Daniel Herriges
@dpherriges.bsky.social
Urbanist advocate. Policy Director at the Parking Reform Network. Writer at Strong Towns. Co-author "Escaping the Housing Trap." St. Paul, Minnesota.
Gonna "yes, and" this a bit: while basically true, most people who claim they're doing this are still terribly un-strategic about it.
Far more common is landing cheap dunks on someone for kudos from those who already agree with you, while telling yourself you're doing it to persuade bystanders.
Far more common is landing cheap dunks on someone for kudos from those who already agree with you, while telling yourself you're doing it to persuade bystanders.
I don’t agree with this in a pretty major way. The point of the argument online isn’t to win the other guy over, it’s to make your points to bystanders to prevent them from being won over by the other guy and to give them new ways to argue back.
The secret to engaging in social media debate is knowing you will never win anyone over. The best you can hope for is to have people who already agree with tell you you're awesome. You might great a dopamine thrill from the righteousness of your anger! Fine benefits, all. But you will never win.
February 17, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Gonna "yes, and" this a bit: while basically true, most people who claim they're doing this are still terribly un-strategic about it.
Far more common is landing cheap dunks on someone for kudos from those who already agree with you, while telling yourself you're doing it to persuade bystanders.
Far more common is landing cheap dunks on someone for kudos from those who already agree with you, while telling yourself you're doing it to persuade bystanders.
He's so close to getting it....
Rep. Mark Alford: "If you tie a judicial warrant to what ICE is doing, it will never happen"
February 17, 2026 at 1:18 AM
He's so close to getting it....
"It remains to be seen if this administration will take the unprecedented step of openly defying a court order, which could trigger a constitutional crisis"
-Every media outlet like a year ago
-Every media outlet like a year ago
Abolish ICE is the bare minimum we can accept
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records ...
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:00 PM
"It remains to be seen if this administration will take the unprecedented step of openly defying a court order, which could trigger a constitutional crisis"
-Every media outlet like a year ago
-Every media outlet like a year ago
Picked the kiddo up from preschool by bike on Thurs and Fri, for the first time since November. Didn't tell him I was going to. We stepped out the door of his school and he squealed "BIKE!!!" in excitement as soon as he saw.
4-year-olds agree: best way to travel.
4-year-olds agree: best way to travel.
February 14, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Picked the kiddo up from preschool by bike on Thurs and Fri, for the first time since November. Didn't tell him I was going to. We stepped out the door of his school and he squealed "BIKE!!!" in excitement as soon as he saw.
4-year-olds agree: best way to travel.
4-year-olds agree: best way to travel.
RETVRN
(The Pho place and the taqueria can stay)
(The Pho place and the taqueria can stay)
History Tidbit: This amazing Pho location (can recommend!) was once the site of the St Anthony Park Northern Pacific Railway station. Trains ran each direction on the hour, and during State Fair season they ran 6 per hour. Time to either downtown: 12 minutes.
February 14, 2026 at 6:01 PM
RETVRN
(The Pho place and the taqueria can stay)
(The Pho place and the taqueria can stay)
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If the most popular florist in town has ample parking available at 12pm on Valentines Day, it’s probably not necessary to have these parking mandates in our code!
One-size-fits-all parking for “retail” is arbitrary, hurts small businesses, and isn’t needed!
One-size-fits-all parking for “retail” is arbitrary, hurts small businesses, and isn’t needed!
February 14, 2026 at 5:48 PM
If the most popular florist in town has ample parking available at 12pm on Valentines Day, it’s probably not necessary to have these parking mandates in our code!
One-size-fits-all parking for “retail” is arbitrary, hurts small businesses, and isn’t needed!
One-size-fits-all parking for “retail” is arbitrary, hurts small businesses, and isn’t needed!
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UPDATE: He was just released. This shows that just indiscriminately took someone because they were Latino. Their illegal tactics continue so we still need neighbors to patrol, observe, and support our immigrant community.
Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.
Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
February 12, 2026 at 7:20 PM
UPDATE: He was just released. This shows that just indiscriminately took someone because they were Latino. Their illegal tactics continue so we still need neighbors to patrol, observe, and support our immigrant community.
Good thread on an important wrinkle often missed by both sides of the "institutional investors buying up houses" story.
Nationwide corporate landlords own 3% of single-family rental homes (and <<1% of single-family homes overall).
But in certain Sun Belt cities, Wall Street owns a lot of single-family rental housing — a whole lot www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
But in certain Sun Belt cities, Wall Street owns a lot of single-family rental housing — a whole lot www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
February 13, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Good thread on an important wrinkle often missed by both sides of the "institutional investors buying up houses" story.
