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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 8h

It sounds like they're not going to move forward with anything until after the election.

Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 8h

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the workforce, interviewing with a bunch of different stakeholders is a normal part of the hiring process. I've been interviewing recently and am typically meeting with 5-9 people. And I'm not trying to run a large, high-stakes municipal department.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 10h

Mayor Frey is an enigma: A 2-term mayor with a message suggesting he's the zero tolerance on encampments candidate, yet he has presided over an endless string of encampment tragedies. The shootings, fires, the wackamole strategy, those are his results. The rhetoric doesn't match reality.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 12h

Whenever I search on her actual name on Google, I get this. I have no idea why.

Screenshot of a Google search on the string "ethrophic burnett," where Google suggests, "Did you mean: ethropic burnett" (a misspelling)

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 12h

Edina and Wayzata are the obvious answers, but when I came to Minneapolis with my high-school French, St. Croix was the one that tripped me up the most. (This was before the La Croix seltzer craze.)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 15h

It looks like the deepfake law is enforced through the regular district courts, not campaign finance court. The candidates could sue for an injunction. I suspect the Wonsley one would not pass the "realistic" test. The Chughtai one, maybe.

Sec. 609.771 MN Statutes

www.revisor.mn.gov

Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 16h

There's definitely some peer pressure happening on that block. Most of their neighbors across the alley on Bryant have Lydia signs as well.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 16h

I'm not thinking true Frey supporters will be won over, but there are people who don't really like either Frey or Fateh, and we have two candidates and an entire voting system that will cater to those people, and then they can give their third ranking to whichever candidate is less scary to them.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 16h

If (actual) moderates want to have any chance of winning this thing, there need to be more dual endorsements of Hampton and Davis. Jim Rowader is the only one I know of so far.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 16h

I'd love to see more of this, or people endorsing Davis-Hampton or Hampton-Davis and leaving the third spot open. I like Fateh and am cautiously optimistic that he can win and will probably rank him first, but I recognize that not everyone agrees with me.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 18h

I mean, it's not useless if your goal is to give your readers permission to continue believing whatever they already believe.

It's also pretty useful if your goal is to write a headline that fits into a predetermined space on a printed page. Kinda like "eatery" that way.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 20h

Even the dictionary has given up. See examples 1a and 2a in Merriam-Webster.

Which is the lie? Does it matter anymore? Maybe that's the whole point.

Definition of BELIE

to give a false impression of; to present an appearance not in agreement with; to show (something) to be false or wrong… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 21h

Which seems impermissibly broad, but then again, almost 20 percent of right-wing PAC money in this election is going to a single digital marketing vendor, so I guess they have to throw some money at Google (and Meta and Fox, it sounds like) to justify it.

Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, and it looks like she overpaid for it and will have to do a short sale. Homeownership — not accessible to everyone and also not the best investment for everyone! (And in recent years, the "rent" has been going up quite a bit every year due to property taxes.)

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

So bizarre. From what I can tell, the ward is overwhelmingly renters … including her! Even the bougiest neighborhood, East Bde Maka Ska, appears to be majority renter.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

And based on her original campaign website and her LinkedIn profile, she seems to have simultaneously held a full-time job at Target for much of that time. She frequently brings up her work with SSCO as a qualification for being on the city council, but I've never heard any specifics.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

Serious question: Is anyone able to cite any specific thing Lydia Millard has accomplished with the Stevens Square Community Organization? She appears to have started that job just a few months before kicking off her city council campaign.

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 1d

First Q: how will you work with other councillors and the mayor?

Lydia first. Cites work in Stevens Square, says when disagreement occurs, they find common ground. How can we move the needle? Prides herself on being a balanced leader. Says she’s not in alignment with Frey.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for reporting!

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Avocadoplex @avocadoplex.bike · 1d

Ya know what makes people not want to get out of their home? Constant fear mongering about how uptown is both dead and insanely dangerous and full of crime. I wonder which candidate is doing a bunch of that 🤔

Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 1d

Millard says take your neighborhood back: "So we have people in this neighborhood who have a vested interest in this neighborhood who need to get activated. It is time for you to get out of your house. It is time for you to come to door knocks. It is time for us to take our neighborhood back."

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

"More money than she knows what to do with" would be my best guess. (Are they carrying big cans of paint?)

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

That last one has got to be the money quote from this event. I hope someone challenges her on it publicly so she can defiantly double down.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

Probably not likely, but: If Frey gets eliminated in the second-to-last RCV round and most of his voters didn't rank anyone else, I will laugh so hard for days.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing, I was curious about the extent to which this open letter is basically an electioneering communication, so I searched on "conservative Minnesota school board candidates 2025" (not in quotation marks), and Google served up an All of Mpls anti-Katie Cashman ad. Interesting.

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 1d

They found 124 bigots on school boards throughout Minnesota. Compared to how many school board members total?

Briar @briarish.bsky.social · 1d

The MN Star Tribune isn't allowing comments on this, AND the article has virtually no information on school board members across the state who do NOT want to comply with this ridiculous demand.

Do better @startribune.bsky.social
www.startribune.com/title-ix-tra...

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

That looks right. All three of the buildings at that intersection are owned by an LLC whose address is a Sabri family home.

I do have a weakness for rhyming slogans that bash Frey while simultaneously teaching people to pronounce his name correctly.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

Ballotpedia says 2,145 as of 2022.

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