Josh Kirk

Hi! I'm Eric and I'm running for the Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation.

What's that, you ask? The "BET" is an elected council that decides how much the city can levy in property taxes to fund public services like parks and street repairs.

Here's why I'm running:

I don’t know what to say. Just abhorrent.

South Minneapolis Cold Case: Kingfield’s Missing Beer Stores A suspicious lack of beer stores in one Minneapolis neighborhood raises troubling questions, forcing simple six-pack runs to become odysseys.

This is an incredible investigation into why there are no liquor stores in Ward 8. Without any spoilers for the great article, know that if elected, I'll get to the bottom of it!

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If I would have known my bio would be scrutinized in a piece of investigative journalism maybe I would have put a bit more thought into it...

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one

fortunately I know there is nothing more important to Republicans than preventing women from being harassed and menaced by men coming into a women’s restroom, so I’m sure that -

*taps earpiece* what’s that now

Anyone who says "This is what they voted for" in response to the tragedy unfolding in Texas is having a vile thought and needs to sit shamefully in a corner until they learn what solidarity is.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

Pack the Court. If we are serious about the defense of these rights, we pack the Court. Simple as that. They pack it back, we pack it again. We do it until we reach consensus on long-term reforms to the judiciary. I don't know what it's going to take for people to get it.

IMO, the reason that Frey won re-election and is in a strong position to do so again is not that voters don't understand RCV, but that many voters either support his policies or are unconvinced of the alternatives.

It's unacceptable that 3,000 grocery workers in Minnesota have been without a union contract for 3 months.

It's time for the CEOs of Cub Foods, Knowlan's & Haug's to end their outrageous corporate greed, negotiate in good faith with the UFCW & treat their workers with respect.

‘Psyop’: How Far-Right Conspiracy Theories About the Minnesota Shooting Evolved to Protect MAGA Influencers like Alex Jones and Elon Musk have spent the weekend blaming the murder of Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman on leftists and the deep state.

REALITY:

Suspected Minnesota shooter Vance Boelter was an evangelical preacher, registered Republican, voted for Trump, and watched Alex Jones' Infowars.

MAGA/FAR-RIGHT:

"He'S a VioLEnt DeMocRatiC LefTISt aNtifA DeEp STate PsyOP"

www.wired.com/story/psyop-...

the "where are all the protests against trump" people became the "these protests against trump are bad optics" people so quickly you may have missed it

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.

They are in charge.

Land back now

Indigenous people deserve their sovereignty

Trump as he opens the nuclear football, about to start total devastation of life on earth: “you know I’ve always wanted to drop the n-word. People don’t like the word, the n-word. I’ve always thought it was a beautiful word”

KFNA Board of Directors: Spring 2025 Application Thank you for your interest in running for election to the Kingfield Neighborhood Association (KFNA) Board of Directors! As you apply for this role, keep our mission statement in mind as well as our g...

Kingfield folks - are you interested in joining the KFNA board? Applications are open NOW. Our annual meeting is this Wednesday. Voting will start at the end of the meeting and remain open for a week. (1/3)

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Don't forget what it was like to lose Ward 8 by 38 votes! The Frey machine will be pumping just as much money into our race!

This story explains a LOT of things: ChatGPT appears to be rooting on sociopathic mental illness by validating every delusion of grandeur.

It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine.

www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...

Steve Brandt pushing his idea for a city income tax for household incomes above $200k.

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

NO ONE should be sent to El Salvador, you baby-brained losers. My God.

I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.

Reagan was wrong, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to hurt" is actually much more terrifying

thought crimes are now illegal in the united states. it’s truly baffling that their anyone was ever convinced by the right being pro “free speech”. anyone who gave any credence to that argument is a rube

The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student who served as spokesperson for campus activists last year during large demonstrations against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and the war in Gaza. Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs. He said that while Khalil’s activities were “otherwise lawful,” letting him remain in the country would undermine “U.S. policy to combat anti-Semitism around the world and in the United States, in addition to efforts to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the United States.”

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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With all the concern about what messaging app was used by our leaders, I'd love it if we also considered that we dropped bombs on a civilian apartment building and killed 53 people. Some number of whom were children. If another country did this to the United States, we'd call it a war crime.