Disabled rider with an adaptive bike? The shuttle will accommodate your bike but not you. The public transit alternatives will accommodate you but not your bike.

I am deeply concerned about this patch on one of the "officers". Have more images/footage for press & antifascist researchers

Council Member Chughtai poking fun at Lydia Millard's war on cars rhetoric. Good to have a council member who supports better transit, sidewalks, and bike infrastructure.

Ward 10 convention results: A day that began with Council Member Aisha Chughtai getting shoved in the hall by a landlord, ends with Chughtai ahead but without enough for endorsement.

Lydia Millard is an asshole. Defining aspect of her candidacy is that she will go negative not just generally but with every single thing she says.

I still think it's funny that the PAC spending $600k to influence the DFL endorsement process this year, and managed by Frey's 2021 campaign manager, is chaired by 2024 MN GOP donor Andrea Corbin. Big tent for Trumpers on city issues I guess.

TAX THE NORTH LOOP LIKE AN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT

Like a lot of things this is downstream of weak state/strong corporate power. CA has struggled to force a ZE transition in the logistics sector, but it's easier to impose mandates on the public sector, so transit agencies are forced to test emerging tech for the heavy duty trucks, riders be damned.

The DFL endorsement in Ward 7 won't mean much if rank&file DFLers chart out & make their neighbors aware of the sheer amount of dollars & labor Schaeffer's delegates today have contributed to police, corporate & openly Republican interests

an elizabeth shaffer delegate with thousands of $$ in donations to republicans was seated yesterday at ward 7 and allowed to vote. he claimed he donated to nikki haley because he thought that was how to stop trump. and shaffer supporters cheered for him. so gross

What I’ve learned during the last two weeks of DFL conventions: Republicans welcome. Left-wing members of the left-wing party need not apply.

This answer on abortion gave the same energy as Donald Trump.

🧵Lots of things bothered me today about W7 but one in particular to get off my chest was Shaffer’s derogatory comment about renters jumping from building to building to building every year. Awful attitude in a >65% renter ward 🧵 (1/7)

This was really where Shaffer had her finger most closely on the pulse of about 55% of Ward 7 delegates: they truly feel they’re being vilified for being wealthy and they probably think the rest of us should be thankful for them. I heard so many people in the auditorium parroting lies from AoM/WLM

I shouldn't be surprised. Yet, I am I thought it was a given that transpo costs as a % of household expenses would be higher for lower incomes, just like housing, food, etc. But no! Data shows, when cities are built well (i.e. compact, walkable, transit-rich), low income ppl spend less on transpo!

It feels to me like some folks see Bill as a class traitor for supporting the pro-renter, labor-endorsed candidate. & they were sure to let him know. It was absolutely wild to see people get physical with him at the convention. This from the folks who say they care The Most about public safety.

Also everyone vote for Steve Brandt. I’ve always thought he was great & he’s now told two conventions in the wealthiest parts of Minneapolis he plans to tax the rich & that is rad af

Sometimes I think we need to stop protesting city hall and outside courthouses and start marching through rich people’s neighborhoods and outside their mansions instead.

Conservative backlash crazy. Cashman has been great on council, especially for W7. A bunch of powerful voters falling into a Red Scare “moral” panic, embarrassing really.

Hell hath no fury like a privileged Ward 7 resident not getting what they want. (I say this as a former W7 resident where EVERYONE wants to speak to the manager.)

I’ve been watching Shaffer’s tenure on the park board closely since she was elected. She’s a terrible park board commissioner and would be a terrible city council member. She’s the landlords’ mouthpiece, for coddling the already-rich and powerful.

and let’s not forget that a republican donor was allowed to be seated! so there’s 2 votes for shaffer, the republican donor and the person who snuck past the alertcation of bill mondale getting shoved

it was a shaffer supporter who pushed bill mondale today because they said he was on the floor too late. bill and the guy who attacked him were removed from the floor. however while this was going on, a shaffer supporter made it on the floor and was able to vote

This is the equivalent of Shaffer wearing a "music band" t-shirt.

I think overall one of the defining features of the American right is that there are a lot of small businesses that are fundamentally scams on the ownership of the business itself and people cannot reckon with destruction of their self-identity as an "indepdent entrepeneur" bsky.app/profile/sens...

this is what needs reckoning with

enough people have emailed me about their experiences being hit by cars and suffering lifelong ailments and disabilities that I think I'm going to write yet another newsletter about this, focusing on injuries.

I think the most insane thing about this chart isn’t the Halloween number - but that we have that level of child pedestrian deaths to cars on a daily basis. What the hell are we even doing.

Israel targeting journalists is a logical consequence of Joe Biden choosing to look the other way when Israel assassinated a Palestinian-American journalist last year.

Relatives of the hostages who met with Netanyahu earlier today say they demanded that he agree to Hamas' terms to free all hostages for all prisoners. “Everyone for Everyone” This comes after Netanyahu repeatedly claiming the freeing of hostages to be the goal of the military action.

Ya don't say www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/b...

From the head of the WHO: "We have lost touch with our staff in Gaza, with health facilities, health workers and the rest of our humanitarian partners on the ground. This siege makes me gravely concerned for their safety and the immediate health risks of vulnerable patients." 💔

The Third Avenue Bridge has been closed for this long and the world didn't end. Maybe some of it should be used for rail purposes...

Guys who believe all Jewish people are bound for hell unless they accept Jesus Christ as their personal lord and savior are so eager to accuse actual Jews of antisemitism, and the media views this as their accusations as the default position

Don't take our word for it, take science's.

The Senate just passed a reckless amendment to ban mask mandates on public transportation for 2024. Shamefully, 10 Democrats voted in favor of a ban: Baldwin (D-WI) Bennet (D-CO) Brown (D-OH) Kaine (D-VA) Kelly (D-AZ) Klobuchar (D-MN) Manchin (D-WV) Rosen (D-NV) Shaheen (D-NH) Tester (D-MT)

One GOP lawmaker tells me "Maybe McCarthy and Jordan but it's kind of a Master Blaster scenario like from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome." Presumably this'd involve Jordan in the Blaster role with McCarthy in some kind of girdle-backpack thing, but the situation remains fluid at this time.

Best summary of the video evidence relating to the “misfiring rocket” (actually Iron Dome interceptor) on the Al Ahli hospital bombing so far. At this point it’s pretty clear that the IDF bombed the hospital and tried to cover it up with US help. twitter.com/arictoler/st...

‘The man broke my heart’ Biden’s Arab-American boosters begin to leave his side. These Arab-Americans were among Biden’s biggest fans. Now they’re warning they — and others — could abandon him in 2024. politi.co/3Q42mNv

DFL chair: “Socialists suck” Also DFL chair: “This Republican guy is kinda nifty.”

Want to talk a bit about the historical sophistry of this letter from former Frey spokesperson & current Hennepin sheriff spokesperson Jacob Hill, who basically promotes a new red scare & subsequent purge which he claims will help civil rights & the DFL party. 1/