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I took extra joy in voting for dear friends (and champions for our schools!) @christin-with-mpls.bsky.social and @shannon-for-d3.bsky.social , and was delighted to see my college classmate Andy Tweeten up for re-election as a Hennepin County Judge.

Minneapolis Early Voting remains an absolute joy. We went after work yesterday at Elections HQ and had zero line or wait, despite a steady stream of voters.

Every day between now and Election Day Eve, Minneapolis residents can vote at HQ in NE Mpls, at the North Early Vote Center at the Urban League building on N. Plymouth, or the South Early Vote Center at Bethel Lutheran. (Hennepin County Early Vote Center downtown has slightly different hours).

Did you know @bagofmoons.bsky.social is a real human person you can hug in real life?!

Today’s mail from the same group.

The Roosevelt HS auditorium is packed with community members for the final MPS Transformation Plan community meeting. So far, every single speaker has opposed the Transformation Plan.

Minneapolis is strongest when we stand together. We are ready to do the hard work to bring families back to MPS, to convince the legislature to fully fund our schools, and to make sure our communities are safe.

The Roosevelt HS auditorium is packed with community members for the final MPS Transformation Plan community meeting. So far, every single speaker has opposed the Transformation Plan.

When families didn’t know where else to turn, they turned to their schools. And their school communities wrapped them in love. Schools provided access to food, medical care, and rent assistance on a mass scale.

The Roosevelt HS auditorium is packed with community members for the final MPS Transformation Plan community meeting. So far, every single speaker has opposed the Transformation Plan.

2.5 hours of testimony, tears, cheers, chants, and moments of humor. And every single person who spoke was opposed to or had questions about the fundamental assumptions of the Transformation Plan.

The Roosevelt HS auditorium is packed with community members for the final MPS Transformation Plan community meeting. So far, every single speaker has opposed the Transformation Plan.

There are still 150 people here, 2 hours into public testimony.

The Roosevelt HS auditorium is packed with community members for the final MPS Transformation Plan community meeting. So far, every single speaker has opposed the Transformation Plan.

Fantastic FAIR student speaking right now!

The Roosevelt HS auditorium is packed with community members for the final MPS Transformation Plan community meeting. So far, every single speaker has opposed the Transformation Plan.

We are 90 minutes into the meeting, all speakers have opposed the plan. They just announced that we will keep going till 8:30.

The Roosevelt HS auditorium is packed with community members for the final MPS Transformation Plan community meeting. So far, every single speaker has opposed the Transformation Plan.

There is no remote option for participation on any of these meetings - several people have called out the accessibility issues.

This is so gross.

On top of all the terrible details about the proposed Minneapolis Public Schools “Transformation Plan,” is the abomination that it the AI powered version of the MPS “feedback survey.”

The City of Minneapolis appears to have replaced nearly all the stop signs in my neighborhood with brand new signs in the last two weeks.

Presumable because the previous signs had red stickers added that made the signs read “STOP ICE.”