Here in Minneapolis, we know this is true. #iceout

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Consultants contracted by Minnesota found that an eight-story single-stair building with 6,000 sq. ft. per floor (building 4) has dramatically lower fire risk than a same-height code-compliant two-stair building with a larger floor plate (building 1) www.dli.mn.gov/sites/defaul...

My daughter’s school bus was delayed this morning because armed ICE agents, some masked, were in the middle of 15th Ave in Cedar Riverside. So why wouldn’t ICE just get out of the way when the bus came? Perhaps they were busy harassing Somali-Americans, who are overwhelmingly citizens. But... (1/4)

Hey Chief Henry: part of making sure no laws are broken is confirming that masked agents who won’t identify themselves are actually who they say they are, and that they have the legal right to take a Saint Paul resident into custody.

Witch’s Hat in Tower Hill Park

Jacob Frey is the worst of all possible outcomes. Progressive electeds and orgs could have thrown their weight behind a more viable candidate. But they didn’t. Here’s a quick and dirty explainer about how we ended up with Jacob when most people can’t stand him.

I am still so mad about this that I broke out the colored pencils, so I could do a little RCV explainer. Something is seriously wrong with me that this is what I am doing with my Saturday night, but here goes (a thread):

People are out here blaming RCV for Jacob's win. And I cannot stress this enough: RCV had literally nothing to do with it. Everything about this outcome was entirely predictable. Jacob had huge structural advantages: compliant local media, off-cycle election, PAC $, patronage networks.

We are doing some rental apartment canvassing tonight for @katiecashman.bsky.social with @repkatiejones.bsky.social and @peterwagenius.bsky.social near Bde Maka Ska. Talked to several tenants about same-day voter registration. Also new parents who already voted for Katie today! Many elevator chats!

Standing room only at Signature Arts in Prospect Park as @peterwagenius.bsky.social introduces the next mayor of Minneapolis, @dewayneforminneapolis.com. A lovely evening with friends and neighbors out to meet a fantastic candidate.

Industries threatening our future include Big Oil, Big Coal and, yes... Big Fertilizer. In Minnesota, climate pollution from excess fertilizer is huge problem. @jeanwagenius.bsky.social explains it's also polluting our drinking water. And what we can do about it. www.startribune.com/agriculture-...

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

this is the third time Donald Trump has shut down the government while his party controls both houses of Congress

there's this assumption by the admin that there is an infinite supply of buff KKK members ready to fill the ranks of the military and ICE and I have bad news for them both about the overall number of KKK members and their general fitness level

Sierra Club endorses Dewayne Davis @dewayneforminneapolis.com as our first choice for Minneapolis Mayor!

“Lucrative”?

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Exactly this

Here’s what Democrats need to be saying about the Trump regime’s attack on the rights of the political opposition: The Trump administration want to make it so they can never lose elections—no matter what happens with the cost of living. They want to make it illegal to oppose their corruption.

Mourning—but also celebrating!—the life and work of the amazing Tom Lehrer, who died yesterday at (*gasp!*) age 97! He was around and working long enough to entertain and educate several generations – for Gen X, I think we’ll always remember him for teaching us how to cry in a library…

At @repilhan.bsky.social's invitation, I described how the Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill will drive up our energy bills, kill jobs, and increase pollution. And how this will only benefit the fossil fuel executives who donate to their campaigns...‬ (1/2)

Even though it hurts their constituents, Republicans only needed one reason to vote for the bill: “Because daddy asked them to”

Before the election, energy analysts said that repealing renewable energy tax credits was an "extreme" and "unlikely" scenario. Many Democrats said the same, because Republicans would never willingly harm their own districts and constituents, who were benefiting from subsidies. Here we are.

We’re in the basement despite the weather app warning us folks in “East Hennepin” to take shelter

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

We recorded this before Speaker Hortman was stolen from us. Now I can hear what we took for granted. We shared a short example of her leadership and it seemed like a given. It’s not. Nobody could have handled a tied House like she did. We owe her so much. #mnleg podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

And there it is. The Minnesota assassin who shot Democratic lawmakers “voted for Donald Trump and was a strong Trump supporter,” according to his best friend.

While we Minnesotans reckon with the horrific assassination of our Speaker Emerita Hortman, the right-wing media ghouls are spinning that someone whose target list includes Democrat lawmakers & abortion rights advocates is somehow a secret leftist. This guy: pguards.net/leadership-t... Disgusting.

Thanks to Rep. Koegel, Sen. Dibble and Rep. Jones for speaking the truth that the budget is being unfairly balanced on the backs of transit riders (and the future transit system we should be building), while road funding is protected. #mnleg (1/2)

The Richest People on Earth don’t want us to know how much taxpayer subsidies they’re getting or what they’re doing to our environment. The Senate almost voted prevent Big Tech from hiding behind Non-Disclosure Agreements. But it failed on a tie. Look who voted for transparency & who didn’t! #mnleg

We’re all looking for the guy who did this.

Translation: “We demand subsidies from taxpayers and exemptions from environmental laws… or we will go elsewhere.” Which lawmakers will fall for this obvious attempt at extortion? Place your bets now! #mnleg www.startribune.com/amazon-suspe...

Everything this administration does can be categorized in two ways: 1) Will kill more Americans; 2) Will kill more people worldwide.

71% of Minnesotans, the highest in the nation, support stronger environmental protections. You'd never guess that was true if you just hung out at the MN Capitol, where these protections are under constant assault. Politicians should take note. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Taxpayer subsidies for the _Richest People on Earth_ are now being negotiated behind closed doors. Since the public isn’t invited, we shared some thoughts at the Capitol complex last night... #mnleg

Policy changes often take years to show results. And then there is congestion pricing in New York. Here are all of the ways we could find it having an immediate effect: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If there is one thing you hear today, let it be Beth’s story.

Suburban mayors and their lobbyists freak out at the slightest suggestion that maybe they need to stop putting up so many obstacles to building more homes. Want proof? Check out tomorrow's MN Senate State & Local Govt committee and look at all the letters www.leg.mn.gov/cal?type=sin...

The awful House Transportation Bill passed today including unnecessary climate rollbacks. But thankfully a strong majority of Democrats (49 out of 67) voted no. That sends a strong message to the conference committee. We are determined. We won't delay climate action. #mnleg 1/2

🇨🇦 Must-read: legit report of hidden discussion in the Conservative party to bring Musk's DOGE to Canada at lightning speed “The good thing compared to the United States is that...the impediments to DOGE moving quickly, we don’t really have to worry about in Canada” www.desmog.com/2025/04/23/r...

Americans are frustrated Democrats don’t do more because Republicans control congress. But they don’t control MN. Our legislators can stop rollbacks of climate laws simply by VOTING NO on terrible House Transportation (HF2438) and Senate Energy (SF2393) Bills. (I'm proud of this coalition!) #mnleg

Sprawl “solves” the housing crisis by turning it into a transportation crisis.

i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers

"Americans' anger at seeing their country handed over to Billionaires of Big Tech is visible. It is growing." #mnleg #NoMoney4TechBros

Democrats, they put put the lives of U.S. Service Members at risk in violation of the Espionage Act, then lied about it. Firing Hegseth isn't enough. The message is obvious: LOCK. THEM. UP. #LockThemUp www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Good News! @nytimes says we are making progress on housing supply! (Just don’t account for… the passage of time.)