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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 5h

Our latest paper in @jamanetworkopen.com where we asked: Following the #COVID pandemic, has SARSCoV2 circulation been associated with health-related absences from work and labor force exits? @yaleemd.bsky.social @princetonecon.bsky.social @brookings.edu 1/ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 7h

Thread on ICE in holland, Northeast Minneapolis the morning of 10/10/2025.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 7h

The bit about MPD being present was confirmed by three neighbors. Jacob Frey continues to lie and O’Hara continues to help ICE. Neighbors assumed at first it was a car crash based on how the squads and SUVs were parked.

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Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com · 8h

While Mayor Frey is dodging the public and accountability wherever possible, the MPR mayoral survey is a great place to learn more about @omarfatehmn.com, @dewayneforminneapolis.com and @jazzformayor.bsky.social.

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Voter guides: 2025 Minneapolis mayoral race

Minneapolis is electing its next mayor on Nov. 4, 2025. No Republicans in the race — but plenty of platforms to choose from, spanning major parties and independents.

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Spencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social · 20h

Antifa is not a group; the president cannot designate domestic terror groups.

My @brennancenter.org colleague @faizapatel.bsky.social is out today with a deep review of NSPM-7. It is a dangerous directive that will facilitate predatory politics-based targeting: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 1d

this loring park renter lives in 110 grant

ward 7 residents, remember that elizabeth shaffer thinks we don't need any additional renter protection laws, while katie cashman supported the brentwood tenant union and introduced STOP slumlords

the choice is clear

www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Loring Park resident Catherine Menick is moving across the river to St. Paul. For the past three years, she said a collection of health and safety violations that have gone unaddressed — or taken too long to be addressed — have made her Minneapolis apartment too big of a risk.

“We have to go. We have to leave this place,” she said. “I can’t be safe here. Nobody can.”

She said the violations have included an unsecured door that allowed squatters to come through, before residents found out it was blocked off when they couldn’t escape during a false fire alarm. She’s dealt with mold, brown water sitting in her dishwasher, smoke detectors that don’t detect anything and a flooding pool and parking garage that has her worried about the tall building’s foundation.

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Boneshaker Books @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social · 9d

Fun fact: the new space we'll be in is just two blocks from Boneshaker's very first location in the old Arise! Bookstore space. Though we are now run by a new collective, it feels like a full-circle move. This article from 2010 offers some fun historical perspective:

Boneshaker Books shakes up old Arise! space

From the ashes of Arise! Bookstore will soon rise a successor collective, Boneshaker Books. Meanwhile, Storefront in a Box is offering the space for short-term rental.

www.thelinemedia.com

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Boneshaker Books @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social · 9d

The rumors are true: Boneshaker is headed to a new location! We need your help to dig up our bones and move on over to 26th and Lyndale. We're hoping to raise $15,000 total, $6k of that by 10/17. Learn more at bit.ly/boneshakermove and thank you for helping Boneshaker thrive!

Why move? While we love a lot about our current location, we’ve struggled with dwindling foot traffic, low sales, and expensive maintenance issues.

We believe our new space will offer resources that will allow us to exist more sustainably as a community organization for the long haul.

How can I help? Our goal is to raise $15,000 total to fund the move, make some improvements to the new space, and build out our inventory.

Ultimately, we need at least $6,000 by October 17th so we can reopen in our new space at 708 W 26th St. by around November 1st.

Donate and find out more about the move (and the cool perks you can get for donating!) via the QR code or URL below.
Thank you for helping Boneshaker thrive!
bit.ly/boneshakermove

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Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social · 10d

The Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center does such good work across so many types of people, moms and families and unhoused relatives, they are always there to support! Help them out with clothes if you can!

Nenookaasi Ozhige @nenookaasi.bsky.social · 10d

MIWRC is in need of clothing contributions!! We are looking for adult sized items of any gender. Items can be dropped off at MIWRC (2300 15th Ave S, Minneapolis)
between 9 AM and 4 PM Monday through Friday. Please be sure items are clean & in dignified condition. Thank you!

