Turns out the real political spectrum is just how people feel about free parking 😂 Tag yourself!

The @startribune.bsky.social, located steps from yesterday's astonishingly large public protest in downtown Minneapolis, and ostensibly now covering the entire state where there were hundreds of events, forgot to put them on the front page.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

#WeekWithoutDriving off to a great start! Today I - biked to work in downtown Minneapolis - biked to The Local for a pint (or two 😄) of Guinness with my stunning girlfriend - walked to the Dakota Jazz Club to see Hiromi (amazing show) with my cousin & his wife @bikemn.bsky.social

cyclists with soren today at painter park. everyone in the first photo did the 38 mile ride, and connor in the second photo earned a trophy for raising the most amount of money! @sorenwithward8.bsky.social

Earlier this evening members of the public entered the Cedar Lake encroachment zone, starting from the south beach. Our leader was an 80 year old man named Jake, who's watched too many park board meetings for his own good. He let us know how many feet of public land was available in each "backyard."

“Safety strategies aren’t that hard: Slow drivers down, and separate vulnerable road users and drivers by time and space. What makes actually implementing these strategies so challenging is our unwillingness to decrease motorist throughput or inconvenience drivers in the name of saving lives.”

Want a happy city? Build for bikes. So pleased to see Minneapolis continuing to be on this list & can personally confirm: I am happier here than anywhere I've ever lived. And a huge factor in that is my ability to live a less car dependent life with my family.

I, too, am excited for the next episode of the @wedge.live podcast

I have a conflicting appointment, but the folks that help organize this are good people. Go if you can.

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This excellent article by Ilse Griffin crystallizes so many of the reasons that I’ve become so happy walking, biking, and taking public transit more over the past few years. Amazing writing

chat I think we need to build more houses

What if… instead of dealing with toxic air every other week for the rest of our lives… we did something about this whole climate change thing? I hate that my kids are growing up in a world literally & figuratively on fire. They, and we, deserve better. #MSPCycleCast

😱 Blaisdell has yellow flex posts at intersections! I am VERY excited about this. Thank you @minneapolismn.gov ! I hope they survive the rest of the summer & can be replaced as needed ongoing. I’ll be curious to see driver behavior w/ these - hopefully decent compliance.

Good to see passenger rail advocates in the Twin Cities area organizing a ride the train day this week in support of the Northstar. Losing existing service makes replacing it later on more difficult🚆 (Yes, the AI photo is unnecessary but focusing on the main advocacy work here)

Minnesotans: the ebike rebate is back! The application will open on July 30th. It is now a lottery; and there are new income eligibility requirements, so check out the link. www.revenue.state.mn.us/electric-ass...

🤣 Signed, -A parent who visits at least one Mpls park every day with my kids (& rides by many more… with scenes like this, on the regular).

What a biker actually hitting a pedestrian looks like

Cars are SO loud. The health impacts from noise pollution are not something an individual has control over preventing. Due to forced car dependency, we also force higher risk of hearing loss, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, sleep issues, stress, memory impairment & childhood learning delays.

And to make the end of this trip WORSE...I found out my e-bike, Zaria, was stolen from its locked bike room. Please help me find it! bikeindex.org/bikes/2836156/

If you build it (safe and comfortable bike paths), they will come (all sorts of people getting to their destinations by bike). Very happy to see a real critical mass building in Minneapolis!

Getting pumped for the Cyclists for Soren bike ride this Sunday! Consider donating to support me and @sorenwithward8.bsky.social’s campaign for Ward 8 city council!

Thanks to everyone that came out tonight! It was a great celebration of our 2025 State Policy year, and a start to our 2026 year ahead.

The committed volunteers and staff of Neighbors for @moreneighbors.org!

Correct unbombed rhetoric

He’s a good pope

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

I may not always love you But long as there are stars above you You never need to doubt it I'll make you so sure about it...

Minneapolis isn't perfect, but it's a very nice place to live. More people should move here so we can have more density and more nice things.

When you're young the ability to jump in a car and go wherever seems like this vital, intoxicating thing. As you age and become more established you realize that so much of your transportation needs are just local, and the simplicity and joy of bikes become the vital, intoxicating part of the deal.

Wanna see something cool? At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is. The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥

I dream of a day when drivers, faced with this choice: 1. park on the other side of the street 2. use the alley 2. block car traffic for 20 secs 3. or illegally & unsafely drive in the bike lane .... will not do this. People on 🚲/🛴/👨‍🦼 deserve safety & comfort on their trips, too.

Imagine if when we invaded Iraq, three years in we only took a sliver of the country at the cost of 800,000 men. Would the conventional wisdom be that we are winning? No? Then why do some think Russia is?

What if we 👉🏻👈🏻 lived in homes 🫢 and they touched 😳.

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These children were robbed of their childhood and I don’t know what it would take to show them that life could be different

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

Instead of deporting undocumented, tax-paying immigrants by using the IRS, why not create a legal path to status for them? They paid over $96 billion in taxes in 2022 alone. With a real path to legal status and without ICE breathing down their necks, they would contribute even more.

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

turns out the United States was an incredible moneymaking engine that ran on wokeness

80% of Minnesotans agree: We don’t have enough homes & the #MNleg should fix it. But city interest groups are using taxpayer $ to prevent that, which means higher rents & fewer opportunities. We demand a future where we can choose where to live. Where every city has thriving neighborhoods.

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

I was grateful to sit down with community leaders at the Ukrainian American Community Center in Minneapolis to reaffirm my support for our Ukrainian refugees and Ukraine as Putin’s war of aggression continues. 🇺🇦 Trump’s decision to put innocent lives into limbo is cowardly and it’s unamerican.

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

No Kings, Just Mail. Can’t think of a better slogan.

OKAY NOW DO UNCLE ALBERT / ADMIRAL HALSEY

Friendly reminder: there’s plenty of time left to claim up to $1,750 per child with our nation-leading Child Tax Credit.   Last year, we put over $550 million into the pockets of nearly 225,000 families.   Don’t leave money on the table, Minnesota.

Listen if we all mutate from radiation eventually just please tell your grandchildren that there was once a nation of Ukraine and they were really good at posting

The Legislative Session Has (finally) Begun: Let’s Advocate for More Homes! We can build new homes closer to jobs, transit, and shops that fight climate change by shortening commutes and changing travel modes. https://buff.ly/4jZJe1k #YesToHomes #MNleg