"Land of the Sky Blue Waters" 📸 by Liz Covey

Terrible work all around Doesn’t spell the street right ✅ Doesn’t mention the repairs are necessary on aging infrastructure ✅ Frames as being done to add bike lanes ✅ Only interviews cranky business owners ✅ Doesn’t mention 9m in government funding the business owners want to waste ✅

To enable on-ride music, we hauled: ✔️1 talented saxophonist w/ saxophone in hand ✔️1 folding bike ✔️ 1 trailer ✔️ 1 saxophone case And still had room to haul another bike with @lauragmitchell.com ‘s Tow Monster (but wasn’t needed). Next up: full band on cargo bikes?

As I was walking downtown today it really hit me how the true vibrancy of a city doesn’t come from a never changing set of businesses but from people constantly reinventing themselves and the city around them. That is the real character we risk losing if we prioritize nostalgia over people.

Thank you to the leader of tonight's all-saxophone band @connorcarroll.bsky.social

the wedge live band of all saxophonists is called george and the michaels and they played the sax part of “careless whisper” under a bridge by the mississippi river after we biked here

Please join us tonight for a very special @wedge.live group bike ride where lots of saxophone players will be playing a George Michael song.

Many are saying this.

Last week @nissamitchell.com and I were driving on Lyndale and found ourselves in the dreaded situation where a new median prevented a left turn we needed to make. Incredibly, Nissa found a genius way out of this horrific situation: she drove another block and then made the turn. Wild, I know.

I am once again begging @minneapolismn.gov to ban right turn on red for drivers. I just had yet another close call with a driver so eager to turn right on red that they didn’t notice the leading ped interval. They almost ran me over right after I stepped into the crosswalk w/ a ped signal.

I live on a half lot in a house built in 1918 and it was notably cheaper because of it's small lot. Which I still find strange bc we still have a front and back yard and a driveway (but no garage), so really it's just less land to take of which is great for me! Make this kind of building legal again

"The design of our housing is the design of our lives. The housing we build can either bring us together or push us apart." Read this interesting piece on how the courtyard block could solve the housing shortage & the loneliness epidemic: commonedge.org/how-courtyar...

Join us at the Uptown VFW tomorrow (Monday) at 6pm to show support for bike and bus lanes on Lyndale. There are so many more of us than there are of them.

When you have a rehearsal right before a @wedge.live Emergency Bike Ride, sometimes you have to bring the saxophone along. As an added bonus, it’s a great conversation piece 😁

Have you started taking transit or taking transit more to avoid rising fuel costs? We’d like to hear from you! Please reach out here or email [email protected].

100% elite. S-Rank snack.

I appreciate that every year, more and more parts of the city become accessible to me via bike due to the reconstruction or even retrofit of major arterial corridors. Minneapolis is still very car-oriented, but we're slowly making progress towards becoming a more livable city.

Just a friendly reminder from your local tenant's rights lawyer: in Minnesota your landlord can't make you shovel the walk (or do any sort of maintenance) unless they're directly compensating you for the work. Minn. Stat. § 504B.161, subd. 2. www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cit...

Ok Minneapolis bike friends, let's do one of these here soon. Taco and burrito bike crawl!

I ❤️ Minneapolis

What could go wrong??

Can't make it tomorrow morning? Send an email now: bit.ly/pauseevictions

It's March 1st, and rent is due. Unfortunately, many families have lost income due to the federal occupation of Minneapolis and need assistance. We can help our neighbors! Take 2 minutes to email your legislators and ask them to support Pause Evictions, Save Lives: actionnetwork.org/letters/paus...

Join us tomorrow at City Council (9 AM press conference, 9:30 hearing) and voice your support for Pause Evictions, Save Lives! RSVP to attend: secure.everyaction.com/xurPkJsEX02e... Need help with your testimony? We are hosting a training tonight at 6 PM. RSVP above for details.

This is Minneapolis: I fed my kids dinner 1.5 hour late because I learned their classmate's dad was abducted by our federal government this afternoon and needed to jump in to coordinate support for the family. We're so close to hitting the goal on this GoFundMe. Please donate and share!

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

Get thee to Eat Street. www.startribune.com/best-food-dr...

Remember when we had federal agents investigating child sex traffickers instead of hiring child sex traffickers and giving them a bonus?

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

rep ilhan omar says that minnesotans showing up in mass droves on tuesday night for caucuses is an act of defiance @dfl.org @ilhanmn.bsky.social

Federal Agents have been seen across South Minneapolis today. ICE is still in Minnesota and families continue to be separated. Our neighbors continue to see a need for observers that will alert our neighbors of any activity. Please make sure you are paired up for safety when you do this. 1/

just saw 4 ice agents go up to a house and knock and within 1 minute there were 30 people out whistling and they left. we will not take our foot off the gas

ICE isn’t just targeting the Twin Cities. There’s horror stories in Mankato, Willmar and across Minnesota. Immigration attorneys are still getting hundreds of calls every day from every corner of the state. ICE out now.

Tell @governorwalz.mn.gov that an eviction moratorium is long overdue. This is an emergency actionnetwork.org/letters/acti...

I'll repeat my ask to Democratic Senators here: don't vote for the DHS funding bill, yes. AND ALSO do not vote for another single thing in the United States Senate until the invasion and occupation of Minnesota ends. Don't vote to name a post office, dedicate a road, or even a procedural motion

A must read for my fellow Minneapolitans

In his recent op-ed, Oleh Kotsyuba of Harvard University’s Ukrainian Research Institute compares the current protests in Minneapolis to Ukraine's 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity, noting similarities in both the staging and spirit of both events.

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

rise and grind, taxpayers, it's time to help our neighbors under threat of summary execution

Don't repeat the lie that any of this is happening during "targeted" immigration enforcement. Agents are roaming the city, looking for suspicious skin colors or the hint of an accent.

'The purpose of a system is what it does' is hitting so much harder right now

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

This is who the Whittier neighborhood in Minneapolis is named for

Minor point here but Eat Street, where this happened, got that official nickname because it's lined with restaurants from all over the world. It's a beloved symbol of immigrant cultures and a place that showcases pluralism in a state (wrongly but frequently) stereotyped as a land of low-key Swedes

All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.

OMG!!! ! People YELLED at you?! This has got to stop! Who would yell at the people kidnapping five year olds, brutalizing pregnant women, and shooting a moms in the face??

Something I’ve been meaning to announce…

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

If what ICE is doing has anything to do with the law, why are they routinely breaking laws, violating the Constitution, violating civil rights, and hurting and killing innocent people?

Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.