10/ After his refusal, Davis watch Frey slow-walk or outright not institute the committee’s reforms. Frey contests this & touts the work group, but it’s significant that Levy-Armstrong, no friend of progressives, has endorsed Davis for mayor. (Davis is a good progressive!) So, that’s the backstory!

9/ That’s right — Jacob Frey wanted a “black friend” to run cover for him. Davis refused; the mayor acted like Davis owed him something for appointing him to the committee, in a cynically transactional calculation that twisted Davis’s volunteer public service into political fealty.

8/ The part the public DOESN’T know is that in the firestorm after Locke’s killing, Frey called Davis, then on vacation in Mexico. Davis — fully expecting Frey to discuss how to better control MPD — instead found the mayor pleading with him to fly home & stand with Frey at a news conference.

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...

My dad would say “and now you know they are your enemies and you just never speak to them again”, and my mom would say “oh no you don’t David! Kindness and civility can repair anything over time!”

And my own reaction after 6 decades: we shall see.

So, yes: I was tested many times on both “congress having the power of the purse” and on the way a proposed bill becomes a law.

I had US and state government structure and procedure in “social studies” or “core” classes from 3rd grade on, plus an actual “American Government” class in 9th grade and “poly sci” and “american studies” classes in college. My kids in their 40s were similar, as were my kids in their 30s and 20s.

What’s your Dairy Queen? “Mine” is at 4400 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN 55406, still there after all these years since I was a little girl living at 2923 46th Ave S

🚨TONIGHT: Emergency bike ride departs Mueller Park at 7:30. This is not to be confused with the emergency naked bike ride. You can keep your clothes on.

But gorgeous!

I learned a new term today:

THE GLASS CLIFF - "circumstances in which POC and women are preferentially placed in leadership roles that are associated with an increased risk of negative consequences... They are achieving leadership roles, but in far more precarious circumstances than White men."

Being a happy successful 30-something woman isn’t a compelling story, but leave it to the Atlantic to equate that lack of drama with the end of the fairytale.

I fully expect another 40 years of Taylor expressing in pop-song enthusiasm all the stages of adulthood.
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

“A lack of child care is the single biggest economic factor holding back rural Minnesota.” www.startribune.com/minnesota-co...

🍂 🎃 Do your kiddos not have plans for MEA break? Well, now they do! Join MPRB at Van Cleve Park for a variety of activities to keep you busy. Register at minneapolisparks.org/register

Yup. I feel the exact same.

Googled it! (Which I coulda done initially but too lame.) Awesome poem for right here right now.

Not in ranked order:

Richard Thompson
Joni
Dylan
Chuck D
esperanza
Lennon
Neil Young
Robbie Robertson
Carole King
Aretha
Randy Newman
Dolly
Hag
Cash
Loretta Lynn
Dick Gaughan
Robin Williamson
Willie Mae
Billie Holiday
Flo Milli
Cardi B
D Boon
Zappa
Springsteen
Jimi
Black Thought
Joe Strummer

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Not sure I should acknowledge this one by clicking that little heart.

Joke making fun of what?

hell yeah, let’s keep that morale going

Blatant incompetence all around

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”