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Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 9h

SW Mpls is really doing Halloween.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 15h

Rather that taxing fuel less to score election points, we should be taxing fuel more so that it fully covers road infrastructure costs and the incredible social, health, and environmental externalities caused by driving.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Translation: Georgians who use a car little or not at all will subsidize heavy drivers even more than they already are.

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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 28/09/2026

Calling downtown commuters! We’re celebrating Transit to Work Day this Wednesday, Sept. 30 from 7-9 a.m. Enjoy free coffee and donuts, weigh in on local transit, and grab a selfie with Metro Transit’s mascot, Skip Traffic. See you near the giant wind turbine blade at Nicollet Mall & S 5th St.

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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 28/09/2026

This is a BFD - one of the charter airlines doing ICE flights has been sold off, thanks to pressure from smart folks with spines. Raise a glass to the financial misfortune of those who’ve been profiting off of ICE’s detention apparatus; may they not be the last.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The giant sidewalk stickers telling kids they're not allowed to bike on the sidewalks at 50th and France is depressing given the area has no bike lanes. It's also intriguing because the stickers appear to have been paid for by Edina but are also all over the Minneapolis side of France Ave.

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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

$3.89/gal for gas in Indiana?! That's too cheap! Why? Because the Republican governor Indiana suspended the gas tax again, meaning car culture is not paying it's fair share and the tax payers at large are subsidizing their driving habits. Sounds like socialism to me. 😂

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Minneapolis is so weird (laudatory)

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

~~Tim Walz~~ __living in Edina__

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Minnesota must not have a Senator who hates Minnesota. Minnesota must have a Senator who hates between one and four neighboring states, one of which should be Wisconsin.

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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The Saline County Sheriff’s Office said that Lanham was skating west on East Country Club Road when an 82-year-old woman driving westbound struck him with her car." We need upper age restrictions on driving a car.

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Man attempting to rollerblade across America killed in hit-and-run

Joachim Lanham spoke with his family the day of the fatal crash, telling them how much he loved cross-country roller skating

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's really hard to decide what's worse: having a shell of a human being continue to get a vote in Congress or having members of Congress just disappear because actually they're dying in a care home. Both seem bad and both seem like things that shouldn't be happening in a functioning democracy.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A nice thing about dropping off your kids off by bike: you can get a beautiful return ride around the Minneapolis chain of lakes. And somedays - like today - you get to watch bald eagles fishing on Lake Harriet. #Minneapolis

A bald eagle flying over Lake Harriet with the Minneapolis skyline in the background

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Your house is uninsurable because you've never filed a claim; we only insure houses with past reimbursements for fire damage," said no insurance company ever.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What we already know about the latest ICE shooting: Agents drove into Wilber Rafael Garces Perez’s car An agent fired at Garces Perez 4 times--while he was still in the car The agents didn't give Garces Perez immediate medical attention They didn't have body-cams www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

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Videos Reveal New Details About ICE Shooting in Austin

A video analysis finds that a federal immigration officer was standing to the side of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez’s car when the officer apparently fired through the rear passenger window. But the even...

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Defund the police was right, actually

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One more example of how a personalist regime they cannot conceive of a bipartisan institution to the point they would prefer to destroy it if they cannot repurpose it to their ends. See, also, much of the rest of the federal government, our military, science, higher education etc.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sounds like the Seward Cafe cooperative could use some love - and money - right about now. Donation link: ko-fi.com/sewardcafe

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Buy Seward Cafe a Coffee

Become a supporter of Seward Cafe today!

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026

The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 17/09/2026

This is horrifying

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

Trump looks at a placard that reads "Kennedy Center DEMOLITION" as he lands at Joint Base Andrews tonight (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty)

pic of Trump through the plane window looking at a placard

zoom in on placard where text is visible

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.

According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This headline photo is very striking. Despite decades of wars, the US lost very few fixed-wing aircraft in Iraq or Afghanistan. For a war of this duration - that has accomplished less than nothing - the sight of a bombed out US jet should be seen by Congress as an incredible national humiliation.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There's aways something eery and dehumanizing about a driver pulling out in front of you when you're in a bike lane or walking in a cross-walk, when you realize they never looked for you and never saw you. I braked. The driver never noticed. If I hadn't, I'd have left a nice imprint on their door.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026

Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Trump, Vance, and especially Musk have largely succeeded in eroding the norms against overt gutter racism. We don't get back on track as a society until people that act like this are driven out of public life.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's sometimes sad to think about a near-counterfactual, wherein more courageous political leaders would have responded to the 9/11 crimes by finding and arresting their architects, and trying them in American courts. The task of providing real defense being integral to credibly convicting them.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The entire right wing has been furious that the mayor of New York City had the nerve to be Muslim on 9/11, while their president is out here bragging about what a terrific relationship he has with the Saudi royal family.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"After losing war to Iran and kneecapping neighboring Canada, a slowly decaying shell of Donald Trump makes inroads on plan to undo Good Friday Agreement and make terrorism great again. Follow along for more 9/11 coverage." -The Onion, barely

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

if this was in an evangelical movie about the antichrist you'd think it'd be a bit much

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026

Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 10/09/2026

disrupting transit is the entire point of these events on nicollet mall... it's not an unfortunate side effect. the city has said that these events they've been doing for several years now are their showcase for what they could do if we only remove transit

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 10/09/2026

Data released Thursday by the Department of Public Safety show the number of killings and other violent crimes reported in Minnesota last year continued on a yearslong downward trend. Law enforcement agencies recorded 130 murders in 2025 in Minnesota compared with 172 in 2024.

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Report: Violent crime rate in Minnesota fell in 2025 to pre-COVID level

Data released Thursday show the number of killings violent crimes in Minnesota are going down. The overall violent crime rate dipped to levels not seen since 2019.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Step by step.

Step 1.
Let's design our cities to prioritize cars at all costs, everywhere, at all times and over everything else.
Step 2.
Let's all complain that kids are inside on screens all day

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why do media keep reporting on Trump's blatantly unconstitutional nonsense ideas as if he has the power to do them? The constitution dies on the front pages of the paper of record, I guess.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm really puzzled by how the online crime hawks have arrived at "Minneapolis sucks because people keep voting for this" where "this" means "violent crime". Who is voting for crime? What elected officials are pro-crime? This discourse makes no sense.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026

“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.

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Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty @hennepinatty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The mass shooting at Shoreline Plaza last week was a horrific tragedy. There have been questions regarding a case that was submitted to our office by the Minneapolis Police Department on August 20th regarding the same person who committed this shooting. Here are the facts:

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John Tomlinson @johntomlinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"[T]here were 34,592 hit-and-run crashes involving injury or property damage in 2025, but only 1 percent of those drivers was ever charged..."

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Who needs satire when you have actual fascism, or something.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Indeed. When you read up on the history of sports, it's always crazy to me how much of the currently popular sports derive from some 19th century school headmaster's extremely specific and moralized beliefs about what constituted the right amount and form of physical activity.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Since cybertaxis and waymos are now everywhere apparently, remember their existence means we're handing over even more public space on our roadways to private companies for free. At least other people are going somewhere or doing something. Autonomous cars turn roads into moving parking lots.

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