the DFL has a problem with cyndy martin holding multiple leadership roles - like CD8 chair, and CBRC and code of conduct - while facing criminal vehicular homicide charge. she doesn't appear contrite. she appears defiant. she has evaded responsibility from the start taylordahlin.com/f/the-dfls-c...

decorum watch: biking in the wedge today a woman biking the opposite direction waved at me. it was elizabeth shaffer. i waved back

i propose a cultural exchange to reduce tensions: the DFL could learn from DSA selling swag at their meetings. people love merch. easy fundraising. DSA could learn from the DFL and not sing at the end of meetings lmao

dying at this DSA speaker introducing the meeting saying "one diva, one mic." is this robert's rules?

The Public Restrooms Presentation was also taken down. I saved to Google Drive. drive.google.com/file/d/1K7JQ...

what’s the reason for reporting donations that were made under a company address as a minneapolis donation? like, these people don’t live in their office

i actually can't get over ward 7, which represents the majority of downtown, electing a woman to city council who says she wants minneapolis to be more like her small hometown of buffalo vs re-electing our councilmember who wanted to see us be more like berlin going backwards!

I think hard about how and why politics are screwed up every day and then Facebook will just serve up a post that’s like “An adult controlling 3000 lbs of steel is afraid of a hat.”

If you ever wonder what working in municipal government is like. It’s receiving complaints like this post and having to act like the person submitting them is a serious person.

tiktok is such a disaster. because for every "fake phone call pretending to need baby formula" viral video you see, how many people are doing the same thing and just not going viral? how many phone calls are coming in like this?

Looks like a westbound blue line train hit a police car (not shown) at 5th Avenue

In 2024, Minneapolis Police cleared (solved & referred for prosecution) 1.4% of auto theft crimes and 2.5% of crimes involving destruction or damage to property. In 2019, there were 21 investigators on property crime citywide. In 2025, there are only 11. Read: lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/RCA...

Woman Might be Fired for Long Fingernails (1946) Source: Hennepin County Library Pat Simpson, age 19, writes a letter and displays her polished nails, which caused the building superintendent where she works to threaten her job. She was told to cut her 5-month-long nails or leave.

also found the results of another line of cars having their windows smashed on pillsbury and 26th in whittier

found: lydia millard yard signs under car tire in whittier. so much purple litter in this neighborhood

i took this photo in that neighborhood in 2012. barf

opening day at lito’s burritos minneapolis location is the hottest nightclub. ran into aisha chugthai. and being on bryant ave, they’re going to need to a lot more bike parking than 4 spots best burritos around!!!

Y'all go eat some food at Emily's Lebanese!

real ones know that R.E.M.'s "binky the doormat" song title comes from a bobcat film

look I just hope that if I'm ever at the peak of my career and my profession, and do something that is ethically insane, personally deranged, and politically grotesque, I too can call up the most powerful journalistic institution in America to write a swooning defense of me

People should be allowed to have a THC seltzer if they want to

the old first ave ticket stubs were so great. sleater-kinney and the quails from october 2002, first show i saw there

Shaffer campaign email (July 28): “Time to order your yard sign sporting some Wellstone Green 341!” Nothing screams authenticity like Pantone color codes swiped from someone else’s style guide.

"More people than anticipated" has been the DFL's excuse for godforsakenly disastrous cacuses and conventions since at least 2008, probably before. Sounds like you need to fire whoever is responsible for anticipation in the DFL party, @dfl.org.

A lot of interesting information just in these excerpts: ✅ The city saved money by building its own restroom rather than outsourcing. ✅ City staff was able to experiment with design features to ensure success. ✅ Good staffing by effective ambassadors improved conduct. Good job, team 👊

Watching Wellstone's legacy of organizing the rural poor, building Labor solidarity and empowering the disenfranchised get squished into "we're making life more affordable!!" over the past 20 years has been so fucking discouraging. No lessons were learned.

standalone public restroom report presented by the minneapolis city council public heath & safety committee on wednesday. interesting read! on peavey plaza's - lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/RCA...

Branding isn’t the problem, spineless democrats are the problem. Can’t brand your way around DFLers who are beholden to corporate interests, and hell bent on cleansing the party of progressives. To use Paul’s image for this is gross.

I have a ~weird~ ask… if you like making friendship bracelets, or your kids like making friendship bracelets, would you consider making some for the unhoused people the Supply Depot serves? We want to bring joy

DFL listening session with chair richard carlbom at sabathani. he gave a presentation on 2026 efforts, including applying a brand strategy to the party, and then heard from people like ash who planned the ward 6 caucus and convention alone and is frustrated with a lack of support

i'm told steve brandt, who is a DFL endorsed elected official, was also turned away at the DFL listening session because he had a backpack. he'd biked there, and the organizers did not tell us backpacks were banned @dfl.org

yeah cyndy martin still exists

in the mobilize email hit “contact the organizer” and complain about this!

you don’t need due process to ask someone to resign from a powerful party post!! completely unrelated shit!!

Due process is to figure out how long she goes to jail for. It has nothing to do with keeping leadership positions in a political party. She clearly has poor judgment. There has to be someone better on CD8 to lead. I refuse to believe she’s the only person who can run a zoom meeting.

That’s correct. She doesn’t dispute those facts. She disputes those facts being charged as a hit and run, because she thought she hit an owl at the time.

the instructions for the DFL listening session did not say backpacks were not allowed so people are being turned away with them. i got in because i have press pass this security team hired for this event is the same one hired for omar fateh’s election night party

If I was a Democrat in a state with a large THC beverage distribution market, I would be saying things like "Donald Trump and his Republican friends want to make doing weed illegal again."

This is at the end of the private drive passing between the Mill and Main buildings. They must have been going pretty fast to hop it up onto the boulder.

Bad news for a significant chunk of their supporters who sent these new council members to city hall to punch the other side in the face.

Leave our breweries alone.

Excited to work alongside fellow Council Members-Elect Elizabeth Shaffer, @sorenwithward8.bsky.social, Pearll Warren, our current council members, and @jacob-frey.bsky.social to build a more collaborative environment together at City Hall!

JUST IN: "Newly Elected Minneapolis Council Members Pledge Collaboration at City Hall" newly elected pearll warren, elizabeth shaffer, soren stevenson, and jamison whiting have released a statement pledging to build "a more collaborative, respectful, and effective culture at City Hall." (1/2)

i don't know who is running the matt little campaign but maybe tell him not to tweet that congress is a mockery but he's running to make it not one when we have ilhan omar representing CD5 and doing important work fighting donald trump and taking so much shit for it.

Despite the "family-friendly" designation of this event, it's taking place over dinner/bedtime for elementary and younger kids, and doesn't provide childcare. So what exactly makes it family friendly?

choice strip club. i was 18. we met some military guys who were also 18 there before they shipped out. we drove to hutchinson to drink and play cards. then we went back a week later and got kicked out. you can't leave with people you didn't enter with. we were wearing cardigans and peacoats LMAO

i want the swans back!

That’s why I’m excited to announce that I’ll be bringing forward a proposal to formally establish a Democratic Socialist Caucus within the City Council — and I will be running to lead it.