Jason
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The loud part out loud
Trump on ending the filibuster: "If we do it, we will never lose the midterms and we will never lose a general election ... it would be impossible to lose an election."
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The loud part out loud
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I know some folks were asking for something like this (@meshm.bsky.social iirc) So I made a quick dot density map of the first choice Minneapolis mayoral results. This allows you to see two things that choropleth maps can't show... umn.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I know some folks were asking for something like this (@meshm.bsky.social iirc) So I made a quick dot density map of the first choice Minneapolis mayoral results. This allows you to see two things that choropleth maps can't show... umn.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...
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Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it
New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani confronts Border Czar Tom Homan today in Albany 👇🏻
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it
ok, that's clever 😂
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
ok, that's clever 😂
@taylordahlin.com lives in this guy's head and now Strib comment threads rent free, which as a concept you'd think would be anathema for these big landlords.
November 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
@taylordahlin.com lives in this guy's head and now Strib comment threads rent free, which as a concept you'd think would be anathema for these big landlords.
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here is steve minn telling jewish insider in may that he voted for donald trump three times. his company lupe gave $30k to safer hennepin. he also maxed out to jacob frey, shelley madore, michael rainville, josh bassais, tim peterson, and paula chesley this year
November 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
here is steve minn telling jewish insider in may that he voted for donald trump three times. his company lupe gave $30k to safer hennepin. he also maxed out to jacob frey, shelley madore, michael rainville, josh bassais, tim peterson, and paula chesley this year
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Frey’s benefactors don‘t live in Mpls. They profit *off* the city; contracts, graft and outright theft.
This includes developers & Landlords like Minn & Wall. And wannabes like Weinhagen who sought an official job advising Frey.
Frey’s Chief of staff TODAY was hired by Weinhagen at the chamber.
This includes developers & Landlords like Minn & Wall. And wannabes like Weinhagen who sought an official job advising Frey.
Frey’s Chief of staff TODAY was hired by Weinhagen at the chamber.
October 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Frey’s benefactors don‘t live in Mpls. They profit *off* the city; contracts, graft and outright theft.
This includes developers & Landlords like Minn & Wall. And wannabes like Weinhagen who sought an official job advising Frey.
Frey’s Chief of staff TODAY was hired by Weinhagen at the chamber.
This includes developers & Landlords like Minn & Wall. And wannabes like Weinhagen who sought an official job advising Frey.
Frey’s Chief of staff TODAY was hired by Weinhagen at the chamber.
Has @mayorfrey.com made any public statement about Jonathan Weinhagen? Considering their past associations, it seems like local media should really be asking. @startribune.com @mprnews.org @pioneerpress.bsky.social @sahanjournal.bsky.social @racketmn.com @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Has @mayorfrey.com made any public statement about Jonathan Weinhagen? Considering their past associations, it seems like local media should really be asking. @startribune.com @mprnews.org @pioneerpress.bsky.social @sahanjournal.bsky.social @racketmn.com @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social
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Allegedly stealing money from a reward fund to find the shooter of 3 north side kids — after funding a PAC accusing Frey’s opponents of being soft on crime. That’s some evil shit.
Finally a prosecution of something from the *real* downtown crime epidemic that's killing our city!
October 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Allegedly stealing money from a reward fund to find the shooter of 3 north side kids — after funding a PAC accusing Frey’s opponents of being soft on crime. That’s some evil shit.
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The political alliance between prudish moral scolds and entitled pedophiles is one of the weirdest ever.
October 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The political alliance between prudish moral scolds and entitled pedophiles is one of the weirdest ever.
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What if that White House demolition company is actually the Louvre heist team back on their bullshit?
If it is, I'm sorry but the destruction of the White House suddenly becomes very funny.
If it is, I'm sorry but the destruction of the White House suddenly becomes very funny.
October 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
What if that White House demolition company is actually the Louvre heist team back on their bullshit?
If it is, I'm sorry but the destruction of the White House suddenly becomes very funny.
If it is, I'm sorry but the destruction of the White House suddenly becomes very funny.
Democrats really need to go all in on "take it back from the billionaires" as a rallying cry. Until then they leave a leadership void for far-right demagogues to swoop in and fill, which we seem them already using to great effect to both exploit the hell out of this division and make it way worse.
Can you hear the giant sucking sound of those with wealth sucklng up all assets?
