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After last night's events, I wanted to re-share this essay I wrote last year about my neighborhood, Uptown Minneapolis, and why I love it, or at least loved what it once was not so long ago. What is being allowed to happen is a travesty. persephonespath.com/minneapo…
We truly do a absolutely terrible job of teaching basic economics in all levels of school. Just because we wish a thing to be true doesn't make it so. The laws of economics are predicable... you just need to learn them.
I'm a landlord, and I hate bad landlords as much as the next guy,(honestly probably MORE, because slumlords give the rest of us a bad name)...
But what St. Paul Voters just passed Tuesday night is completely NUTS.
Nearly 80% of St. Paul Voters,(92,045 to 24,469) just passed Question 1, the so-called "Right to Repair" ordinance.
Here is what they actually just voted into law:
A tenant sends a written repair notice. If the landlord doesn't have it scheduled or fixed within 14 days, the tenant can do "simple" repairs THEMSELVES,(or hire someone on their own) and deduct up to $500 or HALF a month's rent,(whichever is higher) straight off the rent check.
Think about how insane that is in the real world...
Over HALF of St. Paul's housing stock is ~100 years old. Good luck getting a specialty part or a licensed plumber/boiler tech out on a 100-year-old St. Paul duplex inside 14 days in the dead of a Minnesota winter. Now picture a tenant deciding to DIY the plumbing or electrical themselves and handing you a receipt and half a rent check... 🤦♂️
And here's the kicker: this measure was SO unworkable that even the St. Paul City Council voted in August to keep it OFF the ballot,(activist groups had to sue all the way to the Minnesota Supreme Court just to force it on). When an idea is too radical for the St. Paul City Council, that should tell you everything!
Look, nobody defends actual slumlords. Minnesota ALREADY has strict habitability laws, city housing inspectors, and rent-escrow courts where bad landlords get hammered legally.
Remember 2021 when St. Paul Voters passed the strictest Rent Control in the country because the ballot language sounded nice...new apartment permits crashed ~80% overnight while developers fled across the river, and the City spent years trying to walk back the damage?
Watch what happens next here:
Mom-and-pop landlords who own a duplex or a 4-plex aren't going to deal with DIY tenant "repairs," liability nightmares, and half-checks every month. They're going to sell out to giant corporate landlords with legal departments on retainer,(or pull those units off the rental market completely).
Fewer rentals, higher insurance, bigger corporate landlords, and EVEN HIGHER rent for the exact tenants who just voted 79% Yes for it.
Every single time...if only there was a way to see this coming.
PersephoneK, Uptown Underworld Goddess retweeted
There is one contingency in which I won’t reintroduce the articles of impeachment:
Hegseth resigns.
“Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, the famously anti-Trump GOP lawmaker, told CNN he plans to trigger a vote to impeach Hegseth when Congress returns next week — and multiple GOP sources said they expect it to pass.” cnn.com/2026/11/04/politics/…
100% all of this.
A lot of us were very willing to have a debate without heat, @stonewalluk, and the reason that never happened wasn't because gender critical feminists didn't want one.
While we were trying to get you to listen to our concerns, your former CEO was telling a BBC boss that gay people not wanting to include the opposite sex in their dating pool was 'sexual racism'. While we were pointing out the homophobia inherent in gender ideology, Stonewall ambassador Alex Drummond (a bearded, heterosexual man who'd had no surgery and taken no cross-sex hormones but liked wearing skirts), was going into schools to talk to students about his 'lesbian' identity. @BluskyeAllison, who actually is a lesbian, was subject to unlawful discrimination at her place of work for tweeting: ‘Stonewall recently hired Morgan Page, a male bodied person who ran workshops with the sole aim of coaching heterosexual men who identify as lesbians on how they can coerce young lesbians into having sex with them. Page called [it] “overcoming the cotton ceiling”.’
When the UK Supreme Court upheld women's right to single sex spaces, you issued a statement expressing your unhappiness about the ruling. In her report on your unhappy influence at the University of Essex, you were found by barrister @akuareindorf to have misrepresented the law as it related to women's rights: '[Stonewall have] stated the law as Stonewall would prefer it to be, rather than the law as it is’.
In 2018, you publicly advised schools to shred a research pack saying there were risks to puberty blockers, in spite of the fact that you aren't a medical charity and that there was already credible evidence that puberty blockers are neither irreversible nor harm-free. Meanwhile you produced your own educational packs, recommending a children's book, for ages 5-9, in which the parent 'is neither a man, nor a woman – they’re non-binary.' In July 2022, Stonewall sent out a tweet that read ‘Research suggests that children as young as two recognise their trans identity'.
