Said resistance was often a bit more emphatic than chucking some bread at a fed, too.

My RCV take: It’s not preventing Minneapolis progressives from achieving desired city-wide results. It is actually showing that progressives are close even when not winning. And it’s affirming something about the electorate that we don’t understand, can’t accept, or don’t know what to do about.

What the fuck are "biological pronouns?" This is the dumbest thing I've ever read in service of endorsing the bullying of trans kids. Half the world uses languages that don't have gendered pronouns and these illiterate and ignorant judges are creating entirely nonsensical concepts.

As if the SCOTUS decision wasn't bad enough, the 6th circuit said "hold my beer" and explicitly created a constitutional right to bully trans kids who are already at tremendous risk of self harm and suicide. These judges want dead trans kids.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Here's an incredible election result that's being slept on: Duluth passed a first-in-the-state Tenants Right to Repair ordinance! TakeAction MN and its ascendant Duluth Tenants Union fought hard for this ballot question and won a huge victory for tenants rights in a market which really needs it

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.

2:17am post election rage posting by Carol Becker on a post about the 2040 plan. Life is good!

I count this as a big success. Let’s do it all over, roll it out! www.startribune.com/speeding-dow...

Hockey board installation is a sign of optimism for a real winter.

Her ignorance looks even worse to me. It looks like she not only isn't aware of the randomization but also is assuming the order (however arrived at) is consistent across the whole district, as opposed to rotating from precinct to precinct.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

BLUESKY ELDER ELECTED NYC MAYOR

Chowdhury was one of two council members to get more than 10,000 first-choice votes (Palmisano was the other). She got more votes than the winners of Wards 4, 5, and 6 combined. She's got this job as long as she wants it. Carol's cohort is neither silent nor a majority

The Carols of Nextdoor had a silent majority theory that higher turnout would take down Chowdhury. I don't know if pro-Chowdhury or anti-Thompson sentiment got people to the polls, but the 35% increase in turnout went almost entirely for Chowdhury (around 85%).

If it won more than 2/3 of the vote, is it really "controversial"?

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Aurin is SO good, too. She’s always prepared and has detailed questions for presenters, works hard for her constituents. It would piss me off to be that good at my job and have 32% of people around me be like “Becka Thompson tho”

Ward 12 put the L in DFL when they rejected Thompson.

This may sound crazy to Carol, but candidates who earn the DFL endorsement are more aligned with the DFL than candidates who don't earn the DFL endorsement.

A gallon of whole milk can cost anywhere from $2.16 to $4.95 , but it's all coming from the same plant in north Minneapolis:

Ben Shapiro was just ratioed by Nick Fuentes on X after Shapiro called out Tucker Carlson and Fuentes for their antisemitism. The neo nazi right is fully taking over the republican party.

The University of Minnesota just announced the "Meal-A-Day Program" which will provide one meal a day for SNAP benefit recipients while the SNAP program is limited or unavailable. This makes me very happy. A lot of students, faculty, and staff at the U need this, unfortunately.

Nancy Ford is trying to justify a racist comment made by Becka Thompson that Thompson apologized for making.

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

here is steve minn telling jewish insider in may that he voted for donald trump three times. his company lupe gave $30k to safer hennepin. he also maxed out to jacob frey, shelley madore, michael rainville, josh bassais, tim peterson, and paula chesley this year

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

Ward 12 candidate, Becka Thompson, has endorsed a conservative and supposedly independent PAC that supports her in her latest newsletter. I've asked this PAC repeatedly to unendorse Thompson due to her racist behavior but, Karin Birkeland has chosen not to. www.instagram.com/p/DLTYkdjMAT...

"Team MPLS" always has been about extracting capital from the city regardless of who it damages. Unhoused people, then, become an unsightly problem rather than neighbors. Renters are merely means to further capital. And property crime is far more valuable than crime against people.

This Jacob Hill quote gives away the Frey team‘s true mission: to control the Minneapolis politics from the outside. Their motivation is not the betterment of Minneapolis citizens. Their profit-driven cause is about the full metro area economy - to help both Republicans and Democrats get rich.

I wrote about the should-be-illegal trend of fencing off sidewalks because poor people are nearby. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

This is why EVERY infectious disease doctor gets their annual flu shot- we know that most of the time it’s a mild illness (as defined by not needing hospitalization; it still sucks). But it’s a nasty virus- and we’ve all seen healthy people die from it. That stays with you…

This is so well done. But will any of the extremely confident ignorant people in local subreddit comment sections watch it?

This hits harder as a trans person who has found a home here. We have tons of trans people moving here from hostile states, and many of them are living in South Minneapolis, in this ward. Will Josh be a councilmember for them?

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

This "You don't count unless you lived your whole life here" exclusivity represents the worst of Minneapolis. I've lived in Mpls for 12 years and MN for over 25, and people like this can still make me feel unwelcome. Do people like this think most people think this way? What an odd thing to publish.

I will never understand why Minnesotans are like this. Personally, I prefer people who have lived in multiple states and countries, who have navigated different cultures, encountered different types of people, and evolved as people as they learn from those experiences.

When I moved to Minneapolis in the mid-aughts, it was really difficult to make friends. People from other states didn’t get it. Now the bias is front and center in my city politics. If I’m a resident who “just got here,” do I matter less to Josh?

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

How many lives did you destroy leaking children's medical records to anti trans activists? How many families had to uproot their lives and move out of state to get care you helped get banned? Are we supposed to feel bad? It's called karma.

Again, I'm in the cheap seats here just watching the show, but the fact that the richest Americans are acting with such open contempt for the rest of the nation seems not just bad for the country but possibly *really* bad for their own fates too. They're making a different bet now, it seems.

If you're a teacher running for office and the teacher's union endorses your opponent . . . If you're gay and OutFront MN and Stonewall DFL endorse your opponent . . . If you were a Park Board member and Park Board members endorse your opponent . . . . . . you're Becka Thompson.

Providing feedback to a Jacob Frey-aligned PAC this morning.

This man was part of a coalition of Reagan-era apartheid apologists who opposed U.S. opening talks with the African National Congress which he called a terrorist org. He has been a right wing activist for decades. His son was part of the Jan 6th mob and was convicted (later pardoned by Trump). 1/

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

Touched the flame again, this time for Minneapolis City Council endorsements: leaflet.pub/2a77ae3b-1e2...