Alex Beck @AlexBeck08

Just a guy who bikes and wants enough housing and transit for all (he/him) Minneapolis, MN Joined July 2011

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Brock @BrockRides

4 years ago

Lesson from Paris in building bike infrastructure: Just build it. No multi-year studies. No perfection in design. Not even pilot projects. Just build, adapt, evolve.

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electric vehicles are still vehicles. they take up too much space in the city and building EV charging stations is not helping the fundamental issue of too much infrastructure built for cars and not enough for people.

Mayor Jacob Frey @MayorFrey

4 years ago

A monumental step in continuing the fight against climate change – and we're making sure MPLS does its part. That's why my 2023/2024 budget supports a new full-time tree coordinator, expands EV stations across the city, invests in the Green Cost Share program, and more.

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Hayden @the_transit_guy

4 years ago

Next month I am traveling from NYC to Chicago, the 3rd busiest air route in the country, which takes 19.5 hours via Amtrak on a daily train. This is the same distance as Beijing to Shanghai, which takes only 4.3 hours and leaves every 20 minutes. This country can do better.

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Coby @Cobylefko

4 years ago

This is how you build a new corner apartment building well. Cities around the world could learn a lot from DC!

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Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN

4 years ago

Our former President called for me to be sent back to Somalia, a country I haven’t lived in since I was 8yrs old and the crowd chanted “send her back. My primary opponent said I don’t live in Minneapolis and people believed him. Oz isn’t getting the Ilhan treatment, trust me.

Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) @BrendanNyhan

4 years ago

Democrats will say no, no we're just messing with New Jersey. But they would see the problem if the campaign was being run against, say, Ilhan Omar.

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Esther Choo, MD MPH @choo_ek

4 years ago

The Canadian leg of my recent flight required passengers to wear masks and they did. The US leg of the same trip (with many of the same ppl) did not require it and most didn’t. Reject the notion that public health must bend to what people will do anyway. It can lead.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @perdricof

4 years ago

lighter than concrete, more fire-resistant than steel, strong enough to support an eighteen-story skyscraper: mass timber is the most solarpunk shit imaginable-- it's also an interesting study in what green industry actually means. a thread.

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D.A. Bullock @BullyCreative

4 years ago

If MPD was really "after the guns" they would be camped out at these suburban gun dealers, following these guns into the city, they would be leading the politic of gun control. They are not. They are not after the guns, they are after the niggas with guns,

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Angela Conley @D4Commish

4 years ago

Wow! Just learned @Hennepin will receive $12M in funding for BRT improvements on Lake Street! Many thanks to @SenTinaSmith, @amyklobuchar and our entire federal delegation. Bring on the B-Line 🥳🚍

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4 years ago

if you view yourself as a leftist but threaten running people walking and biking over with your car: you share those sentiments with fascists who dream of doing the same to you.

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Naama Blonder @naama_blonder

4 years ago

Why is it ok for me to have direct views from my condo's balcony to another balcony, but when it comes to having direct views to backyards it is simply unacceptable?

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Madi Hilly @MadiHilly

4 years ago

WHAT ABOUT CHERNOBYL? Chernobyl the accident shows that, even in a worst-case scenario, the health and environmental risks of nuclear are small. Chernobyl the cultural phenomenon shows how dangerous nuclear can be. Here’s what you need to know:

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Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN

4 years ago

😂 our incompetent Mayor gets upset when we talk about his failures, but as the Mayor he is solely in charge of our city, it’s police & public safety. No matter how much media covers for him, people know our city is suffering because of his poor leadership and childish behavior.

Courtney Godfrey @courtneygodfrey

4 years ago

Mayor Jacob Frey did not hold back in an interview with me tonight, after the pro-police democratic candidate he supported @DonSamuelsMN lost the fifth congressional race tonight to incumbent @IlhanMN . fox9.com/video/1103332

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carla @csandersonlaw

4 years ago

The more I read about public space the angrier I get that I have to store my bike in my small apartment when people get to store their huge ass vehicles for FREE on a public street

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Aaron Klemz @aaronklemz

4 years ago

If you lost, by definition you did not get a majority. Incredible to watch everyone fall all over themselves to let the losing candidate frame the meaning of a race they lost.

MPR News @MPRnews

4 years ago

"To come this close means we have our finger on the pulse of the exhausted majority," Don Samuels said in conceding defeat to Ilhan Omar. "We had to climb over the huge barrier of a DFL endorsement from a DFL that has lost touch with the voters.”

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Alex Beck @AlexBeck08

4 years ago

Ethiopian owned Sainaa Cafe just opened at Lake and Grand as well They are having a soft opening this week with a grand opening in a couple weeks

MPR News @MPRnews

4 years ago

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𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗻 liked your reply @hellodonavon

4 years ago

It is quite interesting that Ilhan Omar beat back a well-funded right-wing opponent who had the full backing of the entire political machine of the mayor of Minneapolis, and rather this being portrayed as her victory, it’s is her pathetic failure for not winning enough.