i found minneapolis police department's interest in drones as first responder program in emails from jan with mayor and police chief's approval and have been waiting on another data request since march for all emails. latrisha vetaw is introducing it to council now taylordahlin.com/f/minneapoli...

Republicans often don't legitimately earn their wins, but Democrats sure do manage to earn their losses.

MSP: Insert Name Zine Fest returns, this year at @oddmartmn.bsky.social! $10 half tables / $20 full! applications & info here (or see insertnamezinefest on instagram)

I missed this story in all the chaos. Pete Hegseth’s personal stock broker said he attempted to invest millions of dollars in defense contractors immediately before the war in Iran. archive.is/CyJ6m

No one, not one person, who lives in Minnesota says “Minny”

Ope, I’m learning what Uptown businesses I don’t want to give money to via replies on Mayor Frey’s announcement of using taxpayer $ to subsidize free car storage on Lake & Lagoon on Fridays. “Free” car parking is not the way to build better neighborhoods or cities.

My 8yo asked if I would post something to Bluesky for her, then grabbed a piece of paper and made this So here is your advice for the day:

Private equity is a cancer

So, to sum up the last 24ish hours: Avalanche 5, Wild 2 Victoire 1, Frost 0 in 3OT Nationals 15, Twins 2 Spurs 133, Wolves 95 Hug your Minnesota sports friends tonight.

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it's been five months since the United States has admitted a refugee that is not a white South African

Police Oversight meeting next Monday, at 6 pm. Open for public comment. Topics are domestic violence response, their failure of the duty to intervene during Metro Surge (while scoring 20 mill in overtime) and how they treat us.

If you don’t know about the Mayday festival we have in Minneapolis every year, this is an exceptional primer. If you do know about it, this is a great thread of awesome pics! 🌞

Feeling fortified!

My dearest hope for the city of Minneapolis, is leadership who are at least as comfortable - if not more so - at Mayday than they are are Dinner du Nord.

Kinda burying the lead here, NPR

Red cross worker delivers baby Donald Trump. You have transformers up above his head. My favorite part is the mother fucking Eagle cutting the umbilical cord.

Once again @klobuchar.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com demonstrates her utter contempt for her constituents by failing to even attempt to clear a bar that is on the floor. Just fucking insulting that she cannot bother to vote against Trump's nominees.

Wild beat a Texas team. Wolves beat a Colorado team. Next up... Wild play a Colorado team. Wolves play a Texas team.

✊ Today we joined MN Nurses Association, National Nurses United, AFSCME Local 2474, community members & staff to demand lawmakers recognize HCMC as a critical statewide public health asset & deliver permanent funding solutions.  🩺 Nearly 1500 union registered nurses work at HCMC #bit.ly/protecthcmc

out here at 1 am, because hcmc doesn't stop caring at midnight and neither do we.

One more stop after Runyon’s. Visited @isaiahmn.org’s HCMC vigil and wished @amityf.bsky.social well at the beginning of her 1AM to 4 AM shift. Grateful for all of the hard work going into saving this essential hospital. Now we need state leaders to do their part.

Society needs to bend to reality and people's needs not the other way around. Every employer needs to provide parental leave and daycare. If they don't like it that's too bad. I'm sure that soybean companies don't like that winter exists but it does and they have to adapt.

indistinguishable lol

i uploaded some plush fish ornaments tonight, check it out ko-fi.com/kflstudios/s... still looking for sales so we can cover rent, please check my stuff out!! #bsnm #mutualaid #shop #handmade

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The “Claude deleted the company’s entire database story” is just insane. It’s like living in Jurassic Park but instead of well-meaning Attenborough, we have Leo from World of Wall Street www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along

There were 13 detainees loaded onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP. As always, Signature Aviation, the private jet terminal here, provided fuel. Also at Signature today: the Minnesota Timberwolves, who were disembarking from their Delta flight when the ICE charter taxied past.

They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street.

This is really dumb, UMN…

In this clip, Kash Patel says the grand jury heard evidence that Comey deleted the '8647' post and apologized. Neither fact appears in the indictment. Hmm. Did the FBI director just disclose evidence presented before a grand jury?

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

You can’t make this stuff up. The most corrupt first family of all time.

"Even if this case implodes on impact with a federal court, it will still serve the larger conservative goal of recasting perpetrators of rightwing violence as the real victims."

Currently in display at Minneapolis central library. You love to see it.

She came here 50 fucking years ago fleeing Pol Pot. Grandmother of 8 locked up by ICE. KISS MY ASS. Ordered free, still locked up: Judges fume as Trump administration holds ICE detainees www.latimes.com/california/s...

Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene."

"The decorations included an archway that read 'Seeking Truth to Save The West,' underneath the words 'Presented by Meta' and the company’s logo." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Meta is expected to slash 10% of its global workforce - 8000 employees - in the first round of layoffs on May 20, Reuters reports. And more to come, How’s that AI working out for you?

If you worked in any capacity to pass H.J.Res.140 to reverse mining protection for the Boundary Waters, may every vault toilet you use be out of toilet paper, may you never hear the majesty of a loon call ever again, and may mosquitos plague any outdoor activity you attend for all your days.

You have about 40 minutes to send your testimony, or sign up to testify at the hearing tomorrow. Here's info on how to do either of those: www.senate.mn/schedule/com...

I've just been informed that "Outreach" is a term that is now being flagged by the government as a "DEI term", wish this was a joke

Whole thread.

This thread up and down is a good read on this for those who haven't been paying close attention.

Of course the Strib wouldn't print the simple factual comment that 75% of the votes in Wadena county (includes the new hospital that's now in crisis) were for Trump and 24% for Harris. It was all in project 2025, but even the Strib ignored it. www.startribune.com/federal-bene...

Love the “Minneapolis Injury Attorneys” posing in front of the Merchandise Mart and a CTA el train rolling across a bridge over the Chicago River.

CW: USPol Dear Mr. Vance, after your outstanding assist in Hungary with the Orbán campaign, please be sure to throw your support behind all of the Republican candidates here in the US. Yours gratefully, The American People

brave words from the man whose signature policy was parking empty cop cars downtown at a time when post-COVID factors still had everything a ghost town

I live in this neighborhood and rolled my eyes at the headlines. "Teardown blitz" and saying single family are "vanishing" are sensationalist to the point of dishonesty.