Heads up South Minneapolis: Sounds like it might be best to avoid 28th/Nicollet right now. Some kind of active shooter situation going on. Metro Transit route 2 is detoured.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.

I think we should all be calling our reps inquiring about the amendment they’re working on to prevent a situation like this from ever happening again.

Booooooo!!!

Thanks to @startribune.com for the fun porch story, featuring our Front Porch Fridays event. The final Friday of each month, from 6-8pm we hang out on our porch with drinks and try to get to know more neighbors. It’s been such an easy delightful way to build community. Try it in your area!

Thanks for sharing the story! It’s nice to be in a community that’s so supportive of this idea.

Attending the dedication of a new on-street bike parking corral. Real civic pride stuff. Also eating a free donut.

A ribbon was cut! Thanks to all who showed up today. This bike corral is one of three, part of a one year, year-round pilot project in St. Paul on Grand Ave. They are at Kowalski’s Market, Dunn Bros Coffee (pictured here) and Shish (installation in the works). Use them and share your feedback!

See you today at 5pm by Dunn Bros to celebrate the launch of St. Paul’s three new year-round, on-street bike corrals! It’s a pilot project so please use them and share your feedback with us! The new locations are at Dunn Bros, Kowalski’s, and Shish, all in Mac-Grove on the glorious Grand Ave!

Gotta say I’m pretty proud that this all came together in less than a year, from pilot pitch to install. Thanks to all who helped out!!! Quite a different experience here in St. Paul compared to Omaha! (Quite happy we live here now.)

This!!!

gofund.me/3169705ce I’ve been using my Venmo but here’s another way to help Minnesotans in need. We are desperately trying to cover March (past due) rent for several more families. As soon as one is covered, another request comes in. Help?! Share and/or donate. And repeat.

Looking forward to the post-billionaire era.

I think the question is what do those three have to hide?

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

My therapist isn’t white. I’m currently waiting for her at her office, wondering if she’s running a few minutes late due to another client, or has been kidnapped by the feds. It’s really so so hard to know how to live these days in MN. Did I make her leave her house? Should I have asked for remote?

Ope!

Give your mail carrier a whistle. I just did and it was a neat convo. We’re all doing what we can to form a safety shield from the brutality. Form a crowd. Stay loud.

Found out yesterday that the pilot project I pitched for year-round, on-street bike corrals in St Paul has been 100% approved with a ribbon cutting in May to kick off Bike Month! (I’m so busy on the ground helping neighbors that I hardly had time to read the good email I got yea!)

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Here is the fundraiser for Renee Good’s wife and son, from a very trusted source.

Just tried a new cathartic thing: called a rep who was telling us to calm down and asked her aide to pass along this message: “AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! We’re being occupied and slaughtered ahhhhhh!!!!! Thanks.” (Tell your spouse before yelling or they may be scared. Sorry @scottbl8ke.bsky.social )

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

Glad to see a ton of sharing and funding here for the victim of state slaughter.

This!!!!!! Remove the cancer before it’s too late.

ICE is out in large numbers in Saint Paul and Minneapolis today following the recent surge in federal agents being deployed to the Twin Cities. Please be careful, support your neighbors, and contact the MONARCA hotline (612.441.2881) with any verified ICE sightings.

Dems remaining quiet are complicit. Blood on your hands.

Heads up St. Paul.

Electric bicycles, and shared electric bicycles in particular, are a revolutionary transportation technology. Forward-looking cities should be building out the infrastructure necessary to make cycling safe and convenient for everyone who wants to do it.

How do we all become conscientious objectors to paying federal taxes that they will just use against us?! I have zero interest in supporting this dangerous chaos. Paying to support a Dept of War that is literally being aimed at civilians here?! No thanks.

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.

Unredacted by @scottbl8ke.bsky.social

94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet. The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.

It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.

Some good news to wake up to in St. Paul! Congrats @mollycoleman.bsky.social (and everyone who worked on her campaign)!

“Make sure your friends in Ward Four know that there’s a general election on August 12th!” “I will! What are the boundaries of Ward Four?” “Um…well in some parts it’s Lexington…in some parts it’s Snelling…it’s northwestish, but also goes all the way down to St. Clair…”

Agreed! Full of good info on the Summit Ave. situation.

Transgender people deserve to dictate our own lives and futures. No court decision can change who we know we are.

This would be funny, if it wasn't deadly.

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Because it’s not about legality! It’s about racism and cruelty, power and fear.

Ok, this is a pretty good line.

This ding dong, Mike Flood, is one of the many reasons I’m glad we left Nebraska.

We moved to the Twin Cities from Omaha 2 years ago but last night my phone was blowing up with Omahans messaging me about the good news. I fought with Stothert for years. So glad she’s gone and Omaha elected their first Black Mayor!

Sunshine and squill made for a beautiful birthday despite the fact that the world is notttttt feeling great these days.

I just called @amyklobuchar.com and you should too. It is not ok to vote for ANY T-bag nominees, especially after you acted like you understood the tens of thousands of people in St. Paul begging you to stop this administration's b.s. Do better Amy. I'm disgusted by your two faced actions.

Perfection.

It was definitely the biggest protest I’ve been to! Energy was palpable. Great signs and good humans (and dogs wearing signs were cute too)!