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I spoke with cherished friend @amityf.bsky.social last night and she mentioned that I should have a patreon. I asked, "how do you not know I've had a patreon for many years?" I'm bad at promoting the patreon. Don't make me mention it again. Freedom isn't free and neither is Wedge LIVE.

This is shitty punditry. Republicans are rarely asked to denounce their extremists because the media gets bored at how bigotry and extremism permeates their entire party from top to bottom. Then they get giddy at any hint of controversy on the left, it's all they can talk about.

Piker mania on local TV

I continue to receive bad-faith MAGA mailers attacking Amy Klobuchar for failing to support the "progressive revolution." Can't fool me though.

Guy at Aldi just walked away with a lady's shopping cart. Lady shouts excuse me excuse me! And then chased after him. He realized he mistook it for his cart and apologized. Long story short, Moriarty won't prosecute. No surprise to anyone.

Naive innocent with childlike understanding of the world: "Could this really be real? Does this Democrat really want Republican endorsements?" Me, a Larry Jacobs level pundit: "Yes, as long as none of the rest of us learn about it."

For years we've been told the DSA is a menace — a threat to our very way of life — by the same Frey guys courting MAGA Republican support for their candidate for Hennepin county attorney.

Local TV keeps telling me it's controversial for a streamer to believe American foreign policy choices invited the 9/11 attacks. Since the twin cities TV market bleeds into Wisconsin, please let them know their Republican senator believes 9/11 was an inside job.

Like many of you, I'm just bunkering down at home waiting for the controversial event to be over.

Key issues before voters in the 2026 midterms: ➡️Trump raiding the home of a member of congress to solve the mystery of whether Ilhan Omar is really named Ilhan Omar ➡️Trump amplifying the woman who abetted the rape of the Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio ➡️Gas prices

Glad they unearthed the black and white high school yearbook photo but it's only going to increase the weaponization of federal law enforcement when Trumpers realize Ilhan Omar was the girl in high school who wouldn't give them the time of day.

I should have mentioned that my office is Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services. The Mayor's budget eliminates seven staff members less than two weeks before an anxiety-inducing midterm. No more high school election judge program. No more voter outreach.

SF hasn’t had an original cultural idea for a while, huh? @wedge.live

Don't trust anyone using Anders Folk as a testimonial for the illegal peptides they sell in the parking lot of a Planet Fitness. Not FDA approved. You don't know where they came from.

The Uptown real estate community is begging the City of Minneapolis to buy the Seven Points parking garage, make the parking free, install slides so you can safely bypass the criminals waiting to ambush you in the stairwell. youtu.be/AmioIXNNFzU

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.

the bill in MnLeg last session would have exempted them from regulations against e.g. bike lane parking bsky.app/profile/elin...

waymo representative sent to a city of minneapolis event can’t give a real answer about their vehicles utilizing bike lanes or not when this is a known PR issue for the company and we are one of the top biking cities in the country it’s talk of safety for the people inside the waymo only

New episode with Abdihakim Ibrahim, candidate for the Hennepin County Board in district 3. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFMv...

Today the Minneapolis City Council's Climate & Infrastructure Committee will be discussing the city's 2-way bikeways and conflicts with right turning vehicles at signalized intersections. Most of these intersections don't have signage prohibiting a right turn through a red light.

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Good news for Anders Folk in the Whittier neighborhood: blood thirsty infants are coming to eat your fully developed adult brains.

Iron clad rule of politics: the longer the election goes on, the more mall bombers we must unearth to sustain the effort.

I'm urging everyone who had to get an AI summary to tell them who Hasan Piker is to not weigh in on the CONTROVERSY. This includes all of our elderly TV pundit political science professors.

Everybody hide your pets, controversial commentator coming to town.

People don't realize that Dawanna Witt owes her reelection to Josh Martin barnstorming Hennepin county saying "I'm proud of you, son" to thousands of voters after talking them out of voting for the crackpot menswear magnate Joseph A Banks.

New episode where we walk across the Mississippi River for groceries. youtu.be/ovztR0I7bXk

Ladies, he's single

Minnesota law enforcement officials announce new strategy to allow for things like connecting spent bullet casings in one community to recovered guns in another — something you probably thought we'd been doing routinely since at least the mid-90s.

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"The trees do not like strangers. They watch you. They are usually content merely to watch you, as long as daylight lasts..."

"Is $10 million enough to retire early and comfortably afford this 12oz bag of popcorn?"

I tell my patients to get away from the who, what, where, when narrative of whatever crime headline they just saw and focus on how Moriarty makes them feel. This helps move them out of their head and into their body. Then I tell them her term is almost over, it's going to be ok.

Every time I hear that police are frequently unable to do their jobs because Mary Moriarty is so abrasive — I pinch myself, I look at the crime stats, and then I salute law enforcement for how much good they've done despite this rude lady (who took office in 2023).

To the people going around pronouncing "Anders Folk" in a German accent. It's not funny. It's offensive. There's no comparison between this man's name, however unsettling it may be, and Germany in the 30s.

Minnesota Republican candidates playing the anti-anti game. Can't embrace Trump because too many voters hate that. Can't reject Trump because he owns them. They're stuck awkwardly scolding the opposition to Trump as the real source of our problems. youtu.be/wscRFawAOwg

2025: it's the city clowncil who refuse to fund police who are to blame (pay no attention to massive police overspending) 2026: it's Moriarty's stupid face that's to blame (forget crime is way down since she was elected) 2027: there's no election, don't know who to blame.

What the hell can Anders Folk promise that makes him worth $50 per apartment unit? The only thing I can think of is no longer having to watch a far left cuckoo bananas prosecutor preside over a declining crime rate. It's been demoralizing. taylordahlin.com/f/landlords-...

"Why safer streets keep losing to fire trucks" youtu.be/EJgVjxM4Rno?...