All the Jazz Hampton & especially Dewayne Davis truthers will be disappointed. Fateh drove Frey’s vote total to 50% but no other candidate would get as close.

Note to fellow Boomers in Minneapolis upset about the Senate Democrats caving yet again: #1: This is precisely why The Youngs have embraced the DSA and why you should the same. Or at least quit demonizing young Dems who are looking for big change. The DSA caucus is the future. # 2....

Bernie Sanders has fought for working families since Day One. He's built a movement that is taking on corporate special interests and fighting for an economy that works for everyone. I'm proud to join that movement. I'm honored to have earned his endorsement of my campaign for US Senate.

Think I’m going to try and log off for the week, enjoy your Edmund Fitzgerald posting and see you next week. Might check my DMs from time to time in case someone needs something. Also, don’t mention this post if I come crawling back.

The NYT waking up Ezra Klein to write an op-ed about how caving on the shutdown is “doing politics the right way”

Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.

Bro look at my opposition party 🤦

The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.

democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

So many people seem to be misunderstanding how human beings vote. We’re not automatons. We’re motivated by emotion, connection, and our own goals. Assuming everyone will line up behind you because you think you have some perfect analysis is never going to be a realistic outcome.

I am so furious right now. AGs across the country fought to get SNAP benefits. Federal workers suffered with weeks of no pay. Millions of people showed up to protest Trump. Democrats showed up in record numbers at the polls to say 'we've got your back!' And you caved for literally nothing.

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And if a 100 other things had been different, too, maybe! What we have is what we have. If the PACs hadn't shifted their attention to Fateh, if the media had been different, etc etc, does not change the facts on the ground. This is a ridiculous conversation, honestly.

Nick, as someone who ranked Davis first, this is the wrong take. Fateh very clearly had more votes at the end of the day. I was out knocking doors for both of them. You are proposing a scenario that was never going to happen.

I can't speak for specifically DSA-organized doorknocks, but every DSA-aligned campaign I was adjacent to was pushing Rank All Three! Minneapolis for the Many was pushing it! The candidates themselves and their campaigns were pushing it! What more can we do?

What an incredibly disrespectful thing to say to someone who most certainly put more time into this election than you did.

I’m going to ask that you stop calling me “dude”. I don’t know you. Again. Im sorry I don’t agree with your analysis. I have my own argument that I’ve made clear. Your graphs are purely theoretical. Reality is Fateh was the strongest candidate this whole time. That never changed. I liked Davis too!

Why are we asking voters to move from the candidate who was clearly the most popular, funded, and organized challenger? Moderates obsesses over “electability”, right? By every measure Fateh was the most electable. We were always happy to make coalition with the center. That wasn’t reciprocal.

Using “far left” to describe the candidate supported by 31% - 44% of mayoral voters is a choice. Trump would agree with that choice, Frey camp agrees. Far left in Mpls is either immediate full abolition of police and communes replace gov; or revolutionary takeover of gov by “the people,” depending

For Roper to call Fateh or bulk of his supporters far left is to do ideological work. It’s lazy and unsurprising. Go talk to some Maoists and some anarchists. What is the point of local reporting if the columnist is going to clumsily apply a US national politics frame to a local election?

It would be nice if reporters would cover the mayor’s performance in office instead of his performance in the election.

8. I hope going forward Eric & the Strib spend as many keystrokes truly looking into how power moves around Frey as they did typing “far left‘ in this election. I swear they must get a treat every time they do that.

The thing im really struggling with: What do we do about a media system that, I feel, gives moderates a permission structure to ignore reality? In favor of their preferred political narrative? Brauer nails it. Appreciate his perspective and earnestness in building coalition to his left. 🤝

@ericroper.bsky.social brushing over the role media played in propping up Frey. Where was the media condemnation of the deeply racist snake oil attack ads on Robin or the AOM flyers that darkened Fateh's skin? Why did no one care about Frey deleting his texts and voicemails when ICE was in town?

Some thoughts on Eric Roper’s finger-wag in the mayor’s race: www.startribune.com/jacob-frey-r... 1. Asking “what chance did [Davis & Hampton] have ignores Frey’s agency is creating the race‘s dynamics. Frey sued the most moderate hope (Emily Koski) to cut off her money & intimated others. 1/

Chuck. In what world do you think the Rs will honor your request for a committee? And 1 year? After a huge election swing for your party? Grow a pair man.

