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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

Sending love to the protesters in NYC and to everyone impacted by the ongoing violence ICE is perpetrating in our streets.

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little john @littlejohn.bsky.social · 5h

Newsletter from CMs Wonsley, Chavez, Chughtai, and Stevenson lists the mayor's proposed cuts in terms of equivalent days of MPD overtime. ♥️✊🙏 @robin4mpls.bsky.social @jchavezmpls.bsky.social @aishaforward10.com @sorenwithward8.bsky.social

Council Member Soren Stevenson

Ward 8 News from Council Member Soren Stevenson
October 8th, 2026

Dear neighbors,

The City Council is preparing to amend and adopt a City Budget for 2027. The 2027 Budget proposed by Mayor Frey in August includes cuts to many programs that our communities rely on while increasing the budget for the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) by more than $20 million.

We can recognize that the City is facing real fiscal challenges while rejecting false austerity. These narratives are being used as a pretext for cuts to programs communities rely on, all while allowing MPD to have an ever ballooning budget that goes unchecked year after year.

Fiscal responsibility doesn’t look like just cutting across the board. It means examining every major area of city spending, identifying inefficiencies and measurable outcomes, and ensuring every tax dollar the City spends actually improves residents’ lives or enhances a public good.

MPD has gone $20 million over budget two years in a row, and MPD leaders have publicly admitted that there has been mismanagement of overtime. Earlier this year, both the Commissioner of Community Safety and the Chief Operating Officer both publicly stated they were unaware of this overspending for nearly all of 2025. Earlier this year, when ICE invaded our city, our communities stepped up to protect our neighbors while the MPD did little to nothing to keep us safe yet still got millions in overtime compensation. It is not fiscally responsible to increase MPD’s budget by $20 million when it is widely known that mismanagement of MPD is fueling unnecessary costs that are not meaningfully improving public safety.

The budget is funded by working people, and they deserve accountability and oversight of how their money is spent. This year, the Board of Estimate and Taxation, the body that sets the maximum tax levy, made it clear that unchecked police overspending needed to be meaningfully addressed. The City Council has…

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 5h

I feel terrible asking this, but my debit card got stolen and I don’t currently have the funds in my account to cover some upcoming payments while I sort the dispute out with the bank. If anyone could help spot me, I would really appreciate that! V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 6h

I would not have seen that coming, it’s great to see that.

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Ms. K tweets @whatmsksaid.bsky.social · 6h

every councilmember but Palmisano and Whiting (who may still be on paternity leave) signed this. even Rainville signed this. really gives us hopedealers some hope in these v dark times.

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Shannon for School Board @shannon-for-d3.bsky.social · 7h

“Board directors Sharon El-Amin, who represents the north side, and Greta Callahan, who represents the southwest, co-authored this resolution. It would take all school closures off the table for next year and demand more study, public input and transparency before decisions are made beyond that.”

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 13h

this is how his coalition finally falls apart (ha, I wish)

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16h

This reminds me of a recent conversation I had with @alexhanna.bsky.social about AI and workers, in which Hanna noted that bosses tend to think most feminized work can be automated because they imagine the work as reduced to the task itself and forget the necessary relational aspects.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 16h

The Amazon "manage your interests" page for me is very funny because I've gradually reduced my Amazon purchases to occasional things, so from the last few years it seems to have stored my preferences on toothbrush heads, soap, paper towels, and a router. Fair enough.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

The deployment of National Guard troops into cities has been so normalized that it barely merits a mention in the press or among the public anymore. D.C. remains occupied, Memphis is occupied, so is New Orleans... It's incredible to me.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 16h

Just got done with another Planning Increment Planning. For this one my team and I did a lot more planning in advance of all the planning. It's really just planning all the way down.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

If people read more Black feminists, they'd be better off.

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The data center push is funny because imagine looking around at the current situation and thinking you know I think we need *more* AI.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

it's a great read. along the lines of "trees and history and acceptance and joy and repair," this is one of my favorite videos ever and you might appreciate if you haven't seen it before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m8Y...

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A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair

YouTube video by The Intercept

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This week's newsletter is about trees. buttondown.com/muledesign/a...

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Help the socialists save the forest

What to do when there's no undo

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026

the “militant identity politics” of whiteness meanwhile gets a huge pass with this nonsense

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 07/10/2026

Say it with me: immigration justice and abolition are the same struggle

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NSPM 7 Defendants Union @nspm7union.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Berger, the historian, said that what makes the project exciting is that it centers on being a defendant. “But it’s also a tragic commentary on where we’re at, with a large swath of people and politics under attack right now,” he said. “We’re all defendants.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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NSPM-7 Defendants Union - Home

In response to the National Security memo in which calls Trump calls his political enemies "antifa" and aims to crush them, the NSPM-7 Defendant's Union offers a framework for fighting repression toge...

