The federal government choosing to unleash chaos and violence that wrecks people's lives means they don't get to use the excuse that they lack the capacity to meet basic legal obligations in the aftermath.
youtu.be/KkMPFGTR4n0?...
Oh no, another sleep athlete. I'm hoping it'll go away if I can just box myself in with pillows to prevent rolling over on my shoulder.
FULL ACTIVATION!
Get your bike out. It’s go time.
Gleefully creeping around in the background, plotting against the women.
Unconfirmed rumor that state Rep. Jamie Long will be joining us to scream questions at people in recognition of International Women's Day.
I'm so powerful and athletic that I slept on my shoulder way too hard and haven't been able to put a coat on for the last week without extreme pain.
We've already put in a request for remixes of Shania Twain and Wilson Phillips in honor of International Women's Day.
🚨🚨🚨Sunday's Emergency has been upgraded to a Level 1 (FULL ACTIVATION) DJ Emergency Ride.
DJ @deveric.net will be providing the beats. @joyfulridersclub.bsky.social will be responsible for getting you home safely.
🚨 GIRD YOUR LOINS: Public hearings for Mayor Frey's nominations for reappointment of Community Safety Commissioner Todd Barnette, City Atty Kristyn Anderson, & COO Margaret Anderson Kelliher could happen as early as April. Committee of the Whole will set dates at next meeting.
Jamison Whiting, head in hand, staring at computer screen with dejected expression.
Happening now: Jamison Whiting staring at his equations, realizing he can't broker peace between the city's far left wackos and the supervillains.
Is that what she was doing? I couldn't make sense of it.
They'll also be using money from a vacant compliance specialist position, as discussed yesterday.
Minneapolis City Council votes unanimously to create the position of MPD health and wellness director. Instead of cutting an embedded social worker MPD agreed to fund the new position by eliminating a vacant forensic scientist position.
It's the economic theory of "once you pop you can't stop."
Shaffer, Vetaw, Warren, Rainville vote against.
lims.minneapolismn.gov/RCA/26159
Minineapolis City Council passes resolution with comments on MnDOT's I-94 reconstruction planning. They oppose expansion or rebuilding as is. Encourage consideration of at-grade alternatives, reducing vehicle miles traveled, public health, safety, alternative transportation.
Minneapolis City Council passes eviction notice extension from 30 days to 60. Same margin as in committee 7-5-1. Mayoral veto surely coming, and the votes aren't there to override it.
Voting no: Rainville, Vetaw, Warren, Shaffer, Palmisano
Abstention: Whiting
Yeah they didn't wanna vote for that, didn't wanna vote for spending on rent and business relief either. It was toxic politics to vote against.
Chowdhury: What my life experience and this job has shown me is that the working class, the poor, the untouchable - "they never have the fighters, they never have the organized momentum."
Chowdhury: We're talking about a class of ultra wealthy folks who can donate a lot of money to rent relief [if they wanted to]. Middle class folks are donating.
Chowdhury: We fail continuously to acknowledge that, it's why we'll never fix poverty in this city.
Chowdhury: in this discussion about who's an expert and who's not, about housing providers and how working people and poor people spend their money... In the city of Minneapolis we have a major class stratification issue.
Stevenson: Homeline says they've seen more calls for rent assistance than they did in any quarter during COVID. We're seeing an eviction crisis looming that is bigger than COVID. That's their professional expertise.
I realize it is easier to ask Gov. Walz to do a thing there's no chance he will do, than to do anything concrete yourself.
It was only January that this city council voted unanimously to ask Gov. Walz to institute an eviction moratorium. So the politics has really changed. Half of them won't even vote to extend notice by 30 days.
Wonsley: what you're saying ultimately is "go work it out with your landlord."
Wonsley: for anyone in the position of council member, you have the opportunity to bring solutions forward that address material conditions compromised by ICE surge. It's not a hypothetical situation. People are already walking into being 2 months behind.
Whiting says this won't survive a veto. The better path would be to come together on his compromise right now. "Delay will cause people to be hurt." Putting affordable housing non profits under will put people on the streets, and mean their buildings sold to market rate landlords.
Whiting says he agrees, it's hard to target. But this language isn't coming from his brain, it's coming from LA county, to target those in most need.
Palmisano: I'm not sure why CURA is the expert and not the people on the ground doing the work (affordable housing non-profits).
