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David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 21h

this is definitely true but it’s also true that it’s only politically acceptable in this country to mock cities or blue states. mocking rural/red states is seen as elitist and out-of-touch, even tho most ppl live in cities! as such, i think these rare moments have more staying power.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 22h

I'm generalizing, but why do conservatives remember political irritations for so much longer than liberals?

It's been 17 years since Obama said some voters "cling to their guns, to their religion" and I heard a senator denounce that last month.

Obvious theory: Media ecosystem puts it on repeat

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 22h

Imagine caring about Kaepernick in the year of our lord 2025

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 20h

And all these years later, I’m still confused why they used “suck it lane” (which would be a funny name of a street to live on)

Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 20h

October 14, a day of remembrance in the Wedge.

Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · Oct 15

Never Forget: Seven years ago today the Wedge was suddenly and deliberately attacked by bike lane protesters holding "Nazi Lane" signs.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 20h

October 14, a day of remembrance in the Wedge.

Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · Oct 15

Never Forget: Seven years ago today the Wedge was suddenly and deliberately attacked by bike lane protesters holding "Nazi Lane" signs.

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 20h

Hard disagree. We can’t make up for past mistakes by just slapping the historic label on everything old. My house was built in 1902 and I wouldn’t for a second consider it historic. It wasn’t important when it was built and certainly isn’t today.

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 20h

Also, many of you have more fortitude than I do. I avoid biking on Blaisdell north of Lake now. I just never know how many people will be occupying the bike lane and how much junk is on the pavement. So I go around it. Also, crossing Lake sucks ass.

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 20h

I enjoyed Roper’s latest piece but I’ll be honest: I cringed and the description of “historic” homes. Like, dude, they are just old homes. Especially the photo that made it into the article. They aren’t historic and it’s exactly that type of language that NIMBYs employ (I don’t think he’s a NIMBY).

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 1d

I actually think many republicans want health care premiums go to up for Obamacare plans so they can argue “see, we told you, government can’t run health care.”

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 2d

Being the “adult in the room” means lying to voters that you’ll be a budget magician and somehow cut a ton but then once you’re in office, you realize that’s not plausible, and then you blame your colleagues.

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 2d

The thing with candidates like these: they never really say what we should cut. They just insist we have to. All our budget stuff is public information. It’s not hard to come up with a couple million in cuts. But if you’re talking $300 million in cuts, that’s massive.

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 2d

Things that make you go “hmmmm:” Liz Shaffer thinks the city should scale back its budget without cutting services…almost like she has no plan here at all

In 2022, Federal, State and Local grants totaled nearly $500 million. Now in 2025, these same sources of revenue will drop 60%, to under $200 million - a $300 million annual shortfall in only three years. We will not be able to easily make up $300 million of lost revenue without looking for ways to scale back our city budget. We will also need to work with our state and county funding partners to fulfill their obligations, as well as work together to protest federal cuts.

Should the city cut services as one way to address loss of federal funds and dwindling downtown tax base?
No

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 2d

It got a decent number of YouTube views (although it appear to have plateaued quickly) and some nextdoor posts. But I don’t think it’s really having any impact on elections because it was too obviously one sided to be plausibly persuasive. I’ve seen more ridicule than anything.

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 2d

Strib looks at Kupchella’s infomerercial, fairly critically: www.startribune.com/what-to-make...
Also their long-awaited Fateh and The Jews story is out (on hostage release day), couched more as Gaza War stuff & less as anti-semitism (but it’s there): www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

What to make of ‘A Precarious State,’ the new film that sees Minneapolis through a dark lens

Producer paid to broadcast documentary focusing on crime, test scores and socialism.

www.startribune.com

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 4d

More yard sign news: ex Ward 10 council member Lisa McDonald (who once told me "go fuck yourself", unprompted!) is displaying a Lydia Millard sign in Ward 13 — alongside Frey and Palmisano.

