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amityf

@amityf

5 months

If you hate the school lunch program, wait til you see this!

Star Tribune

@StarTribune

5 months

NEW: Minnesota Vikings, U.S. Bank Stadium seeking $62 million for second phase of secure perimeter

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@amityf

5 years

Holding our Muslim legislators to standards we rarely even ask others (white) questions about is not right. @IlhanMN should not have to prove herself.

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@amityf

5 years

We missed @IlhanMN at the airport, but you know the best thing abt a Congresswoman who cares about her community, about her home? We don't need to see her to have her back, or know that she has ours!

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@amityf

2 months

Winona: the MIAMI of Minnesota.

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@amityf

4 years

Ugh, Ashton. @capthlr is trying to show you how to be a manager. You don't just get to fire people if you disagree with them. You have to manage them, and yourself. #belowdeck

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@amityf

1 year

Ok, Minneapolis. If you're into public pools, but like a bath-house spa thing with a cold pool, steam room, sauna, the whole thing--go to Watershed Spa in Northeast. Oh my god, it's the best thing ever.

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@amityf

3 years

Lies people tell about Minneapolis right now: that we have defunded the police, that we are going to defund the police, that we are a 'dangerous and dystopian ghost city', that no one cares. There's so many people who care, who want a better Mpls for everyone, no exceptions!

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@amityf

5 years

Ughhhh. @MetroTransitMN why are you even doing fare enforcement on the trains today? Yes, you're letting people ride to the end of the route but you're still writing citations. It is damn cold out. If a train is shelter for someone today, let it be. #busride

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@amityf

5 months

What a way to react to a program that literally just feeds kids. Why not be happy that kids who were not getting lunch are...now getting lunch?

Erik Mortensen

@MortForUs

5 months

Liberal brains are exploding right now: “But they said this food was “free”. It shouldn’t cost anything.”

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@amityf

2 years

Well. Blocked by the Minneapolis Commissioner of Public Safety, Cedric Alexander. That was the weirdest 30 minutes of Twitter back and forth I've ever had.

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@amityf

3 years

The whole thing, christ. But this: "Minneapolis police have been increasingly marking race as “unknown” after stopping a driver, doing so about half the time this year compared to only a quarter in 2016." Reform this system?? Nope.

KARE 11

@kare11

3 years

KARE 11 Investigates: New data shows MPD searches Black drivers at 29 times the rate of whites after minor traffic stops.

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3 years

Asked a @MplsDID person when the chairs are coming back on Nicollet; they said only on Thurs during Farmer's Market bc the businesses don't like it when the youth hang out in them. At some point, downtown businesses have to accept that youth are PART OF OUR CITY. FFS.

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@amityf

3 years

So weird how we give more value and importance to the word felony than we do to a person's life. goddamn.

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@amityf

1 year

I've always been in the whole "free school lunches are good" camp, but hearing how certain people are reacting, I'm like ready to quit my job & go be the lunch lady handing out free lunches to every damn kid, giving them hugs if they want, wearing a hairnet, the whole deal. GOD.

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@amityf

3 years

If you have to do something in the dark to avoid the people, maybe you shouldn't do it. And, people are angry, and scared, and traumatized, and GFS is a sacred space. And the city has to reckon with all of that and they're afraid of it so they send in bulldozers in the dark.

📺 Chris Egert 🎤

@ChrisEgertTV

3 years

BREAKING: Crews are attempting again to clear George Floyd Square in South Minneapolis. A few activists are there sitting near the fist statue.

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@amityf

5 years

Matthew fr @IlhanMN 's office: if your parents can't vote bc they are disenfranchised, that has an impact on the potential voters in the household. Long term impacts. #RestoreTheVote

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@amityf

2 years

God, if I lived in any part of Minnesota that's not Minneapolis, I'd want to know why Jim Schultz can ONLY talk about Minneapolis.

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@amityf

5 years

Gonna float something here; let me know if you agree: public transit should be free.

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@amityf

5 months

THIS. @MayorFrey , this really does impact how people feel about downtown. And the city just kinda keeps brushing the concerns off.

😷 la flaneuse

@laflaneuse

5 months

wHy DoN’t peOpLe LikE nIcOlLet MaLL. No sitting 16x in a row on one block. Festive lighting behind a fence. Such a welcoming street.

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3 years

Today I got asked by a kid "why are you so big?" and I didn't know what to say, and his mom said "People come in all sizes, remember?" and it was just so pleasant to hear her say that. Like, she addressed him, told the truth, and there was no shame. It was really nice!

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3 years

'A felony suspect'. When the chief of police describes a victim this way, man, it's dehumanizing. It's trying to legitimize the shooting. Felony can mean several things; specificity is important here.

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2 years

Waitaminute is the 2023 MN legislature gonna be the one who actually commits to taking on climate change and fully funds public transit, & a transit ambassador program? Is it gonna be the one that restores the right to vote? Is now the time we just throw our wishlists out there?

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@amityf

2 years

I want every councilmember who said we just need more beat cops & cops from the community to address this: "When investigating a sexual assault case, one MPD officer falsely stated that a man could not be guilty of sexually assaulting a woman if they had children together."

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@amityf

2 years

Feeling the urge to write a @StribOpinion piece that's "Me & My Husband Are Staying in Minneapolis" and it's just gonna be abt my too-many trips to the downtown Target, library, and HCMC. On the bus, of course.

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@amityf

8 months

This is actually pretty sad; AND reflective of a couple things: in Mpls, people hanging out on public spaces gets turned into "oh god, they must be dangerous, what do we do but panic and lock it up" AND

Drae Daye

@DraeDaye

8 months

Downtown Minneapolis: No Sitting Allowed, Library Edition

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@amityf

10 days

It's so funny; the hatred people have for Chicago or Minneapolis. Like, they're just cities. And then they start to talk abt crime, and just vague enough so you can hear the dogwhistles start to sound, and oh. They don't hate cities.

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@amityf

1 year

Literally just watched the @MinneapolisPD driving this cop car pull up onto the sidewalk on Nicollet Mall...to get Chipotle. I know by now, I should accept it but COME ON. This is ridiculous, @MayorFrey .

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@amityf

3 months

Gonna crochet a whole bunch of blankets this year, and then sell them as "Nasty Cat Blankets" but only to people who work from home.

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@amityf

2 years

Between Nicollet and 10th and Nicollet and 8th, there are 7 MPD vehicles parked on the sidewalk. 2 more off on the side streets. 9 cop cars, all empty. @MayorFrey , @Calex_law , what does this endeavor to show?

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@amityf

4 years

A reminder for folks watching: the grassroots organizing work that has gotten us to this point is led by @MPD_150 , @reclaimtheblock , and @BlackVisionsMN . Black-led, queer-led organizing.

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@amityf

2 years

Ok, as a person who didn't grow up in MN, I had no idea what MEA week was for about the first 20 years here.

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@amityf

2 years

@Calex_law @pastorish_k @MayorFrey 1. No, I wouldn't complain about not seeing cops because simple presence doesn't mean safety. 2. 7 empty cop cars; 2 cops on the street. So there wasn't actually an increase in police presence, there was an increase in police car presence. 3. What kind of response is this?

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@amityf

2 years

So tonight I saw a documentary called Two Trials. It's about the differences in the prosecution of Chauvin by @KeithEllison and his team, and in the lack of prosecution of the cops who killed Breonna Taylor by the AG in Kentucky, Daniel Cameron. It is excellent. AND moving. 1/

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@amityf

4 years

As it turns out, sending mailers that don't share why we should vote for you, but only show you as 'not Ilhan' aren't the way to win a CD5 primary.

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@amityf

5 years

I like what @IlhanMN says: fight for someone you don't know. I love this because it's not just about the fight, it's about building a community, building out who we mean when we talk about our community.

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@amityf

2 years

"Minneapolis is unsafe." I mean, when profits and whiteness are valued more than people's dignity, isn't every city and town in Minnesota unsafe? Even Buffalo.

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@amityf

6 months

Bike etiquette question: if I'm on a mixed-use path--bike & walk--is shouting "on your left" helpful or not? Half the time I feel like I'm startling the person on foot; the other, I can't tell.

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4 months

I know they're trolls. But anyone who can refer to 'trash day' around clearing an encampment; what happened to your humanity? People are not trash; no one is. No one.

