🚨ENDORSEMENT ALERT🚨 I'm so grateful to receive an endorsement from my friend and fellow SD 63er, Susan Maas! Susan has been a friend, mentor, and activist I look up to. She understands the energy and dedication I will bring to this role! Vote Ayana for MPLS Chair on April 18!

If you want to show your support for @elitalksmpls.bsky.social and I as we run for Minneapolis DFL leadership, fill out the endorsement forms at the links below! 🔗 linktr.ee/ayanajsk 🔗 linktr.ee/EliMpls

When I talk about mutual aid and how I think it can be a vehicle for really building both community and coalition. It’s because of @katmabu.bsky.social who’s campaign really inspired me with this vision! It’s why I wanted to incorporate it into my campaign for MPLS DFL Vice Chair! This is so cool!

it's very insular. they want to live in a gated community where they know every single car on their street, when they live in a city

This is why I will be supporting @cedrickfrazier.bsky.social !!!

LETS FUCKING GOOOOO MY BESTIES ARE SO COOL!! and now I can vote for them!! If you’re a city delegate, please vote for @ayanajsk.bsky.social and Eli!!

I am incredibly excited to be running for leadership of the Minneapolis DFL with Eli! Eli is a dedicated community organizer and, in a short time, has had a remarkable impact on the DFL. I admire his tenacity and commitment. Please vote for Eli and I at the Minneapolis DFL Convention on April 18!

Minneapolis Convention will be here before we know it. The caucus and conventions process is a beautiful demonstration of democracy. I am looking forward to gathering and engaging community! I will also be looking for your support. As I am running to be the next Vice Chair of the Minneapolis DFL!🧵

Today may be Trans Day of Visibility, but we will fight for our trans students every single day!

Who is ready to hit the phones! Minneapolis Convention will be here before we know it! Before April 18th, we will be hosting phone banks to contact delegates. Asking for their support at convention. Would you join us? All phone banks are fully virtual! Sign up at the link in our profile!

Our office was made aware of an incident involving two bounty hunters pointing weapons at civilians who were chanting at them from alongside and in front of the bounty hunters’ van. Both have been charged with felony threats of violence and displaying a replica of a firearm.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Trans Rights are Human Rights!🏳️‍⚧️

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-...

Powerful piece from Shannon. It’s incredibly frustrating that Frey and Co’s ability to lobby the state for money starts and ends with the Minneapolis Police Department. They always pass the buck when it comes to schools: “Oh that’s a state funding issue”. So is cop city! Doesn’t stop them there!

Time to make some calls! As we gear up for the Minneapolis Convention on April 18th; we are looking for volunteers! You will be helping us call delegates to ask for their support. Each of these phone banks is fully virtual, as well! Sign up at the link in our profile! Help us spread our MPS vision!

Let's keep this momentum going! Our campaign is phone banking! We are reaching out to delegates before Minneapolis Convention on April 18th to ask for their support. We would be honored to have your help! All phone banks are virtual! Join us at the link in our profile!💚

A private citizen would have been detained and thrown in jail, immediately. Especially with someone in possession of a firearm! Why are Engen and Hudson being given special treatment?

Glad national sports media has found a new reason to hate Caleb Williams. First he was a diva. Then he was a bust. Now he’s stealing a nickname that his teammates gave to him organically? As someone who dreamt of working in sports media; the degradation of it into tabloid style bs is really sad.

Flan Clark & I have organized together for years, working on a range of projects involving public education, homelessness, & most recently, in defense of our community against ICE. Thank you Flan for uplifting grassroots organizing lead by every day people in Minneapolis at the No Kings rally 💜

Using our collective trauma from metro surge to boost your desire for a Cop City is wrong, especially considering you’re using your campaign to fundraise for your own legal defense, while real leaders are showing up for their neighbors.

this point from flannery can’t be emphasized enough. we know how MPD with all their guns and badges refused to respond to ICE even harassing children while every day people with only whistles and phones stood up to them, as our mayor played hero for a national audience while not being in the streets

the @startribune.com never mentions overlap between leadership of pro jacob frey PAC and leadership of uptown association, never holds the mayor accountable for uptown in favor of pretending progressive council can do anything, but prints his op ed cancel your subscriptions! they don’t serve us!

Frey has done a very good job of staying almost completely absent from city affairs unless he needs to intervene to punch left for his donors. Because he's invisible most of the time, people don't connect him with his duties. And local media is all too happy to aid in that

Where did they park?

