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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So I am against any school closures, but this school transformation plan just seems like a complete failure beyond the massive harm closing schools would produce. Hale capacity: 532 Option 1, 3 enrollment proposal: 560-620 Barton capacity: 560 Option 3 proposal: 620-640 wut?

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Continuing to notice more. Overall the numbers are ACTUALLY: 29,694 enrollment today Projected enrollment in 10 years: 32,625!

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is from the district's "interactive map". First, it shows current enrollment of 18,738 from Minneapolis while overall enrollment is over 10k past that. It also shows that the district is projecting growth over the past 10 years & most growth is where they're closing the most schools. Huh?

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dude these MODE photography festival posters are littering the streets ALL OVER nicollet south of lake st and i’d imagine other parts of the city as well. They put them up on just about every lamp post around. #MODEgate

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Gross and not at all surprising. Also noting the author has been buying district financial projections hook, line, and sinker during union contract negotiations for years. 🤔

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 06/03/2026

I need this tshirt. www.perennialcycle.com/shopcast/eve...

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T-shirt Printing Fundraiser
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ABOLISH ICE!
ICE OUT
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The print for the shirt. Bring a light color shirt.
We are using black ink. Design is 9x6.5 inches
Raising $ for local rent funds Bring t-shirt or buy one for $25

Graphic shows a bird riding a bakfiets with a worm in the front. Speech bubbles from each say “abolish ice” & “ice out!”

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

All the love to Maine. Minnesota and the twin cities are getting a ton of much needed attention rn but the occupations still do their damage even when the national headlines aren’t all there Los Angeles. Chicago. And more

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 13/01/2026

"You guys have got to stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead." youtu.be/Inn-sfiMcyE?...

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Taken by ICE & Detained | Breaking the News Plus

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Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

430k of us vs. 2k of them, we're gonna win this Cedar & 31st I think

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

It is NOT lost on me that the highways of MPLS, built to segregate the black & brown from the white, continue to serve the purpose of telling our that they are not welcome. Today, they act as an easy way in and an easy way to flea our city. This time WITH our neighbors.

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

We don’t need to bring in the national guard. Not the state nor the federal government. Neighbors have been coming together to help keep our communities safe from immigration enforcement. 1/

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Everyone actually from Minneapolis knows this guy is all wet. But when you look him up, and see he was a co-founder of "Ready for Hilary," then an organization to lobby Obama to pick Hilary as his running mate, you realize that this checks out as the kind of person who'd actually support Frey

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

They need to arrest the guy who did this before Noem just whisks him out of the state.

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Picketing outside Justice Page MS today, 2 amazing 6th graders from “the Justice Pages” school newspaper that I advise stayed over an hour snapping pics and getting excited to see their teachers on the line. They care about us & know we’re there for them. Can’t wait to read what they write.

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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 02/10/2025

The goal is to have no encampments. But until the city funds housing-first solutions, they're inevitable. Frey's encampment sweeps don't work. He isn't solving homelessness, he's wasting valuable resources. Everyone deserves a dignified path to housing, not a fenced off sidewalk.

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

At noon today, Charli, front and center, joined 12 of his 7th grade classmates and walked out of my classroom to march for change. So proud of this kid and all the other hundreds of our students with him. <3

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Rep. Katie Jones @repkatiejones.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

116 rifle casings were found at Annunciation. 116! Weapons designed for war don’t belong in our communities. The choice b/t kids’ lives & weapons of war is clear. It’s time to ban automatic weapons and high capacity magazines. www.startribune.com/democrats-on...

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Democrats once again call for assault weapons ban after Annunciation shooting

Democrats renewed calls for gun control measures after the shooting, but proposals face a roadblock in Minnesota’s narrowly divided Legislature.

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

A friend just texted me this 😂. This was 9 years ago! Still remember that night, though. It was a great night!

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Becky Mac @beckmac.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Door-knocking in S Mpls!! My husband @justkozz.bsky.social and I strongly endorse @aurinmpls.bsky.social for City Council and @omarfatehmn.com for Mayor of Minneapolis! We're working class parents who want safe streets, great public schools & robust public transportation.

Campaign literature for CM Aurin Chowdhury and Omar Fateh. They're both endorsed by SEIU, Take Action MN, Sunrise Twin Cities and a bunch of great elected officials!

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Well this very cool sign was delivered to school today!

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 21/08/2025

Hardly anything could be dirtier & grimier than a relatively small group, hundreds of city residents, gathering in an auditorium to decide a local DFL endorsement. Except a committee of outstate bigwigs overturning that endorsement bc their guy needed it bad. That seems dirtier.

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

This is the first time I’ve ever questioned my party affiliation. Hmm.

