The Star Tribune will give you 1500 words on a Black muslim socialist candidate's wife but wont give you 3 words on your typical Wayzata wealthy developer couple lying about their residency to game the whole of Minneapolis elections and policy votes for the next 4 years.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, after failing to secure more than 30% of the vote for endorsement at the Minneapolis DFL convention, instead opted to have a small group of allies within the MN state DFL overturn the endorsement of Omar Fateh for mayor. They left all other endorsements intact.

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🧵

The 35 richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $2.5 billion. They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich. Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.

(Sighs so deeply all the pilot lights in the neighborhood go out)

Today, May 1, is International Workers' Day! It commemorates the sentencing to death of eight anarchist workers in Chicago who were framed for throwing a bomb at police who attacked a strike demonstration in May 1886 shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...

Breaking: Tesla’s net income sank 71% in the first quarter, hurt by competitive pressure and a reputational hit from Elon Musk’s polarizing role in the Trump administration

“Big tech is increasingly leveraging in-depth user knowledge to extract maximum profit. To allow these practices to proliferate…without any fiscal compensation is simply foolish.” says Eric Harris Bernstein in this new commentary. minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/22/t...

Mexico bans ‘foreign propaganda’ after US anti-migrant ad

The FBI Can't Find ‘Missing’ Records of Its Hacking Tools 🔗 www.404media.co/the-fbi-cant...

new Bike Farmer vid features Seth from Recovery Bikes giving Andy a tour of Northeast Minneapolis by bike: youtu.be/GiNDQNEcYKI?...

A Reformer analysis of ICE contracts finds that UMN and several municipalities lease gun range time to ICE, while a manufacturer in Anoka, Minn. provides more ammunition to the agency than any other contractor. minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/18/w...

A U of M English prof on how his bosses are silencing faculty.

Joann Fabric may be going out of business, but these #TwinCities metro-area stores have a lot to offer local sewists and other crafters who work with fabric. #TwinCitiesGeeks twincitiesgeek.com/2025/04/6-tw...

NEW: Whistleblower’s Account of Corruption and Administrative Abuse Within Cook County Jail Correctional officer claims retaliation after he refused unsafe “cross-watch” monitoring of inmate housing units, a practice DOJ tried to quash. unicornriot.ninja/2025/whistle...

Read thousands upon thousands of words on that big-ass lumberjack we call Paul.

A Hennepin County District Court judge handed down Minnesota’s first wage theft conviction this week, six years after state lawmakers made it a felony minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/10/p...

“Relying on the NLRB right now to support union organizing and collective bargaining may be a bad strategy,” Ben Sachs, a professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard, says. Under this administration, workers are dealing with a situation "far less friendly" to the NLRB www.wired.com/story/hundre...

Excellent overview of how and why the Supreme Court's trans healthcare case could impact sex discrimination and gender inequality writ large. "Tennessee’s argument would call into question the longstanding freedom we all enjoy to live our lives as we wish, regardless of sex."

Wrote about a trio of young Democrats -- @katmabu.bsky.social , @georgehornedo.bsky.social and Deja Foxx -- and how their bids for office signify rising frustration among young voters with the status quo. “It’s time to pass the torch” - @amandalitman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Podcast: The FBI Secretly Ran a Massive Money Laundering Ring 🔗 www.404media.co/podcast-the-...

Clips I see (possibly self-selected!) show what a pro-Frey engine local TV news is. Might be a fruitful place to to put some progressive energy into pushing back, getting appearances. (I know there are structural issues, not having mayor or police chief pedestals.) But many voters inhale TV news.

SCOOP: The Trump administration filed NO NEW EVIDENCE in its case to deport Mahmoud Khalil and rests solely on a letter written by Marco Rubio, according to a source who has read the filing. ✍️@theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/04/10/d...

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.