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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 12h

Fixed it for them. (Icon attribution: Kalsom cheman; source and license: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qu...)

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 14h

This was a luxury teardown. You can't see the bright orange condemned sign on the door in this photo.

House with "luxury homes for sale" sign. It was condemned and was subsequently torn down.

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Reposted by Max Hailperin

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 16h

7/ Caught in a lie, Frey never apologized. Instead, we got his famously weasely “Language became more casual, including my own.” BTW this is the 1st election voters can hold Frey accountable for lying & Locke dying, but the incident is almost memory-holed in coverage. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Minneapolis Mayor Frey Admits To Being Misleading On 'No-Knock' Policy Changes

"Language became more casual, including my own, which did not reflect the necessary precision or nuance. And I own that," Mayor Jacob Frey said.

www.cbsnews.com

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 19h

"A new national pastime has emerged, namely experiencing the simultaneous awe and shock that come from observing what skilled baloney a computer can produce. Never would we have guessed that it could perform so well. And yet we are equally amazed by its terrible failings." (me in Reformer, 1/31/'23)

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 20h

Technically, voting early in person is requesting an absentee ballot—for immediate delivery, not by mail. But that doesn't seem to be the point here. And in Minnesota, there is no difference between "by mail" and "absentee [by mail]." But some feel strongly that only one is OK. So pandering?

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 20h

Campaign finance side has been covered by others. Also
(1) The ALT text explains that the QR code goes to the city web site. Yes, but indirectly. Via a site that can keep "analytics" on its usage.
(2) The disjunction between "vote by mail" and "request an absentee ballot" is interesting, as I noted.

Melody Hoffmann @phmelody.bsky.social · 1d

Safer Hennepin PAC mailer in my mailbox tonight. Looked it up and found funders up to end of year 2024. Significant/newsworthy to see a broadcast company on the list. www.transparencyusa.org

Mailer from Safer Hennepin that reads "The choice is clear. Mayor Jacob Fry is keeping Minneapolis safe. Vote early." QR code goes to the City of Minneapolis voter info webpage.

A list of 2024 contributors to Safer Hennepin

A list of 2024 contributors to Safer Hennepin. Any repeated names/donations here are repetitions from other screenshot, not a duplicate donation.

As of end of 2024, Safer Hennepin had $11,933 on hand, $145,500 in total contributions, and $125,370 in total expenditures

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 20h

A puzzling bit of history. Certainly in 1857, when the Minnesota Constitution was written, secret ballots were unknown. Even in 1879, they can't have been well established. Yet that year, a Minnesota Supreme Court Justice wrote an opinion that took them as essential to the meaning of "ballot."

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 20h

The definition of "Australian ballot" as "an official ballot printed at public expense on which the names of all the nominated candidates and proposals appear and which is distributed only at the polling place and marked in secret" leaves many people wondering what other kind exists. Good examples:

Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 21h

Come to the City of Lakes Art Fair to learn about the history of US ballot design at the Minneapolis Elections booth

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 22h

Today's topic is "Who was president on January 6, 2020," but the deeper problem cuts across topics. Those who choose words for their meaning have difficulty understanding that others are choosing words for their effect.

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 23h

See also Linden Hills

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 1d

Do you know how many voter registrations your state removed because the registrant had died?
Do you know there's a federal report that lists this data every two year?
No? Then stop whining that your voter roll ought to be cleaned.

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 1d

From second breakfast to morning snack to early lunch, it was a fun walk. And because it was a walk, I had the time to see everything along the way, including the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer at the corner of Dale Street and Carroll Avenue.

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 1d

Stop 3: ZAO Bakery + Café. Some of my favorites here aren't baked. The congee and noodle bowls are to die for, and who doesn't love a steamed bun? But they do have plenty of baked options. I went outside my comfort zone with a hot dog flower bun.

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 1d

Stop 2: Marc Heu Patisserie Paris. A buttery kouign amann has a crunchy caramel crust. Unless one takes the caramel and puts it in soft form atop a cinnamon cream. Innovative instead of classic, but more decadent than ever.

