Beth Menninga

The power of exclusion, inclusion snd who gets to play. ”So exclusion from play not only deprives them of critical opportunities to learn and grow, it severs their sense of connection and belonging.”

Holy buckets, Minnesota! I’m coming back, this time with @couriernewsroom.bsky.social! Can’t wait to moderate these incredible conversations with @peggyflanagan.bsky.social and @ag.state.mn.us tomorrow night in Minneapolis

East River Parkway

We are now at the point where Trump is comparing the asses of Jon Husted and Nicki Minaj.

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

wellstone was the first politician i ever got to volunteer for. people love to quote “we all do better when we all do better” but i try to live by this one: “If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.”

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

Dealing with the hope/anxiety pre-election mania by painting (and door knocking :)

I’m back to my pear fixation

It’s time to do this. #childcareforallmn

In a major escalation in Dems embracing anti-trans positions, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the official campaign arm of House Democrats, released its first anti-trans ad supporting Nancy Lacore in SC-01. Transphobia is spreading among dems. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Somewhere over the rainbow chard.

At a show at First Ave last weekend, Daði Freyr casually said he was glad to be in Minnesota and someone yelled, “Fuck ICE!” Then more shouts of “Fuck ICE!” rang out. Happens everywhere people gather around here now. Contrary to caricature, we don’t say “Ya sure ya betcha”. We shout “Fuck ICE!”

”Jesus wept.”

Do you want to see the Meta settlement money fund accessible, affordable, high-quality after-school and out-of-school-time programs for Minnesota youth? 📣 Take action at bit.ly/united4youthmn

Emphasizing again that we cannot treat this as just business as usual. This is the President of the United States openly attacking an entire ethnic group.

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Went and voted early at Webber Park and got this awesome early voted sticker!

New Mexico has a clear choice for Governor. Vote for Deb—lower costs for families and higher pay for workers. Universal childcare is on the ballot this November.

Souk refresher

🧵 about one retribution campaign

What we're feeling needs to be said today...

We've gotta learn to believe these authoritarians are who they say they are the first time they tell us. Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's home this morning. Her office says, "The Congresswoman has done nothing wrong." Here are some things I'm not seeing enough of in our online chatter. 🧵

I’m outraged by this attack on Representative Omar. Trump and his DOJ have a bizarre obsession with tearing down Minnesota, our leaders and our communities. This latest action, even as voting has already started in Minnesota, is a transparent attempt to interfere in our elections.

This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

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According to the St Paul Public Schools, more than 115 different hospitals me languages are spoken by students.

Election 2026: St. Paul City Question 1 (the proposed Tenant Right to Repair ordinance). naomikritzer.com/2026/10/12/e...

Look who is enjoying the parsley on this unnaturally warm day!

The power, and the weight, of “both/and” ( vs. either/or)

Do not seek common ground and compromise with fascists!! This is fundamental, people!

“Mayor Zohran Mamdani said early reports indicated federal agents surrounded the man and a 5-year-old child in his car before opening fire. Mamdani said the child was believed to be physically unharmed.”

📣 “Don't be afraid. We have each other. We know what to do, & we will not be silent.” Thank you, Rabbi Heather Renetzky, for reminding us of the power we have when we stand together. G'mar chatima tovah to all observing Yom Kippur. 🫂

The Big Beautiful Bill cut corporate income taxes pretty substantially. Corporate tax revenues came in even lower than expected.

CSCCE’s new analysis shows the percentage of early educators who are immigrants in each state, from less than 5% in seven states to 38% in Florida. As the administration ramps up its anti-immigrant actions, children, families, & communities are being traumatized. cscce.berkeley.edu/publications...

The conventional wisdom in home building was that constructing units that are both energy efficient and powered by renewable energy substantially increases the cost. But two new affordable housing developments in Northfield and Faribault show otherwise.

Weird reality of the Twin Cities is essentially living inside a double blind experiment for every policy imaginable. Really goes to show that activists were quite correct that the pause was about giving ppl extra time to catch up on back rent, not just delaying the inevitable as the mayor argued

Vote YES.

The Cornell 7 crimes and coverups make it painfully clear that powerful men don't really care about protecting women. (#Trans women could have told you that.)

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Fall colors showing off for rowers on the Mississippi