I’ve said it before but it bears repeating, so I want my trans neighbors & community to know that you are loved & you belong here. As long as I serve on the council, I will always use whatever power we have as a City to fight for and with the trans community. 1/ www.startribune.com/transgender-...

I like to think that those of us who were on forums or usenet in the 90s and aughts were exposed to a weaker version of the posting virus and developed antibodies and it kept us from destroying ourselves on Twitter and Bluesky.

Is the endgame here to fight it to a draw and then get a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering? Because I get the need to fight back, but I also don't live in Minneapolis so I can have primary voters in Bloomington, Edina, Mankato, and Owatonna choosing my congressional representation for me.

I’m sure there’s more to consider, but my instinct is that council pushback on Todd Barnette re-appointment makes more sense than pushback on O’Hara. IMO the biggest issue is we aren’t developing non-police safety solutions fast or well enough. A new police chief doesn’t change that.

The charter commission is meeting May 6th (today) at 4 PM and has a public hearing on these proposed changes. The meeting is in room 350 of the Public Service Center (250 S 4th St). You can find the agenda and more information on the proposal here: lims.minneapolismn.gov/Agenda/Chart...

11 City Council members sent a letter to the Charter Commission ahead of their meeting where they will consider moving forward with significant changes to the appointment process for city department heads. We can’t support taking away council approval & public input in the appointment process.

$30,000 in city of minneapolis small biz recovery funds from ICE occupation are going to edina. the 50th & france business association is in edina, the plaza they will activate is in edina, and most restaurants in this business district are in edina what a waste taylordahlin.com/f/minneapoli...

My colleagues will diminish any work as “sex, drugs, and rock & roll” but yet produce no work. It’s all rhetoric and no results. Instead they will waste staff time fighting to pollute our neighborhoods with data centers, will attempt to move buses off Nicollet Mall, and will get no scrutiny. 3/

Frey keeps talking about pedestrianization of Nicollet Mall. There are already pedestrians and people _on_ Nicollet Mall. People waiting for the bus, people literally hanging out at the bus stops, talking shit like you do with your friends, being loud, smoking weed, playing music, homeless people,

Mayor Frey's multi-pronged attack on checks and balances: stripping the council of confirmation powers, treating budgets as optional, asserting unilateral power over street layout approval. Please appoint this man to a senate seat before it's too late.

Here is my statement on transphobia in the DFL, how I've tried to fight it, and how party leadership has allowed for it to continue: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

It remains my position that (feelings about Barnette aside), at this point, the council needs to stand up for its role as an institution. The charter should also be amended to eliminate this ridiculous situation and prohibit the mayor from vetoing the denial of appointments.

Who is this mysterious Stephen, and where is his Square?

The kids these days say “AI” in the same way that people our age say “bullshit” (“you didn’t do that, that’s AI!”) and I think that’s beautiful

Transphobia has no place in the DFL Party. Actions taken by the DFL Code of Conduct Committee undermines 2SLGBTQIA+ participation in the party and seeks to punish those who speak out. This is unacceptable. Read the MPLS DFL Chair and Vice Chair statement: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Agreed with all of David’s points—and this quote from Palmisano is nonsense. It’s adapting a MAGA thing, which is in bad taste. I also don’t love the framing of “fans” of Frey. You just shouldn’t be fans of politicians. You can respect, mostly agree with, personally like them—but fans? Weird.

As a Commissioner on the Minneapolis Charter Commission, I want to explain clearly why I cannot support the proposed charter amendment as written. This comes down to structure, process, and public trust. ⬇️ 1/

We have a visible human misery problem - homelessness and addiction. It's hurting Uptown and places all over. People and businesses are right to expect their government to fix it. But portraying this as a violent crime wave (it hasn't just been Shaffer) isn't accurate.

Random but sincere thought of the day: downtown Minneapolis fucking rocks

This is good, fuck ICE, and also, if you find yourself "accidentally" in the exit-only lane for Portland, the only decent thing to do is to take your lumps, exit onto Portland, find a legal place to turn around (like the handy roundabout at 66th), and get back on the highway.

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...

Something we should perhaps think about before we bake the Office of Community Safety into the city charter so that future mayors and future councils are forced into this particular, still-experimental approach to public safety governance:

Shorter version: This is the veto equivalent of the “I declare bankruptcy” meme.

My early-elementary kids have started doing this. We'll be watching an old movie, and they'll confidently assert that some bad special effect or bad acting is AI. The first couple times, I tried to explain that the movie was made before AI, but they don't care, because they don't mean it literally.