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@amityf

3 months

Got introduced to the rabbit hole that is the MN Dept of Administration Surplus Auction site, and accidently bid on a bus shelter.

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@amityf

3 years

"the police aren't involved in the clearing of GFS". This is just their new hangout?

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@amityf

4 years

What's the crossover rate of people who said "run the protesters over if they in your way" and "you're a bad person if you're not praying for/wellwishing the president right now"?

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@amityf

3 months

Trying carving & printing with words! Inspired by @mrfishtopher 💓

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@amityf

1 year

I'm sorry. To all the women legislators in the #mnsenate rn, thank you for your strength. Thank you for your ability to not leap across your desks and not lose your shit.

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@amityf

2 years

MAYBE NOT THE TIME FOR FUNDRAISING EMAILS.

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@amityf

2 years

It's weird how much "Have we become too diverse?" sounds like "I used to go the city all the time but now it's changed, and don't feel safe anymore?". And how much both of those statements are so grounded in fear of other people. And racism.

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@amityf

6 years

I am 42, and I have epilepsy. Not old, not wealthy, just one of those people with a pre-existing condition. And glad that @TinaSmithMN will fight for me.

Tina Smith

@TinaSmithMN

6 years

All of 2018: Housley's website had 3 sentences about health care. A week before the election? She updated it. The update? She supports health care plans that don't protect people w/ pre-existing conditions because they are "wealthier."

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8 months

I would like downtown Minneapolis to be revitalized by: more seating so that when I am done shopping at Target and have 3 bags of stuff I don't need, and my bus doesn't come for another 10 minutes, I can sit my lazy ass down because my back freaking hurts. AND

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@amityf

4 years

Deebs has way more #unflatteringcatphotochallenge pics than Chad.

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@amityf

2 years

Wouldn't a good cop be able to tell the difference between their taser and their gun???

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@amityf

1 year

Seriously, @MetroTransitMN , you gotta do something about the smoking on the train. It hurts ridership--existing and potential. #busride

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@amityf

10 months

So everyone in Minneapolis went to Wisconsin and bought a shit-ton of fireworks, eh?

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@amityf

2 years

@Calex_law @MayorFrey I understand that you're taking a lot of criticism around Op Endeavor. But you came to Minneapolis where relationships between police and community are, at best, tense. Visibility on its own is not public safety; it just isn't.

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@amityf

1 month

This press conference is making me furious. If people do not want to take public transit, city leadership's response should not be "OK, let's allow Lyft & Uber to operate in bad faith, so that we can keep them here." It should be to figure out other solutions. This is so wrong.

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@amityf

1 year

Fish Fry Friday! Holy Cross Catholic in NE Minneapolis goes hard.

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@amityf

2 years

When you get a "hey, can we bring a city bus to your house for pics?" text, you have to get up in the middle of a zoom meeting for it, right??

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@amityf

3 months

Ok. If you are interested! Nasty Cat Blanket cat-size. If you want one, message me!

amityf

@amityf

3 months

Gonna crochet a whole bunch of blankets this year, and then sell them as "Nasty Cat Blankets" but only to people who work from home.

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@amityf

4 days

For every one person who writes an op-ed about their exit from Minneapolis, just know that there's more staying because we do love it here. And we're organizing, on all levels, to make our city one where people can thrive.

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@amityf

2 years

Yo. If you campaigned, very publicly, on having a 24 hour turnaround response to constituent email & phone calls and you actually wait 4 days to answer an email, you might want to check your math.

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@amityf

3 months

When you call me a loser because I'm working from home, this is really who you hurt.

Nick Halter

@nickhaltermpls

3 months

Mayor Frey speaking at Mpls Downtown Council event, talking about people who work from home when they could go into an office: "You become a loser!"

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@amityf

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This is what's bothering me about the rideshare discourse--the Mpls leadership not saying _anything_ about public transit as an option. It's in the TAP, but when push comes to shove, Frey & certain CMs act like it doesn't even exist. I get it, there's gaps. But come on!

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@amityf

5 years

So, it's always hard sharing stories and being vulnerable in public spaces. I wouldn't have done this wo hearing the stories of others. Every time we speak, we open space for more people.

