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

I will caucus, propose the resolutions from @abetterdfl.org and Mpls Families for Public Schools, run for delegate to two of the three conventions, and move for proportional representation of non-attendees.

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

they will never break minneapolis’ spirit. this is why we will win brass solidarity band brought the resistance and joy from george floyd square to whittier tonight

Here is today's reminder: immigration totally rules. It's very cool and we need so much more of it. Yay immigration!

you should not share a post that's a screenshot without a link to a news item. you should not share a post that's a video or picture without some kind of sourcing. we're in a new bad era and these are now basic practices. ... also photogs and journos gotta eat so share their work.

Promotional consideration for the latest Bluesky enhancement has been provided by the 4 Non Blondes.

Here's the thing: today sucks. Yesterday sucked. Tomorrow is going to suck. They think that if they do this for another little while, everyone will calm down and get used to it. And the problem for them is, this country has no chill whatsoever. They've already lost; they just don't know yet.

if you want to see a massive geographic gap on display in real time, read the posts on tim walz right now and compare the perspectives from minnesotans and from everyone outside the state

hell, yall dont even go knocking at the door of the politically connected firm (both Republican and Democrat connected,) Hylden Advocacy who set up Feeding Our Future. Nothing to see there I guess

anyways back to politics: i really wish we had a Floyd B Olson type person to run for governor in 2026, someone willing to ambitiously rehaul the state government and centralize certain responsibilities to public entities instead of private ones

this is like being on facebook. all this engagement for a "text on image" aka complete nonsense, because there is no source for this information besides tiktok media literacy is truly a dying skill

I think the LLMs get the tech bros so hard because it more effectively hides the Mechanical Turk nature of all capitalist technology, but its also why its value is purely speculative: just trying to resell and reprocess already multiply depleted labour power

My seven-year-old just let out her first scornful "that's so AI," complete with eyeroll, and I'm just so proud.

I love you Powderhorn/ Ward 9 ❤️

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

I reject this because the Gaston backstory that already exists in my head is undoubtedly superior to anything 2020s Disney is likely to come up with.

Disheartening to see federal agents take two neighbors on 29th & Pillsbury. Chemical irritants were used on observers by them. MPD showed up on scene, created a pathway for these federal agents to kidnap our neighbors, and assisted with controlling the space. Disappointing and heartbreaking.

i wanna lay this out a bit more. it comes down to the unity vs. solidarity issue that's plagued democrats for years and is, to me, one of the central reasons for this ongoing fight between (mostly white, cishet) centrists and leftist progressives.

Just remembering how a City Council candidate expressly said "if you elect wacky leftists Donald Trump may come invade Minnesota," and so many more dogwhistled it about Omar Fateh, then we reelected Frey and the Council swung two votes back towards the conservatives and ICE is here anyway 🤷‍♂️

Everybody who's praising Frey, please note that he failed to restate, and failed to answer, the second part of the question: "if so, who do you think can and should take remedial action?"

"They came up with one wildly racist and false smear campaign after another against Senator Omar Fateh—demonizing him, darkening his image, and weaponizing similar rhetoric we are seeing today...it is not surprising that [Trump] hopped on the bandwagon to scapegoat our community."

Lydia Millard spent more on purple paint in July than Aisha Chughtai's entire list of expenditures for that month. And yet still lost by 22 points.

the post-general campaign finance report was due yesterday, so here are my favorite expenditures of this city election season taylordahlin.com/f/best-campa...

As someone whose spent a decade-plus covering social services in NY and TX, let me say this has nothing to do with immigration — and everything to do with government outsourcing delivery of key services to non-profits it cannot properly supervise and politics: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

On the same weekend that Carol Becker was concern trolling on the lack of diversity in local politics, she was using one of her several reddit accounts to defend a claim (made by Becka Thompson) that white candidates are disadvantaged because council members of color win based on their race.