@thetimes has reported how you've sought to control the language used by NHS trusts and government on their social-media accounts. Organisations would get points from you for replacing commonly understood words with ideologically approved terms, eg, 'birthing parent' instead of 'mother'. thetimes.com/uk/society/arti…
In short, you took a maximalist position on gender identity ideology, which you attempted to enforce by diktat. You refused to acknowledge that you'd hitched your wagon to a cause that, unlike civil rights, gay rights or women's rights, sought to strip rights from others. You sought to curtail everyone's right to freedom of speech and belief by controlling what it was permissible to think and say, through the management and political class. You have argued against women's and girl's rights to their own spaces, their sports and to assemble without men. Your former CEO tried to shame gay women/men into dating the opposite sex if the latter claimed to be female/male.
Your mantra was 'no debate' because, like all totalitarians, you preferred slogans, bullying and infiltration of powerful institutions to talking to opponents. You appear to have had no concern for the lowly people your ideology was harming: gender confused kids, female rape victims, female prisoners, regular people hounded and investigated at their places of work for refusing to accept the new mandates on sex and gender issued from on high.
Your 'activism' has been a disaster for those trans-identified people who really do just want to get on with their lives in peace. You have besmirched the name of an organisation many of us were once proud to donate to, the charity that was partly responsible for securing the legal right of gay people to marry, which a lot of us thought would never happen in our lifetimes. The milquetoast words quoted below do not erase a decade of gender activism that has been disastrous not only for individuals but for society as a whole.
There was once a debate to be had, but until you acknowledge the direct harm you've caused, it is no more possible to debate you than to persuade a person in the throes of a drug-induced psychosis that they are not, in fact, the reincarnated Christ.
This is why free speech and scientific fact matter.
“We live in a country where a raped girl is issued a cease-and-desist order if she refers to her rapist as a man. I despise everyone who enacted this humiliating, misogynistic law.”
GERMANY: A teenage rape victim was reportedly questioned after accidentally referring to her transgender rapist with male pronouns in court.
The girl was forced to clarify that she did not mean to "misgender" her rapist.
reduxx.info/germany-teenage-…
One more week until campaign ad bullshit stops and the next phase of bullshit interpretation of results begins. Yay.
PersephoneK, Uptown Underworld Goddess retweeted
We came with hand painted scarves to hold above our heads reading “Save Women’s Sports.”
Our group was made of mostly lesbians who shared their own personal irony of feeling unsafe in a sea of pink and blue flags.
The pink and blue flags have come to be synonymous with anti-free speech, male boundary violation, and anti-consent.
We stood in @xx_xyathletics shirts that symbolize fairness and integrity for women and girls. Our voices matter. And we refuse to be silenced.
Nothing burger. She was in NYC last night for SNL and she often misses his away games because security is harder to control.
Stunning and brave Minneapolis council member @JamalOsmanMN stands by his words so strongly that he turns off comments on facebook post. We do not need a handful of tyrants deciding what products we can consume or use and slowing innovation and the economy in the process.
PersephoneK, Uptown Underworld Goddess retweeted
...."For those of you are saying “I can’t believe you’re going to let [x] win this race!”, to that I say, they haven’t tried to appeal to me, they clearly don’t want my vote, I have no intention of giving either of them my vote. Period" PurpleAmerica
purpleamerica.substack.com/p…?
I wish a state-wide law was not the answer. As a society we've lost the "default to try" mindset and immediately jump to "there should be a law." That's not how America became the worlds powerhouse. We have become afraid of anything new.
Roper: Waymo debate exposes Minnesota’s political traffic jam startribune.com/waymo-driver…
PersephoneK, Uptown Underworld Goddess retweeted
Roper: Waymo debate exposes Minnesota’s political traffic jam startribune.com/waymo-driver…
In the age of AI, where YouTube and platforms can identify a copyright violation in seconds.... why is the US Copyright office still unable to complete a copyright review in a reasonable time? Weeks is absurd, much less months from an electronic submission!
I find it amusing that b/c he knows its Taylor Swift he immediately goes to the "teenage girl" tripe with "My Tears Ricochet" after the first verse yet this song isn't about teenaged girl stuff or lost "love" in the traditional way at all. It speaks volumes about his own biases.
PersephoneK, Uptown Underworld Goddess retweeted
Remind me to never talk about politics ever again.
Evidently, I can criticize the Democrats all day long and be showered with eternal praise, but if I dare to attempt holding the party that claims to represent my values accountable for failing to deliver on core campaign promises, well, that’s a bridge too far and it makes me a “liberal.”
I’m apparently a “liberal” and “commie” because I don’t like being $40 trillion in debt, want massive spending cuts to be made to welfare and entitlements, and don’t want my tax dollars going to fund endless wars in the Middle East.
I’m getting tired of the MAGA faction’s conformist personality; they’re just like Democrats that way. I’m tired of treating elected officials like they’re God or all-knowing oracles who cannot be questioned. I’m tired of treating politics like a team sport.
Members of Congress and the President are elected to represent us in the federal government. They are not there to rule us. They are just federal employees who are supposed to work for us.
I’m done with Democrats. I’m done with Republicans. I’m done with this the two-party system. Two wings. Same bird. The illusion of choice.
Our founding fathers are rolling in their graves.
Burn it to the ground.
Start over.
