Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.

Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"

Looking through 80 years of Minneapolis history, it looks like the minimum for a successful mayoral candidate is about 8 years in state/local politics or a term on city council. Relative to historical standards, the mayoral challengers in 2021 and 2025 were light on experience.

People on here are always complaining about leaf blowers, but it’s by far the easiest way to blow your leaves onto your neighbors lawn.

my ideal response to AI and crypto is a lot closer to an air strike than a bailout

The more people who crash into the traffic calming, the more necessary it was.

That’s two in the first 20 day

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

"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

👑

Whoa

Becka Thompson talking about "skills and temperaments" is something. The real "low information voters" are the ones who put Becka over 30%.

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

I don't blame her for dropping out, but I do think Koski could've won

Minnesota mayoral results surprised me. Fateh got only 53% of the second- and third-choice votes from Davis and Hampton voters. Frey got like 35%. Bottom line is a lot of people left Omar off the ballot

Every night I kneel beside my bed, close my eyes, clasp my hands tight, and whisper a prayer that Chair Hutcheson will delete the Purple Line

You know how everyone said that ICE wearing masks and not showing ID was going to lead to criminals impersonating ICE to do bad things? Well, it's happening. from @dell.bsky.social and @carolinehaskins.bsky.social

We won every precinct with a total of 62.05% of the vote! Thank you Ward 12, I look forward to representing and serving you for the next 4 years. A progressive vision for supporting everyday people and working families is what I will work to deliver with you. 🤍

“.. Nearly half of young men have an active gambling account. .. Less than 5% of gamblers withdraw more money from their apps than they deposit. “.. as the NBA’s dustup shows, this experiment is turning out to be a terrible bet.” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

I’m honestly kind of disappointed that so many of my neighbors voted this way.

Oh hell yeah LFG www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

His deeds will be remembered, and his absence will be felt. He taught so many that it was okay to be a dick.

Emo about this. Taco John's is a treat when you live in Iowa and can't be going out to restaurants much. I know conservative assholes -- the same people who need to get Jesus out of their mouths -- are gonna be crashing this for their TikToks but whatever. Telling on themselves. Taco John's forever

Happy Halloween, the holiday that reminds us that it’s fun and cool to give every child a welfare benefit

RFK Jr. Greets Trick-Or-Treaters With Big Bowl Of Ape Glands https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-greets-trick-or-treaters-with-big-bowl-of-ape-glands/

I'd say that you can find good in many people who voted for Trump, but you won't find it in their reasons for voting for Trump or in their ideas about politics. I know Trump voters who can be kind and generous and loving. If you ask why they voted for Trump they'll give you misinfo and bigotry.

I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters. We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.

Things would be going down so different if libertarians were real. I can’t believe stuff is so bad that I wish libertarians were real

I think fundamentally the problem with post liberal thinkers is that they seem to assume that vanquishing liberalism results in their enemies being converted or defeated and not becoming radicalized into enemies who no longer extend the mercies they once did.

All* of Mpls† * Just wards 3, 10, and 13 † And Edina, SLP, Minnetonka & Wayzata

Ope, new street name dropped

This is an interview subject who has media training and faced the whole White House press corps on a daily basis. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

My daughter's school calls their library a media center, which means "middle middle" if you think about it

Take him down www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Academics worry that phones and social media are creating an “anxious generation” of indoorsy introverts. But the concern may be focused on the wrong age group

the most corrupt administration in my lifetime

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

Here she is in April saying that bike, pedestrian, and transit improvements "penalize the majority of people who drive" to "cater to a small minority." Pure transportation resentment politics. Farthest thing from a bike advocate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEGj...

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

Chess-FIDE looking into Kramnik's campaign against Naroditsky reut.rs/42TQLI2

I was shouting when she was like "Rural voters were so mad about NAFTA that they stopped voting for Ds and started voted for Rs, who voted for NAFTA in greater numbers. Also rural and urban voters don't disagree on public policy. I have a PhD."

Chess-American grandmaster Naroditsky dies at 29 reut.rs/4opIXWB

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump