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If you hate the school lunch program, wait til you see this!
NEW: Minnesota Vikings, U.S. Bank Stadium seeking $62 million for second phase of secure perimeter
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Ugh, Ashton.
@capthlr
is trying to show you how to be a manager. You don't just get to fire people if you disagree with them. You have to manage them, and yourself.
#belowdeck
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the lack of public bathrooms in our city is actually a serious problem.
What *should* be sending people into a panic is the public bathroom map
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Ok, Minneapolis. If you're into public pools, but like a bath-house spa thing with a cold pool, steam room, sauna, the whole thing--go to Watershed Spa in Northeast. Oh my god, it's the best thing ever.
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Lies people tell about Minneapolis right now: that we have defunded the police, that we are going to defund the police, that we are a 'dangerous and dystopian ghost city', that no one cares. There's so many people who care, who want a better Mpls for everyone, no exceptions!
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Ughhhh.
@MetroTransitMN
why are you even doing fare enforcement on the trains today? Yes, you're letting people ride to the end of the route but you're still writing citations. It is damn cold out. If a train is shelter for someone today, let it be.
#busride
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What a way to react to a program that literally just feeds kids. Why not be happy that kids who were not getting lunch are...now getting lunch?
Liberal brains are exploding right now: “But they said this food was “free”. It shouldn’t cost anything.”
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Well. Blocked by the Minneapolis Commissioner of Public Safety, Cedric Alexander. That was the weirdest 30 minutes of Twitter back and forth I've ever had.
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The whole thing, christ. But this: "Minneapolis police have been increasingly marking race as “unknown” after stopping a driver, doing so about half the time this year compared to only a quarter in 2016." Reform this system?? Nope.
KARE 11 Investigates: New data shows MPD searches Black drivers at 29 times the rate of whites after minor traffic stops.
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Asked a
@MplsDID
person when the chairs are coming back on Nicollet; they said only on Thurs during Farmer's Market bc the businesses don't like it when the youth hang out in them. At some point, downtown businesses have to accept that youth are PART OF OUR CITY. FFS.
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So weird how we give more value and importance to the word felony than we do to a person's life. goddamn.
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For every one person who writes an op-ed about their exit from Minneapolis, just know that there's more staying because we do love it here. And we're organizing, on all levels, to make our city one where people can thrive.
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I've always been in the whole "free school lunches are good" camp, but hearing how certain people are reacting, I'm like ready to quit my job & go be the lunch lady handing out free lunches to every damn kid, giving them hugs if they want, wearing a hairnet, the whole deal. GOD.
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If you have to do something in the dark to avoid the people, maybe you shouldn't do it. And, people are angry, and scared, and traumatized, and GFS is a sacred space. And the city has to reckon with all of that and they're afraid of it so they send in bulldozers in the dark.
BREAKING: Crews are attempting again to clear George Floyd Square in South Minneapolis. A few activists are there sitting near the fist statue.
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Matthew fr
@IlhanMN
's office: if your parents can't vote bc they are disenfranchised, that has an impact on the potential voters in the household. Long term impacts.
#RestoreTheVote
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THIS.
@MayorFrey
, this really does impact how people feel about downtown. And the city just kinda keeps brushing the concerns off.
wHy DoN’t peOpLe LikE nIcOlLet MaLL. No sitting 16x in a row on one block. Festive lighting behind a fence. Such a welcoming street.
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Gonna float something here; let me know if you agree: public transit should be free.
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God, if I lived in any part of Minnesota that's not Minneapolis, I'd want to know why Jim Schultz can ONLY talk about Minneapolis.
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Today I got asked by a kid "why are you so big?" and I didn't know what to say, and his mom said "People come in all sizes, remember?" and it was just so pleasant to hear her say that. Like, she addressed him, told the truth, and there was no shame. It was really nice!
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'A felony suspect'. When the chief of police describes a victim this way, man, it's dehumanizing. It's trying to legitimize the shooting. Felony can mean several things; specificity is important here.
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Sen
@TinaSmithMN
says it:
@IlhanMN
's opponent's whole narrative about her is that she's not one of us, that she still doesn't belong. It's really gross and divisive.
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Waitaminute is the 2023 MN legislature gonna be the one who actually commits to taking on climate change and fully funds public transit, & a transit ambassador program? Is it gonna be the one that restores the right to vote? Is now the time we just throw our wishlists out there?
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Tell me what you like to do in Minneapolis that isn't parks, bike rides, or museums. Or bars.
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I want every councilmember who said we just need more beat cops & cops from the community to address this: "When investigating a sexual assault case, one MPD officer falsely stated that a man could not be guilty of sexually assaulting a woman if they had children together."
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Feeling the urge to write a
@StribOpinion
piece that's "Me & My Husband Are Staying in Minneapolis" and it's just gonna be abt my too-many trips to the downtown Target, library, and HCMC. On the bus, of course.
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This is actually pretty sad; AND reflective of a couple things: in Mpls, people hanging out on public spaces gets turned into "oh god, they must be dangerous, what do we do but panic and lock it up" AND
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It's so funny; the hatred people have for Chicago or Minneapolis. Like, they're just cities. And then they start to talk abt crime, and just vague enough so you can hear the dogwhistles start to sound, and oh. They don't hate cities.
