I hate to be like this, but Monarca is not some scrappy leftist collective. They're Unidos, a 19 y/o nonprofit that's had wandering missions and allegiances over the yrs. Monarca did vital, powerful work training observers and coordinating community response to ICE. They're also run by center libs.

Republicans also having electronic balloting issues at their convention. Guess @twincitiesdsa.org is the only group in town that knows how to run digital voting systems. The socialist movement will be run on OpaVote / OpenSlides.

This was a rough part of the night for me, in a night with a lot of rough spots. I appreciate my fellow trans and enby delegates for correcting the chair, because honestly I was too shocked to do it myself. It’s a shame that these are the acts of solidarity we so often have to do for one another.

a delegate is yelling that the blinking light sticks the amy klobuchar campaign is handing out at the DFL convention are a seizure risk

hennepin county DFL delegates should be able to trust the party with their personal information, esp in wake of mark & melissa hortman's murder this is a security issue so why did hao nguyen give this individual michael g waring of edina their contact info for delegates to send them mail?

Great people worked very hard last year to push media to report on the investigations and allegations surrounding O'Hara because Mpls voters deserved to know these facts before Election Day. Questions of Frey's leadership aside, there should be a reckoning for the editors who killed those stories.

Statement from Council Member Wonsley pointing out Mayor Frey's handling of O'Hara situation differs from other local police agencies: Metro Transit, Golden Valley, Rosemount "all placed their Chief of Police on administrative leave once allegations triggered investigations..."

@mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social was asked why he renominated O’Hara as police chief: "We did not know then what we do know now,” he said. "If I had known earlier, I would not have renominated him" Investigators questioned the chief & the employee he had an affair with in April. Nomination was May 7 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️

Why in the hell was a Chief under investigation being re-nominated by the Mayor? How much of our tax dollars will now go to the folks who were victims of the wrong doings of that Chief? Can some reporter please keep following this? Feels like enormous malfeasance by the mayor.

Jacob Frey and Star Tribune leadership worked incredibly hard to kill this story for over a year to cover up Frey deleting his texts after the shooting of Davis Moturi and ICE's Lake Street raid on June 3rd. O'Hara deleting his texts was learned from his boss. www.startribune.com/mayor-jacob-...

Hey! I'm the Treasurer of the Marquette Place Tenants Union! Our group rent escrow action is ongoing and we could really use help with legal and expert fees. gofund.me/6564c64fd

Hey! I'm the Treasurer of the Marquette Place Tenants Union! Our group rent escrow action is ongoing and we could really use help with legal and expert fees. gofund.me/6564c64fd

caught my dream car being driven through whittier

Minneapolis is insane right now. First the mayor hires a new fire chief whose previous job was working for the Saudi government's boondoggly desert megaproject NEOM - and now we have a constellation of little free plant stands?

I've gotten word that several other groups have contacted the DFL and Richard to request that Latonya be removed from her positions. Let's be honest: if this was any candidate besides Ilhan, this already would've happened.

We saw two weeks of coverage over “fiery tensions” at City Hall. Will we see anything about the Chief of Police being completely unable to account for a $20M+ overspend of their budget?

The most corrupt administration of all time. They’re using your tax dollars to reward insurrectionists.  Insanity.

Last night, the Minnesota State Legislature passed the bonding bill, which includes funding for the City of Minneapolis Water Distribution Facility, clearing the way for the East Phillips Indoor Urban Farm project to FINALLY become a reality. 1/

This is a nimby trope. The street was not shut for the sake of walkability/bikeability. 50-60 yr old streets need reconstruction. The surface & underground utilities need replacement. Bike and pedestrian fixes are literally just: as long as we're here, let's put it back together better than it was.

apparently patrick gage is running for edina city council too and like alicia gibson, he also ran for office and lost (hennepin county commissioner for district 6, 2024). then he managed elizabeth shaffer last year and steve simon this year. and his family is VERY wealthy

this is pandering to an audience, like dan wolgamott also switching to backing peggy flanagan from angie craig, and talking about supporting divestment when he was reportedly standing on a chair blocking the signs of uncommitted delegates holding names of murdered palestinians at the DNC in 2024

Even if you feel like you've read everything that's been written about Davis Moturi's story, it's worth listening to his full remarks to the Minneapolis City Council yesterday. "I hope that one day I can become a fraction of who I used to be."

