn more? You can’t. Many of us have been trying for months to no avail.
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LOL. Wells Fargo building in downtown Minneapolis is on lockdown because of a
@ThirdActOrg
climate divestment action outside.
I’m just trying to get a bagel from Einsteins, but Wells Fargo is so terrified of seniors in T-shirts with signs and rocking chairs (!) that I can’t.
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Well, I was intending to launch later this week, but it looks like Josh scooped me.
I am entering the race for State House in District 62B.
There's a new DFL candidate for State House in District 62B - Bill Emory.
Emory is the second candidate to join the race, after Londel French. This is an open seat - incumbent Hodan Hassan is not running for re-election.
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@dustytable1
@JaycieErysdren
There have been at least 1K Nat’l Guard troops activated and police officers from most major jurisdictions across the area are participating through so-called “mutual aid agreements”. Also State Patrol, DNR, Univ of MN police... Easily several thousand police/military in total.
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What happens next? No idea. None of their planning, recommendations, or internal policies have been made public.
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Vote for the Hennepin County Attorney candidate that the teachers support, not the one that the cops support.
Vote for
@MaryMoriarty
by August 9th!
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Dude: “Do you even know what the AR in AR-15 stands for?”
Me: “Do you know what the RSVP in RSVP stands for?”
Dude: “Uh... no...”
Me: “But you know what RSVP means, right?”
Dude: “Yeah, of course!”
Me: “Fascinating how that works.”
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Oh look. Just a coupla white dudes sneering at a woman of color who prefers to be addressed using the title she has *earned* from her neighbors and her colleagues. Very cool, very normal.
Everyone please use his proper title: *Deputy Editor* Max Nesterak
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Dinner with the first 8 people who come up when you type @ on Twitter:
@IlhanMN
@irenekfernando
@webster
@LindsayMpls
@Ocasio2018
@DaviSense
@israhirsi
@WedgeLIVE
Oh wow. What an amazing dinner party that would be!
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Oh, I can help answer this one!
One reason why BIPOC people experience greater access and representation in public sector employment is because many public sector workers are unionized with contracts that forbid discrimination.
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Look, the
@MinnesotaDFL
and its elected leaders aren’t perfect. I’ve been critical of plenty of DFL electeds over the years. But let me be clear, the DFL State House and Senate caucuses went to WORK this spring.
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I decided to run for office because I have a vision for a stronger, safer, and more just South Minneapolis. I decided to run for office because our community deserves legislative leadership and action on the most acute and pressing challenges our neighbors face.
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The only people who feel safer bc of military and NG presence are people who were never really at risk of harm in the first place.
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Steve Swiggum’s apparent prejudice(s) render him unfit for public service in Minnesota.
He should resign his position, and should he refuse, action to remove him from his seat should be taken with all deliberate speed.
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This is what happens when you don’t represent Minneapolis residents, but you DO represent Minneapolis police officers.
INBOX: U.S. Rep. Angie Craig comes out against Minneapolis public safety ballot initiative that would replace the police dept. and create a new dept. under city council control. Her district covers southern Twin Cities suburbs incl. Lakeville and Eagan
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@GeorgeHornedo
Shapiro alienates people who care abt Gaza & people who care about public education. Bad pick, imho.
Also, I think Kelly adds more to the vibe than you assign here.
But otherwise, I think you’re on the right track. We want to build on the current excitement, not tank it.
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Our Congresswoman got a chance to meet Dolan earlier today 🤗
Congrats on your primary victory tonight,
@IlhanMN
. I am always glad you are our representative!
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Happy New Year from the Emorys!
We are ESPECIALLY excited for this New Year because we will be welcoming a NEW member to our family in early April.
I do believe this year will be better than the last. And I look forward to the day when you all get to meet Baby Emory!
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If I could feed one word of advice from the grassroots up to the leadership of the hours-old Harris for President campaign, it would be this:
Get ready to hire a lot of field organizers in a hurry. We will need mass mobilization to win this election.
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The faux urgency on display here is an attempt to keep Ward 12 residents from having a voice on matters of policing.
No reason this discussion can’t wait until
@aurinmpls
is sworn in and able to participate.
Police Chief O'Hara using city resources to record videos of himself in uniform scolding the City Council.
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Woof. I can’t do a dollar but I will donate $0.01 to the Harris campaign for every like this tweet gets 😂
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MINNESOTANS:
We took the 435th seat in Congress. The last seat left to be taken. And we didn’t even try to cut the seat in half to leave some for someone else.
I’m so proud of us.
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One time I transported 700 lb of bricks across town spread out across the footwells of a 2006 Honda Civic.
You can pull eight bags of topsoil in a wagon behind a bicycle.
What a bunch of weirdos.
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@BrentSeifert2
@ChenueHer
Do you know how long it takes for the paperwork on a discharge to process?
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“There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
Yeah, but there should be. For kids. In schools.
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@gbbkk4
Marie, if anyone has ever dumped anything on you, I really don’t want to know about it.
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The police state is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding police state.
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Martha Holton Dimick is the Republican-preferred candidate for Hennepin County Attorney, no question about it.
