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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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You could argue that homelessness and crime are bigger structural issues beyond what a mayor could control. But we're talking basic city services! This is a mandate for someone (anyone?) to dramatically change the way we plan, build, and maintain our city. And address a lot of other issues as well!

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

General Sports was a retail shop in that location selling sporting goods for decades, it’s a nostalgia play

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...

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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million

"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 29/09/2026

It's kind of amazing how the driverless taxi debate can turn the city council's biggest hater of public transit (Pearll Warren) into someone who says of people without driver's licenses: "they still have to get around and go to places... it's choice, it's autonomy..."

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ah, too bad. whelp better close one precinct and bus the all the cops to other precincts 3-5 miles away

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

is there a celebration location at UMN?

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hashtag community engagement

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

MPS has scheduled its listening session for Edison HS pathway families, at Edison HS, literally during the Edison HS Homecoming Dance this Friday

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I‘ll be waiting for the big press conference where they reveal when the Green Line will return to 10 min frequency all day

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Metro Transit (Official) @metrotransitmn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We are excited to welcome you onboard the extension of the METRO Green Line beginning June 12, 2027! To learn more visit www.metrotransit.org/green-line

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the original sin: decision to build it fast and cheap by using the existing rail right of way rather than running it through transit supportive density (Hennepin) and having to deal with property impacts

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 25/09/2026

US isn’t taking climate change seriously when it comes to transport policy Other countries are demonstrating that they can (1) mode shift toward transit, walk, bike; (2) electrify; (3) densify. US failing on all fronts. Result is that US emissions from transport aren’t falling as they should

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Metro Transit (Official) @metrotransitmn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

10:28 AM Blue Line service update: Trains are not running between Fort Snelling and Franklin Ave station until later today due to a train/pedestrian collision at 46th St Station. Replacement bus service is running between the stations. Find boarding locations at www.metrotransit.org/routes-servi....

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a nice letter. the picture is of Pratt Community school, the last operating public school building in all of SE Mpls. It is proposed to be closed

Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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In 2012 the Minneapolis Foundation literally launched a program to try and destroy the Minneapolis public school district. The project was a secret for four years. It was called the Education Transformation Initiative

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thank you for your service, truly

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Climate Changed Induced Aseasonal Weather Dysphoria

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there are many other villains. my eternal hate to everyone who has worked so hard to destroy our public schools. but guess what! we’re still here…

Star Tribune assignment editors every two years like clockwork a fresh young face would be announced to cover MPS, coming from out of state with no context for what, behind the scenes, was a continuing story if not a Plan.

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Directors who passed the CDD in the teeth of the COVID pandemic, these cowardly souls obliterated school communities and pathways across the city, setting them up to fail and close. step 1 of the current step 2

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Dennis Cheesebrow consultant hired in 2017 to prepare what became the CDD. deeply ignorant of everything about Mpls and MPS, his software nonetheless found the optimized solution for routing bus service (fewer schools)

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RT Rybak and associates guided the local funding superstructure ensuring the current crisis came to fruition despite all the people power moving the other way. go read @roblevine82.bsky.social

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opt-out parents who won’t leave we get it, every kid needs something different and MPS didn’t work for you. fine! leave! why are you still coming to board meetings? you don’t even go here!

Edu Math / Budget Bros so many helpful white bloggers and posters telling us over the years more in sorrow than in anger that we can’t afford an actual public school system. be realistic

Edina Ed Graff hired as Supe under still unresolved cloud of scandal from Anchorage, he promptly enrolled his own kid in the suburbs and dedicated his time to financial mismanagement so as to avoid giving teachers a raise

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that crazy white investment banker Apartheid cosplayer you probably know who i am talking about

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Don Samuels our Little Geoffrey Canada famous for advocating to burn North High School down, he somehow also got elected to the School Board at one point

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Michelle Rhee glamorous face of the theory that humiliating principals and teachers would lead to miraculous gains in teat scores. still Waiting for Superman!

TFA / DFER Liberal institutions dedicated to the proposition that a 22 year old with three weeks of training could teach kids better than credentialed instructors (or, ran a decade-long reverse salt flooding MPS staff with ideological allies)

Bernadeia Johnson wine grandma fond of spellcheck-proof tweeting after her usefulness as Supe ran out

Beth Hawkins the frenzied bard of anti-unionism and public school hate for many years at MinnPost, propagandist for charters and official at one which borrowed $millions in municipal bonds on the city’s good credit

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Villain thread lots of people were mourning and fighting Mpls Public Schools plans for school closure this week. Here are some people I know were proudly clinking glasses in their evildoer HQ. add your own!

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yeah. publicly funded, privately run

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I have too much grief and anger about MPS to convey on a microblogging platform

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 16/09/2026

plenty of schools in Minneapolis need to close. they are the charter schools. public education means public governance, not just public finance

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Minneapolis is one of the most liberal places in the U.S., home to a specific brand of inclusive and effective progressivism. Minnesota is the birthplace of charter schools and anti-labor corporatists have convinced many Mpls liberals/progressives that public schools are bad. Both things are true!

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Ms. K tweets @whatmsksaid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the school communities were hubs of organizing and resistance. but just as the CDD was jammed through in the wake of COVID disruption, now months after the Feds tried to tear us apart MPS wants to finish the job

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our minneapolis public school communties protected, feed, housed, & cared for our city when our federal government terroized us for months last winter. now 9 months later, 15 MPS communities may see their schools close this next yr. endless money for cops, wars & genocide but no money for schools.

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

AI: when you really, truly don’t care

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There's a *social* hierarchy that places "person who does computer in office" much much higher than "person who gets food out of the ground." This social hierarchy makes it hard to imagine that AI can replace the first and easy to imagine that it can replace the second. That's probably backwards.

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

so weird! detour info is perennially the lowest rated aspect of metro transit service. it’s hard to get right. one explanation: the pic on the left and the pic on the right are from two totally separate arms of the agency