Dani Kasprzak
@foucauldron.bsky.social
Leftist. Penchant for hyperlocal Minneapolis politics. Psychoanalytic therapist. Former academic book editor (occasional current proofreader). Queer single parent. Piano, gardening & gossip fuel me
🇵🇸 Free Palestine
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I have found it: the most ‘80s-Ass Book Cover of All Time
January 12, 2024 at 2:32 PM
I have found it: the most ‘80s-Ass Book Cover of All Time
Same for therapists — lots of us in private practice are on ACA plans, subsidized ACA plans (MinnesotaCare), or Medicaid. There has been a huge uptick in group practices since ACA came on the scene. We’ll see what this does to the therapy community.
Reminder that, unless a creative freelancer has a spouse with a day job that offers health insurance, they likely have an ACA plan. And with the hits to creative industries the past few years, I'm guessing many qualify for subsidies.
Related reminder that comic creators are freelancers.
Related reminder that comic creators are freelancers.
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Same for therapists — lots of us in private practice are on ACA plans, subsidized ACA plans (MinnesotaCare), or Medicaid. There has been a huge uptick in group practices since ACA came on the scene. We’ll see what this does to the therapy community.
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Tina Smith should be the first to call for replacing Schumer since she's already not running again. And if she's not up to the task of breaking senatorial congeniality for the greater good then she should resign and allow Walz to appoint someone who can actually fight for the next year.
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Tina Smith should be the first to call for replacing Schumer since she's already not running again. And if she's not up to the task of breaking senatorial congeniality for the greater good then she should resign and allow Walz to appoint someone who can actually fight for the next year.
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
60 fucking dollars for two drinks plus 20% tip at the Uptown Theatre?????? (two different strangers DID compliment my outfit for the King Princess show though 💅🏼)
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 AM
60 fucking dollars for two drinks plus 20% tip at the Uptown Theatre?????? (two different strangers DID compliment my outfit for the King Princess show though 💅🏼)
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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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.
I absolutely agree on this. We may not have gotten the mayor we wanted, but the message did work (there will always be anomalies, like a person in my mentions who ranked Fateh #1 and Frey #2). People were engaged and involved, and the progressive and DSA campaigns made that happen!
I have a Minneapolis elections theory that may be way too simple: the 2025 mayor’s race was closer because Rank All 3 worked! It didn’t work well enough … but it worked. There were 13,300 more votes in 2025’s final round & Fateh got 10,300 of them!
November 7, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I absolutely agree on this. We may not have gotten the mayor we wanted, but the message did work (there will always be anomalies, like a person in my mentions who ranked Fateh #1 and Frey #2). People were engaged and involved, and the progressive and DSA campaigns made that happen!
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I am never not gonna be mad about the Minneapolis public not connecting Frey to complete control of MPD operations for the past 8 years. www.startribune.com/election-day...
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I am never not gonna be mad about the Minneapolis public not connecting Frey to complete control of MPD operations for the past 8 years. www.startribune.com/election-day...
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Agree with everything Ryan wrote in this thread. During GOTV, Fateh knocked 80k doors and our IE table knocked 20k doors. Top notch field and political staff, unprecedented partnerships with Council and Park campaigns and a motivated volunteer base driven by DSA pushed Frey and his $$ to the brink.
We’ll never get a re-do on that election, but I do think it was within our grasp. Unless I'm forgetting someone, Omar put together the largest coalition, raised the most money, had the strongest campaign of any city-level progressive candidate I've seen in my 18 years here. It wasn't handed to him.
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Agree with everything Ryan wrote in this thread. During GOTV, Fateh knocked 80k doors and our IE table knocked 20k doors. Top notch field and political staff, unprecedented partnerships with Council and Park campaigns and a motivated volunteer base driven by DSA pushed Frey and his $$ to the brink.
This is a great thread ⬇️
Expanding on this some.
I find the “Omar never had a path to victory” takes silly and unfounded. Moving 3-4% of the electorate is nearly always within a campaign’s ability.
I think treating this result as inevitable leaves our only lesson as “better candidates”, and that’s a pretty poor lesson.
I find the “Omar never had a path to victory” takes silly and unfounded. Moving 3-4% of the electorate is nearly always within a campaign’s ability.
I think treating this result as inevitable leaves our only lesson as “better candidates”, and that’s a pretty poor lesson.