I know it's cheesy, but the bright sun, warm weather and trickling sound of melting snow everywhere feel symbolic today.
Winter isn't remotely over. But spring will come.
Winter isn't remotely over. But spring will come.
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 PM
I know it's cheesy, but the bright sun, warm weather and trickling sound of melting snow everywhere feel symbolic today.
Winter isn't remotely over. But spring will come.
Winter isn't remotely over. But spring will come.
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Need to stress that, like the Pretti killing, this terrorism is happening in extremely mixed use residential neighborhoods. Cafes and restaurants just down the street. The St. Paul Curling Club that's put out so many Olympians competing *this week* is like two blocks away.
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Need to stress that, like the Pretti killing, this terrorism is happening in extremely mixed use residential neighborhoods. Cafes and restaurants just down the street. The St. Paul Curling Club that's put out so many Olympians competing *this week* is like two blocks away.
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Really important paper, 🧵, & results. No one, including me, has good solutions for this, but it's a huge problem for social science that we all know & expect that ~every paper with a null finding as the main result goes in the file drawer.
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
February 11, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Really important paper, 🧵, & results. No one, including me, has good solutions for this, but it's a huge problem for social science that we all know & expect that ~every paper with a null finding as the main result goes in the file drawer.
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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
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🚗 Parking reform is notching wins in communities of all sizes, politics, and geographies.
@sightline.org's Anna Fahey and @parkingreform.org's Daniel Herriges have researched the way effective parking reform campaigns message to win. 🏆 Hear what they learned on The Stoop — out now!
@sightline.org's Anna Fahey and @parkingreform.org's Daniel Herriges have researched the way effective parking reform campaigns message to win. 🏆 Hear what they learned on The Stoop — out now!
Let's Talk Parking Reform! | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Anna Fahey and Daniel Herriges discuss the importance of parking reform in housing advocacy. The conversation covers a three-step messaging framework: defining the problem, illustrating solutions, and...
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February 10, 2026 at 6:13 PM
🚗 Parking reform is notching wins in communities of all sizes, politics, and geographies.
@sightline.org's Anna Fahey and @parkingreform.org's Daniel Herriges have researched the way effective parking reform campaigns message to win. 🏆 Hear what they learned on The Stoop — out now!
@sightline.org's Anna Fahey and @parkingreform.org's Daniel Herriges have researched the way effective parking reform campaigns message to win. 🏆 Hear what they learned on The Stoop — out now!
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No due process, no court dates, no access to lawyers, inhumane living conditions, and rampant abuse against detainees— all under the guise of immigration enforcement.
It's systemic torture in these concentration camps. The regime are deliberately pushing these people to breaking point for sport.
It's systemic torture in these concentration camps. The regime are deliberately pushing these people to breaking point for sport.
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”
Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.
Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.
![“Good afternoon. My name is [redacted] and my wife and I have been at OMDC since April 15 2025,” reads a handwritten note, wrapped around a lotion bottle that was thrown by a man held captive inside the Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC) on Sunday.
“It’s cold here all the time and the food is poor,” the missive continues. “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/bafkreiet46krrk7ovnqxsd6vr7ogw2lgame43jsqw25u2ygi5el5i5toom@jpeg)
February 8, 2026 at 8:48 PM
No due process, no court dates, no access to lawyers, inhumane living conditions, and rampant abuse against detainees— all under the guise of immigration enforcement.
It's systemic torture in these concentration camps. The regime are deliberately pushing these people to breaking point for sport.
It's systemic torture in these concentration camps. The regime are deliberately pushing these people to breaking point for sport.
Thinking a lot lately of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's magnificent book "A Paradise Built in Hell." Time and again people organize to take care of each other in response to disaster (and this is a non-natural disaster but similarly imposed on a whole community) in ways the state can't and won't.
"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."
message from MN
February 8, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Thinking a lot lately of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's magnificent book "A Paradise Built in Hell." Time and again people organize to take care of each other in response to disaster (and this is a non-natural disaster but similarly imposed on a whole community) in ways the state can't and won't.
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By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
February 7, 2026 at 3:38 AM
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
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Before Keith Porter, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti… ICE killed a father after he dropped his kids off at school.
We didn’t hear much about it because he was undocumented.
They said he was trying to flee & shot him in the back of the neck.
Silverio Villegas-González.
Don’t forget him.
We didn’t hear much about it because he was undocumented.
