Sending love to @leighfinke.bsky.social and @hwajeongkim.bsky.social, who showed up for our unhoused neighbors under assault by the city at the Fish Hatchery encampment. Thank you.
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@rollingfor20.bsky.social
loud and annoying on the internet. little guy leftist. he/him. minneapolis. posts are my own and are not representative of my employer! venmo: rollingfor20
I think it's good and cool, actually, that Anders Folk is running to be the guy in charge of prosecuting ICE agents while taking money from the lawyer defending ICE agents.
anders folk took money from brian fitterer, landlord who contributed $500k to donald trump's victory fund in 2020, whose tenants had to form IPG tenants' union due to poor living conditions elizabeth shaffer returned her contribution from him! no need for folk to accept it with nearly $330k on hand
taylr@taylordahlin.com · 10mo agoin whittier now for the IPG tenants’ union press conference beginning shortly on blaisdell ave
🚨 awoooooooo Mayor Her Should Resign Oooooooooooooooooo
Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed
Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...
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new PAC in hennepin county attorney race: safe and just hennepin registered on friday and will be working to elect anders folk. due to timing, only large pre-election contributions are being reported. majority are coming from california haven't seen a launch yet taylordahlin.com/f/who-is-fun...
Who is funding Safe and Just Hennepin PAC to elect Anders Folk?
A new PAC has been registered called Safe and Just Hennepin to elect Anders Folk for Hennepin County Attorney. Due to the timing, having registered on July 31, there are only large pre-election contri...
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I can vouch for this based on what I’ve also heard. You don’t get to the point of making those comments to your chief of police without charge practice on more vulnerable people first.
David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 6h agoGuess I’ll be part of the Kaohly Her whisper campaign but a St. Paul knower confides maybe the police aren’t making shit up, they’re just the only department with the political cover to go public. Ask your St. Paul government friends if Her’s treatment of colleagues and underlings goes beyond SPPD.
Abdul El-Sayed has never held elected office and just won the primary for a senate seat in the biggest battleground state in the country by beating a congresswoman who was endorsed by the current Senator, Governor, and Schumer & the DSCC while being outspent over 10 to 1. That win is plenty big.
Politico@politico.com · 13h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
Today's reminder that the current genAI boom is powered by GPUs manufactured with a mineral called coltan (and other rare earths, and cobalt) mined through the labor of enslaved children in Congo, and the US and UAE fund the paramilitaries which protect those mines and keep those children enslaved.
We have higher rates of kidney and bladder problems compared to the general population, and historically rather than address this, medicine has chosen to either ignore it or blame our healthcare. Nope, turns out marginalization just destroys bodies. Quelle surprise.
Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 7h agoHere's my Cosmo piece about how segregated bathrooms have impacted my own health www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a6...
Nobody go look at how much MPD was over budget it would just make this really awkward
Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · yesterdayMore than 100 city employees could be laid off in Minneapolis in the first major layoffs in 16 years as the city faces a $33 million budget gap.
Clearing people out of the barest homes they've made for themselves while simultaneously giving them no where to go: the cruelest thing I've ever heard.
Choosing to go forward with this violence against the wishes and best practice understanding of every other portion of local government and every field expert is shameful and the Mayor should be ashamed.
MPR News@mprnews.org · 9h agoKat Donnelly, a nurse with Healthcare for the Homeless, spent Tuesday scrambling to refill medications and make sure patients knew where to find her ahead of the Pig's Eye Park encampment closure Wednesday morning.
🚨🚨🚨EHB talks MPD 🚨🚨🚨 I am extremely concerned about the impact that MPD spending will have on our property taxes and budget priorities this year. Now is the time to speak up to stop MPD cost growth from consuming the investments we need in our communities.
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Mni Sóta Makoce—the land where the sky reflects in the water.
Chris Steller@chrissteller.bsky.social · 8h agoMinneapolis just now
Convinced Kaoly Her is going ahead with this encampment sweep this morning despite almost everyone in the know telling her to delay because she thinks she’d otherwise appear politically weak. It’s awful of the mayor to put vulnerable people at greater risk just to try and save her political career.
MPR News@mprnews.org · 9h agoKat Donnelly, a nurse with Healthcare for the Homeless, spent Tuesday scrambling to refill medications and make sure patients knew where to find her ahead of the Pig's Eye Park encampment closure Wednesday morning.
They’re sweeping the Pigs Eye encampment this morning. Shame on Mayor Her.
Mark Wasson@reportermark.bsky.social · 8h agoI’m here at the Fish Hatchery encampment in St. Paul as the city prepares to sweep the camp. St. Paul cops are stopping cars coming in but there are dozens of people that have gathered here in anticipation of the sweep in order to help camp residents and document what the city does here today.
🥳 Run against data centers and win.
WIRED@wired.com · 9h agoActivist and grassroots organizer Will Lawrence has won the Democratic primary election in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, with a campaign focused on data centers’ regulation and demanding accountability for big tech and AI companies. www.wired.com/story/anti-d...
Seconded. It’s wrong on principle, it’s unamerican—we rejected religious tests for office and dual loyalty smears with JFK, Jewish Americans, more—and every minority (especially but not exclusively religious) should recognize it as yet another assertion that only white Christians are real Americans.
ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 15h agoi really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office
I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.
Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 18h agoOne way to be safe is to never write an electability take
thinking about how far $70 million could get us in the twin cities just in general. jesus
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 14h agoNo matter the margin the story is that Haley Stevens got $70M of support, more than $30M of it from a single organization, and still lost.
Gooood morning the results from MI last night make me very hopeful for next week
Over $60 million in superpac spending couldn’t buy the election for Haley Stevens. Unlimited spending can’t cover up the liability of being against abolishing ICE and voting to thank them. Next Tuesday Minnesota can send the same message by voting against Laken Riley Act supporter Angie Craig.
This is why you should hire a friendly transexual with some of a degree in mass communications to help you
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 23h agoThe thing about using slop flyers for advertising is that there’s no way to visually differentiate between a lemonade stand, a BBQ joint, a car wash, and a laundromat. They all look exactly the same and from a branding perspective that’s bad, actually