u/YesHelloDolly

Bob Fletcher, Live on Patrol.

"Minnesotans will unnecessarily suffer under mandated progressive lifestyle choices, which always lead to higher prices and fewer consumer choices," said executive director O.H. Skinner.

"Before that video began, racial slurs were directed at me," said Brian Wagner, who questioned why the sisters wore masks during a media interview when he said they weren't wearing masks during the exchange.

In addition to the violence, Crime Watch received several reports of dozens of vehicle windows smashed over the weekend in Northeast Minneapolis, Lowry Hill East, and St. Louis Park.

Denzel Christopher Meeks, 33, was sentenced to 148 months in federal prison for his role in a fentanyl trafficking operation uncovered during a 2023 investigation.

On social media, Omar Fateh shared that he was "proudly endorsed by Twin Cities DSA" for his re-election campaign to keep representing South Minneapolis:

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Just one day before Fateh shared this, the Atlantic ran a story on the Democratic Socialists of America ("There’s Nothing Democratic About These Socialists") to provide an account of the current DSA (of which the TC DSA is "a legal subsidiary"):

>It’s true that the DSA has areas of ideological overlap with the Democratic Party, and would at least directionally support classic Democratic policies such as a higher minimum wage, defending social spending, and opposing the Trump administration. But the DSA’s version of democratic socialism goes far beyond routine public functions such as garbage collection and Social Security (which most Republicans, not to mention Democrats, support), or even aspirational policies such as Medicare for All...

>The DSA has become...more illiberal, and more dogmatic...

>A decade ago, the excitement generated by the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign on the left and the frightening rise of Donald Trump spurred an influx of tens of thousands of young members. Some of the new recruits were Marxist-Leninist organizers who saw the DSA’s growing membership as fertile ground.

>Sectarian conflict broke out among rival factions vying to steer the group’s suddenly growing membership. In 2018, some of the DSA’s older activists formed the North Star caucus, an internal group to defend...antiauthoritarian principles from its newer authoritarian-minded entrants...

>The DSA’s Red Star caucus was formed the year after the North Star caucus, in an apparent rebuke. It writes [in 2024] that nearly half of the members of the National Political Committee, the DSA’s highest leadership body, “openly identify as communists”....These left-wing factions have realigned the organization in firm opposition to liberal democracy...

>What the DSA demands of the Democrats is not merely to advocate more generous social policies, or more cautious foreign affairs, but to welcome, or at least accept, authoritarians as their coalition partners. Democrats are likely to face the same kind of pressure that Republicans confronted with MAGA’s hostile takeover: first to ignore their allies’ sinister goals, and then to rationalize and eventually justify them.

>As authoritarian elements gain strength, they become more essential to the success of a political coalition, and the price of confronting them rises. The Republican Party has long since passed the point of no return. The easiest time to draw clear moral lines against the encroachment of illiberalism within one’s own camp is at the beginning.

Should any politician, even one on "the left", be proud of a DSA endorsement? Does the TC DSA have the same problems as the national DSA (eg, accepting of communists, comfortable with "authoritarian-minded" members, etc)?