Eric Harris Bernstein

Here are some pics. If you took it, I will pay any ransom!

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When Chet Wedgely and I came together to form this partnership, we asked “how can we create a fun community environment, while also raising awareness of Eric’s stolen 2006 Chevy Suburban?”

That was the inspiration for my sponsorship of the Wedge LIVE’s first annual Float Fest.

Wedge LIVE Float Fest is also sponsored by Eric's stolen 2006 Chevy Suburban. It's blue but also looks kinda green in the sunlight. Have you seen Eric's Suburban? Let him know. @ehbinmn.bsky.social

Disclaimer: Lived here 5 years and experienced almost zero property crime. Having said that…

My beloved 2006 Chevy Suburban was seemingly stolen (???) from 35th & Grand in South Minneapolis. Please keep an eye out! Description in pics.

P.S. Yes, I own a massive SUV but I don’t drive it very much!

How Driving Less Benefits Us Driving less provides personal benefits and societal ones. Less rushing means a more involved day-to-day.

"The faster you can get around, the more you need to. When you use a car, you'll whiz around from suburb to suburb, appointment to appointment...adding things to your life that don’t actually fit."

Nice reflection on cars, capitalism, and modern life:
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Good thoughts on outsourcing public safety.

Instead of asking our experts to study, design, and implement good policies, we outsource to avoid liability. But you can't really avoid responsibility because we still live with the consequences. And then we never learn how to do things.

This is a helluva metaphor.

I’d like a functional, trustworthy police force.

But reality is police don’t solve crimes, won’t provide behavioral response, and won’t even save you amidst the violent emergencies they’re ostensibly geared for. Plus millions in fraudulent overtime?

If you’re not for deep reform you’re a fool.

Lord forgive me for my sins, I have argued with Will Stancil on the internet

Will gets 25 likes in four minutes on this nitpicky thread about the city convention but *I’m* the one rolling with “you guys.”

The nerve!

Why is it more legitimate to throw out 80%? Especially when that’s exactly what the 20% want.

But more importantly who is “you guys”??? I’m not the one with tens of thousands of followers liking every post!

This is what I said to Will in DM:

If no interested party had any agency over lost votes and we don’t know the direction of the bias it doesn’t seem objectively more fair to shut off the process entirely.

Will is constantly punching left at a vague concept of “the left” that seems to be some mythical amalgam of people he doesn’t like, feels victimized by, or imagines entirely. It’s a weak straw man.

I’m a Stancil apologist in the sense that I think he’s smart and makes some good points.

But this is the thing he does I object to most. The “Minneapolis left” isn’t saying it’s harmless to throw out votes; Fateh, Jazz, and Davis are saying that throwing out the whole convention is worse.

What are you implying when you say “probably wasn’t random”?

Yes but anyone could have gained or lost ground. It is an unfortunate circumstance but not objectively more fair to void all results based on the possibility of a different outcome.

You can say you think it was the wrong call but your attempt at total deligitimization is unfair and seems bad faith.

If the text was sent at 9:16 a walkout was in motion well before the vote on a rules change. Text is not the only way a campaign organizes delegates at a convention.

Not one more vote but a larger share of the total. Possible he picks it up but not the same as any one additional vote getting him over the line. I assume you understand that?

A minority of participants quit in the middle and wanted the refs to call no contest. The majority stayed to have their voices heard.

For Will to say that negating their votes would have been more democratic while that outcome was Frey’s stated goal from the beginning is totally disingenuous.

Also: Frey campaign might have been able to block the badge vote if they stayed in the room. But because they walked out, Fateh’s supermajority was clear. Then the quorum strategy failed.

I wish it had gone smoother bc Fateh was also hurt by the voting issues, but this really is just sour grapes.

Will’s point rests on the unfounded assumption that a potential miscount favored one candidate over others, which conveniently supports his preferred outcome. Given that a miscount was likely random, allowing it to block endorsement is just tyranny of the 33% instead of the 60%. Why is that better?

Minneapolis went and made a whole downtown without trees and then wonders why no one wants to spend time there when their boss doesn’t make them

Not great

Thanks to everyone who liked and shared. Now get in these comments and do battle! 😆

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Walz administration faces more scrutiny as FBI investigates fraud in another state program The issue could be a vulnerability for the DFL governor if he decides to run for re-election next year.

Oh, look — more fraud enabled by the outsourcing of public services.
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Unfortunately from the replies I fear we are still stuck on, “but Venezuela!” 😩😆

Thank you, David! Means a ton coming from you 🫡

Opinion | Democratic socialists deserve a seat at the table "Fateh, like New York’s Mamdani, is a compelling candidate gaining steam. Win or lose, their campaigns will show that the term democratic socialist is just another way of describing someone who wants ...

With a political status quo as bleak as ours, we should welcome democratic socialists.
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HBD,
EHB