Fred Beukema
@beukema.bsky.social
In Minneapolis. Structural engineer, mostly lapsed improvisor, 3 day Jeopardy! champ. Happily married to a public school teacher. Two kids, a cat, and a dog.
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anytime an alex garland-associated movie is in theaters is a good time to remember he's thanked extremely vocal transphobes in the "special thanks" section of almost every movie he's directed
January 16, 2026 at 2:59 AM
anytime an alex garland-associated movie is in theaters is a good time to remember he's thanked extremely vocal transphobes in the "special thanks" section of almost every movie he's directed
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i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.
January 15, 2026 at 7:42 PM
i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.
Not a good look out of the gate for our guy in W11.
Mayor Frey's veto of the humane encampment ordinance (from last year) has been sustained. Council members voting to sustain the veto were Warren, Shaffer, Whiting, Rainville, Vetaw, Palmisano
January 15, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Not a good look out of the gate for our guy in W11.
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i am watching ken burns american revolution right now and this is literally what every letter from the era they read sounds like
Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day
January 15, 2026 at 5:55 PM
i am watching ken burns american revolution right now and this is literally what every letter from the era they read sounds like
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- Use routine powers (construction, traffic calming) that are neutral but would reclaim public space for resident use/safety -- esp around children/essential services
- Require warrants for every interaction that req's city involvement
- Inspect hotels for fire code violations caused by firearms
- Require warrants for every interaction that req's city involvement
- Inspect hotels for fire code violations caused by firearms
January 15, 2026 at 4:56 PM
- Use routine powers (construction, traffic calming) that are neutral but would reclaim public space for resident use/safety -- esp around children/essential services
- Require warrants for every interaction that req's city involvement
- Inspect hotels for fire code violations caused by firearms
- Require warrants for every interaction that req's city involvement
- Inspect hotels for fire code violations caused by firearms
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please stop copying and pasting any messages to spread any information if you aren’t personally verifying it’s accurate and what the source actually is, especially about saturday’s events. telling people to avoid downtown when you don’t know who is saying that isn’t helpful
January 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM
please stop copying and pasting any messages to spread any information if you aren’t personally verifying it’s accurate and what the source actually is, especially about saturday’s events. telling people to avoid downtown when you don’t know who is saying that isn’t helpful
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the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?
Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
January 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?
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Minneapolis is headed towards something resembling a general strike, if you were wondering how the campaign to cow working people into quiescence is going
Last night, The Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 signed on to the call for a Jan 23 shutdown. That brings total labor support to: the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28, and the MFE 59
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
January 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Minneapolis is headed towards something resembling a general strike, if you were wondering how the campaign to cow working people into quiescence is going
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BLUESKY USER SITTING COMFORTABLY BEHIND A KEYBOARD: I just don't see how we can win if he does that
58-YEAR-OLD MINNESOTA PHLEBOTOMIST: GO AHEAD AND SHOOT ME BITCH
58-YEAR-OLD MINNESOTA PHLEBOTOMIST: GO AHEAD AND SHOOT ME BITCH
January 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM
BLUESKY USER SITTING COMFORTABLY BEHIND A KEYBOARD: I just don't see how we can win if he does that
58-YEAR-OLD MINNESOTA PHLEBOTOMIST: GO AHEAD AND SHOOT ME BITCH
58-YEAR-OLD MINNESOTA PHLEBOTOMIST: GO AHEAD AND SHOOT ME BITCH
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The fact that ICE agents left a vehicle unattended full of valuable items on the Northside just shows they are not qualified to use the stove without an adult much less carry weapons
January 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
The fact that ICE agents left a vehicle unattended full of valuable items on the Northside just shows they are not qualified to use the stove without an adult much less carry weapons
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we talked to a bunch of people who were at the bar and drinking at 10am about their fear of a city 2.5 hours away that they likely visit less than once a year.
NYTimes has truly outdone itself with this latest in its "ask white guys in diner" genre. Thank goodness we get a perspective on what's happening in Minneapolis from people in **Nisswa** who probably mean Brainerd when they say they "prefer not to go the city anymore" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
One State, Two Very Different Views of Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:43 PM
we talked to a bunch of people who were at the bar and drinking at 10am about their fear of a city 2.5 hours away that they likely visit less than once a year.
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So, among the the things I got to help with in law school at UMN was putting together questions for a Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate forum in 2017. We made sure to have a question about sanctuary cities, and guess what Jacob Frey said?
January 15, 2026 at 5:16 AM
So, among the the things I got to help with in law school at UMN was putting together questions for a Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate forum in 2017. We made sure to have a question about sanctuary cities, and guess what Jacob Frey said?
Well, there's the green gas.
January 15, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Well, there's the green gas.
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Fox is reporting that ICE sent six kids to the hospital, including a baby, just throwing a flashbang at a random car
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Fox is reporting that ICE sent six kids to the hospital, including a baby, just throwing a flashbang at a random car
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Not that it's at all surprising, but for those of you outside of Minnesota here's a quick sequence of events:
1) Governor Walz tells us that we must not fight anywhere but the courts.
2) ICE shoots someone else.
3) Frey tells us to eat shit and go home.
1) Governor Walz tells us that we must not fight anywhere but the courts.
