Gerrit VanderWaal

This an interesting example of a map that uses a non-standard layout. Often, one deviates from the north-is-up-and-view-is-orthogonal layout to make a map fit better in its frame or convey height, but in this case it seems like the creator sought to emphasize landscape at the cost of readability.

Don’t sleep on the bakery case at Bewick Cafe in St. Paul. They are next level!

I was bummed to see the bump track disappear from the Lake Hiawatha & Minnehaha Pkwy tennis court but now i'm thrilled to see it just moved to the former 34th Ave S & 47th St E court! So fun to be able to just drop in 🔥

We are at the 5th straight week of double digit percentage drop in pending homes sales for the Twin Cites. You can also look at where rates have gone since end of August.

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

Cool event going on this weekend to make raised beds for NE and SE Minneapolis neighbors to grow food for the community (even beans!) Boosting for folks in the neighborhood. tinyurl.com/NESEbuild

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-...

Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System is one of the most important data products, especially with maternal mortality rates of Black women in the US. Huge shout-out to the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies for initiating this effort! popcenter.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...

I think of this in terms of sinks: suffering (and financial liability) flow from higher elevations outstate toward the Cities

The Truth Revealed

@jchavezmpls.bsky.social Can You Account For These Disturbing Allegations???

During the ICE surge, Lisa Demuth signed a letter thanking ICE and praising Kristi Noem for her "steady leadership."

Minneapolis Planning Commission Committee of the Whole* this week contains a proposal for 185 homes on the old Smith Foundry site, right on the Greenway which is great. This is a few minutes walk to Lake St light rail etc * early stage feedback on proposals lims.minneapolismn.gov/Board/Agenda...

Delighted to see a preview of my article in the upcoming issue of The Minnesota Archaeologist, correcting a zooarchaeological misidentification from early in my career. Those aren’t mourning dove bones, they are extinct passenger pigeons!

Fall colors in northern MN are so vibrant right now you can see it from space

My first visit ever to Mia was to see my own art hanging in a gallery. Getting 3rd place in the largest crop art class was an incredible enough honor on its own. Being one of 31 pieces selected for Cream of the Crop feels like a dream. I will never get over this. Thank you @artsmia.bsky.social!

I keep thinking about how most of the census records for 1890s are gone because of a fire. There is so much I don't know about my family just because of one measly little decade's missing data. Now apply that to what the current administration is doing to the US datasets.

The thing that's infuriating about our squeamishness about consequences for traitors and corrupt officials is that we are one of the most punitive countries in the world in most other respects.

I don't like being targeted like this

as if navigating through St. Paul aint scary enough, now I've got "Mr. Chuckles" staring me down

Funding for our parks and the very financial foundation of Minneapolis are jeopardized because police spending is out of control. To avoid a reduction in our credit rating and future park service reductions the Mayor and City Council must take action to rein in spending. Please read and share.

It's almost space heater season.

NEW! How MPD Built a Police Surveillance Operation Around Renee Good’s Memorial — and What It Cost the Community MPD dedicated 101 personnel to a memorial deployment where just seven people were holding vigil. It was part of a four-day MPD operation that generated $1.92 million in overtime.

The Stearns Bank foreclosure filing against HmongTown Marketplace isn’t (just) about HmongTown Marketplace. At its dark and ghastly heart, it’s all about the Pan-Asian Center/Sears site at the Maplewood Mall. It was Sears it was Sears it was always Sears. And Macy’s! twincities.com/2026/09/15/s...

Same front from behind looking east #mnwx

Driving north on the tail end this evening's severe thunderstorm front in NW MN #mnwx

First came the trains, then came the apartments, then came the breweries, then came the food halls... Another long-abandoned property was taken down today. The Stone Lab building at 421 29th Ave SE was once used by the University of Minnesota for environmental health research.

City of St Paul just ran an important experiment proving that other human beings continue to exist even when you do peekaboo hands over your face. www.fox9.com/news/st-paul...

We've somehow managed to make it a quarter of a century with this silly hobby project. Thanks to everyone who has helped make this happen - crazy hackers the world over, the wardriving community, and everyone who loves to see the RF spectrum come alive.

I wrote about tree misinformation for today''s newsletter. Subscribe to be amongst the first to get a sneak preview at my new YouTube show: www.lni.media

i maintain that north minneapolis has the best views of the skyline and now i can add that they have the best developed trails along the riverfront too. what a beautiful place

The Minnesota State Fair, running now through Monday, is the greatest place on earth. We sent the reliably excellent BUMP OPERA to capture photographic evidence of that fact✨

Precipitation chart goes crazy this year. We were pretty on-target and then it's basically only rained once since June?

Learned mountain goats in the Rockies are vulnerable to heat stroke because they don't heat and sweat like dogs?? Thanks Smithsonian Channel!

Hope people are alright in whatever's going on here :( 📍Uŋčí Makhá Park looking northeast

🚨INCONVENIENCE ALERT🚨 The midtown greenway will be closed from 5th to Bryant on Aug 25-27 (Tuesday-Thursday this week)

Why does it seem like the only new retail businesses in MPLS are cannabis shops, salons, or tattoo shops? Bc biz want to keep rent at 5-10% of gross sales, and at $3500/month in rent (a pretty average price in high foot traffic areas) you need $1500+ in sales EVERY DAY if you are open 6 days/week

Outside of downtown specifically, it was interesting to see that some areas whose council members advocated for data centers have almost no eligible locations in their wards, while those of us who advocated against data centers are having the data center overlay proposed in ours.

Congratulations to Lila Smith and the neighborhood! Few people have the tenacity to work across 15 years while managing volunteers, at least three property owners, and 1.5 governments.

one undercover agent attended a lefty boxing practice and had an oopsie

A motion filed this morning in the "Minnesota 15" case details extensive surveillance of labor unions, leftist organizations and racial justice groups by the federal government during Operation Metro Surge. Here's the motion — reading through it now and will have a story up later today.