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Connor Stratton @connormstratton.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Today at 1230!
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zero burn coalition @zeroburncoalition.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
They have staff reports and industry talking points. We have experts and community. Join us today at 12:30pm at the Hennepin County Govt. Center and take a stand for the #FreedomToBreathe clean air: secure.everyaction.com/335l1vTHYEqi...
Screenshot of a Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Health + Wellness article headlined "Clinicians, Scientists Call for Closure of Hennepin Energy Recovery Center by 2027." The subhead states that scientists, clinicians, and Zero Burn Coalition members made the case at the Minneapolis American Indian Center that HERC's 30-year-old permit is dangerously outdated and the community cannot wait until 2040 for closure.Screenshot of a Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder opinion piece headlined "An open letter to Hennepin County Commissioner Angela Conley," bylined by Stephani Maari Booker, dated April 21, 2026. The subhead describes Booker as a Minneapolis writer and environmental advocate calling on Commissioner Conley to honor her environmental justice promises and work with the community to close the HERC trash burner.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 12/11/2025
my life in ward 7 has been 13 years of lisa goodman, 2 years of katie cashman, next up: 4 years of something worse than goodman: elizabeth shaffer fuck it. i have no plans to leave this ward so i joined DSA lmao. RADICALIZED
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Connor Stratton @connormstratton.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Let’s elect Frey this November! DFL giving very MAGA stop the steal vibes 👀
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Robin for Ward 2 @robin4mpls.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Minneapolis is about to get its own Socialist Mayor. I love that for us ❤️✊🏾
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Connor Stratton @connormstratton.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
lfg!!
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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 15/05/2025
While the federal government seeks to mass deport our neighbors, legislative leaders and Gov. Walz have struck a deal to end state health coverage for undocumented adults. This is capitulation, at a time when state and local support for people at risk from the Trump Administration is most crucial.
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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 24/03/2025
With President Trump and Elon Musk’s onslaught against the federal government, the Democratic Party establishment is failing to fill the role of an opposition party. We know we must build beyond the status quo to withstand the catastrophic actions at the federal level.
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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 24/03/2025
We are proud to endorse Cole Hanson (@coleforward4.bsky.social) in the special election to St. Paul City Council Ward 4!
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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 24/03/2025
We are proud to endorse Michael Wilson (@michaelforparks.bsky.social) for election to Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board At-Large!
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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 24/03/2025
We are proud to endorse Adam Schneider (@adamformplsparks.bsky.social) for election to Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board At-Large!
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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 24/03/2025
We are proud to endorse Council Member Aisha Chughtai (@aishaforward10.com) for re-election to Minneapolis City Council Ward 10!
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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 24/03/2025
We are proud to endorse Council Member Jason Chavez (@jchavezmpls.bsky.social) for re-election to Minneapolis City Council Ward 9!
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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 24/03/2025
We are proud to endorse Soren Stevenson (@sorenwithward8.bsky.social) for election to Minneapolis City Council Ward 8!
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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 24/03/2025
We are proud to endorse Council Member Robin Wonsley (@robinformpls.com) for re-election to Minneapolis City Council Ward 2!
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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 24/03/2025
We are proud to endorse Senator Omar Fateh (@omarfatehmn.com) for Minneapolis Mayor!
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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 24/03/2025
TCDSA is proud to announce our 2025 general election endorsements for Minneapolis Mayor, Minneapolis City Council, and Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, as well as the Saint Paul City Council Ward 4 special election!
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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 24/03/2025
I’m excited to be endorsed by @twincitiesdsa.bsky.social. Our opponents say our vision for Minneapolis is extreme, but fighting for a city that works for everyone is not extreme. My goal is to implement people-focused, transformative solutions — that’s what Minneapolis residents deserve.
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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 12/03/2025
buff.ly/WaUiwRD "We need a city that will stand with residents against what is essentially a Trump-Musk administration. Frey, like the out-of-touch Democratic establishment he represents, has proven himself unwilling and unable to do the job."
