Jesse Mortenson
@jk9.bsky.social
back to start a podcast - subscribe at millcityhall.com - middle aged queer white guy in minneapolis. no presidents, no borders, no clout (ok maybe some clout?).
I heard this referenced on a stream, and I'm like - whoa, there's another "Jesse" pop song I haven't heard? and well...
the 90s were a hell of a drug
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sOU...
the 90s were a hell of a drug
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sOU...
B*Witched - Jesse Hold On (Official Video)
YouTube video by BwitchedVEVO
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I heard this referenced on a stream, and I'm like - whoa, there's another "Jesse" pop song I haven't heard? and well...
the 90s were a hell of a drug
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sOU...
the 90s were a hell of a drug
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sOU...
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Don’t lie, Lisa. I’ve got receipts.
December 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Don’t lie, Lisa. I’ve got receipts.
Horrific.
If you think the consent decree is “reforming” Mpls cops please consider: “Chicago is nearly seven years into a state consent decree that is intended in part to address issues with the department’s promotions system”
If you think the consent decree is “reforming” Mpls cops please consider: “Chicago is nearly seven years into a state consent decree that is intended in part to address issues with the department’s promotions system”
Horrifying story: Chicago promoted two police officers even after investigators found they engaged in sexual misconduct. That’s because the Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored.
w/ @invisible.institute
w/ @invisible.institute
Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct
The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Horrific.
If you think the consent decree is “reforming” Mpls cops please consider: “Chicago is nearly seven years into a state consent decree that is intended in part to address issues with the department’s promotions system”
If you think the consent decree is “reforming” Mpls cops please consider: “Chicago is nearly seven years into a state consent decree that is intended in part to address issues with the department’s promotions system”
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this is one problem with urbanist spaces being male dominated - their ideas of what is safe are completely different from mine, if they even ever consider safety. it's why they'll see nothing wrong with moving buses from nicollet mall to another street - why not, they'd go faster, right?
“If you want to build great cities, you build them for women. We are the ones out there taking more transit, hauling our kids and groceries around, making lots of the buying decisions, and deciding if our kids can walk or bike to school.”
-Alice Tibbetts
Latest Aunties article is out. It's great!
-Alice Tibbetts
Latest Aunties article is out. It's great!
The Aunties of Active Mobility: Alice and Reyna
Profiling two auntie-advocates whose community-rooted biking leadership in Duluth and Minneapolis strengthens active transportation networks, challenges inequity, and expands mobility access across…
streets.mn
December 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
this is one problem with urbanist spaces being male dominated - their ideas of what is safe are completely different from mine, if they even ever consider safety. it's why they'll see nothing wrong with moving buses from nicollet mall to another street - why not, they'd go faster, right?
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i wrote another article on @streets.mn about two more incredible "aunties" - my friends Reyna and Alice, two hardworking and passionate forces in the active transportation world. streets.mn/2025/12/04/t...
The Aunties of Active Mobility: Alice and Reyna
Profiling two auntie-advocates whose community-rooted biking leadership in Duluth and Minneapolis strengthens active transportation networks, challenges inequity, and expands mobility access across…
streets.mn
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
i wrote another article on @streets.mn about two more incredible "aunties" - my friends Reyna and Alice, two hardworking and passionate forces in the active transportation world. streets.mn/2025/12/04/t...
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“If you want to build great cities, you build them for women. We are the ones out there taking more transit, hauling our kids and groceries around, making lots of the buying decisions, and deciding if our kids can walk or bike to school.”
-Alice Tibbetts
Latest Aunties article is out. It's great!
-Alice Tibbetts
Latest Aunties article is out. It's great!
The Aunties of Active Mobility: Alice and Reyna
Profiling two auntie-advocates whose community-rooted biking leadership in Duluth and Minneapolis strengthens active transportation networks, challenges inequity, and expands mobility access across…
streets.mn
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“If you want to build great cities, you build them for women. We are the ones out there taking more transit, hauling our kids and groceries around, making lots of the buying decisions, and deciding if our kids can walk or bike to school.”
