Chris Meyer

You love to see it folks.

Bus lane enforcement hell yeah!!!

Hero. This spot is nasty.

A person stands at an icy streetcorner facing away from the camera holding a giant ice chunk above their head in a victory pose. The back of their shirt reads “end ice”

Bopping in to say that clearing ice from corners and bus stops is excellent community care and also good for getting out some kind of energy and connecting with strangers.

we elected such a fucking good park board, y’all. thank you to my park board reps @engy5150.bsky.social @olsenforparks.bsky.social @amberforparks.bsky.social

Fantastic protest art

Commissioner Kay Carvajal Moran votes against Al Flowers' preference on the Uptown Mall. Then he responds to her, "c'mon immigrant community, that I'm out there fighting for." (he thinks a Mexican American commissioner owes him her vote bc he's personally anti-ICE?)

Then Garcia yells at Flowers.

I live in Linden Hills and wrote to Cathy Abene saying I support pedestrianizing park roads----precisely BECAUSE I'm a senior! Precisely BECAUSE we are all either pre-disabled or disabled--and we need an alternative to car culture. Especially in our parks. Thank you for your leadership!

Do I have to watch the video of tonight's shitshow of a park board meeting? I'd rather just repeat what I've heard from witnesses:
➡️ open parkways resolution passed
➡️ Uptown Mall resolution passed
➡️ President Tom Olsen continues to be told to take his ass back to Edina
➡️ Al Flowers v Chris Meyer

Open streets has existed as a popular, regular local event for more than a decade. Yet the idea of exploring open parkways events on the riverfront is the crime of the century. You can thank MPRB commissioners Cathy Abene and Charles Rucker for working people into a rage over it.

Protesters carried a giant rendition of the U.S. Constitution through downtown Minneapolis on Friday, chanting "ICE out now."

📷️: Kyeland Jackson

January 24, 2026 at 1:34 PM Jeff Day Sources identify man shot as Alex Jeffrey Pretti of south Minneapolis The man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis this morning has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation. Pretti, 37, has an address listed in south Minneapolis. At a news conference, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the man who was shot was a 37-year-old white man with no serious criminal history and a record that showed some parking tickets. Law enforcement sources said Saturday their records show Pretti had no serious criminal history. O'Hara said the man was a “lawful gun owner” with a permit. Records show that Pretti attended the University of Minnesota. State records show Pretti was issued a nursing license in 2021, and it remains active through March 2026.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, licensed nurse

I just responded to the scene at 26th and Nicollet shortly after the observer was shot. They teargassed and/or pepper sprayed Jana Shortal of KARE11 at the scene and she was being treated when I walked up. ICE have a fancy camera they are using to scan the faces of the crowd.

Star tribune early reporting on the fatal shooting by ice agents on 1/24

Source:

Witnesses are being taken to Whipple.

From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”

All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.

Both the Uptown Mall and Open Parkways resolutions passed out of committee unanimously!

There is still more work to be done, but these are the first steps in making our park system greener, more climate friendly, dynamic, accessible!

Be sure to give your commissioners love for these strong votes!

Amended resolution approved in committee, will go forward to the full board.

Presentation on the open parkways pilot and toolkit. Testing the theory that people are capable of becoming less angry about a thing when they learn it isn't what they believed it to be.

The slippery slope is, start small, people love it, then the cat's out of the bag. Can't stop the spread.

Try this argument at your next park board meeting

It's stupid that the anti-accessibility/pro-car folks are spending so much of their time on this while most of us are trying to materially protect our neighbors, but they are.

Email MPRB commissioners that parks that are for people + green and growing things, not cars + pavement, by 5:30 today.

The Uptown Mall plan is back on the agenda at the park board next week. Mike Erlandson and pals are extremely energized over a loss of parking.

If you support park space over parking, emails to commissioners and in-person testimony would be helpful.

agendasuite.org/iip/mprb/mee...

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

The official explanation they’re apparently going with here is that they aren’t 100% convinced that breathing soot and ozone is actually bad for you.

Oh hey if you're from MN 37A please give your rep a call and let her know that we don't need to "wait for the facts" when we can watch the fucking video, and no one's getting paid.

She won 57-43 last time. That's a surmountable gap.

First day back in the term, been up since 6am only to end up attending an 1.5 hour debate on a proposal for an increased parking variance to end the day. I’m doing just fine?! 🙂🙃

btw variance was denied. 🎶

1st motion - approve the amount of parking (48 new spots), but reject the park board shoving the parking lot up against Minnehaha Parkway - failed

2nd motion - approve the whole thing as designed - failed.

3rd motion - reject the whole thing - success!

Example of how bad infrastructure builds on itself.

Planning commissioner: can your employees just walk from the existing parking lot without building a whole new parking lot?

Park board guy: no way, our property has no sidewalk.

It's a new day on the Minneapolis Park Board.