Continued struggles in Uptown continue to generate headlines and concerns from neighbors. I live near and love Uptown but worry about low foot traffic, a growing unsheltered population, and generally deteriorating vibes. I believe the city needs a hands-on approach. 8/

Solo tu mamá

Thanks to Josh for getting the word out about this meeting. To add a couple things to his summary of the proposed amendments: The executive officers Josh mentions — City Operations Officer and Community Safety Commissioner — were created by ordinance in 2022.

I watched this and it really made me think why is this a vertical video

on uptown, the mayor's promise, and a media bias i see that refuses to hold him and his aligned council members accountable in favor of attacking progressive CMs since there's no education being done on what a strong mayor government system looks like taylordahlin.com/f/uptown-in-...

Among the many other reasons why this is bad, it appears that the Frey administration is proposing delivering $2.1 million in capital gains to an LLC, seemingly connected to a private equity firm based in St. Louis Park, that purchased the property less than three years ago.

My view as a parent who has been somewhat involved in the "transformation" process: There aren't really good candidates for school closures. Low-enrollment schools aren't evenly distributed, we can't just close all the schools in an area (north, but not just north).

What if we just amend the charter to get rid of this nonsense already?

I just got groceries, and the store was not sufficiently mobbed. We need each and every one of you to drop what you're doing and go panic-buy two weeks' worth of groceries right now.

As an Mid-Atlantic native, I am enjoying my adopted city's newfound love of swearing.

• Chauffeur, bartender, soldier (briefly), union organizer, bus driver, convenience store proprietor • Bus driver, soldier, service station proprietor, steel fabricator

As the new Minneapolis Charter Commissioner representing Ward 10, Bluesky, and tired xennial parents, let me attempt to summarize what people can expect after last night's work group meeting. 🧵

put it in the Louvre

Knowing what you know, seeing what you have seen, feeling what you have experienced - why would you stop before ICE was abolished? answer yourself honestly

Fuck ICE. Abolish ICE. If these cowards leave it's because our fellow neighbors stood up to tyranny and defended their community members. This is not a political win, but a win of the people, by the people, for the people. It is now us politicians' jobs to seek justice and restitution.

I wonder if it ever bothers Tom Homan that he is a prominent public official with a simple, eight-letter name, and yet almost nobody can spell it correctly. I see at least a half-dozen wrong variations regularly. I don't care, mind you; I just wonder.

With the announcement that the ICE surge in MN is ending, I’m thinking about how so many people thought the child in Bad Bunny’s halftime performance was Liam Ramos and how our need for Hollywood endings and satisfying payoffs might hinder us from dealing with the painful and traumatic aftermath.

I am proud of you and our immigrant residents. Your resiliency, strength, and dedication have led to the announcement that “Operation Metro Surge” will end soon. 1/

I believe Walz, Frey, Witt, O'Hara genuinely want the ICE surge out of MN and Minneapolis. Some of them genuinely might want all of ICE out for good. At the same time, the ICE surge is not an existential threat to their jobs/careers. The appearance of disorder in the streets is. An uprising is.

So, let me get this straight, and please correct me if I'm wrong? 1. The Dems and GOP made a deal to keep everything running except DHS, so there won't be a government shutdown. 2. If a deal isn't reached, the DHS will shut down. 3. But everything else keeps running. What's a downside for the Dems?

I've been looking at FEC campaign finance reports a bit just to get the lay of the land, and man, Dalia al-Aqidi (who?, you ask) has quite the grift going.

Hello. I prosecuted crime for a long time. The process of getting a warrant is type out your probable cause statement, call a judge and swear under oath that it’s true, and if the judge finds PC the warrant gets signed. It is not hard: if you have PC they sign. It’s so fucking easy even cops do it.

"There is a tradition in our family that we are descendants of a Pringle boy who came not many generations ago from Scotland … [H]e was apprenticed in some seaport town to a ship's blacksmith. Living in the family of his master he came under the discipline of the blacksmith's wife …" 1/4

This morning, federal agents staged at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center lot and began to throw chemical irritants at observers. They also kidnapped an observer. Our parks are meant for our children, youth, and neighbors. They should never be militarized zones meant to separate families. 1/

Peggy Flanagan's campaign must be feeling pretty good about the fact that they didn't hop on Bluesky to brag when this same unfortunately named organization endorsed her six months ago. (This appears to be a co-endorsement now.)

Ruin a film by adding Melania: Love Is Colder Than Melania