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 1d

Stop 1: Razava Bread Co. If you're used to glossy bagels, this isn't it. Instead, the crisp, slightly scorched exterior has just as much texture as the chewy interior with its tangy flavor of slow-fermented serious grains.

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 1d

The Ultimate Dale Street Bakery Crawl
From a block west of Dale Street to almost a block east of it, only one of the three bakeries was actually on Dale Street. But most of the walking was. And 1.4 miles of a beautiful morning in Saint Paul yielded 3 very different treats. 🧵

Photo of Dale Street sign with insets of bagel, kouign amann, and flower roll

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 1d

I'm fascinated that an independent expenditure group (which I'll leave nameless) on behalf of a Minneapolis candidate (ditto) is urging voters to vote by mail *or* request an absentee ballot.

Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 2d

Parrish writes, "Buying Dominion? It’s personal. 'These machines are too easy to tamper with,' [Burress has] said." Except that searching for "These machines are too easy to tamper with," I find zero hits aside from Parrish's own document.

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 2d

Minor details regarding Burress are a bit off — whether he's 82 or 83, whether he founded Citizens for Community Values in the ‘80s or took over its leadership in 1991. And then we get a supposed quote, supposedly from him, to explain his supposed personal connection ...

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 2d

Parrish describes Burress as "a battle-hardened Ohio Republican, former election official, and lifelong crusader against everything from porn to political corruption." Most of that fits Burress. But I find no evidence he was ever an election official. Unlike Leiendecker.

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 2d

Parrish writes that "Phil Burress ... has quietly acquired Dominion Voting Systems." Do a google search. There are zero other sources tying Burress to this acquisition. Instead, every other source mentions Scott Leiendecker.

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 2d

This is bizarre even by Phil Parrish standards. He's published his take on Dominion Voting Systems' recent acquisition. It hallucinates the identity of the man behind the new company, blends one aspect of the real guy into the hallucinated one, and throws in a dubious "quote." 🧵

The Dominion Bombshell: From Conspiracy Target to Paper Ballot Pioneer

Burress, 82 and unapologetically conservative, isn’t some Silicon Valley suit peddling more machines. He’s the guy who founded Citizens for Community Values in the ‘80s, fought obscenity laws tooth and nail, and served as a Hamilton County election board member. Buying Dominion? It’s personal. “These machines are too easy to tamper with,” he’s said, echoing audits that cleared Dominion of 2020 fraud claims but couldn’t erase the distrust sown by Fox News’s $787 million settlement or OAN’s similar smackdown. No more QR codes scanned by strangers, no more “assist terminals” that sparked fresh glitches in recent cycles—like the ones flipping straight-party votes or “losing” ballots mid-count.

Burress’s vision aligns with a growing chorus: Elon Musk’s X rants demanding “paper only” because “code can be rigged from anywhere.” States like Georgia are already tabling bills for hand-marked ballots, citing the irrefutable audit trail paper provides—proven in recounts where Dominion’s own trails held up, but only because paper backups existed. In a world of surging ransomware (up 300+ incidents in healthcare and government this year alone, per CISA), electronic systems are sitting ducks. Burress gets it: Ink on paper means no Venezuelan whispers, no CCP hardware scares, no “coincidental” shutdowns like the Interlock gang’s July 2025 hit on St. Paul that leaked 43 GB of city data and activated the National Guard. It’s analog democracy in a digital warzone—simple, secure, and sovereign.

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 2d

Portion of application form that verifies residence

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 2d

My memory is that when my institution declared itself “Extraordinary People, Extraordinary Place,” a brief web search revealed that several other entities of various kinds had said the same of themselves.

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 2d

The logic to suggesting people just rank him and no one else is that he's afraid that if they rank someone else, they'll rank that person *ahead* of him. He's confident enough of making it into the final round that he has no reason to care who is ranked behind him on a ballot, so it's all downside.

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