happy new mountain goats album day 💜

Me, in our @swaempls.bsky.social chat yesterday. If you know anyone, either in or outside of SW Mpls who wants to help with this work, please point them in our direction! linktr.ee/swaempls Notably, @marymoriarty.bsky.social and her team also cracked this code.

sign for the transgender day of remembrance vigil and rally in loring park on 11/20 from 6-7:30pm

Neighbors for More Neighbors is hiring a Coalition Coordinator! We're looking for a contractor to support the bipartisan Yes to Homes coalition by providing admin assistance & project management. 📅 Applications due by Nov 16. Learn more and apply: moreneighbors.org/2025/10/24/n...

Strikingly, of the 45 Minneapolis Police officers whose videos we've just released, more than 24% have killed community members while on duty, and a large swath of other officers had numerous accounts of egregious actions against the community. 🚔

If you haven’t yet, and want to join the thousands of twin citians who have signed up for the defense of our immigrant neighbors, there’s several more trainings this month: 11/11 Chaska 11/20 Plymouth 11/23 Longfellow Mpls 11/25 Kingfield Mpls 12/4 Bancroft Mpls More info here monarcamn.org

There’s visible aurora outside right now even right in the middle of the city with a full moon! Get outside and look up through a camera right now!

MY GIRLS ARE OUT HERE BEING UNDERDOSED BY SHITTY DOCTORS! Your trough levels should be at least 200 pg/ml (730 pmol/L) minimum!!! pghrt.diy

One of the all time greats. I have a Jason Garcia poster in my childhood bedroom.

very disappointed to see michael wilson did not win for parks at large. he ran an incredible campaign and i thought he was the most exciting park board candidate with such passion and knowledge. did not expect this outcome

Congrats @olsenforparks.bsky.social and @amberforparks.bsky.social on your victory!! 🥳

jason garcia has been elected to park board in district 4, beating jeanette colby to take elizabeth shaffer's old seat. shaffer and michael rainville had both endorsed colby and jason has been unable to campaign much these last 2 months but still pulled it off thanks to support to MRLF especially

When I started this campaign, I made a commitment to myself and to the people of this city that I would run with the values we share: honesty, integrity, transparency and care. I’m proud of the campaign that we’ve run, and I’m so thankful everyone who has held me to those values.

in practice people only avoid assuming pronouns for people they suspect might be trans, it's just woke degendering

awooooooo

i'll probably be less involved/active/informed for DFL stuff through the end of this year, just fyi. i'm starting EMDR and trauma work in therapy, so i probably just won't have the bandwidth. expect me back in january to organize for february caucuses

No but srsly Mpls. If staring down the barrel of another 4 years of Frey’s got you down, use that energy to put pressure on MPS. There is a still time for a BIG WIN in Minneapolis. Settling the contract w/ enforceable class sizes would be such a bright spot in this city and we can do it!!!

My RCV take: It’s not preventing Minneapolis progressives from achieving desired city-wide results. It is actually showing that progressives are close even when not winning. And it’s affirming something about the electorate that we don’t understand, can’t accept, or don’t know what to do about.

Anyone doing analysis of this outcome and omitting racism is divorced from reality. And I don't think that's me coping. It's from having spent SO MANY hours listening to the All of MPLS people devise this exact plan to undermine him and living their underhandedness in real time in various ways.

Proponents and opponents of RCV have been looking at RCV like it's a magic bullet, and it's just not. It matters at the margins, but a big lead is tough to overcome. The path forward is to continue building a stronger progressive operation and coalition in 2029.

In Minnesota, drivers are required to stop for pedestrians at BOTH marked and unmarked crosswalks. Here I am at one of my least favorite streets, 50th, at one of my least favorite intersections, 50th and Aldrich. Let's see how long it takes for someone to follow the law.

I think that people really publicly mapping out the local oligarchs and pressing them hard in court over small shit like we saw in the apartments thing will inevitably help build a clear public record that our local oligarch legacy media refused to acknowledge Mass citizen journalism can do wonders

I’m not a betting woman, but if I were I’d bet that the big strong mayor is going to celebrate his win by being a dick to unhoused people. Please join me (if you’re able) in donating to the good folks at @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social so they can help our neighbors.

