THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

Two days old.

Canadian mining company plans to expand drilling in northern Wisconsin www.wpr.org/news/can... #wipolitics

Bookmarked. Really good explainer of what most research is not doing; using PEM in design, including severe patients, tracking dropouts. You get information but you don’t know if the people you got it from all had the same illness. A problem!

I thought this was a helpful perspective on why Frey prevailed in Minneapolis

A c4, not a linked c3-c4 Not demobilizing!

Ellis brings up the "shocks the conscience" element of weighing use of force in a legal context. She finds federal agents' use of force in instances highlighted in this case "shocks the conscience."

Ellis starting the day off by reading out Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" in its entirety.

Records of great spotted woodpecker, extinct in Ireland for centuries, but which reintroduced itself naturally to the east coast and has been moving west ever since. Still waiting for them to make it down to my place in Beara, but looks like it's only a matter of time! Nature CAN come back!!

One of the lovely things I kept seeing was that many high school aged young people had real leadership roles that they took on as they grew their own experience.

If he does pull this out, there's a book to be written about how he and his cronies transformed one of the most democratically engaged cities in America into a bitter, cynical place where a widely despised mayor can somehow magically win three terms.

If you know any women in elected office bear in mind that they are magnets for so much shit, At every level. Remember W putting his hands on Andrea Merkel. There is no level to be reached where there’s meaningful protection.

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

Ah, shit, Minneapolis, I'm sorry.

congratulations, your holiday shopping is done.

3️⃣ New city gov: Encourage ppl to apply to join Z's admin. Zohran has launched a new site for his transition team (transition2025.com), which will soon accept applications to work in his administration. Now's a good time to start thinking about whether you or someone you know may be interested.

And, it's official: Minneapolis' instant runoff ends with Incumbent Jacob Frey with 73,723 votes, defeating Omar Fateh's 65,377, electing our sister city's Mayor for a third term.

@bdlimm.bsky.social Congratulations!!! A joy to watch and learn from such brilliant teamwork. Hope you will share more after you celebrate and sleep.

Dayenu

My fingers and toes are crossed for you, Minneapolis.

Rep. Kaohly Vang Her will be St. Paul’s first female and first Hmong mayor after besting her former boss, incumbent mayor Melvin Carter. Read more about her historic win: sahanjournal.com/democracy-po...

Sound on

I saw him! Briefly!

Honestly, what an incredible race. Enough juice to win with historic numbers AND create a huge reservoir of support for whatever the runner up chooses to do next.

BREAKING: Democrats just broke the GOP supermajority in the Mississippi Senate! In a stunning victory, Democrats gained seats in court-ordered special elections and will now head to Jackson to represent and fight on behalf of their constituents.

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

you guys this is my county which has just gone blue for the first time in half a century

Just checked IG as I do to see what the children think and they are reposting Bernie’s congratulations, laughing. I am so tired! I’m out of practice with this kind of joy.

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BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

The speech will be studied as a confluence point of classical rhetoric and social media skill.

Congratulations to Carissa Johnson, Bella Huang and Brittany Richards— a clean sweep in Cary! 🎉 An all-Democrat Cary Town Council and a big win for @wakedems.bsky.social! 💙

It’s real real interesting to see what happens when you win a major American election after your own party leadership refuses to endorse you, so you don’t owe them or their pollsters and lobbyists jack shit

Because Frey didn't get more than 50% of the first round votes, no winner was declared yet and won't be until tomorrow at the earliest.

not least because it reminds people how these old fossils need to have the volume cranked up just to know what's going on

"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” Fucking SAVAGE for him to invoke Mario Cuomo.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

PBS is live from the Mamdani victory party— www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnM_...

Duluth!!

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We are proud of our slate of endorsed candidates in Minneapolis who have all won their elections! Congrats to you all. In Ward 1, City Council President @elliottpayne.org won re-election!

On the heels of Elon spending a gabillion dollars to lose a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. It’s not just that Elon was personally resented. It’s that the value of money decreases as the strength of volunteers increases.

JUST IN: Soren Stevenson, who lost an eye due to a projectile fired by the police during the BLM protests of 2020 in Minneapolis, has won a seat on city council. @pascalsabino.bsky.social reported on his candidacy last month in a must-read: boltsmag.org/minneapolis-...

first round is in: 41% Frey, 31% Fateh, 13% Davis, 10% Hampton electionresults.sos.mn.gov/results/Inde...

RESULT: Democrats have defended the Minnesota senate. Their one-seat margin was at play in a special election tonight, though to be clear this was a clearly Dem-leaning seat. Of course, this is on top of the mountain of seats Dems have flipped in the Virginia House to expand their majority there.

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

The kid would like to know when we can expect Minneapolis news. What do I tell them?

youtu.be/iQVsVNPkPmE Here’s some DJ Cardamom (Mayor Zohran) for celebrating to

On CSPAN, a caller is saying Mamdani has shone that young voters, Dem and Repub, can refuse to support Israel and force candidates to stop supporting Israel if they want their votes, and this IS Mamdani's doing—and the kind of thing that wouldn't be MENTIONED on CSPAN before