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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah that's exactly why I'm headed to a national conference there at the end of the month. 🙄

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 5h

I legit love MacArthur day. I love seeing the amazing things people are working on: www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Thinkers, dreamers, doers: Here's who made the 2025 MacArthur Fellow list

A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each Fellow will receive a no-strings attached award of $800,000.

www.npr.org

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 6h

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on Wednesday.

MacArthur 2025 ‘genius grant’ winners include a Chicago photographer

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on Wednesday.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6h

REI to close its soho location, the first shop that unionized. www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-new...

REI to close three stores, including NYC SoHo location

SEATTLE (BRAIN) — A week after announcing a strategic plan to employees that would involve difficult decisions to grow sales, REI Co-op said it will close three stores next year, including the New Yor...

www.bicycleretailer.com

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 12h

I shoulda known @minnesotabrown.bsky.social would have a magnificent take on A Precarious State. He does. I'm providing a gift link so that you have no excuse to not read it. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

Brown: We do live in ‘A Precarious State,’ but place-baiting won’t solve anything

"Aging population? Out-migration? Crime and drugs? Schools not as good as you remember? Welcome to the problems rural Minnesota has been fighting for more than 40 years," Aaron Brown writes.

www.startribune.com

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Christin 🦀, Ward 9 enthusiast @christin612.bsky.social · 17h

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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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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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 9h

That’s fabulous! A bit envious

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 5d

St. Paul was inspired by the "Denver Model" and created its own "Saint Paul Model" and brought their clearance rate from 37% in 2023 to 70.5% in 2024.

In 2025, St. Paul is now trending to have a 30% reduction in shots fired and a 70% reduction in homicides.

lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/Fil...

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 8d

Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity"

Gift link from @bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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✨🚲 scoops 🚲✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 19h

My relentless research into P Edward Pearson's Candy Company has led me to the following fact: the location of the original Nut Roll Factory in Minneapolis is now buried under the 394 spur, just South of Target Field

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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 17h

Walking within your own home to a work computer for remote work is the best “commute” of all, for jobs that can be done that way! (My mom was a nurse, so yes I know not all jobs)

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Aurin Chowdhury MPLS City Council Member W12 @aurinmpls.bsky.social · 20h

This is not okay. Everyone should be standing against the intense islamophobia and anti Somali hate we are seeing in our city. Please speak out and stand against the fomenting of hate. Thanks CP & Senator for taking action.

Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 21h

Tonight a resident posted a picture of racist and Islamaphobic language written on Johnson street that called for @omarfatehmn.com to be deported and wished death upon the Somali community. @doronclark.bsky.social and I showed up right away to get this racist garbage off of our streets

Elliott and doron cleaning up the shared use path on johnson

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Ian Gaida @trainsfan.bsky.social · 20h

Trainspotters in Minnesota are probably aware of the Cedar Rapids, the famous Milwaukee Road "Skytop Lounge", now owned and operated by the Friends of the 261.

BUT! That's not the only one still around. Join me for a story of history and mystery, as not all are accounted for... 🧵

Cedar Rapids, 3/4 rear shot at SPUD train days a number of years ago

Coffee Creek, under renovation by Aberdeen, Carolina, and Western painted 1/3 white with lower 2/3 red

Coon Rapids in the UP scheme on the Michigan Northern, ca. 1980

close up of Dell Rapids gold embossed lettering

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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 18h

Cops got a big raise too

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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 18h

My best tip in life is if you can, move as close as possible to a grocery store you like that you can then walk to. Makes so many other aspects better too!

Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 1d

Walkable cities are perfect for busy people/families.

I had a 45 min break between work calls & wanted to fit in a quick walk.

My wife pointed out we still needed a grocery item for dinner.

I walked 10 mins to the co op and took the long way home.

And I got to pet a cute dog on the walk home!

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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 18h

Oh no didn’t know that. Just vaguely aware of it

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 1d

Dear neighbor,

I’m excited to share that the City of Minneapolis has installed a new NARCAN® vending machine in Ward 9. You can find this new vending machine in Phillips at Fire Station 5 (2700 Bloomington Ave South). 1/

Jason taking a phone at fire station 5 and the new NARCAN vending machine

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19h

Today marks yet another day that Speaker Mike Johnson has denied Adelita Grijalva her right to govern.

She won her special election on Sept 23rd but has yet to be sworn in.

Why? Because she will become the 218th vote needed to discharge the release of the Epstein files.

Say her name.

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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 19h

In what world would that be a problem?!

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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 20h

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 19h

Big Five personality traits - don’t know enough to know how valid that is but what I was thinking of

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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t want to deal with Mpls city politics from the mayor’s bs propagandists any more this week, Nate.

la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 19h

Isn’t there some personality rating that includes just that? Will have to find it

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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you

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