My best plan for getting us out of this is to make sure people correctly blame republicans for making their lives worse. Prices go up. Flights get canceled. Children tear-gassed. Everything. Make sure folks blame local republicans too.

Twin Cities just did this by killing the Northstar. Probably more to come but I think the counter forces around the expenses of car ownership might save transit. We need progressive politicians that are great at articulating why we need public transit for economic growth!!!

Cargo biking, 99 years ago. Came across this in a photo archive, unfortunately with no info on who or where, just the year, 1926. But it made me think of @lauragmitchell.com and her lovely feed of her commutes to school and around town with her children.

Mamdani got more than twice as many votes in NYC as CNN has prime-time viewers nationwide

Congratulations to @aishaforward10.com who was elected for the 3rd time as Council Member in Ward 10. You know you’re doing something right when landlords start their own PAC just to take you down, and they still lose by over 20% points. A champion for renters returns.

Minneapolis and St. Paul friends — Anyone know a Mexican market that sells mole pastes? Specifically, I’m planning to make some pipián and was hoping for a shortcut on that part. But I’d love to have a good mole source.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

I'm just happy for my many many friends in NYC that they will have a mayor who loves and understands the city and will try to make it a better place to live. he will surely have wins and losses, exceed expectations and disappoint bitterly. but he loves your weird city so much.

Fall along the Midtown Greenway 🍁 ❤️ 🚲

Today I’m voting for school board. Keep the local MAGA out. Keep the ABA teacher with no real information about her out too (IYKYK). Your local election for boards and judges and funding and so forth really do matter. Go vote!

look ... the American people voted for a senile fascist who would empower a group of psyco bribemongers to go to war with (checks notes) Nigeria and Venezuela while starving the American people and crashing the economy all while he threw parties and had an unhealthy marble and gold toilet fixation.

It is very clear the gutting of Teen Vogue is about silencing their excellent political coverage. Corporations want you uninformed and shut off from meaningful journalism. And they’re staggeringly successful at it so far.

Sometimes I think people forget that, in 2021 Rent Control got more votes than Jacob Frey did.

It just can’t be overstated how much Meta & others have just turned on a firehose of shit on the world

this is why i watch videos of people telling ICE agents to get the fuck out of their cities

Rarely do you hear even I, the edgiest of online personalities, begin a post with "Barf." So it means a lot when the mild mannered environmentalists at our Sierra Club chapter are so disgusted with the Frey slate of candidates.

amen

Some leaders incorrectly believe sweeping away encampments solves the underlying problems.

Have you heard about the team that’s looking to go FIVE seasons #unbeaten?! 👀 Wes Burdine joins @susannahfuller.bsky.social and @empiregass.bsky.social to chat about the growth of #MinnesotaAurora, emphasizing the importance of being community owned!

Wake up, babe new Cuban missile crisis just dropped

Here's a fun Ward 10 stat: there are more zero car households in Whittier (1498) than total occupied housing units in East Bde Maka Ska (1434).

I hope you're not implying that Mayor Frey faked a street reopening for politics a few days before an election.

I BEEN SAYING

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

How much does the Holidazzle cost? The Downtown Council can't afford to do that but they can spend an additional $200kn4 days before the election.

I wrote about the should-be-illegal trend of fencing off sidewalks because poor people are nearby. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

Undocumented immigrants have an arrest rate of 613 per 100,000. CBP agents have a self-reported arrest rate of 1%. There are 62,400 agents. So CBP agents have an arrest rate about 1.63 times that of undocumented immigrants, assuming these are correct.

Utah, the 1939 of 2025 America.

Pritzker: "I sent a letter to Kristi Noem and to DHS leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. I'm asking for basic human decency. I think their response will be revealing. Give the children and families of Illinois a break."

the mariah samuels story is finally out at the strib by liz sawyer, this is an important read: www.startribune.com/mariah-samue...

Ellison is gonna have a hard enough time getting re-elected, he should back off from this. To be fair, story includes quotes from his office saying move is to strengthen state control over drinkable THC. But legit criticism that proposal more likely amounts to a ban.

#OnThisDay Oct 29, 1897: Reconstruction begins on the lower St. Anthony dam, which had washed out in a storm 6 months earlier while being built. The project finally finishes at the end of 1897, the innovative attached hydro station generating electricity for the rapidly expanding streetcar system.

I’ve already had the hard talk with myself about swallowing *so much shit* & still backing DFLers next year because the stakes are too high for innocents who will be ground under Mn MAGA, but I’ll be good & goddamned if I’m giving money to the party this year after the ratfucking they delivered.

The last time a World Series game went this many innings, the White House had two wings.

It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.

COME ON YOU LOONS ⚫️🔵 Playoffs are calling — good luck, @mnufc.com 💪 #ONEMN

I hadn’t realized that St. Paul-based American Public Media (MPR’s parent) was a willing handmaiden to Republicans’ NPR defunding. The facts of case are gross, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s cowardice didn’t stop them from being defunded, either. www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

Ok, this summoned a 🧵 I’ve been meaning to write, as genuinely sad as it makes me. My friends at @minnesotareformer.com made what I think is a bad call. They decided that since they are a statewide outlet focusing on the legislature, they weren’t gonna cover the Minneapolis City election EXCEPT …

$40 Billion to bailout Argentina, $350 million for a ballroom for Dear Leader. But no money for hungry families. Richest country in the history of the world. It's a choice when they claim we don't have money to make sure folks don't go hungry. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Hey, some local rockstars sneaked onto the return flight from the last British Invasion and now they’re taking over London.

When this becomes politically feasible I think we’ll have found the tunnel under the walls to get us out of here.

Wow, remember ice cubes?

*10/24/2025 noncooperation thread* A daily-ish thread of acts of noncompliance by individuals, communities, &/or institutions. * “A hallmark of authoritarianism is that it makes you feel like shit, on a daily basis. In that environment, celebrating success IS an act of defiance." We did that!! 🥳

People still got to go to the grocery store, take their kids to school, etc. They do these normal things while freaked out about the state of the country.

I think that the next step in the civil resistance campaign to Trump should be inflicting punishment on elites and institutions who cave. They need to understand that there are costs to compliance

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

“He’s not only provided the political climate & resources for the University to turn into the empty shell that it now is, but has also given so many in our leadership the inspiration to crack down on civil & constitutional rights, attack academic freedom & turn their back on common human decency” 🔥

It's just two weeks until SCOTUS finally hears the challenges to Trump's tariffs. It's something on which SCOTUS MIGHT rule against Trump. But it'll be interesting if we get to discussing how Trump unilaterally imposed tariffs bc he saw a TV ad he didn't like.

A very frightening reality coming to life. There is a bunker under the ballroom. Hitler history is repeating itself. With Trump sycophants now controlling the FBI, DOJ, Defense, and Supreme Court, future elections are at risk.