Drive Slower

Speed kills

[Duluth Waterfront Collective @highway61duluth]

Shown to scale: I-35, Duluth and Lyndale Ave, Minneapolis. Both carry a similar amount of traffic.

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

New study finds 'cycling rather than driving is positively associated with political participation, social participation in organizations, neighbourhood solidarity, and neighbourly helpfulness (i.e. the common good).'

📕: https://t.co/F9Xu8R0J03

[chris arvin @chrisarvinsf]

i have some notes

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

This is a terrific explanatory thread about the predatory behavior of dollar stores, but it's the predatory pricing element that may seem counter-intuitive. We PROTECT consumers by preventing big corps from getting sweetheart supplier deals.

[mplsphotobot.bsky.social @MplsPhotoBot]

Pracna Building
Date: 1990s
Address: 117 Main St. SE
Source: Hennepin County Library

[Winter @deenafaywinter]

When Amara Strande was just 16, a 15-pound tumor was found embedded in her liver. Nearly the size of a volleyball. She was one of many students at Tartan High School in Oakdale who got cancer. Students joked about the water fountains, saying, “Don’t drink the 3M cancer water.” 🧵

[Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board @MplsParkBoard]

With snow all but certain tomorrow, we're about to put a new online tool to work: Check out the map tracking real-time plowing activity on park trails and sidewalks at https://t.co/lctsYjRfpl.

[Karlee Weinmann @karleeweinmann]

Xcel Energy is recruiting Minnesota cities, businesses, and civic groups to fight a push by Gov. Tim Walz and state lawmakers to require 100% clean electricity by 2040, a top climate priority for the upcoming legislative session https://t.co/WNfnsqdChJ

[Team Katie @TeamKatiePorter]

Bigger corporate profits account for *over half* of the higher prices people are paying.

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

Jim Schultz, Keith Ellison’s opponent for Attorney General has spent his time protecting corporations and joining anti-abortion groups.

But he doesn’t have any courtroom experience.

What he does have though is this sick beat and music video we made for him.

[Drive Slower @driveslower]

We all knew it but @dbrauer said it best

[Dripped Out Trade Unionists @UnionDrip]

every labor day you must watch this video

[Dr. Kate Knuth @kateknuth]

Rep. Aisha Gomez is a fantastic legislator. Connected to community and goes deep on policy. Get out and vote for her in 62a.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

The more people that choose to walk, bike and take public transit to get around, the better cities work for EVERYONE, including DRIVERS. Anyone still claiming this is a “war on the car” doesn’t understand how cities work. HT @fietsprofessor for graphic.

[Karlee Weinmann @karleeweinmann]

CenterPoint Energy, which is scheduled to have a booth at Twin Cities Pride this wknd, defended its paid sponsorship of the recent Texas GOP convention where members adopted an extreme anti-LGBTQ+ platform and called for the repeal of the Voting Rights Act https://t.co/O1Z3fDynYM

[Jay Boller @jaymboller]

I talked with over a dozen workers to try and answer this Q: https://t.co/4jr2xIZHHg

[NACTO @NACTO]

The most common ways children die in the U.S. are all preventable.

[NPR @NPR]

"'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" has been republished 21 times in almost exactly eight years by The Onion. https://t.co/tJZupHOm44

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

weird how the epidemic of corporations violating federal labor law doesn't constitute a crime wave

[Karlee Weinmann @karleeweinmann]

Meanwhile, here’s what’s going on at Minnesota’s largest gas utility