Responded to an ICE alert yesterday at an apartment complex next to an elementary school in Saint Paul. The complex is predominantly Somali and there have been abductions by ICE. Spoke with a resident and he confirmed they abducted someone again and quickly left.
Their operations still continue here, even if news about them has quieted.
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hey everyone i am collecting 3D printed whistles as part of the (still in progress) Twin Cities Radical Community Archive. i'm looking for designs that i don't have yet. please reach out to me on signal @ anarchist_archivist.612 if you are a maker/distributor of whistles. #msp #minneapolis #stpaul #twincities #iceout #archives
I was excited to use ranked-choice voting / instant runoff to vote for Saint Paul mayor yesterday. I was also excited to see it go to a second round of counting -- with traditional voting, we would have a third term with Carter, but RCV yielded the city's first female, and first Hmong-American mayor.
Algorithms matter, folks.
I am a little confused about the results, though -- the declared winner, Kaohly Her, only got 48% of the vote. But RCV should finish with a majority winner. It seems like they dropped more than one candidate after the first round, but looking at the first-round results --
-- I'm not sure which candidate got dropped or how ballots got reallocated.
So. I've emailed the reporter who wrote a couple articles on this (for example, https://www.twincities.com/2025/11/04/voters-await-results-in-st-paul-mayors-race/).
Overall, though: RCV FTW.
#Photo of a big #bird I saw while walking in the park yesterday in #StPaul #Minnesota, not sure what kind it is, but maybe some kind of #egret.
#birdwatching #egretphotography #photography #naturephotography
