Minneapolis, MN
Northern Minnesota outfitters donate gear to help Minneapolis’ unhoused community
MINNEAPOLIS — Hikers in northern Minnesota are hoping some of their supplies can help unsheltered people in the Twin Cities.
Jeff Bauer cold-called some outfitters along the Gunflint Trail asking for help then drove north to collect the supplies.
The outfitters, he explained, use the equipment for one or two seasons and then retire it. Usually they sell it, but in this case, they’ve decided to donate it to help unsheltered people.
“Some people have the feeling that this is a nuisance, that this is something that needs to be cleared out just like the trash or something like that but these are human beings,” Bauer said. “They have a community here, just like anywhere else “
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There are no porta pottys or trash bins, and churches and other organizations drop off food. While many people pitch in to help, others who lives close by are frustrating, saying that living near an encampment is not safe for them or the people who live there.
“People can find the humanity and just come talk to the people who are out here makes it hard to every see them as a nuisance again,” Bauer said.
The City of Minneapolis said in a statement that “The City’s Homeless Response Team continues to connect our unsheltered community members with available services from Hennepin County and other community partners. We continue to prioritize the health and safety of those living in encampments and surrounding neighborhoods.”
Bauer says this is a humanitarian issue and he and many others will continue to do what they can to help their neighbors.
“Remember how when you were a kid when you are outside your feet are getting cold your hands are getting cold you go back in the house and you can warm up?” he said. “Well, people out here, they don’t ever get to feel that feeling like their hands are cold, their feet are cold. They got nowhere to go inside. They have no way to feel that warmth. So for me it just kind of gets me right in the heart.”
Neigbhors have complained of trash, open air drug dealing, and drug usage in the area. People who live in this encampment say they’ve been told they have to leave by next Tuesday.
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.
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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.
Purple Path map, Prince Celebration 2026
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