David Brauer

David Brauer

@dbrauer.net

Former journalist, long-time Minneapolitan, curator of Uptown’s borders and chief rememberer, Halloween Blizzard of 1991. Amplifier & participant in the Minnesota Resistance.

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@corbinhiar.bsky.social

I dug into Anthropic's 240,000-word prospectus so you don't have to. The AI giant said data centers are likely to increase gas prices, it's not interested in nuclear or renewables, and it's looking to expand abroad in part due to U.S. data center backlash. subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter/2...

Strib’s Rochelle Olson has written about Hennepin Commissioner Irene Fernando’s “Doctor Commish” hat multiple times, if you want to know how All of Mpls and the daily paper are in sync. It’s a silly attack from a group formed to fluff the mayor who regularly wears twink shorts.

Lindsay@lindsaympls.bsky.social

And lastly calling her unserious because she dares to wear a hat? Because she has a personality? Because she has made a concerted effort to change who sees themselves in politics? She’s taking a very boring and unsexy job and trying to make it a little bit fun. Heaven for-fucking-bid!

Early voting is a big help! While early voting at the county level started Sept. 16 — a lot of lit dropping hadn’t started — its backloaded so now is prime time. Only 1/6th to 1/4 of Mpls votes early through Election Day. It’s great to be able to skip those doors and focus on a smaller subset.

Ryan Gleason@gleas23.bsky.social

@dbrauer.net curious if you have a take on this: early voting a major hindrance on campaign lot drops, or not much of an effect? I'm not terribly concerned as it's the price of campaigning but it's an interesting newer wrinkle. Can't really lit drop in August so what's the balance/sweet spot?

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Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty

@hennepinatty.bsky.social

The Hennepin County Attorney's Office has been working hard alongside our partners to ensure elections are fair, free, and safe. If anyone engages in unlawful activity, we will investigate and charge, if appropriate. It's your right to vote. Use it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0bB...

youtube.comMinnesota Election 2026: Register to Vote & Make Your Voting Plan | Hennepin County AttorneyYouTube video by HennepinAttorney

Doing a little early-voting precinct-by-precinct # crunching. Will dump it on you tomorrow. But my early conclusion is: the lower-income south side wards, especially Ward 6 & Ward 9, are doing a bang-up job early voting. Precincts with Somali-Minnesotans already voted 2x last midterm’s early vote.

Here it is: bsky.app/profile/dbra...

David Brauer@dbrauer.net

🧵 Minneapolis early voting thru Monday. 7 full early voting days to go, but precincts in blue at/above 2022 *total* early vote. Orange = below ‘22’s total , but again, full week to go. Only 1 precinct (7-10 in Stevens Square) is below 70% of ‘22. Pace seems certain to smash 2018 midterm record (52k)

🧵 Minneapolis early voting thru Monday. 7 full early voting days to go, but precincts in blue at/above 2022 *total* early vote. Orange = below ‘22’s total , but again, full week to go. Only 1 precinct (7-10 in Stevens Square) is below 70% of ‘22. Pace seems certain to smash 2018 midterm record (52k)

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North Minneapolis Wards 4 & 5 are … ok? Pockets of strength in more prosperous NW corner & down by a previous pop-up site.

Overall, @maxhailperin.bsky.social thinks we might top 70,000 early votes, well above the 52k 2018 mid-term record and within shouting of 80k+ in 2024 presidential year. BUT it’s very important to note fear might still drop ultimately totals - spread positive messages & encourage people to vote!

🧵 Minneapolis early voting thru Monday. 7 full early voting days to go, but precincts in blue at/above 2022 *total* early vote. Orange = below ‘22’s total , but again, full week to go. Only 1 precinct (7-10 in Stevens Square) is below 70% of ‘22. Pace seems certain to smash 2018 midterm record (52k)

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Meanwhile, the fancypants areas of Minneapolis (lakes-area Ward 7 & 13, near-northeast part of Ward 3) are *relative* laggards but again, Ward 13 has a popup site at Lynnhurst on Wednesday. These areas are not as “under threat” from ICE, etc as W6 & W9, so their folks may vote normal/later.

Northeast Mpls Ward 1 (and Ward 3), pummeled by ICE, is also a relative laggard. Not sure why, but one theory is whiter wards are lagging generally. Meanwhile Ward 2 (U-area) lifted by Monday’s popup. W2 gains are off a low-EV-turnout base however.

🧵 Minneapolis early voting thru Monday. 7 full early voting days to go, but precincts in blue at/above 2022 *total* early vote. Orange = below ‘22’s total , but again, full week to go. Only 1 precinct (7-10 in Stevens Square) is below 70% of ‘22. Pace seems certain to smash 2018 midterm record (52k)

… caveats: early voting may not predict ultimate turnout (could just be front-loading voters who would vote anyway), but it’s something DFL organizers have been driving voters to do. Areas lagging now may not ultimately — there are pop-up voting sites in slower Wards 8 & 13 this week.

