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Dan Weinand

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Software engineer. AI skeptic. One-time DFL party officer and runner of endorsement convention campaigns. Back in Minneapolis and DFL politics after a decade away out of state.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
People saying what Amy Klobuchar was doing here looked tame do not understand the body language, tone, and affect of Minnesotans. She basically tarred and feathered this man in the town square while cackling with glee
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the thing about the "you're out of touch if you haven't heard this song" discourse is that radio has been dead for well over a decade. it's extremely normal to listen to a lot of music but still never hear the songs at the top of the charts.
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 24/09/2026
"MPD spending and overspending is the predominant pressure on our property tax growth... The question is are we doing to do things differently, are we going to turn a corner here... and do more to hold department accountable on the budget issue." youtu.be/BCLk4dzCLZc?...
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Minneapolis mayor responds to Minneapolis Board of Taxation flagging MPD overspending
Mayor Jacob Frey responded after leaders from the Board of Estimate and Taxation and the Park Board president raised concerns about Minneapolis Police Department spending
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 22/09/2026
College athletes deserve a strong voice on the job to determine the conditions of their work in a union. But as written, the Protect College Sports Act would deny college athletes these rights. Athletes deserve better than this union-busting bill.
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Exclusive: Murphy pushes for athlete unionization rights in college sports bill
The college sports bill has been splitting Senate Democrats.
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As your Attorney General, I’ve won tough fights to stop fraud, lower your costs, and put money back in your pockets. My opponent is running to be Trump’s lawyer. I’m running to make sure you can afford your life. That's what this race is all about.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/09/2026
There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 14/09/2026
Classic Frey governance. Only his top cheerleaders despite touting “multiple perspectives,“ zero representation from the 44% who didn’t vote for him, even tho they are policed as much if not more heavily. Zero-sum is how he wins, but why his governance falters. www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2026/se...
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Minneapolis Police Chief search advances as candidate review begins
More than a dozen internal and external people have applied, and community engagement continues as the City prepares for interviews.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
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1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
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 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Dan Weinand @danweinand.com · 12/09/2026
For all the people who thought Peggy was unelectable because the GOP would attack her for fraud, I never heard folks say the same about Amy. And yet almost every ad I see is attacking Amy for fraud. It’s almost like the GOP was always going to attack every DFLer on those lines.
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Dan Weinand @danweinand.com · 11/09/2026
As someone who came of age in the aftermath of 9/11. The revisionism of that time as the good old days and George W Bush as a sensible President is maddening. There is a straight red line between the madness of that time and today.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hard to believe that people STILL make fun of Al Gore for saying "during my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet" by which he meant he passed funding to create it (a thing he actually did.)
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too
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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/09/2026
Americans Take Day Off From Looking For Work theonion.com/americans-take-day-off…
Americans Take Day Off From Looking For Work
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is how Fetterman responded to a proposed meeting with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) because they were worried about Medicaid cuts, holy shit this guy needs to resign tonight
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton was universally loved because she was a rich person who knew what it was like to be poor, stayed down to earth, and spent her life giving back to others who were less fortunate. The oligarchs who don’t understand why everyone hates them probably won’t learn from this. But they should
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Is Flock the only mass surveillance tool/network that people should be worried about? No. But it is an entry point for people from all walks of life to the fight against mass surveillance and I'm glad people are paying attention and taking action.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026
For many years I wondered, "how bad will Republicans have to get before the media/political establishment in the US gets over its endless obsession with scolding & tone policing the left?" I think at this point we have to acknowledge that the answer is: never. Literally never.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 30/08/2026
behavior like this is genuinely disturbing. like this will obviously just be changed back day 1 after trumps regime is over but its just deeply sad, not even demoralizing, just pathetic
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Would really love to see Republicans asked whether they are accepting support from someone who said [spin the dial, choose anything Elon has said in the last 24 hours] and who personally dismantled, among other things, our national food safety apparatus.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
