Daniel Suitor
@dansuitor.bsky.social
Former and occasional tenants rights attorney. Landlords do not @ me. New England then, Minneapolis now, housing and economic justice forever.
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Daniel Suitor
@dansuitor.bsky.social
· Nov 8
To offer a primer on my personal lore:
- moved to Minnesota for law school in 2019
- while in school, wrote a long paper on the civil rights of unhoused people scholarship.law.umn.edu/mlr/3302/
- used to work for a tenant's rights nonprofit
- now suing banks and corporations for working people
- moved to Minnesota for law school in 2019
- while in school, wrote a long paper on the civil rights of unhoused people scholarship.law.umn.edu/mlr/3302/
- used to work for a tenant's rights nonprofit
- now suing banks and corporations for working people
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i look forward to seeing how elizabeth shaffer, someone whose only work history we know of is the park board for the last 4 years, handles being customer service for perhaps the most obnoxious constituents in all of minneapolis who were trained by lisa goodman to contact them for anything
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
i look forward to seeing how elizabeth shaffer, someone whose only work history we know of is the park board for the last 4 years, handles being customer service for perhaps the most obnoxious constituents in all of minneapolis who were trained by lisa goodman to contact them for anything
inshallah my heroes will smite the New York City deep state
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
inshallah my heroes will smite the New York City deep state
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the city of minneapolis has released the cast vote record for the mayoral race!
vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...
vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...
2025 Mayor results
Unofficial winner: Jacob Frey
vote.minneapolismn.gov
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
the city of minneapolis has released the cast vote record for the mayoral race!
vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...
vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...
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New from HCEO member Janet Currie et al: use of an affordable housing tax credit program improves long-term health outcomes for women and their children. www.nber.org/papers/w34464
Affordable Housing During Childhood Improves Long-term Outcomes of Women and their Children
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
New from HCEO member Janet Currie et al: use of an affordable housing tax credit program improves long-term health outcomes for women and their children. www.nber.org/papers/w34464
Minnesota Appellate Court Watch: a quiet week on the docket overall, but punctuated by one of the loudest cases I've seen in a while. A reversal of the denial of an Order for Protection that is as searing as our appellate courts ever get.
CW: domestic abuse, sexual extortion, housing instability
CW: domestic abuse, sexual extortion, housing instability
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Minnesota Appellate Court Watch: a quiet week on the docket overall, but punctuated by one of the loudest cases I've seen in a while. A reversal of the denial of an Order for Protection that is as searing as our appellate courts ever get.
CW: domestic abuse, sexual extortion, housing instability
CW: domestic abuse, sexual extortion, housing instability
Happy "finally cold enough to fuck with your tire pressure" Day to all who celebrate
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Happy "finally cold enough to fuck with your tire pressure" Day to all who celebrate
enough people are out here searching for Edmund Fitzgerald content that my dumb joke jpeg is getting circulated
I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮
![A meme depicting a woman staring at her phone with one hand on her head, with the following text below:
IS YOUR CHILD TEXTING ABOUT THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD?
What your Great Lakes maritime history-obsessed teen's text messages actually mean:
brb = bell rang bro
rofl = rang out for lost (crew)
bff = big freakin' freigher
lol = Load of Ore on the Lake
smh = shift minutes to hours
glhf = Great Lakes hella freighter
tbh = taconite be haulin'
stfu = steer the freighter upwind
tfw = that freakin' witch (of November)
asl = a ship lost
gg = Gitche Gumee
idc = immoderate deadweight capacity
btw = beneath the waves
afk = a freighter kaput
hbd = hauler's beacon down
ily = iron load yonder
jk = just [24] kilometers
lmao = lost my abyssal ore
nbd = north bound draft
glhf = good lord, hold flooding
omg = obliteratingly massive gales
tmi = too much iron
wtf = White Fish (Bay)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccm7gttkbfs2eyyrlpshmeun/bafkreib6ughtj23oqdskaisavrueyn6fijujbp2e663h6p6ukx74lbibyu@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
enough people are out here searching for Edmund Fitzgerald content that my dumb joke jpeg is getting circulated
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November 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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#OnThisDay Nov 9, 1975, 2:15pm: SS Edmund Fitzgerald pulls away from Burlington Northern Railroad Ore Dock No. 1 in Superior, Wisconsin, laden with 26,000 long tons of taconite destined for National Steel at River Rouge in Detroit, Michigan.
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
#OnThisDay Nov 9, 1975, 2:15pm: SS Edmund Fitzgerald pulls away from Burlington Northern Railroad Ore Dock No. 1 in Superior, Wisconsin, laden with 26,000 long tons of taconite destined for National Steel at River Rouge in Detroit, Michigan.
you can tell this guy never dated a string of incredibly cool and mean brunettes in his 20s, like A Real American (me)
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
you can tell this guy never dated a string of incredibly cool and mean brunettes in his 20s, like A Real American (me)
Minnesota really out here with snow in the second week of November to remind you that winter will soon be here and someday you will die
November 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Minnesota really out here with snow in the second week of November to remind you that winter will soon be here and someday you will die
new GFM to build taylr a Kenwood Killdozer
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
new GFM to build taylr a Kenwood Killdozer
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Lots of people were asked to run. But everyone knows Frey has unlimited money and is deeply petty. Hard sell to subject yourself to millions in attack ads, be iced out on official side collaboration and have the programs in your district mysteriously no longer have city staff support to carry out.
