Alex Schieferdecker

We already knew Minneapolis was #1, but it’s always nice to get some confirmation. Great parks, great neighborhoods, the best biking in the country, and a city people want to move to. Thanks to CityNerd for the shoutout!

Breaking News: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Flávio Bolsonaro to stay president of Brazil, halting the right’s march in Latin America. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/47GKOQJ

Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s longtime nationalist strongman, conceded defeat Sunday in a general election held after his once-tight grip on power was weakened by nearly two years of student-led protests. nyti.ms/4zegOaY

Walk-off FG MINNESOTA'S GOT A PIG

The Strib got ahold of @nerd4cities.bsky.social to ask about his recent Minneapolis city visit and impressions of our expanding network of bike infrastructure. Good interview, even better headline (I might be biased): www.startribune.com/ray-delahant...

🥇 best biking city in America! We had a beautiful week of rolling around #Minneapolis. 🗺️ 🔗https://www.bikabout.com/minneapolis

A mother cougar and her three kittens were captured on a trail camera in northern Minnesota. It’s an extraordinary discovery that could signal the return of a big cat that hasn’t been known to breed in the state for more than a century. 🎧 bit.ly/4tx3ZFJ

I spoke to @chrislhayes.bsky.social for his podcat about the right's new subscription-based masculinity and how its political strategy (most obviously in texas) is built around exploiting male insecurity, much like the manosphere www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The weather and fall colors in Minnesota were so nice today that the only reasonable choice was to take a 20 mile route home. What a spectacular place we're lucky to call home.

that’s right chris

I forgot to snap a photo, but it was a joy to take a group from the Safe Routes Conference on a tour of some Minneapolis bicycle infrastructure. (This unseasonably warm fall weather was a plus!) Support from MPS schools, parents, and students is an underrated driver in Mpls bikeway development:

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

"It is not enough to have 'organizations.' It rather matters whether these organizations have an intelligible connection with power. If the connection is unintelligible or nonexistent, disordered politics is the result." www.liberalcurrents.com/disordered-i...

The baby boomer generation is the first to enter its most vulnerable years with unfettered access to the internet and, like the rest of us, it has trouble looking away. But unlike millennials and most Gen-Xers, older adults tend to have little idea of what they’re looking at.

Reaping [tax escrow lowering the salience of property taxes, allowing for higher rates]: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Sowing [the salience property tax skyrocketing as people pay off their mortgages]: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

The 2027 IBC has been officially published, and it allows single-stair apartment buildings up to four stories! See the new section 1006.3.3.2 codes.iccsafe.org/content/IBC2...

Stuff like this is why the Canadian political establishment is (correctly, IMO) assuming that Democrats can NOT be trusted to return the bilateral relationship to the status quo ante going forward.

The attempt to strip Ilhan Omar of her citizenship is one of the most grave attacks on liberty that the Trump regime has attempted.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/whats-at-s...

Speeding is down dramatically at five high-risk Minneapolis intersections where the city installed cameras to crack down on lead-footed drivers, but it still remains a big traffic concern.

If you missed it at Open Streets, don't miss it here: One habit you can form to reduce your risk of bike theft, and one step you can take right now to drastically improve your odds of getting a stolen bike back. Help us spread the word!

The last Open Streets event of the year is today! 11am-5pm on Hennepin Avenue from 26th Street to 34th Street! Come say hi! Public Works will be at the northern end near the intersection with Girard Ave.

Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.

Amy Klobuchar, now running for Minnesota governor says Tim Walz "should have caught this fraud earlier."

Marco Rubio's Athens speech reduced the patrimony of Western civilization to grindset motivational quotes. www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-greeks...

the fact that so many somali people traversed to the united states and have chosen minnesota as their home is one of the single greatest things about our state and our community and this is a belief i am extremely prepared to defend in any way necessary

As completely deranged and fucked up and wrong as he is, I gotta say it is stressful to have the damn president of the United States constantly attacking my state of Minnesota, sending violence, calling for violence, putting all lives at risk, killing our neighbors. Like it really takes a toll.

Good morning, MSP. #MSPCycleCast

Took the train through downtown, then biked to my NE destination, biked back the scenic way. I love how easy it is to pull my bike on the light rail, especially at night when my tail light is dead!!

Lilian Chebii, 32, of Kenya, won the Twin Cities Marathon on Sunday, breaking a women’s record that stood for 25 years. Chebii ran two hours, 25 minutes, 26 seconds – nearly 90 seconds faster than the previous mark held by two women. Read more: www.startribune.com/live-a-recor...

Meep meep

A giant bumblebee has landed on the side of Orchestra Hall.

JUG JUG JUG MINNESOTA BEATS MICHIGAN AT HOME FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1977