I will not support this bill that completely fails to help Americans afford their health care. Trump and R’s have more than doubled Americans’ health care premiums, and for 40 days they have refused to lift a finger to do a thing about it. In fact, they’ve made it worse by taking food from kids.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

Called Klobuchar’s DC office to say don’t vote on a “deal” with liars who will double-cross you. 202-224-3244

“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…” Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

It would be nice if reporters would cover the mayor’s performance in office instead of his performance in the election.

Thank goodness.

Did anyone take heave a heavy sigh at the lede to Richard Chin’s Strib story on Hmong folks’ reaction to Kaoly Her winning? The first person quoted wants Her to widen Phalen Blvd outside Hmong Village, and also raise a RR bridge (not something mayors can do) so trucks won’t hit it.

Oh man, what an *$*$.

Forecast Public Art announces 16 newly artist illustrated utility boxes in Lowertown Saint Paul, near Mears Park and Kellogg/Union Depot. Very cool project!

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

There are cops in the Twin Cities who make something like this, according to a recent article in the Pioneer Press... so I assume ones in NYC make even more.

*cough* minneapolis *cough*

The Mississippi GOP's main project has been to roll back the civil rights movement, starting with the re-segregation of public schools. ProPublica identified 20 segregation academies in Mississippi that received almost $10 mn over 6 years from state coffers.

BREAKING: A federal judge finds the Trump admin "did not comply" with his order to fund SNAP benefits. Judge John McConnell has verbally ordered the admin to *fully fund* SNAP benefits for the month of November — by tomorrow.

Week 22 in Prospect Park, Minneapolis. Over I-94.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The Trump regime is East Winging the Goddard Space Flight Center, home to the 10,000 scientists and engineers in NASA science and engineering directorates.

God I hate club sports. God forbid a kid wants to pick up a new athletic endeavor and they’re up against peers doing it since they were 6.

Having good transit and good housing are winning issues

Speaking personally, in my milieu I think people underestimated people's desire for change, didn't think Kaohly had the time or message for much reach, took Carter's historic good will for granted.

Fall closes in here in Saint Paul. A few final borage flowers against fresh asparagus foliage; one last brave Jackmanii clematis blossom; and seed heads and fall color on heart-leaved aster (Symphiotrichum cordifolium). #FlowerReport

This is what climate-action housing looks like.

Whole thread about Minneapolis.

What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.* Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.

I don't know if anybody noticed, but Ramsey County's results came through a lot earlier than they have in the past, and the RCV results got counted fast. That's thanks to implementation of new software at Ramsey County. Thanks to the staff and election volunteers that made that possible

Star Tribune manages to put East Coast wins not known until after 8 pm in front page. But couldn’t get the giant No Kings event - held I the afternoon - in its own back yard on the front page because of printing deadlines?

Here’s my 2-min St Paul analysis. A combo of Carter not campaigning until the end, 3rd-termitis, no party endorsement (city party in disarray), RCV effect… & some substantial issues mostly outside mayor’s control causing disaffection. Ms Her a fairly well known state rep, Hmong base is large in StP.

8. Evil city / pure countryside is an example of what Jeremy Lent calls a “root metaphor”: an idea so deeply implanted in our minds that we don’t even recognise it as an idea.

Quick reminder: NYC’s new First Lady, Rama Duwaji, is a cartoonist! www.comicsbeat.com/zohran-mamda...

Dear National Democrats, You see how progressive politics can win in the cities. Now come back to rural America and help us take over the country.

I like how Krasner winning an almost unprecedented third term as Philly DA by stomping the walrus mustached city court judge who quit the bench to try to take him out first in the primary and again as a Republican in the general isn’t even folded into the national Dem sweep coverage.

I am sad Melvin Carter won’t be mayor anymore. I will never forget him slaying Dai Thao (who is a joke) over shotspotter. Also remember his longterm follow through on gun violence. Public safety ain’t about toys and gimmicks, and I hope Koahly Her can see that.

How the RCV votes transferred to Her and Carter. She ended up w a bit under 48% of the votes, he just under 45%. Almost 5,000 ballots that ranked neither one.

Final First Place Votes are in for Saint Paul

As I wait for St Paul to finish counting, huge shoutout to my home for nearly a decade, Syracuse NY for finally electing it's first black mayor! Go 'cuse

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

i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.

No surprise. Relieved.

JUST IN: Democrats have swept the 3 supreme court elections in Pennsylvania. They beat back a concerted GOP effort to erase their majority; instead, they'll keep a 5-2 edge on this very important court.

Both Saint Paul questions are leading at 60+ percent with 13% reporting.

Saint Paul city question 2 [administrative citations] is missing from the @startribune.com election page.

Total YIMBY victory, the upzonings commence at once!

Democrat Michelle Wu has been re-elected Mayor of Boston.

Mary for Everybody! #Detroit

Everyone should pay careful attention to the Maine voter ID ballot measure (Prop 1). It is on track to lose -- thereby proving that the GOP claims that voter ID laws are overwhelmingly popular is a lie. Perhaps now the legacy media will stop repeating that nonsense.

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

Just to pre-empt the pundits, I absolutely believe you could run a Mamdani in middle America and win