Another shout-out for Commandant Flan Southside.

Bollard Watch

At recent meetings, the Minneapolis City Council has taken time to read and acknowledge resolutions of solidarity from far away city councils, and I hope they wrote back to tell those cities to stop wasting their fucking time.

After watching the city council for many years, I've learned the thing that separates the adults in the room from the fucking children isn't embarrassing public outbursts, it's which side has the backing of chamber of commerce types.

If you're gonna run a TV news story on city council drama and harsh words, how do you not play video of Michael Rainville calling colleagues "fucking children" because lunch didn't happen when he wanted it to.

Adult in the room: -We honor the heroes who risked their lives to follow, record, and irritate the hell out of masked secret police on their violent rampage. -We condemn the left-wing cuckoo bananas radicals pushing divestment from companies enabling ICE.

In some ways we should be grateful for Council Member Vetaw devoting so much time to being a giant asshole, because it helps me sleep soundly at night despite all the rumors that she's running for mayor.

Minneapolis Council Member Aurin Chowdhury objecting to a colleague (Vetaw) snickering while she was speaking today, and another (Rainville) calling her a "fucking child" on Tuesday. "I do not want to come to work to be bullied." www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx_j...

Infinitely more time was spent by council members whining and moaning about wasting time on resolutions beyond the borders or jurisdiction of Minneapolis than the time it would've taken to simply vote against them.

You knew she'd be this insufferable, but you voted for her anyway.

Minneapolis Council Member Elizabeth Shaffer voted against "Urging European financial institutions to divest from companies that enable" DHS and ICE, saying that it may somehow harm the city's litigation against the federal government. lims.minneapolismn.gov/File/2026-00...

Minneapolis City Council passed (11-2) a resolution urging the U of M to "immediately settle the ongoing dispute with GLU-UE 1005 by recognizing Graduate Fellows and Trainees as public employees in the bargaining unit." lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/RCA...

The Minneapolis City Council passed (7-6) a resolution calling for an end to an intensified US embargo of Cuba that is creating a severe humanitarian crisis. This has kicked up a longstanding debate about whether the council should comment on foreign policy.

Family wants justice for 22 year old college student killed by driver of silver sedan in northeast Minneapolis. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

KSTP is investigating teenage car thieves posting their exploits. "We've reached out to that tiktok page. We messaged them. We're waiting for a response." youtu.be/jdozRzKsBaA?...

House Finch spotted on the local news.

The housing and healthcare crisis encapsulated in one photo. This house in the Wedge has so much unused space that they devote an entire room to mannequins dressed like healthcare workers.

All around the Wedge, the sun is shining, birds are chirping, pedestrians in short sleeves are standing 5 ft into the crosswalk gesturing at traffic lights, and drivers are throwing hands up above their head like "what was I supposed to do, not run that red light?"

You can't fact check someone's hopes and dreams though.

tomorrow, jamison whiting will be moving to delay the MPD cop city motion at the minneapolis city council, hopefully pushing it back to staff and delayed for 2 more cycles. says he thinks he has the votes to do this

The Wedge now has a giant rooftop Easter skeleton.

Lyndale Avenue will get a separated bikeway when it's reconstructed in the next few years. Hennepin County heard that you were deeply skeptical of the previous design that had a shared use path. beheardhennepin.org/lyndale-aven...

The purchase of a 5 acre site intended for a $38 million MPD/public safety training facility was passed out of committee without recommendation yesterday, which means the city council could vote to approve the $6.1 million to buy the land at their Thursday meeting.

Pearlls of Wisdom: "I hope it is a cop city. I hope it's a cop university." This is our generation's "you're goddamn right I ordered the code red."

Minneapolis gets all the attention for our far left radicals, but we all know the true municipal politics maniacs reside in St Paul. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

In case you missed Minneapolis Council Member Michael Rainville throwing a fit the moment he realizes lunch time is beyond his control.

🚨 "Big news if you are a fan of a local meat raffle."

New bill at the Minnesota state capitol would loosen regulations of the meat raffle industry, increasing the allowed value of meat prizes to $200. www.kare11.com/article/news...

Charting the shifting Minneapolis property tax burden. Residential property taxes bottomed out at 47.4% of the city's tax base in 2020 due to recent apartment growth. But has since climbed to 55.6% this year because of decline in commercial property values.

THE MARKET IS ALWAYS RIGHT: The "change in market value by ward" proves the market didn't like the switch from Katie Cashman to Elizabeth Shaffer as ward 7 council member. And congrats to market value leader Aurin Chowdhury — investors love your work.

Another Minneapolis hero brave enough to drop the F bomb for a good cause. Please donate to his legal defense.

Another million dollars in rental assistance on the agenda this week for the Minneapolis City Council. Funding source is the affordable housing trust fund, which was rejected by council members for the previous funding boost, bc it sacrifices construction of affordable housing.

It's obvious this guy has experienced some Minneapolis municipal real estate battles.

The risk of buying property for a police training facility is we get another endless battle over municipal real estate where the argument in favor amounts to "we already bought the land, so every minute you don't vote to spend the rest of the $38m actually costs us more money."

One problem with Trump prepping the 82nd airborne to invade Iran is that those are the same elite troops he depends on in case of a potential war with Oregon. www.startribune.com/trump-offici...

Winter was tough. Fun is on the way. @deveric.net @perennialcycle.bsky.social

Based on the photo my brain anticipated this headline would end with "notorious deathtrap." www.startribune.com/big-fix-comi...

Josh fights for us

@dbrauer.net leading a @joshmartinmpls.bsky.social cult

Taylor back at Washburn High covering the important stories at the SD62 DFL convention.

Derek reporting from the SD60 DFL convention.

Thanks for backing me up.

I stand corrected

Had no idea the DJ providing the pulsating high energy beats for today's convention was a literal child. Good job, DJ Sixty Percent Threshold.

Max is a member of what's called the Greatest Generation. Tom Brokaw wrote a whole book about the bravery required to be this old.

This was the moment I was able to turn to the row behind me as they asked "is that... ?" And tell them "Yes. Of the Arradondo Arradondos."

Eric Harris Bernstein was online today scolding people who don't appreciate the majesty & noble purpose of a DFL convention, but didn't show up to use his elected privilege to give a useless cliche-filled 2 min speech. Why did we even put him on the board of estimate & taxation?

Rep. Ilhan Omar took an especially hands on approach to counting bodies during the walking subcaucus process at the SD61 DFL convention today. Delegates picked today will move on to the CD5 convention where Omar is seeking the party endorsement.

Your two favorite beautiful Uptown boys. Even if many are saying the one on the right should take his ass back to Edina.