Heather Silsbee
@hsilsbee.bsky.social
Editor, communicator, abolitionist, Southwest Minneapolis resident trying to make it less of a problem. Queer/bi, chronically ill, she/her
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Who's funding Elizabeth Shaffer's quarter-million-dollar city council campaign? 🍟👀
Please share with the ward 7 residents in your life!
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Please share with the ward 7 residents in your life!
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Who’s Funding Elizabeth Shaffer?
A candidate can’t control everyone who donates to them. But, wealthy donors, like most voters, tend to financially support candidates who they think will support their own interests. So, if you’re …
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This is who we have representing us now, ward 7. Keep an eye on your favorite cafe or it might be replaced by a McCafe.
And make sure Shaffer hears from you often. We don't have to make her job easy.
Katie - you're still the CM in my heart! Can't wait to see what you do next. 🧡😭
And make sure Shaffer hears from you often. We don't have to make her job easy.
Katie - you're still the CM in my heart! Can't wait to see what you do next. 🧡😭
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Working overtime at the Holding The Powerful To Account Factory today
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Working overtime at the Holding The Powerful To Account Factory today
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Minneapolis and Minnesota need to regulate robotaxis, now.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Minneapolis and Minnesota need to regulate robotaxis, now.
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Denying other parts of the city fair representation so southwest can dominate the vote for 10 of 13 council seats sounds like something Scott Graham would want to do.
Fun to walk around lake of the Isles and hear one failed ward candidate loudly plotting with another extremely failed ward 7 candidate about having 4 wards and 9 at large council seats.
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Denying other parts of the city fair representation so southwest can dominate the vote for 10 of 13 council seats sounds like something Scott Graham would want to do.
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📣 Support 13 new homes in the Linden Hills neighborhood!
Minneapolis has a housing shortage, and we need your help to make sure every neighborhood welcomes new neighbors. Please let City Council know you support more homes by taking action by Monday, December 1!
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Minneapolis has a housing shortage, and we need your help to make sure every neighborhood welcomes new neighbors. Please let City Council know you support more homes by taking action by Monday, December 1!
actionnetwork.org/letters/acti...
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
📣 Support 13 new homes in the Linden Hills neighborhood!
Minneapolis has a housing shortage, and we need your help to make sure every neighborhood welcomes new neighbors. Please let City Council know you support more homes by taking action by Monday, December 1!
actionnetwork.org/letters/acti...
Minneapolis has a housing shortage, and we need your help to make sure every neighborhood welcomes new neighbors. Please let City Council know you support more homes by taking action by Monday, December 1!
actionnetwork.org/letters/acti...
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Minneapolis and Minnesota and Hennepin - PLEASE!!!!!!
"$1,000 a month as part of a state program experimenting with giving homeless youths cash payments for two years with no strings attached."
"Of the 117 youths [..] who completed Oregon's two-year pilot program, 91% reported being in stable housing."
#Oregon #USA #Housing #Nonprofit
"Of the 117 youths [..] who completed Oregon's two-year pilot program, 91% reported being in stable housing."
#Oregon #USA #Housing #Nonprofit
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Minneapolis and Minnesota and Hennepin - PLEASE!!!!!!
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Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
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Join me at my Town Hall at Edison High School on Monday, November 24 at 5:30 PM. School Board Director Abdul Abdi and Park Board Commissioner-elect Dan Engelhart will join me.
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Join me at my Town Hall at Edison High School on Monday, November 24 at 5:30 PM. School Board Director Abdul Abdi and Park Board Commissioner-elect Dan Engelhart will join me.
