Lars Negstad

Melvin pissed off rich people, Frey didn’t. The winner in St. Paul was closer to the political center than the final challenger in Minneapolis.

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.

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Team Aurin runs into Michael Wilson in the Hiawatha neighborhood on the way to the ballot box

Aurin Chowdhury casts her vote in the 2025 Minneapolis municipal election

Aurin Chowdhury casts her vote in the 2025 Minneapolis municipal election

Aurin Chowdhury casts her vote in the 2025 Minneapolis municipal election

On my ballot this morning, I ranked @amberforparks.bsky.social, @olsenforparks.bsky.social, @michaelforparks.bsky.social for Park Board At-Large,

and @kayforparks.bsky.social for Park Board District 5!

I voted for @ehbforbet.bsky.social #1 & Steve Brandt #2 for the Board of Estimate and Taxation.

#79 in 12-5 at 8:08am

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Private equity firms are snapping up mobile home parks − and driving out the residents who can least afford to lose them For residents who can’t afford to move, rising lot rents can mean losing everything.

Private equity firms are snapping up mobile home parks − and driving out the residents who can least afford to lose them theconversation.com/private-equi...

Book cover reading "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" by Ray D. Madoff

I think most people agree we need to Tax the Rich!

Read this book to better understand why & how.
TL;DR: 1) tax inheritances & gifts as income; 2) reform philanthropy by enforcing payout rules; 3) limit charitable tax benefits of capital gains — ie align rules so same applies to wealth as income

Billionaires in the US now hold $7.6 trillion in wealth, an increase of almost $5 trillion in less than eight years.

Trump posts his worst-ever net approval rating in a CNN poll this morning, 37% to 63% (-26) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Who is Eric Harris Bernstein, and Why is He Making the Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation Race so Much Fun?  - Racket A creative campaign has put the spotlight on a down-ballot race.

Who is Eric Harris Bernstein, and Why is He Making the Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation Race so Much Fun?  - racketmn.com/who-is-eric-...

4 Jack o lanterns on a wet front stoop

Happy Halloween!

Private equity firms are buying manufactured home parks and jacking up the rent. Over 180,000 Minnesotans live in these homes, and they’re organizing to fight back. Give this clip a watch and tell your legislators to support the Manufactured Home Residents Bill of Rights!

CBS News Minnesota Watch our local, live news stream free 24/7.

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bone spurs must've healed up by now

This is a piece of the Mamdani campaign that I think is really underdiscussed—that in a moment of terror and despair, his premise is that standing up against fascism can be joyous.

Overheard in the kitchen, as my teenaged daughter makes lunch and MPR is playing clips from Mpls mayor’s debate:

“Is this Frey? He sounds like a dude from Friday Night Lights”

Les Mis sequel in the works

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

Minneapolis needs a mayor capable of developing strong working relationships with other elected officials serving the city. Especially in these uncertain times. After 8 years in office, Jacob Frey has no endorsements from the Mpls legislative delegation or county commissioners serving the city.

Minneapolis deserves a mayor who doesn’t mislead us about policing. My heart still aches for Amir Locke & his family. Four years ago, Jacob Frey claimed to have ended no-knock warrants. He didn’t. And an innocent man then lost his life during the execution of a no-knock warrant.

Talking With Erica Chenoweth Civil resistance: Does it work, and when?

Worth a read *(or watch). Krugman talking with Chenoweth. "Civil resistance: Does it work, and when?" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...

Woman in a clerical collar and stole holding a hand lettered sign reading: “Dear Kristi Noem, You are a beloved child of God and we are VERY DISAPPOINTED in your behavior. Call me if you’d like to talk. Seriously. -Pastor KG (Your people have my number)”

Oh dang

3) Grove said the paper loses 20 percent of print subs a year. He also said print subscribers were the “most loyal.” So how many digital subs does the paper lose a year, and why would you deprioritize your most loyal readers (unless you fundamentally view them with contempt)?

How about a press conference made up of Democratic leadership near the White House with the demolished East Wing in the background, talking about the government shutdown and Trump's warped priorities and demolition of public goods, including not just the East Wing but health care and so much else?

Olson: Hope Hoffman’s 911 call raises questions about police response to lawmaker shootings From columnist Rochelle Olson: "The haunting question: Why weren’t the Hortmans warned?"

We deserve answers.

"By the time Brooklyn Park police pulled up to the Hortmans’ home, the assassin was at their door and the deadly shootings were underway. Why was no one dispatched to their house sooner?"
www.startribune.com/olson-hope-h...

Who even is this platner

Canvas, the course management platform used by my university (and many others), has been down all day due to the AWS outage. It has prompted some good discussions about how much critical infrastructure is now outsourced to a few companies.

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

The huge size of the Minneapolis #NoKings march is hard to depict because it's circling 20 blocks of the central downtown core. This is the front when the back was still over at US Bank stadium and hadn't started moving yet.

States Jostle Over $50B Rural Health Fund as Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Trigger Scramble - KFF Health News States are battling for their piece of $50 billion in federal rural health funding, but it’s not just hospitals vying for the money. Tech startups and policy demands are raising the stakes as Medicaid...

Trump's "Big Beautiful" Law included a $50B rural health fund, added at last minute to win votes from Rs who worried Medicaid cuts would hurt rural hospitals
Much of this "rural health fund" $ is instead being awarded on things like whether states cut food aid and add the Presidential Fitness Test