Minneapolis, MN
Another forced move leaves homeless camp organizers
MINNEAPOLIS — Two times in the past two days, people living in a controversial homeless camp have had to pack up and move. Camp organizers and supporters stood in front of a new encampment to call out the city of Minneapolis and share a possible solution.
‘I am absolutely disgusted by the city of Minneapolis for what they have done,” Nicole Mason, Camp NeenoKassi organizer and Ojibwe grandmother said.
“They say that we have a seat at the table and that they would call me if there was an eviction and give me the heads up, shake my hand and promise that to me,” Mason said. “Two times now we have not been notified.”
Mason is crying foul on the city for once again closing the encampment without a plan. The city of Minneapolis said it closed the encampment because of public safety concerns and fire hazard fears. Measures were taken to stop the formation of encampments on city-owned lots.
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“I’m really saddened that the city would replace us with pieces of concrete on the ground that’s property over people,” Mason said.
Just last week, Mason allowed me and photojournalist Chris Cruz inside her yurt. She showed us how they keep warm with wood-burning stoves and cook.
“It’s proven facts there are less overdoses, there is less crime,” Mason said.
Mason says it’s where the relatives find safety as they wait for housing vouchers and help with addiction. “They have no solution as to where human beings are supposed to go people are just wandering the streets it’s dangerous,” Mason said.
At one point, more than 110 people, mostly Native Americans, called Camp Nenokassi home. Only 60 are in the latest encampment.
Camp organizers say what they need most is for the city to work with the Red Lake Nation and create a healing center to help people get back on their feet.
“I’d like to see the land transfer happen,” said Mason. “So we can move as quickly as we can to build this treatment center and lodging for our people.”
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June 1, 2026
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with a fund that opponents fear will be used to pay off the president’s political allies.
Judge Leonie Brinkema in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a brief order halting the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department, and other high-ranking administration officials from taking any further action to create the fund or make payments from it.
The order came in a lawsuit filed by a former federal prosecutor and a California professor. The plaintiffs are represented by the legal advocacy groups Democracy Forward and Common Cause. The lawsuit is part of a flurry of legal challenges against the fund.
The Justice Department on May 18 announced a nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” that will make payments to individuals who believe they have been wronged by past administrations. The fund came as part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over the leaking of his tax return information by a former IRS contractor.
Trump’s settlement agreement provides for the creation of the fund overseen by a board of five members chosen by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who previously served as Trump’s personal attorney. Trump can fire the members for any reason.
Brinkema, a President Bill Clinton appointee, took no position on the legality of the fund in her order. She wrote that her order is to ensure no money is “irreversibly disbursed” while the plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order is pending.
She also set a hearing for June 12 — likely ensuring the fund will remain blocked for at least the next two weeks.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit include Andrew Floyd, a former federal Jan. 6 case prosecutor who was fired by the DOJ in June 2025, and Joseph Caravello, a California university professor who was charged with felony assault on a federal officer after protesting an immigration raid last summer. A jury acquitted Caravello in April.
The nine-count lawsuit alleges in part the fund violates the plaintiffs’ First and Fifth Amendment rights, and violates the authority of Congress.
“Since its inception, this fund has been on a collision course with the United States Constitution,” their complaint says.
Trump has written on social media that the fund will help those “who were so badly abused by an evil, corrupt, and weaponized Biden Administration” receive justice.
The Minnesota Reformer is an independent, nonprofit news organization dedicated to keeping Minnesotans informed and unearthing stories other outlets can’t or won’t tell..
This week, a global art initiative is coming to the U.S. for the first time, and it will be hosted in Minneapolis. The “Beyond Walls” project started in 2019 at the Eiffel Tower in Paris by an artist known as “Saype.” They are large-scale art operations made in a very special way. He joined FOX 9 News at 5 Sunday about coming to Minneapolis for a week of art.
MINNEAPOLIS (WJON News) — It will be a celebration of everything purple this week in Minneapolis. The city will once again hold a Prince Celebration from Wednesday through Sunday.
Chaka Khan will help kick off the festivities at First Avenue on Wednesday night.
The five-day festival will have a wide array of things to do and see. There is a Prince Sing-Along at the Celebration Block Party on Saturday. Fans can walk the purple way with the second annual Purple Path, which is a city-wide tribute with eight temporary sidewalk clings marking significant sites tied to the artist.
The goal of the sing-along is to have 15,000 people singing arm-in-arm.
Plus, at the Meet Minneapolis Visitor Center, you can check out a replica of the motorcycle used in the 1984 movie “Purple Rain,” a five-foot-tall exact replica of the “cloud shoe” worn by Prince in the music video for “Raspberry Beret,” and paintings by Peyton Scott Russel.
Morris Day, Tevin Campbell, and more will play a concert at The Armory on Friday night.
There will also be walking tours, appearances by Prince’s bands the Revolution and the New Power Generation, and a Prince night at the Twins’ game on Thursday.
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