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 4d

I’m seeing this elsewhere. People who want Frey are telling everyone to only rank Frey. They also seem to think RCV inherently favors progressives, but I don’t think that’s really how it’s played out locally.

Chey Cab @cheycab.bsky.social · 6d

Asked Mpls customer who has expressed interest in running for Mayor(but wife won’t allow), how he plans to vote.

Says he’s voting Frey and only Frey. Also says he likes how Chicago does their mayoral races. And that he hates RCV.

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 5d

I had to stop listening. What an awful candidate.

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t know if I can make it through the entire Wedge Live episode featuring Demello. It’s starting with basically “I will bring back decorum” and then “if Dems aren’t moderates everyone votes Republican”. What an extremely dismal and wrong take on politics.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 6d

The tank's role is to draw aggro

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 9d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, especially if 28mph becomes standard. That could create issues. I don’t even want that, but all the ebikes I want if/when mine dies have that type of power.

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 6d

E-bikes could benefit from a 20mph cap. There are more types that go up to 28mph than there were years ago, but not as common and 99% of riders aren’t going over 20 on paths.

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 6d

I think this is a popular opinion. That said, in bike-loving Minneapolis where we have (thankfully) lots of bike infrastructure, this hasn’t been an issue. Ebikes are common and numerous. I can count one one hand how many e-motorcycle types I’ve come across.

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 7d

My unpopular urbanist opinion is that big, hyperfast two-wheelers are a menace and should be banned from bike lanes/paths (with enforcement).

These things endanger everyone riding a bike or legal e-bike. Worse, they deter some from even trying.

E-bikes have evolved into e-motorcycles. Law enforcement is lagging behind.

Serious injuries are on the rise in emergency rooms around the country, as electric cycles become bigger and faster. Lawmakers and police departments are scrambling to address the problem.

www.inquirer.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7d

It’s really neat that for awhile pundits like this were saying “why can’t Zohran clearly and directly denounce the violence of Hamas?” and when he clearly and directly denounces the violence of Hamas they go “but he didn’t do it with any poetry! It wasn’t beautiful! I demand panache!”

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 7d

Ah, let's check in on what the war crimes proponent has to say

David Frum This is a genuinely useful statement. The chilly formulaic language about the 10/7 atrocity ... the intense angry passion of the denunciation of Israel's self-defense ... together they arrestingly reveal what the author cares about and what/who he does not care about.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@ZohranKMamdani
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My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.
Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more.
I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.
In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: a death toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language.
I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.
This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end.
Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.
These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 7d

These are the friendliest looking criminals ever and their jumpsuits look almost like they are high-fashion. I love this for us.

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 7d

we can do better mpls photoshopped Robin Wonsley in front of an old image of Moon Palace Books and its Abolish The Polish boards, while men in orange jumpsuits high-five and give thumbs-up

Wonsley represents Ward 2, while Moon Palace Books is in Ward 9.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 7d

New/old — and extremely clumsy — landlord PAC just dropped. (Intentionally dropped late in the cycle.) Taylor continues to outpace local political media on the money stuff — read her 🧵

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 7d

PAC report: safer hennepin is back again and we can do better mpls has launched a website. we don't know yet who is funding either, but i want to highlight the blog that we can do better has - taylordahlin.com/f/new-and-re...

New and Returning PACs: We Can Do Better Mpls and Safer Hennepin

Two PACs are now operating in Minneapolis ahead of the November 4th election, and both are connected to one man.

taylordahlin.com

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 7d

Modern medicine is truly a miracle! Can’t put a price on more time with our fuzzy friends.

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 7d

Never been so excited to see my cat poop! She’s been very ill and went about 5 days without eating and 8 days without a poop. But I think the round of antibiotics, steroids and appetite stimulate are working. She’s drinking lots of water and eating again. My poor sweet baby 🙏🏻

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 7d

I get that the city has spent A LOT to acquire the land and get it ready for development. But you’re not going to recover those costs through a sale. This is a long-term play. Sell the damn thing for $1.

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