Nick Harper, he/him
@nharper.bsky.social
Nonprofit political law & policy attorney. Proceduralist & anxious, jealous guardian of democracy. Tweets are mine, not my employer's. Minneapolis. Idealist w/ weltschmerz. I’m on Signal. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nharpermn/
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Coping & Morale Kit
Coping & Morale Kit Do quick meditation using an app like Insight Timer or a YouTube video. Do a muscle/mindful body scan check-in and then use MuscleWiki stretches for tense areas. Use aromatherap...
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Timeline cleanse: a Coping & Morale Kit that I built for myself that others are welcome to use.
Everything on the list is free or extremely low cost. No “go to the cabin” or “get a massage” advice here. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Everything on the list is free or extremely low cost. No “go to the cabin” or “get a massage” advice here. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Jesus Christ this framing is crazy. Not cool, @startribune.com. You know this community is under racist and false attack. You know this. So don't just give the administration a free shot by foregrounding their narrative.
U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi is taking a “soft-on-crime” shot at Minnesota while her prosecutors are accusing a Minneapolis man of being a serial rapist whose attacks have spanned the past eight years.
AG Bondi says alleged serial rapist struck because Minnesota is ‘soft on crime’
The U.S. Attorney General says the “Somali national” caught a break in state court and was free to rape again.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Jesus Christ this framing is crazy. Not cool, @startribune.com. You know this community is under racist and false attack. You know this. So don't just give the administration a free shot by foregrounding their narrative.
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UPDATE: this proposal has been amended, and cutting the director of strategic initiatives position that lisa goodman holds will now fund the crucial emergency housing vouchers program
please contact your councilmember to make sure they are on board!
please contact your councilmember to make sure they are on board!
budget amendment by elliott payne, aurin chowdhury and emily koski proposes cutting lisa goodman's job (director of strategic initiatives, a position created for her) to fund new positions in the auditor's dept, perhaps after a dinner du nord issue? more info -
taylordahlin.com/f/city-counc...
taylordahlin.com/f/city-counc...
City Council Budget Amendment Proposes Cutting Lisa Goodman's Job
Lisa Goodman was the Ward 7 councilmember for 26 years, the longest serving councilmember in Minneapolis history, before she stepped down in 2023.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
UPDATE: this proposal has been amended, and cutting the director of strategic initiatives position that lisa goodman holds will now fund the crucial emergency housing vouchers program
please contact your councilmember to make sure they are on board!
please contact your councilmember to make sure they are on board!
Saved up gift cards from rewards programs for a year and just got a sweater vest, a flannel shirt, and pack of undershirts from Gap; spent only $4 out of pocket 😤
December 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Saved up gift cards from rewards programs for a year and just got a sweater vest, a flannel shirt, and pack of undershirts from Gap; spent only $4 out of pocket 😤
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If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...
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I see the ol’ 1-2 of the Strib framing an issue exactly as Mayor Frey wants & Frey following with an op-ed remains at budget time. I’m told @aishaforward10.com already negotiated cuts down to 1 mayoral staffer, but Frey’s team benefits by hyping division. www.startribune.com/jacob-frey-m...
Jacob Frey: Minneapolis City Council, let’s choose collaboration
Recent budget amendments targeting the mayor’s office are "mean-spirited and blatantly political," the Minneapolis mayor writes.
www.startribune.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I see the ol’ 1-2 of the Strib framing an issue exactly as Mayor Frey wants & Frey following with an op-ed remains at budget time. I’m told @aishaforward10.com already negotiated cuts down to 1 mayoral staffer, but Frey’s team benefits by hyping division. www.startribune.com/jacob-frey-m...
Blackman is not a serious person and no one should be platforming him, especially a website called "reason.com" lol
December 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Blackman is not a serious person and no one should be platforming him, especially a website called "reason.com" lol
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I have a grand total of zero patience left for the top paid city staff in charge of community safety not being able to answer basic questions about crime trends and personnel allocations as we deliberate our budget.
Worth watching not just because it's fun. The Frey admin choosing to implement the budget priorities of their friends over their foes is not how the council's power of the purse is supposed to work.
December 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I have a grand total of zero patience left for the top paid city staff in charge of community safety not being able to answer basic questions about crime trends and personnel allocations as we deliberate our budget.
"hates everyone and everything"
relatable as heck
relatable as heck
When it comes to politics, Gen Z generally hates everyone and everything. But they may still be primed to deliver for Democrats in 2026.
Young Americans Hate Both Parties. They May Still Pick Democrats in 2026.
When it comes to politics, Gen Z generally hates everyone and everything. But they may still be primed to deliver for Democrats in 2026.A new national poll of 18-to 29-year-olds, conducted by the Inst...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"hates everyone and everything"
relatable as heck
relatable as heck
If you're opposed to this admin's cruelty, then why did you vote to pass the Laken Riley Act?
Yesterday, I met with ELCA Presiding Bishop Yehiel Curry.
This Admin's cruelty knows no bounds. And as they continue to target immigrants, cut food assistance and attack MN’s most vulnerable communities – I'm working with local and national faith leaders to ensure no Minnesotan is left behind.
