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Christin 🦀, Ward 9 enthusiast @christin612.bsky.social · 12m

A single mom in the Duluth area is in need of community care. She is navigating challenging times & was laid off from her job. She needs funds to maintain her housing & to cover basic needs. Please consider contributing or reposting. I will update progress and share screenshots for accountability.🌻

MUTUAL AID REQUEST
A single mother is navigating some difficult times and is in need of financial support for housing, bills, and basic needs.
Goal: $2000
Cash app: $ChristinCrabtree
Venmo: @christin-crabtree
PayPal: @christincrabtree
screenshots of funds raised & transferred to the mother will be provided for transparency

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 1h

Some people might say, “Taylor opposes Frey, why should we trust her reporting?” and as an alt-weekly vet who used to beat the Strib on this stuff I respond, “look at her facts; it’s basic shoe-leather reporting. It’s easy as shit for “objective’ mainstream media to do. They just don’t do it.”

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 1h

New/old — and extremely clumsy — landlord PAC just dropped. (Intentionally dropped late in the cycle.) Taylor continues to outpace local political media on the money stuff — read her 🧵

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 1h

PAC report: safer hennepin is back again and we can do better mpls has launched a website. we don't know yet who is funding either, but i want to highlight the blog that we can do better has - taylordahlin.com/f/new-and-re...

New and Returning PACs: We Can Do Better Mpls and Safer Hennepin

Two PACs are now operating in Minneapolis ahead of the November 4th election, and both are connected to one man.

taylordahlin.com

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 1h

DEEPFAKE ALERT! DEEPFAKE ALERT!

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 1h

we can do better mpls hotoshopped Aisha Chughtai standing in front of the old Chino Latino with "CLOSED" photoshopped on it to look like graffiti

Chino Latino closed in October 2020, Chughtai was elected to the Minneapolis City Council more than 1 year later in November 2021.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 1h

we can do better mpls photoshopped Robin Wonsley in front of an old image of Moon Palace Books and its Abolish The Polish boards, while men in orange jumpsuits high-five and give thumbs-up

Wonsley represents Ward 2, while Moon Palace Books is in Ward 9.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 1h

PAC report: safer hennepin is back again and we can do better mpls has launched a website. we don't know yet who is funding either, but i want to highlight the blog that we can do better has - taylordahlin.com/f/new-and-re...

New and Returning PACs: We Can Do Better Mpls and Safer Hennepin

Two PACs are now operating in Minneapolis ahead of the November 4th election, and both are connected to one man.

taylordahlin.com

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Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com · 1h

The ICE agent wrote, “I cannot tell you how impressed my staff were as you stepped up and personally escorted that tactical vehicle through the crowd.”

Frey thinks this is “not assisting ICE” - but our communities know better.

And that’s why we’ll elect a new mayor on November 4th.

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Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com · 1h

While Mayor Frey and Chief O’Hara have attempted to claim that MPD only showed up at the ICE action on June 3rd to assist with crowd control, ICE agents certainly saw MPD’s actions differently.

In fact, the ICE Special Agent in Charge emailed O’Hara to say thank you that same day.

Title text: "ICE Thanks O'Hara & MPD" with the following quote below: "I cannot tell you how impressed my staff were as you stepped up and personally escorted that tactical vehicle through the crowd." Below that is a screenshot of an email sent from Jamie Holt, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Securities Investigations to Chief O'Hara.

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

Imagine if there had been vouchers available

(Link: a public post from Pastor Ingrid Rasmussen following the violence targeting unhoused neighbors off east lake street)
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Christin 🦀, Ward 9 enthusiast @christin612.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 1d

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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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 2d

I know i ask this a lot, but when are we allowed to stop calling them moderates??? I want to be politically correct, call people by the labels they've chosen for themselves, but it just feels misleading to talk about them that way.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 2d

CB is a troll at heart, so I try not to get baited. But I can't believe our "moderate" DFLers have their own alpha news style documentary and have pre-injected voter fraud into the city election conversation. It's glorious. Federal troops will be greeted as liberators I guess?

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Christin 🦀, Ward 9 enthusiast @christin612.bsky.social · 20h

It was from 10 to 1!

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Christin 🦀, Ward 9 enthusiast @christin612.bsky.social · 1d

Alycat is an excellent organizer & has a heart of gold. Let’s help meet this goal 💛🌻

Ms. K tweets 🍉 @whatmsksaid.bsky.social · 2d

Alycat, a beloved member of our Minneapolis trans & organizing community, is celebrating her 50th birthday & needs some mutual aid support for rent & living expenses

goal: $1,000

she shows up for us, lets show up for her ✊❤️

text: Alycat, a beloved member of our Minneapolis trans & organizing community, is celebrating her 50th birthday & needs some mutual aid support

images: pic w/ Alyssa, puppy, and lil girl; a yellow cat gif

text: goal $1,000

venmo: @kaytie-kamphoff
PayPal: kaytie.kamphoff@gmail.com

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Jesse Mortenson @jk9.bsky.social · 1d

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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Christin 🦀, Ward 9 enthusiast @christin612.bsky.social · 3d

not an exhaustive list but

Rubble: 12th & 28th, 14th & 26th, 15th just north of the greenway, Cedar/55, a few empty lots interspersed between houses in East Phillips

Fences: Penn & Lowry, E. Franklin, 26th, 28th, + E. Lake from 35W to the river, Bloomington between lake & Franklin, Cedar/Hiawatha

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Alex @alexpong.bsky.social · 5d

the city’s callousness toward its residents will continue to lead to nightmare scenarios like this. we shouldn’t have to live in the mayor’s Saw fantasy.