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Literally just watched the
@MinneapolisPD
driving this cop car pull up onto the sidewalk on Nicollet Mall...to get Chipotle. I know by now, I should accept it but COME ON. This is ridiculous,
@MayorFrey
.
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Gonna crochet a whole bunch of blankets this year, and then sell them as "Nasty Cat Blankets" but only to people who work from home.
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Between Nicollet and 10th and Nicollet and 8th, there are 7 MPD vehicles parked on the sidewalk. 2 more off on the side streets. 9 cop cars, all empty.
@MayorFrey
,
@Calex_law
, what does this endeavor to show?
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A reminder for folks watching: the grassroots organizing work that has gotten us to this point is led by
@MPD_150
,
@reclaimtheblock
, and
@BlackVisionsMN
. Black-led, queer-led organizing.
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I wonder if people who say they are scared about being out and about in Minneapolis--what does that actually mean? Like, I get worried when I get off the bus at 11 pm and a guy does too, and he's walking the same way I am. That's less about Mpls and more about society.
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Ok, as a person who didn't grow up in MN, I had no idea what MEA week was for about the first 20 years here.
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@Calex_law
@pastorish_k
@MayorFrey
1. No, I wouldn't complain about not seeing cops because simple presence doesn't mean safety. 2. 7 empty cop cars; 2 cops on the street. So there wasn't actually an increase in police presence, there was an increase in police car presence. 3. What kind of response is this?
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As it turns out, sending mailers that don't share why we should vote for you, but only show you as 'not Ilhan' aren't the way to win a CD5 primary.
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So tonight I saw a documentary called Two Trials. It's about the differences in the prosecution of Chauvin by
@KeithEllison
and his team, and in the lack of prosecution of the cops who killed Breonna Taylor by the AG in Kentucky, Daniel Cameron. It is excellent. AND moving. 1/
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"Minneapolis is unsafe." I mean, when profits and whiteness are valued more than people's dignity, isn't every city and town in Minnesota unsafe? Even Buffalo.
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I know they're trolls. But anyone who can refer to 'trash day' around clearing an encampment; what happened to your humanity? People are not trash; no one is. No one.
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Bike etiquette question: if I'm on a mixed-use path--bike & walk--is shouting "on your left" helpful or not? Half the time I feel like I'm startling the person on foot; the other, I can't tell.
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Got introduced to the rabbit hole that is the MN Dept of Administration Surplus Auction site, and accidently bid on a bus shelter.
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What's the crossover rate of people who said "run the protesters over if they in your way" and "you're a bad person if you're not praying for/wellwishing the president right now"?
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"the police aren't involved in the clearing of GFS". This is just their new hangout?
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Voting in MN: you don't need a photo ID to vote if you are registered at your current address. We also have same-day voter registration. So if you are not registered, you can do that when you go to vote.
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@maxnesterak
Using the wrong title for someone is a way to diminish their power and leadership, whether you mean to or not. It is especially often done by men, and it is often done towards women of color.
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I really hope that when this happens, Nicollet Mall ends up with so much public seating up and down it. No stupid little security golf carts & cop cars on the sidewalks. People hanging out, playing dice, smoking, being loud, playing music, all over the place.
The City of Minneapolis is moving forward with a plan to convert Nicollet Mall into a bus-free pedestrian plaza, with the main goals of increasing vibrancy and improving transit downtown.
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I am 42, and I have epilepsy. Not old, not wealthy, just one of those people with a pre-existing condition. And glad that
@TinaSmithMN
will fight for me.
All of 2018: Housley's website had 3 sentences about health care.
A week before the election? She updated it.
The update? She supports health care plans that don't protect people w/ pre-existing conditions because they are "wealthier."
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It's weird how much "Have we become too diverse?" sounds like "I used to go the city all the time but now it's changed, and don't feel safe anymore?". And how much both of those statements are so grounded in fear of other people. And racism.
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I would like downtown Minneapolis to be revitalized by: more seating so that when I am done shopping at Target and have 3 bags of stuff I don't need, and my bus doesn't come for another 10 minutes, I can sit my lazy ass down because my back freaking hurts. AND
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Wouldn't a good cop be able to tell the difference between their taser and their gun???
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Just got a call from my dad (in SD); he wanted to make sure Walz is pro-choice. He heard something that made him question it; but we talked it through. He's excited for Walz. And then I talked to him about updating his voter registration so that he'll be able to vote!
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Seriously,
@MetroTransitMN
, you gotta do something about the smoking on the train. It hurts ridership--existing and potential.
#busride
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@Calex_law
@MayorFrey
I understand that you're taking a lot of criticism around Op Endeavor. But you came to Minneapolis where relationships between police and community are, at best, tense. Visibility on its own is not public safety; it just isn't.
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Downtown Minneapolis is SO back, you guys. Target had all the bathrooms open!
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This press conference is making me furious. If people do not want to take public transit, city leadership's response should not be "OK, let's allow Lyft & Uber to operate in bad faith, so that we can keep them here." It should be to figure out other solutions. This is so wrong.
