@jmerkovich.bsky.social
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Very curious what the long-term ripple effects of this ICE occupation will be. Many very privileged people have stepped up to prevent their own government from disappearing their non-white neighbors and have now confronted inequalities and social problems they never would have experienced firsthand.
January 17, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Very curious what the long-term ripple effects of this ICE occupation will be. Many very privileged people have stepped up to prevent their own government from disappearing their non-white neighbors and have now confronted inequalities and social problems they never would have experienced firsthand.
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I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.
@zeteo.com
@zeteo.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:17 PM
I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
"Shutting down Northstar is a big step in the wrong direction for our transit system & no amount of buses in the region can make up for that. We can open as many bus lines as we want, but that won’t turn the tides more in favor of public transit in our region." streets.mn/2026/01/08/n...
Northstar: Never Given a Chance
With the Northstar Line now shut down, I reminisce about our short-lived commuter rail, how history is repeating itself with this shut down, and what the future holds for the transit system of the …
streets.mn
January 10, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Where are the protests tomorrow fam?
January 10, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Where are the protests tomorrow fam?
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If you're in a position to be able to donate, this is a very good way to support Renee's family as they grieve an unimaginable and traumatic loss.
Let's step up - Minneapolis and beyond.
Let's step up - Minneapolis and beyond.
Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating loss of their wife and mother.
gofund.me/9e987aead
gofund.me/9e987aead
Donate to Support for Renee Good’s wife and son, organized by Mattie Weiss
Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating … Mattie Weiss needs your support for Support for Renee Good’s wife and son
gofund.me
January 8, 2026 at 2:03 AM
If you're in a position to be able to donate, this is a very good way to support Renee's family as they grieve an unimaginable and traumatic loss.
Let's step up - Minneapolis and beyond.
Let's step up - Minneapolis and beyond.
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Mplsfolks: Do you remember how glorious it was to have MPRB parkways closed to car traffic in 2020 to create more space for walking/biking rolling?
Do you want to see more of that?
On Jan 7th there'll be an amendment to the planning committee to revisit this!
If you're in parks district 3...
Do you want to see more of that?
On Jan 7th there'll be an amendment to the planning committee to revisit this!
If you're in parks district 3...
January 4, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Mplsfolks: Do you remember how glorious it was to have MPRB parkways closed to car traffic in 2020 to create more space for walking/biking rolling?
Do you want to see more of that?
On Jan 7th there'll be an amendment to the planning committee to revisit this!
If you're in parks district 3...
Do you want to see more of that?
On Jan 7th there'll be an amendment to the planning committee to revisit this!
If you're in parks district 3...
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Hey what's happening with the #RethinkingI94 project? MnDOT has plans. They don't appear to jibe with the community's needs for health, safety, economic development and equity--but they seem pretty great for moving cars.
Read the recap, watch the highlights or full recording of the @mndot.mn.gov PAC meeting, and RSVP for the upcoming formal public comment meetings.
www.ourstreetsmn.org/2025/12/11/w...
www.ourstreetsmn.org/2025/12/11/w...
What Happened at the Latest MnDOT Policy Advisory Committee Meeting? - Our Streets
There has been increasing pressure from elected officials, members of the Rethinking I-94 PAC, and the public to restore the at-grade options in the next stage of the project process and to fix flaws ...
www.ourstreetsmn.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Hey what's happening with the #RethinkingI94 project? MnDOT has plans. They don't appear to jibe with the community's needs for health, safety, economic development and equity--but they seem pretty great for moving cars.
Looked like 🧊 activity at 77th and Lyndale at 12:45. Please circulate.
December 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Looked like 🧊 activity at 77th and Lyndale at 12:45. Please circulate.
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Things are tough rn, but I know that we support us. I am going to highlight a local group doing good every day until #GTMD2025.
First off - GMCC! An interfaith organization that works with youth and the unhoused, and provides meals to our neighbors- and so much more.
www.givemn.org/organization...
First off - GMCC! An interfaith organization that works with youth and the unhoused, and provides meals to our neighbors- and so much more.
www.givemn.org/organization...
Support GMCC (Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches) on GiveMN
Our Origin StoryGMCC (founded as Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches) was founded in 1905 as a faith-based initiative to serve the community. For 119 years, we have fulfilled our mission of "uniti...
www.givemn.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Things are tough rn, but I know that we support us. I am going to highlight a local group doing good every day until #GTMD2025.