Wedge LIVE!™

@WedgeLIVE

5 years

Amity responds to anti-renter sentiment at last Wednesday's @Mpls2040 City Council hearing.

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@amityf

11 months

When people say they want the buses off of Nicollet Mall, I have to wonder if they mean the bus stops, which really means bus shelters, which really means spaces where people sleep and find temporary shelter? Which REALLY means unhoused people.

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@amityf

3 years

A reminder: addiction is not a crime. The way we treat people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol can often be criminal, though.

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@amityf

2 years

Hey, if I created a list of bathrooms in Minneapolis--anyone interested in helping build this out? I mean, like if you're downtown, where can you go to the bathroom without having to pay, or where you need staff to let you in? That type of thing. (or does this already exist?!!)

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@amityf

3 years

@MayorFrey "His life will have bettered our city?" Fire your comms people.

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@amityf

11 months

The thing that gets me is that 6 days ago, the @CityMinneapolis launches their 'As you go' campaign, to get people using other modes of transportation. Then this happens. "Bike & walk, but oh, no, not on that bridge dedicated to biking & walking."

Chris Meyer 🏳️‍🌈🌲🥑🚲🚊

@chrisjohnmeyer

11 months

Gates going up. Very disappointing

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@amityf

3 years

"Y'all don't sound scared, you sound racist." And Ashley, from Ward 5 pretty much nails it.

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@amityf

3 years

Watching @janashortal 's show, carjackings are up in major cities across the US. This is helpful context for the public safety convo; Minneapolis isn't an outlier, and I'm betting that a crap economy is a factor.

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@amityf

7 months

Tomorrow there's going to be a 1% increase in the TC metro area sales tax. FIRST: this is how Minnesotans take care of each other; how we make sure we're living in a state where everyone can thrive, no matter their race, class, gender--this is it. One cent on the dollar.

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@amityf

2 years

$450 million into Minnesota for treatment of opioid addiction. That's what @keithellison won for our state. To hear Jim Schultz dismiss that--sounds like he doesn't know _anyone_ who struggles with addiction; his dismissal of that money sounds like a slap, tbh.

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@amityf

4 years

Black organizers got @CityMinneapolis council members here today. A necessary reminder because media will get it twisted.

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@amityf

2 years

Just another day in Minneapolis; local personality calls downtown a hellhole.

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@amityf

5 years

I have a rant. I am so damn tired of this narrative around public transit: that it's dirty and dangerous, that it's just for people who can't afford cars, that it will bring crime and 'those' people into 'our' communities, that no one wants to ride it, etc.

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@amityf

6 months

Focus On the Family is awful. Boooooo Kirk Cousins.

Outsports

@outsports

6 months

Minnesota Vikings QB Kirk Cousins supports Focus On The Family, one of America’s most anti-LGBTQ organizations.

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@amityf

4 months

Watching Stauber get dragged all over the place is just kind of great.

Governor Tim Walz

@GovTimWalz

4 months

Oh boy. I hate to talk politics when there’s good news to celebrate but this is too brazen to ignore. Mr. Stauber voted against every screw, steel beam, and concrete pier in this bridge. Luckily @POTUS worked with Stauber’s colleagues and got it done without him. Thanks, Joe!

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4 months

So many police, my god.

Dymanh Chhoun

@Dymanh

4 months

The Minneapolis police officers are officially here at the homeless encampment in south Minneapolis. @SahanJournal

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@amityf

2 years

Every time I go to the downtown @Target , more doors are locked, the lobby is even more shut down. Now the bathrooms are closed, and the only ADA entry is from the skyway. Wondering when the moat goes in, filled w alligators?

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@amityf

4 years

Old dude on the bus this morning asked me where I've been; he missed seeing me. Thought I got a car, I told him never. He laughed, said good, then we had a convo abt affordable housing with the driver and other rider. Don't tell me transit isn't a community! #busride

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@amityf

2 years

Hey, if you live in Mpls/are looking for solid coverage of our city, you should follow @ByGeorgiaFort , @MNReformer , @SahanJournal . And @BullyCreative for some of the best insights and understanding of what's been happening--with love & the accountability it demands.

