“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want more walkable cities.

The American car industry quite deliberately designs its products so that they kill people. They know this. They are not ignorant of how their products work. They don't care.

ok, after a few days of processing this event, i am more worried than ever about 2026, and have realized any DFL win will be due to the leadership of DFL electeds & their volunteers. the party apparatus is no longer being run by organizers, but by consultants. everyone should plan accordingly.

New LIFE AFTER CARS live show outfit just dropped.

i actually can't get over ward 7, which represents the majority of downtown, electing a woman to city council who says she wants minneapolis to be more like her small hometown of buffalo vs re-electing our councilmember who wanted to see us be more like berlin going backwards!

If the bike lane is too narrow to fit the bike symbol, it's too narrow to be safe for the majority of people.

A former career DOJ guy told me a few weeks ago that prior to Trump, the FBI was the varsity team, DHI and ICE were junior varsity, and Border Patrol were like a drunken office softball team. And under Trump, the drunk softball guys are now in charge.

The Team at A Better DFL is releasing the following statement on the disastrous listening session from Thursday. ABetterDFL.org. We need to hold the DFL to a higher standard than "at least we're not republicans."

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Counterintuitive: the DFL is run by people who have no idea what it's like to live in an urban area.

Hi Minnesotan Bluesky: The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party. Join me: abetterdfl.org.

Just got on the high speed Italo train to go from Venice to Florence.

I would do this job for free for a few hours a day several days a week.

While camera-based speed and red light enforcement are great and speed governors will help stop the worst repeat offenders, what we really need is for the police to actually enforce basic traffic laws like “you have to actually stop at stop signs and red lights” and “your car needs license plates.”

Minnesota has one of the strongest, most carefully regulated systems in the country to allow the sale of hemp products like THC beverages, and the bill that just passed screws all of that up. We have a lot of MN breweries and distilleries that will be hurt by this.

Leave our breweries alone.

Good job, Seattle. Good job, New York. Really wishing we had a successful mayoral election in Minneapolis this year.

I'm sad that I'm missing it but I'm in Italy right now so I'm not TOO sad.

Hot take: Plowing right-of-ways for taxpayers inside of motor vehicles but not for taxpayers outside of motor vehicles violates the Equal Protection clause. #PlowSidewalksToo

Today a cashier at a pharmacy in Venice told me that I look Italian, so I'll be coasting on that compliment for the next few days.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

*cough* minneapolis *cough*

Thank you District 4, and the supporters who carried this victory! Once I’m a bit more healed up, we will definitely be celebrating this win- the vision of parks for everyone is something we can all share and bring to fruition.

I'm sad. Sad for all our unhoused neighbors. Sad about all our inaccessible fence-blocked streets. Sad about Roof Depot. Sad about the 3rd precinct. Was really hoping for a little change.

Sidewalks shouldn’t stop for side streets, pass it on

this isn’t an RCV issue. it’s a racism issue, a journalism issue, and a money in politics issue. the frey coalition is unique and it sucks and other conservative candidates might struggle to recreate it. but there are a lot of rich white conservative fuckwads who vote. that’s hard to beat.

If you want more democracy, you need fewer cars.

The siren at 1pm is to warn you of four more years of this bullshit.

<disappointed mom voice> Wow Minneapolis. I thought you were better than this.

Thank you to @dewayneforminneapolis.com @omarfatehmn.com @jazzformayor.bsky.social and every other candidate who saw through his gaslighting, lies, fences, and all of his bullshit to try to make a real difference here. Thank you for doing the work and trying to make a better city for us all. 💙💙💙

There are still a lot of hard times ahead, but remember this moment and what it means: We can win.

Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

I sincerely hope Democrats pay attention to tonight’s results across the country. They won’t learn anything but still. Maybe. People are excited by change and original campaigns and bold ideas and candidates under the age of 50!

I know MN hasn’t been called, but I hope what we take away from tonight is that we take care of us- we are the community we make. I love the energy and positivity I’ve seen from progressive folks these past few months, and I’m grateful for all the energy and work everyone has put into our community.

If he does pull this out, there's a book to be written about how he and his cronies transformed one of the most democratically engaged cities in America into a bitter, cynical place where a widely despised mayor can somehow magically win three terms.

Mamdani has now gotten more votes than 1/4 of the members of the United States Senate did when they got elected. The political power being channeled here is immense.

Thank you to my neighbors for electing @sorenwithward8.bsky.social to represent us in ward 8. We made the right choice! 🧡

Come on, Minneapolis. Please please please.

I cannot

katie cashman and supporters - including andrew gebo, running for parks district 4 - wave signs at drivers on the corner of hennepin & franklin ave on the morning of election day @katiecashman.bsky.social @gebo4parkboard.bsky.social

Minnesotans, you can register at the polls! And college students can use their student ID!

the frey boys on reddit are going hard in on "Fateh is transphobic and homophobic" today in a last ditch effort to persuade undecideds to go Frey Frey ran away from me at a literal pride parade

The “rules for thee, not for me” faction of the DFL.

Yeah that checks out

I see Jeanette Colby and Elizabeth Shaffer had volunteers straight up lying to people this morning about who received the @mplsdfl.org endorsement. Remember, they are supported financially by the orgs that worked so hard to strip @omarfatehmn.com of his endorsement.

Amidst the flurry of emails from your favorite candidates asking you for last-minute donations, I wanted to remind everyone that @taylordahlin.com has been doing SO MUCH work this year. She covers local politics in ways that shame our legacy media, for free. Support her if you can!

if Frey loses I bet he’ll leave Minneapolis immediately, which is a great argument to vote him out honestly

I did not have “Mighty Ducks actor calls out Frey staffer for using a Ducks movie gif, rejects Frey, and cheers on Omar“ on my bingo card. Danny Tamberelli is a legend.