Effin spooky 🦇

The Minneapolis City Council is adding another way for community members to make their voices heard during the budget process. The City Council will host two informal listening sessions for residents to provide feedback on the Mayor’s 2027 recommended budget.

Hey Northeast Minneapolis! Right now Prospect Park, the University, Marcy Holmes, and Cedar Riverside are ahead of you in the vote count. Fix this! Get thee to 980 East Hennepin via bike, bus, foot, car, or other conveyance and exercise your right to vote. vote.minneapolismn.gov/voters/vote-...

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

Join us this Sunday in Northeast Minneapolis for GOTV! We have fresh union printed @seanlimmn.bsky.social sample ballots, and our beloved congresswoman @ilhanmn.bsky.social will be joining us. 🤌🤌 Sign up to doorknock with SD60 DFL this Sunday, November 1 @ 1pm : www.mobilize.us/keithellison...

Happening tonight at Sabathani! We will have lawn signs available as well!

A year of campaigning… And just 7 days left! Vote now through Nov 3rd. Let’s do this. ZackforMN.com #minnesota #election #vote #localmatters

We are proud to have Representative Cedrick Frazier represent the DFL on the ballot this year for Hennepin County Attorney. He is the only DFL-endorsed candidate in this race, and we encourage all Hennepin County DFLers to vote for him on or before November 3rd!

Much of what @nerd4cities.bsky.social is praising is the Hennepin design. So it's important to remember Frey's first instinct after becoming strong mayor was to appoint a public works director (Kelliher) who wanted to kill the Hennepin Ave bike lane. We had to fight to keep it in the plan.

"The site has become a perfect storm – land never intended for human habitation has become a home for people who say they have no place else to go." (story is really well done!) www.minnpost.com/community-he...

everyone I know has been channeling their trauma from January into continued action, incl voting, and I hope the DFL understands we want heads on pikes

🧵 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)

I took exactly one photo the whole night and it’s perfect.

Hey y’all 💗 Thanks to your kindness, we've made progress, but we’ve had to reopen our GoFundMe. We still owe UPS about $40,000. If you can donate or share our story, it would mean so much. Thank you for your continued support! gofund.me/c55f7fe89

"The rich are only defeated when running for their lives." - CLR James, The Black Jacobins

Can we stop calling them "prediction markets" and call them what they are, which is betting/gambling platforms? My teeth itch every time someone says they're "trading" on one of those things. Betting. What you're doing is called betting or gambling, Kevin.

this man is a gotdamned patriot

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

Expanding the court is the moderate centrist position

“it would be really sad in this moment of minnesota did not defeat republicans up and down the ballot,” ilhan omar says minnesota is not interested in a “pedophile protection party, minnesota does not come after our refugees, we send one to congress.”

...& for clarification: 1) I'm not telling anyone how to vote, you can make your own choices, 2) I address all common questions/dissents in this essay/thread. in short, trans-exclusionary Dems will proliferate unless we draw the line somewhere. this is where I'm drawing it. bsky.app/profile/juli...

This, exactly. What is worth spending time and attention on? What would you never offload, even if you could? (Don't answer here. Answer for yourselves! And then act accordingly!)

Just speaking for myself but I was completely fine not knowing what Matt Yglesias thought about basically anything

I agree with this strategy of voting for Dems provided that they haven't embraced extreme anti-trans positions. and I definitely agree that Kaptur, Cuellar, & Turek have all crossed that line & I personally wouldn't vote for them

This afterword to Tales from Earthsea appears in The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, published by Saga Press in 2018.

Gift link to share with your undecided Hennepin County friends: racketmn.com/dont-fall-fo...

Sign+share! Union proposals our newspaper's parent company has rejected: Content under a reporter’s name must be their work, not AI; AI content must be reviewed by a human journalist and LABELED as AI; AI may not be used to generate deepfakes; Pioneer Press may not lay us off and replace us w/AI

If Americans need our little southern recipe for how to defeat fascism it goes like this: - Put people in the streets by standing for popular demands (wages, healthcare, public services) - Do not engage with fascists online - Do not succumb to doomsayers or media-driven narratives - Be happy

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

Minnesotans know that you get what you organize for. President Obama knows that too. We stood up to Donald Trump once. On November 3rd, let’s do it again.

This is the real NYC miracle. Organizing communities not just candidates.

If you can’t do a doorknock (and theres many reasons people may be unable to knock doors, like accessibility barriers, work hours, illness, parenting young children) but still want to help get out the vote for DFLers consider signing up for a phonebanking shift!

"Serbia’s longtime nationalist strongman, Aleksandar Vucic, conceded defeat Sunday in a general election held after his once-tight grip on power was weakened by nearly two years of student-led street protests." Slobodan Milosevic was this asshole's mentor. If Serbia can do it, we have hope here.

Lula Goes HARD

"In response to Tommy's world of exclusion, El Sayed spoke of a world of solidarity with all humans simply because they are human, and exposed Tommy as somebody who had, by his own choice, excluded himself from that." www.the-reframe.com/taking-our-c...

this is honestly invigorating—maybe because the US far right has been on the rise most of my life, maybe because it suggests why the far right being unpopular is not enough. mostly: because it gives us something we can do