We live in a country that is ok with going door to door rounding up brown skinned people but would lose their shit if we went door to door rounding up the instruments that fuel their worst realities of violent crime in the US.
We live in a country that is ok with going door to door rounding up brown skinned people but would lose their shit if we went door to door rounding up the instruments that fuel their worst realities of violent crime in the US.
the 146th shooting at a k-12 school so far in 2025. the 146th shooting at a k-12 school so far in 2025. the 146th shooting at a k-12 school so far in 2025.
There were so many community members, community leaders, community voices at this meeting in North Minneapolis Folwell park in July, folks who have been this voice for a long time, Princess Titus, Toshira Garroway. - Jacob Frey was not there. www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say
Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine
CHICAGO…
Excellent question.
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.
No one should be permitted to own a weapon that has the power to kill or maim dozens of people in seconds, at the mere touch of a button. No one. The fetishization of weaponry and death is a sickness and needs to be treated as such.
NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
How do we put our children on the bus this morning? How is it that we are constantly asked to do this?
Minnesota is taking an ungodly amount of hits this year.
This cannot remain the norm.
From Minnesota to Gaza, no more.
Don't worry, Folks. Your prayers worked. The guns are safe.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Political observation of the evening: Peggy Flanagan simply walking to her seat at the Indigo Girls/Melissa Ethridge concert just caused a spontaneous standing ovation.
Dems should swap out Hakeem Jeffries with Jasmine Crockett. They need that kind of fire.
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.
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
I made a promise to the women of Illinois — as governor, I will ensure your medical decisions will be your own. Now, we continue fulfilling that promise. Public colleges will now provide contraception and medication abortion at on-campus pharmacies and student health centers.
Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces “DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...
Today’s declaration of famine in Gaza City must be a wake up call to the international community that this conflict needs to end. Here's my full statement.
We deserve a city government that works for all of us—where decisions are made based on what’s right for the people of our city, not based on who is most loyal to the mayor. We deserve better.
Absolutely enraging to me that instead of fighting fascism, the centrist wing of the local DFL is using its time and energy to fight left-wing Democrats.
Nothing beats the will of the people. Let Mayor Frey, his big money donors, and the State DFL know that Minneapolis residents are not backing down. We want a new mayor, and we're ready to knock doors in every ward to get one. Early voting is in 4 weeks. Let's knock some doors.
The state party’s decision came after Frey organized frivolous challenges to a convention where he only amassed 30% of the vote. Some of these challenges even came from Republican donors! But no matter what Frey and his allies try to do, residents do not want to give him a 3rd term.
"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.
the #1 thing you can do in minneapolis to fight for a bold, progressive future for this city is to doorknock with the DFL-endorsed mayoral candidate Omar Fateh and city council candidates like Aisha Chughtai, Soren Stevenson, Jason Chavez, and Robin Wonsley to get the turnout we need in November!
coordination between the Frey campaign, Frey PACs and the failure/corruption of local journalism
this is the stupidest attempted smear campaign i’ve ever seen and the bar is high
Another thing I tried to warn y'all about, but folks don't want to hear international news...
Welp…
Rachel Maddow on Donald Trump stealing $1B from a nuclear weapon safety program to renovate his fancy new bribe plane from Qatar: “Everywhere all over the world these guys are all the same. And they all want gold toilets. They all want to rob the country they lead blind.”
I for one am concerned.
MAGA, at its core, is a cult of abuse. The right to abuse, the justification for abuse, the dopamine rush they get from abusing others, is built into every policy, every program, every line of rhetoric. They identify with abusers because they want to abuse people.
One of the biggest cultural issues we have is that no major media or journalistic institutions have been reinforcing norms of what things *should* look like. That corruption isn’t normal, that cronyism isn’t normal, that lies and scandals should be punished, that incompetence is disqualifying.
I refuse to believe we are going to relitigate slavery. SLAVERY. It’s too much.
NEW: After 27 Years in Prison, Prosecutors Call For Bryan Hooper’s Murder Conviction to be Vacated Bryan Hooper, another wrongfully convicted Black man in MN, is hoping to be freed from his life sentence after the state’s key trial witness recently admitted to the murder Hooper was convicted for.
Hertling: When you saw Trump talking about how this is Biden’s war, saying it could have been prevented if Zelensky had just done X, Y, or Z — it’s ludicrous. This is a war that Putin has been planning and carried out on his own.
you’re telling me the trump administration was lenient toward someone accused of sex crimes against children? crazy
I am a bit of a broken record on this, but are local DAs going to let this continue indefinitely? The ICE agents didn't have any kind of warrant, didn't identify themselves, and then recklessly started firing. Let them argue federal immunity.
Like @zedotenator.net says:
It’s just kind of hard to think you actually care about keeping the streets safe when you refuse to do anything to keep them from being flooded with guns.
I don't want to hear a hot take on the news of the day from my Rep or Senator. I want to hear some big picture analysis of whether/how today's news fits in with the authoritarian project and then what that elected intends to DO to meaningfully oppose it.
There, I fixed it for you. Demand that @mndot.mn.gov rethink its Rethinking I-94 planning.
Homophobia/ threats are not in line with our city’s values. His actions demonstrate a lack of cultural competency that is important to building trust w/ community & violence prevention. The city’s actions to disregard LGBTQIA+ people does not make us any safer. www.startribune.com/rev-jerry-mc...
The thing we absolutely must drive home to the public is that the Trump administration's immigration policy is being run by committed white supremacists. This is not rhetoric or hyperbole; it is absolutely literally true, and they're increasingly not bothering to hide it.
