This is what you look like driving around in a car fyi. Get a bike

Fix the schools - and you'll fix the city. Meanwhile, Paris has now 300 "rue aux écoles". These are school street where walking, playing, relaxing and cycling is allowed, and driving is forbidden. Around 50% of all public nursery and elementary schools in Paris now have a school street in front.

I've heard some of the mayor's allies say that Minneapolis should be known globally as a civil rights beacon à la Selma. Merits of that aside, it ain't happening as long as our mayor dismisses a genocide as merely "geopolitics" while minimizing the meaning of "collateral damage" as used in Palestine

On my commute this morning, I saw MPRB staff working outside with no PPE. Doesn’t seem great.

Our member survey includes an optional question asking if borrowers took any photos during their free cargo bike loan that they'd like to share with us. Some of them feel like a love note to the bikes (and to the city):

My statement responding to the repeated racist and Islamophobic attacks by All of Minneapolis (AOM)

I ❤️ Minneapolis

Our borrowers are the best. We love the crossover of our program being able to support both individuals and community events! 🚲 ❤️

I’ll be there with the @mcbl.bike bunch to assist if anyone has any sax or other unwieldy object hauling needs.

Norway pay their female international players the same amount as their male players and have done since 2017.

EHB’s first resolution! On Wednesday the BET passed my resolution recommending that the city council explore a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) program to encourage tax-exempt orgs like foundations and universities to contribute to a city asset fund or urban wealth fund. More on the idea:

The drone company Skydio also contracts with ICE, which for any reasonable person would be a non-starter after Operation Metro Surge. It makes no sense to risk handing over surveillance footage of Minneapolis residents to ICE after they’ve spent the year murdering & kidnapping Minneapolis residents.

Once again, it’s important to remember that, of the very few elected officials in the state of Minnesota who are working to expand the number of data centers operating, nearly half of the Minneapolis city council are amongst those few. Every one of them are ostensibly DFLers.

I wrote about the lads

Trans lives matter. Trans people will always be here. I’m sending a ton of love to every trans person. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ I’m sickened to see the deliberate, coordinated, & federal assault on the lives of trans people. The SCOTUS ruled 6-3 to uphold state bans on trans athletes, but it doesn’t require them. 1/

Solidarity with Council Member @aishaforward10.com! Thank you for your bravery in normalizing mental health support. We love you and can't wait to keep fighting the good fight with you for years to come. ❤️

Happy #PrideMonth! Enjoy a Tesla getting smashed by a light rail train with a pride flag.

Happy Pride! And we can be even more proud of how Minneapolis makes policy that strengthens our values - thanks to @jchavezmpls.bsky.social’s leadership, Minneapolis is even more loudly saying that the 2SLGBTQIA+ community respected, welcomed, and needed here. Thank you CM Jason Chavez!

The Minneapolis Pride in Policy package led by @jchavezmpls.bsky.social passed *unanimously* strengthening protections and support for 2SLGBTQIA+ residents and making the city one of only a handful of places to explicitly protect & support intersex folks! Big shoutout to @tigerrsmm.bsky.social!

Every time a story like this is published, which feels almost daily at this point, I'm always taken aback by the fact that nearly half of the Minneapolis City Council is to the right of so many ostensibly conservative Greater MN localities on this issue. www.startribune.com/minnesota-co...

On Thursday, the Minneapolis City Council will vote on the Welcoming and Gender Affirming Minneapolis Ordinance 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈, authored by myself, CM @aishaforward10.com, CM @aurinmpls.bsky.social, and CP @elliottpayne.org. 1/

Obligatory Costco run with the @mcbl.bike urban arrow. Getting a long tail e-cargo was a game changer. That plus a bakfiets is a whole other level.

The council chamber was full with supporters wearing buttons reading “end the ban” as over 30 residents spoke. The overflow room was also at capacity, with others in the hallway. Dozens spoke in favor of repealing the ban and touched on issues such as public health, tourism and city history.

anyone yelling at jason chavez for "not doing enough" is a goddamn fed

What's starting in Minneapolis today is going to be just like the Broadview 6 case. A desperate attempt at a show trial pursued by dumb, vicious prosecutors performing for an audience of one. An attempt to discourage and scare people from fighting back. It's not going to work.

As they were walking from behind the building, I asked them if they could find a better spot to park (like the parking lot literally five feet in front of their vehicle). They both angrily glared at me like I was the asshole in that situation. Squad 562, true public servants.

Minneapolis made history today as we held the first ever Drag Show and Ballroom at City Hall! Happy PRIDE! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 I want to give a huge shoutout to the drag queens and Vogue Down Minneapolis for helping us celebrate our community and make history.

Love my office.

I am no traffic engineer, but I think we should simply design roads that make drivers nervous and scared so they slow the fuck down. We shouldn't want drivers to feel comfortable.

This 2SLGBTQIA+ Pride Month, we’re excited to announce the Pride in Policy legislative package with @aishaforward10.com and @aurinmpls.bsky.social! This is a set of ordinances, policies and directives to staff that ensure the City supports and protects our 2SLGBTQIA+ community. 1/

At this point, it seems like there are only a handful of politicians across the country, regardless of party affiliation, who want data centers. In a wild twist, most of them serve on the Minneapolis City Council.

My club. My capital. Home. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

🚨The Arsenal parade held over 1.5million fans which officially makes it the largest event ever held in the country. Arsenal fans, simply incredible. London will forever be red. ❤️

Ready to run through a brick wall.

MPD allowed masked goons to assault and terrorize the people they’re tasked with protecting. After the OMS drawdown, O’Hara stated that MPD did not witness a single instance where a law enforcement officer violated a law. The word “navigating” is doing some work here.

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

There wasn’t discipline for this previously, nor was he put on administrative leave. He still brought him forward and told the council we needed to be “clear-eyed about the consequences” of not supporting the nomination. 2/

I had to leave the Local early, which meant watching the trophy lift on my ride home. Every day on my commute, I’m going to be reminded of this moment at that one spot on the Bryant bikeway where I was when I saw this.

It rules that my e-bike came programmed to not go faster than 20 mph. To keep others safe.

Zohran Mamdani hasn’t even been mayor for six months and somehow he already found a way for Arsenal to win the league

Let me break this down for my non-football (soccer) folks: look at this and understand Arsenal DID NOT PLAY A GAME yesterday. They won the league (first time in 22 yrs!) on cumulative points on a day off. And fans spontaneously rushed to the stadium unprompted to celebrate. Magic ✨

22 years lads. I’m in fucking bits. Crying.

After 22 years of waiting, the Premier League title is Arsenal’s again 🏆🔴

So proud of my city councilmember @jchavezmpls.bsky.social who fights for the community

In some quarters, the best part of this Bike-to-Work event is that it took place next to an LRT station. Nothing better than eating donuts while watching the trains.

I’ve said it before but it bears repeating, so I want my trans neighbors & community to know that you are loved & you belong here. As long as I serve on the council, I will always use whatever power we have as a City to fight for and with the trans community. 1/ www.startribune.com/transgender-...

The City’s own survey results showed the community found that Rise & Remember's proposal was most closely aligned with their values and garnered the most strongly positive reactions overall. 1/

People regularly attempt to murder people with a dangerous weapon and because it's a car it's framed as impatience or annoyance, instead of the deeply dangerous, violent behavior that it is.

One of the most basic and essential services that a local government can and should provide is safe streets for people to get around a city regardless of their mode of transportation. Unfortunately, there are countless cases, every day, where that is not the case. 1/

No e-bike or e-moto is capable of this. Literally every single automobile is.