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Minneapolis dad; liker of all the good things and disliker of all the bullshit; he/him

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1h
I just saw a Waymo in Greater Powderhorn. Do we think the machines know that's enemy territory?
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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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EHB on BET @ehbforbet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Many people who were critical of MPD cost overruns were denounced as alarmist or anti-police. Now MPD has admitted to the abuse of overtime hours. I am grateful current leadership is cracking down but deeply frustrated by this betrayal of the public trust and the time it took to get answers.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 29/09/2026
Weird, the Minneapolis City Council was right. I feel like the Frey administration was singing a different tune that their All of Mpls lackeys were amplifying, but mayor Isn‘t pit on the spot here. That’s only for progressive electeds. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... (gift link)
startribune.com
Interim Minneapolis police chief says he inherited a budget ‘mess’
Police leaders acknowledged during a City Council budget meeting that overtime was handed out too loosely in years past and said they’re now monitoring it more closely.
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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This behavior is all over the MSP feed today, & then somebody heard + witnessed the aftermath of a kid getting hit today. MN needs to address these issues (& I'm sure your state does as well), especially as we can all tell that driver behavior issues etc have gotten starkly worse since the pandemic.
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Cedrick Frazier @cedrickfrazier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another great week at the doors! We’re building a countywide coalition, not a country club coalition. Everyone’s welcome on team Frazier! I’m proud to be the choice of DFLers and working families in this race.
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Cedrick Frazier @cedrickfrazier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Speaker Hortman always told us legislators: “These seats don’t belong to us — we have to go out and earn them every day.” You can’t fake grassroots. Team Frazier is knocking doors every day and meeting people where they’re at. Everyone is welcome on our countywide coalition!
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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The font choices on the subtitles here are breaking my brain.
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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I see that Uptown is now joining Downtown in parking empty squads on sidewalks as a way to make people feel more welcome.
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Irene Fernando @hennepind2.com · 23/09/2026
MPD Overtime: Study and manage law enforcement overtime costs, don't just budget for them. MPD overspent its 2025 budget by $20 million. I ask that MPD present its overtime review on September 28, and the Mayor file an overtime management plan before markup on December 10. 6/7
Purple graphic labeled Letter, to the Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation, dated September 22, 2026. Headline: "My four specific asks," with "four" highlighted in green. Four white rows, each with a date and topic. September 23, Parks: set the Park Board's maximum levy at its full 5.86% request; 40-plus residents testified for parks at the BET's hearing, and the $3.1 million gap from the 2.5% placeholder equals 26 positions and full recreation center hours. October 14, TIF: present numerical analysis on how Minneapolis TIF decisions affect all local levies; captured value is subtracted from the taxable base that Minneapolis Public Schools, the City, and Hennepin County all levy against, so every dollar captured raises the rate paid by everyone else. October, Shelter: prioritize a larger, ongoing contribution from the City levy toward shelter and homelessness response; in 2025, City property taxes provided $400,000 for street outreach and $0 in ongoing funding for shelter operations, and County property taxes provided $14.4 million for the homeless crisis response system. September 28 and December 10, Overtime: study and manage law enforcement overtime costs, don't just budget for them; I ask that MPD present its overtime review on September 28, and that the Mayor file an overtime management plan before markup on December 10. Footer: Irene Fernando logo, "Read the full letter, hennepinD2.com/statements."
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Matt Little @littleforcongress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
3.) Stop outsourcing and privatizing basic services so private companies aren’t incentivized to steal from government programs,
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The degree to which police departments have financial incentives to over-respond to situations where their presence is straight up not needed at ALL, because they can make a bunch of extra money for zero personal risk, is something that even the pro-cop brigade should be concerned about.
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Tom Olsen @olsenforparks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My argument is simple; our parks are worth it. In the last few years our park levy has been consistently under what we need to fully function. This led to rec center cuts. We are facing cuts again, while the city has been far less fiscally prudent. Gift link: www.startribune.com/mpls-green-s...
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Park Board president: Minneapolis parks are among the best in the nation. Fund them accordingly.
The Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation must vote to fully fund the park board’s levy request of 5.86%, which is far below what the city is asking for itself, Park and Recreation Board presiden...