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apologies for no alt text - i am very exhausted and don’t have the bandwitdth at the moment
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i was looking through my texts after the listening session last week and came across my texts with richard regarding some issues i had with planning ward 6 caucuses and convention. below are those texts+
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i was looking through my texts after the listening session last week and came across my texts with richard regarding some issues i had with planning ward 6 caucuses and convention. below are those texts+
this was the question I asked at the DFL listening session. The answer I got was not satisfactory. I didn’t record the answer bc I was exhausted lol
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
apologies for no alt text - i am very exhausted and don’t have the bandwitdth at the moment
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i was looking through my texts after the listening session last week and came across my texts with richard regarding some issues i had with planning ward 6 caucuses and convention. below are those texts+
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i was looking through my texts after the listening session last week and came across my texts with richard regarding some issues i had with planning ward 6 caucuses and convention. below are those texts+
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They gave out about 2,000 whistles today. It was incredible but it costs money.
Please support this work! You can Venmo them @mspwhistles
Please support this work! You can Venmo them @mspwhistles
More than 200 neighbors attended the Phillips community training today!
It was inspiring to see so many people come together, committed to keeping their neighbors safe.
Community members left empowered to organize their building, block, and community.
It was inspiring to see so many people come together, committed to keeping their neighbors safe.
Community members left empowered to organize their building, block, and community.
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
They gave out about 2,000 whistles today. It was incredible but it costs money.
Please support this work! You can Venmo them @mspwhistles
Please support this work! You can Venmo them @mspwhistles
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Hey Minneapolis. Is this someone’s friend? Lost on the sidewalk
November 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Hey Minneapolis. Is this someone’s friend? Lost on the sidewalk
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Despite Trump’s rhetoric and harmful tweets, we are One Minnesota. We support and love our Somali neighbors. I’m so proud of the great turnout at Karmel Mall today to show our united front.
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Despite Trump’s rhetoric and harmful tweets, we are One Minnesota. We support and love our Somali neighbors. I’m so proud of the great turnout at Karmel Mall today to show our united front.
Emergency food donations needed by 11am at the American Indian Center! I'm there volunteering and we need more donations before starting distribution.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Emergency food donations needed by 11am at the American Indian Center! I'm there volunteering and we need more donations before starting distribution.
maps.app.goo.gl/GZaA4oSUsSMk...
maps.app.goo.gl/GZaA4oSUsSMk...
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 2nd!
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 2nd!
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Israel has violated the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire at least 497 times in 44 days, killing at least 342 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
🔗: aje.io/65ptdp| #Infograph
🔗: aje.io/65ptdp| #Infograph
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Israel has violated the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire at least 497 times in 44 days, killing at least 342 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
🔗: aje.io/65ptdp| #Infograph
🔗: aje.io/65ptdp| #Infograph
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I need people to understand that here in Mn what happened on Tuesday in St Paul is unusual.
They are picking up people every day in much quieter ways.
Grabbed in the lobby of the Whipple building, pulled off roofing jobs, taken from their cars.
Every day.
We need more defenders.
They are picking up people every day in much quieter ways.
Grabbed in the lobby of the Whipple building, pulled off roofing jobs, taken from their cars.
Every day.
We need more defenders.
November 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I need people to understand that here in Mn what happened on Tuesday in St Paul is unusual.
They are picking up people every day in much quieter ways.
Grabbed in the lobby of the Whipple building, pulled off roofing jobs, taken from their cars.
Every day.
We need more defenders.
They are picking up people every day in much quieter ways.
Grabbed in the lobby of the Whipple building, pulled off roofing jobs, taken from their cars.
Every day.
We need more defenders.
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Minnesota, we are now up to 5 detention centers.
Freeborn Co
Sherburne Co
Kandiyohi Co
Crow Wing co
NW Regional in Crookston
We started the year at 3.
They’re eyeing a huge private prison out west in Appleton.
Freeborn Co
Sherburne Co
Kandiyohi Co
Crow Wing co
NW Regional in Crookston
We started the year at 3.
They’re eyeing a huge private prison out west in Appleton.
November 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Minnesota, we are now up to 5 detention centers.
Freeborn Co
Sherburne Co
Kandiyohi Co
Crow Wing co
NW Regional in Crookston
We started the year at 3.
They’re eyeing a huge private prison out west in Appleton.