-Alice Tibbetts
Latest Aunties article is out. It's great!
-Alice Tibbetts
Latest Aunties article is out. It's great!
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Please do not spread misinformation it only creates more panic for our community.
Link tree: linktr.ee/immigrationr...
Link tree: linktr.ee/immigrationr...
December 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Please do not spread misinformation it only creates more panic for our community.
Link tree: linktr.ee/immigrationr...
Link tree: linktr.ee/immigrationr...
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REJOICE!! SOMEONE HAS PUT THE VIDEO OF JESSE VENTURA SINGING WEREWOLVES OF MINNESOTA WITH WARREN ZEVON BACK UP ON YOUTUBE, HAPPY FIRST WEDNESDAY!!! (It starts at the 5-minute mark)
Warren Zevon In Governor Jesse Ventura's Inaugural Ball At The Target Center, Minneapolis, 1/16/1999
YouTube video by LeChuck Threepwood
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
REJOICE!! SOMEONE HAS PUT THE VIDEO OF JESSE VENTURA SINGING WEREWOLVES OF MINNESOTA WITH WARREN ZEVON BACK UP ON YOUTUBE, HAPPY FIRST WEDNESDAY!!! (It starts at the 5-minute mark)
and Larson even had the foresight to depict Roger Stone in the wacky murder suit
December 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
and Larson even had the foresight to depict Roger Stone in the wacky murder suit
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The Trump Regime in one frame:
December 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The Trump Regime in one frame:
I wonder if it's a modern phenomenon, this combo of feeling of wanting to humanely thank people stuck talking on the phone with me about health insurance, while simultaneously feeling a deep and enduring rage at how useless and imprecise the information provided is. Probably as old as bureaucracy
December 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I wonder if it's a modern phenomenon, this combo of feeling of wanting to humanely thank people stuck talking on the phone with me about health insurance, while simultaneously feeling a deep and enduring rage at how useless and imprecise the information provided is. Probably as old as bureaucracy
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London is fast becoming a cycling city. As each new piece in the network appears—which has more than quadrupled from 90 to 431 km since 2016—so do new cyclists. Its infrastructure now sees a stunning 1.5 million daily users—a 43% spike since 2019—moving nearly half as many people as the Tube below.🧵
December 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
London is fast becoming a cycling city. As each new piece in the network appears—which has more than quadrupled from 90 to 431 km since 2016—so do new cyclists. Its infrastructure now sees a stunning 1.5 million daily users—a 43% spike since 2019—moving nearly half as many people as the Tube below.🧵
The coverup of these powerful white men’s support of & direct links to nazis and nazi ideas is a media disaster at least as bad as the Iraq WMDs fantasia. Vance listens to Yarvin! Those ideas are vicious and explicitly supremacist!
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The coverup of these powerful white men’s support of & direct links to nazis and nazi ideas is a media disaster at least as bad as the Iraq WMDs fantasia. Vance listens to Yarvin! Those ideas are vicious and explicitly supremacist!
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We keep doing these pilot programs and are shocked, SHOCKED!, by the incredibly positive results each time. At what point can we just, ya know, stop with the pilots and make this policy already??? #ubi
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
We keep doing these pilot programs and are shocked, SHOCKED!, by the incredibly positive results each time. At what point can we just, ya know, stop with the pilots and make this policy already??? #ubi
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Dear neighbor, I want to let you know that we are witnessing increased enforcement actions by agents in South Minneapolis. There continues to be reports of residents being followed while driving, stopped and taken away. 1/
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Dear neighbor, I want to let you know that we are witnessing increased enforcement actions by agents in South Minneapolis. There continues to be reports of residents being followed while driving, stopped and taken away. 1/
The rich want us to pay higher property taxes by refusing to allow density in their enclave
As people receive their property tax notices and the City Council considers their budget, something to keep in mind is that one of the easiest ways for the city to get revenue is to simply allow new market-rate housing to be built here.
