Fuck guns. Fuck this fucked up reality where this continues to happen and we just keep moving on.
I'm so sorry to every victim of today's tragedy. As a Minneapolis family, we are all here for you. I'm so sorry that more wasn't done to prevent this from happening. We must do more, we must do better.
I was at the DFL convention. It wasn't chaos - it was democracy in action. Delegates voted, the tech worked and the room made clear choices. Now Jacob Frey is challenging the results using rhetoric that sounds less like a Democrat and more like Mike Lindell. He miscalculated the delegate count - just like his office miscalculated the count of our unhoused neighbors, when he claimed there were only 27 unhoused people in the city. This is a man who has shown time and again he cannot do basic math. The outrage over Omar Fateh's endorsement has nothing to do with process. It's about a political establishment losing its grip. For years, Frey and his allies have run this city for landlords, developers and the police, while working people have been pushed aside. Now renters, workers and everyday residents are getting organized and the political class doesn't know how to handle it. So they resort to panic and smears. The idea that Fateh is somehow "helping Trump" is laughable. Trump didn't rise because of democratic socialism. He rose because corporate Democrats failed to fight for the working class. Frey represents that failure. Fateh's campaign is a rejection of it, and a chance to build a Minneapolis that finally puts people before profits. ETHAN BUHROW, Minneapolis
“Jacob Frey is challenging the convention results using rhetoric that sounds less like a Democrat and more like Mike Lindell. He miscalculated the delegate count—just like his office miscalculated the count of our unhoused neighbors, when he claimed there were only 27 unhoused people in the city.”
WATCH: “You stand in my church. You promised me.”
A Minneapolis pastor confronts the chief of police about helping ICE
When things were in chaos on East Lake St today, three mayoral candidates (not people who currently hold that office, people running for it) showed up to help. All three are Black men who probably have a healthy fear of militarized police.
But our strong mayor, shrouded in privilege, did not.
i saw so much leadership from the mayoral candidates on site. @omarfatehmn.com talking to an upset woman who saw agents take people away. @jazzformayor.bsky.social running around trying to deescalate. @dewayneforminneapolis.com checking on the person who was injured
no mayor frey
While I am not a member of DSA, I did talk to a friend who is today. Apparently, at their last meeting, 9 new young people showed up to join. All of whom attended the DFL Ward 2 convention and felt unwelcome by the party.
So to DFL'ers who hate DSA: We are losing young people because of YOU
I’m in undergrad and I got elected to both city committees from Ward 11! Not all hope is lost :)
Hello friends! I just want to take a moment to acknowledge that I have decided to run for Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board District 4 commissioner. Over the upcoming days, you’ll be seeing more from me about my goals and positions and where we as a community go from here!
This moment demands leadership that can reach across differences, listen to diverse perspectives, and build a party that works for all Minnesotans. As I reflect on the work ahead, I'm excited to announce that I am running to be the next Outreach and Inclusion Officer of the Minnesota DFL.
I thought he was cool because he’s gay BUT THEN I saw what he said about RFK, yea… hope he never appears in the national spotlight.
My professor shouted out Bluesky today so that’s how I know it’s cool
Axelrod is so out of touch with the modern democratic. All he says on CNN is shut he did with Obama. Like he cannot get over it. He will be perpetually stuck in 2010
Nobody tell Kristi Noem about DOGE or she’ll shoot it
I mean let’s be honest, half of them will be fired within a year
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I wonder if the kids in the lounge around me realize I’m listening to a MPS school board meeting while studying instead of listening to music.
