I’ve never been as proud to be from Minnesota. I am so proud to have seen us step up and become the community we always needed, to build the world we know we won’t ever stop fighting for. 15: END

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

The other council member representing Uptown, Elizabeth Shaffer, was also absent from this meeting. The actual mayor of Uptown, Jacob Frey, wasn't at the meeting either. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

Blew $100k/day in overtime pay to -not respond to calls for help at schools -monitor anti-ICE protests & -watch Bovino’s convoy drive around

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

Are you going to cover this or be silent? bsky.app/profile/wedg...

Paris is in the process of building 4 new subway lines covering 120 miles of track and serving 68 new Metro stations. New York City should be able to add 4 stops by extending an existing subway line along an existing right of way. Can we have just a little ambition? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/n...

TIL that flight attendants aren’t paid during boarding and that had simply not crossed my mind as a thing that was possible? what the actual fuck

Federal regs and company practice largely define AV "safety" as AVs not running into things. So when AVs get confused, they stop and call home. To the Philippines. If this were rare, it would be a nuisance. At scale, it's capacity loss, like removing a freeway lane - or rail line - from your city

The Senate has voted to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security. And, President Trump extends the deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. n.pr/4rYCK5w

In three months, @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social has: -Vetoed an eviction extension that'll cause mass homelessness of our immigrant neighbors -Never stepped out on a patrol during federal occupation -Private meeting with Tom Homan with records deleted -Told ICE to fuck off, did nothing about it

If you’re making your way to the Capitol area on transit this Saturday, here’s what you need to know before heading out the door. https://www.metrotransit.org/know-before-you-go-transit-to-the-capitol

The Twin Cities lacking an actual bikeshare is maybe the single biggest oversight by the best bike metro in America. It's solvable and would pay for itself many times over.

I wrote about three great tricks for saving money on gas. See if you can guess what they are. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

Skip Starbucks to save gas? There are better strategies www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

paid 61 bucks to register the ol baj just yesterday, baybeeeee

🚨 "Big news if you are a fan of a local meat raffle."

don’t be under the impression that hao nguyen is a fellow progressive alternative to cedrick frazier for hennepin county attorney. he attended latonya reeves campaign kickoff for cd5! that’s him next to martha holton dimick, who ran against mary moriarty in 2022 and lost! frazier is the only choice

And now Ward 8’s @sorenwithward8.bsky.social is out with a good response to Palimisano, making all the right points. (I even chipped in with a Strib comment here too, if it’s approved.) www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

Our partners at Homeline and with the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department are warning that we are now seeing a staggering spike in eviction filings.

If people are serious about giving @ilhanomar.bsky.social a Gundam, I want to be the first to demand we give @peggyflanagan.bsky.social a VF-1J Valkyrie Veritech Fighter. #GivePeggyAValkyrie

And remember digital security advice is always best delivered as a schoolhouse rock style parody song ;-)

notice that angie craig did not contribute to the sd62 convention's interpretation services & accessibility yesterday?she has been trying to keep up with how strongly anti ICE voters are in running for US senate but this further shows it's all about optics when even small campaigns chip in

Whispers: Trains don't need heavy security

Welcome back, Don Quixote

Attorney General Keith Ellison interrupting the SD61 walking subcaucus process to congratulate us for being nominated for a nobel peace prize.

loretta arradondo, who is NOT an sd61 delegate, takes the mic with a point of order complaining about how the convention treated dawanna witt

Meta is dropping encrypted messages from Instagram DMs from 8 May. This means that your all private conversations will be readable by Meta, shareable with advertisers, and subpoenable by courts. Privacy should be a default. Sign our petition. www.mozillafoundation.org/petitions/ke...

This article is mostly about Seven Points, aka Calhoun Square, an urban mall & parking ramp built in the 80s which was only briefly a workable format. Every other urban mall in MSP failed long ago and has been demolished or repurposed. 7 Points hangs like a lead weight around Uptown's neck.

Gavin Newsom could really stick it to Trump by ordering his DOT to build just an absolute fuck-ton of high-quality curb-protected bike lanes on every state road. Man it sure would make him mad. Are you listening to this @governor.ca.gov? You could really get under his skin this way, team his grits.

And if you want to learn more about our local wild canines, enjoy this episode of the podcast I help produce streets.mn/2024/05/15/a...

The people who cancelled Jimmy Kimmel after Charlie Kirk's assassination will now control television stations that reach 80% of Americans, twice that what was legally allowed before Trump's takeover. The state capture of network television is almost complete.

If you finished tonight's thread and want more Uptown in Crisis content, @phmelody.bsky.social and I talked about it on this week's episode of the Wedge LIVE podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbYG...

I spent some time reporting last week in Hermantown, which could become home to a 1.8 million-square-foot hyperscale Google data center.

This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/

New WCCO Copaganda piece ties an increase in Minneapolis auto theft to MPD staffing and being caught up with (not responding) to operation metro surge Where did their overtime spend go? Did they protect your neighbor? Did they stop ICE? Sounds like they didn’t protect your car either

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Another highway-polluted morning, another chance to get your comments to MnDOT about rebuilding I-94 through the centers of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Public comment period ends March 23. better94.org/Take-Action/

Hey Milwaukee 🙌 EFF is in town for CypherCon from April 1-2. We'll be there with a few talks and a membership table where you can learn all about our work. See you there! www.eff.org/event/eff-c...

📅 CAN'T MISS EVENT: Solving Saint Paul’s Fiscal Challenges with Urban3🏙️ Join us Thursday, March 26 (7–8:30pm) at the Minnesota Museum of American Art (The M) for a presentation on how land use shapes Saint Paul’s long-term financial health. 🧵 RSVP actionnetwork.org/events/solvi...

Sexual assault is a normalised part of male homosociality, and sexually charged violence against the least masculine or lowest status people in all-male groups and spaces is part of how men teach each other to uphold rape culture.

I’m Omar Fateh, and I’m running for re-election to be your State Senator for the Southside. Our community always shows up. I look forward to seeing our SD62 Delegates at the DFL Convention next weekend: Sunday, March 22nd at Washburn | Registration: 9am and Call to Order: 10am.

the contraflow Greenways do more to appease drivers than cyclists

Mayor Frey talked about the impact to small businesses and over $15 million in rent that could not be paid to landlords (monthly) in this story. He won’t tell you that behind closed doors his administration pushed back against us funding small businesses, legal assistance and rental assistance. 1/

Please take this survey and tell Metro Transit to keep the bus /bike lane (and not let a Highland realtor drive the narrative). This is the precise spot where I was nearly killed by a red pickup truck driver. www.twincities.com/2026/03/06/s...

Mayor Frey can thank Minneapolis Public Housing Authority & affiliated nonprofit Community Housing Resources for 43 filings yesterday. Significant bump in Mpls filings the past few days. Approximate* Minneapolis eviction filings 3/1 thru 3/11: 2025: ~54 2026: ~237 A 339% increase compared to 2025.

Who keeps us safer, Dawanna Witt’s Sheriff’s Dept or Hennepin County Medical Center? I say HCMC hands down

A new numbers station! Popped up 12 hours after the US bombed Iran. www.rferl.org/a/mystery-nu...

Listen to @liam2manynames.bsky.social. Politicians want you to forget about the occupation and the ongoing impacts our neighbors are facing.