From the Daily Reformer. I wouldn’t hold my breath on this one.

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

The press lost its shit for weeks at the mere thought of referring to Trump and his political movement as "fascist." Republicans meanwhile use every -ist epithet they can muster against Democrats of any stripe and the press doesn't say a word.

One of the standout stories of this election was the amazing reporting by @taylordahlin.com. Everyone should check out Taylor's blog at taylordahlin.com. If someone has a link to a patreon or something I'd like to chip in a few bucks now that campaign season is over.

worth noting that jason garcia's victory in district 4 was achieved with no yard signs and only a handful of rally signs around. this shows that lawn signs are not an indicator of how an election is going to go! same with ward 10, people thought aisha chughtai was in trouble and lydia would win

NEW: 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the arrest of over 646 people the night after the 2020 elections illustrate MPD’s antagonistic relationship with the community. Strikingly, more than 24% of the 45 officers have killed community members while on duty. unicornriot.ninja/2025/body-ca...

I know some folks were asking for something like this (@meshm.bsky.social iirc) So I made a quick dot density map of the first choice Minneapolis mayoral results. This allows you to see two things that choropleth maps can't show... umn.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...

THIS IS THE THING Your sense of safety being threatened *has all happened under Frey*. More of the same is not going to change that. My god.

I am never not gonna be mad about the Minneapolis public not connecting Frey to complete control of MPD operations for the past 8 years. www.startribune.com/election-day...

Feel like you’re being incredibly condescending towards my position because you keep replying in a way that frames my disagreement as a lack of understanding. Patronizing me too. I don’t appreciate that. All I’ve said is I dont think a bad faith media environment should shape our candidate choices.

I think this is the question to ask.

Kathleen, I genuinely tried to engage you in good faith and you took yourself to this place. Not me. Idk why you are turning the heat up here. I don’t appreciate the infantilization of the point I’m making, either. You’re framing this as if I just don’t understand because I don’t agree fully.

It will continue to baffle me that leftists still do not understand that there will never be a perfect candidate. They get it re: refusing to bend over backwards to accommodate right wing framing. I don't get why that doesn't extend to centrist framing of Fateh.

Sorry but disagreement with your argument isn’t me “not appreciating” it. I just don’t agree. Ive said my piece. Clearly and respectfully. If I think you’re making one argument and you think you’re making another. Maybe you’re being unclear? Only difference I saw was swap “progressive” for “left”.

Me, in our @swaempls.bsky.social chat yesterday. If you know anyone, either in or outside of SW Mpls who wants to help with this work, please point them in our direction! linktr.ee/swaempls Notably, @marymoriarty.bsky.social and her team also cracked this code.

I was on a team through Take Action that knocked ~16,000 doors for Omar Fateh and aligned candidates down the ballot. Across the city.

I’m really looking forward to continue working towards the city I want to see with @swaempls.bsky.social @hsilsbee.bsky.social’s presentation was my first time there and it was one of the reasons I became so energized and ready to work for change.

We’ll never get a re-do on that election, but I do think it was within our grasp. Unless I'm forgetting someone, Omar put together the largest coalition, raised the most money, had the strongest campaign of any city-level progressive candidate I've seen in my 18 years here. It wasn't handed to him.

4. We have to do more organizing around city-level issues in between elections. Compared to Hodges’ term as mayor, Frey has seen relatively little public pressure in his 8 years. We need as much concrete polarization with him as we can get, and need our issue groups to stay engaged at local level.

Is there going to be no reckoning with how we so easily shape our rhetoric to accept a narrative even you note is disingenuous? Fateh is one of the only state legislators w/ a history of bipartisanship. That plays well with moderates if they were to hear about it. North Star Promise is so popular.

Currently still a slim progressive majority on council, right? Frey himself ran as a “pragmatic progressive”. Reflected by a lot of the messaging down the AoM ticket. They felt the need to brand themselves as some sort of “progressive” even if us local politics sickos know it’s a ruse.