Nathan Petersen-Kindem
@nathanpk.com
Minneapolis-dwelling classical singer, business intel designer, wine collector, performing arts advocate, sci-fi fan, outdoors enthusiast
Abolish the Senate
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Abolish the Senate
Rest up this weekend if you don’t have plans. There will be more to do later.
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Rest up this weekend if you don’t have plans. There will be more to do later.
I’m doing Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito with a wonderfully talented group of people. It’s got themes of friendship, politics, and the struggle of a compassionate nature when confronted with betrayal. It’s got a wonderful cast of singer-actors who are bringing rich insights to their roles. Come see!
Events — Opera Reading Project
www.operareadingproject.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I’m doing Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito with a wonderfully talented group of people. It’s got themes of friendship, politics, and the struggle of a compassionate nature when confronted with betrayal. It’s got a wonderful cast of singer-actors who are bringing rich insights to their roles. Come see!
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All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
Reposted by Nathan Petersen-Kindem
I’m asking everyone to vote for a new Mayor by Tuesday and rank all 3 of Omar Fateh, Dewayne Davis, and Jazz Hampton in whichever order you prefer. I’ve worked at City Hall for the last 4 years and from my personal experiences I believe the City desperately needs a new mayor.
Long thread 🧵
Long thread 🧵
November 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I’m asking everyone to vote for a new Mayor by Tuesday and rank all 3 of Omar Fateh, Dewayne Davis, and Jazz Hampton in whichever order you prefer. I’ve worked at City Hall for the last 4 years and from my personal experiences I believe the City desperately needs a new mayor.
Long thread 🧵
Long thread 🧵
Behold! The comprehensive election summary you needed is at hand! Naomi’s coverage is driven by the values that make a society work. You’ll never get this from the billionaire-owned Strib.
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Behold! The comprehensive election summary you needed is at hand! Naomi’s coverage is driven by the values that make a society work. You’ll never get this from the billionaire-owned Strib.
“The purpose of a system is what it does.”
-Stafford Beer
-Stafford Beer
NEW: Court filings reveal that states using the Trump administration’s untested citizenship verification system to purge voter rolls may be mistakenly flagging eligible voters at an alarming rate, risking the chance of voters being disenfranchised.
Trump’s Voter Citizenship Database Is ‘Flawed’ and Could Lead to Disenfranchisement, Election Administrator Warns
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“The purpose of a system is what it does.”
-Stafford Beer
-Stafford Beer
Comprehensive 🧵 from a former candidate on why we need a change in leadership. Join us!
We’re getting close to election day in Minneapolis, and I’ve figured out who I plan to vote for. I endorse Dr. DeWayne Davis and Sen. Omar Fateh. I also plan to rank Jazz Hampton.
October 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Comprehensive 🧵 from a former candidate on why we need a change in leadership. Join us!
Fantastic stuff, M4TM. We deserve better!
Because we can’t afford a third term of Jacob Frey.
Get the facts about Jacob Frey before you vote: buff.ly/ok2vH4D
Get the facts about Jacob Frey before you vote: buff.ly/ok2vH4D
The Truth About Jacob Frey
Reporting from the Star Tribune shows that Mayor Frey is deleting his calls and texts. The Mayor has no cell phone calls or text data from the ICE action in Minneapolis on June 3rd. He also has none…
buff.ly
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Fantastic stuff, M4TM. We deserve better!
Heyyy @governorwalz.mn.gov can we get this moving at a Minnesota level already? We’re a net loser of federal funding anyway. We can start paying again when Constitutional government is restored.
there’s quite literally no purpose in continuing to pay taxes if they’re going to weaponize them against a majority of people paying them like this
NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.
October 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Heyyy @governorwalz.mn.gov can we get this moving at a Minnesota level already? We’re a net loser of federal funding anyway. We can start paying again when Constitutional government is restored.
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/2 The Roberts Court 6-3 majority is best understood not as a genuine or legitimate independent adjudicatory body but as a ceremonial adjunct to the Trump government, like a First Lady or a second-born prince in a constitutional monarchy.
October 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
/2 The Roberts Court 6-3 majority is best understood not as a genuine or legitimate independent adjudicatory body but as a ceremonial adjunct to the Trump government, like a First Lady or a second-born prince in a constitutional monarchy.
About to be my #1 ranked choice!
KARE 11 features Dr. DeWayne Davis for #Minneapolis #Mayor. Check out why he'll make the best next Mayor of our city.
www.kare11.com/article/news...
www.kare11.com/article/news...
After years as a community leader, Rev. Dr. DeWayne Davis switches gears with Minneapolis mayor run
We're introducing you to another challenger in the race for Minneapolis mayor - Reverend Dr. DeWayne Davis.
www.kare11.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
About to be my #1 ranked choice!