Counterpoint: The Twin Cities DSA doesn’t like being called ‘extremist,’ because its solutions are common-sense for regular people For anyone besides out-of-touch rich people, socialism is a perfectly sensible solution for all. By Carol Becker (with help from Samuel T. Weston) Hey, Carol. I got a chance to review your essay. In general you have the right idea, but I’ve made some slight corrections to help you make your point better. —Sam The co-chairs of the Twin Cities Democratic Socialists of America, Laura Jahnig and Revmira Beeby, recently wrote a Community Voices piece titled “Inflammatory rhetoric by All of Mpls hurts democracy,” in which they argue that it is wrong that the moderate group All of Minneapolis has called them “extremists.” On the contrary, its goals make perfect sense for regular working people. The Democratic Socialists of America are, as their name says, socialists. Simply put, according to the Oxford Languages Dictionary, socialism is an economic system in which the government owns or heavily regulates all or some industries in an economy. Socialism was the great experiment of humanity in the 20th century. At one point, there were 41 countries where the government owned all industries in the economy and about 140 countries where the government owned at least some key industries, according to a book on the subject, Essentials of Comparative Politics. But thanks to the U.S. meddling in these countries’ affairs, It turned out to be a complete disaster. Socialist economies met the material needs of 1.5 billion people (out of a total world population of 4.4 billion, according to the American Enterprise Institute). Since then, socialism has been widely abandoned, between the fall of the Iron Curtain and the Thatcher Revolution. From 1989 to today, more than a billion people have been left in poverty with the abandonment of socialism. There are now just five countries where the government owns all of the industries and only nine where the
government owns a substantial number of industries, according to the World Population Review. Many people erroneously think that Scandinavian countries are socialist, but they are not. Sweden, for example, is a highly capitalist society, ranked 9th out of 180 countries in economic freedom, according to the Heritage Foundation’s Economic Freedom Rankings. It is this aggressive capitalism and heavy taxation of those capitalist enterprises that funds the Scandinavian country’s generous welfare benefits. In their own words, the DSA in Minneapolis is fighting against capitalism and for government control of the economy. According to its own website, the Twin Cities Democratic Socialists are “an organization that fights for workers, and against capitalism…” Their national organization puts it this way: “We want to collectively own the key economic drivers that dominate our lives, such as energy production and transportation.” In their own words, they are socialists who want to return to an economic system that history shows has overwhelmingly succeeded when not subjected pushback by the owner class. What does its common-sense agenda look like here? The DSA’s goal for housing is “decommodification” in which vast numbers of people live in government-controlled housing. It was successful in pushing through common-sense rent control in St. Paul as a first step towards making it financially impossible to maintain private ownership of rental housing. Over time, as inflation increases more than the 3% rent cap, private ownership of rental housing will become financially impossible in St Paul. Government will end up owning more and more apartments, the goal of the socialists. The DSA’s solution for homelessness is, unsurprisingly, free government housing. A transitional shelter bed or treatment for addiction, which is the root of much homelessness, is not enough, which makes sense if you are working toward universal government control of housing.
Another example of socialist intervention in the free market is the Uber and Lyft salary minimums. The minimum wage for Uber drivers is now three times the state minimum wage, with a special privilege carved out for union workers. This subtly encourages Uber and Lyft drivers to join unions and use their collective bargaining power. Or take another DSA-supported project — the Roof Depot. The DSA’s goal is community ownership of a warehouse in south Minneapolis. We see the same common-sense socialist approach of government controlling industries through the creation of a Labor Standards Board. The board would create committees, controlled by workers, that would propose new regulations for specific industries. These regulations would then be passed by the socialist City Council. The city could dictate things like pay, hours, benefits, working conditions, business operations and any other facet of private business that the council wanted to control. This is socialism. It is perfectly reasonable. It is also easy to see how this will uplift so many regular people in Minneapolis. Workers would want benefits from elected officials because that’s the job of elected officials. Businesses would be bled dry as elected officials win votes by enacting common-sense regulations that help regular working people. Businesses, understandably, have opposed this. These are just a few examples of the common-sense reforms you get with socialism. Now, if you buy into the dream of fabulous cheap housing run by the government and the wisdom of the government dictating how businesses should be run, understand that this has all been tried. Even Russia privatized its government-owned housing because of rampant corruption by its new oligarchs, and according to a 2021 poll by the Levada Center, 63% of Russians regret the loss of their socialist government.
Regardless, citizens have put socialists in charge of Minneapolis. Four DSA-endorsed candidates won in 2023, and three other candidates pledged to vote with them. They are now moving their socialist agenda forward, making Minneapolis the proving ground for socialist aspirations nationally. If you like the direction the city is going, blame the hard-working socialists. Minneapolis needs more common-sense thinking like this. The challenge for moderates is to get out of the way. And the challenge to residents is to see socialism for what it is: a perfectly reasonable agenda that will uplift the masses. Samuel T. Weston is a filmmaker building a media company on the socialist principles of collective decision-making and workers sharing equally in the profits. He is also a member of the Twin Ports DSA.
Last month @minnpost.bsky.social published a piece by notorious Minneapolis NIMBY activist Carol Becker. Days later I wrote and submitted a rebuttal that Minnpost never published, so I'm taking it on myself to send it out here for you all now.
I feel like people are overreaching about Secretary of Defense cause like what do they even do? Remember last year when Lloyd Austin disappeared for a surgery for a week and no one noticed? I’m more worried about who’ll be the chair of the joint chiefs.
“I just want to talk to an economist on their political opinions” the kid behind me says as if 19 Wharton professors didn’t say that a 40% tariff will ruin the economy.
New favorite activity is listening to kids in my Econ class freak out when the professor says “tariffs make an economy inefficient”. Like yea a 40% tariff will be bad guys.
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