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Stuck around to talk to the authorities with a few other bystanders. MPD and it sounded like one or more federal agencies are on the case.

Honestly this has me shook. Makes all the hateful rhetoric seem vividly real. Thankfully competence seems to scale inversely with hatred.
October 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Just witnessed someone trying to fireb*mb Fletcher’s Ice Cream in NE. Saw a dude acting weird next to a parked car in front of the place. I walked by, heard a smash through my earbuds, smelled gasoline/kerosine. Turned around, snapped some photos instinctively. Thankfully they suck at molot*vs.
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Someone attempted to throw a Molotov cocktail through the window of Fletcher’s ice cream in St. Anthony today at around 12:50pm
October 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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No. If we want to get rid of Frey, we need to rank three candidates. Otherwise, we will wind up with four more years of Frey. Rank Fateh, Davis, and Hampton.

People not filling their ballots is how Frey won in 2021.
September 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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September 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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As an aside to my analysis: this was a long, difficult case well-fought by attorneys at Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid. All respect and admiration to MMLA for fighting this for >3 yrs (and counting, with remand). Smart, skilled, unionized lawyers fighting for the rights of the poorest tenants in the state.
MAJOR victory for tenant's rights: the Minnesota Supreme Court has overturned its 1995 precedent and ruled that the doctrine of waiver applies to housing subsidy payments. That is, landlords cannot continue to accept Section 8 voucher payments and still evict them for material breach of lease. HUGE.
September 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Saw a Brian Strahan yard sign for the first time ever today—I would assume it’s just his house but I do not believe that he lives in ward 1
September 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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(guy who just hates Minnesota for some reason and never stops talking about it) well i think it's pretty clear where the shooter was from,
September 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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with trump and giuliani edging right up to the border of death, the comedic rule of threes now screams for blood
August 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Deeply disappointed in the decision to reverse the DFL endorsement of @omarfatehmn.com.

Process is important, but the subtext here is clear.

Efforts to sideline candidates and organizing (notably done by BIPOC, Muslim, progressive folks) are in contrast to inclusive big tent DFL values.
August 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Elections 101: If you lose big in an endorsement contest that will not determine the election, you should remind people constantly of your loss with baseless accusations of fraud, have your power broker pals overturn the result, then announce "See, I'm not a loser. All the donors tell me so."
August 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Statement from a wide range of Minneapolis elected officials condemning 28 DFL insiders taking away the DFL endorsement from @omarfatehmn.com

Many of these elected officials haven’t even endorsed him, but they know how wrong this is and how bad this is for the DFL in Minneapolis.
August 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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The landlord class couldn’t be bothered to help DFL conventions run. But once a brown person was endorsed who doesn’t align with their class interest they suddenly had all the money, energy, and lawyers in the world to “fix” the result. But this is a new era, and @omarfatehmn.com wont be stopped.
28 party insiders met privately and voted to overturn our endorsement.

Let me be clear, we’re still in this fight. And we’re going to win.

Donate and sign up for a shift today. www.fatehformayor.com/donate
August 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I have concerns that the DFL continues to ally themselves with people hoping to kick progressive people of color out of the party and who have now successfully and unjustly striped the DFL endorsement from Senator Omar Fateh. 7/
August 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Let Metro Transit know which corridors should be upgraded to bus rapid transit and become the J, K, and L lines. Deadline is September 1.
ABRT Comments
tc2.maps.arcgis.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
My ex fathered a baby and I just discovered lezzing out like last year so we’re kinda doing the same thing
August 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Uptown is alive
August 3, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Top Frey contribution comes from “Undisclosued Undiscloused”.

Two unique ways of spelling that word, neither one correct 😂
August 3, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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I’ve seen a lot of false information circulating in the weeks following the Minneapolis DFL convention. Some of it feels like reading Jan 6 voter conspiracy theories, so as the person who stepped in as head teller + audited the voting system, I’d like to set the record straight🧵
August 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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If there's one thing people with diabetes and extraordinarily high metabolisms DON'T need, it's food.
July 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I think it's important to note the audience for this isn't really cisgender LGB people (who polling tells us overwhelmingly favor trans rights) but is meant to serve as a permission structure for a broader audience to abandon trans rights while still claiming they're "liberal"
This is Bari Weiss's trans rights reporter
July 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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"The Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Amir Locke during a no-knock raid in 2022 and who was later named the lead use-of-force trainer has been reassigned."
Minneapolis officer who killed Amir Locke will stop leading police use-of-force training
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara announced Friday that the Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Amir Locke during a no-knock raid in 2022 and who was later named the lead use-of-force…
www.mprnews.org
July 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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We are facing one of the biggest fundraising deadlines for our campaign next week. Can I count on you to send a donation before 11:59 PM on July 28th to help us reach our fundraising goal of $10,000? Keep our grassroots campaign – donate today at fatehformayor.com/donate.
July 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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I guess “We 💙 Landlords” or “Thrive Landlords” was too on the nose?
here's what i've been told about the new PAC thrive mpls so far. chaired by martha holton dimick, treasurer richard kolodziejski, joe radinovich running it

it will reportedly be anti omar fateh, anti rent control, and pro development

taylordahlin.com/f/new-pac-in...
New PAC in Minneapolis: Thrive Mpls
Thrive Mpls is a new PAC in Minneapolis ahead of the November election after We Love Mpls ceased operating. Its chair is Martha Holton Dimick, who unsuccessfully ran against Mary Moriarty for Hennepin...
taylordahlin.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Draw your own map of Uptown here. You get a neat social card to share when you submit your results!
Draw your own map of Uptown
Tell us where your Uptown begins and ends: Lake and Lyndale? West of Bde Maka Ska?
Startribune.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM