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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 19h

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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Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com · 16h

After eight years as mayor of the largest city in the state, Jacob Frey has exactly 0 endorsements from state legislators.

Mayor Frey’s inability to work with people at the state and county is holding Minneapolis back and Minneapolis residents are paying the price.

Title text: 'Jacob Frey has 0 endorsements from state legislators" over subtitle "Meanwhile Minneapolis is lagging behind other cities in per capita stated funding. We deserve a mayor who can partner with the state to advance progress in Minneapolis." above a bar graph that shows Minneapolis at $191, St. Cloud at $230, St. Paul at $265, Brainerd at $364 and Duluth at $406."

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 15h

Speed safety cameras are astonishingly successful. We know the tools that reduce traffic violence. Legalize them.
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 15h

I can't stop thinking about this. We're pursuing zero fire risk in multifam, while tolerating much more in single-fam. People respond by building and living in single-fam, where they're exposed to not only one of the highest fire death risks in the developed world, but also TONS more car crash risk

Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 15h

Love this new report on buildings' relative fire safety from @alexhrwtz.bsky.social and Pew colleagues.

www.pew.org/en/research-...

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Avocadoplex @avocadoplex.bike · 14h

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 · 15h

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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Regina Burstein 🚲 🚈 🌳 @mplsfietser.bike · 13h

I looked at the menu and it looks like sandwiches that are meant to satisfy the munchies. I was excited about it opening.... several years ago.

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 13h

The amount of hate and death threats @omarfatehmn.com keeps receiving is disheartening and despicable.

Thank you @elliottpayne.org and @doronclark.bsky.social for showing our neighbors that this hate has no place in Minneapolis.

Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 14h

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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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 15h

extremely funny thing for one of frey’s carpetbagging candidates to say

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 15h

Lydua: “I cannot be bought.” Says that if you live in this neighborhood, you have a say in this neighborhood.

The slumlords she takes money from do not live here. One of her biggest donors lives in California.

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Regina Burstein 🚲 🚈 🌳 @mplsfietser.bike · 19h

Here's more info. You can check out the layout and the interim safety improvements.
www.hennepin.us/en/residents...

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Josh Martin @joshmartinmpls.bsky.social · 23h

If you want to say “Bye Frey,” then vote Fateh, Davis, and Hampton in your preferred order on November 4.

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 23h

anti jacob frey billboard at lake & cedar says “bye frey, vote nov 4” doesn’t bother telling you who to vote for

this stuff isn’t helpful, you gotta learn from the mistakes of 2021, promote candidates, promote someone to vote FOR, not just who to vote AGAINST!

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Regina Burstein 🚲 🚈 🌳 @mplsfietser.bike · 22h

The County is reconstructing Park and Portland soon to add protected bike lanes and traffic calming, so they'll be much better in a few years.

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phoenix @phoenix-rights.bsky.social · 1d

worth noting, all state seats are up for reelection in 2026

that includes the Governor AND the AG

if the DFL loses these seats, it’s going to be devastating to those in the crosshairs of the federal government and state Rs

trans ppl, the houseless, immigrants will die

Indigiqueer Hummingbird ~*For Good*~ @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 1d

This is the horrifying thing people need to be talking about.

It is not hyperbole to say that if we lose the DFL governorship, more people will die.

If you give even a tiny damn about trans folks & other marginalized people, or want to keep MN safe, DO EVERYTHING to fight this & keep it that way.

Adam Miller @ajm6792.bsky.social · 1d

There is a faction actively trying to kill the DFL in Minneapolis.

Which is obviously unwise to anyone who cares about state and federal elections.

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re a Wells Fargo customer, maybe you shouldn’t be.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

You can be the safest, most attentive driver in the world and still pose a massive risk to other road users. That’s because cars and car dependency are inherently dangerous.

This doesn’t mean you’re a bad person if you drive, but I do think that drivers should acknowledge their role in this system.

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Regina Burstein 🚲 🚈 🌳 @mplsfietser.bike · 22h

Don't resist! Seems like a good day for it 👀

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Regina Burstein 🚲 🚈 🌳 @mplsfietser.bike · 22h

That's great! What are the chances they stop doing this now? I want to be optimistic but... 😬

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Will and the Loons @wmrine.bsky.social · 1d

I continue to think conditions and safety in the city would naturally improve if the mayor, and police officers, had to spent parts of every day walking around where people are, instead of hiding in city offices and cars.

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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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 1d

Being cruel and bulldozing encampments does not help people. It just disperses them and forces them to start over with gathering needed documents and makes it harder for social workers to find them to actually help.

Frey's policies are simply cruelty for cruelty's sake.

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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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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Regina Burstein 🚲 🚈 🌳 @mplsfietser.bike · 1d

Are you certain they're allowed to do that? Seems highly unlikely to me considering it's an ADA violation.

Unless you mean it in the sense that they're not going to get ticketed so it's being de facto allowed.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh... free shipping at @bookshop.org today and tomorrow as part of their "anti-Prime sale."

Includes preorders, so get your copy of Life After Cars.

bookshop.org/a/9252/97805...

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 1d

MN DFL doing everything they can to ensure red minnesota in 2026 because they hate DSA so much. seems bad to me but what do i know

Minneapolis DFL @mplsdfl.org · 1d

Minnesota DFL opens new investigation of Minneapolis DFL:
minneapolisdfl.org/updates/minn...

Minnesota State DFL opens new investigation of Minneapolis DFL — Minneapolis DFL

The Minnesota State DFL has opened another investigation of the Minneapolis DFL focused on mailers announcing the original slate of 2025 endorsed candidates. Following its July convention the Minneap...

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 1d

“crimes committed by poor people are seen as new-news every time it happens” but structural harm is not. a carjacking down the street is always news but large scale pollution would not be, says alec karakatsanis at moon palace books

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

Five years ago, the United Nations concluded that conversion therapy could amount to torture and recommended it be banned. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will consider a case that could greenlight it for LGBTQ+ youth across the nation.

Will SCOTUS Greenlight Conversion Therapy Even Though the UN Calls It “Torture”?

The outcome of “Chiles v. Salazar” could have major implications for conversion therapy bans across the country.

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