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@amityf

3 years

Mpls City Council & Mayoral candidates: what's your favorite bus route and where did you last take transit? (Full disclosure: my fave is the 11 rn, and the last place I took it was to the library, but then duh, they aren't open on Saturday so I went to Target instead.) #busride

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@amityf

2 years

Oh, to live in Edina where there has been no crime ever until the carjacking a week ago. That's how all the news coverage sounds, honestly.

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@amityf

1 year

"Up North" should not just be for people who can drive there.

Walter Hudson

@WalterHudson

1 year

We're about to pass a bill to fund a train to Duluth. I like Duluth. Fun town. Lots to do. Nearly everything I can think of to do in Duluth is more than walking distance from every other thing there is to do in Duluth. Why would I take a train there when I can drive?

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@amityf

2 years

My councilmember's response to the MDHR report re policing is this: "I ask you all to help start changing the culture of policing by encouraging our diverse youth, especially women, to consider becoming police officers." I want to mock it, but it's also so dangerous. 1/

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@amityf

1 year

Going back to work tomorrow and I don't remember what my job is. Uh oh.

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@amityf

2 years

What's a thing that's Minneapolis for you, but that you only see or know about because of a transit trip or bike ride? Like, the shoe tree at the U, the one you pass on the Green Line to St. Paul. Never would've seen it if I didn't ride the train. #busride

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@amityf

2 years

@Calex_law @pastorish_k @MayorFrey Yes; I am one of those people. They are accountable to me; and I am asking you, and the Mayor, as the people who supervise those officers--what are you having them do? Because what I saw was 2 officers standing on a corner, and empty cop cars.

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3 years

"Har Mar Super Sorry"?? That's the headline the @StarTribune used when covering a local musician who sexually assaulted women. One of the reasons people don't come forward is bc of shit like this--their stories taken lightly. I'd say do better, but I don't know if you all can.

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@amityf

2 years

Ok, I was not prepared for the sense of rejection I would feel if no kids came trick or treating. LOL.

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@amityf

5 months

Just a reminder: all this means is that 193 people didn't pay their fare. It means very little about safety, unless you're assuming that people who don't pay fares are also engaging in unsafe behavior.

Star Tribune

@StarTribune

5 months

Metro Transit fined 193 riders for not paying in week of enforcement

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@amityf

2 years

From @MetroTransitMN 's recent report on ridership: core ridership is BIPOC, older, people with disabilities, lower income and unemployed. CORE trips are life maintenance--shopping, medical visits, etc. We should make these trips speedy & reliable (per Krugman just now!)

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@amityf

2 years

Greta Callahan w @mft59 on @Kare11 , to parents abt the possible strike: "explain to your child what collective action is and how we can use it to change the world." Yesssss!

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@amityf

4 years

So if breweries are unionizing, the next rush is gonna be all the grassroots orgs in the Twin Cities, right?

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8 days

Ok, I know this one is a train, but @MetroTransitMN , I would like to request this as the design for all BRT going forward.

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4 years

Come on, @WCCO . "They (AIM and Native Lives Matter) say Columbus was responsible for genocide..." Try "Columbus was responsible for genocide...". There's no question.

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@amityf

2 months

Voter 172, at 3-1. Uncommitted.

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2 years

CM Jenkins: "We need to learn from these events so that we can prevent them in the future." How much more learning do you want to do? When the lesson is death, what are you trying to learn?

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@amityf

9 months

kinda pissed that as a member I find out the downtown YWCA is closing through a strib article and not the actual Y.

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@amityf

5 months

Hello Minneapolis Cat Twitter! I am working on a project; would you be willing to send me a picture of your cat?

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@amityf

1 month

I sad-laughed at this. Frey just wants to say shiny things like "we have every ability to become a city with a world class multi-modal transportation system" but not actually take the steps (and risks) to get us there.

Wedge LIVE!™

@WedgeLIVE

1 month

When Mayor Frey says "not everyone can drive" over and over again to save Uber and Lyft, I think about all the bus lanes his public works department has turned into parking against the advice of Metro Transit.

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@amityf

5 months

Imagine what can be photoshopped onto that light blue area.

Brian Bakst

@Stowydad

5 months

Let it fly: Minnesota officially has a new flag

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