Open invitation to any candidate in Minnesota at any level who wants to hear about how and why Democrats last night were so successful in winning both *in spite* of and *because* of their support of trans communities - let's talk.

this isn’t an RCV issue. it’s a racism issue, a journalism issue, and a money in politics issue. the frey coalition is unique and it sucks and other conservative candidates might struggle to recreate it. but there are a lot of rich white conservative fuckwads who vote. that’s hard to beat.

Pearll Warren wins Ward 5 after RCV tabulation vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...

curious what's next for dewayne davis. i really look forward to seeing his continued efforts for this community

so proud of Senator Omar Fateh, his campaign team, and everything they did to put up a good fight against the entire bullshit status quo of both the DFL and the right wing

The siren at 1pm is to warn you of four more years of this bullshit.

the work continues but also like ughhhhh

Last municipal/mayoral election people on the left spent months tearing each other down & apart for their voting, volunteering, running, & donation choices. It created lasting rifts in our movement & keeps us all down. I will not be participating in this at all.

jacob frey won

Eric's elucidation of the Median Voter meme, as "There will always be at least one voter who does some weird thing that makes no sense," is something we should all hold close as we fumble around in the dark while elections officials do math

wildest ballot i heard of yesterday: 1. brenda short 2. jeff wagner 3. omar fateh i pointed out that jeff never campaigned and i was disappointed by that. their argument: "but he asked, why not wagner?" JUST MAKE THE ASK!

The time is NOW to get involved in your local DFL unit. If you want to see change in the DFL, change will only happen from within, not by complaining on social media. At a more basic level, we simply need more volunteers, to run caucuses and conventions, and to win elections.

At the end of the day, what we have is each other, plain and simple. Mutual aid, neighborly protection, and community organizing. We aren't the first to have this fight and we aren't the last. Onward.

The Democrats won several VA House seats where winning looked like a pipe dream going into the election. The Dems won these seats because they recruited candidates and actually campaigned. Important lesson for 26--the electorate is pissed--but you can only win when you run. Run everywhere!

What I love most about Jason Chavez’ campaign is how they worked—and succeeded!—at increasing turnout. They also spent resources on not just election literature, but on ensuring residents are armed w/info to protect ourselves and our neighbors in this terrifying era. One example of campaign lit:

It's understandably a bit lost in the shuffle right now, but the Administrative Citations ballot question in St. Paul passed by a huge margin!! This is an incredible result for good governance and effective city administration! St. Paul can fine slumlords now! It can hit the Most Hated CVS!

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

good news for minneapolis: yesterday either one or two non-binary people were elected to the minneapolis park board. that's pretty cool

In 2023, with a hint to the future, Soren said "We, neighbors, progressives, and Ward 8, will continue organizing for our shared values, and I know that a movement rooted in community will be even more powerful in 2025." And he was right.🧵

UPDATE: There are 39,205 ballots that didn't rank Frey or Fateh #1. Minneapolis says if Frey picks up 12,512 votes, he wins outright. If Fateh picks up 27,342 votes, he wins outright. After Round 1, Fateh (46,510 votes) trails Frey (61,340) by 14,830 votes. vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...

If he does pull this out, there's a book to be written about how he and his cronies transformed one of the most democratically engaged cities in America into a bitter, cynical place where a widely despised mayor can somehow magically win three terms.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT $2,000 IN PAINT, LYDIA

“apologies for how chaotic it is, it’s not our fault omar fateh is so popular.” - raquel

huge fucking victory for progressives to very very quickly unite behind the @ehbforbet.bsky.social campaign and get him this many #1 votes

a sea of phones as omar fateh speaks

i am home now. feeling some complicated emotions. i'm very excited about the progressive wins in park board and BET. i'm very glad Aisha Chughtai and Soren Stevenson pulled off wins. i'm very thankful for the strong group of minneapolis residents who are tirelessly fighting for a better city

If you’re afraid of another Frey victory and mad tonight, make plans to get into DFL positions next year during caucuses. This whole ass system is rotten.