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Stand aside, Frey: Our multiracial, working-class community drives commonsense progress in Minneapolis
Here’s what Twin Cities Democratic Socialists of America supports and what those who share our vision have achieved.
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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 10/03/2025
Hennepin County Commissioners are refusing to honor their commitment to shut down the HERC. We must make them. Join our fight by completing this interest form: tinyurl.com/tcdsa-herc
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is such great news. For so long Amazon has had a chokehold on ebooks. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...
nytimes.com
Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books
Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.
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Joe Vital @joevital.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Wear masks indoors fam.
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Connor Stratton @connormstratton.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Read this !! 🔥
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 18/01/2025
The city of Minneapolis produced this map during a recent presentation about the fate of the garbage burner. I took a moment, laid the map over I-94 and had a light bulb moment. Then I shouted "wait, hold on guys I found the source of the cancer!" But nobody listens.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 18/01/2025
not me living in one of the second darkest regions the last 14 years and then getting cancer before 40 🥲 i should really be milking this for political goals shouldn’t i
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 18/01/2025
How local TV covers I-94 ➡️A big decision that will impact commuters ➡️What this could mean for "a whole lot of drivers." ➡️120,000 people travel this busy stretch every day. No mention of people living within poisoning distance of 94, higher asthma rates, lifespans cut short.
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Connor Stratton @connormstratton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I have great respect for Andrew Hazzard at @sahanjournal.bsky.social, esp. for his great coverage of the Smith Foundry and Roof Depot, which is why I'm disappointed in this piece. There's no mention of the 100+ people who testified today, who overwhelmingly favored keeping the at-grade boulevard.
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MaryMM @marymm.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The informed and impassioned community testimony at today's #RethinkingI94 meeting is inspiring and tragic. People point to LA fires and the climate, about their children being poisoned just by living where they do, & about being lied to and being stripped of their agency by @mndot.bsky.social.
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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Listening to people speak in support of #RethinkingI94 is just really energizing. Thanks for sharing, everyone.
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Connor Stratton @connormstratton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
thread of all threads!
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
@connormstratton.bsky.social on hopes, as a soon to be parent, for MnDOT to take climate seriously “Please change your mind, keep the At-grade options, and stop trying to make the world worse.”
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Finally, something good: long, great comment from Angela Conley, opening w the fact that an apology normally indicates that you won't just go and do the exact same thing again But a lot of other content, details about how the freeway's segregation & redlining are still visible throughout the Cities
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Former Commissioner Charlie Zelle--who, to his credit, apologized for this "atrocity" (his words!) of a freeway--is now apologizing for MnDOT in a diff way, assuring us that they'll kick off a 2-yr process to figure out how to "mitigate" the freeway's harms How about DON'T REBUILD IT #BetterThan94
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
When I say "here," let me be clear. MnDOT was so alarmed by turnout at previous meetings that this one is Zoom only. However, this has not stopped a bunch of us--incl some of the elected officials on the committee mtg today--from convening our own mtg I'm just hoping I win the bingo #BetterThan94
A "MnDOT Bingo" card
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
(She's now lecturing us preemptively about how she hopes we'll have a "respectful dialogue," though she knows some people will be "disappointed." It's bad enough you want to keep poisoning my kid; you don't need to be condescending about it)
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I’ll be live…skeeting? the mtg where MnDOT announces its intention to rebuild, for the next 3/4-century, a freeway whose construction through the heart of our cities was an acknowledged, historic mistake. I’m here w many outraged others & I’ve got my signs at the ready #RethinkingI94 #BetterThan94
Sign reading “Another freeway century = climate denial”Sign reading 
“My kid deserves clean air
We want better than I-94!”
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Connor Stratton @connormstratton.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Read this scathing analysis by @twincitiesdsa.bsky.social, @ourstreetsmn.org, & MN Communities over Highways Coalition of @mndot.bsky.social's plan to cut the boulevard option re: 94: twincitiesdsa.org/2025/01/just... then tell MnDot what you think on friday! wsbeng.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Just Vibes: Evaluating MnDOT’s Rethinking I-94 Alternative Scores
MnDOT is “confident in their analysis”. They shouldn’t be. Report authored by Mateo Frumholtz in collaboration with TCDSA, Our Streets, and the Minnesota Communities over Highways Coalition.  …
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Have you thought to yourself, “I wish I understood how the MN Dept of Transport decided to remove from consideration the seemingly most popular option —freeway removal — and whether their reasoning was abjectly, laughably bad”? Have I got a report for you! twincitiesdsa.org/2025/01/just...
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Just Vibes: Evaluating MnDOT’s Rethinking I-94 Alternative Scores
MnDOT is “confident in their analysis”. They shouldn’t be. Report authored by Mateo Frumholtz in collaboration with TCDSA, Our Streets, and the Minnesota Communities over Highways Coalition.  Just …
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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 10/01/2025
MnDOT will have no idea what hit them (probably because they don’t know what trains are).
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 10/01/2025
Press release would've been more exciting if it emphasized: 1. Virtual meeting bc MnDOT couldn't handle how many showed at last in-person meeting 2. People will stand in background of elected officials' webcams (Wonsley, Fateh, Osman), waving hands like tourists on Today show
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zero burn coalition @zeroburncoalition.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
2024 was a big year for communities working to transform toxic industries throughout #Minneapolis... www.minnpost.com/metro/2024/1... @minnpost.bsky.social
minnpost.com
The Twin Cities 2024 news highlights you likely already forgot about
From rideshare rates to major flooding to Twin Cities politics, here’s a look back at some of the top 2024 news stories.
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Connor Stratton @connormstratton.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Wicked is good lol 🥹. there's also a whole environmental angle I forgot. The "Great Drought" origin myth has Dust Bowl link & plot of scapegoating/caging animals shows danger of trying to sever ourselves from nature. This plus the main tale about racism and power could make it EJ, but not sure yet.
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freecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
this is so perfect youve gotta think it was intentional
One former Cigna executive recalled how the US health insurer used to frequently face threats when claims were denied. “We’d have times when you’d deny proton laser therapy for a kid with seizures and the parent would freak out,” said the former executive.

Another industry executive said: “What’s most disturbing is the ability of people to hide behind their keyboards and lose their humanity.”
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Connor Stratton @connormstratton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
i do feel like maybe there's a renewed possibility of twin cities organizing on here, across groups etc. there's some kind of visioning / idea vibing that could happen. or I could just use it to make personal gripes adjacent to the spectacular atomized violences of late capitalism
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Connor Stratton @connormstratton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
idk about this app but would love to complain on it
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Connor Stratton @connormstratton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
i do all this math to figure out the best insurance plan and it's like picking which knife will gouge slightly less efficiently
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Connor Stratton @connormstratton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
apropos of nothing today, health insurance is ... not working out
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
As I reported for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social last year, toxic silica dust is fueling a black lung crisis among young coal miners in Appalachia. This long-awaited new rule cuts the legal silica exposure limit *in half* and will save so many lives
Tweet from acting secretary of labor Julie Su: Today we’re fulfilling a promise to our nation’s miners by taking action to better protect them from the hazards of toxic silica dust. A new @MSHA_DOL final rule lowers the permissible exposure limit, among other requirements, to make sure all miners come home safe and healthy.
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Connor Stratton @connormstratton.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
is anyone caucusing tn in 61A or 62B and cares about EJ? dm me!
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William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸 @marxinhell.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
“My judgment, based on this going public, true or untrue, was I need to take the swiftest and boldest decision to show that as an agency we take this allegation seriously.” The opposite of taking the allegation seriously: sacking people on *zero* evidence was treated as an admission of guilt.
theguardian.com
UNRWA staff accused by Israel sacked without evidence, chief admits
Philippe Lazzarini says summary dismissal of nine employees was ‘reverse due process’ after Israel’s claims they aided Hamas attack
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