I must underscore this point, as a labor guy. By any logical assessment, the Minneapolis Police Federation went into negotiations with what should have been a weaker hand. They had, after all, brought global shame upon the city and Minnesota. In normal circumstances, when you enter into negotiations weak, you should expect takebacks, or at best a status quo contract. But not apparently if you’re negotiating with the city of Minneapolis and you’re the police union.

What are these multi-agency operations if not an opportunity for everyone to abdicate responsibility and point the finger at someone else. Who’s telling the truth? Who knows. || Brooklyn Center’s Request for Mutual Aid scribd.com/document/50305… The mayor says Sheriff Hutchison is ignoring his pleas to not use tear gas. The Sheriff cites a letter from the mayor he says specifically exempts the multi-agency operation from the city’s ban on gas and flash bombs. Everyone is pointing fingers at everyone else.

#ChauvinTrial is anyone following this bizarre theory from the defense? Floyd might have died from carbon monoxide poisoning from inhaling fumes from the car?! But the only reason he was down on the ground inhaling anything was because Chauvin HAD HIS KNEES ON HIM FOR 9+ mins We’ve entered the throw-shit-against-the-wall-to-see-what-sticks phase of the #ChauvinTrial #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd

Saint Paul has had encampments go up and go down. I’ve seen this & wondered why we haven’t had scenes like this. Turns out, the mayor’s office has taken charge, gotten folks housed, and encampments have gone down with police at a distance. The Deputy Mayor has even been present.

https://twitter.com/cj_hende/status/1372533179047936003

There actually is a humane way to deal with the unhoused. You just need a city that leads with competence and compassion. This has been my St Paul Tourism Ted Talk. #RedRoverRedRover

It’s easy to mix conspiracy theory whackiness with real issues in order to attack the unassailable truth that Trump’s attempts overthrow the results of this election, and Republican senators’ willingness to go along with it, is unprecedented. But fine, I’ll play. Bush didn’t steal the election. The Supreme Court did it for him. After they stopped the counting, an analysis done by the NYTimes showed that, had all voted been counted, Gore would have narrowly won FL. Also worth repeating Dems have won popular vote 7 of to last 8 elections

Today Senate Republicans fired the commissioner charged with worker safety during a pandemic. And let’s be clear, the health crisis is *exactly* why they did this. Today they implied they will fire another commissioner every 30 days. There’s your tell. Every 30 days the legislature must be in session to have an opportunity to remove the governor’s emergency powers. The GOP is, in the words of @kurtDaudt, holding all commissioners as hostages, lining them up for “execution” until the governor gives up emergency powers.

There is something odd happening with reporting of crime in Minneapolis these days. First, almost every reporter relays MPD’s statements as fact, even as they have all seen as recently as in their original recounting of Floyd’s murder, that MPD has a problem with the truth. For example, take this from @WCCO (the station, btw, that employs Bob Kroll’s wife Liz Collins as a reporter and whose national network (coincidentally, I’m sure!) landed the only interview with that police union head. google.com/amp/s/minnesot…

Tired of Republican Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka protecting Bob Kroll & the police union? There are ten senate seats held by MNGOP that Walz-Flanagan won in 2018. If we flip them, Gazelka is no longer majority leader. Starting a thread to post info about DFL challengers. Ann Johnson Stewart @AnnforMNSenate is running in SD44 annjohnsonstewart.com

With what we know about the lag time from infection to hospitalization, we can guess that this spike in care needs likely came from people getting infected about three weeks ago. m.startribune.com/minnesota-heal… Remember these news stories about Minnesota moving from an A to a D in a social distancing report card? Dateline May 7th. This data is also what the governor referenced when he announced he was turning the dial up and allowing slow reopening of businesses minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/07/min…

I’m a little late to the latest in @aoc derangement follies, but...It’s not often that my old unfinished dissertation is useful for a subject of current debate, but I actually know a little something about “concentration camps,” both the practice and the origins of the term.

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1141473377867223040

Nerd out with me for a minute if you will: “Campos de concentración” was a Spanish phrase, used to describe General Valeriano Weyler’s brutal method for putting down the Filipino rebellion against Spanish rule in the late 19th Century. That was the first use of the term.