2) ICE shoots someone else.
3) Frey tells us to eat shit and go home.
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Not that it's at all surprising, but for those of you outside of Minnesota here's a quick sequence of events:
1) Governor Walz tells us that we must not fight anywhere but the courts.
2) ICE shoots someone else.
3) Frey tells us to eat shit and go home.
1) Governor Walz tells us that we must not fight anywhere but the courts.
2) ICE shoots someone else.
3) Frey tells us to eat shit and go home.
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“A Democratic Party that worries more about offending big donors than delivering for working people is a party that is doomed"
New: Sen. Elizabeth Warren lays out vision for a 'big tent,' telling Democrats not to cater to wealthy donors
In an unusual move, she calls out figures in the party she considers part of the problem — including the DSCC, Kyrsten Sinema and Reid Hoffman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
In an unusual move, she calls out figures in the party she considers part of the problem — including the DSCC, Kyrsten Sinema and Reid Hoffman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren lays out vision for a 'big tent,' telling Democrats not to cater to wealthy donors
The former presidential candidate called out a "tepid, nibble-around-the-edges approach" to economic policy and criticized specific figures in the party by name as part of the problem.
www.nbcnews.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:02 AM
“A Democratic Party that worries more about offending big donors than delivering for working people is a party that is doomed"
Well, this should be banned rapidly.
January 15, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Well, this should be banned rapidly.
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an actual mayor would not have had time for a NEW YORK TIMES PHOTO SHOOT THIS FUCKING WEEK jesus fucking christ i hate him
January 14, 2026 at 11:57 PM
an actual mayor would not have had time for a NEW YORK TIMES PHOTO SHOOT THIS FUCKING WEEK jesus fucking christ i hate him
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Feeling like I did during the uprising when national pundits tried to tell me that the arsons on the north side, which only burned Black-owned businesses and occured miles away from GFS, were an authentic and organic protest and we should not be mad.
if you are not here in MN but are doing some armchair chin-stroking from afar about how it has always been this way in america, you fools, you rubes, i heartily invite you to shut the fuck up
January 14, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Feeling like I did during the uprising when national pundits tried to tell me that the arsons on the north side, which only burned Black-owned businesses and occured miles away from GFS, were an authentic and organic protest and we should not be mad.
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U of M statements right now all read like:
"This is a time of great stress and uncertainty. Many community members are concerned about events that we view as neither good or bad but as potentially neutral depending on your perspective.
"This is a time of great stress and uncertainty. Many community members are concerned about events that we view as neither good or bad but as potentially neutral depending on your perspective.
January 14, 2026 at 9:45 PM
U of M statements right now all read like:
"This is a time of great stress and uncertainty. Many community members are concerned about events that we view as neither good or bad but as potentially neutral depending on your perspective.
"This is a time of great stress and uncertainty. Many community members are concerned about events that we view as neither good or bad but as potentially neutral depending on your perspective.
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liberals with incoherent politics and the aesthetic of conviction are literally going to get all of us fucking killed bro.
Mayor Jacob Frey Says ‘I Do Not Support Abolishing ICE’ After Telling Agents to ‘Get the F*ck Out of Minneapolis’
Mayor Jacob Frey Says ‘I Do Not Support Abolishing ICE’ After Telling Agents to ‘Get the F*ck Out of Minneapolis’
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) declared he does not support abolishing ICE in a preview of a Fox News interview set to air on Wednesday morning.
The post Mayor Jacob Frey Says ‘I Do Not Support Abolishing ICE’ After Telling Agents to ‘Get the F*ck Out of Minneapolis’ first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
January 14, 2026 at 9:33 PM
liberals with incoherent politics and the aesthetic of conviction are literally going to get all of us fucking killed bro.
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Tim, Keith, etc, tell us where to meet you and let’s fucking march on whipple. Ilhan, Tina, Amy, get all your congressional buddies to fly here and let’s fucking go take it back. @governorwalz.mn.gov @ilhanmn.bsky.social @smith.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov
Right now the strategy of the Governor, Mayor, and really the DFL writ large is to AVOID the conflict, and avoid escalation. But that misreads the attention economy, as Democrats always due.
They need to MAKE A SCENE AND MAKE A TV SHOW. Make them arrest priests, rabbis and the mayor.
They need to MAKE A SCENE AND MAKE A TV SHOW. Make them arrest priests, rabbis and the mayor.
January 14, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Tim, Keith, etc, tell us where to meet you and let’s fucking march on whipple. Ilhan, Tina, Amy, get all your congressional buddies to fly here and let’s fucking go take it back. @governorwalz.mn.gov @ilhanmn.bsky.social @smith.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov
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I hate to say this, but someone of higher profile is going to need to end up in custody trying to stop this. MPD needs to pull over ICE vehicles with flipped plates; O'Hara may end up at Whipple, but that advances the cause. Make them arrest the Governor or Mayor.
January 14, 2026 at 4:21 PM
I hate to say this, but someone of higher profile is going to need to end up in custody trying to stop this. MPD needs to pull over ICE vehicles with flipped plates; O'Hara may end up at Whipple, but that advances the cause. Make them arrest the Governor or Mayor.