Guess 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.

If electability matters most to you then the best thing to do is organize. Speculating about what other people might think just isn’t useful although it is a major media pastime & when they do it, it can have effects, but those effects are not predictable or definitive 🤷🏾‍♀️

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 · 11h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

More than half of Minnesota Paid Leave applicants earn less than $78,000 a year — workers who historically had the least access to paid leave and the least cushion to fall back on. Commentary: Paid Leave is helping workers — and businesses like mine minnesotareformer.com/2026/08/05/p...

Paid Leave is helping workers — and businesses like mine • Minnesota Reformer

For small businesses like mine, the Paid Leave program saves me money while providing a safety net that my employees deserve.

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No wonder everyone is so afraid of them

In These Times@inthesetimes.com · 5h ago

Democratic socialists want to “stack the deck” toward working people: make unions easier to organize, protect workers during economic transitions and give labor more power over the conditions under which people work. inthesetimes.com/article/demo...

New York tackles the myth that solar is swallowing farmland

New York tackles the myth that solar is swallowing farmland

Officials are resisting the misinformation spread by the White House and influencers.

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Democratic socialists want to “stack the deck” toward working people: make unions easier to organize, protect workers during economic transitions and give labor more power over the conditions under which people work. inthesetimes.com/article/demo...

What a Democratic Socialist Economic Agenda Looks Like

As democratic socialism returns to the U.S. public eye, socialists need to make clear how their vision differs from the liberalism most Americans are familiar with. Here are five crucial distinctive…

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“There but for the grace of God go I.” No. You’re not special. None of us are. I wish Christians would stop giving providence credit for the random bad luck of others.

olson cares more about the hats irene fernando wears than mayor her sexual harassing city employees left and right, i'm sure she loves al franken too

this one pissed me off more tbh. none of these elected officials with DUIs like engen and wolgamott have said they're alcoholics... seem to be just reckless assholes but she's framing it sympathetically bsky.app/profile/tayl...

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 4mo ago

how dare rochelle olson conflate alcoholism with drunk driving in @startribune.com. plenty of alcoholics don't have DUIs, and non alcoholics get DUIs all the time! as a recovering alcoholic, i say the DFL is fine to mock elliott engen for putting innocent people at risk with his selfish actions

I hope Minnesotans are ready for the level of anti-trans sports ads we’re going to be swimming in this fall. It wasn’t an accident that Riley Gaines flew in *here* to hang with Senate candidate Michelle Tafoya for the Lynx game. Let’s show up for inclusion on the court and at the ballot box.

ALSO "ICU beds" actually relates to worker capacity, so if a facility lost beds it was usually because too many health workers had gotten sick or died

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

We opened an ICU that had been shuttered for well over a decade so that a hospital that has 18 MICU beds could fit 46 patients on ventilators

"It’s unbelievable to subject kids to these kinds of invasive medical exams that have no basis in health or safety. One of my daughters is a rising fourth-grader, and she played a sport last year. Are you going to ask a fourth-grader to undergo this?” s/o @momsrising.org

The Push to Force Genital Exams on Student Athletes

In just a few months, Washington could become the first state to require sex-verification tests for girls playing sports in K–12 schools.

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So they want to r*** even more little girls

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Paul Wellstone was outspent 7:1. Minnesotans proved that organized people can beat organized money. And we’re going to do it again.

That’s one way to spin “couldn’t answer detailed spending and operational questions from a City Council trying to perform its oversight function” www.startribune.com/amid-limbo-m...

Feels like if the commissioner of community safety was really the top of the public safety org chart, Frey would find the new commissioner before searching for the new police chief. But it doesn't actually function that way, which raises the question, why do we spend money on it?

It's funny how far we've come from 2025 when the Frey faction of the Minneapolis DFL was scolding anyone irresponsible enough to make a big deal out of the Lake and Bloomington raid.

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 2d ago

anders folk is using footage from lake & bloomington raid in his ads featuring people who actually showed up to the scene to defend their neighbors who do NOT support his campaign folk obvs has no footage of himself there and his campaign shouldn’t be bolstered by these brave minneapolis residents

It was wrong to make Walz stop calling these chomos weird.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

After the Cedric Alexander experience, I thought Barnette's low key personality was a selling point. Still didn't work. So Frey has picked two very different kinds of clunkers for a job that didn't exist until 2022.

David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 2d ago

That’s one way to spin “couldn’t answer detailed spending and operational questions from a City Council trying to perform its oversight function” www.startribune.com/amid-limbo-m...

Brilliant: “centrists need to take a deep breath, settle down, and understand that they have an interest in seeing all Democrats succeed — even those who are too progressive for their taste.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

New in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."

Michael Rainville spent decades at a publicly funded patronage job because he's a Rainville, which makes it funny that he's now banging the drum for maximum public sector layoffs.

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Personal bankruptcies increased over 50% in the last 3 years. Half a million Americans felt this was their last resort for relief in 2025. Hardworking Americans are forced into financial ruin while Trump focuses on tax cuts for his buddies. It’s insanity. www.npr.org/2026/07/29/n...

More Americans are going bankrupt. What does that mean?

The bankruptcy rate has risen about 48% between 2022 and 2025, although it's still below pre-pandemic levels.

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Food for thought.

It was less than two years ago that a big budget battle at city hall was the city council denying raises to appointed (highest paid) employees. Mayor said it was disrespectful. I hope this year's layoffs are polite. www.mprnews.org/story/2024/1...

As St. Paul pushes forward with plans to clear encampments, I want to lift up the words of Rep. Finke. "Let us see our neighbors for who they are, see their needs as the same as our own and solve them hand in hand." We all deserve safe and healthy communities. Including our unhoused neighbors.

Rep. Leigh Finke@leighfinke.bsky.social · last wk.

“This year Minnesota showed the nation what it means to protect our neighbors in their time of need. Let’s offer that same love and hospitality and care for our unhoused neighbors.”

The role of ChatGPT in the accused FSU shooter’s case goes beyond providing tips, our investigation reveals. In the 12 months before his attack, he messaged with ChatGPT more than 6,600 times—including conversations revealing he was aggrieved, focused on extremist violence, and suicidal.

Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT

A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.

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Did an anyone else notice almost all of the big ‘Do Not Enter’ signs were removed from Bryant a few months ago? 36th still has one but I think almost every other block is missing one from at least 40th-Lake St (which I frequent the most). I’ve seen more drivers going the wrong way. 😔

Local 301's Leya Charles spoke at a We Make Minnesota town hall last night in St. Paul! Leya is a waters specialist at the MN Pollution Control Agency and spoke about the importance of fully funded state agencies.