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.

Those busses cost half a mil, at least. The porch repair is probably $20k+. The car is probably totaled. Hospital bills. Staff time. And above all, a life was lost. Cars cost society more than anyone gives them credit for. This is an extreme example of something we've allowed to become normal.

They're calling them the worst political instincts of all time

The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Obviously a mayor that governs by press release is more than happy to take the credit for others’ work in public. But I think often about whether, when he has a quiet moment alone with his thoughts, Frey feels any sense of embarrassment when his allies do shit like this.

And yes, I have love and appreciation for this so called ‘pet project’ that was vetoed via the budget in 2024 by Mayor Frey. The city’s funding would never have been possible if we had not overturned that veto.

Minneapolis celebrates spring with a parade of giant handmade socialist puppets and a festival where people row the sun across the lake. This year's Mayday festival was today, and I'm going to try to share some photos and videos (many taken by others) to try to explain it for my non-local friends.

I went to 50th & France with visiting family at the height of the occupation. It was unsettling how unchanged it was: no private property signs, no mutual aid collection, no whistles, full restaurants.

No better place to park when delivering to a bike shop.

While Mayor Frey travels the country accepting awards on the backs of immigrants, he’s back in Minneapolis vetoing the very policies meant to protect them. 1/ www.startribune.com/frey-again-v...

May Day mural in Manila, Philippines

City streets should not be designed in a way that allows for the kind of speed necessary to inflict this kind of damage.

Since the ICE surge, Frey has: •Vetoed an eviction moratorium •Tried to get a cop city in Minneapolis •Vetoed a decriminalization of drug paraphernalia (which would have merely brought Minneapolis in line with state law) •Attended the WHCD, to honor the fascist who terrorized his own city

GET IN! I HATED IT! A HUGE RESULT! WE PLAYED TERRIBLY! WE'RE TOP OF THE TABLE! I WANT TO DRINK A GOBLET OF MORPHINE!

Conservatives on this council like to focus their energies on the culture wars that fire up their base. Meanwhile, progressives continue doing the work on multiple fronts to pass ordinances that will improve residents’ lives.

That these five council members stood up for data centers on the dais on the same day this article came out is kind of funny but ultimately moot because these findings are irrelevant in the CMs' analysis. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/g...

finally zohran addresses the issue hellgatenyc.com/mayor-mamdan...

Pretty sure this was plagiarized from a Bill Clinton speech in 1993.

Apparently protecting LGBTQIA+ residents and promoting public health interventions isn’t a core function of City government for Frey. He only cares about the community to the extent that he can grift off of them for political gain.

Very in depth piece on the history of bathhouses in Minneapolis. Sam’s actually been attending the coalition meetings and researching the topic for years which is MPR’s articles have actually been well researched and not just sensationalized looking for clicks.

Hearing about this new anti-democracy policy for the first time via social media, it brought to mind this passage from CM @jchavezmpls.bsky.social’s newsletter from the last time there was an anti-democracy policy brought forward (last week).

The Frey administration has also decided to take away from the city council the power to approve new street layouts. wedgelive.com/mayor-frey-t...

She calls it a "council meltdown" for them to reject a nominee for cause. Budget overruns, department mismanagement, trying to give a contract to a guy who livestreams violent threats against the council.

Star Tribune find someone who understands how city government really works before writing about the workings of city government challenge (impossible). Not just this one, so take your pic from articles written the past few days / weeks / months, etc.

We also have a solution for this.

@jchavezmpls.bsky.social is a treasure to Minneapolis. I’ve never seen someone more excited to use a pastry box to send a clear message.

Dear neighbor, I am frustrated, though unsurprised, to hear that an unelected, undemocratic body—unaccountable to voters—is considering a charter amendment to strip the public of an important role they hold in their government. 1/

I can’t think of many things that would be less helpful for a cause I cared about than having Carol Becker speaking in favor it.

yeah man i'll circle back to you on that agenda item from yesterday's all hands in just a sec. our pedophile king just threatened to destroy a whole civilization

It’s pretty wild that Dawanna Witt can participate in this piece like she was just another official fighting back against the occupiers. Not a single mention of her department colluding with the feds throughout the entire occupation.

Bologna is such a great city doing some really progressive things on inclusivity, safe streets, and housing. In honor of Transgender Day of Visibility (a day late), here’s a picture I took in Bologna a few months ago. 🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇹

La Tortilla brought the truck to our neighborhood weekly starting early in the pandemic. We’ve visited them most weeks since. Our 2 y.o. calls our local brewery “the taco truck” because they’re one and the same to him. We know their family, they know ours. Please support this community institution.

Chief O’Hara recently stood in front of the council and said it was MPD’s position that in three months, MPD did not see a single, solitary instance of unlawful force by a law enforcement officer against any person in this city.

Less than a week after this piece came out—making it abundantly clear that Folk is a Republican ghoul—the mayor of Minneapolis announced that he's endorsing Folk. Great stuff. Gift link:

Just one more 38 million bro Come on, one more 38 million I swear we won’t shoot you or play candy crush while your car gets stolen Just one more 38 million

Why aren’t they being heckled? For real. We got all this bullshit for months “try that in New York “. “Wait til they try it in Philly.” Why are you letting them be in your airports? Completely unbothered?

It makes sense that this is who the most conservative council member (Palmisano) is supporting for county attorney.

Anybody else get this text from the North Star Constitutional Defense Fund?

This is the best thing online today. 🚲

As a Manchester United fan I rightly expect absolutely no sympathy for the abject state of my club. I will also say: Wenger's Arsenal overwhelmed Manchester United fair and square, while Chelsea and Manchester City didn't, and football as a whole is still paying a huge price for that.

Wenger got mocked and memed for years on end while other clubs, particularly Chelsea, had to break the law repeatedly to beat his Arsenal side. It is shameful but of course capitalism has no shame.