First off - GMCC! An interfaith organization that works with youth and the unhoused, and provides meals to our neighbors- and so much more.
www.givemn.org/organization...
First off - GMCC! An interfaith organization that works with youth and the unhoused, and provides meals to our neighbors- and so much more.
www.givemn.org/organization...
Friends, the bathroom at Al’s Breakfast is…wild.
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Friends, the bathroom at Al’s Breakfast is…wild.
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The polls are officially open, Minneapolis!
Today you can choose a different course for our city. You can choose a mayor who cares as much about your city and your neighbors as I know you do.
We deserve better, Minneapolis. Rank me first when you vote today so we can do better – together.
Today you can choose a different course for our city. You can choose a mayor who cares as much about your city and your neighbors as I know you do.
We deserve better, Minneapolis. Rank me first when you vote today so we can do better – together.
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The polls are officially open, Minneapolis!
Today you can choose a different course for our city. You can choose a mayor who cares as much about your city and your neighbors as I know you do.
We deserve better, Minneapolis. Rank me first when you vote today so we can do better – together.
Today you can choose a different course for our city. You can choose a mayor who cares as much about your city and your neighbors as I know you do.
We deserve better, Minneapolis. Rank me first when you vote today so we can do better – together.
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It is outrageous that the United States spends more on its military than the next 9 countries combined.
Imagine if we stopped spending half of the nearly $1 trillion Pentagon budget and invested it in healthcare, education, and housing instead.
Imagine if we stopped spending half of the nearly $1 trillion Pentagon budget and invested it in healthcare, education, and housing instead.
October 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It is outrageous that the United States spends more on its military than the next 9 countries combined.
Imagine if we stopped spending half of the nearly $1 trillion Pentagon budget and invested it in healthcare, education, and housing instead.
Imagine if we stopped spending half of the nearly $1 trillion Pentagon budget and invested it in healthcare, education, and housing instead.
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We're proud to have been a leading member of the coalition that supported this bill.
It's time to roll it out statewide.
It's time to roll it out statewide.
Minneapolis is launching a pilot of traffic safety cameras on Sept. 30. Cameras enforcing speed limits will begin issuing warnings starting at five locations across Minneapolis. Learn more about the pilot program: https://direc.to/nLY2
September 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We're proud to have been a leading member of the coalition that supported this bill.
It's time to roll it out statewide.
It's time to roll it out statewide.
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This is your reminder from the glorious past that Lyndale Avenue had a major streetcar line, meaning there's plenty of ROW for @hennepin.bsky.social @hennepindebbie.bsky.social to do the right thing. The difference between the bad and good design is just 8 parking spaces along the entire corridor.
September 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is your reminder from the glorious past that Lyndale Avenue had a major streetcar line, meaning there's plenty of ROW for @hennepin.bsky.social @hennepindebbie.bsky.social to do the right thing. The difference between the bad and good design is just 8 parking spaces along the entire corridor.
I was extremely offline yesterday and saw the attack on the unhoused here in Minneapolis on TikTok.
Today:
CNN: Nothing
NBCNews: Nothing
Startribune: NOTHING
Absolutely putrid media environment that is only going to worsen.
When is the next march?
Today:
CNN: Nothing
NBCNews: Nothing
Startribune: NOTHING
Absolutely putrid media environment that is only going to worsen.
When is the next march?
September 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I was extremely offline yesterday and saw the attack on the unhoused here in Minneapolis on TikTok.
Today:
CNN: Nothing
NBCNews: Nothing
Startribune: NOTHING
Absolutely putrid media environment that is only going to worsen.
When is the next march?
Today:
CNN: Nothing
NBCNews: Nothing
Startribune: NOTHING
Absolutely putrid media environment that is only going to worsen.
When is the next march?
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Election 2025: Minneapolis Mayor Race (the four contenders).
My ranking:
(1) DeWayne Davis (2) Omar Fateh (3) Jazz Hampton
naomikritzer.com/2025/09/18/e...
My ranking:
(1) DeWayne Davis (2) Omar Fateh (3) Jazz Hampton
naomikritzer.com/2025/09/18/e...
Election 2025: Minneapolis Mayoral Race (the four contenders)
There are fifteen people running for Minneapolis mayor. You only have to worry about four of them, and this post will talk about those four. If you want to know more about all the others, that is i…
naomikritzer.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Election 2025: Minneapolis Mayor Race (the four contenders).
My ranking:
(1) DeWayne Davis (2) Omar Fateh (3) Jazz Hampton
naomikritzer.com/2025/09/18/e...
