25x as much on police as on public housing. Can't imagine public housing being allowed to go more than $20M over budget 2 years in a row without holy hell being raised.

Stripping the MPLS DFL endorsement from Sen Fateh was a corrupt move by the DFL establishment and it was clear as day.

Thanks for having me on, John! I hope people understand that the Lyndale Ave Reconstruction fight isn't really about bike lanes at all. It's about a small minority of wealthy business owners obstructing vital infrastructure upgrades in order to protect their short term profits.

I really have no idea what to make of the embrace of Chris Rabb by SOR et al. Of course I'm glad that running DSA candidates in D primaries is now completely hegemonic within DSA. But you also have to worry about how divorced from reality the analysis is sor4dsa.substack.com/p/from-stree...

This is one of the reasons “we can’t run AOC” makes zero sense. The gop accused Bill Clinton of being a secret communist! They said Obamacare was socialism! The underlying policy just doesn’t matter, they’ll always make this attack. So why don’t we run someone who believes in things?

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Sonoma County! Joanna Paun is the ONLY candidate for District 2 Supervisor advocating to END collaboration with ICE. If REAL ACTION matters to you—not just words and scripted speeches—the choice is clear. Vote Joanna Paun for County Supervisor District 2 on June 2, or now by mail! socodsa.org/paun/

Establishment dems don't drop the ball, challenge level impossible.

$100 million for golf trips. $230 million from the Department of Justice. $670 million to a company Don Jr. is invested in. $1 billion for a ballroom. Trump wants to cut your health care, but he demands taxpayer dollars for himself.

Year over year real hourly wages fell for the first time in three years. The CPI grew 3.8% in April, beating out nominal wage growth and leading to a 0.2% fall in real wages. Accelerating price inflation is the real culprit but decelerating nominal wage growth indicates a weakening labor market.

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

moving back into the Jim Crow democracy for me but not for thee stage

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Early intervention works. We began our Youth Auto Theft program in 2023 after instances of auto theft skyrocketed across Hennepin County. Our office saw rates decrease by 15% in 2024 and 38% in 2025 until we stopped receiving referrals in November. Auto theft has risen by 24%.

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Two governor’s races this cycle: Janeese Lewis George in DC and Francesca Hong in Wisconsin. before even talking about the rest of the work it’s literally happening right now you’re just legitimately ignorant

We need a left labor candidate in the 2028 presidential race. The democratic socialist left is done waiting for establishment dems to fumble the ball.

Beating Donald Trump isn’t enough, argue the Democratic Socialists of America’s cochairs. A united left-labor campaign in 2028 could mobilize millions, challenge Democratic Party failure, and put a working-class program on the national stage.

Look through the full Library here: www.groundworkdsa.com/building-up/...

$250 million dollars is an insane amount of money for the city to hand over to MPD on an annual basis

Staggering for the lack of protection and production. During Occupation Metro Surge they literally ignored calls for help and protection. Literally told folks there was nothing they could do for you, despite them being grossly overfunded.

MPD paid out over $3 million to officers for more than 85,000 hours of standby overtime been Jan 7 and Feb 22. Standby overtime compensates officers for "remaining available to respond" within 60 minutes.

Today marks the opening of the Southside East Lake Street Clinic, a site that was once a Family Dollar, destroyed in the summer of 2020 as our community faced a racial reckoning after the police murdered George Floyd. 1/ www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

TCDSA had a great time on International Workers Day participating in pickets, rallies, and marches across the Twin Cities! Thank you to everyone who showed up and spoke in solidarity with workers across the world. Fascist regimes are threatening our, and our childrens’, futures but WE MUST OVERCOME.

Happy May Day! Minneapolis has a long history of immigrant and workers’ rights advocates coming together in the spirit of solidarity! Immigrants, workers, and their families are a vital part of our Minneapolis community.

Statewide dems are incapable of imagining radical improvements to all of our lives and thats why we're getting highway expansion instead of mass transit in 2026.

New in the GW Blog: Lyra S details her experiences in the two largest midwestern DSA chapters, Chicago and Detroit, over the course of 5 years. She describes which strategies and structures she's observed promote growth and deliberation, and which don't. www.groundworkdsa.com/building-up/...

Council Members Shaffer, Rainville, Vetaw, Palmisano, and Warren just voted to try and stop the City Council from even considering a moratorium on data centers in Minneapolis. Apparently some supposed DFLers are so captured by corporate interests they’re pro data centers now. Appalling.

Thousands of Minnesotans engaged in resistance to ICE's occupation earlier this year. How did they do it? powermapmag.substack.com/p/how-minnes...

Proud of TCDSA's own Gabe K for putting this great piece together, encourage folks to give it a read.

After AOC’s shift on her public stance on sending aid to Israel’s Iron Dome, every side took credit for the change. But what really causes DSA electeds to change their minds? www.geesemag.com/articles/wha...

There is a lot of talk about re-appointment of city officials, so I wanted to talk about it. I voted against re-appointing Public Safety Commissioner Barnette because I take my role of oversight seriously, and we deserve leaders who are tracking and being responsible with taxpayer dollars.

Real chapter democracy rests on voting accessibility for every key decision and every leader in the organization. Every member should get a say, no exceptions.

Clearly the best choice for Hennepin County Attorney

Encourage folks to read this article, DSA has a chance to end this country's facist death spiral and become the largest mass socialist party in US history by the end of the decade if we commit to organizing for power in 2028.

The Case for NYC-DSA Endorsing AOC in 2026, by J.Kraush. "To prepare the nation-wide socialist movement for 2028, NYC-DSA must endorse AOC in 2026." She's the strongest likely candidate on nearly every issue, and she can win. See below: www.groundworkdsa.com/building-up/...

The Police are defunding YOU.

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🧵The Frey administration is proposing that the City of Minneapolis spend at least $40 million on a “Public Safety Training and Wellness Center.”

It's only the working class of this city that is ever told to take a haircut in hard times.

MPD saw metro surge as an opportunity to fill their pockets.

Check it out: new Groundwork electoral strategy document dropped!

Groundwork is launching an article series introducing our Class Alignment Electoral Strategy! Do we elect candidates to raise the red flag? To demonstrate our movement's ability to govern? Our approach synthesizes these ideas into a plan to win Socialism. Link: www.groundworkdsa.com/building-up/...

New Groundwork electoral strategy article dropped, check it out!

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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to