Clothing Drive for MIWRC
Clothing for adults all genders and sizes needed
Gently used: Shirts, long sleeves, sweaters, pants, shorts, sweatpants
New: socks, boxers/undergarments
2300 15th Ave S
Mon-Fri 9:00-4:00

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

A victory for FAST leadership.

Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists

The French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently

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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so sorry, this sucks. 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 you get it back - I once did

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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 1d

Mpls 👇🏼

h jiahong pan 潘嘉宏 ☀️ @hpan3.bsky.social · 1d

Can y’all please be on the lookout for my bike? Last seen in Elliot Park. It is a black Biria bike with red pedals and stickers of local news orgs on the bottom tube. It also has a Brooks saddle and adapters for Wolf Tooth pogies on the handlebars.

Biria bike with a sign that says “300 Campground”

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 1d

NYC "remains the only municipality in the US to guarantee the right to shelter, a commitment established through decades of advocacy + litigation. Public Address, by artist Alex Strada, is a citywide public artwork that centers the lived experience of those most impacted by housing insecurity."

Storefront for Art and Architecture

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Trump: “I don’t know what could be worse than Portland. They don’t even have stores anymore”.

Portland: Busts out the inflatable frog, raccoon, bear and unicorn for a late night dance party.

This isn’t a city of dangerous criminals.

It’s a city of artists. Of writers. Of weirdos. Of resisters.

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emly in minneaparis @eeewade.bsky.social · 1d

Would you like to go to the best Halloween party in south mpls? Would you like to support @katiecashman.bsky.social’s campaign? Have I got a deal for you 🐈‍⬛🎃👻

secure.actblue.com/donate/ward7...

Halloween with Team Katie

Show your support with a contribution.

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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah that's exactly why I'm headed to a national conference there at the end of the month. 🙄

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 2d

I legit love MacArthur day. I love seeing the amazing things people are working on: www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Thinkers, dreamers, doers: Here's who made the 2025 MacArthur Fellow list

A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each Fellow will receive a no-strings attached award of $800,000.

www.npr.org

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 2d

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on Wednesday.

MacArthur 2025 ‘genius grant’ winners include a Chicago photographer

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on Wednesday.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

REI to close its soho location, the first shop that unionized. www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-new...

REI to close three stores, including NYC SoHo location

SEATTLE (BRAIN) — A week after announcing a strategic plan to employees that would involve difficult decisions to grow sales, REI Co-op said it will close three stores next year, including the New Yor...

www.bicycleretailer.com

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 2d

I shoulda known @minnesotabrown.bsky.social would have a magnificent take on A Precarious State. He does. I'm providing a gift link so that you have no excuse to not read it. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

Brown: We do live in ‘A Precarious State,’ but place-baiting won’t solve anything

"Aging population? Out-migration? Crime and drugs? Schools not as good as you remember? Welcome to the problems rural Minnesota has been fighting for more than 40 years," Aaron Brown writes.

www.startribune.com

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Christin 🦀, Ward 9 enthusiast @christin612.bsky.social · 2d

Frey’s proposed 2026 budget defunds them, but emergency housing vouchers are funded in the 2025 budget; MPHA implemented the operational needs to get vouchers out in Q3 for resident use. It’s now Q4 & sitting in CPED. 100 vouchers could be in use right now: 50 for single residents, 50 for families.

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 3d

Continues to be striking how, since Frey erected the greenway fence to Lake/Nicollet, the crowd has returned en masse to 2900 block of Blaisdell. Frey bleats “you can’t have encampments by home & businesses“ but that’s exactly where he’s pushed these folks. Meanwhile 50 housing vouchers go unfunded.

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Jesse Mortenson @jk9.bsky.social · 3d

I knew Taylor was going to post this so I didn’t have to bother live posting :)

The line that stuck out to me was “[Keith Ellison] told me he needed to look tough on crime for his next election”

If you wished you coulda been there check out the interview Mary did with Alec! rss.com/podcasts/you...

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