Urbanism dilettante who talks a big game about biking to work in the winter. Simultaneously loves & hates cars. Lives in Minneapolis. Loves music and Star Trek.
I’m not taking any f*ing chances. We need to campaign hard and get out every voter we can.
We all remember what happened last time the quants told us not to worry because it was statistically improbable.
I just got my very first person to person email which was obviously written by AI.
This is like the time I caught COVID like 3 years after everyone else.
Trump and his shitheads have successfully damaged the US Postal Service. Packages sent to us from St Paul sometimes go to Arizona or California before coming back to Minneapolis.
Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...
Historians will study this era. A whole crop of PhDs will try to explain why we thought putting ground, granulated rice or rice crispies on roasted vegetables made them fancy.
I may not see this damage undone in my lifetime.
I get steamed about this kind of crap. These bridges and sidewalks are bare minimum mobility for people screwed by freeway infrastructure. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...
Prediction: having closed the 24th St bridge some of the homeless people will move down to the Sabo bridge, which is an even more important link (I'll be happy to be wrong, and there's no easy answers to this problem)
Portland bar and club managers talk about "It" happening like medieval Europeans talked about Prester John. Times are bleak now, lads, but one elderly man's failing organs are all that stand between us and 150 million Americans launching a drinking binge.
Dear neighbor,
I am frustrated, though unsurprised, to hear that an unelected, undemocratic body—unaccountable to voters—is considering a charter amendment to strip the public of an important role they hold in their government. 1/
“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”
I’m excited to speak at the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference tomorrow in Austin, Texas.
This session will be called “Defending
Democracy: How Cities Rise Up When Feds Push Down."
I’m always pleasantly surprised when I get a like or follow on Bluesky.
I spend some time on Instagram and it’s all bots. But here it’s like “oh, that’s a real person. And they seem pretty cool.”
Chavez: in last 3 months since your comments, MPD hasn't witnessed a single unlawful use of force against anyone in Minneapolis?
O'Hara: There is no incident where it would've been possible for an officer to intervene. If there's any incident specifically we're happy to review that.
Beneath Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, an overlooked retail strip has been reborn as a bicycle parking facility and public passage connecting users to the S-Bahn station. Modest in scale but rich in possibilities, it integrates seamlessly into the revitalised entertainment, commercial and office centre.🧵
We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.
JUST IN: The five-year-old Columbia Heights Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, who have been in an ICE detention facility in Texas, are on their way home.
👇 This was posted in response to USA Today’s lousy headline that said that Gov Walz was criticized for comparing the situation some Minnesota children are facing to Ann Frank’s.
Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family.
gofund.me/be8a1b2ab
Every day, but especially on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we're reminded of the systemic racism that plagues every part of the U.S. criminal legal system – from arrest to sentencing and even reentry.
Here's what the data shows 🧵
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.