Frey’s benefactors don‘t live in Mpls. They profit *off* the city; contracts, graft and outright theft. This includes developers & Landlords like Minn & Wall. And wannabes like Weinhagen who sought an official job advising Frey. Frey’s Chief of staff TODAY was hired by Weinhagen at the chamber.

Has @mayorfrey.com made any public statement about Jonathan Weinhagen? Considering their past associations, it seems like local media should really be asking. @startribune.com @mprnews.org @pioneerpress.bsky.social @sahanjournal.bsky.social @racketmn.com @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social

Allegedly stealing money from a reward fund to find the shooter of 3 north side kids — after funding a PAC accusing Frey’s opponents of being soft on crime. That’s some evil shit.

The political alliance between prudish moral scolds and entitled pedophiles is one of the weirdest ever.

What if that White House demolition company is actually the Louvre heist team back on their bullshit? If it is, I'm sorry but the destruction of the White House suddenly becomes very funny.

Democrats really need to go all in on "take it back from the billionaires" as a rallying cry. Until then they leave a leadership void for far-right demagogues to swoop in and fill, which we seem them already using to great effect to both exploit the hell out of this division and make it way worse.

Daydreaming about printing flyers to drop around apartment buildings w/ a simple message that the All of Mpls candidates are beholden to people who raise the rent, and the choice in this election that'll fight for affordability ain't them. I don't have the bandwidth to actually do that, but.. *sigh*

Real good breakdown of who's money is funding this year's Minneapolis municipal races. So much of it is from just outside the city.

It’s more obvious by the day how shitty Frey is at partnering with most other electeds who serve the same consituents

Let's talk about Medicare for ALL.

Local reporting from somebody who knows how things actually work

While this suits Frey fine, the Minneapolis "moderate DFL" war on socialism is counterproductive and incredibly dumb. I heard they made a documentary about it. Candidates sometimes tell me they are advised not to talk to me bc I'll rip any non-socialist to shreds (but I'm not a socialist).

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

I was already thinking about ranking @jazzformayor.bsky.social first on my ballot, but the eagerness to geek out over data on display here .. totally sealed it.

This tracks

I'm trying Keith. Not always succeeding, but I'm tryin'.

I'm re-upping an old post in light of deployment of troops w/ authorization for "full force" to Portland. Here's Hegseth talking about Portland in his 2024 book, where he elsewhere describes such cities as enemy territory. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-pentag...

Nothing about the Wounded Knee Massacre meets our values of freedom and justice.

It'd be real funny if @jamescomey.bsky.social dresses up as a ham sandwich for Halloween

I wonder if this investment will be paid via stock, cash, or just by delivering the roughly $100 billion worth of graphics cards that their newfound liquidity will be used to purchase anyway.

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

One of the natural consequences of blurring the line between state censorship and “cancel culture” was making it easier to engage in state censorship. I leave it to your imagination whether the people who did that intended that result or were merely recklessly indifferent to it.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Yoooo this is so well-explained! I knew most of it tangentially through being a 20+ year gamer who occasionally sees these kids around (i am usually in better online spaces, but you can't NOT run into them)

This is the translation. A foreign op is grifting emotional Americans while turning them against each other. That is what is happening.

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

I believe @karenattiah.bsky.social practices politics the right way, actually.

New from 404 Media: ICE just spent millions on facial recognition tech explicitly to identify people it believes are assaulting law enforcement. There have been cases all over the country where ICE claim an assault, then charges dropped because authorities misled www.404media.co/ice-spends-m...

Let’s cultivate hope.

A decade ago, the Heritage Foundation went full meltdown about how Obama was an imperial president when he had issued about the same number of executive orders -- though he had reached it after six years, not six months.

I'm convinced that whoever wrote that USI T-Fiber announcement email knows how much it was about to crush their customers, and twisted the knife in a few specific places accordingly

*sigh* It's going to be a long, ugly campaign season in the city of lakes.

This is the last will and testament of Israel Lichtenstein, one of the planners of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and organizers of the Oneg Shabbat archive, which collected and documented both daily life and Nazi atrocities in the Warsaw Ghetto (the final missing word is "annihilated.")

They also removed Section 10 which deals with the tariff authority of Congress. They edited the Constitution website from the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS!!!

Huh. That's interesting.

Someone asked me why the Frey PAC We ❤️ Mpls gave way to Thrive Mpls & I said “Reporting deadlines. They want to reveal their funders as late as possible so the new one will stay under the July reporting limit. The good news is, these folks used to be able to avoid election year disclosure entirely.”

Every time they hire huge numbers of new people without significant vetting, cartels, human traffickers, and other organized crime groups try to infiltrate. This time they’ll be recruiting extreme racists and other lowlifes who get their kicks by playing brownshirts.

Orly, 'cause this guy's last election was defined by playing public safety politics. Anyone else remember the incessant messaging warning that Chief Arradondo would quit if they lost, then Frey won and the ballot initiative was defeated, then the chief quit weeks later. Frey's team thinks you forgot

You’d really hope the host of the podcast would now be leading the charge against the anti-Muslim bigotry and flat out lies that people are attributing to…to…I…

I'm amusing myself to distract from anxiety over global affairs by wondering where John Bolton is tonight. Probably out there somewhere, ignoring the media requests popping up on his phone, twirling his mustache, and feeling all the feels.

Oceans seven eleven

I hope @ag.state.mn.us prosecutes this case personally and uses it to put the dangerous rightwing disinformation that inspired this vile act on trial too.

A screenshot of this headline / social media card of the NY Post's article yesterday is going to be in my slide deck on manipulated sensemaking for a long while. The NY Post selectively amplified a tiny, out-of-context, and meaningless "fact" to mislead its audiences. nypost.com/2025/06/14/u...

People can make their own decisions about whether to protest in Minnesota today, but there's no universe where a governor was going to officially endorse taking that risk. That's just reality.