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SHOEGAZE COMMANDO @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1h

madame mayor, this is your lawyer calling, just wanted to say to that having a publicly-available two hour recorded conversation about a case that’s being actively litigated against you is a great idea and I wish that I’d thought of it sooner

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 3h

The “states’ rights” people in the past knew it was bullshit back then too, because slaver states wouldn’t let free states pass laws protecting self-emancipated people within their borders.

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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 14h

This isn't an attack on people who don't take transit, I guess. Maybe it sounds like it is? I understand most of the reasons people don't take transit (most; not all). And I am concerned for our society if cars continue to be the primary mode of getting around.

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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 14h

And a reminder that the reason the councilmembers were out and about is that today is Transit to Work Day! And I'm gonna say this--if you think that transit doesn't work for you because it adds time on to your commute to work and that rules it out--it adds time to mine too. To _everyone's_.

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 7h

More on today’s closed door from Ward 3:

Today, I voted, very reluctantly, in favor of Resolution 26-1659 to appoint the law firm Fisher Phillips as Special Counsel to represent Mayor Her in the lawsuit brought by Chief Henry against the Mayor and the City.
It is my understanding that state law creates a presumption that public employees, including the Mayor, will be indemnified and provided a legal defense in matters such as these unless there is a legal basis to deny that defense. Additionally, the City Attorney cannot represent the Mayor in this case because of the conflict of interest created by her role as both an appointee of the Mayor and a fact witness in the litigation.
Ordinarily, the determination of whether the City will indemnify and defend an employee is made by the City Attorney. However, because of this conflict, the City will retain an outside firm through action at our next council meeting to conduct an independent indemnification analysis and determine, through a quasi-judicial process, whether the Mayor is entitled to indemnification and defense by the City.
Until that determination is made, it is my understanding that the City must continue to comply with its obligations under state law.

Based on the legal advice provided to the Council, voting against this resolution could have exposed the City to additional legal risk by failing to meet those obligations. There is a process in place to determine whether the Mayor was acting within the scope of her official duties during the conduct that gave rise to this lawsuit, but that analysis will take time and could not be completed before this vote. We also have a timeline to respond to the lawsuit that we must comply with.
I am deeply disappointed by the situation we find ourselves in. As a councilmember, I have a responsibility to protect the City from legal risk, but I also have a responsibility to safeguard public resources and protect the City from unnecessary financial harm. I have serious reservations about whether this is an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars. I also have concerns about how this particular law firm was selected.
Like many residents, I am still waiting to see the full report from Resolute Law which I have formally requested. My colleagues and I were forced by legal timelines to make significant decisions without having access to all of the information we would have preferred to review. That is not how I make decisions, and it is not how the City should make decisions.

I know I am not alone in my frustration. More than 100 public comments on this resolution were overwhelmingly opposed to the City paying for the Mayor's legal defense. Our office continues to hear from constituents who are disappointed by the Mayor's alleged conduct and are asking questions that I am still unable to answer. The expectations of our community are not being met.
Trust in government depends on transparency, accountability, and confidence that public dollars are being spent in ways that reflect our shared values and priorities. Right now, many residents feel those standards are falling short.
I remain deeply frustrated by this situation. Our residents deserve better. Our city employees deserve better. And our City deserves better.
I will continue to closely oversee this developing matter and use the authority afforded to my office under the City Charter to pursue the transparency and accountability that residents expect and deserve. In the meantime, I will remain focused on serving Saint Paul and continuing the work of building the city our community deserves.

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sleepyhead 🔞 @sleepyhead.mindcontrol.fun · 8h

Not enough people have The Avalanches' Frontier Psychiatrist in their lives 💜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrn...

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 8h

Twin Cities governmental rivalry monkey paw keeps curling a finger until it's just a clenched fist punching us all in the face

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 15h

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Tinman - Beardo Weirdo Wimp @bcmfietser.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, so? This is just how we dress here in Minnesota in the winter. IO-Merino wool underlayer; flannel; fleece; outer shell.

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Tinman - Beardo Weirdo Wimp @bcmfietser.bsky.social · 11h

Gawddamn this site is bleak lately. Good thing my dish-drying rack game remains on-point. 😎

Dish drying rack piled high to overflowing with dishes including a large, Cobalt blue casserole dish and stainless steel pot and a silicone Melita style coffee filter holder balanced like a teetering crockery astride them both.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13h

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 13h

Musician Marc Bolan finds the Jeepster for his love: a Bickerton folding bicycle Happy #BicycleBirthday, Marc! September 30 ((1947-1977)

Photo of a man wearing a leopard-print outfit riding a Bickerton folding bicycle with a surprised expression. He has a guitar strapped to his back.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cycling Capote 📷Slim Aarons #BicycleBirthday Truman Capote September 30 (1924-1984)

Photo of writer Truman Capote in red trousers riding a bicycle with a red and white basket in the middle of a wide, mostly empty street.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Tinman - Beardo Weirdo Wimp @bcmfietser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe the real win was the women’s sports we watched along the way

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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026

“Upon reviewing the disciplinary action we took toward the seven Chi Phi brothers who allegedly gang-raped a student for over seven hours, we have concluded that the mandated two-page minimum on essays was woefully inadequate.” — Michael Kotlikoff, Cornell president

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Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future

ITHACA, NY—Acknowledging serious missteps in their handling of a 2024 campus sexual assault case, administrators at Cornell University vowed Tuesday that, going forward, rapists would be forced to wri...

