Joshua Houdek

“All good cons [or bad cons with easy marks] eventually crumble, and we’re starting to see the earliest signs that the MAGA movement – one of the greatest [dumbest] and most destructive cons in American history – may be poised to fall.

It’s coming, I tell you. And it’s going to be spectacular.”

💯

Two people dressed as Santa and Elf on bikes outside Utepils Brewery in Minneapolis

Santa’s sleigh is a bike.

Key chain with whistle

New addition to my keychain. 🚨🧊😡

Trump & GOP’s SS have landed in MSP.

The "Save Our Street" anti-safety Summit Avenue people are just plain wrong, and their selfishness has consequences.

we should reject waymo on the basis of supporting labor in minnesota, where uber and lyft drivers fought to score a statewide minimum wage! and don't forget that lyft contributed $10,000 to all of mpls this year to reelect mayor frey and get a city council allied with him. they are making moves

Wild turkey next to bus shelter

Transit:
Frequency is Freedom.
@metrotransitmn.bsky.social

Wrought iron fencing blocking sidewalk under Hiawatha Ave overpass in Minneapolis with “sidewalk closed” sign and litter on ground

Welcome to White Earth Nation. Thanks MnDOT, Mpls, Hennepin County.

Where there’s a will (@ward6.minneapolismn.gov), there’s a way (@mndot.mn.gov 💰).

This is the Way.
~ @chrisjohnmeyer.bsky.social

Please listen, @minneapolismn.gov

Walking one block from the Mpls Franklin Ave LRT Station to the Mpls Franklin Station LRT Station renovation open house. 🚷🚊
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 Came here to say the same.

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Induced Demand.
If you build it they will come.
Just like highway expansion.

Let's make downtown Minneapolis more kid-friendly - MinnPost The city's 2035 Plan outlines a smart and ambitious strategy for downtown, except when it comes to kids. Here's how to do better.

Making downtown "kid friendly" starts with reducing traffic speeds down below 20 miles per hour. www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

Opinion | A vibrant downtown needs places for people to sit A lack of public seating disproportionately impacts older adults and people with disabilities, who may need more frequent rest as they navigate the city, Elizabeth Abramson writes.

"A lack of public seating disproportionately impacts older adults and people with disabilities, who may need more frequent rest as they navigate the city," Elizabeth Abramson writes.

Another eye opening, jaw dropping, mask grabbing episode.

Can we at least save our kids?

Pennies on the dollar for cleaner, safer air in schools, our homes.

Council member Molly Coleman speaking in the met council chambers

We welcomed @mollycoleman.bsky.social to the Transportation Advisory Board today! It’s been great serving on this regional board with so many amazing community leaders. Today we’re voting on how hundreds of millions of regional transportation spending will be allocated for the next 5 years 🚌🚲

Big Rail. Monopolistic. Virtually unchecked power governed by antiquated, century old laws.

Congrats Mpls! The city's achievement is not just about cycling, it's about creating a more inclusive, accessible, affordable, &safer city.

District 61a is lucky to be home to recent upgrades incl. on Hennepin Ave in Downtown & Uptown & on Dunwoody Ave! Great progress & still more room to improve.

Closeup shot of a knobby bike tire with carbide-tipped metal studs on the two outer rows of knobs. The bike is on a blue Park Tools bike stand in the entryway to a residence.

Time to get the snow-tires on your vehicles folks.

Taking the whole lane ✔️
Distracted (singing) ✔️
No helmets ✔️
No lights ✔️
No reflective vests ✔️
Riding in a pack ✔️

The textbook radical anti-car cyclists our culture despises.

The coveted 2x4 and sharpie award 🏆 🏘️ 🌎

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2 trees along Minnehaha Creek 1/2 chewed by beavers and cut off at the last minute, one newer than the other. A 3rd tree in the distance has new beaver marks

BREAKING: After the Park Board prevented the beavers from successfully felling a tree last year, then again this year, they (the beavers) have started Phase III. May the wind be at your back, little fellas.

sepia toned portrait of Loring in 1900 when he was President of the Minneapolis Park Board, Minnesota Historical Society.

I rarely do births for #OnThisDay, but this one is special:
Nov 13, 1833: "Father of Minneapolis Parks" Charles M. Loring is born. In the 1880s he begins acquiring the city's lakes and shorelines, and along with Horace Cleveland creates the finest public urban park system in the United States.

Obligatory northern lights pic.
Little Beach, Lake Nokomis, Minneapolis