& this press conference is currently scheduled for the next day (initially meant to occur yesterday)

📣 PRESS CONFERENCE 📣 IMPACTED FAMILIES - & - COMMUNITY RESPONSE - TO - Republican Moment of Silence for Derek Chauvin THURSDAY 6/4 @ 1:30 PM - 4200 CEDAR AVE S, Minneapolis

this is my kind of company motto right here

Advocates for sinkholes hosted a public meeting with the mayor. Some residents who are against sinkholes attended. The discussion focused on bicycles

Boiling this down to "businesses vs bikes" ignores that this is not really about bikes. It's a 90 year old street with sewer, water, and roadway that needs replacing. What businesses are actually most concerned with is construction and related closures.

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

Vivian Wilson has herself said that this is bullshit and an excuse he likes to make for his awful conduct and that he was a fucking child beforehand too

You cannot skip out on voting entirely in this election. Getting, at the very least, a large majority in the state House and Senate is extremely important (alongside electing cool ppl to federal office). Skip certain votes but not all of them!!

Also, y’all, you can skip over voting for people you do not like. I’m personally voting for candidates who have signed the pledge for transgender liberation and/or Stonewall endorsed. I’m skipping over candidates who have not done so. It can be that simple

Update: Latonya Reeves has officially filed to run in the Democratic Primary against Ilhan. This means, according to our new Leave of Absence policy, she is officially committing malfeasance and must be removed from her party positions ASAP.

The most solemn vow of the organizer must be to analyze and respond to conditions as they are, not the conditions we wish we were operating in.

Speaking of theory, soft-launching here that I'm trying to get my shit together for a twin cities satellite

Feeling very confident that she will Save Democracy right now, fuuuuck.

This reminds me of the medic tent outside of @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social during the uprising in 2020. The cops slashed open all the water bottles! They wrecked the bandages! The way they celebrated while destroying medical supplies because they pushed us back shooting pepper balls at us.

we need to get enough solid wins that members of the DFL caucuses can be pushed to be brave. we need to win back the house by a big enough margin that they can tell Klob to kick rocks.

look at 2023. every policy we passed that was popular was to the left of tim walz—but he signed them all and then ran on them as VP, and they made him look like a much more progressive candidate tim walz did not run on 100% clean energy and trans-refuge and DL for all and free lunch we did that.

Happy Pride Month everyone! As an openly nonbinary elected, I find I often have to do a lot of educating people around what that means, especially when addressing groups of people. Cisnormativity has a lot of inertia behind it, but remember- it’s not the ONLY gender paradigm out there!

Let’s see what they had to say about the eviction pause: “(PPL), a nonprofit affordable housing provider, also raised concerns. “Adding another 30 days only pushes families deeper into debt,” President and CEO Karla Henderson told council members earlier this week” Pot, meet kettle.

i put this in our rent fund chat, and people tell me they’ve seen PPL charge $500 in late fees on $945 rent or $300 fees for having junk on a balcony. in low income, nonprofit-owned subsidized housing. bring back the fuckin projects, man. we need real public housing.

man, i was so angry when i logged into this mom’s rent portal, and she rents from PPL, a large nonprofit developer in the twin cities, and a large portion of what she owes, what they were threatening to evict her for, is fucking fees like a dozen late fees, each 8% of her rent.

Happy Pride, you beautiful motherfuckers 🌈💖✨

In Sikh culture, when the racists started attacking us because they thought we were Muslims, we didn’t correct them and say we were Sikhs because the point is it shouldn’t happen to anyone. As a cis woman, I do not correct someone attacking me because they think I am trans for the same reason.

oh thank goodness they put two separate adult content labels to hide this incredibly nsfw pizza

Omg I didn't know that @tstaylorshawn.bsky.social got a whole ass billboard out here

we boof horse in this web zone

I'm begging for fundamentalists to add an ounce of witchcraft to their politics.

not as easy as you think it is to run electronic voting at a convention is it, minnesota DFL? love, minneapolis (we are all manually registering AGAIN before we can redo the first auditor ballot) @jasoncomix.bsky.social @mikeylightsit.bsky.social

Soft on crime etc etc

Solidarity from MN, we’re watching y’all, all eyes on Delaney ❤️❤️

been working on my own thing

I thought for a second that...oh never mind. Moment of silence for me, because I got my hopes up.

democrats’ project 2029 is a real testament to how hardly anyone of influence within the formal party has a vision for anything

Man, I cannot imagine being so out of step with the city you represent. To endorse someone who voted for the Laken Riley Act and to give gratitude to ICE is tremendously insulting to the community that stood up to a federal ethnic cleaning campaign made possible by these very imperfect votes.

Whole thread is great, as usual, from Taylor Genuinely, especially my friends in Chicago who are not fully aware of the insane but generally representative Minnesotan political system

Tonight, the Keith Ellison campaign team reached out to me, offering to support certain parts of the trans pledge and asking me to support Amy Klobuchar's endorsement. I told his team I need him to say healthcare providers need to treat trans patients with the same treatments they give cis ones

it's infuriating how people have one set of standards they apply normally and a whole other set of shittier standards they apply to politicians seeking to wield state power if you support trans people, it's easy to say so. you and i do it no problem. why pretend it's different for politicians?

when you're asked about trans rights, "i support trans rights" is the one good answer, and *dissolve into a puddle of fizzy goop* is a bad one. is "i support trans rights" hard to say? no. simple and clean is the way that's making me feel tonight. stop coming up with 7D excuses for 1D politicians.

Reminder that Frey renominated this guy 21 short days ago & had his machine all wound up to punch lefties for questioning it: www.startribune.com/ohara-promis...

my favorite erick erickson moment is when he said that his family refused to eat asian food on the anniversary of pearl harbor to honor the tragedy. a reporter reached out to his mom to confirm whether this was true and she was like “i don’t know what the fuck he is talking about”

Columbo tries kombucha

This is a holiday I celebrate every year, usually with a little fire. Tonight when I get home, I'll light a cigar and talk about that night. A little fire, that's all. It's a ritual now. A memory of the once and future city.

“Senator Klobuchar has refused to screen with our Board before the 2026 State Convention, and has not taken a stance on whether she will protect 2SLGBTQIA+ Minnesotans from ongoing attacks from the federal government. We are deeply disappointed in both of these decisions.”

Just 15 years ago Aaron Swartz died as a result of MIT's overzealous regard for the sanctity of their libraries. He'd be turning 40 this year.

This was at around 7:30 am. One person taken. They may still be marauding on the North Side today so keep an eye out for large, dark SUVs

I just saw someone call out a podcast for "ripping off their sticker" and absolutely blowing up about it Which hey, I totally get But the phrase on the sticker was not so incredibly original that no one else ever thought of it Like I have made that joke out loud to friends of mine in person!

Organizers for what? Activists for what? I am a trans rights activist. I spent years as a labor organizer. I build collective power with my communities. But there are also anti-abortion activists. 40 Days for Life is a massive movement. It takes a lot of organizing power to do evil shit too.

In a past job I visited Cloquet Forestry Center and learned about the history of the land; and there is something quietly powerful to me in knowing some of the trees I saw have lived through both theft and now return.

These detainees are so fucking incredible This is unfathomably brave work they are doing

Fascinating to watch the king of ratfucking Minneapolis go down in a sinking ship, his hordes of little rats abandoning him

Cedric Alexander chimes in on O'Hara to the Star Tribune: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...