Braden Holmes

Give us variable market rate parking or give us death!

It remains wild to me that some of the most valuable land in the USA is given freely to store cars that are often never used. Also it's my dearest wish that they enact Shoup-style market pricing, it's by far the best model for metered parking where the competition for spots is fierce

The one thing I'll say is that we did get an amendment on the ordinance to push drive throughs away from existing *and* planned BRT and LR stops. Not as good as straight up banning them but something

As Arlington booms, traffic drops Traffic on several Arlington roads is lower today than decades ago, despite huge increases in density and activity.

An oldie, but an important lesson: Arlington added 50,000 residents. Traffic fell.

Wilson Blvd (its main street): –23%.
Transit ridership: +34%.

When you build housing around transit, people drive less. @ggwash.org

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If the headline is a response to the book "Homelessness is a Housing Problem" then they either never read it or are just a dumb-dumb. If drug use was the underlying cause, then West Virginia would have super high rates of homelessness! Just inane logic

ALDI plans downtown St. Paul grocery store ALDI has filed permits to open a grocery store in downtown St. Paul, taking over the former Lunds & Byerlys space, though an opening date remains unclear.

The German multinational grocer will move into the space once occupied by Lunds & Byerlys on Robert and 10th streets.

Congestion pricing is the only real solution for traffic, right?

Progress from 2024: Minneapolis Adds 574 New Homes with Adaptive Reuse Through adaptive reuse, Minneapolis turned office space into 574 apartments. Possible new State legislature may make this easier, though the retail market remains challenging.

Minneapolis passed a new ordinance in 2024 that eased the regulatory burden of turning vacant office space into new housing.

Since then, Mpls has added 574 new homes by converting commercial office space into residential housing, the sixth most in the country.

Read more: streets.mn/2026/02/09/p...

Instead of Diogenes asking Alexander the Great to stop blocking the sun he's doing an ad read for Better Help

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

**RETHINKING I94 MEETING** I-94 neighbors: public comments are open and many are requesting a pause in MnDOT's planning timeline because *how can we focus on a highway when we're under siege?* Need context, have questions? Join us, 6:30 p.m. tomorrow (Feb. 18) at the Merriam Park Library.

And related, solar energy and battery technology!

Is Peter a monster, or the hero we've been needing?

NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest

THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again

“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”

Twin Cities immigration crackdown delays home construction, slows real estate market As immigrant workers move or stay home, a shortage of workers in the trades also is affecting the existing home market and rental owners.

Twin Cities home builders are falling behind schedule as the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota has fueled a shortage of roofing, drywall and other construction workers, according to developers and real estate agents.

Also interesting are the roots of today's separation ordinances, Northern cities and states passed laws to prohibit the assistance of federal marshalls or slave catchers

"Members of the vigilance committee put up posters around town describing the 'man stealers' [and] harassed them in the streets"

Currently listening to James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom, and the parallels of pre civil war Boston's "vigilance committee" that protected fugitive slaves and today's anti-ice Twin Cities are kind of crazy.

Hearing @michaelhobbes.bsky.social's good hot take reminds me of my own, that most big US cities should implement congestion pricing to fund public transportation. Cars are dangerous and inefficient, let's do something else!

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

blue, white, and gray comic page. Three rows of seven figures each are arranged in the center of the page, which is overlaid in text from the US Naturalization Oath. Textboxes read: [A little more than two months ago, ICE raided a naturalization ceremony at Faneuil Hall. They arrested twenty-one immigrants mere minutes away from swearing their oaths of citizenship.]

Faneuil Hall, white against a blue sky, stands tall. Textboxes read: [Many have denounced the attack as a betrayal of American values. What ground is more sacred than Faneuil Hall, the so-called “Cradle of Liberty”? What citizenship is more precious than the one earned through merit, grit, and love of country? The American Dream was waiting at the end of that narrow road— only to be cruelly snatched away upon arrival.]

Two hands reach for each other across the page: the one on the left handcuffed, the one on the right shackled in iron. The pose is reminiscient of Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam. Textboxes read: [Faneuil Hall’s history runs deep— far deeper than its worshipers may realize. The Hall itself was named after its financier, prominent slave trader Peter Faneuil.] Below this is a silhouette of Faneuil Hall on a hill. Text placed underneath the Hall reads: [The temple to American liberty was built upon the enslavement and torture of Black bodies.]

An ICE officer, blue against a dark grat background, looks directly at the viewer and points his gun at them. Text reads: [Atrocities like the raid at Faneuil Hall pile up, overwhelming and increasingly violent, from sea to shining sea. How much of it is a betrayal of our valiant ideals, and how much of it is the baring of a false promise? At what point are the actions of our government no longer a mockery of the American Dream— but a symptom of the American Empire?]

the american dream
#iceoutboston #iceoutmlps #iceoutcomics #iceout

Today is Precinct Caucus Day! In this thread🧵, here are three ways to support abundant housing🏘️, low-carbon transportation🚌, and sustainable land use💸

Registration opens at 6:30pm. Find your caucus location here caucusfinder.sos.mn.gov

Poster card for the rose raffle at the MNRD Valentine's Day bout. The center has two skaters making the shape of a valentine hear. Under and around them is a drawing of a valentine heart outlined with pink flames. Around the edges of this are "FEB 14", the MNRD logo, and roses on each side. Text is as follows: Dinner is boring Roller Derby Is Not Bring a Valentine, But a Rose. Win a Date Night. $5 Rose = 1 Raffle Entry You could win: 2 night wildflower cabin stay, mini photoshoot by Emily Isakson Photography, Free Month at Solcana Fitness + more! Doors 5pm. First Whistle 6pm

Out with the old boring dinner-dates, and in with the new exciting derby-dates! 🛼💖

During our next bout, Love in the Time of Derby, MNRD will be selling $5 flowers, and each purchase is an opportunity to put your name in our date night raffle box!

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social refers to The Atlantic as the "bible of reactionary centrists" in a podcast that I assume was taped right before the magazine hired David Brooks. To prove the point, Hobbes compares the Atlantic's Zohran coverage (hostile) to its RFK coverage (credulous.)

MNRD presents: Love in the Time of Derby February 14th, 2026 Doors open at 5:00 p.m. at [tag the Roy] Game 1 begins at 6:00 p.m. get tickets now: www.mnrollerderby.com/events-tickets/

On Saturday, February 14, fall headfirst into Love in the Time of Derby—our upcoming bout that promises more chaos than cholera.

Game 1: Maul Rats vs. Bodies of Water
Game 2: Wednesday Warnings vs. Roller Vortex

Bring your sweetheart, your situationship, or your friends and let the romance roll.

It never fails.

Detained asylum-seeking mother asks principal to bring her two young children to Whipple The children go to the same school as 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, who was detained with his father earlier this month.

Read this story if you want to know what's happening in the Twin Cities. www.startribune.com/valley-view-...

Honestly the longer ICE stays here the more advantage we gain. They have to be gone by spring. If the bike whackos get a shot at patrol it’s OVER.

First of all, he's describing Minneapolis like they're in a war zone. Second they are once again complaining about not eating in restaurants. I present to you the biggest snowflakes in America.