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I had the exact same reaction to this Strib story. Strib is going to ride this one hard to get Frey elected. An NYC friend saw Frey on the nationa;l news and told me, "Your mayor is amazing and inspiring." She was surprised that I didn't think so. Sigh.
We shouldn’t do theater and pretend its an actual safety strategy.
You gotta vote Yes on Admin Cites gang. The people who use our city like a piggy bank and don’t care about us will have to care if the piggy bank can start taking the money back.
This is performative nonsense. There’s no reason to believe Minneapolis schools are in any greater danger from guns tomorrow than literally any other city in the state. This speaks volumes, though. We’ve given up on gun proliferation, so all we have are symbolic acts.
Nearly everyone the President has fired is Black. Needs to be said.
The 2026 Minnesota senate primary: “I won’t accept corporate PAC money” vs “I’ll be taking the money and my shot as opener for…Eric Trump?”
If you're trying to figure out your Minneapolis Park Board votes -- it's important assuming you love our parks! -- the Minneapolis Area DFL Senior Caucus is holding an event with all the candidates September 29 at ML King Park, 40th & Nicollet. Details here: www.mplsdflseniors.org/index.php/ev...
But, as always, Amy did show up for the photo-ops at Annunciation.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Ugh.
BTW. Identities and motives of shooters don't matter. They serve two purposes. 1. To distract from action on gun violence. 2. To spread the shooter's messages, increase notoriety, and encourage copycat shooters. Do not fall into the identity conversation trap. This is about guns, nothing else.
Just looked this up for my own reference.
![BREAKING NEWS CONSUMER'S HANDBOOK from onthemedia.org 1. In the immediate aftermath, news outlets will get it wrong. 2. Don't trust anonymous sources. 3. Don't trust stories that cite another news outlet as the source of the information. 4. There's almost never a second shooter. 5. Pay attention to the language the media uses. • “We are getting reports”… could mean anything. • “We are seeking confirmation”… means they don’t have it. • “[News outlet] has learned”… means it has a scoop or is going out on limb. 6. Look for news outlets close to the incident. 7. Compare multiple sources. 8. Big news brings out the fakers. And photoshoppers. 9. Beware reflexive retweeting. Some of this is on you.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zn5wzyeehxerl4ft7m7vzrs4/bafkreif4bvoex5p62f44oluakud7tyyhyb3oxlz6u66ssqzj77pdauyzgy@jpeg "Click to view full size")
I feel like that poll was ALWAYS asking me about Frey, either directly or indirectly. Must have been paid for by Frey or his PACS.
Bravo to Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social for this great piece, which ends with her call to have "high-status" people who are part of the in-group" i.e. white media personalities and politicians being willing to say crime is falling." Say it loud and say it proud. Well done, Maggie!
I got that poll too and when they asked if it would make a difference if Amy Klobuchar endorsed a candidate, I had to answer honestly---it would make me LESS likely to support.😆
Such a good piece, Matt! Thanks so much for writing it. I learned a LOT. (I also agree with your conclusion.)
Molly Ivins is evergreen.
Jazz Hampton’s car was stolen! Watch him talk about it in not a shitheaded way
I’d also have more sympathy if he condemned the dude who showed up at the council threatening violence to political opponents, but instead Frey wanted to give him more money.
Jillian Michaels is a piece of work. A real fascist piece of work. NYT story tries to make her sound reasonable. Ugh. The WaPost does similar shit all the time. #LegacyJournalismCollapses.
But the cops would have to get out of their cars, Nick!
Alpha News and Rochelle Olson (who called non-cheating “at worst, corruption” with no evidence either)
Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
I’ve requested a Dewayne and Jazz one too. Rank them all!
I don’t see that as remotely possible, but oh man, I would be SO SO happy to be flat-assed wrong ( and it wouldn’t be the first time either!)