My ranking:
(1) DeWayne Davis (2) Omar Fateh (3) Jazz Hampton
naomikritzer.com/2025/09/18/e...
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I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
September 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
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"Once at the fair, everything is accessible by foot. The entire experience is designed around pedestrian movement and access that is comfortable and appealing (although often crowded, especially if you’re waiting in line at Sweet Martha’s Cookies or another beloved vendor)."
Street Views: The Great Multi-Modal Get-Together
The Minnesota State Fair’s investment in options to “get there” by transit and biking sets a year-round example for the metro.
streets.mn
August 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Once at the fair, everything is accessible by foot. The entire experience is designed around pedestrian movement and access that is comfortable and appealing (although often crowded, especially if you’re waiting in line at Sweet Martha’s Cookies or another beloved vendor)."
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I just want lawmakers at every level to pass gun control laws. I don't care if you think they'll survive the Supreme Court's tests. They won't. That's a game you cannot win. Who cares? You have a moral obligation to try; anything less is cowardice. There are honorable defeats.
August 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I just want lawmakers at every level to pass gun control laws. I don't care if you think they'll survive the Supreme Court's tests. They won't. That's a game you cannot win. Who cares? You have a moral obligation to try; anything less is cowardice. There are honorable defeats.
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There's a vigil tonight at 8pm, Lynnhurst Park, for victims of the Annunciation shooting. It's being organized by Moms Demand Action and Protect MN. Please share to your networks. #minneapolis #twincities #mpls
August 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
There's a vigil tonight at 8pm, Lynnhurst Park, for victims of the Annunciation shooting. It's being organized by Moms Demand Action and Protect MN. Please share to your networks. #minneapolis #twincities #mpls
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens — theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
PARKLAND, FL—In the hours following a violent rampage in Florida in which a lone attacker killed 17 individuals and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where thi...
theonion.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens — theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
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Twin Cities urbanists, we've all been sleeping on the pending sale of the UofM's golf course in Falcon Heights. It's bigger than the Ford plant in StP.
Cc: @moreneighbors.org, @sustainstpaul.bsky.social
Cc: @moreneighbors.org, @sustainstpaul.bsky.social
University of Minnesota to sell historic Les Bolstad Golf Course
While the Gophers men's and women's golf teams don't host meets there, the cross country teams still use the course for races.
www.kare11.com
August 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Twin Cities urbanists, we've all been sleeping on the pending sale of the UofM's golf course in Falcon Heights. It's bigger than the Ford plant in StP.
Cc: @moreneighbors.org, @sustainstpaul.bsky.social
Cc: @moreneighbors.org, @sustainstpaul.bsky.social
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If it fits, I sits.
If drivers have such a hard time understanding that the sidewalk can’t be parked on, maybe we need to remove more driveways that intersect sidewalks.
This driver’s choice pushes pedestrians into one of the city’s highest injury streets (Nicollet).
If drivers have such a hard time understanding that the sidewalk can’t be parked on, maybe we need to remove more driveways that intersect sidewalks.
This driver’s choice pushes pedestrians into one of the city’s highest injury streets (Nicollet).
August 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
If it fits, I sits.
If drivers have such a hard time understanding that the sidewalk can’t be parked on, maybe we need to remove more driveways that intersect sidewalks.
This driver’s choice pushes pedestrians into one of the city’s highest injury streets (Nicollet).
If drivers have such a hard time understanding that the sidewalk can’t be parked on, maybe we need to remove more driveways that intersect sidewalks.
This driver’s choice pushes pedestrians into one of the city’s highest injury streets (Nicollet).
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To put this in a local context, I-94 thru the core of the Twin Cities only moves ~167k private cars/day. Average pax/car is ~1.5 giving us ~250k ppl/day.
That’s just 15k more than what the CTA Red Line was carrying per day in 2013.
That’s just 15k more than what the CTA Red Line was carrying per day in 2013.
To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars.
Even if those cars are electric.
And then there’s all the parking.
OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc.
Choices.
Simple.
Even if those cars are electric.
And then there’s all the parking.
OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc.
Choices.
Simple.
August 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
To put this in a local context, I-94 thru the core of the Twin Cities only moves ~167k private cars/day. Average pax/car is ~1.5 giving us ~250k ppl/day.
That’s just 15k more than what the CTA Red Line was carrying per day in 2013.
That’s just 15k more than what the CTA Red Line was carrying per day in 2013.