among many other things I would like to see dems campaigning on, it should be made clear to companies that profit from deals like this that any public lands or resources given to them by trump will be immediately nationalized with appropriate punitive fines
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I could start a feed of stories about cops using flock to stalk and terrorize current and former partners and I would never run out of material. www.404media.co/florida-depu...
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Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You can just say "No, shut up." You can. It really is that simple. He can't make you.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
God help the GOP if "Nazi infiltration of the Republican Party" ever becomes an obsessive media discourse object the same way "antisemitism on the left" has. Even the world's laziest reporter could find three of these guys on every campaign. It'll be shooting gallery.
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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Michael and I had a pretty sharp conversation (natch) about the need for user controls over habituating features and how the Settlement isn't that and y'all should read it.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Once again, neither Woke 1 nor Woke 2 is a thing that actually exists & we don’t have to keep doing this thing where everything in American political discourse happens entirely on the talking point frames of the far right authoritarian party: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 25/08/2026
Commentary from our editor: Minnesotans have been in the fight of our lives against the Trump administration, which has to rank among the most lawless in American history. It wouldn’t make any sense to elect a Trump ally as Minnesota’s chief legal officer.
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Attorney general race: Why would we enlist a Trump ally in our fight against Trump? • Minnesota Reformer
Federal immigration officers on the scene where prosecutors say ICE agent Christian Castro shot a man without justification Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in north Minneapolis. Attorney General Keith Ellis...
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Fossilized Tree Sap @amberrl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I am once again begging people to realize that elections have consequences. If Klob loses, she will keep her senate seat and go on with her life. Meanwhile, Demuth will make life in Minnesota a living hell for all of us. She will undo all of the progress we’ve made.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This spectacular new @nerd4cities.bsky.social video about Minneapolis dropped an hour ago, no notes. Thanks Ray! youtu.be/J1qNbIbD4ro?...
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Is Minneapolis Too Nice for Its Own Good?
YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd
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Dan Weinand @danweinand.com · 12/08/2026
The media kept trying to force this race into the national DSA outsider vs centrist insider lense, but that was always a misread. Peggy’s a mainstream progressive who’s been in and around DFL politics for over 20 years. That plus all the anti ice energy and mobilization many folks discounted.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“Silly” is a good way to put it! There were excesses in 2020 but they were mostly low-stakes efforts by well-intentioned people to address real injustices. The excesses of the right during the same era were far more harmful. The reckoning we need now is about how elites lost sight of that.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Tangentially, I feel the media has tried to reduce the Senate race to centrist vs. progressive, but Peggy has held statewide office for 8 years. Her job requires her to travel all over the state to meet people and support Democratic candidates. The relationships have been built over a long time.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 12/08/2026
2 things I hope to read in the media (but what are the odds): - The *incredible* work the resistance (Indivisible, the signal chats, the whole fuck-ICE grassroots) did for Peggy. - Covering Tafoya like the nut she is instead of a moderate-feinting celebrity. Getting her going you’ll see the nuttery.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/08/2026
Peggy Flanagan has the endorsement of the DFL. Angie Craig has
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Dan Weinand @danweinand.com · 09/08/2026
Consider myself a Sewer Socialist that shares the belief that technology can be used directly by government to make people’s lives better. pluralistic.net/2026/08/08/f...
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Pluralistic: Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
One of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential.
Sam Altman: cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:

connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.

every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Make no mistake here. This is Trump objectively taking the side of Iran, a nation we are currently at war with, over the Americans in Minnesota because he hates the governor and the fact that a majority of voters there did not vote for him
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 31/07/2026
So basically an adversary could attack any blue state and Trump wont care because he doesn't see himself as the President of the "United States" Without a doubt the most worst president we've ever had. Anti-republic, anti-democratic, anti-constitutional just devoid of basic dignity
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is absolutely insane, imagine if a progressive elected official was refusing to support Haley Stevens if she won! You’d never hear the end of it. Centrists are the ones who are dividing the Democratic Party with their Islamophobia and purity tests.
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