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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 7h

Yes! I sent emails during my kid’s nap today. Following that site’s guidance, I did my city council rep, state senator and rep, county commissioner, and Met Council rep + Met Council chair. (It was my own email, though, not an edit to the site’s.)

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 8h

We subsidize private car ownership *so much*, in so many different ways We should subsidize the service that acts as a safety net for households to own fewer cars, too—&, right now, come thru w emergency $ (Want to talk about affordability? Hard to save more in one fell swoop than dropping a car!)

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 8h

Something I’ve learned in conversations in the last week is that Evie (HourCar, the car share service set to shut down in the Twin Cities w/o emergency $) gives ppl confidence to try going car-free—then they realize they can Why this matters: *Even when Evie isn’t being used* it helps climate goals

Rally to support Evie Community Carshare! Tuesday 10/13 @ 6pm, Minneapolis Government Plaza

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A wealth of resources here for anyone trying to understand what’s happening in India.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12h

not my face pressed to the glass like a starving Victorian waif outside a confectionery shoppe right now

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 20h

I do think that a lot of prescriptive or, like, One Big Idea nonfiction feels v padded to me, where I understand why it’s a book in terms of the ecology & economy of ideas but, as a reader, would’ve preferred one or 3 articles. But immersive books that engage w a tangle of ideas have no replacement

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 21h

This bums me out so much. “Environmental reportage with personal elements” is exactly what I want to read, & overly pat prescriptivism can honestly wreck it And IMO a book like that can have a longer life if forced prescriptivism doesn‘t date it. I still teach Elizabeth Rush’s RISING every year

“Over and over, she has been told her book—which she describes as environmental reportage with personal elements—won’t sell in the current market. One agent thinks they can sell it but only if the writer turns up its prescriptive takeaways.”

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 21h

lawyers can try to help stop someone from being moved to where they have less protection if they know, very early, the name of someone taken. Sorry if you knew all that already. Thank you for writing and sharing this.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 21h

This is a beautiful essay, devastating to read. For next time… if there is any kind of rapid response infrastructure in your area, it can help to be in touch very quickly if someone is abducted. I know you’re in Texas so this may be different (people are kidnapped from MN *to* TX), but here,

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Micayla @mithsp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Please note the call to reach out to any and all elected officials on their website- we saw how that can change minds with the Daytons Bluff library in STP.

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

New York showing up all the #Minneapolis and #Minnesota companies so hard right now. This is how you lead Jacob Frey you twat.

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MaryMM @marymm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

‼️ Action Opportunity ‼️ quick, easy, important, impactful

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Somebody absolutely screwed me over last week by offering me a badly needed deadline extension, thereby leading me to immediately cease working and sacrifice all momentum on the project

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The artist is currently approaching random strangers and announcing, “I went to a cider pressing this morning, so it’s appropriate that I’m wearing this apple dress.” They may not be aware, however, that they are conversing with an artiste

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Untitled work by Fiona (b. 2022); paint crayons, pencil, and sticker.

A drawn flower has purple, teal, brown, and pencil petals; purple, teal, brown, and blue seeds; pencil leaves and stem; and a sticker butterfly on top.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?

wired.com

Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections

America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes, but we’re all hopeful that soon we will be able to prosecute ICE the way it deserves

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

By the way, there would be absolutely zero confidentiality problem with Cornell telling us exactly how many times it has assigned an essay as “punishment” for a sexual assault over, let’s say, the last ten years

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The more powerful person gets endless benefit of the doubt. And we can fool ourselves into thinking that means we’re being generous and judicious, without stopping to ask what it implies we’re concluding about the less powerful person, their judgment, and what they deserve.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“In the verdict… the investigators wrote it didn’t seem like my rapist ‘acted maliciously.’” Please don’t misread the analogy btwn v different violations when I say that I thought of UMN concluding that Rachel Hardeman didn’t *mean* to steal grad students’ work. Bc that was convenient for the U

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Overheard train chat between two tough-looking youths: Youth one: “I got déjà vu, man. I saw this dog and felt like I’d seen it before.” Youth two: “That’s not déjà vu. You just saw a dog twice.”

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also strikes me that the fact that we haven't necessarily thought about taxes in these terms enough might reflect that data condition us to take geographic units for granted. But, like, part of the entire point of our weird geographic structures is to enable precisely this segregation & extraction

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Saw an awesome talk by @robertmanduca.bsky.social yesterday building on this work to look at racial disparities. This whole line of work is so good.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Absolutely love this metric and hope we use it for all city budgeting discussions from now on

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little john @littlejohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

god forbid a mouse come to this place for magic

Allison M.
@ALliCinema
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Currently in a theater that's being invaded by mice. I saw one. But then saw others. Kind of distracting. I am going to make a list later: movies where I encountered mice in the theater. I think this is the 4th time it's happened while I've been in NYC.

and then it’s just a photo of an innocent little mouse watching a movie on the big screen, the way scorsese intended.

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Les Lim @lesmana.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

is it just me or does this “sliced” bakery sticker go unnecessarily hard

A bag of bread, with a sticker showing “SLICED” and a drawing of a knife. The lettering on the sticker is large and bold, with a thin sliver cut through the word indicating the casual, precision violence inflicted therein

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Jene O'Ween @luckymud.myatproto.social · 09/10/2026

I'm not your constituent, I'm from Minneapolis, but I am begging you to please step in and do whatever is in your power to provide rent relief to folks who have to shelter in place if/ when the president escalates this. Don't fail people like our mayor failed us.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We’re sick of ICE terrorizing our neighbors. Sick of it. Like the brave people of Minneapolis, we have zero tolerance for federal agents lawlessly unleashing violence on our streets.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My kid has quite recently become a lot more chatty with adults. A neighbor who met her only a few times, all before that change, gave a better description of her than I’ve ever managed: “She always seemed, not shy so much as… aloof. Like a cat.” I think they nailed it.

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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I live in Minnesota. I love my Somali neighbors. To get to them you gotta come through me.

Sign in porch window:

WE SUPPORT OUR SOMALI NEIGHBORS

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I had never thought about how insurance for frats works, so I had to stare into space for a while when I read this: sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/33-underst...

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I suspect this especially influences going from two kids to three. People satisfy themselves with fewer than they would’ve if we expected less of ourselves with each one. (Being older when childbearing starts definitely also matters there, of course.)

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They do, it's just that the frats have already taken on that cost and the sororities have not, and according to the person who told me this, it's really hard to imagine them moving in that direction

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One reason schools are always hotbeds is that kids are a more immunologically naive population than adults w respect to almost every infectious disease. But not a brand-new one! I suspect that if we'd really put $ into school HVAC + high-quality staff PPE + closures elsewhere, pretty safe actually

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is very good (although I've been told by a researcher in this area that National Panhellenic Conference sororities overturning their alcohol ban is "never gonna happen" for insurance reasons)

vitalcitynyc.org

Finding New Ideas for Campus Sexual Assault Prevention

Learn from schools with better climates.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And then they were very spottily open because there weren't enough healthy staff to stay open consistently in the 2021-2022 school year (Minnesota's Delta wave was *much* more prolonged than most places', and then of course Omicron)

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