Centrists on the Minneapolis city council are not writing legislation, not leading with bright ideas on any of the issues in the city, not calling any experts to the table, not studious or showing any depth of intellectual curiosity, they don't excel at anything but the status quo

you can't even send a picture still, be so for real bluesky

FYI rick steinhauser is defending daniel del prado owning a porsche and replacing workers with QR codes because rick, too, is wealthy. he is so wealthy that his home renovation was featured in the newspaper! give his opinion all the consideration it deserves www.thisoldhouse.com/bathrooms/ba...

this comment in response to DANIEL DEL PRADO is so fucking funny. i am proudly out of touch with the wealthy business owners of minneapolis who live in luxury and who own a porsche carrera! if you wanna make this point about restaurant ownership, go find a better example than DDP

poor daniel del prado and his porsche carrera. anyway, yesterday one of his front of house staff at cardamom described finding out she was being fired and replaced with a QR code while waiting for the bus, so let's not have any sympathy for his plight of being a restaurant owner with these facts

Nothing about the workers of the Lowry either. Only wants to talk to the business owners. Doesn’t seem interested in talking with workers. Really living up to her promise to be there for the c-suite

I can't believe this continues to be discussed without the very important context of increased costs of food and other things restaurants need to buy, as well as, most importantly, INCREASING RENTS BY PRIVATE LANDLORDS.

It’s never “US Foods/sysco/our landlords/our cogs/our choice to expand too fast/etc are putting us out of business” it’s always “we gotta pay these damn employees less than a meal costs every hour”

Why are so many restaurants closing under the reign of Elizabeth Shaffer??? Things were supposed to be different.

i am now exploring ways to replace my council member with a QR code, since it's good for the goose it's good for the gander

so offensive for elizabeth shaffer to say NOTHING about cardamom workers who lost jobs to QR codes & who will lose them when restaurant closes. shaffer only says she will "miss the moroccan cigars." workers make our restaurants great while shaffer only talks of listening to owners and management

I'm so befuddled by her entire campaign. She's keeps trying to bail out and shore up weaknesses that she's already lost, that are unrecoverable. To what end? Is anyone in her office looking at the wall because there's some writing on it

in the latest move of trying to keep up with how progressive minnesotans are after the ICE occupation, angie craig's surrogate greg hansen is now lying to DFL delegates and telling them she's never taken money from AIPAC peggy flanagan is the only choice! www.dropsitenews.com/p/angie-crai...

When the 1,000-year history of Minneapolis is written, I hope a few paragraphs will be spent on the unintended effect of ACORN’s destruction. To this south sider, it was the most effective & grass roots north side progressive organizing effort ever, and its loss is felt more each year.

rich wards vs poor wards doesn't even make sense especially in the case of wards 7 and 4. i've lived in both for more than a decade. they are a mix of high turnout rich people (lakes area of 7, and victory/shingle creek in 4) and low turnout poor people (loring park in 7, the rest of ward 4)

Someone in the Shaffer office is very proud of this festivus comparison. They shouldn’t be. Politics is about airing different opinions. Shaffer belittling those who have other priorities is frustrating.

not ken accidentally liking one of my tweets about the humphrey project 💀 it was unliked just as fast. hi boss, don’t you miss minnesota mess?

very unserious app

This really happened.

A reminder that the sirens will go off a second time today, at 6:45 pm. Do not be alarmed. It's for the Toddmergency.

i’m outside daniel del prado’s restaurant cardamom at walker art center in minneapolis where front of house workers who were terminated and their jobs replaced with QR codes are having a press conference and picket line with CTUL even with today’s news the walker is kicking cardamom out

Taylor — and DFL Chair Carlbom — lower the boom on the Humphrey Project. Given how much Republicans loved it, maybe our Republican DFLers meant Gordon Humphrey Project.

after watching minneapolis DFL centrists flirt with republicans and try to ban dual DSA endorsements last year, i can't believe they attempted this division into 2026 with the humphrey project even after operation metro surge rearranged the political landscape taylordahlin.com/f/dfl-chair-...

nelson was an unhoused man who lived in stevens square with his 3 dogs, he was well known and loved in that neighborhood. the community just raised money and got him this van recently. so awful, no one deserves this, reminds me of robert skafte's murder www.fox9.com/news/minneap...