This Admin's cruelty knows no bounds. And as they continue to target immigrants, cut food assistance and attack MN’s most vulnerable communities – I'm working with local and national faith leaders to ensure no Minnesotan is left behind.
December 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
If you're opposed to this admin's cruelty, then why did you vote to pass the Laken Riley Act?
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This is shit you’ll never see on KSTP and it’s a damn shame. Cashman, the supposedly DSA super progressive anti police socialist is trying her god damndest to get a crime prevention specialist and Barnette doesn’t have a single idea why she didn’t get one.
Vetaw/Rainville amendment failed 5-7.
December 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This is shit you’ll never see on KSTP and it’s a damn shame. Cashman, the supposedly DSA super progressive anti police socialist is trying her god damndest to get a crime prevention specialist and Barnette doesn’t have a single idea why she didn’t get one.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I’m confused as to how licensing inspectors will help with any of the problems MPD is expected to address with downtown nightlife. Those are not licensing problems, are they? Am I missing something?
Council Member Rainville, who represents part of downtown, wants to spend $228k on "nighttime business license inspectors" to address "late-night incidents" near businesses when city inspectors aren't on the job.
December 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I’m confused as to how licensing inspectors will help with any of the problems MPD is expected to address with downtown nightlife. Those are not licensing problems, are they? Am I missing something?
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Taylor Dahlin has ranked the top Minneapolis campaign expenditures of 2025.
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taylordahlin.com/f/best-campa...
Best Campaign Expenditures of the 2025 Minneapolis City Elections
Dan Orban's Vehicle Advertisement by JP Bullfrog: $450.00
taylordahlin.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Taylor Dahlin has ranked the top Minneapolis campaign expenditures of 2025.
taylordahlin.com/f/best-campa...
taylordahlin.com/f/best-campa...
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Anyone who goes to MrBeast for financial services should just post their social security number to the internet, they're cooked
December 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Anyone who goes to MrBeast for financial services should just post their social security number to the internet, they're cooked
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New DFL candidate running for the Minnesota 43b seat in west metro that @repfreiberg.bsky.social is leaving to run for the state Senate. This is the seat Ryan Winkler is attempting a comeback in, so if you’re a progressive, think about hitting Jess with a donation at votejesslewis.com.
December 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
New DFL candidate running for the Minnesota 43b seat in west metro that @repfreiberg.bsky.social is leaving to run for the state Senate. This is the seat Ryan Winkler is attempting a comeback in, so if you’re a progressive, think about hitting Jess with a donation at votejesslewis.com.
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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This is partially true, but there 100% are things that have changed and for the worse.
Chocolate? Much more filler material and less cocoa now.
Christmas lights? LEDs are more energy efficient but are worse visually and harsher on the eyes.
Coffee? More expensive, even adjusting for inflation.
Chocolate? Much more filler material and less cocoa now.
Christmas lights? LEDs are more energy efficient but are worse visually and harsher on the eyes.
Coffee? More expensive, even adjusting for inflation.
Grown assed adults expecting holidays to be like when they were a kid is a great microcosm of the problems we have as a society today. Nostalgia is a toxic impulse. There is no "the way things used to be", you were just younger and less informed and had fewer responsibilities.
December 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This is partially true, but there 100% are things that have changed and for the worse.
Chocolate? Much more filler material and less cocoa now.
Christmas lights? LEDs are more energy efficient but are worse visually and harsher on the eyes.
Coffee? More expensive, even adjusting for inflation.
Chocolate? Much more filler material and less cocoa now.
Christmas lights? LEDs are more energy efficient but are worse visually and harsher on the eyes.
Coffee? More expensive, even adjusting for inflation.
All I want is a pair of ear buds that don’t go half dead in one ear after a year
December 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
All I want is a pair of ear buds that don’t go half dead in one ear after a year
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Such an obvious violation of constitutional rights. But Kavanaugh stops are what this SC thinks you deserve.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Such an obvious violation of constitutional rights. But Kavanaugh stops are what this SC thinks you deserve.
The first three: sure, makes sense. Orchestral? Ok, I could see that.
Medieval??
Medieval??
December 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The first three: sure, makes sense. Orchestral? Ok, I could see that.
Medieval??
Medieval??
It is my strong opinion that MNsure is one of Minnesota’s biggest failures and everyone involved with its development needs fired, tarred, feathered, investigated, and placed into a rusty-nail-lined oubliette.
Spent another 90 min on phone with MNSure this morning and our health insurance for 2026 STILL isn't sorted out. Even though I updated our income on Monday, they haven't gotten around to processing that yet, so I can only enroll in a shitty plan based on our old income from 2023.
December 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
It is my strong opinion that MNsure is one of Minnesota’s biggest failures and everyone involved with its development needs fired, tarred, feathered, investigated, and placed into a rusty-nail-lined oubliette.
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It's not shocking that an organization formed by an asshole and staffed by assholes to try and make more assholes has an asshole problem.
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It's not shocking that an organization formed by an asshole and staffed by assholes to try and make more assholes has an asshole problem.
ok, no need to call me out like that
The Secret Society of Middle Aged People At The Gym Who Have to Do 30 Mins of PT Work Before Getting Started
December 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
ok, no need to call me out like that