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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 4h

not uncommon for mint properties. renters in this city know to avoid them, they're notorious

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Cartilage Pizza @cartilagepizza.bsky.social · 2h

Ms. Rachel 🤝 Mr. Rogers
Anarcho Rachel/Rogerism 📚🏴

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Robin for Ward 2 @robin4mpls.bsky.social · 2h

Cleaning up Frey’s mess should not be such a large part of City Hall’s work. I’m confident council will once again pass an equitable budget and work together to fund both programs. Choosing between struggling families in MPS and unsheltered neighbors is a false choice.

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Robin for Ward 2 @robin4mpls.bsky.social · 2h

This could have been an opportunity to work with our governent partners in good faith to address a shared priority. Instead, Frey fell back to governing via press conference, which helps hide his continued failures of managing our city resources through PR spins on half truths.

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Robin for Ward 2 @robin4mpls.bsky.social · 2h

The mayor could have fully funded both anti-homelessness initiatives, but he chose to pit two vulnerable communities against each other. Frey incorrectly believe the public does not care about our unhoused neighbors. This disconnect is a result of only engaging with his rich donor base.

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J Garcia @jasoncomix.bsky.social · 2h

Texting him this probably didn’t help either

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J Garcia @jasoncomix.bsky.social · 3h

To be fair, he blocked me much earlier because I posted details about our conversation re: police reform

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Luke Mielke @juke-box85.bsky.social · 14h

I remember in 2021 during the rent control ballot measure in St. Paul we had all these apartments with anti-rent control yardsigns the landlords put up and then the windows of the building would be filled with pro-rent control signs. Pretty epic showdown.

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 1d

i've been thinking about renters and political signs. focusing on the hornig companies and right move properties here since i know they ban them, and yet hornigs were the biggest contributor to we love mpls

taylordahlin.com/f/signs-dont...

Signs Don't Vote: Landlord's Money vs. Renter's Opinions

Political signs are often looked to as an early way of determining which way election results may swing, but is this really accurate when a large swath of the population is excluded from expressing th...

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 14h

This is why I would trade Frey for a different moderate (like Jazz) in a heartbeat.

molly @mabbattista.bsky.social · 16h

At the Ward 8 for a New Mayor rally last Saturday, Commissioner Angela Conley said the county's been trying to work with the mayor on homelessness for seven years and he's shut them out.

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 18h

frey is talking about working with county partners extensively…

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It’s Julie. Dr. Tilsen, if you’re nasty. @queeringtherapist.bsky.social · 16h

What so many of you jamokes call “purity tests” I call being aligned with your ethics and in solidarity with others. If you don’t have a line you hold WTF is your point?

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 18h

Remember, we're supposed to trust a mayor, who can't hold himself to data practices lessons they teach you about being a public official on your first day at city hall, to hold himself and his police department to the federal consent decree. No court supervision required.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 18h

If you're not a local politics watcher, you have to remember to read headlines involving the city attorney's office as: "Mayor does X. People who work for mayor say, actually everything is fine."

Political group accuses Frey of improperly deleting texts. Some advocates and media lawyers agree.
The Minneapolis city attorney’s office says Mayor Jacob Frey is in compliance with the state transparency laws.

In executive order, Mayor Frey directs Minneapolis to implement police reforms canceled by Trump DOJ
City Council members are pursuing a separate plan to fold the federal agreement into a state settlement; the city attorney says they don’t have the power.

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J Garcia @jasoncomix.bsky.social · 17h

Moxley is grunge Darby

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 18h

Mayor Frey is an enigma. On one hand, the most honorable mayor in America. Loves his city more than his ideology. But also thinks we're all dumb enough to believe his phone routinely gets so full of texts he must delete conversations with his police chief.
www.startribune.com/mayor-jacob-...

Political group accuses Frey of improperly deleting texts. Some advocates and media lawyers agree.

The Minneapolis city attorney’s office says Mayor Jacob Frey is in compliance with the state transparency laws.

www.startribune.com

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18h

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 18h

davis says we are denying humanity when we sweep encampments

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 18h

“there’s more people that live in my house than are on the homelessness response team. that’s not enough people to do the work,” says hampton

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KedricKillian @kedrickillian.bsky.social · 18h

Mayor Frey says all the work he does is “transitory.”
As in temporary or fleeting. Nothing better describes his leadership style. Managing by press conference and never being accountable for his past actions and words.

Maybe that’s why his language “evolves.” It’s all transitory.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 21h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 21h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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J Garcia @jasoncomix.bsky.social · 18h

We appreciate your work

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J Garcia @jasoncomix.bsky.social · 19h

Never underestimate how much Jacob Frey loves performing to a Black audience

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 19h

opening performance from kennadi watkins covering sounds of blackness’ “hold on (change is coming)” at the mayoral forum

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elliot hughes @elliotshughes.bsky.social · 20h

“The contortions they appear to be prepared to go through to circumvent the spirit of the (law’s) presumption of openness are astounding,” Jane Kirtley, professor of law and media ethics at the University of Minnesota, said.

Political group accuses Frey of improperly deleting texts. Some advocates and media lawyers agree.

The Minneapolis city attorney’s office says Mayor Jacob Frey is in compliance with the state transparency laws.

www.startribune.com

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 22h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1d

The concept of rich men using a technology that’s ruining the planet to exploit the dead so they can avoid paying the living is so viscerally vile it made me shudder.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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