Ok, some things that pop: Wards 6 & 9 are rocking. W6 has precinct 6-3, a huge EV area at Cedar-Riverside, but the whole ward (lots of Somali & Latino voters) is strong. 6-3 is 155% of 2022. Ward 9 is a medium-ish EV area but its poorer parts are easily besting small numbers.

Doing a little early-voting precinct-by-precinct # crunching. Will dump it on you tomorrow. But my early conclusion is: the lower-income south side wards, especially Ward 6 & Ward 9, are doing a bang-up job early voting. Precincts with Somali-Minnesotans already voted 2x last midterm’s early vote.

To be clear, this is Minneapolis-only at this point

Minneapolis hit 43,000 early votes today. Reminder: 46k early in all of 2022, the last midterm. 52k is Mpls midterm record (2018). Should top that given previous week saw ~13,000 early votes. Still a full week of early voting to go! 2024 presidential early was 86,500.

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Gives me a chance to update this thread (bsky.app/profile/dbra...). With 30,000+ early votes in, Minneapolis is already at 2/3rds of 2022’s early voting 12 days before Election Day & 57% of 2018’s midterm record 52,000. Ward 6 blossomed after Tuesday‘s popup voting. Today is Powerhorn Park, 11a-6p.

The precinct where I work, in Ward 3 by the U, has already topped its 2022 early vote total. Kids are ok!

Artificial Inanity

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81-1

12-0 biggest Series shutout? (NYY over Pittsburgh 1960. They lost the Series.)

The Rays fan must be heartbroken

He really doesn’t understand how it works

Trey Warren@treywarren.bsky.social

Every time John Smoltz criticizes a catcher for a successful challenge, an angel gets its wings.

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Eric Michael Garcia

@ericmgarcia.bsky.social

One of the better pieces I read about Brazil before the first round elections described how online betting permeated through Brazil. After Brazil's World Cup squad selected Neymar, he urged fans to visit a betting platform that sponsors him. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...

nytimes.comOnline Gambling and Crushing Debt Are Transforming Brazil (Gift Article)Just days before Sunday’s election, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva banned online gambling. But record-high debt is upending millions of lives.

David Brauer@dbrauer.net

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

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@snyde043.bsky.social

She has been quoted as saying that she wouldn’t rule it out. www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...

reddit.comFrom the minnesota community on Reddit: Minnesota House Speaker and Republican gubernatorial candidate Lisa Demuth refuses to rule out a pardon for Derek Chauvin: "There's a lot that goes into any typ...Explore this post and more from the minnesota community

Project True North@projtruenorth.bsky.social

WATCH: Today, Lisa Demuth refused to answer — three times — whether she would pardon Derek Chauvin.

Affirmative action on newspaper editorial pages has long meant conservatives are fluffed & get innumerable chances. Hell, Mark Thiessen is an Iraq War war criminal and the Washington Post gobbled him right up.

Margin of Terror@randballsstu.bsky.social

The same guy who endorsed tafoya in the strib today wrote that "70 percent of the teams in the NBA could fold tomorrow and nobody would notice a difference with the possible exception of increase in street crime." He's considered a moderate.

mprnews.orgMinn. lawmaker Garofalo apologizes for NBA tweetRep. Pat Garofalo, suggested in a tweet Sunday night that pro basketball players have criminal tendencies.

45 years ago the NBA finals aired on tape delay at 11:30 p.m., but at least ticketholders got to see the game in prime time.

Marisa Ingemi@mingemi.bsky.social

Valkyries vs Dream Game 6 will be at 12:30pm eastern at State Farm Arena, according to ESPN

Struck by Strib Opinion’s “let’s endorse everyone” columns. Journalist writes Flanagan piece, full of caveats, reconsiderations. (www.startribune.com/mn-midterm-e...). Partisan pens full-throated Tafoya ad ignoring any of that. (www.startribune.com/mn-midterm-e...). Hope former style more convincing

startribune.comOpinion | The case for Peggy Flanagan"Perhaps Flanagan’s greatest strength is her deep understanding of the financial pressures facing working families," columnist Aaron Brown writes.

He was brought on for youth appeal. Tempus fugit #rip

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Us old heads who watched Trek as kids are down to Kirk & Sulu. We’re next …

Minneapolis: come for the world-historical crises, stay for the resulting cheaper home prices!