Things Council Member Aisha Chughtai is in charge of: - passing laws - listening to angry constituents Things the Mayor is in charge of: - the Police - Public Works - Regulatory Services (311) - the implementation/execution of every City program - literally everything to do with the state of Uptown

So MPD was getting calls about ICE harassing kids at schools … less than six months after Annunciation … and they just didn’t respond

Of course the strib plays this up. The truth is we have a hostile workplace, it’s not healthy, & I needed to call it out or it will never change. Despite all that the progressive majority led on passing 7M ins small biz support, 2.8M in rental assistance, and introduced great legislation.

any coverage of uptown’s peril that isn’t holding mayor frey accountable for his campaign promise last year that we’d start seeing the “buds of progress” this spring isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on and is just carrying water for him, especially if they don’t mention him skipping the meeting

Why is this not currently on any other platform? @startribune.com

shout out to @bringmethenews.bsky.social who covered council meeting CORRECTLY and included michael rainville’s comment FROM THE JUMP. as usual, @startribune.com could learn from bring me the news who has their finger on the pulse a lot better prob because they AREN’T making vertical videos

does @startribune.com not have any concept of what is newsworthy and important on their own? why are they always needing help from people? like they finally decide to cover rainville’s comment after pressure only bsky.app/profile/star...

Which is why it's especially egregious when PAID party officials like @rcarlbom.bsky.social throw volunteers under the bus, like when the Republican-funded super PAC "We Love MPLS" paid to file a frivolous lawsuit against @mplsdfl.org, Richard refused to defend the local party in court.

The DFL could not function without the labor of unpaid volunteers. I used to work for the DFL and paid organizers do not plan conventions or caucuses. Unpaid volunteers do. They put in hours of time on top of their other commitments. Never shit on your volunteers. Be grateful they show up.

utter bullshit for the @startribune.com to not show michael rainville calling them "fucking children" and only show aurin's response as if she's accusing him of this when there is PROOF. thumb on the scale from strib, as always

The Star Tribune picks and chooses what to cover at city hall. They couldn’t resist the “drama” of yesterday but will always avoid anything that overtly casts the centrists in a bad light. But if one of the “DSA aligned” council members said this to a centrist? Oh I bet that would make the paper!

Minneapolis Council Member Aurin Chowdhury objecting to a colleague (Vetaw) snickering while she was speaking today, and another (Rainville) calling her a "fucking child" on Tuesday. "I do not want to come to work to be bullied." www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx_j...

Is this what the Frey coalition means when it says “good governance over ideology”? Looks like something “LibsOfTikTok” would post but it’s a sitting Council Member. Maybe she meant to post on NextDoor?

Thank you @aurinmpls.bsky.social for your endorsement! Working alongside you in service of our community, regardless of job title or position, is truly a gift. Your support & your friendship mean so much to me. 🩵

as angie craig continues to not pick up delegates and moves towards losing the DFL endorsement, expect to hear caucus process derided as made up of "insiders," as if a primary doesn't also have a select group of people deciding, and you're just not welcome, when caucuses are open to everyone

I made $58k my last year at HOME Line. I always joked it was the least you could get paid with a law degree. Our ED makes <$80k. I did hard work. Clients cried on the phone to me. But funding shows, regardless of what lip service people paid you, THAT was how much the City actually valued our work

As @jchavezmpls.bsky.social is now telling me about my above post, reflective of many council opponents’ critique: The facility itself isn’t required by the reform settlement.

This is simply not true. The Frey administration has been clear about what’s planned inside “cop city”. They even released a one-pager. The real issue is priorities. Some of us would rather invest $38M in affordable housing, renewable energy, and traffic calming; not massage stations for police.

Whiting says that people he spoke to did not really hate the project but the process. I read through @taylordahlin.com’s thread on his office hours with constituents yesterday. This seems like misrepresenting what his constituents said. In my opinion.

CM Whiting keeps talking about this cop city in Ward 11 as a “holistic training center” for BCR, Fire, and not just police. We spend over $300M on public safety in Minneapolis. Why do they need even more money to do this? Why can they not accommodate this out of their already massive budget?

Well this was an incredibly frustrating and disheartening read. This article does nothing but handwring over drug use and dehumanize our unhoused neighbors. There is no solutions proposed in this article whatsoever. Just fearmongering and concern for business. www.startribune.com/drugs-homele...

Moderate politicians trying to problem solve:

aurin chowdhury bringing up michael rainville calling his fellow council members "fucking children" on a hot mic yesterday

Rainville, Vetaw, and Warren’s moderate cohort gets to run as the “good governance” and “non ideological” candidate every cycle. But if you watch council meetings. They are constantly the most disrespectful and uncivil members of the body. Shameful really.

For Vetaw, every accusation is really a confession.