The Chicago police department is one of the world's great evils, but okay
I remember all of this---especially what a sore loser Mike Erlandson was when he lost at that 2006 endorsing convention. He couldn't believe he--the chosen one--had lost to Keith. He stormed out; challenged Keith Ellison in the primary and lost in the August primary too. Strib was so pissed!🤣
Working on it!!!!!
This is 💯 the gospel truth, Nick.
Unfortunately, I think it's both. They like Frey--because they know he will run the city according to their comfort and privilege. And they fear the DSA.
I've requested lawn signs for all three--Omar, Dewayne and Jazz. I like all of them. They would each bring great gifts to the city as mayor.
We all deserve better than Frey's incompetence, division and fanning the flames of bigotry--as the last eight years have made clear. The best way to get there is to not rank Frey at all. I would be happy to see Omar, Dewayne or Jazz as the next mayor. But I bet I'm preaching to the choir here!😊
Yes, but that still means when/if Jazz is eliminated in ranked choice voting, all Jazz1, Frey 2 voters are essentially voting for Frey. Not cool! #DontrankFrey
I know!!!!!!! But that's also why we have good people organizing in SWAE---https://swaempls.org/about/
💯 although in W13, we’re often talking “moderate,” I.e. conservative DFLers who might have been GOPers in an earlier era. So they’re okay with Frey, because Frey puts the comfort of wealthy white people ahead of everyone else.
I had two old W13 friends over for dinner a few weeks ago. They love Jazz and seemed surprised that I wasn’t ranking Frey. I think too many W13 “moderates” will rank Jazz first and Frey second, thereby electing Frey, but feeling good that they voted for a Black candidate. 🥵
Trump’s claim that he’s invading Democratic cities and militarily occupying them to “fight crime” is no different than Bush’s claim he was militarily occupying Iraq to “find WMD.” And much of the media is still mindlessly repeating the bullshit premise as if it’s real.
the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.
Rank Dewayne, Omar and Jazz in whatever order. #DontRankFrey.
But according to the author, the wife might end up with………a new dishwasher!
Conrad Elliot and I started chatting about the weird hypersexuality shift in White evangelical culture. Which, in the replies, led to my Ted Talk about how/why White evangelicalism became the religion of White supremacy and patriarchy, dressed up in the language of Jesus. Check it out.
We need this on lawn signs to educate our neighbors!!!!!
is fine with White evangelicals, as long as it's in service to White men and patriarchy. Which is why they don't really have a problem with Andrew Tate or Sydney Sweeney. It's all the same religion. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. 😊
but White evangelicals' true creed is still all about racial and gender hierarchy. Whenever political reporters/pundits used to "wonder" how white evangelicals could support Trump, I used to think, aw shit, get a clue. White evangelicals and Trump worship the same religion. So hypersexuality....4/
keeping women in their place; keeping Black people in their place; rejecting immigrants (too Catholic!) and it was in a system that relied on slave patrols and violence to maintain order. This is how Southern Baptist---and most evangelicals got their start. They've updated their language now...3/
Christianity became about right religious beliefs/rhetoric (accepting Christ as Your Personal Savior and Lord) and looking away from the violence and horror of slavery, or anything else having to do with social justice. It was about upholding the norms of White supremacy and hierarchy...2/
Having grown up in that culture, I tell people that White evangelicalism is how Protestant Christianity adapted to slavery in the southern U.S. White evangelicalism is basically White supremacy and patriarchy dressed up in the language of Jesus. To be socially acceptable White Protestant....1/
100 percent!
So did I (as an ex-journalist)!! It took me decades to see what was a long pattern and right in front of me.
Steve Cramer gets the vapors hearing Aisha Chughtai say “fuck”; meanwhile Frey apparatchiks (including Chughtai colleague Linea Palmisano) lie about cheating in a way that Trump Republicans all too eagerly pick up. I know which is the biggest danger. (See 🧵 below)
But not when you consider most of the owners of the media are rich white guys who don't think Trump is that bad. See: Washington Post; Minnesota Star-Tribune, etc.
