brass solidarity band covering sounds of blackness “hold on (change is coming)” at the abolish ICE festival taking place across the street from where federal agents murdered alex pretti in minneapolis
The "surge" may be (allegedly) ending but the impacts will be felt for a long time. Today I'm raising money to cover rent for a neighbor who has been impacted by the ICE occupation. So far we've raised about $550 and our goal is $1250.
Chip in using venmo to @ maddiemlove Will post receipts
I'm sorry but it's so embarrassing when grown adults submit fully AI generated shit in professional settings. Like you clearly didn't even review this and it's so obviously written by a computer. To me that says you don't give a fuck about the work and didn't care to spend time on it.
Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.
I have become aware of a website attempting to draft State Senator Erin Maye Quade to run for Governor.
www.draftemq.com
Minnesotans concerned about ICE and our safety deserve a choice for Governor, and we deserve someone who will work to protect everyone in the state, not just do press events and the. cave to Trump and DHS.
We deserve someone like this ⬇️ for Governor and I’d love to see Erin run.
#draftEMQ
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
It was so lovely to see people I recognized from my own block and people I had met at National Nights Out in the past. People were saying things to each other like "oh you live in that house? I love your garden!" and "I pet your dog every time I go by your fence!" Community is what will save us ❤️
Today easily 100 of my neighbors came out to a park in 3 degree weather to meet each other, join block chats, and figure out how we can support one another.
You don't have to live in Minneapolis to do this! ICE may eventually come to your city too. Meet your neighbors!!
This is so helpful, thank you!
Are there any particular ICE related resolutions that groups are organizing to bring to precinct caucuses? Want to make sure I have a copy to bring to mine
Yes we shall ❤️
Tonight neighbors gathered. In parks and on street corners and on porches. We saw them climbing over piles of snow in the quiet + the darkness, candles in hand, bundled up tightly to honor the life of Alex. And to call for an end to the federal occupation of our city. We sang. We shall overcome.
ICE murdered my neighbor this morning. And they continue to terrorize, beat, and kidnap Minnesotans all across the state. I don’t have any more words.
Sustain Saint Paul is proud to endorse Rebecca Noecker for County Commissioner District 5. Get ready to caucus on February 3rd! 🧵(1/3)
crowdsourcing recs- who do you know that builds campaign websites?
I think "not counted" (as they put it) isn't a fair categorization when it was more about upgrades. However I disagree with their assertion that it would've fundamentally changed the results of the convention
Here’s what I’ll say: I didn’t build the system, I stepped in to tabulate. Do I think the original system was over promised given the tech stack? Yes. Do I think upgrades weren’t happening perfectly at credentials? Yes.
But the body was given multiple opportunities to redo a ballot. They declined.
I said it on the other site so I’ll say it here too- Sorry I didn’t consider when making a friend at age 15 that we may both someday move to Minneapolis and separately get involved in politics!
Guess I’ll try it Dawyn’s way: having no friends at all
Basically!
Not necessarily, you'd just have to build in the logic. Like another user said, the true time suck would be building out the UI and nailing down all the logic/rules for upgrades
That’s democracy though, people vote for their own interests. It’s what we’ve all agreed to in the rules ahead of time.
Those “spoiled” ballots also could’ve been observers who had a blank ballot code because they weren’t actually delegates. Elections often have thin margins, you recount and accept the results.
You can’t control spoiling ballots though. It happens at every convention because people don’t follow directions. I think that is the least fair pool to draw from because in this case it’s defined by an incorrect ballot code.
They didn’t start upgrading alternates until after the initial report from what I saw. So it seems very possible that 50 delegates left and 90 alternates were upgraded. I get the urge to nitpick individual numbers, but that’s why it seems important the body was given the choice to redo and said no
The alternate only vote pool had very similar vote margins to the delegate only pool, so there would have to be some very lucky upgrades (i.e all of one campaigns supporters upgraded and none from another) to change the results
I can understand that, which is exactly why I made the thread to bring some transparency. Immediately after I offered to review upgrades with the DFL and still would. However statistically, looking at alternate votes) it’s incredibly unlikely to substantively change results.
I can’t speak to that since I was uninvolved in the creation. However when I sat there for a few hours trying to help her fix it, all our discussions were results related. Credentials was asking alts to go out to registration to be upgraded the old fashioned way throughout the day prior.
They were instructed to! Normally, alternates have to constantly check-in at a desk to see if they're eligible to be upgraded. The Minneapolis DFL instead chose to have all delegates and alternates vote and do the upgrading on the back end via credentials committee, then only count the votes of dels
It was the system- no wait, the counting- no wait, the upgrades- no wait now it's been too long- no wait....
I will sit here all day and defend democracy and math. They can tire themselves out.