Some background on Agape, which lacks community buy-in and has a history of being homophobic + hostile to unhoused people

The City’s own survey results showed the community found that Rise & Remember's proposal was most closely aligned with their values and garnered the most strongly positive reactions overall. 1/

The correct headline here is: City of Minneapolis, in Rebuff to Family of George Floyd, Recommends Awarding Agape Movement Dev Rights to the People’s Way. Rise and Remember, led by Angela Harrelson - George Floyd’s Minnesota family - had a much more realistic proposal that honored the history

historical facts i am learning on casey carl tour: star tribune used to be located in the attic of minneapolis city hall, and they both still share the same phone prefix so city staff have to be careful since it could be strib calling or it could be internal

disappointing to see only free parking mentioned for this event in the heart of downtown rather than listing which metro transit lines can be used to get there as well. the city should be encouraging transit use

Council Member Soren Stevenson asked Moturi what accountability would look like. Moturi said he wants "O'Hara not be reappointed." And for officers who treated him disrespectfully, including the one who told him to "just move," to receive any kind of punishment.

Moturi recalls watching press conference from the hospital: "I was forced to watch the police chief and the mayor throw dirt on my name and blame me for getting shot. That press conference was insane... sitting there with a bullet in my neck, shattered spine, broken ribs, collapsed lung..."

It wasn't until a responding officer told him to "just move" that it struck him "they don't care about my life." "It felt like they [MPD] were trying to kill me as well."

Moturi says dozens of calls to police failed to address neighbor's violence, threats. The first time he called 911, officer who showed up was one who'd profiled Moturi 3 mos earlier. Having that officer respond was "shocking, but not shocking at all when you're a Black person living in this city."

Davis Moturi addressing the Minneapolis City Council today about being terrorized by a neighbor for a year - violence, racial slurs, human feces forced thru his mail slot - before being shot in his front yard in 2024. To have it "just discarded, and nobody care, it's just disgusting."

MPD already has an existing lease to use the UMN Police Dept gun range in Rosemount.

i’m at pearl park for a ward 11 town hall with jamison whiting, most of which will be dedicated to open Q&A after a presentation some of the city’s work. it’s packed in here

i found minneapolis police department's interest in drones as first responder program in emails from jan with mayor and police chief's approval and have been waiting on another data request since march for all emails. latrisha vetaw is introducing it to council now taylordahlin.com/f/minneapoli...

Disgusting racism. I’m sick and tired of Republicans getting away with blatant racism. This rhetoric should be unequivocally condemned, not ignored by GOP leadership that’s too afraid to condemn bigotry.  Rep. Kiggans must resign.

Minnesota’s largest safety-net hospital, Hennepin County Medical Center is on the verge of shutting down. GOP cuts to Medicaid are leading to hospital closures across the country. We can’t let that happen to HCMC. Here’s #MyHCMCStory

New episode of the Wedge LIVE podcast with Christin Crabtree, freshly DFL-endorsed candidate for Minneapolis School Board.

the marquette place tenants union has now sued fine associates in minneapolis over conditions very similar those in 110 grant. $32,795.27 is being withheld in rent for may 4 buildings in loring park now have tenant organizing! brentwood and LPM before these taylordahlin.com/f/marquette-...

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DFL delegates stand with their backs turned for angie craig’s surrogate at the cd5 convention in protest of her vote for the laken riley act, including one delegate in a “hey ICE! get the fuck out of minneapolis!” shirt

Congratulations to @ilhanmn.bsky.social for earning the DFL endorsement!

In fact, after Alex Pretti was killed, they showed up at a hotel where there was a noise demonstration, saw an ICE agent waving a gun around and using chemical munitions, turned around and left. Hard to justify when their mission is to protect and serve the people of Minneapolis.

Non twin cities people, you should know that the mayor is renominating someone who publicly stated his force did not witness any ICE misconduct justifying intervention at any point in operation metro surge.

Want me to blow your mind? The Minneapolis Charter Commission abruptly changed course on a proposal to eliminate public hearings for certain mayoral appointments - because they received a universally negative reaction to the proposal via testimony at a public hearing.

11 of 13 city council members have agreed on something. Yet I'm stuck on the idea that Shaffer and Palmisano couldn't be bothered to defend their own institution.

what a coalition! having progressives and centrists in agreement demonstrates exactly why this proposal is such a bad move not surprised to see elizabeth shaffer did not sign on, she seems to see her role as a rubber stamp to the mayor's appointees

Whether Uptown is in crisis or renaissance depends on if the ward 7 council member is a friend of Frey.

Every day, more and more landlords come up to me in the streets—big strong housing providers with tears in their eyes—saying "Sir, sir, we love democracy so much, will you please pay us to let you give a toothless speech in a concrete warehouse with $16 cocktails."

If the city council wants their own attorney to avoid relying on politicized advice from the mayor's city attorney, we'd need voters to approve a charter amendment. lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/RCA...