Jazz voters: 43% Frey, 37% Omar, 20% blank
Davis voters: 23% Frey, 62% Omar, 15% blank
Jazz is about what I expected, surprised at how many DeWayne votes went to Frey
Question I'll be wrestling w/ - why my fellow DeWayne folks trusted him enough to be Mayor but not enough to buy into his strategy
Davis voters: 23% Frey, 62% Omar, 15% blank
Jazz is about what I expected, surprised at how many DeWayne votes went to Frey
Question I'll be wrestling w/ - why my fellow DeWayne folks trusted him enough to be Mayor but not enough to buy into his strategy
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is a great thread ⬇️
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Recorded just a few months after police killed George Floyd and then brutally reacted to protests, the videos worn by 45 MPD officers showcase officer interactions and tactic discussions while illustrating MPD’s antagonistic relationship with the community.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Recorded just a few months after police killed George Floyd and then brutally reacted to protests, the videos worn by 45 MPD officers showcase officer interactions and tactic discussions while illustrating MPD’s antagonistic relationship with the community.
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"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope
His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
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I’m immeasurably sad about the Frey victory because of how it is going to affect unhoused people. Frey’s homelessness policy is more draconian than almost any other big-city Democratic mayor. He’s going to view this victory as a mandate to further criminalize homelessness.
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I’m immeasurably sad about the Frey victory because of how it is going to affect unhoused people. Frey’s homelessness policy is more draconian than almost any other big-city Democratic mayor. He’s going to view this victory as a mandate to further criminalize homelessness.
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It took 7+ years of coordinated, multi-collation organizing to set the conditions that resulted in the election of Mamdani. Mpls is gonna have to get on the good foot if we’re ever going to rid ourselves of Jacob Frey.
November 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It took 7+ years of coordinated, multi-collation organizing to set the conditions that resulted in the election of Mamdani. Mpls is gonna have to get on the good foot if we’re ever going to rid ourselves of Jacob Frey.
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Straight up tho Jacob Frey won by directly appealing to the islamophobic tendencies of Minneapolis. The PACs supporting him have run overtly racist messaging and he accepted their support with a full embrace.
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Straight up tho Jacob Frey won by directly appealing to the islamophobic tendencies of Minneapolis. The PACs supporting him have run overtly racist messaging and he accepted their support with a full embrace.
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reminding you all that Jacob Frey is a racist asshole. don’t let him know peace for the next four years.
look up his statements on Moturi. hear how he talks about protesters. look at the Trumpers who fund him.
Frey is a Republican in denial.
look up his statements on Moturi. hear how he talks about protesters. look at the Trumpers who fund him.
Frey is a Republican in denial.
November 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
reminding you all that Jacob Frey is a racist asshole. don’t let him know peace for the next four years.
look up his statements on Moturi. hear how he talks about protesters. look at the Trumpers who fund him.
Frey is a Republican in denial.
look up his statements on Moturi. hear how he talks about protesters. look at the Trumpers who fund him.
Frey is a Republican in denial.
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Everyone has their take, and mine's not that much more special. Lots of people I don't talk to vote, and they vote for white guys who like cops
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Everyone has their take, and mine's not that much more special. Lots of people I don't talk to vote, and they vote for white guys who like cops
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so proud of Senator Omar Fateh, his campaign team, and everything they did to put up a good fight against the entire bullshit status quo of both the DFL and the right wing
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
so proud of Senator Omar Fateh, his campaign team, and everything they did to put up a good fight against the entire bullshit status quo of both the DFL and the right wing
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Thank you to @dewayneforminneapolis.com @omarfatehmn.com @jazzformayor.bsky.social and every other candidate who saw through his gaslighting, lies, fences, and all of his bullshit to try to make a real difference here.
Thank you for doing the work and trying to make a better city for us all. 💙💙💙
Thank you for doing the work and trying to make a better city for us all. 💙💙💙
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Thank you to @dewayneforminneapolis.com @omarfatehmn.com @jazzformayor.bsky.social and every other candidate who saw through his gaslighting, lies, fences, and all of his bullshit to try to make a real difference here.
Thank you for doing the work and trying to make a better city for us all. 💙💙💙
Thank you for doing the work and trying to make a better city for us all. 💙💙💙
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four more years of absolute nothing from jacob frey. what a victory for minneapolis.
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
four more years of absolute nothing from jacob frey. what a victory for minneapolis.
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Screaming this
Also very big diff: public financing in NYC, not here in Mpls
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Screaming this
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If he does pull this out, there's a book to be written about how he and his cronies transformed one of the most democratically engaged cities in America into a bitter, cynical place where a widely despised mayor can somehow magically win three terms.
Minneapolis mayoral results will continue to be tabulated tomorrow. Mayor Jacob Frey says "it looks damn good for us." He says "Minneapolis is on the rise."
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
If he does pull this out, there's a book to be written about how he and his cronies transformed one of the most democratically engaged cities in America into a bitter, cynical place where a widely despised mayor can somehow magically win three terms.