December 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The rich want us to pay higher property taxes by refusing to allow density in their enclave
Don’t threaten me with a good time!!!
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Don’t threaten me with a good time!!!
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The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
Family of one of the men taken in Saint Paul by ICE is trying to raise another $460 for legal assistance: gofund.me/e6d651172
Donate to Ayudemos a Jeffrey Suazo, organized by Daniela Contreras
Mi nombre es Deylin (pareja de Jeffrey) y hoy quiero pedir apoyo para Jeffrey, un joven de … Daniela Contreras needs your support for Ayudemos a Jeffrey Suazo
gofund.me
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Family of one of the men taken in Saint Paul by ICE is trying to raise another $460 for legal assistance: gofund.me/e6d651172
Well that sounds familiar
“there was a pitfall we didn’t really see at the time: you could win power through airtime, but you couldn’t govern with it”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
“there was a pitfall we didn’t really see at the time: you could win power through airtime, but you couldn’t govern with it”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’
The long read: The leftist party exploded out of Spain’s anti-austerity protests in 2011 and upended Spain’s entrenched two-party system. I was instantly captivated – and for the next decade, I worked...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Well that sounds familiar
“there was a pitfall we didn’t really see at the time: you could win power through airtime, but you couldn’t govern with it”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
“there was a pitfall we didn’t really see at the time: you could win power through airtime, but you couldn’t govern with it”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Protect our freshwater and soils! www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-arou... it is really cool the city offers free sand (25%ICE MELT/salt) to residents! 😄
Free sand for sidewalks
You can get free sand to spread on your snow-packed or icy sidewalk.
www.minneapolismn.gov
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Protect our freshwater and soils! www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-arou... it is really cool the city offers free sand (25%ICE MELT/salt) to residents! 😄
Interesting to read about the Seattle mayor race. One thing that sticks out is the example of big money having an effect on the race (but not quite big enough to defeat Wilson)
"We can infer the amount of money Harrell spent likely helped him close the gap"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"We can infer the amount of money Harrell spent likely helped him close the gap"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How an ‘unknown’ organizer became Seattle’s next mayor: ‘People want to see themselves reflected in office’
Katie Wilson’s rise from transit campaigner to city hall shows how trust, volunteers and years of organizing overcame big-money politics
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Interesting to read about the Seattle mayor race. One thing that sticks out is the example of big money having an effect on the race (but not quite big enough to defeat Wilson)
"We can infer the amount of money Harrell spent likely helped him close the gap"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"We can infer the amount of money Harrell spent likely helped him close the gap"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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i really have not wanted to make a patreon because i feel weird about it all and don't want to use it to like offer anything exclusive there but @wedge.live says i can just make it and forget it so
www.patreon.com/cw/TaylorDah...
www.patreon.com/cw/TaylorDah...
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
i really have not wanted to make a patreon because i feel weird about it all and don't want to use it to like offer anything exclusive there but @wedge.live says i can just make it and forget it so
www.patreon.com/cw/TaylorDah...
www.patreon.com/cw/TaylorDah...
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When I see his byline I brace for impact
You love to see it: Violence Free Minnesota dragging Paul Walsh, the Strib’s crime beat reporter
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
When I see his byline I brace for impact
Really a grounding truth about software industry: “Software failures are universally unbiased. They happen in every country, to large companies and small. They happen in commercial, nonprofit, and governmental organizations, regardless of status or reputation.”
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing
Why do software failures persist despite soaring IT budgets? Dive into the complexities that keep success elusive.
spectrum.ieee.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Really a grounding truth about software industry: “Software failures are universally unbiased. They happen in every country, to large companies and small. They happen in commercial, nonprofit, and governmental organizations, regardless of status or reputation.”
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...