November 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Lots of people were asked to run. But everyone knows Frey has unlimited money and is deeply petty. Hard sell to subject yourself to millions in attack ads, be iced out on official side collaboration and have the programs in your district mysteriously no longer have city staff support to carry out.
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@ericroper.bsky.social brushing over the role media played in propping up Frey. Where was the media condemnation of the deeply racist snake oil attack ads on Robin or the AOM flyers that darkened Fateh's skin? Why did no one care about Frey deleting his texts and voicemails when ICE was in town?
Some thoughts on Eric Roper’s finger-wag in the mayor’s race: www.startribune.com/jacob-frey-r...
1. Asking “what chance did [Davis & Hampton] have ignores Frey’s agency is creating the race‘s dynamics. Frey sued the most moderate hope (Emily Koski) to cut off her money & intimated others. 1/
1. Asking “what chance did [Davis & Hampton] have ignores Frey’s agency is creating the race‘s dynamics. Frey sued the most moderate hope (Emily Koski) to cut off her money & intimated others. 1/
Roper: Jacob Frey can thank the far left for handing him another term
Frey was a vulnerable incumbent. But progressives banked on the wrong guy to beat him.
www.startribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
@ericroper.bsky.social brushing over the role media played in propping up Frey. Where was the media condemnation of the deeply racist snake oil attack ads on Robin or the AOM flyers that darkened Fateh's skin? Why did no one care about Frey deleting his texts and voicemails when ICE was in town?
Keith's review is spot-on, but I want to bring two of my little notes from the comments out.
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Keith's review is spot-on, but I want to bring two of my little notes from the comments out.
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Will the Strib liveblog when people start losing housing subsidies and other benefits, or is that level of in-depth reporting only reserved for airport delays?
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Will the Strib liveblog when people start losing housing subsidies and other benefits, or is that level of in-depth reporting only reserved for airport delays?
dream blunt rotation tbh
This may be the greatest grouping of nominees in a single category in Grammys history: for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording, the nominees include the Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Dalai Lama, Trevor Noah, and one of the dudes from Milli Vanilli.
November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
dream blunt rotation tbh
I talked about this a bunch with people during this election cycle, but in my home state of New Hampshire legislators get paid $100 per year (same since 1889) and, before they moved to EZ Pass, a couple of rolls of highway tokens. It creates a terrible set of incentives.
you look at Texas, they pay the state leg $7,200 a year and as a result like half of them are car dealership owning reactionaries
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I talked about this a bunch with people during this election cycle, but in my home state of New Hampshire legislators get paid $100 per year (same since 1889) and, before they moved to EZ Pass, a couple of rolls of highway tokens. It creates a terrible set of incentives.
Is it a good sign for the health of our country that the my law school dropped Constitutional Law as a required class?
November 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Is it a good sign for the health of our country that the my law school dropped Constitutional Law as a required class?
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
Jacob Frey still couldn't get more votes in 2025 than rent control did in 2021.
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Jacob Frey still couldn't get more votes in 2025 than rent control did in 2021.
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Becka Thompson wins the Great Value Award for the council candidate with fewest dollars spent per vote received - $4.21. She still lost big to Aurin Chowdhury ($6.47).
Shelley Madore ($62.31) outdid Lydia Millard ($42.59) for biggest spender per vote. Both of them lost big.
Shelley Madore ($62.31) outdid Lydia Millard ($42.59) for biggest spender per vote. Both of them lost big.
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Becka Thompson wins the Great Value Award for the council candidate with fewest dollars spent per vote received - $4.21. She still lost big to Aurin Chowdhury ($6.47).
Shelley Madore ($62.31) outdid Lydia Millard ($42.59) for biggest spender per vote. Both of them lost big.
Shelley Madore ($62.31) outdid Lydia Millard ($42.59) for biggest spender per vote. Both of them lost big.
Worth reading Elle's thoughts on this case as someone who's much, MUCH better versed in criminal law, but this case is a great teaching tool to explain how "ineffective assistance of counsel" does not mean "you had a bad attorney." It *can* mean that, but it can also mean "my lawyer was ratfucked"
One hell of an ineffective assistance of counsel opinion from MN Supreme Court yesterday. If you advise your client to go to prison for 366 months for murder 2 because you’re not prepared for trial, ineffective should be the LEAST of your problems. mncourts.gov/_media/migra...
mncourts.gov
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Worth reading Elle's thoughts on this case as someone who's much, MUCH better versed in criminal law, but this case is a great teaching tool to explain how "ineffective assistance of counsel" does not mean "you had a bad attorney." It *can* mean that, but it can also mean "my lawyer was ratfucked"
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
Minnesota Appellate Court Watch: somehow I missed the filing of this case back in March, but back in October the Court of Appeals heard arguments in the first-ever appellate review of the St. Paul Rent Stabilization ordinance.
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Minnesota Appellate Court Watch: somehow I missed the filing of this case back in March, but back in October the Court of Appeals heard arguments in the first-ever appellate review of the St. Paul Rent Stabilization ordinance.