October 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Democrats really need to go all in on "take it back from the billionaires" as a rallying cry. Until then they leave a leadership void for far-right demagogues to swoop in and fill, which we seem them already using to great effect to both exploit the hell out of this division and make it way worse.
Daydreaming about printing flyers to drop around apartment buildings w/ a simple message that the All of Mpls candidates are beholden to people who raise the rent, and the choice in this election that'll fight for affordability ain't them. I don't have the bandwidth to actually do that, but.. *sigh*
October 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Daydreaming about printing flyers to drop around apartment buildings w/ a simple message that the All of Mpls candidates are beholden to people who raise the rent, and the choice in this election that'll fight for affordability ain't them. I don't have the bandwidth to actually do that, but.. *sigh*
Real good breakdown of who's money is funding this year's Minneapolis municipal races. So much of it is from just outside the city.
finally updated my all of mpls blog with the september 2025 finance report to include every donor this year. a lot more big contributions than the june report! i'll highlight some notable ones in a thread here - taylordahlin.com/f/who-is-fun...
Who is Funding All of Mpls in 2025? (Updated Oct 2025)
All of Mpls was founded in 2021 by Richard Forschler, a former lobbyist who represented corporate and capital interests such as the Minneapolis Downtown Council (who donated $35,000 to We Love Mpls in...
taylordahlin.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Real good breakdown of who's money is funding this year's Minneapolis municipal races. So much of it is from just outside the city.
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It’s more obvious by the day how shitty Frey is at partnering with most other electeds who serve the same consituents
irene fernando's email to jacob frey re: mariah samuels. october is domestic violence awareness month, fernando wants to know what city will do
"If I am unable to receive engagement directly from you as a fellow elected official, then how can I trust that you are
responsive to my neighbors?"
"If I am unable to receive engagement directly from you as a fellow elected official, then how can I trust that you are
responsive to my neighbors?"
October 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It’s more obvious by the day how shitty Frey is at partnering with most other electeds who serve the same consituents
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Let's talk about Medicare for ALL.
October 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Let's talk about Medicare for ALL.
Local reporting from somebody who knows how things actually work
that's a knockoff. the st paul christmas market is just holidazzle 2014, they did it in peavey plaza and it was a traditional german christmas market. then the person who was responsible for that moved over to st paul and did it again
October 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Local reporting from somebody who knows how things actually work
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While this suits Frey fine, the Minneapolis "moderate DFL" war on socialism is counterproductive and incredibly dumb. I heard they made a documentary about it. Candidates sometimes tell me they are advised not to talk to me bc I'll rip any non-socialist to shreds (but I'm not a socialist).
October 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
While this suits Frey fine, the Minneapolis "moderate DFL" war on socialism is counterproductive and incredibly dumb. I heard they made a documentary about it. Candidates sometimes tell me they are advised not to talk to me bc I'll rip any non-socialist to shreds (but I'm not a socialist).
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Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.
Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
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.
southsideweekly.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.
Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
I was already thinking about ranking @jazzformayor.bsky.social first on my ballot, but the eagerness to geek out over data on display here .. totally sealed it.
1/18 The August polls seemed discouraging on the surface.
So we did our own. A deeper dive that accounts for ranked choice tells a different tale: Jazz gained 8 points from August to September, putting him just 5 points of total support behind the incumbent.
Thread ahead... let's break it down. 📈
So we did our own. A deeper dive that accounts for ranked choice tells a different tale: Jazz gained 8 points from August to September, putting him just 5 points of total support behind the incumbent.
Thread ahead... let's break it down. 📈
October 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I was already thinking about ranking @jazzformayor.bsky.social first on my ballot, but the eagerness to geek out over data on display here .. totally sealed it.
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As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway
Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland
September 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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I'm trying Keith. Not always succeeding, but I'm tryin'.
They are trying to overwhelm you. It’s part of the strategy. Don’t be overwhelmed.
September 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I'm trying Keith. Not always succeeding, but I'm tryin'.
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I'm re-upping an old post in light of deployment of troops w/ authorization for "full force" to Portland. Here's Hegseth talking about Portland in his 2024 book, where he elsewhere describes such cities as enemy territory. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-pentag...
September 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I'm re-upping an old post in light of deployment of troops w/ authorization for "full force" to Portland. Here's Hegseth talking about Portland in his 2024 book, where he elsewhere describes such cities as enemy territory. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-pentag...
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Nothing about the Wounded Knee Massacre meets our values of freedom and justice.
September 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Nothing about the Wounded Knee Massacre meets our values of freedom and justice.