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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Brad is great; and we need him in the legislature. Donate.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things." --Lech Wałęsa, Polish pro-democracy leader, president, Nobel Peace Peace Prize laureate, and e-bike rider Happy #BicycleBirthday, Lech! Born September 29, 1943

Photo of an elderly man riding an electric bike along a waterfront promenade.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MSP mainstream media market

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Jessica Shortall @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everyone watches women's sports, is my takeaway from this

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Jeremy Ward @jmichaelward.com · 29/09/2026

A 15 point spread is nowhere near enough.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 29/09/2026

The current widespread displeasure with MPD for mismanaging their budget was preceded by years of false claims from mindless police boosters that cops were starved of funding. It gave political cover for shoveling piles of money into a furnace as a proxy for safety.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

scrubbing through a youtube stream of the plaquemines parish council meeting because i REFUSE to get even a single email about saying it wrong. i rebuke you in advance!!!!

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never work with Graziella folding bikes — they will always upstage you. A beautiful couple... plus actress Anita Ekberg and her husband, actor Rik Van Nutter, warming up for a spin in Cannes, France in April 1968. #BicycleBirthday Anita Ekberg September 29 (1931-2015)

Photo of Anita Ekberg and Rick van Nutter canoodling with folding bikes in front of boats at a marina.

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Zeroisanumber @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Couldn't imagine living in a country like that. What a nightmare.

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Tinman - Beardo Weirdo Wimp @bcmfietser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As succinctly stated as it ever will be. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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Tinman - Beardo Weirdo Wimp @bcmfietser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m finally reading the Carl Hiaasen book a friend loaned me two years ago, “Squeeze Me” set largely in Palm Beach. In it he refers to a particular property there as Casa Bellicosa. 🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The language Kare11 is using is aggressively hostile and actively harmful, normalizing an ignorant and indefensible point of view. I don’t know if their editorial staff cares about that, but if you do, please contribute to an avalanche of emails and include this link in your response

styleguide.transjournalists.org

Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide

The Transgender Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a tool reporters, editors, and other journalists can use to improve news coverage of trans people and the stories that affect ...

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Tinman - Beardo Weirdo Wimp @bcmfietser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Chat, is it good when the lawyer has to threaten to bring in the sheriff to a public meeting to keep the peanut gallery in line?

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Assholes.

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Tinman - Beardo Weirdo Wimp @bcmfietser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Welp. Just check the date of manufacture on our two CO detectors. 3/8/96. 😳🫠

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Tinman - Beardo Weirdo Wimp @bcmfietser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As someone who paid $300 USD for a pair of Bose sound-cancelling earbuds more than 15yrs ago, I've been *waiting* to replace them because I simply *wont* do cordless earbuds. But I'm not convinced sound-canceling truly *works* for anything other than jet-engine noise, and I don't really fly anymore.

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Tinman - Beardo Weirdo Wimp @bcmfietser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do people not know this is how healthcare financing works in the US? Medicare reimburses lower for a given service so the provider makes up the diff by charging higher rates to those who can pay it through private insurance. See also Universities and foreign and out of state students.

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They committed crimes and were held accountable. That's what happens in a country with the rule of law. May we act as a nation of citizens in November to restore our democracy.

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Active Transportation Alliance @activetransportation.org · 25/09/2026

NITA Interactive Open House 10/14 from 3pm to 6pm. 225 S. Canal St Attendees are encouraged to "discuss pain points and future improvements, and learn more about what the Northern Illinois Transit Authority, CTA, Metra, and Pace have planned for regional transit in 2027 and beyond." Register below👇

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NITA: A Stronger Region Moves Together

Join NITA for an interactive public open house and share your ideas for the future of transit across the region.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thinking about how we are definitely going to see an escalation after the midterms, regardless of the result. I think November-January will be pivotal for US democracy and I hope everyone is connected with a local civic organization that takes the threat seriously.

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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reading through the comments on the @mndot.mn.gov feedback feedback site for the statewide bicycle plan is a shot of optimism I know we could all use on this Monday morning. Go read a few and then add yours. talk.dot.state.mn.us/statewide-bi...

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Public Comment

The draft Statewide Bicycle+ System Plan is now open for public comment. Minnesotans are invited to leave feedback on the draft plan through Friday, October 23rd, 2026.View the draft plan here before ...

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life." Suffragist and educator Frances Willard riding her bicycle, Gladys (because it made her glad). #BicycleBirthday September 28 (1839-1898)

Photo of a woman riding a bicycle on a country lane, circa 1890s.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I will vote for any presidential candidate who says this with their whole chest. The numbers are in, you don’t have to give anyone away!

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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Must feel amazing to be Stewie and to have been granted absolute immunity by the powers that be from being called for anything and to get everything always called in her favor. just totally jealous actually.

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Tinman - Beardo Weirdo Wimp @bcmfietser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This nonsense of interviewing the players *during* the game needs to fuck right off.

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Sarah @tahtah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 34 years — “. Robert Reich Amen And say it again

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