translating big ideas and research into good policy. writer, runner, tortilla chip lover, 4th grade soccer dropout. can’t stand inertia. pictures of my dog.
Close is not close enough. Vikings fall one game short, meaning the count is up to 97 combined seasons since 1991 without a Minnesota NFL/MLB/NBA/NHL team reaching a final.
#Roadto100
The Midway clean up has had around 1,000 people come out to clean up university and there’s so many people with brooms and bags and masks
#MinneapolisUprising
@Louisebustercat
@LEBassett
I thought this too, and then realized squirrels were pulling chicken bones out of the garbage. At least in my old neighborhood, that was the case
I am not looking forward to seeing George Floyd’s murder and the following two weeks relitigated by 1) people who weren’t there 2) with bad intent 3) ad nauseous on national television
wow, very 2022 to renegotiate the Minneapolis PD union contract and not only make zero changes to the officer disciplinary process, but include a provision that gives officers the name of the person making a complaint against them. Just absolutely top tier work
Fun fact: my politics are much more radical now than they were in college, turns out multiple recessions and out of control police violence and a sexual assault reckoning and unmoving racial inequality and inhuman immigration policies and wishy-washy democratics will do that
if you’re a twin cities employer or supervisor and are able to, maybe give your teams the next few days off paid? Very grateful
@WilderFdtn
is doing that for me.
I GOT TO MEET
@ewarren
WE SHOOK HANDS AND IT WAS REALLY QUICK BECAUSE THERE WERE LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN LINE BEHIND ME BUT I TEARED UP IT WAS AMAZING
This is the type of boundary pushing that
@sarahkendzior
has been warning about since 2015. Every time he got away with bending social norms or flagrantly ignoring the law with impunity, we as a society told him to keep trying and committing crimes in the open. I’m so disgusted.
the police response in Brooklyn Center is just backlash to
@GovTimWalz
@Jacob_Frey
@MinnesotaOSN
feeling humiliated last summer when the precinct burned. Walz’s comments about that happening in BC just clarified it for me. And we all know humiliated white men make great decisions
MPD just got a huge vote of confidence in their brutality from the white voters in MPLS. Be careful and look out for each other. MPD is going to get worse, not better
.
@voguemagazine
sent me to Minneapolis to profile Mayor Jacob Frey about governing in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. Coming soon to the March issue.
thinking about sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, wrapped up in a blanket for warmth, and the split seconds of being woken up by guns in your face and trying to figure out what’s going on and being disoriented and then it’s over
#AmirLocke
my favorite thing my grandma ever said to me was “who is going to marry you with all that student loan debt?” Well jokes on her, cause my PSLF was approved and my STUDENT LOAN DEBT IS FORGIVEN
is this what it feels like to be a corporation
all those stories about old couples dying right after each other are not sweet, they suck and that family now has to bury a whole generation
yes, this is a subtweet for my grandparents who both died this week
yes, I am in the anger stage of grief, thank you for not asking
If you're interviewing someone virtually, put the question in the chat box for the interviewee to read. Helps with people who may be visual processers and you get a more specific, directed response. So many candidates have commented on how useful it is
😍😍😍 the beauty of
@MNFreedomFund
is that after they pay bail, it gets returned to them after the trial and reinvested to pay someone else’s bail. This is $20M that will give and give and give 😍😍😍
at the point in my life where I refuse to take seriously anyone who glorifies Thoreau and Walden without mentioning that his mother brought food to his cabin regularly
"Every once in a while you find yourself in grief that forges you, makes you stronger... and every once in a while you find yourself in grief that's just a wasteland of pain. To risk fully & to be fully alive, you're just going to have to go through both of them." -
@dessadarling
if you’re going through a breakup and need to buy all new kitchen things, do not get the $7 toaster. I know you’re worried about decision fatigue and how much it’s all going to cost, but you deserve better than a $7 toaster that’s going to burn only one side of toast
did my first solo backpacking trip this weekend on SHT over the lutsen ski hills, which was lovely! Also i climbed 2000 feet over 10 miles, my legs are thrashed, and I’ll be hobbling for the foreseeable future
I’m in the woods, at a campfire, with an Arby’s cup full of bourbon, and putting my phone in airplane mode. it’s the only reasonable response to today and this whole godforsaken year.
so what I hear you saying is
@Jacob_Frey
found an org to provide cover for his decision. also, if this was a "community-led reconnection process" ... wouldn't the community NOT be surprised or unaware of the plans for this morning?