Freeborn Co
Sherburne Co
Kandiyohi Co
Crow Wing co
NW Regional in Crookston
We started the year at 3.
They’re eyeing a huge private prison out west in Appleton.
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Referring to the fall of Al Franken as a "lynching" is quite a tell, almost as much a tell as referring to him as a progressive warrior. Also, "weaponize a joke photo" lol, lmao. At least 8 women came forward to accuse Franken of harassment.
Sorry, no….its not. Many of us will never forgive her for lynching Al Franken. That was a contrived right-wing hit job pushed by a disingenuous partisan hack former model who decided to weaponize a joke photo from decades ago. We lost a progressive warrior because of Dem self flagellation.
November 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Referring to the fall of Al Franken as a "lynching" is quite a tell, almost as much a tell as referring to him as a progressive warrior. Also, "weaponize a joke photo" lol, lmao. At least 8 women came forward to accuse Franken of harassment.
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Organizations go years trying to find anyone with Dan's ability. What self sabotage to throw it away over political differences.
the DFL constitution, bylaws and rules committee (CBRC) is meeting now. cyndy martin has a motion to remove dan thomas commins as secretary
cyndy martin is the DFL officer facing criminal charges for killing a teenager with her car
cyndy martin is the DFL officer facing criminal charges for killing a teenager with her car
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Organizations go years trying to find anyone with Dan's ability. What self sabotage to throw it away over political differences.
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Phillips community, come out for this!
We are excited to see you this Sunday at 2pm for an important conversation about how we keep each other safe in these times (St. Paul’s Lutheran Church 2742 15th Ave South).
*This is being reposted from CM Chavez’s Official Accounts*
*This is being reposted from CM Chavez’s Official Accounts*
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Phillips community, come out for this!
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we should reject waymo on the basis of supporting labor in minnesota, where uber and lyft drivers fought to score a statewide minimum wage! and don't forget that lyft contributed $10,000 to all of mpls this year to reelect mayor frey and get a city council allied with him. they are making moves
This, 1,000x this. I've been harping about Waymo being anti-worker and yet another way to funnel money upwards to the elite/oligarchs, and people react like I'm nuts. (It's also why I never use self-checkouts.)
and this is why waymo is a labor issue, not a tech issue! it's going to be taking money out of the pockets of rideshare drivers and putting it solely in the hands of big tech
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
we should reject waymo on the basis of supporting labor in minnesota, where uber and lyft drivers fought to score a statewide minimum wage! and don't forget that lyft contributed $10,000 to all of mpls this year to reelect mayor frey and get a city council allied with him. they are making moves
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This would be a great app idea for someone to sample rents by neighborhood and show trends against inflation. Solid data project for the portfolio
For what it's worth, people within the City have proposed a rent registry, requiring landlords to report the rents for every unit annually. The industry has fought that proposal tooth and nail. They know. If the data was actually good for them, they'd want to sound it to the heavens.
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This would be a great app idea for someone to sample rents by neighborhood and show trends against inflation. Solid data project for the portfolio
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if you are in st. paul, you can’t go wrong with thai food from hot grainz. tiny, immigrant owned place next to schmidt’s brewery on w 7th
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
if you are in st. paul, you can’t go wrong with thai food from hot grainz. tiny, immigrant owned place next to schmidt’s brewery on w 7th
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AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
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Once again, the President is trying to divide instead of unite. His purported attempt to remove Temporary Protected Status for Somalis specifically in Minnesota should not be tolerated and is likely illegal.
You can help: speak up and attend training like Monarca’s Upstander training.
You can help: speak up and attend training like Monarca’s Upstander training.
November 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Once again, the President is trying to divide instead of unite. His purported attempt to remove Temporary Protected Status for Somalis specifically in Minnesota should not be tolerated and is likely illegal.
You can help: speak up and attend training like Monarca’s Upstander training.
You can help: speak up and attend training like Monarca’s Upstander training.