A majestic night sky in northeast Minneapolis tonight!

God says trans rights

This is a small snow plow for sidewalks If your city plows the roads but leaves sidewalks up to property owners, your city hates pedestrians.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

This is so on the nose and I love it, haha. It’s why every Marxist podcast is minimum 4 hours long or multi-parted!

As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month: “.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”

My most shameful/toxic trait is that I continue to read every book that Dan Brown puts out. I just put “The Secret of Secrets” on hold at the library. For the last 10+ years I revisit this brilliant piece as I add the new book on Libby onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/d...

If I were running in next year's midterms, I'd be saying: Aussies are getting free electricity, and we're getting huge price spikes. Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it. open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

New York City's now got a mayor-elect who just quoted Eugene V. Debs within the first few words of his very first speech after winning the election

Ward 1/District 1 can sleep well tonight. Congrats to @elliottpayne.org and @engy5150.bsky.social !!

Thank you, Ward 1! This strong vote of confidence is an affirmation of the work we’ve done together these last 4 years. I can’t wait to continue serving you for the next 4 years as your City Council Member.

I’ve built a broad coalition of support from elected officials, unions, advocacy organizations, and neighbors. Get out and vote before 8 PM! Now is the time to start checking in with your friends and making sure they’ve voted. Find your polling location: pollfinder.sos.mn.gov

This Administration is trying to give us a false choice - don’t buy it.

Polls are officially open, Ward 1! I’m asking for your vote as the only DFL & Labor endorsed candidate in this race. Find your polling place and get out and vote by 8 PM tonight: pollfinder.sos.mn.gov

I’m asking everyone to vote for a new Mayor by Tuesday and rank all 3 of Omar Fateh, Dewayne Davis, and Jazz Hampton in whichever order you prefer. I’ve worked at City Hall for the last 4 years and from my personal experiences I believe the City desperately needs a new mayor. Long thread 🧵

I love the punditry that is essentially, “Mamdani probably can’t deliver on all of his progressive promises so to be safe we better go with the resigned in disgrace guy.”

I’m honored to represent Ward 1 and I humbly ask for your support as I run for re-election. I’m proud to be the only DFL & Labor endorsed candidate in this race. Make your plan to vote by November 4: www.elliottpayne.org/vote

Movie in the Park (Nightmare Before Christmas) in Windom Park tonight complete with some fire pits to stay warm.

Kudos to Strib Opinion for publishing a letter from one of their biggest critics. I really do appreciate it., and the copy edit. www.startribune.com/readers-writ...

this has to be coupled with the things that *don’t* count as a scandal: an array of harassment allegations, covering up Covid deaths, staying in a race after losing the primary, etc.

Reminder that Zohran Mamdani is the front-runner in no small part due to NYC municipal public financing. Public financing is something Democrats support, like public sector & service-worker unions, but not really, if you’re a certain type of Minneapolis Democrat.

worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.

Great day canvassing in Ward 1 for @elliottpayne.org @engy5150.bsky.social @omarfatehmn.com @michaelforparks.bsky.social ! I maaaaybe switched a “kinda Frey guy” that was just out walking. Had a good convo when he said “they’re all democrats, right?” Got to highlight some differences 😀.

“The difference between me and the mayor is that he wants to clear encampments by bulldozing them/throwing away people’s belongings. I want to clear encampments by actually housing people. Taking a housing first approach” - @omarfatehmn.com 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Hello friends. Noem’s in town. Lots of kids were absent from school today. They’re afraid. I asked how we could help, and our MPS school suggested paid gift cards (Aldi, Walmart, or Cub). Drop gift cards at your neighborhood school. Staff will get them to kids in need. Take care of each other.

Join us tomorrow at Van Cleve Park at 12:30!

This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment

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.

Can vouch for the lemon poppyseed. Hate like what happened today at Fletcher’s has no place in ne mpls.

A brief pause in politically-oriented postings to show my progress of the city I love to hate painting the skyline of. Still lots to go, but alas, it’s Sunday, and I’ve got to get everything ready for the week before the finale of Task starts.

Overheard while walking to the #NoKings in Minneapolis: “If we do go Christmas caroling this year…” Yeah, these are really bad and scary people😂

Minneapolis showed up to say #NoKings

Public transit riders are ready to save democracy in Minneapolis. #nokings

Hey Minnesota - make your plans now to attend Saturday’s No Kings rally. Here’s the rally closest to me: Saturday October 18 Rally at 1PM; March after The Commons in Downtown Minneapolis Find an event near you and express your American right to assemble and speak: www.nokings.org

Your near-daily reminder that newspapers have business reporters, not labor reporters. www.startribune.com/a-new-kind-o...

🚨 New episode of the Wedge LIVE podcast: City Council President Elliott Payne takes me on a ride through Northeast into downtown that he promised would be exclusively downhill. Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get podcasts.

Come join us! www.mobilize.us/neighborsfor...

Great wknd canvassing for @elliottpayne.org . A common theme I've noticed is how appreciative my neighbors are of his responsiveness and willingness to hear their concerns. So many people I've met door-knocking talk about the one-on-one conversations they've had with our dedicated council member.

To give you an idea what a problem solver Council President Elliott Payne is: I forgot the correct camera mount for today's podcast recording session, but he assisted me in zip-tying the hell out of it.

Hey Northeast mpls Bluesky: submissions to The Northeaster are due Tues 10/14 for the 10/22 edition. Sure would be nice if they had soo many progressive letters to the editor that they had to at least post one!

We won! Following three weeks of legal proceedings and over five hours in court, the judge found Wayzata-based Minneapolis landlord John Wall in violation of the law on three counts, resulting in a $1,450 fine.

I’m not sure I’ve ever witnessed a more obviously biased moderator as Blois Olson.

Brian Strahan does not want to stand up to Trump in support of immigrants because he thinks it will make Trump more mad and hurt us. Don’t support someone who is already capitulating to Fascism.

What a beautiful night in Ward One to head with my spouse to the council member candidate forum. I’m all in on the candidate that actually lives here in this fabulous ward!

Looking forward to the Ward 1 candidate forum this Thursday September 25th at the Northeast Park Recreation Center!

We have *residency* requirements for anyone running for elected office. It’s not merely enough to own property in a district, you must actually *reside* in that district. Some things need to be non-ideological, and only supporting candidates who actually live in their district must be one of them.

I once had a student explicitly argue that he was the customer to be catered to. I explained that, if we *had* to use the customer framing, he wasn't the customer but the product. He was being given an education & then a degree that future employers would see value in. My job? Quality control.

It’s the guns. It’s the damn guns.

Two days in a row we’ve had mass shootings involving people using weapons of war to inflict violence and pain on our community. It doesn’t have to be with this way. We don’t have to live in a society that allows people to own weapons like this.