They know she won’t reform the criminal justice system, because she has defended the status quo her entire career. Minnesota Republicans know she’s a sure bet for them.
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File this under “things that did not happen”.
Went downtown Minneapolis last night to meet someone for dinner- Friday night, Big 10 tournament going on, nice weather. It was DEAD.
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Imagine if Congressmen like
@deanbphillips
put as much energy into advancing policy that benefited working families as they do scolding college students and activists.
Don’t be an ass, Dean.
Imagine if college students put as much energy into protecting reproductive rights, and reducing poverty, homelessness, crime, and other injustices. In America.
Imagine.
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I am mourning the terrible news out of Burnsville this morning. My hearts goes out to the families of the people lost and those who are injured.
We must continue to design and implement gun safety solutions that keep our residents and our public servants safe.
BREAKING: Two police officers and a paramedic were killed in Burnsville Sunday morning, a source tells WCCO. |
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Shout out to everyone born before August 1991. You are all older than the internet!
🥳🎊🎉
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I live less than two blocks off of Lake Street.
Our community has its challenges. But this perspective is just utterly delusional.
You've got to be kidding me
@StarTribune
. "perceptions that the area is unsafe"?
That area is a no-go zone. The vibrancy comes from not knowing whether you will be robbed, carjacked, shot, assaulted or just harassed on any given day. Don't believe me? Just follow
@CrimeWatchMpls
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While everyone was fighting about whether Minneapolis should defund MPD, MPD went ahead and defunded Minneapolis.
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Punch left, coddle right. Punch left, coddle right. Punch left, coddle right.
Today’s news is disappointing, but resignation and condemnation of Sen. Manchin is not the answer. Let’s use the next 10 months to find common ground and pave a path to protecting voters, our elections, our most vulnerable, and our planet. It’s not just possible, it’s imperative.
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@SuzyQsys
What is a Christian? Where do you find them? These are good and pressing questions.
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Now that likes are anonymous, all of you who have been too afraid to interact with my content in the past are welcome to engage. Thanks.
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This hypocrite hasn’t had anything to say about MN Rep. Grossell or former US Rep. Santos.
Just another GOP leader that only seems to find his ethical compass when it’s politically advantageous.
The trust of Minnesotans has been broken. Sen. Mitchell's actions call into question any legislative action that may occur based on her support from here forward.
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@realDonaldTrump
Doesn't he already have two other jobs? And how does he feel knowing he was like your tenth-favorite person for the job?
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I’m hopeful our community can continue this important public dialogue and support Anquam in her journey towards leadership on our behalf at the Capitol.
Thanks,
- Bill.
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@RedPills4u
Socialist? Yes. Moron? Possibly.
During May/Jun 2020, I attended peaceful demonstrations, volunteered w/ n’hood patrols, & helped with clean-up a bit.
I also supported outreach to unhoused people and helped open a new shelter. No arson or theft for me tho.
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There are some very online Dems who need to stop being weirdos and trying to play fantasy sports with the Presidential election.
VP Harris is the only viable candidate to replace Biden on the ballot.
Stop it with this bizarre lightning primary nonsense.
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@GuitarUnderOak
Martin Luther himself was famously excommunicated by Pope Leo X (1520) for being a heretic in a papal decree that has never been rescinded.
Aren’t ALL Lutherans heretics then?!?
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I am humbled and honored to be endorsed by my friend, Hennepin County Board Chair Irene Fernando. I am eager to partner with her in this new role to strengthen programs and services for vulnerable people across Minnesota.
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I am a father, an organizer, and a policy leader. For the last 5 years I have served as a policy aide for Hennepin County Board Chair
@HennepinD2
, where I supported her in expanding our shelter system, strengthening workers' protections, and growing our transit system.
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@anquam62B
is a passionate and thoughtful leader; a hard-working and committed care worker who I believe will make a fine representative for our community. That’s why I am committing to voting for Anquam in the 8/13 primary, and I’m asking all of my supporters to do the same.
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As a general rule of thumb, if the DFL Senior Caucus endorses a candidate...
RUN THE OTHER WAY.
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My Dad is live texting us eclipse updates complete with improvised illustrations. Absolute legend.
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Erin and I are sending our thoughts and best wishes to Londel French after a recent health episode. We hope that he will make a quick and full recovery and look forward to seeing him out fighting again for our community very soon.
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Governor Walz has stood with workers before. He should stand with workers again.
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Northern Metals Recycling has demonstrated for years their disregard for the safety and health of our communities.
They’ve lied, cheated, and skirted the law for years.
Will regulators and the courts have the courage to shut them down this time after YET ANOTHER FIRE?
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Imagine failing to follow state law while running for an office charged with enforcing state law.
Convictions get overturned on technicalities all the time. We need a Hennepin County Attorney whose work is AIRTIGHT.
That’s why you should vote for
@MaryMoriarty
by Nov 8th!
Hennepin County attorney candidate Martha Holton Dimick says she inadvertently filed for office with an expired law license. State law requires candidates to provide proof they have an active license when they file: via
@mnreformer
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Over the past several weeks, and especially at Sunday’s convention, it became clear to me that there is one other candidate in this race that I trust to fulfill this vision on behalf of our community - and that’s
@anquam62B
.
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