DING DING DING DING
I'm a Wheaton College (IL) grad who remembers Marabel Morgan's "Total Woman" in 1975 which advised women to greet their husbands at the door, wearing only Saran Wrap. She said this got husbands to buy new kitchen appliances for wives. 🤪
So classic Amy Klobuchar, i.e. canned, cautious, cowardly and calculatingly careerist.
I just signed up to the Defector.com at the special rate of $5 for three months. After reading this, I think I'm in for full price after my three months are up because @drewmagary.bsky.social is just so damn good and also funny.
Jeff Hayden appears as a political analyst in a story about Omar Fateh. No disclosure that Hayden lost his state senate seat to Fateh in 2020. youtu.be/7_6T-hu3MNA?...
And a Frey aide pled guilty. www.fox9.com/news/feeding...
Statement from a wide range of Minneapolis elected officials condemning 28 DFL insiders taking away the DFL endorsement from @omarfatehmn.com Many of these elected officials haven’t even endorsed him, but they know how wrong this is and how bad this is for the DFL in Minneapolis.
Me too! Face-blindness is real. I’ve had it my whole life.😭
CBS News thumb-scale-putting: noting that Omar Fateh had to return $11k in Feeding Our Future-related donations (accurate) without noting Jacob Frey had to do the same with $9k. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne... FoF: www.kare11.com/article/news...
Frey does look like the dude who would play Cuomo in a Lifetime movie
"When the donors don't get the outcome that they want through the party process, they go to a super party process outside of the norm to try to reverse the decision of the delegates," Payne said. "It's an extremely short-sighted thing to do, not just tactically but philosophically," he added.
One of the biggest blunders (when well-intentioned) and betrayals (when not) in Democratic rhetoric over the years is their impenetrable insistence that what voters respond to is somebody who begins by finding common ground with their opponent, no matter who that opponent is or what that ground is.
I'm certainly no expert, but I cannot see any world in which stripping the DFL endorsement from a man of Somali heritage, who has gone to the mat and WON powerful policy for all Minnesotans but particularly the Somali/East African community, redounds positively on Jacob Frey or the DFL as a whole.
Mayor Frey has cemented Minneapolis PAC politics. Multiple "independent" orgs, run by his friends, funded with millions from his richest his donors, scaring us into voting right.
It's so frustrating to me that the State DFL refused to help fund the City Convention, forcing organizers to do their best with what they had. And now the richest people in (and outside) Minneapolis are willing to throw their money around to try to invalidate that convention
Vote blue no matter who motherfuckers. It only works if it goes both ways.
For months, people across the city volunteered, organized and talked to their neighbors before endorsing Omar Fateh at the DFL convention. In the last month, the wealthiest people in the city, led by All of Mpls, have been “working tirelessly” to overturn a democratic vote in a smoke-filled room.
Mr. Kurtz, he dead.
State Fair Art show at Fine Arts building!
But Taylor, think about the children!!!!!
It's also time for your regular reminder---listen up, my fellow Boomers--that Glen Taylor, the billionaire former GOP state senator and big GOP donor, bought the Strib in 2014. He vowed to make it more conservative. Hence, the pearl-clutching, tone-policing and moral panics over young brown folks.
I mean, its hard to argue with “Fuck Jacob Frey, fuck fascism and fuck Donald Trump.” but leave it to the fucking Star Tribune to write a fucking article about fucking decorum, so fuck the Star Tribune along with this other list.
Yes, but with Frey's people, it's always decorum for me and mine; tone policing for the rest of you people.
As I said in a post, the Strib's implicit messaging--with a stock photo of Aisha Chugtai frowning--is so How Dare This Brown, Dangerous, Trashy, DSA Chick Criticize Our Precious White Boy-Mayor? Oh, the inhumanity! Oh, the collapsing onto our Fainting Couches.
