And again, the centrists are stomping on a progressive right out of the gate. Have I said "Fuck you, centrists" yet today? If not: Fuck you, centrists www.yahoo.com/news/article...

“Cuomo ran in the closing days by siding with anti-Muslim racism and garnering the coveted Stephen Miller endorsement—but I repeat myself.”

Wow. I've been so focused on the horror of Frey I completely missed this possibility

Wealthy whites are the core of Frey's power, overriding middle- and lower- class people and people of color.

If you are AT ALL surprised that the centrist Dems of Minneapolis stoop to racist fear-mongering to defeat a progressive, you've got your head in the sand. THIS IS WHO THEY ARE

On one hand, nationally renowned media law expert Jane Kirtley says the Frey administration's apparent efforts to circumvent open records law are astounding. On the other hand, the city attorney appointed by Frey says it's all fine. www.startribune.com/mayor-jacob-...

2025 is likely to have the lowest murder rate ever recorded.

The letter is at 1000 signatures. I'm blown away by the support for trans people within Minnesota as we push our party to Do Better. I refuse to let this be quietly pushed down and hidden in the name of "unity" or "civility." I am not making myself smaller to appease a transphobic few.

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.

I’m publicly calling on the @dfl.org to issue a public statement condemning what just happened at the DFL Feminist Caucus meeting. I’m sorry you were forced to experience this horrendous behavior @dexanderson.com.

The "school shooting industry" exists entirely in one country.

This isn't Doomscrolling, it's Hopescrolling.

We'll definitively know it happened when we hear laughter from heaven as he tries to get in.

*sits on the grim reaper’s lap* Please please please I’ve been good all year

It's like staying up late to see if Santa is real but we're hoping Santa's dead

Living with mass shootings is a political choice.

I am no longer a Democrat Good morning, Mr. Carlbom - I'm a nobody. You would not have heard of me. I worked as a QA Analyst at the law firm Faegre, Drinker, Biddle and Reath until I semi-retired a couple of years ago and moved to Prague in the Czech Republic...

Notes on a nonexistent crime wave publiccomment.blog/p/notes-on-a...

Rant: I’ve been feeling really disillusioned with party politics especially within the DFL ever since I had to plan an entire Ward’s caucuses and convention by myself but the last few weeks with the attacks toward trans ppl, refusal to disavow white supremacy from a CD chair 1/?

Let’s be clear, there would not be a DFL Gov, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Auditor, or Senators WITHOUT the DFL voters in Minneapolis. Also many of us progressive lefty DFL’ers help keep the DFL alive. Piss us off and there will be consequences.

the mind of someone who considers Mamdani to be more of a threat to NYC than Trump to DC. what a fascinatingly brain-cooked person.

Having been there for the fight for $15 (serving one of the CMs who was enthusiastically supportive, Cam Gordon), both the Frey apologist's initial attempt to take credit for the minimum wage and this rebuttal (which I generally agree with) lack some revealing detail.

Homophobia/ threats are not in line with our city’s values. His actions demonstrate a lack of cultural competency that is important to building trust w/ community & violence prevention. The city’s actions to disregard LGBTQIA+ people does not make us any safer. www.startribune.com/rev-jerry-mc...

I am shocked and outraged at this kind of shenanigan and will do everything in my power to stop its spread.

I understand he's attracted to the lack of low intelligence limit. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I don’t think that Stancil is right-wing. I think that he's a centrist, and that centrists are the right wing's useful idiots.

Zohran didn't win by relying on standard turnout patterns. We had to fundamentally transform the Democratic electorate. I was part of a group of NYC-DSA members that applied lessons from our previous campaigns to design the “universe” of voters to talk to. Here's how we won 🧵

The context is Becka is talking about the DSA infiltration of the Minneapolis DFL, claiming Council Vice-President Aisha Chughtai portrayed herself as a moderate to win office. "Because people would rank her second or third 'cause they're like 'The nice young—you know—ethnic woman.'" Disgusting.

I’ve seen a lot of false information circulating in the weeks following the Minneapolis DFL convention. Some of it feels like reading Jan 6 voter conspiracy theories, so as the person who stepped in as head teller + audited the voting system, I’d like to set the record straight🧵

So here is the math refuting the missing ballot theory from the Minneapolis DFL convention head teller, who posted a thread on twitter.

“Jacob Frey is challenging the convention results using rhetoric that sounds less like a Democrat and more like Mike Lindell. He miscalculated the delegate count—just like his office miscalculated the count of our unhoused neighbors, when he claimed there were only 27 unhoused people in the city.”

I propose we call this the "Elon Musk Effect"

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

One of my beefs with Minnesota’s supposed objective media is that there’s no one who really accepts the left as valid, who regards it as something other than The Other. Who’s the left-most Strib editorial board member who can at least be honest considerer? I honestly don’t think there is one.

The main story of this convention has got to be the unpopularity of Mayor Frey. Coming into a convention with more than two-thirds of delegates seeking to replace you as mayor is a clear sign of failure. Any discussion of the rules and process of the convention should take a backseat to this fact.

Frankly, the glib straight-white-maleness of this piece makes my blood boil: dnyuz.com/2025/07/13/i...

My therapist told me that a lot of people he talks to are struggling with being in public these days because of overwhelming "is THAT person a Nazi?" and "does THAT person want to harm my loved ones?" thoughts. I get it. And for that reason I really don't wanna know what my neighbors think.

A Democrat-who-hates-Democrats will never go hungry, not ever miss an invitation to a green room. Guy’s not a politician, he’s a professional media troll now.

reactionary centrists have a totally incoherent theory of politics whose primary upshot is that they validate and legitimize the far right

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Strib op-ed page explained. This is also why they are so uninspiring.

Please don't reach out to The Babylon Bee regarding this - I'd hate for their day to be ruined.

Moderate Dems are concerned that progressive policies are too extreme and we should all take a cue from the leaders of the Civil Rights movement, who were apparently 'moderate' and 'open to compromise'. Meanwhile, back in reality: time.com/5099513/mart...

primary all of them. fuck this noise

Is it just me or are there a lot of rancid pieces of shit in the NY Democratic delegation? Gillibrand is a bigot. Democratic Senator Walks Back Her Words After Backlash for Suggesting Socialist NYC Candidate Supported 'Global Jihad' www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Americans HATE the big, beautiful bill. Yet somehow, Democrats need to 'moderate' and 'support policies that have broad support'. As long as we play the game by centrist rules, conservatives have an insurmountable advantage. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

Mainstream Dems stand for nothing, and they do it incompetently.

Zohran prioritized the working people of NYC compared to Cuomo, who was more interested in appealing to the wealthy and corporations. That’s no different from our current Mayor, who vetoed the Labor Standards Boards and who is being funded by the wealthy. Minneapolis is next. 1/

If only the people would shut up and take the half-assed, milquetoast policies proffered by centrist Dems all this money wouldn't have gone to waste!