Easy to do and very important!
Move MN @moveminnesota.bsky.social has a template for sending a letter to Minneapolis City Council to tell them to Withhold Municipal Consent for the Lyndale Ave Redesign until the plan includes safe options for pedestrians, buses, bikes, and everyone!
Please share!
www.movemn.org/action/lynda...
Please share!
www.movemn.org/action/lynda...
Tell Minneapolis City Council to Withhold Municipal Consent on Lyndale Ave
We need a design that creates safe and inviting space for everyone, whether we bike, walk, roll or take the bus!
www.movemn.org
October 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Easy to do and very important!
I went for a short walk this evening - the hottest October 3 in recorded history in my city - and found humans of all ages and colors at play, in kickball games, on bikes, on playgrounds.
We live in a beautiful place. To keep it beautiful, keep embracing one another.
We live in a beautiful place. To keep it beautiful, keep embracing one another.
October 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I went for a short walk this evening - the hottest October 3 in recorded history in my city - and found humans of all ages and colors at play, in kickball games, on bikes, on playgrounds.
We live in a beautiful place. To keep it beautiful, keep embracing one another.
We live in a beautiful place. To keep it beautiful, keep embracing one another.
Rank all three challengers for change!
After 8 years of failed promises on everything from police reform to homelessness Minneapolis cannot afford a third term of Jacob Frey.
Luckily, we don’t have to!
Check out what your neighbors are saying in our new mayoral video.
Luckily, we don’t have to!
Check out what your neighbors are saying in our new mayoral video.
October 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Rank all three challengers for change!
Now accepting accidental invites to the general staff Signal chat. Things are about to get spicy in there
The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.
September 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Now accepting accidental invites to the general staff Signal chat. Things are about to get spicy in there
I’m so grateful to have been a part of this, and delighted that it has arrived. If you need a comforting sonic bath, relax into these harmonies.
How to Hold On: Songs of Comfort and Solace by Melanie DeMore, VocalEssence Ensemble Singers & VocalEssence on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 14 Songs
music.apple.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’m so grateful to have been a part of this, and delighted that it has arrived. If you need a comforting sonic bath, relax into these harmonies.
Chotiner: [neatly separates Sunstein’s moral authority from his body]
Sunstein: [dies]
Sunstein: [dies]
Can Liberalism Be Saved? — The New Yorker
The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.
apple.news
September 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Chotiner: [neatly separates Sunstein’s moral authority from his body]
Sunstein: [dies]
Sunstein: [dies]
Easily the most adorable workout yet!
September 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Easily the most adorable workout yet!
Easily the most adorable workout yet!
September 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Easily the most adorable workout yet!
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September 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Summary:
- We know what moved 2024 voters and it wasn’t the “forbidden words,” it was issues (that centrists won’t address)
- Professional messaging experts perform barely better than chance at persuasion
- Intentional human-first language does help people feel compassion toward others
- We know what moved 2024 voters and it wasn’t the “forbidden words,” it was issues (that centrists won’t address)
- Professional messaging experts perform barely better than chance at persuasion
- Intentional human-first language does help people feel compassion toward others
New evidence-based op-ed in the Philadelphia @inquirer.com with @judalicious.bsky.social: Third Way’s banned words memo is odious, corporate capitulation is real, and word choice doesn’t win or lose votes—but it does affect marginalized people. (Written before the Kirk news.) “Enjoy” (?) and share!
Political language panics are a distraction … or worse | Opinion
Language policing doesn’t just miss the point — it echoes the right wing’s playbook. It promotes a so-called war on wokeness, a distraction designed to shift blame and sow cultural resentment.
share.inquirer.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Summary:
- We know what moved 2024 voters and it wasn’t the “forbidden words,” it was issues (that centrists won’t address)
- Professional messaging experts perform barely better than chance at persuasion
- Intentional human-first language does help people feel compassion toward others
- We know what moved 2024 voters and it wasn’t the “forbidden words,” it was issues (that centrists won’t address)
- Professional messaging experts perform barely better than chance at persuasion
- Intentional human-first language does help people feel compassion toward others
If you’re within range, definitely treat yourself to this concert! I love singing with these superb musicians.
Canto a la vida — Border CrosSing
Canto a la vida is a program of a cappella choral music gems by Venezuelan composers Modesta Bor and Antonio Estévez. Gorgeous settings of Latin American poetry for unaccompanied choir rarely performe...
www.bordercrossingmn.org
September 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
If you’re within range, definitely treat yourself to this concert! I love singing with these superb musicians.
PREACH
September 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
PREACH