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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 23h

Dear moderates, I'm keeping it neutral and balanced, so that we can engage in a mild conversation about your choice for mayor.

Dear Minneapolis Moderates: A 2025 Election Open Letter » The Wedge Times-Picayune

Hello, True Blue Moderates. I knew you’d come. Let’s talk about Mayor Jacob Frey, the enigma. He’s a two-term mayor with a message suggesting he’s got a zero tolerance policy on encampments. Yet he…

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 19h

So old I remember when Minneapolis Issues List was the new, edgy medium!!!!!

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 19h

Great piece, Taylor!!!

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22h

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 1d

I went through this with my dog this summer: hospitalization, $4,000 in vet bills and I was SO excited, almost dancing in the street when the dog finally pooped again. Thank God for antibiotics, etc!

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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 2d

This is what authentic leadership looks like. Thank you Minneapolis City Council President @elliottpayne.org and Minnesota State Senator @doronclark.bsky.social

Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 2d

Tonight a resident posted a picture of racist and Islamaphobic language written on Johnson street that called for @omarfatehmn.com to be deported and wished death upon the Somali community. @doronclark.bsky.social and I showed up right away to get this racist garbage off of our streets

Elliott and doron cleaning up the shared use path on johnson

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 2d

Definite “'It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?‘“ moment from Ward 10’s Lydia Millard. Renters need protection now, not when your pigs fly.

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 2d

"the best rent control is a thirty year mortgage" is a hell of a thing to say in a ward that's majority renter.

if i could buy a house, i wouldn't need rent stabilization, LYDIA.

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KedricKillian @kedrickillian.bsky.social · 2d

The people running Minneapolis keep alleging some boogeyman secretly defunded the police but as far as I know, cops still get paid. Some yield enough at side hustle cash to buy homes in Florida. Meanwhile the MPD budget keeps going up. Someone is lying or these defunders are incompetent.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 2d

She wants to challenge Frey as being too leftist, too woke, not pro-police enough.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 6d

She is so endlessly canned, cautious, calculating, cowardly and careerist. So done with Amy K.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, but Mary is a girl!!!!!

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 14d

substack.com/@brcremer/no...

Rev. Benjamin R. Cremer (@brcremer)

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 14d

Once again, the League of Women Voters needs to stop hosting debates, especially “all candidates “ debates. LWV debates usually feature lousy, stilted question, no follow-up—it’s all very dull and dumb. Their format hasn’t worked in decade. Just stop.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 17d

Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17d

Disney fired and unfired Jimmy Kimmel the right way.

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 17d

For christ sake don't vote for Angie Craig

Racket @racketmn.com · 17d

Craig "told the audience that inviting digital assets into the financial system should be apolitical. Her presence on the cusp of an expensive campaign suggested otherwise.”

Rep. Angie Craig Was the Lone Democrat at an Elite Crypto Symposium - Racket

Plus language diversity in MN, a great City Council election guide, and more weed coming downtown in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 20d

Ugh. It doesn't sound like it was written by a human being. It may be even worse than AI. It's just word salad. I don't have any sense that Carlbom met Dex and Luna and interacted with them. It's like robot speech. This is why conventional politicians/staffers are failing the moment.

Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 20d

Yikes! Worse than Kristen Sinema?!?!?!?

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 20d

Chuck is a real profile in courage......kind of like our Amy Klobuchar.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 20d

A friend and I were walking our dogs along the Minnesota River in Bloomington a week ago and I felt like I was up north in early May---we were being swarmed. It was almost bug net level. And I need mosquito spray to be on my openn porches, which is unusual in September in Minneapolis.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 20d

Is it just me over here in southwest Minneapolis...or anyone else noticed that the mosquito population has seemed to surge in the last couple of weeks? I'm a camper; I'm used to bugs. And I'm using bug spray to go on a walk or sit out on my front porch. Did the $$$ for mosquito control get cut?

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 20d

Endorsements! In ranked order (key races):
Mayor: Davis, Fateh, Jazz
BET: Bernstein, Brandt
Parks At-Large: Olson, Wilson, Frederick
W2: Wonsley
W4: Haynes
W5: Burnett
W7: Cashman
W8: Stevenson
W10: Chughtai
W12: Chowdhury
Parks D1: Englehart
D3: Deshpande
D4: Garcia
D5: Carvajal Moran
D6: Jourdain

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 21d

A Few Thoughts on KimmelGeddon: Josh Marshall, of Talking Points Memo, with, as usual, one of the most pragmatic and smart takes about what we do in response. I love Josh and TPM!!!
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A Few Thoughts on KimmelGeddon

Let me start by noting the obvious: What we saw yesterday with...

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