Our servicewomen deserve better. democraticwomenscaucus.house.gov/media/press-...
Its ironic and scummy that @MayorFrey actively lobbied for Feeding Our Future after they were flagged, his wife worked for Hylden when they set up FOF, Jacob's aid all up in the fraud. Yet they think racism is so deep in Mpls liberals they try to tie Fateh w the allusion of fraud
Boycotting companies owned by the billionaires destroying our country is the literal easiest (and most effective imo) way we can fight back right now. It’s not fun, but there it is. Start with Amazon- hit ‘em where it hurts. 💪 #boycott #fightfascism
The wildest thing about this era is watching so many institutions say out loud yeah, we’re done committing ourselves to excellence, we’re going to specialize in the coddling of mediocre white men
Peep the date - sounds like a prudent moderate position, wildly popular too at the time. Funny how they try to pretend our common sense is some wild radical threat. Dont let them bury your common sense in a memory hole that only serves them.
Minneapolis will spend a $billion on police and police fuckery in 4 years, with nothing to show for it. That is a dumb investment.
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
When is anyone going to call BS on the most antisemitic presidency in modern history using antisemitism as a cudgel against other institutions? This is an unbelievable farce.
Our unsheltered neighbors need compassion and resources, not to be pushed to margins so they remain out of sight. We deserve a Mayor who will be honest with us about the scope of this crisis and will treat our unhoused neighbors with respect and dignity.
And here I was thinking the way to solve hunger was food.
It’s become one of those regimes
This is the best thing you'll see today, and I say that as a person who wrote something awesome today and does not lack for confidence.
My mom’s oncologist tried twice to treat her multiple myeloma with Revlimid. Both times her insurance denied the prescription. Her oncologist was furious. My mom passed in 2019.
Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture. (Published May) By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social
Remarkable number. 27 Senators, 26 of them Dems. Huge turnaround in less than a year. Wow.
It is time that Democrats not only match what Republicans are doing with gerrymandering, but exceed it. Every Democratic controlled state needs to be looking to redrawing their maps -- not to gain 5 seats like in TX, but cumulatively 15, 20 or 30 seats. We must use every tool available.
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “She had no remorse. Ghislaine has no soul. She’s a dangerous human being. She will reoffend, reoffend and reoffend. These people never stop. Ever.”
Epstein accuser Maria Farmer on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I’ve never met a more predatory, terrifying human being in my entire life. She’s a very dangerous person. The woman is not a victim, she’s a victimizer.” via @msnbc.com (ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social)
This intentional pollution still makes me mad.
Reminiscent of the failed police response in Uvalde in 2022
Reminder that the mayor of New Hope is LITERALLY the guy who issued the lying media statement about George Floyd’s murder. www.newhopemn.gov/city_hall/ci...
Literally John Elder is same liar in question who Mayor Frey retained even after the biggest lie in a lying ass police history.
They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...
shouldn’t the reporting now say - “The police told us x, y and z.” “With corroboration, in fact a, b and c actually happened” “The police lied to us” - no matter how stressful or extraordinary the situation, there is NO excuse for police to lie to the public and for journalist not to call them liars
The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
The fact that the President of the United States posts a fake video of a kneeling Barack Obama being handcuffed and we’re supposed to pretend it’s perfectly normal, everyday stuff shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
Federal workers are blowing the whistle. Under Trump, public science is being steamrolled—research canceled, experts fired, truths buried. These brave voices are risking everything to speak out. Sign your support - NIH - zurl.co/5NXCX EPA - zurl.co/7C3gE NASA - zurl.co/Rw6o6 zurl.co/Kwhfj
Zohran Mamdani won Hakeem Jeffries' congressional district with 46% in the first round, and 56% in the final round of RCV.
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
Bondi to meet with Maxwell to coordinate stories
My new book is out today :) With Coercion I wanted to dedicate a book to unpacking at the most granular level how abortion bans aren't just some abstract political debate but state gender-based violence w/ material consequences that can't be ignored. more about the project linked below:
Striking. After Texas banned abortion, ER visits for early miscarriage rose 25% and blood transfusions surged 54%. Doctors delayed care like D&Cs out of fear of prosecution. More women nearly bled to death. buff.ly/egXhmm7 #medsky #ObGynsky 🛟🧪
"Is this federal action focused on immigration enforcement? The answer is no." -Mayor Jacob Frey, lying to the public the day after the raid last month
Statement on MPD Officer Who Shot and Killed Amir Locke Leading Use–Of- Force Trainings On February 2, 2022, Amir Locke was shot and killed by Minneapolis Police Officer and Sergeant Sgt. Hanneman during a no-knock raid while he was wrapped in a blanket. 1/
Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social, Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism. Looking forward to following you wherever you land, Your fan, Mar🐫
WATCH: “It has been one of the most obscene and depraved undertakings I have ever seen,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on reporting that Israeli soldiers and private American contractors have been firing into crowds of hungry Palestinians who had posed no threat.
This is all so self-defeating.
if Trump were actively trying to impoverish and deskill the united states for the sake of our competitors, what would he be doing differently?
This is Benjamin Netanyahu’s third visit to DC this year. War criminals should not be welcomed by any president or Congress. He should be held accountable for his crimes, not platformed. Beyond shameful.
Still the best summation of Jacob Frey's mayoral tenure, (c) @foundbysara.bsky.social
w here’s a picture MN can celebrate. State Senator John Hoffman discharged from ICU today after being shot numerous times during assassination attempt. His family tells me he’s moving to a rehab facility and still has a long road ahead.
She’s right again, you know. She usually is.
