Didn't Jacob Frey run his first mayoral race based on ending homelessness? All of us deserve better.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes

Apropos of nothing, the Nobel Peace Prize is scheduled to be announced Friday, October 10. www.nobelprize.org

Glad I wasn't the only one who read it that way. Who has started the countdown clock for when she starts walking it back like she did the melanin comment earlier this year?

Some neighbors and I in Longfellow believe we can't afford 12 years of Mayor Frey. We are organizing a Longfellow Forum for a New Mayor. Join us for a family friendly format to hear from candidates on housing, police reform, and so much more Sign up here: forms.gle/5jppXJhypevf...

Elections 2025: Minneapolis City Council, Ward 12. Obviously you should vote for Aurin. Becka is my pick for Actual Worst Person Currently Holding Elective Office (In Minneapolis). naomikritzer.com/2025/09/04/e...

Reporting from the crime ridden hellscape of Minneapolis. Residents must defend themselves from broad sword wielding hooligans by carrying shields and wearing helmets and chain mail just to go to the park. Waiting for the National Guard and their halburds and trebuchet to save us.

Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

I feel like resurrecting $347,932 in taxpayer payments to a favored Frey homophobe who called a gay council member a “girl,” threatened violence in the city council chamber, and whose contractors shot up the north side should earn the sort of media coverage reserved for what cars candidates drive …

My longtime office away from the office. Great coffeehouse, great mission made real. Hit them up.

The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since late 2021, according to Labor Department data.

www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0... Five years on and current leadership has failed to improve trust in public safety. We’ve seen no plan to deliver the change that Minneapolis has demanded in police culture and conduct.

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

Important reminder for today

If you read the executive summary on the right, you can see Mayor Frey’s absolute & ongoing failure to include the City Council in actions & engagement led to this. It’s not an exoneration of Frey, it’s an indictment of leadership that hoards info for power & then claims they’re the victims.

At this point they could announce that Ghislaine Maxwell is being put in charge of labor statistics and I wouldn’t even be surprised

Back in May, we conducted polling that shows only 30% of Minneapolis voters approve of Mayor Frey. On the first ballot at Saturday’s convention, Frey secured 31.54% of the votes. Now Frey wants to discredit the results, but they were exactly what should have been expected.

I didn't know Jacob Frey was 86'd from the legendary Palmers Bar on the West Bank.

The gerontocracy is real.

Minneapolis, do you want to meet your next mayor? This is a big election year - that's why I'm excited to host a Mayoral candidate meet & greet with @omarfatehmn.com, @dewayneforminneapolis.com, & @jazzformayor.bsky.social (in no particular order) RSVP to join us on Wednesday, July 17th at 6pm:

Frey hated having the state human rights department in his business; Occam’s razor here is simply preserving mayoral power, despite the obviousness of putting it into law instead of mayoral whim. (Anderson is Frey’s city attorney.)

MAYORPALOOZA is SET. Save the date: Monday, August 4. Joint fundraiser/discussion/ranking strategy with THREE Minneapolis mayoral challengers. Please RSVP via direct message to @dbrauer.net. Please share! And PLEASE invite your mutuals who are simpatico or just trying to figure out what to do. 1/x

I'll take politicians connected to their community any day. We need a new mayor, one who sees Minneapolis beyond downtown and his wealthy donors.

HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too. This isn't over, but this is a huge win. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Take note.

So the suburbs get a shelter in place order but North Minneapolis does not? Has the Mayor been asked about this?

“I asked ChatGPT” Well, I asked your mom and she said she wasn’t mad, she was just so disappointed in you

Today's soundtrack is definitely Bonnie Raitt. Maybe tomorrow too.

Give it uo for Ed Shelleby. That response took courage and a strong moral core.

Not wrong.

Devastated at the violent loss of my friend and former colleague Melissa and Mark Hortman. Wishing full recovery for John and Yvette Hoffman. I'm speechless and devastated. I'm also enraged. But for now I'm thinking of Melissa and Mark's two children and holding all the Hoffman family in my heart.

At Minnesota Alliance With Youth we are committed to a Minnesota where all youth thrive. We stepped up as one of the first in the US to develop Youth Mental Health Corps. We are better serving youth in school and helping young adults start on a career path to serving youth. tinyurl.com/mum8jw2s

Medicaid is the single largest source of health coverage in the USA. Nearly 72 million Americans, including children, pregnant people, seniors, families with limited income & people with disabilities, rely on it. Tell the Senate not to gut it: bit.ly/4moCISR @lwvus.bsky.social @lwvva.bsky.social

IDK how the mayor can claim to care about this city, local democracy, or good governance and be supporting Becka Thompson for the Ward 12 council seat. IMO it says a lot about him, and it’s nothing good

Looking forward to an insightful morning with the good people of Minnesota Compass. Be where your feet are, and my feet are in Minnesota. @MNCompass

Maybe I'm out of touch, but it has felt to me like O'Hara is warmly received when I see him out in public. And he's had his MPD budget increased $50 million annually since getting the job in 2022. What's bizarre is O'Hara wants this conflict and goes to the conservative NY Post to stoke it.

Really, it's all going to be about your gut biomedical and your personal accountability for it.

Becka Thompson embarrassing the city of Minneapolis. Jeesh.

Mayoral tricks of the trade: - indignant press conference at the site of your failure scolding the city council for being so disagreeable it kept you from succeeding - putting more money in the police budget than they could ever hope to spend (horses!) so that when any is moved you can cry "defund"

Ok, help this Unitarian out here, will ya? I know Dinald Trump is so unpopular elsewhere in the world that he effectively lost both the Canadian and Australian elections. Did he also just lose the Papacy?

New research by Jon Valant and Nicolas Zerbino shows how a federal tax-credit scholarship program like the Educational Choice for Children Act would underserve rural communities.

A House committee voted to sell off thousands of acres of national public land in Utah & Nevada in a late-night amendment to the reconciliation bill making its way through Congress. Here's our statement: westernpriorities.org/2025/05/stat...

City Council approved contracts for violence interrupters months ago. They were supposed to start on April 1, but it’s already May and the contracts haven't started yet. Years of mismanagement from the Frey administration has led to another gap in service and as a result, residents are less safe.

Peter Dutton, leader of the right-wing opposition in Australia, lost *his own seat* today — amid his broader loss to the Labor Party that won reelection. Just like on Tuesday, when Pierre Poilievre, leader of the right-wing opposition in Canada, lost his own seat — amid his party's broader loss.

Looking forward to an engaging morning of intergenerational conversation and exploration with our friends at World Savvy.

Who radicalized him?

Spot-on story in @npr.org on how Medicaid cuts will impact the 9 million older adults and disabled people who rely on the program for long-term care - from unnecessary hospitalization and ER visits to institutionalization and even early death. @caringacross.org www.npr.org/2025/04/14/g...

On this day in 1968: LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968—banning housing discrimination, strengthening hate crime laws, and extending rights to Native communities. A bold move for equity. Imagine that kind of leadership today.