And a pretty unrealistic full buildout idea. Crossrail for the Twin Cities? I'll detail it more tomorrow maybe.

This is a bad idea and the party putting it forward should lose.

Josh Martin Our blood saved the nation at Gettysburg Our iron forged the tanks that liberated Europe Our farmers sparked a green revolution that fed the world Our imagination transformed medicine Our scientists performed gain of function research on the perfect Minnesotan and it escaped

I support this -- I'd love to zip through the neighborhood on a golf cart. Many small towns already permit this & I don't see why we shouldn't allow it to become more commonplace in cities

We should simplify this

Things we love to see.

Among the several things I’ve learned in the last month and a half of working this job is that many of the youth who commit crimes are also victims of crimes.

The gravest threat to academia is the transformation of universities into luxury resorts staffed by part-time professors and an expanding fleet of overpaid, rapacious senior bureaucrats. The second gravest threat is people like this, who think our job is political cheerleading.

this is the correct position on sports gambling. I am generally leary of anti-vice positions and prudish paternalism, but it does seem like widespread and frictionless sports gambling is very bad for society

Refrigerators were so much better before capitalism

If you haven’t heard the whole story about how KAT attended Jon Krawczynski’s daughters soccer game the day after being traded, you must! Here is Jon Krawczysnki explaining it on Dan Barreiro’s show yesterday.

I am beside myself at this news. That literally overnight, one of the region's largest transit projects just doubled in length in a move no one saw coming. No years of studies and engagement and agitating for funding. Metro Transit just did it. THIS IS HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO WORK!

Dems, stop banning things! Stop forever-processing. Stop hating on businesses delivering valuable things in competitive industries. Encourage innovation and businesses to thrive, grow, hire, deliver. Our planet needs cleaner energy. We need houses. Stop stopping everything

RFK is clinically insane and his voice sounds like it belongs to a reanimated frozen head just awoken from two centuries of cryogenic slumber. I hope he is never given power. But this is a good idea lots of people would support, and it’s stupid to pretend that it’s dictatorial.

Politicians should win popularity with the people by governing by kindness rather than by fear and increasing their own numbers. (TP)

Insane how huge the contrast is between the way Democrats are acting after 2024 and the way Republicans acted after 2020. The two parties are not the same.

If we want to maintain & grow support at national level, we need to show that we can effectively govern, starting at the local level Progressive values are important, but they need to be paired with practical policies that demonstrably improve people’s day-to-day quality of life

Property taxes are wild in St Paul right now — 15-30% increases this year alone — and virtually everyone is pissed What’s behind this? Declining commercial values & rent control They’re having serious consequences for the city Here’s a short 🧵 about what’s happening:

Speaking of hyperbole that tanked Dems, if you don’t want to inhale drug smoke on a train, do you hate all poor people? Nate goes deep on tough interplay between urban quality of life, falling commercial property values downtown + uptick in municipal property taxes #BlueProblems