Hot take: We shouldn’t tear gas kids. The trauma is unfathomable. Justice for the children of Minnesota.

Proud to introduce Minneapolis' local gun safety legislative package — the S.A.F.E. Ordinance (Sensitive Areas, Assault Weapons, Facsimile Firearms, and Enforcement) — which passed unanimously at Committee of the Whole. Final vote at Full Council: May 7. 🧵

Still thinking of the gun violence survivors and Annunciation parents who also testified in favor of the Minneapolis gun ordinance today. Everyone - from the dais to the overflow room - has a story. This is a uniquely American 🇺🇸 crisis, and we need to bring back the assault weapons ban.

It’s a good day for Mayor Frey and the Mpls City Council to pass a gun ordinance for public safety - so many cities already have! I’ll be at City Hall, rm 308, at 1:30. Join me!

This has been an extremely hard year for Minneapolis and Saint Paul and we absolutely deserve the joy and renewal of the Mayday Parade and Festival. If you've never come, you are missing out. I love the parade, the pageant, the celebration, and the artists who make it happen.

$30,000 in city of minneapolis small biz recovery funds from ICE occupation are going to edina. the 50th & france business association is in edina, the plaza they will activate is in edina, and most restaurants in this business district are in edina what a waste taylordahlin.com/f/minneapoli...

They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street.

As long as gun lobby-backed lawmakers refuse to take action and strengthen our gun laws, gun violence will continue to seep into every facet of American life. No one is immune — not children in their classrooms, nor politicians.

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

SWAE has gathered another sublime group of community organizers, helpers, and leaders tonight at Meraki in SW. Grateful for the power, action, and love in this room - and our city. ❤️❤️

The families of Davis Moturi and Allison Lussier deserve more than a report. They deserve accountability, and they deserve change. 12/

We hope to see you this Thursday ♥️

Tonight’s bedtime story was an age-appropriate telling of the Sandy Hook shooting, the families who fought back against a bully, and the “silly guy who owns the Onion” @bencollins.bsky.social who wouldn’t give up. My first grader is asleep and safe in his bed. I’m crying. ❤️ I believe we will win.

This is unserious and hypocritical. In my first term (2022-2023), we had council leadership that was absent, didn’t communicate with many members of the council, and didn’t collaborate across politics spectrums. It’s interesting to hear a change of tune now. 1/

Remember Pete Stauber is behind this.

When listing Target Corp‘s many failures over the last 2 years, please don’t forget that here in Minnesota, home to their effin’ HQ, they allowed 🧊 to hunt their own employees in their stores and stage their terror attacks on the surrounding neighborhoods from Target parking lots.😡

On DoorDash Grandma, the Doctor-in-Chief, and living through the end days of absurdity. (gift link)

The amount of good women run out of office, out of civic engagement, out of media careers, etc. and we are just told over and over “there’s nothing we can do.” Every woman I know, practically.

Parents are “asked to do more for their children while getting less and less help.” It’s not surprising the U.S. birth rate is dropping - our government is willing to spend on silly wars while shortchanging our future.

Minneapolis saw eviction filings increase by 60% from the same time last year. @homelinemn.org correctly attributes the low eviction numbers prior to March to massive mutual aid efforts. Neighbors raised millions for rental assistance during Operation Metro Surge. buff.ly/sKBXfgs

Knock doors, make phone calls & show up for our MN progressive legislators this summer and fall. We’ll need a progressive Trifecta to pass real change over a Klobuchar veto.

Local @metrotransitmn.bsky.social news: someone tried to park on the blue line tracks tonight - just south of 38th St. Metro Transit PD & engineers are on site.

Turns out the best part of @bsky.app is the Mpls-St Paul feed. I’m confident @lookitup.baby will fix this corner of the internet.

Walter Hudson should voluntarily surrender his permit to carry for breaking the law. More on the official consequences Hudson and Engen should face for misconduct on the job.

SMDH at how many bars some of the Target Center crowd needed to recognize Bruce was playing Purple Rain. 💜

Confidential to White Bear Lake Police Chief Dale Hager: It’s your job to enforce gun safety laws.

In the Caribbean last week, I only identified myself as “soy de Minneapolis, esta muy cerca de Canada.”

I don’t think everyone understands that it felt like being occupied by an outside army. Because it was like that.

Mpls taxpayers deserve better than this from the Mpls Police Department. STOP killing our neighbors.

Banks in Minneapolis are still running out of cash as the first of the month approaches because so many of our neighbors remain financially incapacitated, our mayor&governor have abandoned them to eviction,& the neighbors are unwilling to let that happen & moving mountains to pay thousands of rents.

don’t be under the impression that hao nguyen is a fellow progressive alternative to cedrick frazier for hennepin county attorney. he attended latonya reeves campaign kickoff for cd5! that’s him next to martha holton dimick, who ran against mary moriarty in 2022 and lost! frazier is the only choice

Bringing my whistle to MSP. We keep us….and our airport?!…safe.

It’s officially summer now because my husband switched from cleaning the basement to cleaning the garage.

January: me yelling the most depraved psychosexual taunts I can conjure at ICE agents outside of Cub Foods March: PROFILE IN COURAGE

Our city should prioritize data-backed strategies to keep our communities safe and meet priority concerns like gun violence, domestic violence, and youth mental health rather than pour millions of dollars into an unnecessary building for a police department that did nothing to protect us from ICE.

This doesn’t happen in any other country. Why do we let it happen here?

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

These are not serious people.

🧵 This week the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) Chief, Brian O’Hara, and Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty both presented to the City Council on their responses to Operation Metro Surge.

Please take the time to do this! The useless mayor must be reminded that people want him to do the right thing for once.

State-owned helicopter doing more laps of downtown than the De La Salle track team.

AWOOOOOO! (We’re back, Mpls!)

This woman should run for city council. She’s done more for Ward 13 in the last 3 months than Palmisano has. Ever.

No amount of regret can reunite families, save children from indefinite detention, or make our communities whole again. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Every bomb is a war crime.

It’s so loud, measured at 38 decibels inside my bedroom. My husband’s loudest snore is 39 dB.

Cannot stress enough about how no one is getting paid for any of this, especially not targeted families trapped in their own home. The financial damage to the city should be part of the larger story, and will last long after out-of-state fundraising dries up.

I want THUNDER SNOW

Crying in the office today in solidarity with MN legislators, who are opening session without the leadership of Melissa Hortman. What a devastating loss for our state.

So far it looks like Trump, Noem, and operation metro surge drained Minneapolis alone—not yet counting St. Paul, Bloomington, etc.— $203 million. This was a MAGA Trump assault on an American blue city. Nothing more. Start seeing it. www.fox9.com/news/operati...