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Act free to be free @mikerollin2.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

🌞This Saturday, Aug 23! 🌞 Come support progressive, labor & DFL endorsed City Council candidate @sorenwithward8.bsky.social. Meet some fab Ward 8 neighbors & help Soren's people-powered campaign win! See you there! @lfly.bsky.social @kevinwhelan.bsky.social @keepingitriehl.bsky.social

Event flyer with photo of Soren Stevenson, young man, bald, and smiling. Text reads: Neighbors for Soren Stevenson. House party fundraiser. Saturday, August 23, 4:00 pm. Come meet neighbors and help support this people powered campaign. RSVP at QR code for location - includes a QR code to scan.

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Kendal Killian @kedrickillian.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

The hearing today was the culmination of a 4.5 assault on the connective tissue of the DFL in Mpls, to prevent exactly the eventuality that happened, Frey losing the DFL endorsement. It was full spectrum domination aimed at eliminating any avenue of power building against downtown money.

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José Antonio Zayas Cabán @yeswaydrjose.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Hennepin County’s proposed layout for Lyndale Avenue S. falls short. It’s not a people-first design. It’s a decorated, street-level parking lot, dusted with the occasional confetti of mode shift virtue signals. No protected bikeways, 24/7 bus lanes, or green space throughout the entire corridor.

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

YES. I don’t know this family personally (yet) but I love them and what they do for our community and am pumped to teach their kids when they get to middle school. Thanks for advocating for our awesome public schools!

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j garcia @jasoncomix.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

This is incredibly, terribly sad. I hope the people close to Becka Thompson can find her the help she needs.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 01/08/2025

So here is the math refuting the missing ballot theory from the Minneapolis DFL convention head teller, who posted a thread on twitter.

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

A big influence for me in "what is Uptown" is the 70s/80s punk scene. CC Club is definitely Uptown. Notable locations from the punk scene in Whittier are gone, so that has now evolved and been rebranded as "Whittier". And Lyn-Lake is in fact a subregion within Uptown.

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I have had legit the best job ever this summer - taking groups of 11-14 year olds out on bike rides across Minneapolis. I should be doing more to write down and share some insights and thoughts. Let’s start! Maybe i’ll continue to add to it throughout

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j garcia @jasoncomix.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

One of the issues with this line of argument is the lack of definition of who “they” is. The duly elected delegates at the convention adopted the rules of the day. Delegates also had a motion to suspend the rules and re-vote- which they chose not to do.

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

My first and still best convention was Ward 10, Lisa Bender, 2013. When Ken Bradley dropped out and endorsed Lisa who then took the lead over Kendal Killian who graciously bowed out so the left would be united around one candidate who wasn't Meg Tuthill. I THOUGHT ALL CONVENTIONS WOULD BE THAT FUN.

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Josh Martin @joshmartinmpls.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Another important detail of this is that the 478 total ballots cast proves quorum. Quorum is a majority of the registered delegates. And the total number of delegates that is even *theoretically* possible for the city convention is 833 (800 regular delegates, 33 DPLs).

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Fred Beukema @beukema.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

478 paper ballots were cast in the Park Board at-large race after Frey's crew exited en masse. There's your quorum.

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

It's a pretty basic strategy that I don't have a problem with. But anyone could have seen that they didn't have nearly enough delegates for it to work. Frey looked like a fool. Palmisano looked like a fool. All the sheep they herded and marched out looked like fools. Someone should get fired.

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

All in favor of Omar Fateh receiving the DFL endorsement for mayor of Minneapolis, raise your badge

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I would be BEYOND pissed at Frey if I were any of the worst park board candidates. And he wasn’t even approaching numbers to break quorum.

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Brilliant opportunity for some interdisciplinary school lessons: Trump's tariff letters! ELA could use them for a grammar-editing activity and SS could use them as a primary source example for a project where students produce their own international documents of the "post-fact era"

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Soren Stevenson @sorenwithward8.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🚴 Have you heard?! We ride this Sunday! Join Team Soren for a cycling fundraiser supporting our campaign & safer streets. Sign up for a 38-mile Grand Rounds bike ride (Meet at Painter Park at 7:30am- roll out at 8am) and help raise $250 to support our shared vision. Sign up: bit.ly/4eksaAA

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Register here to pedal with Soren and other riders towards a kinder, safer Minneapolis! This 38-mile loop of the Minneapolis Grand Rounds takes place on Sunday, July 13th in the morning, starting fro...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/07/2025

the basic message of the republican party is “fuck you, you’re on your own.”

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Does anyone know what a "youth studentship" is in this City of MPLS engagement plan for 35th and 36h St.?? www.minneapolismn.gov/media/-www-c...

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Little known fact that Elon has landed with Metro Transit after leaving DC. Trash can is still there tho

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Dave @davemn80.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."

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Suspect showed few signs of political extremism before lawmaker shootings

Friends and associates say Vance Boelter, who was apprehended late Sunday and charged with murdering a state lawmaker and her husband, was mild-mannered and did not appear to be fixated on politics.

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Shane @smorin612.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Every now and then I be reminded of a conversation with a certain former city council member friend lamenting in 2017 that Trump would walk all over Frey if he was ever elected. Exhibit A 💁 (but maybe more like.. exhibit T)

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