Honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen red pillars this massive (10-second exposure but naked-eye visible)

Put another way: close to a super majority of W1 ballots were cast for someone other than Jacob, but this map gives the impression he won first round votes. It’s just massively misleading.

Progressives got behind a candidate with a low ceiling of support and obvious liabilities. Multiple council members who endorsed Fateh and put all their energy behind him even acknowledged he could not win. Fateh was never going to be Mamdani. He didn't have the charisma or the comms for that.

Everyone saw what happened to Koski. Going from AOM endorsed to "DSA aligned" over a few Council votes. Even before she started to run for Mayor, Frey was personally calling Ward 11 constituents to attack her & trying to recruit candidates to run against her for this perceived disloyalty to his $$.

DA’s 🧵 is worth reading & I would only note that Davis spent a good part of the campaign with ZERO paid staff. The Minneapolis “middle” (center-left, whatever you want to call it) doesn’t have any sort of durable campaign infrastructure. Frey does & DSA does. You need 2+ years to win mayor‘s race.

I tend to think RCV gets analyzed backward. It isn't that Jazz's supporters broke for Frey, it's that he persuaded a bunch of Frey supporters to prefer him.

The center L and center R voters are needed to build the coalition to beat the far right Jacob. When all the progressive electeds and orgs get behind the furthest to the left candidate (rather than one that can pick up voters in the center) they express their sincere preference, and help Jacob win.

For the record he didn’t swear at me, but the two greeter judges at the door of a library who had no idea what was going on probably didn’t need to hear a guy dump an “asshole” on them. Anyway, my team strongly bonded over him not getting in. I don’t know if any would call him polite.

Rybak won as an unelected but he had years of visibility, connections in SW and corporate worlds, and a great marketing instinct. He also started early.

Roper should name some of these “far left” policies instead of just using the term to prompt handwringing. Police accountability. Rent stabilization. City owned grocery stores. Improved public transit. More affordable housing. Housing first approach to homelessness. Doesn’t sound “radical” to me!

Yeah I think a big piece the post-mortems are missing is the fact that the Frey campaign did a LOT of work to pick their opponent and narrow the scope of the coverage

4. Re point 3 … it’s a shame there‘s no center-left orgs who’d push to rank Davis or Jazz first. Nothing exists. All the juice is with asshole developers and committed DSA/young voters. 5. Eric tried his best but he still underrates the media buying Frey’s frame & making it a 2-candidate race.

how does she manage to be so cute even with the world like this

Editing Federal employee's emails blaming Democrats violated their first amendment rights, Judge says! @CNN

Fateh simply wasn't a very good candidate and splitting attention between 3 candidates implies that none of them are exceptional and deserving of a broad coalition uniting behind one vote.

I’m gonna surprise you can say I’m glad JP wrote this. Media calling on Frey to show leadership is good! We’ll need more of that! That said, I generally find that when society rewards politicians for being a certain way, they don’t change.

Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨

MSNBC: Where's the urgency to end this shutdown in Washington? JEFFRIES: That's a great question. It should be asked of Mike Johnson. Where's the urgency in actually bringing the House back into session? They have canceled votes for the last 6 weeks.

Check me on this: the only non-incumbent Mpls candidate who defeated a DFL endorsee on Tuesday was @ehbinmn.bsky.social, over Bob Fine for Board of Estimate. I’m still amazed at this win given BET low profile. (Parks incumbent Meg Forney defeated Michael Wilson & Cathy Abene beat Ira Jourdain.)

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Sad

The Constitution protects the right to free speech and the right to peacefully assemble. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...

That’s right. I know labor has a right to ride her out. But I have space for the non-toxic opposition (that I don’t always oppose).

Marjorie Taylor Greene on what she'd say to Mike Johnson: "Where is our healthcare plan? It's nonexistent."

4/ Reader, that campaign manager was Scott Graham, who lost in 2023 to Katie Cashman. (He’s now running Pearll Warren’s campaign.) On the way out, he allegedly told a team judge “your head judge is really an asshole.” Guilty, sir. But you bumrushed me into it.

It’s late, I had my first couple beers in 6 months to celebrate the Mpls election being over, so 2 polling place stories (North Side Ward 5 Precinct 1). First, we turned away a handful of voters who desperately wanted to vote for Frey. Problem was, they lived in Brooklyn Park or Brooklyn Center.

Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC. Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA. Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ. Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.

BIG NEWS buried amid the blue wave: @govwesmoore.bsky.social announces that Maryland is IN when it comes to redrawing maps for 2026. "Come next November in Maryland, we will have fair maps."

We’ll never know but there’s a reasonable chance Frey didn’t win a majority of DFL votes with a +6 toplind. Of course, everybody gets to vote, that’s how you win, but still. While some wanna get rid of RCV my fantasy alternative is partisan RCV primaries. (Would keep current w/public financing.)

You know that’s not what I’m saying. But it is fun to think about DFLers complaining about the DSA instead relying on Republicans.

I hope we have a DFL primary. The Walz administration being riddled with fraud doesn’t give me confidence. It’s a top of the ticket liability. Plus the GOP has learned tricks about fraud from All of Mpls this election. We should buckle up for next year.

#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks Good morning, friends! Its the 31st day of the shutdown. The 2nd longest shutdown in history with the 1st being in DJT’s 1st term. While he is globe trotting, many will lose SNAP benefits tomorrow. GOP doesn’t care, we must help. Donate to your area food bank.

For the record, my answers are: Probably, in some form, somewhere in the cosmos, since it’d be weird if Earth were THAT special. They probably haven’t visited though. Yes, we can see it pretty directly! (More on this in next.) There are surely some limits to our knowledge but we do know a lot.

Jacob Frey, the sole elected official overseeing MPD, appears once in this article, in a passing reference to a letter sent to him by a Hennepin Co Commissioner.

Frey was elected, in large part, due to his capitalization off of the police murder of a pretty white woman in affluent SW Minneapolis. But when Black people’s lives are at stake, he abdicates his responsibility over the police department. I don’t know how else to describe it.

Kingfield doorknock insights: - a shocking number of neighbors lack doorbells - and lack front lighting. A guy could have a great slip involved business here. - and are allergic to address #s - great energy for Soren when I could figure out which doors to knock - people are ranking all 3 mayor

I am not at all shocked. The Orange Pedofuehrer is evil. Grift. Revenge. Repeat.

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

And he calls himself a Christian 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The President of the United States is so upset about his failed campaign for a Nobel Prize that he's now trying to claim someone else's prize as his own. Pathetic.

Centrist D66 party makes huge gains in Dutch election www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

JD Vance wants his wife to convert to Christianity.

Hurting Donnie’s feelings is now treason.

Stephen Miller’s wife Katie loses her shit and comes complete unglued because she claims that when Cenk said “the Millers lie” that was an anti-Semitic comment. Totally unhinged wacko.

Yet more evidence of predatory prosecution of political rivals. We've become a banana Republic. And so quickly too

There’s nothing too crazy for these folks

Oh, the irony! They question autopen pardons while ignoring the fact that DJT probably won't even lift a finger for his supporters. Cult mentality at its finest! #blueresistance

This actually has me hoping Republicans run a normal person