But if the contractor doesn't hear anything indicating people are still inside, without a legal right to enter, the building is not being checked each time to ensure no one remains
inside before the new access points are boarded up and then have steel grates placed in front of the boards, reenforcing them.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 7d

I'm tired of these shameful accusations of "Republican" from Taylor. These are good moderate DFL PAC donors who believe in the old credo "we all do better when I encroach on public land."

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 7d

brian fritterer is the owner of new build with encroaching rock wall in photos 1 & 4 on cedar lake. he owns IPG, whose tenants formed a union to get him to address neglect of his properties. he donated $500k to donald trump, maxed out to elizabeth shaffer and lydia millard bsky.app/profile/tayl...

taylr @taylordahlin.com · Aug 29

from the @wedge.live cedar lake encroachment walk tonight

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 5d

Something is wrong in the "moderate" DFL universe when the new norm is taking money from Trump megadonors, running a coalition of candidates propped up by millions from PACs, and participating in this Minneapolis-bashing propaganda doc to be aired on Hubbard-owned KSTP.

ryan @rkmpls.bsky.social · 5d

Okay we all know about how Rick Kupchella is airing this secretly-funded propaganda movie about how Minneapolis sucks (it’s NOT the two-term Mayor’s fault!!!) - but did we know that it will prominently feature local crackpot and conspiracy theorist Carol Becker?!

Precarious State @precariousstate.bsky.social · 5d

Tonight, #APrecariousState reveals Minnesota’s turning point—and how a small bloc of DSA-endorsed members gained outsized influence on #Minneapolis City Council.

7 p.m. CT on ABC MN + precariousstate.com
Live Q&A follows on the website.

#APrecariousState #Minnesota #TwinCities #Documentary

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 6d

Housing is a human right. I’m glad that @omarfatehmn.com is coming strong with a plan to address unsheltered homelessness.

Our neighbors deserve an executive with a plan. Not someone who will pass the buck on solutions.

Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 6d

The goal is to have no encampments. But until the city funds housing-first solutions, they're inevitable. Frey's encampment sweeps don't work. He isn't solving homelessness, he's wasting valuable resources. Everyone deserves a dignified path to housing, not a fenced off sidewalk.

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Dani Kasprzak @foucauldron.bsky.social · 8d

Is it normal for a mayor to comment on a city council member's Facebook post with a rebuttal that is mostly an attempt to shame said council member? I'm genuinely asking. It seems odd that Frey would comment on @jchavezmpls.bsky.social's post. But maybe I just don't follow Facebook closely enough?

Dear neighbor,
It breaks my heart to hear the anti-immigrant bigotry being lobbed at street vendors on top of community members threatening ICE on them. This behavior is abhorrent and has no place in Minneapolis.
It’s also come to my attention that the police are being called on vendors, which is creating deep fear. I am writing this post to update you all on the street vendor situation in Minneapolis.
Mayor Frey’s administration has made it clear that the next level of enforcement for unlicensed vendors will involve criminal citations, discarding of food, and possibly taking vendor equipment.
I will not be co-signing this punitive approach that could lead to the deportation of immigrants and impact their immigration status. I do not support this action and strongly condemn this approach.
My office has been working hard to find solutions, which includes passing a new ordinance, reducing the fees for a permit, and establishing a program to help vendors pass and take tests. I continue to believe a comprehensive approach can help us address these issues.
Issuing citations is not the only way to enforce regulations. This criminalization approach risks damaging the trust and relationships in our community. This is not how we should welcome our immigrant neighbors. Instead, we must lead with compassion and understanding.

An immediate solution that does not involve the criminalization of immigrants, people trying to make a living, and vendors would be to allow them into our parks to sell food, as we wait for residents to pass their exams and acquire permits. It could help alleviate the concerns of community while still allowing working people to make a living.

Council Member Chavez,
As you know, City staff has been working directly with your office to amplify these efforts. Staff are already providing unlicensed vendors with education, translation, and training so they can comply with the health code. But we still have a health code—including City regulations you passed—that cannot be ignored. Our staff enforce these codes based on a concern for public health. Period. That’s their job: to support small businesses while upholding the laws you helped craft. Our ask is that you resume working with City staff to ensure food safety and advise these prospective vendors to operate legally and successfully.

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KedricKillian @kedrickillian.bsky.social · 8d

This is a clear violation of the separation ordinance. ICE doesn‘t need protection from Minneapolis police paid for by immigrant’s tax dollars. Go solve a crime and improve that dismal clearance rate.

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 9d

"I cannot tell you how impressed my staff were
as you stepped up and personally escorted that tactical vehicle through the crowd." - Homeland Security Investigations (HSI is a division of ICE) Special Agent in Charge Jamie Holt to Brian O'Hara on the night of 6/3, revealed by @mplsforthemany.com

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 9d

"[MPD] were not there to protect Minneapolis residents. They were there to protect Trump’s federal agents, and according to those ICE agents themselves - MPD did a great job in allowing them to terrorize our community.” chelsea mcfarren of mpls for the many

drive.google.com/file/d/1wzYe...

MPD Data Request Repository 2-1.pdf

drive.google.com

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 9d

"I cannot tell you how impressed my staff were
as you stepped up and personally escorted that tactical vehicle through the crowd." - Homeland Security Investigations (HSI is a division of ICE) Special Agent in Charge Jamie Holt to Brian O'Hara on the night of 6/3, revealed by @mplsforthemany.com

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