Lifelong Minnesotan, working to build a climate justice movement. Currently at CURE MN. He/him. Tweets are my own. Also @andywpearson@masto.ai.
Joined May 2011
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Andy Pearson retweeted
Jun 10
we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen
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Andy Pearson retweeted
Jun 11
it continuously stuns me how rightwingers don't know how anything works at all on a systematic level so they assume nothing should be done about anything ever
Jun 11
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Andy Pearson retweeted
Jun 11
a bus every 6-7 minutes is the entire secret of good transit. no schedule, no app, you just show up. the kids have been screaming the answer at us for over a year. six seveeen. headways. they're talking about headways
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Andy Pearson retweeted
Jun 10
Americans who visit cities built like this love it and intuitively recognize why it’s a good way to build densely that’s still pleasant for humans.
Why have we not even legalized this in the US?
Why are we stuck with the extremes? Low-density sprawl, or tall soulless towers.
Jun 9
Yeah this one is objectively much nicer. America just doesn't build anything like this.
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Andy Pearson retweeted
Jun 10
Minneapolis should get the next Democrat president to set up a justice fund similar to Trump's insurrectionist fund. Reparations time yall.
Minneapolis leaders say that Operation Metro Surge cost residents and businesses nearly $700 million. kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/…
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the obvious thing to do here is to start on the new line, more trains the better
Some days I remember the original routing of the Green line LRT extension and get sad, imagine a Minneapolis subway
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Andy Pearson retweeted
Yes, when environmentalists are ready to get serious about urban design for a warming world, they can revise LEED standards to stop rewarding isolated “green” buildings and start rewarding sustainable city forms that keep people cool. Like narrow shaded streets, perimeter blocks, shallow apartments with natural cross ventilation, and green, family-friendly courtyards.
In a radically warming world we need to be much more intentional about designing more shade into our urban spaces.
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Andy Pearson retweeted
The lovely game of whack a mole with our unhoused neighbors. This is not sustainable. Let’s house folks and take down this awful iron fencing.
Jun 4
After MnDOT closed the 24th St. pedestrian and bike crossing over Hiawatha this week, there is no way to cross the highway on foot between downtown and 28th St without walking in the middle of Franklin or Cedar Ave or going mile out of your way.
ALT closed pedestrian and bike crossing at 24th st over hiawatha
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Andy Pearson retweeted
Rogan is like the average voter in that his views completely change from year to year and he's easily taken in by every shiny new object.
May 28
Joe Rogan to James Talarico: “People like you, I’d like to see more of in politics. You need to run for president. We need someone who’s actually a good person”
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Andy Pearson retweeted
May 23
It’s worth noting that when Jan. 6 happened, the pro-Trump right used dozens of conspiracy theories to try and offload blame from themselves—e.g., claiming it was “antifa,” “feds.” Now, they seem keen to just admit they did it—all of it—and it was good.
May 23
JUST IN: Justice Department moves to dismiss most serious criminal case filed over #Jan6 Capitol Riot: seditious conspiracy prosecution of Proud Boys. Doc: documentcloud.org/documents/… Earlier: politico.com/news/2023/05/04…
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Andy Pearson retweeted
May 20
I feel a cold fury whenever I open a pdf of some paper to read and Adobe is like "Hm, this looks long. Would you like me to just summarize it for you?" No, fuck you, Adobe. The paper is long because it contains a lot of details that matter. Why wouldn't I want to read them?
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Andy Pearson retweeted
May 19
Trump obviously has a massive tax bill with penalties due or criminal charges that his scum admin is shutting down. His scumbag attorney, Blanche has crossed a red line. This is looting of the Treasury. Blanche will not only be disbarred. He will go to prison.
May 19
FLASH: DOJ expands settlement in Trump-IRS leak suit to cover audits of all tax returns filed by Trump, family members, companies and trusts. Waiver of IRS' claims contained in addendum signed by AAG Blanche that was not in agreement released Monday politico.com/news/2026/05/19…
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Andy Pearson retweeted
Impeachment is not enough
The next administration must seize all Trump family assets. They have stolen too much, broke too many laws, and subverted our constitutional order
Republicans writ large must be embarrassed at the midterms, but the Trump crime family must be destroyed
May 19
The Trump slush fund is a clear cut impeachable offense. latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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Andy Pearson retweeted
May 19
This is so corrupt that the lawyers who crafted this should be disbarred & removed, the acting AG who signed it should be disbarred & removed, and the president who orchestrated it all should be impeached & removed & finally at long last made irrelevant.
Staggering corruption
The U.S. government has agreed to drop any tax claims and audits of President Trump, his sons and the Trump organization, according to a letter signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
It comes a day after the government announced a nearly $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to compensate some of the president’s allies.
@AliRogin has the latest.
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Just throwing it out there that the lane is wiiiiiiiiide open for a tech company to get insanely rich by just replicating the 2010 version of big websites like Google while explicitly stating that they hate AI.
May 19
Google Search as you know it is over
"Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times."
techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/go…
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Andy Pearson retweeted
May 19
The very obvious conclusion here is that there should be no space at all between houses and a lot of space between towns
May 19
"Some big game avoided habitats between houses that were a mile or two apart, while others were still willing to move through spaces as narrow as a quarter to half a mile between houses."
tl;dr: however wide your wildlife corridor, it's probably not wide enough.
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Andy Pearson retweeted
May 20
I'd go a step further — this is one of the biggest presidential scandals in history! The corruption is clear, blatant, and well-documented. It could not be easier to explain to the average person; the plot of this story makes Watergate look like Mulholland Drive. Cover it!
May 20
This seems crazy. Like there’s a lot of madness to cover and all these outlets cover other corruption, but this is really pretty cut and dry and verifiable. Not like some anonymous unverifiable quote, it’s all in black and white.
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Andy Pearson retweeted
This is what drives me insane about this shit. You got handed the ability to do this, they gave you people the fucking keys, and it was a disaster. You did not know what you were doing, it did not succeed, you could not perform. The outcomes were worse! You failed!
May 20
Interesting idea, maybe we could test it by creating a Department that focuses on Government Efficiency and give a tech billionaire broad purview to hire people to attempt this. Surely they'd cut more than .01% of the federal budget, right?
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Andy Pearson retweeted
At this point I’ve seen some version of the metaphor of AI as gym equipment that works out for you (so you don’t get anything out of the workout) multiple times. And I really think it’s one of the better comparisons out there. It’s simple, familiar, and people really get it.
“Sure, a robot can lift 600 pounds much more easily than I can — but that doesn’t much help me if I’m trying to work out. The same goes for the thinking exercise of education.”
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