Happy to see Richard Carlbom affirm that the "big tent" of the DFL goes both ways, not just to the right as some would prefer. I wonder how much money they wasted on this! Clearly not a volunteer effort.

my kingdom for a lefty local politics publication as a counter to like every other outlet. lots of talk of starting one but it’s hard with limited time and re$ource$

the 612 bike is back screening movies for 2026! mason will be showing "rental family" in loring park on his projector bike at 8pm in the southeast corner of the park www.facebook.com/612bike/

richard carlbom, chair of the DFL, just called out the humphrey project for creating division in 2026 thank you for saying this @richardcarlbom.bsky.social. i think we did have a DFL united front against ICE during the occupation so i find these efforts extra tasteless in the wake of that

true! also true: they take their candidates to speak to washington county republicans (anders folk). they put the republican CD5 vice chair mitch rossow in their ads (elizabeth shaffer). they create PACs calling for republicans to vote for jacob frey (steve minn) taylordahlin.com/f/minneapoli...

the humphrey project is just a grievance project of some cis prob largely white men who feel that minnesota politics in a DSA era has moved in a direction that leaves them behind, and instead of adapting their organizing tactics to keep up, they’re just making websites to complain about it

welcome to the humphrey project, justice thomas

From last month:

Council Member Shaffer was pretty unequivocal last month that Commissioner Barnette told her this was not happening.

There’s been lots of news about the City Council voting down the appointment of Toddrick Barnette. This is a public memo from my office on the ways his leadership has missed the mark and what we want to see from the next Commissioner of Community Safety. lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/Fil...

i appreciate aisha chughtai's email announcing safety ambassadors coming to uptown pointing out that the frey administration did not implement the program after it passed council 2 years ago, and that funds were redirected away from it in 2025 and that's the reason for the delay

bless erik's bike shop in the wedge, i stopped in thinking i'd have to drop it off but they fixed it as i waited!!!! BACK IN BUSINESS!!

can anyone here do bike repair? a bungee cord in my bike basket fell out and wrapped around something on the wheel where the chain wraps around and it broke off and perennial has no openings until june :(

still disappointed that among all the elected officials who spoke to the east isles neighborhood association annual meeting, steve brandt didn’t come to talk about wanting to tax the rich

happy tax day from eric harris bernstein of the minneapolis board of estimate and taxation @ehbforbet.bsky.social

CEO slash crime analyst... what

NAZ REID

katie cashman's new role since leaving ward 7: she has been drafted by the timberwolves!

If applause is any judge, the room went from ice cold to a bit nippy. It may seem difficult now, but I promise that future Minneapolitans will be grateful that we had the conviction to prioritize the creation of new greenspace. Hell, current generations!

move to loring park, every single cheap older building that only used to allow cats switched to start allowing dogs too 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

time magazine's 100 most influential people list is just the news equivalent of people's most beautiful men alive list. it is nothing but PR fluff. the mayor can have it, because it's perfectly fitting!

my favorite part is jacob frey nodding after elizabeth shaffer said just “cannabis” like it’s something profound

metro transit cops are already asking people in bus shelters if they're waiting for buses and if not, arresting. we had reports of it happening in a loring park chat on sunday night perhaps the policing that less privileged areas of the city already face is simply finally making its way to uptown!

Very in depth piece on the history of bathhouses in Minneapolis. Sam’s actually been attending the coalition meetings and researching the topic for years which is MPR’s articles have actually been well researched and not just sensationalized looking for clicks.

Taylor Dahlin and Jason Garcia enjoying the 75th Annual Meeting of the East Isles Neighborhood Association.

The new social media intern is day drinking at the office, apparently. This deserves official admonishment from the DFL. This is an attack on the legitimacy of the process to determine the Party’s endorsement. From a candidate actively seeking the Party’s endorsement.