Reposted by Karla HovdeJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending 502893786
Reposted by Karla HovdeWedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 22/09/2026Making executive branch officials available to answer questions and follow-ups, in public, is the lowest possible bar for government. Frey says it creates a "spectacle" and a "circus." www.startribune.com/mpd-budget-o... 46816
Reposted by Karla HovdeFietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In the face of all that's happened, it's extremely disappointing to see that the only thing that most Americans take seriously is the price of gasoline. 910614
Reposted by Karla HovdeAraceli “Jules” Casasola @acolibri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If people saw last night's graphic that showed $28 for MPRB, $8 for MPHA, and $223 for MPD out of every $1000 in the city budget, they'd understand the rage expressed last night. We are putting a fraction of city dollars towards actually addressing crime and practically setting the rest on fire. 03512
Reposted by Karla HovdeGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/09/202640% more kids are eating breakfast and 15% more are eating lunch since we launched free school meals in Minnesota. Now we’re making sure 100% of kids eat their broccoli. 422137372576
Reposted by Karla HovdeVisit Lake Street @visitlakestreet.com · 03/09/2026Taco Tour on Lake Street 🌮 Join us, Saturday September 19th, for a day full of music, food, fun, & tacos 🌮🌮🌮 🕛12pm - 4pm at Mercado central, 1515 E Lake St 🕓4pm - 8pm at El Nuevo Campo, 2709 E Lake St www.lakestreettacotour.com #TacoTouronLakeStreet2026 #TacoTour2026 #VisitLakeStreet 21711
Reposted by Karla HovdeMelanie Mallon🔪🎃 @melmall.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Actually gave this a little delighted clap. But it doesn't win the prize for most meta . . . 17413
Reposted by Karla HovdeJohn Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I'm a bit burned out on (MN State Fair) crop art. It used to be like Murmur (or Chronic Town EP or Hibtone single of Radio Free Europe) and now it's like Monster. Formerly weird and now mainstream and loud. But this piece, Guernica by way of ICE, is a beaut and deserves the acclaim it's getting. 1323330
Karla Hovde @karlahovde.bsky.social · 30/08/2026This video about Venture Bikes is fascinating, and it all rings true with my experience of buying my dream bike there this spring! Give it a watch. I'm so thankful to have a bike shop like this in my community, and I would recommend it to anyone. 051
Reposted by Karla Hovdesnackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Leave it to Amy to not fly either Minnesota flag and be as milquetoast as humanly possible. Undefeated. 58710
Reposted by Karla HovdeBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.comeuronews.comCycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprintIf everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint. 741775695
Karla Hovde @karlahovde.bsky.social · 23/08/2026My apartment is one of the buildings in this situation. It's so frustrating to know I'm faithfully paying my utility bills and the money is disappearing into a pit when it could instead be keeping Minneapolis city staff employed or offering beneficial city services.kdicksando.substack.comTop 25 most delinquent rental properties owe City nearly $2 million for past-due utilitiesTotal past-due utilities exceeded $9,000,000 in July 111
Reposted by Karla Hovdetaylr @taylordahlin.com · 21/08/2026the minneapolis police department spent $30 million on overtime in 2025 alone, but the behavioral crisis unit spending $25 million in FIVE YEARS warrants a story about its costs and oversight concerns? copaganda from the star tribune ahead of budget season www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... 1131491
Reposted by Karla HovdeBikeMN @bikemn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Avg US household = 1.83 cars 17.9% of 192,734 households is ~34500. 34500 x 1.83 x $12k annual car cost = $757,606,516 going into the local economy or not going into debt servicing. Or about $1762 more for every single resident in Minneapolis, every year. 13113
Reposted by Karla HovdeAvocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 21/08/2026This is a wild statistic, I had no idea it was so high here 1141477
Reposted by Karla HovdeFossilized Tree Sap @amberrl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I 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. 410426
Karla Hovde @karlahovde.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Because of this closed bridge, my usual bike ride to church of 2.9 miles becomes 4.4 miles, while the AQI is 140 and I'm biking in an N95. It's been closed most of the summer, and I'm so frustrated! 3393
Reposted by Karla HovdeNPR @npr.org · 19/07/2026If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?n.prUnder a new federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aidIf an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money? 149480139
