🗣️👂 WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: "If the painful but necessary firing of city employees doesn't include Lisa Goodman, is the mayor actually serious about loving and supporting our taxpayers?"

Construction project stopped short of demolishing Uptown's historic "JIMMY JOHNS IS STILL IN THIS MALL!!!" sign.

Residents are fed up after years of driveway blockage.

Just watched 2 people leave a business on Hennepin, cross street halfway, use median as a refuge, then enter their vehicle parked on the whole other side of street from the business they left. It felt like watching whatever the opposite of a crisis actor is. Normalizing medians.

This driver is known as a triple threat. Sidewalk, crosswalk, bike lane.

Happening now in the grittiest part of Uptown: residents of a senior building waving anti maga, anti billionaire signs, getting supportive honks from drivers on Hennepin Ave. They're out here weekly. One said he's ready to phone bank for Nov now that primary is over.

Diary of an Election Judge: "new colleague says he used to be a bounty hunter and a repo man. Says he only took this job to get experience so he could testify in court about election fraud."

Diary of an Election Judge: "I hope that comes off the jacket or it'll be stuck on there." -woman scolding her husband for using the I voted sticker as recommended.

Diary of an Election Judge: "An alarming number of people who live on Aldrich Avenue believe it's pronounced 'Aldrick.'"

Underappreciated primary result: viral ICE lawyer Julie Le overtakes Latonya Reeves for distant 2nd place in CD5 against winner Ilhan Omar.

100% of Wedge neighborhood precincts reporting: MN Sen Flanagan - 2,150 (89%) Craig - 261 (11%) MN CD5 Ilhan - 2,191 (92%) ICE lawyer - 71 (3%) Latonya Reeves 71 (3%) Hennepin County Attorney Frazier - 1323 (63%) Nguyen - 321 (15%) Folk - 252 (12%)

Hennepin County Attorney 2022 vs 2026 ➡️ 2026 primary Frazier - 36 Folk - 23 general ???? ➡️ 2022 primary Moriarty - 36 MHD - 18 general Moriarty - 58 MHD - 42

Friends, tonight proves what I've said all along. This was a battle between the good guys and the stinkybutt moneybags. And the good guys won. I'd also like to say I just got off the phone with the leader of the stinkybutt moneybags and she promised to be with us 100% the rest of the way.

Not to take anything away from Peggy Flanagan, but it seems plausible that signal chat user "flan southside" could've beaten Angie Craig.

Cedrick Frazier first (36%) in race to be next Hennepin County Attorney. Anders Folk at 22%. Both move on to the general election. Egg on my face. I predicted Folk would get Winkler'd.

Republican beats the pillow man: "Lisa Demuth is a world beater, nobody else could've done this." Alternate universe where Democrat has the chance to defeat the my pillow conspiracy guy: "c'mon it's the pillow guy."

Craig campaign hoping to maximize their deficit outside Hennepin so that when Hennepin finally comes in it will already be a foregone conclusion and nobody will be awake to see the carnage.

Haven't seen results this lopsided in the Wedge since Garcia over Colby in 2025.

Minneapolis primary turnout as of 5 pm.

Today's primary contests in Minnesota will go a long way towards settling whether the current DFL still aspires to the old Wellstone credo: "We all do better when we all do better. No soliciting of any kind. No exceptions."

For today only, primary day, Aug 11, I'm a local govt employee doing the bravest thing you can do in America in 2026: evading my employer's warning to not post about the election. This is pre scheduled. All of today's posts were written before my election judge shift. Boss can't touch me.

🚨The polls are open for primary day 2026. ⚠️All the tired cliches are in effect: -This is the most important election of our lifetimes. -Make a plan to vote. -Get in line, stay in line. -Yard signs don't vote. -This election isn't about me, it's about you. -It's all gonna come down to turnout.

Cat within 100 feet of my polling place.

Sources who've seen early drafts of Mayor Frey's Wednesday budget address say he will attempt to ease concerns about rising taxes and cuts to services by telling residents to stop viewing the police budget in portrait mode.

"During the arrest, police say the officer's unoccupied squad car hit the man. We know that sounds confusing. We're looking for more information."

Stop sending me Sahan Journal style candidate matchmaker quizzes for the 2025 election. It's over. Let's move on.

I often hear people express skepticism about Palmisano and Vetaw - whether they have the right agenda, or any agenda at all. But who else is thinking of the city's under-fenced population, unable to attain more robust fencing? Now they can put fencing around their families.

Stop pretending you poured your "time, sweat, savings, and hope" into that old mansion for the sake of "the neighborhood." You just have a really expensive hobby. You don't have to feel ashamed. But it's not a reason we need to roadblock a shelter for homeless families.

Minneapolis Planning Commission approved 2011 Pillsbury in Whittier for emergency shelter for families experiencing homelessness. 65 beds. Up to 27 families. Intended for stays less than 6 mos. Typical client described as single parent, small children. No changes to the exterior of the structure.

Thing to keep in mind ahead of tomorrow's primary: "Getting Winklered" is not the latest dirty meme extracted from Mayor Kaohly Her's phone. It's when a forgettable white guy candidate for Hennepin County Attorney with establishment support never catches on.