They said he was trying to flee & shot him in the back of the neck.
Silverio Villegas-González.
Don’t forget him.
February 7, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Before Keith Porter, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti… ICE killed a father after he dropped his kids off at school.
We didn’t hear much about it because he was undocumented.
They said he was trying to flee & shot him in the back of the neck.
Silverio Villegas-González.
Don’t forget him.
We didn’t hear much about it because he was undocumented.
They said he was trying to flee & shot him in the back of the neck.
Silverio Villegas-González.
Don’t forget him.
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Everything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began.
Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.
Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.
February 5, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Everything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began.
Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.
Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.
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Axios had a story today about how hard Minnesota’s economy is being hit and how slow the recovery could be. So, I’m going to take this opportunity to say that if you want to support the Twin Cities, you should plan a visit for this summer, spend some money here, & see how amazing it is for yourself.
February 4, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Axios had a story today about how hard Minnesota’s economy is being hit and how slow the recovery could be. So, I’m going to take this opportunity to say that if you want to support the Twin Cities, you should plan a visit for this summer, spend some money here, & see how amazing it is for yourself.
2026 is starting out strong for parking reform as a couple prominent college towns repeal *all* of their parking mandates: let's hear it for Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Missoula, Montana!
February 5, 2026 at 4:07 PM
2026 is starting out strong for parking reform as a couple prominent college towns repeal *all* of their parking mandates: let's hear it for Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Missoula, Montana!
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I don't think this is specifically a left thing. I think people who are very strident are often people who think of their politics in starkly moralistic ways.
"If you can't see that my position is obviously correct, it must be that you are morally defective. And I can't reason with that."
"If you can't see that my position is obviously correct, it must be that you are morally defective. And I can't reason with that."
The communication skills part is important.
A common left defensive reaction is basically to despair of ever convincing "libs" and I can't help but observe if you don't think can convince liberals you sure as hell aren't going to convince the median American, so you're just giving up in advance.
A common left defensive reaction is basically to despair of ever convincing "libs" and I can't help but observe if you don't think can convince liberals you sure as hell aren't going to convince the median American, so you're just giving up in advance.
I find the @whstancil.bsky.social backlash strangely fascinating.
At its core it seems to be a desperate effort by folks further to the left to avoid having a liberal (with communication skills) become the face of their movement.
But, to be honest, winning was always going to require that.
At its core it seems to be a desperate effort by folks further to the left to avoid having a liberal (with communication skills) become the face of their movement.
But, to be honest, winning was always going to require that.
February 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I don't think this is specifically a left thing. I think people who are very strident are often people who think of their politics in starkly moralistic ways.
"If you can't see that my position is obviously correct, it must be that you are morally defective. And I can't reason with that."
"If you can't see that my position is obviously correct, it must be that you are morally defective. And I can't reason with that."
Anyone talking about black blocs, or trying to use WTO '99, Occupy, RNC 20xx, or even BLM, as the blueprint for the ICE/DHS resistance in MN is committing a category error.
Your seasoned-activist rules of engagement don't apply. This is not really protest or activism, and its goals are different.
Your seasoned-activist rules of engagement don't apply. This is not really protest or activism, and its goals are different.
February 4, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Anyone talking about black blocs, or trying to use WTO '99, Occupy, RNC 20xx, or even BLM, as the blueprint for the ICE/DHS resistance in MN is committing a category error.
Your seasoned-activist rules of engagement don't apply. This is not really protest or activism, and its goals are different.
Your seasoned-activist rules of engagement don't apply. This is not really protest or activism, and its goals are different.
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Horrifying beyond words.
Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas.
Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member.
We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.
Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member.
We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.
My Daughter Lived the Liam Ramos Nightmare. It Turned Out Worse for Us.
The constant threats took a toll on my health. My daughter’s health deteriorated even faster.
slate.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Horrifying beyond words.
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Interestingly, what is typically the most “safe” mutual aid work—like delivering food to people in need—is now the most necessarily secretive, while that which is typically “risky”—directly confronting armed agents of the state—is unavoidably public and open.
What's tough to get across to folks outside MN is that both the occupation & everyday resistance are both happening at such a scale that it's kinda flipped a lot of what most would assume makes sense for precautions or 'opsec'. Everything from spicy stuff to mundane have different rules than before
February 3, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Interestingly, what is typically the most “safe” mutual aid work—like delivering food to people in need—is now the most necessarily secretive, while that which is typically “risky”—directly confronting armed agents of the state—is unavoidably public and open.