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Shannon for School Board @shannon-for-d3.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In response to this ongoing Southside = privileged white parents/Northside = working class Black parents formulation…It’s problematic and erases families like ours. Be aware that there are now more Black families and kids in MPS schools Southside — both in # and % — than Northside. 🧵(1/2)
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KellyO @tripletheblue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Waiting for the bus at Hennepin and 25th and just counted 12 cars driving in the bus/parking lane in a 1 minute span. @metrotransitmn.bsky.social you have got to get better signage and/or paint the bus lane RED.
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Justin Timm @jtimm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I don’t take Metro transit often and I took the bus today to run an errand and it was awesome. I know many of you already do this regularly but just wanted to put it out there for those that could use the encouragement. Do it!
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shaunladen.bsky.social @shaunladen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This study shows another example of how school choice can impact traditional districts (see Minneapolis). Closing schools happens because districts serve fewer students. Where did the kids go? In MN, our radical The Choice is Yours law means families can leave a district school for any reason.
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NPR @npr.org · 14/09/2026
They own car dealerships, law firms, dental practices, and restaurant chains. Collectively, these overlooked business owners hold far more wealth than the Forbes 400 — and wield considerable political power. n.pr/46VSXQN
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The powerful millionaires hiding in plain sight
They own car dealerships, law firms, dental practices, and restaurant chains. Collectively, these overlooked business owners hold far more wealth than the Forbes 400 — and wield considerable political power.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Every time there's some new "this is the future, get started doing this instead of what you've been doing or you'll be irrelevant in a year" bleat coming out of Silicon Valley, I think about all the people who told us with dead certainty that cell phone ringtones were the inevitable future of music.
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Marje, herself @minn-finn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I can tell that I need to continue talking about the importance of personal bodily autonomy as a human right and a marker of freedom. Trans rights are intimately connected to that personal freedom. There is no standing to argue otherwise.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I promise you that the bloodsucking CEOs of the fakest and greediest industry did not all simultaneously decide to start caring about people this week
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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Vote.org and mnvotes.org are also useful sites.
vote.org
Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The real site is vote.gov The other is a Musk for-profit honeytrap.
vote.gov
Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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Moth @walkingminnesota.com · 11/09/2026
Just. Send. Me. A. Damn. Email. No transcript provided here. No option to read the statement. Just a video link. I don’t want video updates about how you’re going to tell me you are going to propose closing schools.
An mps email screenshot with a link to a video of the superintendent speaking
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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Some personal news, as the saying goes: I am now, for a limited time only, offering my lawyering services to the public. To learn more, please visit my extremely basic, People's Republic of Minnesota-themed website.
ericprindle.com
Minneapolis Attorney | Eric Prindle
I am a licensed attorney in Minnesota with experience in labor and employment law, licensure defense, state agency investigations, and more.
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 11/09/2026
Taylor is too generous. We know the Frey admin doesn't care about bus speed because they chose to have a $60+ million BRT project (E Line) get stuck in traffic against the recommendation of their own staff and Metro Transit.
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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
this is the core problem. Nicollet Mall pedestrianization is not _about_ making transit better for riders. Every time the mayor talks about it, he literally uses words like 'kick the buses off'. It's not just dismissive of riders; it's dismissive of the city's own stated goals around transit.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 11/09/2026
8 mile walk today for Your Dad where he discovered that Minnedina (Kenwood) regards Anders Folk lawn signs as the must-have accessory, a veritable Gucci bag full of incarcerated youth.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 10/09/2026
My takeaway from this: keep pushing the attack that Folk plays footsie with Republicans & giving them cover to control the Capitol. It’s clearly working.
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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I may have grown up 10 miles from Jersey, but those 10 miles matter, dammit.
Pictured is a map of the United States with Southeastern Pennsylvania, South Jersey, Delaware, and the Eastern Shore of Maryland shaded the darkest red; South Dakota and adjacent areas shaded the darkest blue; and other areas various gradations in between.

Explanatory text reads: "Your dialect map. Redder areas talk more like you; bluer areas least. You talk most like someone from New Jersey — about 57% of your answers match a typical resident."
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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 01/09/2026
Small businesses are getting fucked by retail rent and some of them are blaming it on bike lanes and parking rather than landlords not understanding that the value of their property is tied to the success of the businesses that rent it and there is therefore a ceiling to what they can charge. 1/3
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Can we please drop the “with no exceptions” bullshit, DFL?!!! An abortion ban *with* exceptions is also unacceptable. The state FINALLY lifted the bans in 2023 under Speaker Hortman’s leadership and believe me, she would not endorse this language.