David H. Montgomery@dhmontgomery.com

Median rent as a share of median income of renter households in major U.S. metros, 2010 vs. 2024. Minneapolis is lowest on the list, at 29%, down from 30.4% in 2010. www.artio.so/dataviz/page...

I'm attending Minnesota DFL 2026 Coordinated Campaign's event, “Get Out The Vote Doorknock with Omar Fateh, Aisha Gomez, Christin Crabtree and Central N www.mobilize.us/dflcc/event/...

mobilize.usGet Out The Vote Doorknock with Omar Fateh, Aisha Gomez, Christin Crabtree and Central Neighbors! · Minnesota DFL 2026 Coordinated CampaignJoin your neighbors in South Minneapolis Central Neighborhood to knock doors and get out the vote for our full DFL-endorsed ticket of candidates! On November 3rd, we have the opportunity to elect lea...

Tell the University of Minnesota person in your life that they can early vote at the Weisman Art Museum 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today (Monday).

I always found it a bit weird that they chose Green and Blue for the two LRT lines. In my admittedly non-artistic mind, those colors just don’t contrast enough. I’ve always been curious why those two got picked.

amityf@amityf.bsky.social

I feel for the folks who are going to the airport on the train who get on the Green Line and not the Blue. And also, listen to the announcements, buds. Read the signs. #busride

One of my deeply held yet unauthoritative beliefs is that Emily Hanford‘s “everything you know about education is wrong” reports should be fisked extremely hard because they‘re extremely popular with the target audience

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I fully admit it’s my knee-jerk contrarianism but the certainty just sets off all my former-journalist alarm bells. (Also you don’t see mainstream newsrooms go this hard on anything else, like, say, fascism — @jcollins.bsky.social & some excepted)

I guess I have too many teachers in my life who told me, “yeah, some instruction modes have some problems for some kids but these ONE WEIRD TRICK takes are porn for The Atlantic Magazine class”

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@maxhailperin.bsky.social

So those anti-Klobuchar mailers that surely must be from a Republican operation have twins in Wisconsin traced to a Republican-linked operation. popular.info/p/mailers-fr...

popular.infoMailers from “Progressive Alliance of Wisconsin” linked to GOP operative in OklahomaThe mailers, targeting Democratic gubernatorial nominee David Crowley, are part of a Republican dirty-tricks operation

I actually like the Strib’s new insipid incarnation under Phil Morris better than reading the traditional full-throated endorsements of Michele Tafoya, Ron Shutz & Anders Folk (though the latter has Rochelle Olson & Eric Roper for that).

mollypeonies@mollypeonies.bsky.social

Strib: “Introducing The Case For, our new election series where each candidate gets an endorsement. From one columnist. That's right. We believe democracy works best when people explain why they're voting exactly how we already knew they would. Why take a stand when you can just assign one?"

startribune.comOpinion | The case for Lisa DemuthHouse Speaker Lisa Demuth, Andy Brehm writes, is "a cool-headed and capable legislator from Cold Spring who answers to no one but the people of this state and her principles of fiscal responsibility a...

Bluesky has five kinds of users

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I’m in one of these photos. Spent the day in Brooklyn Center. You never know what you’re gonna get at the doors, but the people who opened them were nice, a few didn’t know when Election Day was (it happens, that’s why we‘re meeting people where they are). Peggy did a great job firing us up!

Peggy Flanagan@peggyflanagan.bsky.social

Minnesotans are fired up and ready for big, bold change. Pramila Jayapal gets that, and I was so grateful to have her join me and DFLers in Golden Valley and Brooklyn Park!

I’ll say it again: I’m not getting any clear signal on how the election is gonna go (honestly, not much bad but you never know what non-answerers are thinking & lists vary in their votingness), but have come to accept that the ground game is ”doing the work“ and Ds are doing a lot of it.

Also have to say, “State Rep. Huldah Hiltsley, I was not familiar with your game.” Stirring speaker, held her own with the very accomplished @peggyflanagan.bsky.social & @cedrickfrazier.bsky.social …

Lamelo 13 minutes +25

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

The environment won in Brazil and lost in British Columbia, what a world

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Chris Terry-Enescu

@cjterry.bsky.social

Has to be said that a great thing about Lula is he is a champion grade hater

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The green-and-blue flu

Michael Scotto@mikeascotto.bsky.social

Kawhi Leonard is out tonight for the Toronto Raptors with left knee swelling.

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@rileybruce.bsky.social

To paraphrase @marciaxthree.bsky.social in support of Kat’s point: Voting is when you pick who you want to protest.

Kat Rohn@rohnkat.bsky.social

It's okay to be angry at bad leadership and broken systems *and* still vote & work within them - because we shouldn't cede any of the tools we can exercise power with. Let's keep anger pointed where it should be and give more energy to building forward and caring for each other along the way.