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So everyone in Minneapolis went to Wisconsin and bought a shit-ton of fireworks, eh?
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Or....take transit.
Don't want to pay $75 to park near Target Center for Timberwolves game? Here are other options.
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When you get a "hey, can we bring a city bus to your house for pics?" text, you have to get up in the middle of a zoom meeting for it, right??
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Yo. If you campaigned, very publicly, on having a 24 hour turnaround response to constituent email & phone calls and you actually wait 4 days to answer an email, you might want to check your math.
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When you call me a loser because I'm working from home, this is really who you hurt.
Mayor Frey speaking at Mpls Downtown Council event, talking about people who work from home when they could go into an office:
"You become a loser!"
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This is what's bothering me about the rideshare discourse--the Mpls leadership not saying _anything_ about public transit as an option. It's in the TAP, but when push comes to shove, Frey & certain CMs act like it doesn't even exist. I get it, there's gaps. But come on!
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So, it's always hard sharing stories and being vulnerable in public spaces. I wouldn't have done this wo hearing the stories of others. Every time we speak, we open space for more people.
Amity responds to anti-renter sentiment at last Wednesday's
@Mpls2040
City Council hearing.
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When people say they want the buses off of Nicollet Mall, I have to wonder if they mean the bus stops, which really means bus shelters, which really means spaces where people sleep and find temporary shelter? Which REALLY means unhoused people.
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A reminder: addiction is not a crime. The way we treat people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol can often be criminal, though.
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The thing that gets me is that 6 days ago, the
@CityMinneapolis
launches their 'As you go' campaign, to get people using other modes of transportation. Then this happens. "Bike & walk, but oh, no, not on that bridge dedicated to biking & walking."
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"Y'all don't sound scared, you sound racist." And Ashley, from Ward 5 pretty much nails it.
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Hey, if I created a list of bathrooms in Minneapolis--anyone interested in helping build this out? I mean, like if you're downtown, where can you go to the bathroom without having to pay, or where you need staff to let you in? That type of thing. (or does this already exist?!!)
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Watching
@janashortal
's show, carjackings are up in major cities across the US. This is helpful context for the public safety convo; Minneapolis isn't an outlier, and I'm betting that a crap economy is a factor.
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Tomorrow there's going to be a 1% increase in the TC metro area sales tax. FIRST: this is how Minnesotans take care of each other; how we make sure we're living in a state where everyone can thrive, no matter their race, class, gender--this is it. One cent on the dollar.
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$450 million into Minnesota for treatment of opioid addiction. That's what
@keithellison
won for our state. To hear Jim Schultz dismiss that--sounds like he doesn't know _anyone_ who struggles with addiction; his dismissal of that money sounds like a slap, tbh.
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Black organizers got
@CityMinneapolis
council members here today. A necessary reminder because media will get it twisted.
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Oh, downtown Minneapolis. 'Please, please come downtown....but only for vibrant storefronts and city-condoned street festivals.'
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Just another day in Minneapolis; local personality calls downtown a hellhole.
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I have a rant. I am so damn tired of this narrative around public transit: that it's dirty and dangerous, that it's just for people who can't afford cars, that it will bring crime and 'those' people into 'our' communities, that no one wants to ride it, etc.
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Watching Stauber get dragged all over the place is just kind of great.
Oh boy. I hate to talk politics when there’s good news to celebrate but this is too brazen to ignore.
Mr. Stauber voted against every screw, steel beam, and concrete pier in this bridge.
Luckily
@POTUS
worked with Stauber’s colleagues and got it done without him.
Thanks, Joe!
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Minneapolis, from the Raymond Ave stop in St. Paul. It's not a beautiful pic, but I like how it's so far and so close, idk. I just like it.
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Focus On the Family is awful. Boooooo Kirk Cousins.
Minnesota Vikings QB Kirk Cousins supports Focus On The Family, one of America’s most anti-LGBTQ organizations.
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So many police, my god.
The Minneapolis police officers are officially here at the homeless encampment in south Minneapolis.
@SahanJournal
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Hey, if you live in Mpls/are looking for solid coverage of our city, you should follow
@ByGeorgiaFort
,
@MNReformer
,
@SahanJournal
. And
@BullyCreative
for some of the best insights and understanding of what's been happening--with love & the accountability it demands.
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My Lyft driver today asked me what I thought abt the officer killed; told him it was a tragedy & that I was sad abt the other people killed, & hurt. He didn't know anyone else was even hurt; said he was only hearing abt the officer from all the news. And that is just...sad.
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Mpls City Council & Mayoral candidates: what's your favorite bus route and where did you last take transit? (Full disclosure: my fave is the 11 rn, and the last place I took it was to the library, but then duh, they aren't open on Saturday so I went to Target instead.)
#busride
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"Up North" should not just be for people who can drive there.
We're about to pass a bill to fund a train to Duluth.
I like Duluth. Fun town. Lots to do.
Nearly everything I can think of to do in Duluth is more than walking distance from every other thing there is to do in Duluth.
Why would I take a train there when I can drive?
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