Carl Yaeger 🇵🇸

Hyperlocal man of mystery

[Scott @disorderlyswine]

Minnesota news outlets have been obsessed with fraud the past couple years. One place I’ve not seen them show interest in hunting fraud is policing. If they did that, thoroughly, their most significant content partner would crumble. Racketeering disguised as public safety.

[Carl Yaeger 🇵🇸 @thecarlyaeger]

I’ve signed on and you should too!

[DropTheGenocide20 @dropgenocide20]

Please sign the #DropTheGenocide20 pledge demanding liberal electeds, media and think tanks––and anyone claiming to care about human rights––drop the Biden officials who oversaw, supported and lied about their role in the destruction of Gaza https://t.co/vsW74lRz3X

[Carl Yaeger 🇵🇸 @thecarlyaeger]

@tigerfoos It’s not a moral statement that people only matter for their labor value, nor is it the neglect of labor that isn’t paid (e.g. stay-at-home parents). It’s an observation that because societies rely on things being produced, it can be helpful to focus on that perspective

[Carl Yaeger 🇵🇸 @thecarlyaeger]

@tigerfoos The reason for this focus is that societies cannot exist without social production is some fashion (e.g. of food, tools, etc). The relation of a person to the productive forces of a society (e.g. worker/worker’s dependent/owner) determines many aspects of their social condition

[Dre Guevara @DreGuevara3]

police are using drug test kits with a 40% false positive rate based on intel they get from flock cameras which make mistakes 71% of the time to arrest you for leftover spaghetti-o's while billionaires poison your water supply and traffic your children

[Carl Yaeger 🇵🇸 @thecarlyaeger]

@anyafilmjoy Thought this was Fauci for a second

[Carl Yaeger 🇵🇸 @thecarlyaeger]

Sure, they *could* do this. But they don’t! When you look at the legislative coalitions around these bills, it’s progressives who advocate hardest for them and many suburban moderates who oppose them. Can “normies”/moderates explain that?

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

There are two things normie Dems could do that would immediately put $1,000/month back in the pockets of ordinary Americans and substantially increase free time, earnings and lifespan:
- Zone for abundant housing. In every city. By right.
- Prioritize non-driving modes of travel.

[disheveled PAO in possum clothing 🏳️‍🌈 @ForcePao]

Imagine costing your company ten million dollars in a lawsuit and then just going back to work like nothing happened. You want to talk about fraud to taxpayers? This is it. BTW, thanks Oregon. Those who know will know.

[Carl Yaeger 🇵🇸 @thecarlyaeger]

Neighborhoods were razed and communities torn apart to build our urban freeways. They’re still killing us today!

[Jean P Satriale @Dreams44]

Take this Saint Paul map in addition to the Minneapolis Cancer Risk map it’s evident that a major contributor to health outcomes is their distance to an urban freeway.

[Carl Yaeger 🇵🇸 @thecarlyaeger]

@omgsidewalks There’s a great book called On the Clock by @emilygee that talks a lot about this and its effect on the person! Would highly recommend.

[Minnesota DFL @MinnesotaDFL]

A proven champion who can deliver for working families.

Peggy Flanagan is the Minnesota DFL endorsed candidate for U.S. Senate! 💚

[Carl Yaeger 🇵🇸 @thecarlyaeger]

@yumtapwater I heard from an employee there once that they want to sell merch but need the Met Council to change policy to allow them to. Contact your, uh, Met Councillor?

[Carl Yaeger 🇵🇸 @thecarlyaeger]

@_Benche_ @jdcmedlock seething

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

I’ve been writing a lengthy Substack article on this exact subject! The Contractor State is impossibly vast, corrupt, wildly inefficient and stands in the way of an efficient, responsive public sector that engenders progressive outcomes. It really is duplicitous so underreported.

[Carl Yaeger 🇵🇸 @thecarlyaeger]

You’d think there would be, but the “free market” demands that companies prioritize profits over people. Companies that don’t do this either get outcompeted or get yuckier. Google’s official motto used to be “Don’t Be Evil”!

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

There’s so much room for new companies to come along with the simple innovation of “we’re not gonna be assholes about it”

[Carl Yaeger 🇵🇸 @thecarlyaeger]

Interesting how everyone who uses Microsoft products thinks they’re bad and difficult to use, yet Microsoft does nothing to improve them. We can conclude that the way Microsoft makes money has little to do with the merits of what they produce. This is what antitrust laws are for!

[Crisis of Conscience @crisisofconsc]

While designing SharePoint, Microsoft said "how can we make granting and managing permissions as painful as possible? We need it to be overcomplicated, unintuitive, and a complete clusterfuck" and then they went with that.

[Carl Yaeger 🇵🇸 @thecarlyaeger]

One of my more wish-casting government reform ideas: if we’re going to have them, state senates should be elected proportionally by statewide popular vote. They would then be a meaningfully different form of representation from State Houses and open the door to smaller parties

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Since this came up:

1) Axios: "You spent donor money to do the autopsy and then didn't provide" it, one [donor] told Axios. "It's not your money."

2) NBC: “He’s basically saying: ‘We learned a lot, we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at least doing interviews in 50 states, and now we know a lot more about what went wrong and how to fix it, but we’re not going to tell the thousands and thousands of Democratic candidates around the country what we found out,” [Norman Solomon, ED of Roots Action] continued.

NBC also notes that Paul Rivera, who Martin chose to lead the review, was unpaid, which Ken points out. Also: both sources in those pieces could totally be wrong. But that's where those questions came from.

[Carl Yaeger 🇵🇸 @thecarlyaeger]

I am a volunteer leader in my local Democratic (-Farmer-Labor) Party. If I had info like this and refused to tell anyone what it said, do you think I would have the confidence of my people? Could I effectively lead if people thought I was hiding something?

[Pod Save America @PodSaveAmerica]

Jon Favreau questions DNC Chair Ken Martin on why he won't release the DNC's autopsy on the 2024 election.