He wakes up in Powderhorn. Shared house, cheap rent. The neighborhood has over a dozen mutual aid rent funds. A church pastor told
The Ringer in February that “we have not had to say no to a single rent payment.” Those churches aren’t freelancing — two religious organizing networks,
ISAIAH and Faith in Minnesota, collectively hold seven-figure funding from the Tides Foundation and multiple Arabella Advisors pass-through entities. They control an uncounted number of kitchens, basements, meeting rooms, and parking lots across the Twin Cities.
They’re right about the origin. Everything — the patrol networks, the Signal architecture, the medic training, the meeting spaces — was built in 2020 and never shut down.
None of this money goes to him. All of it builds the ecosystem he lives inside.
The Punchline
An unindicted coconspirator, venting in a Signal message, wished there was “an in-person career fair where you could go from booth to booth and listen to all the anarchist, rebellion, and protest plans being made.” Instead, he said, the current model “is like an Amway pyramid selling scheme.”
He was closer to the truth than he realized. It looks like a 990.
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For a straight news account of the case, readers can turn to Jessica Costescu’s Washington Free Beacon story. I covered Dan Rosen’s press conference yesterday in “Antifa anti-ICE brigade charged.”