Pedaling Professor

We already knew Minneapolis was #1, but it’s always nice to get some confirmation. Great parks, great neighborhoods, the best biking in the country, and a city people want to move to. Thanks to CityNerd for the shoutout!

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Riding an e-bike, buying an electric vehicle, taking public transit, or finding a work-from-home job could save you lots of money on your monthly diesel bill.

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Fall in Minnesota is the best. Love this place.

The weather and fall colors in Minnesota were so nice today that the only reasonable choice was to take a 20 mile route home. What a spectacular place we're lucky to call home.

When you're sweating in short sleeves after sunset, it's hard to believe October is included among the 7 months of Minnesota winter during which it's too frigid to ride a bike, according to the best estimates of assholes holding microphones at community meetings.

SOS NIMBYs will bankrupt us yet.

The weather and fall colors in Minnesota were so nice today that the only reasonable choice was to take a 20 mile route home. What a spectacular place we're lucky to call home.

What's left of MAGA is rallying around a few core beliefs. Making horrible shit up about Black, brown and Muslim people, immigrants from certain countries, and trans folks. Obsessing about Biden. Ignoring the Epstein Files, an affordability crisis and unprecedented graft. What a time to be alive.

i wish hatred of cyclists was exclusive to maga and republicans but it's so much more pervasive than that

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Get out and vote, Bemidji!

The Trump family runs the government, and the government pays the Trump family. This is not a coincidence – it's deep corruption that never would have been tolerated before a convicted felon took over the White House. Vote against all Republicans.

Absolutely perfect afternoon for riding a bike (or just being outside in any way) today in Minneapolis.

Talking to a relative from Ontario with an EV who sometimes encounters charging spots blocked by people with big gas trucks who think it's funny. Multiple times on ONroute highway stops. Pure spite. Car culture is crazy.

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home. (Published Dec. 2025)

Minneapolis! 🚲 Join Dero and @bikebusworld.bsky.social next Wednesday! Whether you already lead a #BikeBus or are curious about starting one, come meet local leaders & learn more about the Bike Bus movement! 🍽️ Food and drinks provided! RSVP here: forms.gle/bqwAKBZYhfy5... Hope to see you there!

I've never struggled to believe reports of bad behavior by cops because even in my very limited interactions with them in my life, they've often been remarkably unprofessional, rude, and threatening. Just suggested one shouldn't block the only accessible sidewalk and he called me a p*ssy and more.

Really unfortunate to see Evil cynically sending voter suppression attack mail about Lesser Evil for a thing Evil supports twice as hard.

El-Sayed: JD Vance called me a little weasel today. No, what you’re talking about is a fucking wolverine.

During my Amtrak borealis trip to Chicago this weekend, the conductor announced that a signal was out so they'd have to get out and manually flag the train through. Sure enough, conductors got out, walked to the front, and corked the intersection for the whole damn train 😂

Give Klobuchar a DFL House and Senate, and there will be plenty of positive policy and budget movement. Give DeMuth a DFL House and Senate, and we'll be lucky to have a state budget next year. Primary is the time for protest voting. General is to vote for the least-bad viable candidate.

The cost of heating oil is up 64% thanks to Donald Trump and Michele Tafoya's illegal war. A "Florida Woman" like Tafoya might flee south every winter, but these rising prices will put millions of Minnesota families in dire straits. End this war. abcnews.com/US/americans...

I had a large-ish Twitter following and it was professionally useful, but I've never understood the "oh nooo I can't lose all my followers and posts" thing. You are not the National Weather Service. You are not posthumously donating your archives to a university library. This stuff barely matters.

“X is a GOP Super PAC run by the largest donor to the GOP ever.” This is correct.

Strib poll is out, Flanagan +4, pretty much all the polls converging at this point. Reminder that Tina last won by 5, polls can be wrong, the only thing you can control is your vote, do it early, try to help others vote for Peggy, keep pushing not just posting! www.startribune.com/minnesota-po...

so cheerful and inclusive!!!

This should be obvious, but don’t trust the guy who makes money helping predators create child sexual abuse material with your credit card.

I mentioned the other day, I popped my head on X for five minutes (to check something by an account that only posts there) - the most inexplicable thing was seeing people, actual people I know, arguing with bots. Like boiling frogs, people still there seem to have no clue what it's become.

"It’s time we rethink what outreach in organic chemistry can look like. We often focus on K–12 students, as we should. But there is another audience we may be overlooking: intellectually curious adults who simply want to learn about our field." #chemsky 🧪

The Trump regime is going to try to steal the midterm elections—and they will use X as part of their disinformation and propaganda campaign. It’s really dumb that Democrats and progressive groups still use X as their primary source of sharing news and information.

Why did NC, SD & NE perform so much better reducing emissions than CA, WA & CT? Because they are less likely to build highways they can’t afford to maintain. In other words, fiscal responsibility might be better for the climate than a climate champion. bethosbornesga.substack.com/p/progressiv...

Getting to be that peak time of year for some of my favorite local fall color views.

When I got the email I assumed it was a much larger funding gap. This couldn't be closed?? It's not insignificant, but it's also not that huge. More will be wasted on Mayor Her's lawsuits than this.

This gap is less than it cost the mayor to put a bounce house in the warehouse district for a summer. This is 1/33 the cost of MPS's surprise overtime. They renovated Target Center in part by making us, the citizens, pay $74 million via a sales tax. WE. HAVE. MONEY. We can spend it in better places

Less than the likely cost of two lawsuit settlements against a current StP city council member.... Seriously, this is a pathetically small amount in the scheme of budgets and sadly reminiscent of Nice Ride getting shut down because the core cities don't back up policy with budget support.

wow -- Fox Business is now treating Trump's completely made up economic boasts as though they are factual. Note the citation here -- "The White House" Reminder that the entire US economy is about $32t. If we really had $21t flowing in, you'd notice it Fox thinks their viewers are really dumb

👏👏👏 We couldn’t agree more!

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Legit think an underapppreciated source of anti-AI hate right now is that everyone has these experiences, and everyone knows dealing with the "conversational" chatbot is so much worse than navigating a simple menu of options.

elizabeth shaffer is so pro waymo she is bringing one of their vehicles into loring park along with representatives from the company on october 22 feels weird to have an elected official promoting a private business to this extent. waymo is not a public service or public good

Is YOUR city council president this awesome? No, unless you live in Minneapolis.

and now Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries