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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 14/10/2026

don't listen to wealthy volunteers who are trying to talk about neighborhoods where they don't live and that they don't understand. plus, their wealth is what enables us to only have a centrist newspaper covering this area and no more progressive alternative! taylordahlin.com/f/110-grant-...

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110 Grant: Luxury Lies from a Landlord for Jacob Frey

Last fall I wrote about the problems facing the tenants of 110 Grant, a 300+ unit luxury apartment building in Loring Park, in the context of the municipal elections. Owned by Fine Associates, its Pre...

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 14/10/2026

i read an article that ward 7 wealthy area newspaper wrote about loring park tenants issues, a neighborhood they only decided to start covering & distributing to AFTER southside pride folded, and it was just a celebration of the ward 7 office and ignoring strong mayor and any discussion of power

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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There's only one pro-choice candidate in this race, and it isn't Michele Tafoya.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 12/10/2026

Americans see this for what it is - President Trump is abusing his power to go after political opponents weeks before an election.

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ash 🏳️‍⚧️ @rollingfor20.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

ten toes down for Ilhan EVERY DAY. she is such a light and i am so glad to be repped by her

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Briana Rose Lee @brianaroselee.swifties.social · 12/10/2026

The raid on Ilhans home is an unprecedented abuse of power & political intimidation. After years of Trump targeting Ilhan & Somali Americans w/ racist rhetoric, he’s now weaponizing federal law enforcement against a sitting member of Congress before an election. Straight out of the fascist playbook.

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Aurin Chowdhury MPLS City Council Member W12 @aurinmpls.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We can’t be silent in the face of fascism. The raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar weeks before an election is naked an attempt to interfere with it. Trump has weaponized the DOJ to target his political opponents, manufacturing charges that have been dismissed by court after court. I stand with Ilhan.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 07/10/2026

and Anders Folk's campaign people are amplifying this racist bullshit, just like they did with "Somali Fraud" and Omar Fateh last year.

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bowie deschanel @raisingonebrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sheriff Bob Fletcher, who's been harassing a Yemeni coffee shop in Little Canada, wants to blame Somali gangs for the recent gun violence in the Twin Cities.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 06/10/2026

it would be nice if the elizabeth shaffer and the ward 7 office was inviting the hennepin county attorney to be part of these community safety panels and not just a bunch of cops politically aligned with her, where people just slam mary moriarty. they honestly feel like campaign events

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yesterday, the Council passed Workers Drive Minneapolis. Proud to have co-authored it with CM @robin4mpls.bsky.social, CM @aurinmpls.bsky.social & CVP Osman. Unfortunately, Mayor Frey sided with Elon Musk's Tesla, Amazon & Google over public safety and vetoed it. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

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Frey vetoes Minneapolis ordinance that would have required human drivers in driverless vehicles

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the measure represented a “back door ban that belies our progressive tradition in Minneapolis.”

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 03/10/2026

zack filipovich was at today’s rally in minneapolis for victims of ICE violence endorsed by labor unions like SEIU, MNA, CTUL and others! zack is everywhere

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Katie Cashman @katiecashman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We are at City Hall to call out @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social for his disgraceful steal of climate funding to fill his budget gap. That money comes from our utility bills and is funding home energy retro fits for low-income residents.. SHAME on Mayor Frey! We need City Council to fix his mistake.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 30/09/2026

anders folk is telling minneapolis residents that he is a democrat, but the message he sends suburban residents doesn’t mention any political affiliation the part about ICE is also removed which seems like a misstep. operation metro surge hit the whole state, why not tell all of hennepin county?

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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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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 23/09/2026

kare 11 implying that brian o'hara actually answered the city council's questions about the budget in may by saying he "addressed" it... no, he got up there and refused to answer any questions about MPD budget overspends, and that seems to be what has kicked this all off

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EHB on BET @ehbforbet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This morning, myself, BET President Brandt, MPRB President Olsen sent a letter to Mayor Frey, Council President Payne, and CM Chughtai outlining our concerns about unaccountable spending by MPD, and its impact on our city's long-term fiscal outlook. 1/

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Jason Garcia for MPRB District 4 @jason4parks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is incredibly concerning for the future of our public schools.

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It seems clear that MPD worked with Lang so he could bring his hate here and then they assaulted and arrested a black man that stood up to it.

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🌸ayana🌸 @ayanajsk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As a Black woman and DFL party officer, please don't let Latonya Reeves allege that her Blackness should make her decision to run against an endorsed party candidate as a DFL party officer, an elected DNC member, permissible. She should have resigned when she decided to primary.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 14/08/2026

city of minneapolis is misleading people and directing them to the wrong place for a meeting of CCPO, the community commission on police oversight, with graphics telling people to go to a meeting at 250 s 5th st CCPO meets at 250 s 4th st. 250 s 5th st is not a building. it's middle of the street

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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Special interests think they can buy this Senate seat. They've spent $20 million to do it. But I have seen what Minnesotans can do when we organize together. So when it comes down to the many or the money, I'm betting on us.

Peggy Flanagan, Keith Ellison, and Ilhan Omar launch a canvass in Minneapolis

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Liam Davis Temple @liam2manynames.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Our community continues to suffer everyday due to Angie Craig choosing to vote to unleash ICE across the country by supporting the Laken Riley Act

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🌸ayana🌸 @ayanajsk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Does Angie Craig have policy priorities besides "fight Donald Trump" which she's had ample opportunity to do & has failed spectacularly at? Peggy Flanagan has been campaigning on Medicare for All, childcare affordability, no more money for endless wars, etc. What's Craig's plans?

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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

An undercover ICE agent was outside of my town hall last week. Trump is continuing to use ICE and DHS to intimidate Americans who disagree with him. I'm demanding answers. My letter:

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Fossilized Tree Sap @amberrl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The discourse has died down a bit so here’s a reminder that Kaohly Her sexually harassed multiple employees and needs to resign. (it doesn’t matter that the employees were cops. cops can still be sexually assaulted.)

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Luke Mielke @juke-box85.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If you disagree with renters having rights, stand on that and campaign to voters. Don't use secret legal memos and legal delays to deny voters the right to vote on something they placed on the ballot.

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Luke Mielke @juke-box85.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Mayor Her's scandals, encampment evictions without no where for our unhoused neighbors to go, lawsuit payouts for policy aides and now an attempt by Mayor Her to undermine democracy in St. Paul. Trying to keep ballot measures off the ballot is what red states do to block abortion rights.

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ash 🏳️‍⚧️ @rollingfor20.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I voted already, taking the bf to vote on Sunday! Get out and vote!

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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

@phoenix-rights.bsky.social is voting right now! I mailed my ballot in long ago. Who else can you help vote by Tuesday evening?

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 07/08/2026

One of Brian O'Hara's last acts as chief was telling the council he couldn't answer any of their questions about police exceeding their budget on non-overtime things like motorcycles and vehicles. It's possible I missed it, but I don't think I've seen these questions answered by anyone since.

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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

i’m gonna expand on this. when we say, “destroy everything,“ it means medications, ID, phone if they have it, birth certificate/Social Security card if they have it, last mementos or even ashes from loved ones, Clothing, Food, Library card... You name it. & actively being criminalized for it.

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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Sure is disappointing to see our city, which has touted its adherence to the law In the face of federal occupation, flout its own charter thanks to bullying from @mayorher.bsky.social

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 06/08/2026

The St. Paul City Council is entitled to disagree with Right to Repair. They can all exert their influence to convince voters not to vote for it. If it passes, they are free to repeal it on the one-year anniversary. But they cannot substitute their policy decisions for the right of the voters.

Sec. 8.06. - Repeal of ordinances or resolutions submitted to voters.
No ordinance adopted by the voters on initiative or ordinance or resolution approved by referendum shall be repealed within one year after its approval.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 06/08/2026

A great example of cities being able to regulate in excess of the state is the case challenging the Minneapolis Section 8 nondiscrimination ordinance, Fletcher Properties, Inc. v. City of Minneapolis, 24 N.W.3d 287 (Minn. 2025). cases.justia.com/minnesota/su...

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 06/08/2026

As someone who's spent a lot of time considering conflict preemption btwn state landlord-tenant law & local ordinances, I can confidently say the St. Paul City Attorney is full of shit. Nothing in Right to Repair conflicts with state law, and our courts are clear that cities can go beyond state law

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 06/08/2026

The St. Paul Charter does not permit the Council to deny access to the ballot because of their own opinions on the substantive law. All they can do is examine the petition's "sufficiency," i.e. the form of the petition and number/validity of signatures.

Sec. 8.03. - Determination of sufficiency.

Any petition seeking initiative, referendum and recall hereunder shall be deemed received by the council when it is filed with the city clerk, for which filing there shall be no fee. Immediately upon receipt of the petition the city clerk shall examine the petition as to its sufficiently and report to the council within twenty (20) calendar days, except that in the case of a recall petition it shall be thirty (30) calendar days. Upon receiving the report, the council shall determine by resolution the sufficiency of the petition.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 06/08/2026

The St. Paul City Council just voted to refuse to put the Tenant's Right to Repair law on the ballot for voters, claiming it conflicts with state law even though Duluth passed a nearly identical law last year. A press release from the Safe Homes coalition which has pushed for the law:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 5, 2026
St. Paul City Council Blocks Certified Right to Repair Petition, Coalition Says City Broke Its Own Charter
Saint Paul voters collected over 8,000 signatures to put Right to Repair on the November ballot. Ramsey County Elections validated 5,440 of them against voter registrations, after duplicates and errors were accounted for, and submitted their report to council. Today the St. Paul City Council chose not to send the measure forward anyway. Safe Homes St. Paul (SHSP) considers this a breach of our city's charter and protocols that have guided ballot measures in our city for years.
The St. Paul city charter is not ambiguous on this point: section 8.03 requires the council to determine "the sufficiency of the petition" by resolution. Section 8.04 gives the council exactly two options once a petition is sufficient: enact the ordinance as written within 60 days, or place it on the ballot. There is no third option where the council simply declines because the Mayor and her attorney found a new legal theory weeks after the deadline to act. We have seen the Mayor's approach to public disclosure over the past week, and are not surprised to see the everyday residents of our city who signed our petition treated with similar dismissal. As our democracy faces unprecedented threats at a national level, it is the responsibility of our local leaders to demonstrate not just that democracy can function, but that it can deliver results for everyday people. This decision does the opposite by choosing fear of wealthy interests over the actual residents of our city.
As has been communicated to SHSP organizers, City Attorney Irene Kao's office told council members this week that Right to Repair conflicts with state law and is "too broad", even though it is nearly identical to language passed in Duluth nearly one year ago. The same office had several months to raise that argument while the campaign spent it gathering signatures. Instead it surfaced on…

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 05/08/2026

Is Mayor Her going to drone strike the encampments?

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’m here at the Fish Hatchery encampment in St. Paul as the city prepares to sweep the camp. St. Paul cops are stopping cars coming in but there are dozens of people that have gathered here in anticipation of the sweep in order to help camp residents and document what the city does here today.

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Adam Miller @ajm6792.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The short answer is that their boss, the Mayor, is too weak to hold them accountable

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Araceli “Jules” Casasola @acolibri.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This truck was just parked on the Hennepin bikeway ramp to Bryant. Minneapolis is too hesitant to put solid barriers (like concrete bollards) to cars where it is obvious we need them, and it’s leading to an infestation of drivers violating spaces where they inconvenience and harm everyone else.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 04/08/2026

Sure would be a shame if the City had spent decades building its entire economic development policy around Downtown commercial landlords who also happened to be the main political allies of the Mayor who got caught holding the bag when the entire paradigm of work permanently shifted 🫣

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Boo-cca Esche 👻 @beccasaintpaul.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Her should resign. SPPD needs to be audited by an outside entity to see what kind of culture they're fostering there. They also need to be investigated for the response to Rose Ave.

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Iruka @iruka-abolition.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

How come I don’t feel it’s a coincidence that Minneapolis is 30 million in the hole probably for police overtime and St Paul is 26 million in the hole for some unexplained reason

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Luke Mielke @juke-box85.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"The license plate network became a “backdoor for civil immigration enforcement that our community never consented to,” Fridley City Council candidate Abdilahi Jama said at a packed council meeting. “The public trust has been broken.” Lots of important suburban municipal elections on August 11!

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Twin Cities suburbs restrict license plate data after Star Tribune investigation

Law enforcement agencies, some working with ICE, were searching local Flock camera data during Operation Metro Surge.

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