Karla Hovde @karlahovde.bsky.social · 18/07/2026An important article. "If we are to be a free people in the face of despotism, we must exercise our constitutional rights to preserve them." What are you planning to do to exercise your constitutional rights this election? 031
Reposted by Karla HovdeMinnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Rep. Aisha Gomez: “To look at people standing up against ICE and see ‘paid protesters’ says nothing about us and everything about you.” “That you cannot conceive of us loving our neighbors so much that we would actually do something for them.” 162267721
Reposted by Karla HovdeWedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 17/07/2026Nobody knows how much we owe to #LivableLyndale people who spent years clawing and scratching. It's easy to take infrastructure for granted. When things work well, you assume it got built that way because it just made sense. But it's often the case people had to fight for it. 18412
Karla Hovde @karlahovde.bsky.social · 16/07/2026This video gives a sense of what has been removed from Bears Ears National Monument. It's not just the Boundary Waters that Trump is trying to destroy, it's all this as well! www.instagram.com/reel/Da1jFP4...instagram.comAshley 🏜️Sedona Arizona Photographer on Instagram: "I grew up here in the Southwest. This land isn’t abstract to me or some place far away, it’s home. And this land has been home to the Tribes of the ...37K likes, 1,590 comments - ashley.goes.hiking on July 15, 2026: "I grew up here in the Southwest. This land isn’t abstract to me or some place far away, it’s home. And this land has been home to the ... 020
Reposted by Karla HovdeBrian Boudreau @boudro604.bsky.social · 16/07/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Trump has signed E/O’s to shrink 2 major national monuments in Utah, stripping their strict conservation protections to open the land for mining, fossil fuel extraction. The removal of "national monument" status allows commercial leasing that was previously bannedtheguardian.comTrump dramatically cuts size of two national monuments held sacred by tribesBears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah will lose ‘close to a million and a half acres each’ and open land to developers and oil industry 001
Reposted by Karla HovdeUtah News Dispatch @utahnewsdispatch.com · 16/07/2026See the maps environmentalists drew showing the extent of the 3 million acres that were slashed from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. #utpol utahnewsdispatch.com/briefs/maps-...utahnewsdispatch.comMaps show new reduced Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante boundaries • Utah News DispatchAfter order shrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, environmentalists are out with new maps showing the reduction. 021
Reposted by Karla HovdeAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026TINA SMITH: Researchers in MN made a breakthrough in childhood cancer in Black kids with a grant. But it seems that according to your proposed rule, this type of research wouldn't allowed bc it's 'DEI.' VOUGHT: We are against DEI policies. We have intended to rid of them whenever we possibly can. 54837361454
Reposted by Karla HovdeACLU @aclu.org · 16/07/2026The reckless abuses we analyzed from these eight states are just a fraction of the examples of ICE and CBP undermining our constitutional rights. We won't let them get away with it. 5331121
Reposted by Karla HovdeBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Cops are defunding YOU www.minnpost.com/glean/2026/0...minnpost.comPolice overtime costs projected to put MPD more than $23 million over budgetMinneapolis officials warn police overspending threatens city's financial health. Also: Ellison criticizes the GOP's Chauvin tribute. 61097270
Reposted by Karla HovdeDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Every trip that occurs by bike instead of a car is a win for the planet. Full stop. Can a bike always replace a car? No, and no one is claiming it can. 938336
Reposted by Karla HovdeTeam Ilhan @teamilhan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026What a perfect evening in South Minneapolis. And by perfect, we mostly mean filled with cat friends 1152
Reposted by Karla HovdeMetro Transit (Official) @metrotransitmn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Don’t drive — take the (f)E Line! 🐱🚍 215125
Reposted by Karla HovdeAraceli “Jules” Casasola @acolibri.bsky.social · 18/06/2026@citycasttwincities.bsky.social ugh… yes!! It’s not just a 14-mile addition to our light rail network. It will serve mass transit to an underprivileged community and build ped/bike infrastructure in a corridor that needs it. (Picture from Washington Av N where I walked yesterday. It needs the love) 132
Reposted by Karla HovdeRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026America's roughly 1,100 billionaires (and 1 trillionaire) are collectively worth a record $9.24 trillion. The wealth of the bottom half of the US, roughly 65 million households? $4.3 trillion. It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of wealth concentration to continue. 7734151154
Reposted by Karla Hovdetaylr @taylordahlin.com · 16/06/2026on the new 1st ave bike path in whittier, looking north into stevens square where the street is under construction as they build out this same street design further north. the bike path is such a nice addition to this part of minneapolis 41107
Reposted by Karla HovdeLaura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 15/06/2026Minneapolis bike friends: Heads up on yet another Greenway detour this week… 22317
Reposted by Karla HovdeNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Two people got murdered in broad daylight by their own government and more and more Minnesotans kept showing up on the streets to protect their neighbors. When you don’t have any moral principles, it’s hard to understand other people who do. 133715875
Reposted by Karla Hovdeashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15/06/2026may we remember speaker hortman every time a kid in Minnesota eats their free lunch. every time a trans person moves to mn for safety. when an undocumented person gets their driver’s license or a returning citizen gets to vote. when we have clean energy and electric school buses and warm homes. 92083528
Reposted by Karla HovdeNPR @npr.org · 13/06/2026The president is trying to downsize the U.S Forest Service and eliminate wildfire and smoke research as the American West is facing a potentially epic summer fire season.n.prTrump is taking aim at forest and wildfire research just as the West is poised to burnThe president is trying to downsize the U.S Forest Service and eliminate wildfire and smoke research as the American West is facing a potentially epic summer fire season. 601009559
Reposted by Karla HovdeJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 10/06/2026"This letter is evidence of the fact that ICE is knowingly collecting and maintaining official government records on any protestor or lawful observer that its agents claim is potentially interfering with them or threatening agent safety," said Protect Democracy lawyer JoAnna Suriani.npr.orgICE denies having a protester database. But a letter to Congress sheds more lightIn a previously unpublicized letter to Congress, the newly-departed head of ICE said the agency collects data on people suspected of potentially unlawful activity, which could include protesters. 5339188
Reposted by Karla HovdeElle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I’m sure I’m not the only one who is reflecting on last winter lately (/constantly). I know it isn’t over but it’s such a mixed bag of emotion seeing everyone out in the streets now. ICE is still here, we are still here, the federal government is still at war with us, but the flowers are blooming. 1193
Reposted by Karla HovdeMPR News @mprnews.org · 02/06/2026Panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt honoring Minnesotans are on display at Queermunity in Minneapolis through June 14. The panels have three quilts dedicated to Minnesotans and community volunteers will sit daily with the panels to answer questions from the public.mprnews.orgTwo panels from national AIDS Memorial Quilt on display in MinneapolisQueermunity, a local LGBTQ+ community hub in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis, will display the panels through June 14. 014341
Reposted by Karla HovdeBill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Lyndale Avenue is NEVER going to out-compete Edina on convenient parking and easy driving. But it can boast the most walkable streets in the state of Minnesota if they try. 28513
Reposted by Karla HovdeDan Marshall @danmarstp.marshallwords.com · 02/06/20262026 @amyklobuchar.com Pride Month tracker, Day 1. Today she spoke vaguely of dignity & reused an old photo op pic. In fact it's the SAME pic from 2024 Pride that she posted on 6/29/25. 2026 stats: Skeets supporting Pride: 1 (recycled) Skeets supporting trans rights: 0 34112
Reposted by Karla Hovdetaylr @taylordahlin.com · 28/05/2026last numbers had 11% of delegates support craig, 14% undecided, with 75% for flanagan this certainly explains why craig dropped! 29011
Reposted by Karla HovdeLaura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 29/05/2026I’m traveling for work & was chatting with someone I hadn’t met before. I mentioned the mutual aid rent support work in Minneapolis & he (middle aged white man who lives in the U.S.) asked: “Why is rent help a need? Was it related to some of that immigration stuff you had back in Jan?” 1/2 2335
Reposted by Karla Hovdelumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Wow guys it's almost like robotaxis like Waymo contribute to the problem of bloated vehicular mass and therefore play a role in ramping up the costs to maintain car infrastructure, which turns into actually entrenching car dependency because a lot of the relevant decision makers can't imagine better 432392
