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🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 22h

the islamophobic and antisemitic attacks ramping up in minneapolis are extremely disheartening. these attacks are unacceptable and we need to continue calling them out. this cannot become the new normal for residents. we are better than this.

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🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 1d

it did 🥹

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 1d

anyway I shouldn't have to be yelling at the fucking Democratic party in my state to pull their heads out of their asses while the Supreme Court is hearing arguments about whether or not it's legal to psychologically (and sometimes physically!) torture people like me! What the fuck are we even doing

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🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 1d

Can @dfl.org or Richard Carlbom please have someone moderate the SCC list serv?

Instead of important info about SCC meetings or other party business people seem to believe they have license to use this list like a group chat or personal journal for their musings. Fix it.

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🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 2d

how the hell did my flixbus end up on Lexington Ave? is the freeway closed???

🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 2d

relistening to the album the only song I like is elizabeth taylor

🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 2d

the life of a showgirl is full of dog whistles and it had to be said on my main sorry swifties

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🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 3d

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I f*cking hate this

The Lever @levernews.com · 4d

NEWS: In a case with national implications, @governorwalz.mn.gov's officials are approving Blackrock's takeover of one of the Midwest’s largest utilities.

Critics say the precedent-setting move paves the way for more Wall Street firms to buy utilities to further hike skyrocketing electricity rates.

Wall Street’s Bid For Your Power

Regulators just greenlit BlackRock’s acquisition of a Midwestern power company — the latest deal in the private equity giant’s spending spree on public infrastructure.

www.levernews.com

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🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 3d

for those who don't know, I come from a farm family.... my parents are deliberating on whether to buy half a cow from my great aunt jan or my great aunt donna lmfao

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🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 5d

the only thing I'll say is that max martin didn't do anything wrong... it's the lyrics.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 6d

many of us are doing this work, unpaid, day and in and day out, because we care about our communities and believe this work is worth it in the pursuit of making things better. and too often this altruistic work is then taken advantage of by paid media who swoop in once they see a story has legs

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 6d

be careful what information you put out here because vultures are everywhere. i can't share information here anymore, i'll have to wait until i can blog it. otherwise how it goes is you notice something, you collect info, you put pieces together, you share it all for free, and paid media swoops in

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🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 6d

there's a war near my building of Jamal Osman, Mohamoud Hassan, Omar Fateh, Jacob Frey signs. recently a DeWayne Davis sign has emerged.

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🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 7d

I was at home for less than 30 minutes before my grandma told at least two diabolical family stories and my mom sent me on a Culver's run lmfao

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🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 7d

whoever stole the unrestrict minnesota branding for that anti-fateh website.... give it back. weirdos.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 7d

“Frey still felt the need to wave around his veto pen” is the perfect summation of our worse-than-useless mayor.

Another great letter by @elitalksmpls.bsky.social in today’s Strib

Budget critique ignored Frey's role
In reading Lilita Keire's commentary on the Minneapolis budget, I realized Mayor Jacob Frey's name was not at all mentioned ("The budget crisis: Why it happened and what we can do," Strib Voices, Sept. 26). Politics should be an exercise in collaboration and debate. Not a blame game where we set up arguments for the sole purpose of scoring political points against those we disagree with.

A simple search of "Minneapolis budget vote 2024" reveals that the 2025 proposed budget was actually vetoed by Frey after it passed the council with a 10-3 vote in favor. Not just a majority. But a veto-proof one. Frey still felt the need to wave around his veto pen. It is not lost on me that the three "no" votes to this budget were the three council members highlighted as individuals "who have the governmental experience to effectively balance a budget."

Keire seems to support of minority rule on the budget. That is not good governance, while also being agnostic toward the basic facts. Chastising funding for programs to assist our unhoused and immigrant neighbors as "ballooning" the budget, Keire ignores that the Minneapolis police budget has ballooned by $40 million since 2022. Not accounting for other misconduct payouts and PTSD claims also absorbed by the taxpayer.

I even share concerns about the ever-rising property taxes in Minneapolis, but responsibility is similarly misplaced. Property taxes have gone up 28% since 2019. All during Frey's tenure. He proposed the increase in the 2025 budget.

We should talk about our city's budget. Let's make sure to be honest about it.

ELI SHERMAN, Minneapolis

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🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 7d

THE REPUBLICANS HAVE MAJORITIES IN ALL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT WHAT IS THEIR PROBLEM

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9d

The is currently the front page of hud dot gov #hatchact

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🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 7d

rolling through tomah searching my outlook for a zoom link 🤦🏾‍♀️

🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 8d

baby's first government shutdown as a full-fledged adult 😳

I don't like it

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8d

Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 8d

the story of mariah samuels' murder is heartbreaking and enraging. she did everything we tell victims of domestic violence to do, and she was failed by MPD and not protected. it is strikingly similar to allison lussier's murder. this a pattern

just wait for the story to break

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🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 8d

people are worried about the latest nicki/cardi beef meanwhile republicans are refusing to swear in adelita grijalva (a similar tactic, I might add, that minnesota house gop tried to do earlier this year that failed because house dfl refused to provide quorum)

release the epstein files

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🌸ayana🌸 @ayanatheegemini.bsky.social · 8d

first love island now dancing with the stars none of my shows are doing well this year I'm just gonna have to rewatch schitts creek

a woman wearing sunglasses and a necklace that says ' i love you ' on it

ALT: a woman wearing sunglasses and a necklace that says ' i love you ' on it

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