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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Minus the Bear Cub
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Akhilesh @akhileshmenawat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There is an income based pattern to their support: Frazier wins the lower four of five equal precinct groups, with an outright majority in the lowest-income precincts. Folk led only in the richest precincts — he just doesn't connect with regular people like Frazier does. 2/3
Grouped bar chart titled "Income and the County Attorney vote," showing all 394 precincts sorted by household income into five equal groups. Frazier's share falls as income rises — 50.8%, 39.7%, 37.4%, 30.6%, 25.8% — while Folk's rises: 14.5%, 18.4%, 21.5%, 25.7%, 31.5%. Takeaway: Frazier finished first in four of the five income groups; Folk finished first only among the wealthiest. Note: income from the American Community Survey; describes how precincts voted, not individual voters.Scatter plot titled "The income gradient, precinct by precinct." Each dot is one of Hennepin County's 394 precincts, positioned by household income against share of the 2026 County Attorney vote. Frazier's dots trend downward as income rises, correlation −0.55; Folk's trend upward, +0.55 — two trend lines crossing in an X. Takeaway: the richer the precinct, the better Folk did, and the reverse for Frazier. Note: income from the American Community Survey; describes how precincts voted, not individual voters.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 20/08/2026
If you want the chief prosecutor of Minneapolis to be someone who only ever went to work as a federal prosecutor under Republican presidents and quit under Democratic presidents, spending the years in between doing big corporate defense work, Anders Folk is your guy!!
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 20/08/2026
People want politicians who want to do things. They do not actually want someone whose self-selected selling point is "I'm not the other guy." That's just table stakes. It's definitionally true. What's next, hoss?
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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Great insights here. The thing that really stands out to me is how starkly Folk's support correlates with wealth. I'm betting Frazier has more room for growth in the mixed-income suburbs than the guy who lives in a mansion.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 18/08/2026
normalize doing research. normalize taking the time to learn who people are, what they do, and most importantly, context for what happened BEFORE you started paying attention. i spent years reading and absorbing info! CRUCIAL to know background info the wedge live twitter archives are a goldmine
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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Michele Tafoya calls her lake house "my lake house."
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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Coming at you live with the same map that’s always mapping. Politics is material conditions and their reflection onto the mind not the other way around.
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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Minnesota CD-5 Republican candidate Dalia al-Aqidi raised and spent more than $1.1 million yet got crushed in the Republican primary in a D+32 district. She spent at least $286 per vote. One could be forgiven for suspecting that her campaign was never really a campaign at all, just a pure grift.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 27/07/2026
I need put some Minnesota Senate race thoughts into a post that I can reference for out-of-state folks who keep getting this wrong: - Angie Craig is to the right of state DFL and was even before her Laken Riley vote - This is not establishment vs. insurgent. Peggy Flanagan is a two-term Lt. Governor
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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Voter #41 at Minneapolis W-10 P-5, 7:30 a.m.
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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
it is so so so important that we elect cedrick frazier. there is a lot of good work being done in the hennepin county attorney’s office right now that is still very delicate and can be undone quickly if we don’t elect someone who is committed to it
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 10/08/2026
another question raised by this campaign finance report: why don't content creators have to disclose when they are being paid to talk at cameras to promote candidates or speak out against candidates?
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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Minneapolis yard sign report: The house on South Lyndale that consistently puts out signs for no-hope Republicans is proudly displaying an Anders Folk sign right next to their Dalia al-Aqidi sign. I love this for him.
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 10/08/2026
The easy choice is Cedrick Frazier. Former council member & public defender. Legislator. Reformer. His "prosecute ICE" slogan is consistent with the campaign and candidate he already was, while for others it feels like jumping on the bandwagon. www.cedrickfrazier.org/about
cedrickfrazier.org
About — Cedrick Frazier | Official Campaign Website
Cedrick Frazier is a husband, father, lawmaker, and the DFL & Labor endorsed candidate for Hennepin County Attorney.
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 10/08/2026
There are people who've oriented themselves to the race for Hennepin County Attorney with the motto: "FUCKIN' MORIARTY!! Look what she did to us!" You'd never know robbery was well below 2019 levels, a steep downward trend that began when Moriarty took office in 2023.
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