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I spoke with cherished friend @amityf.bsky.social last night and she mentioned that I should have a patreon. I asked, "how do you not know I've had a patreon for many years?" I'm bad at promoting the patreon. Don't make me mention it again. Freedom isn't free and neither is Wedge LIVE.

A lot of people will have a hard time supporting Jamison Whiting for mayor because of the way he's forever perverted the meaning of a "scorecard." You can't score your own actions and opinions. You'll always agree with yourself.

Yard Sign Pundit: "A lot of the big houses in the lakes area who've historically displayed questionable politics don't have Anders Folk signs like you'd expect. You have to question whether the enthusiasm will be there on election day."

Josh Martin ran for high party office, he won, and now all he does is spout the party line. Incredible fall from grace.

Council Member Chowdhury on proposal to eliminate Office of Community Safety: "We can spend less on coordination" than $2.1 million. Says we can do without "layers and layers of management," as the city lays off employees elsewhere to close a $60 million budget gap.

Never seen Jamison Whiting speak with more passion than today when defending the Office of Community Safety from elimination. So I felt bad when his only allies were an incoherent Michael Rainville and Linea Palmisano.

Council Member Soren Stevenson reprimanded by colleagues for failing to insert the word "allegedly" when talking about the misdeeds of our previous police chief. This was in the context of today's "WHERE'S TODD???" debate over whether the office of community safety is worth the cost.

Weird split on today's City Council vote to move forward a proposal eliminating the Office of Community Safety, currently led by Todd Barnette. Yes: Wonsley, Payne, Chavez, Stevenson, Chughtai, Vetaw, Osman, Warren, Chowdhury No: Palmisano, Rainville, Whiting Abstain: Shaffer

Council Member Chughtai claimed today that 75% of the people speaking publicly to defend the office of community safety from elimination "in private will talk about the failures" and say they don't know what the office does all day, don't know what they produce.

It's hard to imagine life without the office of community safety in Minneapolis. How would we replace the layer of bureaucratic shielding between the mayor and the police chief? Who would react to questions about police overspending with sleepy eyed surprise?

This is shitty punditry. Republicans are rarely asked to denounce their extremists because the media gets bored at how bigotry and extremism permeates their entire party from top to bottom. Then they get giddy at any hint of controversy on the left, it's all they can talk about.

Piker mania on local TV

I continue to receive bad-faith MAGA mailers attacking Amy Klobuchar for failing to support the "progressive revolution." Can't fool me though.

Guy at Aldi just walked away with a lady's shopping cart. Lady shouts excuse me excuse me! And then chased after him. He realized he mistook it for his cart and apologized. Long story short, Moriarty won't prosecute. No surprise to anyone.

Naive innocent with childlike understanding of the world: "Could this really be real? Does this Democrat really want Republican endorsements?" Me, a Larry Jacobs level pundit: "Yes, as long as none of the rest of us learn about it."

For years we've been told the DSA is a menace — a threat to our very way of life — by the same Frey guys courting MAGA Republican support for their candidate for Hennepin county attorney.

Local TV keeps telling me it's controversial for a streamer to believe American foreign policy choices invited the 9/11 attacks. Since the twin cities TV market bleeds into Wisconsin, please let them know their Republican senator believes 9/11 was an inside job.

Like many of you, I'm just bunkering down at home waiting for the controversial event to be over.

Key issues before voters in the 2026 midterms: ➡️Trump raiding the home of a member of congress to solve the mystery of whether Ilhan Omar is really named Ilhan Omar ➡️Trump amplifying the woman who abetted the rape of the Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio ➡️Gas prices

Glad they unearthed the black and white high school yearbook photo but it's only going to increase the weaponization of federal law enforcement when Trumpers realize Ilhan Omar was the girl in high school who wouldn't give them the time of day.

I should have mentioned that my office is Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services. The Mayor's budget eliminates seven staff members less than two weeks before an anxiety-inducing midterm. No more high school election judge program. No more voter outreach.

SF hasn’t had an original cultural idea for a while, huh? @wedge.live

Don't trust anyone using Anders Folk as a testimonial for the illegal peptides they sell in the parking lot of a Planet Fitness. Not FDA approved. You don't know where they came from.

The Uptown real estate community is begging the City of Minneapolis to buy the Seven Points parking garage, make the parking free, install slides so you can safely bypass the criminals waiting to ambush you in the stairwell. youtu.be/AmioIXNNFzU

When you're sweating in short sleeves after sunset, it's hard to believe October is included among the 7 months of Minnesota winter during which it's too frigid to ride a bike, according to the best estimates of assholes holding microphones at community meetings.

the bill in MnLeg last session would have exempted them from regulations against e.g. bike lane parking bsky.app/profile/elin...

waymo representative sent to a city of minneapolis event can’t give a real answer about their vehicles utilizing bike lanes or not when this is a known PR issue for the company and we are one of the top biking cities in the country it’s talk of safety for the people inside the waymo only

New episode with Abdihakim Ibrahim, candidate for the Hennepin County Board in district 3. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFMv...

Today the Minneapolis City Council's Climate & Infrastructure Committee will be discussing the city's 2-way bikeways and conflicts with right turning vehicles at signalized intersections. Most of these intersections don't have signage prohibiting a right turn through a red light.

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Good news for Anders Folk in the Whittier neighborhood: blood thirsty infants are coming to eat your fully developed adult brains.

Iron clad rule of politics: the longer the election goes on, the more mall bombers we must unearth to sustain the effort.

I'm urging everyone who had to get an AI summary to tell them who Hasan Piker is to not weigh in on the CONTROVERSY. This includes all of our elderly TV pundit political science professors.