Ed Kohler
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The Minneapolis Police Department is ordering its officers to cooperate with the city auditor’s office amid a probe into how it handled two high-profile cases after a city official raised accusations of stonewalling.
Minneapolis auditor says lack of police cooperation in dual probes is creating costly delays
The police department’s second-in-command has issued a memo saying “Failure to comply shall result in discipline.”
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November 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The Minneapolis Police Department is ordering its officers to cooperate with the city auditor’s office amid a probe into how it handled two high-profile cases after a city official raised accusations of stonewalling.
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NEW: Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between a pope and the trans community.
NEW: Transgender Activists to Dine with Pope Leo XIV during Sunday's Jubilee for the Poor
Papal luncheon with trans advocate Alessia Nobile set for Sunday at Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor, highlighting a legacy of outreach and hopes for continued inclusion.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
NEW: Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between a pope and the trans community.
COVID vaccines convinced the bottom 1% of nurses to quit, and Mandami's election victory is convincing the bottom 1% of cops to quit. An impressive side effect.
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
COVID vaccines convinced the bottom 1% of nurses to quit, and Mandami's election victory is convincing the bottom 1% of cops to quit. An impressive side effect.
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Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
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When you tell the ringleader of the pedophile conspiracy that, fine, you’ll see him but you don’t want to run into Donald Trump …
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
When you tell the ringleader of the pedophile conspiracy that, fine, you’ll see him but you don’t want to run into Donald Trump …
Becka Thompson supporter, Janet Fisher - a local massage therapist - has hopped into the comments with her legal opinion that it's libelous to screenshot what she's said.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Becka Thompson supporter, Janet Fisher - a local massage therapist - has hopped into the comments with her legal opinion that it's libelous to screenshot what she's said.
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medium.com/@haystack_48...
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Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE
Federal jury awards $112M to immigrants detained by Suffolk for ICE
A federal jury found the county and the Sheriff's Office violated the Constitutional rights of 674 people.
longisland.news12.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE
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Surprising and disturbing! WTF @jay.bsky.team ??
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November 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Surprising and disturbing! WTF @jay.bsky.team ??
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I came to pay my respects in person. Yes, really.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I came to pay my respects in person. Yes, really.
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so funny coming from the person who refused to use the correct pronouns for multiple of my friends
latonya reeves on "Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality and Transgender Rights" for her CD5 run
another stunning victory for ilhan omar!
another stunning victory for ilhan omar!
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
so funny coming from the person who refused to use the correct pronouns for multiple of my friends
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noted, documented transphobe Latonya Reeves knows you can't win here if you abandon trans folks. her behavior at the annual meeting for the DFL Feminist Caucus is fully incompatible with this section of her website
Ilhan Omar has always stood up for trans folks in CD5, and she'll continue to do so
Ilhan Omar has always stood up for trans folks in CD5, and she'll continue to do so
latonya reeves on "Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality and Transgender Rights" for her CD5 run
another stunning victory for ilhan omar!
another stunning victory for ilhan omar!
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
noted, documented transphobe Latonya Reeves knows you can't win here if you abandon trans folks. her behavior at the annual meeting for the DFL Feminist Caucus is fully incompatible with this section of her website
Ilhan Omar has always stood up for trans folks in CD5, and she'll continue to do so
Ilhan Omar has always stood up for trans folks in CD5, and she'll continue to do so
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Becka, please, pay for an audit of the election results so Aurin can increase her margin, it would be the funniest thing ever
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Becka, please, pay for an audit of the election results so Aurin can increase her margin, it would be the funniest thing ever
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
Brenda Short has posted a rant on Nextdoor claiming that ranked choice voting is unfair because candidates who were mathematically eliminated in the first round were eliminated mathematically.
It includes an AI generated image of supposed supporters of her cause.
It includes an AI generated image of supposed supporters of her cause.
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Brenda Short has posted a rant on Nextdoor claiming that ranked choice voting is unfair because candidates who were mathematically eliminated in the first round were eliminated mathematically.
It includes an AI generated image of supposed supporters of her cause.
It includes an AI generated image of supposed supporters of her cause.
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Incredibly frustrating to have multiple cars parked in the bike lane on 38th - report them - see the agent come out - and watch as they close the case without talking to a single person or ticketing anyone.
There is zero accountability for drivers in Minneapolis, I swear man.
There is zero accountability for drivers in Minneapolis, I swear man.
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Incredibly frustrating to have multiple cars parked in the bike lane on 38th - report them - see the agent come out - and watch as they close the case without talking to a single person or ticketing anyone.
There is zero accountability for drivers in Minneapolis, I swear man.
There is zero accountability for drivers in Minneapolis, I swear man.
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Said resistance was often a bit more emphatic than chucking some bread at a fed, too.
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Said resistance was often a bit more emphatic than chucking some bread at a fed, too.
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My RCV take: It’s not preventing Minneapolis progressives from achieving desired city-wide results. It is actually showing that progressives are close even when not winning. And it’s affirming something about the electorate that we don’t understand, can’t accept, or don’t know what to do about.
November 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
My RCV take: It’s not preventing Minneapolis progressives from achieving desired city-wide results. It is actually showing that progressives are close even when not winning. And it’s affirming something about the electorate that we don’t understand, can’t accept, or don’t know what to do about.
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What the fuck are "biological pronouns?" This is the dumbest thing I've ever read in service of endorsing the bullying of trans kids. Half the world uses languages that don't have gendered pronouns and these illiterate and ignorant judges are creating entirely nonsensical concepts.
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
What the fuck are "biological pronouns?" This is the dumbest thing I've ever read in service of endorsing the bullying of trans kids. Half the world uses languages that don't have gendered pronouns and these illiterate and ignorant judges are creating entirely nonsensical concepts.
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As if the SCOTUS decision wasn't bad enough, the 6th circuit said "hold my beer" and explicitly created a constitutional right to bully trans kids who are already at tremendous risk of self harm and suicide.
These judges want dead trans kids.
These judges want dead trans kids.
BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts.
Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
As if the SCOTUS decision wasn't bad enough, the 6th circuit said "hold my beer" and explicitly created a constitutional right to bully trans kids who are already at tremendous risk of self harm and suicide.
These judges want dead trans kids.
These judges want dead trans kids.
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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Here's an incredible election result that's being slept on: Duluth passed a first-in-the-state Tenants Right to Repair ordinance! TakeAction MN and its ascendant Duluth Tenants Union fought hard for this ballot question and won a huge victory for tenants rights in a market which really needs it
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Here's an incredible election result that's being slept on: Duluth passed a first-in-the-state Tenants Right to Repair ordinance! TakeAction MN and its ascendant Duluth Tenants Union fought hard for this ballot question and won a huge victory for tenants rights in a market which really needs it
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment."
This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.
This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment."
This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.
This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.
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2:17am post election rage posting by Carol Becker on a post about the 2040 plan. Life is good!
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
2:17am post election rage posting by Carol Becker on a post about the 2040 plan. Life is good!