Fyi to those unfamiliar with the history: “your sex life makes you too vulnerable to blackmail and so we must ban you from government work” is what we did to queer people in America throughout most of the 20th century

We should probably see this as another form of corruption

Mine was: Robinson Luka Bird Chris Bosh Shaq

68% of DFL convention voted to pass a resolution against AI deepfakes north star dawn, a super PAC in support of angie craig, is using a deepfake of peggy flanagan in an ad. their biggest donor is an AI billionaire. the convention also passed resolutions against data centers craig is out of touch

john hoffman, MN state senator who survived an assassination attempt by vance boelter, who killed mark and melissa hortman, is here supporting omar fateh. he said fateh was his first visitor when he was in hospital. gave him a note saying “we’ll get that fucker” that is still on his fridge

Jail and prison are incredibly unsafe. There is no safe jail. The important thing to keep in mind when reading these stories is that the answer is always to let people be free (not to hire more doctors). apnews.com/article/ice-...

Add pharmacies to the long list of things that work very poorly in our health care system

You and every other elected Dem in the House

Biked Cedar Lake Trail to Kenilworth trail and man I hope there’s plenty of ridership for the Basset Creek, Bryn Mawr, 21st St and W Lake Street stops but none of those stations are near much of anything

Apologies if someone else has already done it, but it hasn't come across my feed; the 18 most competitive MN House races (give or take) are: 2A, 3B, 11A, 14B, 18A, 32B, 33B, 34A, 35A, 35B, 36B, 41A, 41B, 48B, 54A, 55A, 57B, 58A. 14B (St. Cloud) & 41B (Hastings) had retirements so are wide open. 🧵

None here? I would like to speak to the manager

watching the horrible anti-trans stuff in the UK and the horrible [gestures broadly] from the US, it's hard to conclude anything except that a small group of powerful people has gone completely insane, and that they were more powerful and more insane than previously understood

Apparently you both have to show intent and assume there was none

People are aware you can ride the D in Minneapolis too, right?

Guy on the right is afraid to ride the bus.

Album cover for a scary seeming band your older sibling listens to and then you finally play the album one day and it’s just ska

There is a real contrast between experiencing Hennepin between Franklin & 36th and what the complainers describe

Narrator: they don’t believe this

Welp there’s no unseeing this

kobey layne being nominated at DFL convention is inevitably what happens when amy klobuchar doesn't campaign to delegates in the metro. she didn't come to any SD conventions. you can't take support for granted for the endorsement, you have to work for it minnesotareformer.com/briefs/sourc...

Trump purchased as much as $50,000 of stock in the parent company of UFC. Meanwhile, Trump has been heavily promoting a UFC event that will take place at the White House for his birthday. It's one of the worst conflicts of interest you could imagine.

I tend to think part of leadership is listening to people and recognizing when they can’t hurt you anyway

"Man Who Exited From 7 Lane Highway Can't Believe Entitled Cyclists Riding Two Abreast"

The horrors are everywhere

As I told CM Whiting re Cop City, the settlement(s) should be a floor, not a ceiling, for reform

Advocates for sinkholes hosted a public meeting with the mayor. Some residents who are against sinkholes attended. The discussion focused on bicycles

Um, what

Was that clunk the raccoon that spent the evening snoozing in our tree?

If you want to be cynical: step 1 - delay the street reconstruction step 2 - federal money falls through with little hope of it materializing again step 3 - street and underground infrastructure disintegrates step 4 - profit

If he wasn’t a Sith already (he was)…

Do they think the future will offer a design that they will like better?

I bought things from Mother Earth since the 38th St bike lane fight, but reluctantly

Yes! Construction is disruptive. We should help businesses through it.

That’s a you issue, dude with so little judgment you spent your money (presumably) to sue the city to make it do what it was already doing

He’s been the Mayor, and boss of public works, for the entire period they complain about

Livable Lyndale = can we walk and bike please? Vibrant Lyndale = moar parking, faster cars please?

Same. Is this what the party is going for?

People have been asking me if I know of a resource like StandWithMinnesota for New Jersey, and I haven't found something comprehensive. So, for the moment, I have put together all the links to NJ orgs, crowdfunding links, events, and stuck them on a page of SWM. standwithminnesota.org/jersey

I know we don’t say it because it hurts feelings, but it was straightforwardly racist

Wow. Minnesota now has 3,866,086 registered voters, an all-time high so far as I can tell. Given population growth, new records do get set repeatedly. But normally not in June of a midterm year. Normally new peaks coincide with presidential elections. This is a new phenomenon.

What’s with all the dead fish in Lake Nokomis?

Gotta go replace my state flag with my pride flag

Health Professional Shortage Areas are disproportionately Trump-voting areas (with important exceptions, like Texas border towns). Same old boring, depressing story about choosing the guy who makes your life materially so much worse

Yes but again, she does not win without the people in that room.

Affirmative action is still alive and well for conservatives

“Defund the Police is too divisive”

This is what’s so bizarre about Craig just moping out of metro conventions. (Me talking, not ayana)

“All the problems are lucrative for somebody” that describes too much of America

Watch this to bring joy into your life.

Good example of Betteridge’s Law