Sarah McKenzie w/City of Minneapolis called this morning’s actions around George Floyd Square a community led reconnection process led by the Agape Movement.
She says city employees were there to support the effort and remove the barricades while taking care of memorial.
@KSTP
every year for Christmas my conservative dad bakes a roasted nut recipe that came from Scott Walker’s family, and I think it’s time to bust out my jar of Scott Walker’s nuts to eat while watching WI returns come in
if the looting at Target makes you think differently about the protests, think about what you consider a negative peace - the absence of tension - vs a positive peace - the presence of justice
hello today I raised $2.5 million dollars, nearly puked in my workout class, ate a plate of nachos, and now I will be retiring to a hot bath to do a charcoal mask and drink expensive celebration bourbon
My grandma got the vaccine today!!! Here’s her in my uncle’s old sweater, which she unironically wore to our ugly sweater contest and cleaned up the votes. Ken, her companion after my grandpa died, unfortunately didn’t make it and died around Thanksgiving. She misses him a lot.
don’t mind me, I’m just your first friend that got divorced, over here minding my own business and reminding you of the fragility of your own relationship
there are a few Men in my professional life that I like to casually remind I am teaching a graduate-level course in my area of expertise and I've raised more than $24 million in the last six years
again, if this is community-led,
@Jacob_Frey
@annapoetic
@AloCanoMN
, why is this happening in the middle of the night and why is the community surprised by it? This is disgusting.
@GovTimWalz
It doesn’t make it better. It makes it worse. You and
@MinnesotaOSN
inflected violence upon a grieving community and now you want us to pass it off because other Minnesotans did it? The national guard is an occupying force right now.
the bullshit thing about this statement is that it puts the responsibility for Malmberg “not being a DJ” as a response to public outrage and not that it’s unethical to employ someone who abuses his position to manipulate and abuse women
grantmakers, one single thing you can do to make your grantee's lives easier is to release a word document of your application so people don't have to copy/paste questions out of your grant portal
@Kazanir
I have some issues about how he handled the uprising post-George Floyd’s murder and also he didn’t stand in the way of the most progressive agenda by our state legislature so 🤷🏻♀️ let’s feed some kids
Best 13.1 miles of my life. 2:11:21 PR at
@GrandmasMara
- 8 minutes faster than my last training run and 25 minutes faster than my last Grandma’s
#gmas18
👟💪🏽
gotta say, feeling a little slow going this morning considering the future of forced pregnancies and a dying planet all in the name of theocracy and a smaller corporate tax rate
Hey white ladies, listen to these questions from women of color asking other WOC how to manage white spaces and feelings- this is our job to manage ourselves so POC don’t have to
#WorkRedux
officially cancelled the tentative thanksgiving plans with my family, and all of them in the same city are staying home to do zoom Yahtzee instead. Very glad we won’t be killing each other this holiday season.
foundations, if your emergency response plan doesn't include additional flexible funding for grantees, you're probably doing it wrong. this is *literally* the time to spend more than your 5% draw.
guys, one of my grant writing students wrote a proposal so compelling (note: not perfect, but compelling in describing how their bike program makes a difference in their student's lives) that I stopped grading to donate. I think that means he gets an A?
no 873 of things i want men to know: when you get in the elevator after me and go to the floor i’ve already picked, it’s not chivalrous to let me off first. I assume you are going to follow me. Leave first so I know you won’t.
y’all, I worked really hard on my qualitative research paper on mutual aid for
@HHHSchool
and I just got my grade back - full 100 points on the paper and an A for the semester. I absorbed a lot from this website about mutual aid and I interviewed some of you so thank you!!!