Jesse P-B

I think a lot about how in January, an SUV driving recklessly crashed into an electrical pole across the street from my house, then four armed & masked men tumbled out of the car, tear gassed my street, and then disappeared, leaving their totaled car blocking the intersection, and MPD never showed

council president elliott payne, vice president jamal osman, majority leader aisha chughtai and minority leader robin wonsley are introducing a staff directive for the city attorney’s office to do a legal analysis to see if they have the authority to subpoena mayor jacob frey and staff

patty wall taking time out of donating to republicans like ron schutz to come all the way to minneapolis from her home in wazyata to take the side of the conversatives in toronto who are removing bike lanes! her husband is john wall, who you know from not letting DSA candidates knock his buildings

I have some treasury bonds, and got an email from the US Treasury about a new login procedure. Seemed like phishing, turns out it's privatization.

Some of the best people I know use @metrotransitmn.bsky.social to get around! Good to see CMs @jchavezmpls.bsky.social, @aurinmpls.bsky.social and @sorenwithward8.bsky.social (and to hear their #busride stories, really!)

We need full climate funding in Mpls!

@unidosmn.bsky.social is leading on this. Check it out. unidos-mn.org/climate-equity

MPD still can’t answer questions about where all the money went. And now, Frey is directing them not to testify before the Council. What are they covering up? What don’t they want the public to know?

the police are defunding our city

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

This seems pretty fucking clear!

if you want to read the minneapolis / MPD budget teaching brief that WEAVE (ward eleven allied voices for equity) put together, they shared it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1y3Fn... very well put together, dense with facts and critical information as we head into city budget season!

New on the website: you ask, I answer, and I take absolutely no responsibility for how many of you are about to get Todd Litman-pilled

I feel like this is the top highway in the cities we should be removing. It's short, in a transit rich area near University and high land value near Como/Saint Anthony. It's just a shortcut for people avoiding I35W. Plus as @pattho.bsky.social wrote about there waterfalls underneath the pavement

and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME

To date, immigration officials have shot and killed 11 people, including two Minnesotans. Across the country, they operate with no respect for human life, the law, or consequences. There's no reforming this agency. Rip it apart.

It’s an abysmal mistake & out of touch for the MPLS City Council to even be considering doing a drone pilot for MPD with a company used by ICE & the IDF. I’ll be voting NO on surveilling our neighbors in Minneapolis. Thanks to the neighbors testifying against this. dronexl.co/2026/02/02/i...

Please, please provide necessary context here: SO FAR EVERY CLAIM THAT A VICTIM ATTEMPTED TO RUN OVER ICE OFFICERS HAS BEEN A LIE.

Always weird to me that these stories don't lead with the fact that the majority of this water goes to wildly wasteful desert agriculture.

After 12 years of very hard work by remarkable people, the Presbyterian Church divests from fossil fuels! A beautiful message amidst the heat and smoke! pres-outlook.org/2026/06/coal...

In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed.

"Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion." - Ben Franklin on Emmers' German ancestors

I especially love this diagram.

This is unacceptable

Please Use AI

Some heroes don't wear capes

Gee this seems like a massive scandal for the mpls mayor. I wonder if the media are pressing him on it?

Bill is correct as usual. Removing public space because we can't find a constructive response to unsheltered homelessness is the ultimate admission of failure. It is surrender in the face of a growing and disturbing problem, and our city will never thrive until we find real solutions.