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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Vote YES on the school amendment, Minnesota! Skipping the question is the same as a No vote. Yes for school funding that doesn’t affect your tax dollars whatsoever!

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nothing feels like enough in the face of such overwhelming horrors, but if you want to materially support Palestinians in Gaza, I highly recommend The Sameer Project, which is doing incredible, life-saving mutual aid work on the ground: thesameerproject.org

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The Sameer Project – Palestinian-led mutual aid group working towards liberation

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is a good voting tactic for sheriff for folks in St. Paul. A good thread too.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A new action from Minnesota Families for Public Schools: “Email [call and leave a message!] your [state] legislator and ask them to stand up for MPS.” secure.ngpvan.com/V_TKCKc2dECM...

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Ask Your Legislators to Stand With Families

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/10/2026

Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also an offer there from @makiashe.bsky.social (who I’ve known for something like 20 years!) for Toronto folks, as she is new to the city, to get to know one another over soup.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“going to try to write about the project here every week: recipes, rankings, experiments, failures, ingredient rabbit holes, & probably too much attention paid to broth, along with some history, migration, hospitality, & whatever else the soups lead me toward.” makiashe.substack.com/p/soup-an-in...

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Soup: An Infinite Form

a quest through 35 of the world's great soups

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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The new issue of Hammer & Hope is out! Featuring articles on Trump’s deadly invasion of Memphis, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Democrats’s “Woke” Panic, and Kelela’s Guide to Surviving Men and Raves. hammerandhope.org

Illustration of a tree-lined Memphis street with a woman holding a flower next to a bird and butterfly

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

More politicians could use the public library (with its limitations) to make an affirmative case of the kind of society people could live in.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

flailing and failing and floundering, for sure

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kids fall through in any number of ways. They've got different needs, and sometimes they can't be met in the default ways, no matter how skilled those default ways may be. They're carrying different burdens. In the world I think we should fight for, nobody falls through all the cracks uncaught.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm far from an expert, but I realized that I have two core ideas about school in the better world I want to live in: 1. There are public schools, because their communities fought for them 2. There are webs of care that hold kids according to their needs, recognizing that they aren't the same

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was thinking about the MPS Transformation Plan early this morning, as one does, and the annoyingly bad vision of what an optimal student experience would be like, and I realized that I hadn't thought about what I think an optimal experience would actually be like.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

after learning that my kid is neurodivergent and my wife is neurodivergent but doesn't have all of the kid's things and that she thinks I have those things, I'm in the screening process for the first time at 43 😅

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wild, I had no idea where this was going at any time in the comic.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

amazing. Definitely filing that away. My kid follows your kid in way more ways than I could've predicted, so who knows! 😂

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

right, vaguely aware of that. But there's like a day when they encourage the MN kids to go visit at the same time?

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

there is a whole visit day for MN students in Manitoba? College is the last thing on our minds unfortunately, but maybe it'll come up again and I might need to know about that.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is no way to reduce deportations without a substantial defunding of law enforcement in rural areas, who have long operated like a baronial class unto themselves.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In Chicago the mayor has a big role in schools, while there is basically zero role for the mayor here. But that hasn't stopped the teachers union here from deeply engaging in city movement issues. I'm sure there are imperfections that I don't know about, but there is a real solidarity, I think.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It would have to be a much bigger post, I guess, if it were going to engage with the kind of unionism that CTU practices, but I really think that is part of the answer. Chicago and the Twin Cities fund schools entirely differently, the relationship to city gov is entirely different.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can't remember who shared this but it was a good read. I think big exceptions to this – notably Chicago, and on a smaller level the Twin Cities – are very important, and the teachers unions in both places are deeply involved in movement, including w/ DSA. educationwars.substack.com/p/whats-left...

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What’s Left for Public Education?

The left has no vision for public schools - and that’s a big problem

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“conversations about disability offer us some of the best possible ground for working on democracy because disability is all about pluralism. Pluralism is a method that operates counter to supremacy and hierarchy.”

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 04/10/2026

Anything we can each do on a personal level to move into more comfort talking about race and caste and talking about disability is going to get us to a better place with the use of computers. lesscomputer.ca/say-eugenics...

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 04/10/2026

Woah.

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