Peter Schmitt

It has been a busy week in our household! Katie was biking herself up until the day before her appointment. I was happy to be able to pilot her and our little Hansi both ways. We have also taken him on the bus for a few follow up appointments. I love living in a city and having options!

My heart

This dude sucks.

i’m at minneapolis college for a town hall for SD61 with sen scott dibble and reps jamie long and katie jones. good turnout here for a snowy night! and katie biked here! she is having a baby any day!

This is our first kid so you’ve definitely got us beat, but she is still biking at 37.5 weeks and biked to this event. I will be biking her to the hospital to give birth whenever that happens!

rep katie jones is pregnant and having a baby in two weeks. and she is standing on a chair at her campaign for 61A reelection and session launch event at taberna tonight!

@katiejonesmpls.bsky.social

a man stands at a podium in front of a sign that says mission accomplished on it ALT: a man stands at a podium in front of a sign that says mission accomplished on it

Tom Homan speech: licking boots and being a piece of shit on behalf of a shitty president.

Fuck yes

This is so fucked up.

Just rampant stupidity, pettiness, and evil. Can’t wait for him to be gone in every way.

Fuck this admin in so many aspects. Just so much harm on so many fronts.

I’m working my way through Discworld and this has been so irritating. Used to be able to get the basic paperback for $8-9 and I’m now stuck with the trade ones for $16.

One ridiculous moment that I forgot: Rucker used his resolution discussion time to direct shit on Olsen and say that Olsen disenfranchised and marginalized him. And then said that Olsen’s agenda and resolution were redlining and segregating the north side. It was sad.

The resolution technically doesn’t move the Mall plan forward, but rather it directs staff to try to coordinate with Met Council on what is possible to reincorporate. TBD on the outcome.

This saga is so old that commenters tried to say it happened during Covid and I had to point out that only the master plan was passed in early Covid (fall 2020), while the man CAC work and engagement happened in 2018-2019.

Anyway, tons of disingenuous arguments across the board. Credit to Abene and Rucker for a good strategy that thankfully didn’t work out. Credit to the rest of the park board for not being bullied and taking rational, incremental, and fiscally responsible steps.

Garcia asked a good question to Rucker on whether this would be any different to safety from an already approved event closure. Rucker indicated it would be worse bc they might not have keys to the gate or the locks might change. (This would be such an easy problem to solve but he lacks imagination)

Garcia tried to calm the room down and recenter and Flowers was having none of it. Just rant after rant about how open parkways are redlining, full segregation measures stopping the black community from using the park. Some comments spilled into traffic concerns and needing a thoroughfare

The riled up crowd just kept calling Olsen racist and saying only the whites want open parkways. They did turn on Garcia and Moran at one point and seems to infer that they had betrayed the immigrant community? Frederick was accused of showing acted rage (as in she is an actress, I guess?)

Abene and Rucker were smart to make their amendments for each resolution be similar (waste time and have a CAC) so commenters could shoehorn comments to address both. There was clearly 0 understanding that the main thing about resolution was to purchase gates for efficiency and get public feedback

I attended the meeting to speak in support of the mall. Can confirm it was a very unruly meeting. Erlandson wasn’t there but his spirit was. Al Flowers was a menace and should had been removed after getting in Chris Meyers’ face.

If only the vast resources sitting in RTO queues were allowed to actually move forward and come online…

The women’s teams have been so so so much better at this than the men’s teams.

The whole interview is worth it

Yesssssss

Now make it 10 minutes (or less) all day, let it ticket cars parked in the bus line, and make the bus lane 24/7 (or bare minimum 6am-10pm)

There was a very funny glitch on the espn app for this one. Ant with RANGE.

I am sadly out of town for work for this meeting, but please write to your park board commissioners to bring back the Mall Park. Attend if you can! Don’t let a group of busy bodies misrepresent the ages of process we went through to get that park planned. It is a free park! We should want that!

What if we just sing the chorus from Gives you Hell by All American Rejects? Tough because I like that band but ICE really are American rejects.

Is this anything?

Shot to the face
And you're to blame
ICE gives us
A bad name

I think we need more soccer style chants at ICE protests and actions.

An easy starting point:

You gassed a baby
You gassed a baby
You sick fucks
You gassed a baby