Also, the Strib's implicit messaging--with a stock photo of Aisha Chugtai frowning--is so How Dare This Brown, Dangerous, Trashy, DSA Chick Criticize Our Precious White Boy-Mayor? Oh, the inhumanity! Oh, the collapsing onto our Fainting Couches.
Oh man, it's gonna be a looong autumn with Frey, his allies and the Strib clasping their pearls and collapsing onto their fainting couches. Also, the Strib's messaging--with Aisha photographed frowning--is so How Dare This Brown, Dangerous, Trashy, DSA Chick Criticize Our Precious White Boy-Mayor
Mpls Council Member does a swear at the mayor & the tone police who refused to condemn a city contractor who attacked a colleague with a homophonic slur + threatened violence are very very offended. They’ll probably vote to give the homophobe city money this week. www.startribune.com/mpls-city-co...
Funny, these same council members didn't seem to have a problem with Rev. Jerry McAfee, a Frey-ally, threatening a council member and making homophobic remark IN THE CITY COUNCIL, for heaven's sake. It's not even September and the Strib is trying to set up moral panics to get Frey re-elected.
Oh my! Clasp the pearls. Think about the children! The Strib, Palmisano, Rainville and Jenkins demand an apology:"“In our time ....we have never seen a Council Member — much less Council Leadership — use such inflammatory and disrespectful rhetoric toward a sitting mayor" 1/of 2
Um… when were you planning to stand up, cuz this attempt to undermine democracy has been going on now for quite a while and all I see you doing is “bipartisanship” aka complicity… Feel free to stand up any time…
Saying "we still stand up to any attempt to undermine our democracy." Is weird when she voted & continues to vote to confirm nearly every trump nominee. -Bipartisanship in this era is appeasement- The end of democracy is coming if we continue to appease this fascist regime Amy needs to do more
1, 2, or 3! RANK ALL THREE!
There's been at least 2 misinformed tweets on the other app that I want to clear up because I didn't know these rumors existed. Having been on the floor on the last day of session in '24, you cannot blame any one person for the bonding bill not passing. The ERA died in the House, not the Senate.
Thanks, Melissa! The special ed over-identification of Black students for emotional-behavioral disorders, cognitive disabilities has been documented for DECADES. We desperately need to hire A LOT more Black, Somali Latino educators---yet the contract seniority clauses protect White older teachers.
Mayor Frey says it's "not an austerity budget." It's "not a "crisis budget." Council President Payne: "This is an austerity budget"
Seeing this again and thinking of all the MAGA men whining that they're afraid to walk down the street.
So agree with this. And every Star-Tribune homes story is an argument in support of Steve Brandt's proposal to put city income taxes on the rich.
Just heard that @mollycoleman.bsky.social won the Ward 4 election handily, proving (once again!) that the anti-street-safety 'tree truther' SARPA cranks have no juice. Congrats to Molly! I think she can be an excellent St. Paul City Council Member.
Minneapolis residents are ready for change. In a recent Star Tribune letter to the editor, Jason McGrath highlights an important question many people have about Mayor Frey: just what has he done? As he points out, this isn’t an issue for @omarfatehmn.com
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...
Just when I think we've reached peak Frey-weasel-ness, he surpasses it. Just a pathetic, whiny poser.
At a time like this, we have mayor who “stands with DC” by asking Daddy Dictator for more police.
I didn’t think they’d run it, but: voila. In today’s Strib, @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social on @omarfatehmn.com’s accomplishments versus Frey’s showboating (or ziplining)
Cousins in the backup QB to Michael Penix in Atlanta. Kirk wanted to start but no one would buy out his contract. So he's costing the Falcons $$$$ to play backup. God only knows why the Steelers signed Rodgers, but apparently they thought that was the best they could do. They gave him a one-yr deal.
I feel like resurrecting $347,932 in taxpayer payments to a favored Frey homophobe who called a gay council member a “girl,” threatened violence in the city council chamber, and whose contractors shot up the north side should earn the sort of media coverage reserved for what cars candidates drive …
Back at you, Vince!
