Kevin Pranis
@KevinPranis
Creating family-supporting jobs and building a better future w/@LIUNAMinnesota. Skilled Laborers build safely and well, plus we're smart - don't sleep on us!
Every time I hear a fairy dust solution to climate change youtube.com/watch?v=6FBRBY…
Had a great time at the 70th Hoyt Lakes Water Carnival! Nothing better than seeing the whole town come together to celebrate what makes the Range so special. Big thanks to the @LIUNAMinnesota crew and the retired @steelworkers for hanging out, love this community! #mnleg
The worst CEO-to-worker pay ratio out of ALL S&P 500 companies in 2024. WOW. When Starbucks and CEO Brian Niccol tries to tell us they can't afford fair union contracts... remember this.
Starbucks had the worst CEO-to-worker pay ratio out of all S&P 500 companies in 2024. Their CEO received $97,813,843 in total compensation last year, or 6,666x more than Starbucks’ median employee. We stand with @SBWorkersUnited as they fight for their fair share.
Everyone's complaining about egg price inflation, but now one guy costs what you could get an Instagram for in 2013
Holy moly, Mark Zucker asked Mark Chen if he would consider joining Meta, reportedly offering up to $1 billion dollars via WSJ
Dems in 2032: President Bernie Sanders, you’ve done a lot of good but should consider not running and letting your VP Kamala Harris run instead Bernie: Oh yeah? Well I don’t see anything about it in THIS [holds up DNC autopsy]
Today at the Minneapolis DFL Convention, park workers are urging delegates to reject Commissioners Meg Forney, Steffanie Musich, and Cathy Abene—the same officials who forced workers into a historic 22-day strike last summer through illegal gag orders, manipulation, and…
LIUNA MNND is proud to endorse @ for the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board District 4! ✊ #LIUNAVotes Jason understands that Park Workers deserve dignity, fair wages, and working conditions that allow families to thrive. We can count on him to support fair and respectful…
Wrangling over the construction of nuclear power in New York State has revealed the priorities of some of the state’s biggest environmental lobbies. For them, creating bureaucratic procedures they can oversee is more important than building clean energy. jacobin.com/2025/07/hochul…
There’s this fantasy among health cranks that it used to be healthy to eat junk food all the time, that corn syrup and seed oils expelled us from a paradise of beef tallow and cane sugar
🚧 BREAKING: LIUNA MNND proudly endorses @Jacob_Frey for re-election! Mayor Frey delivers on what matters: living wage jobs, more housing, and investments in public services that strengthen our communities. liunaminnesota.org/vote
I'd like to see grok produce a 60-slide powerpoint that essentially just says "cut costs, increase profits"
R.I.P McKinsey. You don’t need a $300k consultant anymore. You can now run full competitive market analysis using Grok 4. Here are the exact 3 mega-prompts I use to replicate McKinsey-style insights for free:
I think there are fair questions about appropriate role of tariffs but no question all random on-again off-again tariffs do is spike prices and generate windfall profits w/o incentivizing domestic investment — worst of all worlds.
Fueled by tariffs, US steelmaking giant Nucor raised prices again last month, the latest in a string of hikes that have its US prices 35% higher since this time last year steelindustry.news/nucor-raises-p…
Minnesota utility regulators will probably ask our electric utilities to file a new plan about how they will speed up their carbon free projects because of the BBB. Here's a proposal from PUC Commissioner Audrey Partridge:
My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortages of rare earths; invite retaliatory tariffs; cut R&D; raise borrowing costs by blowing out the budget; and to cover it all in a thick cloud of uncertainty.
Being professional antiwoke in 2025 is the same thing as wearing a face mask everywhere in 2025 x.com/MNWildWatcher/…
Antiwoke is cringe now, even if Wokeness is simply in remission and not over with
WOW. Further confirmation from ICE HSI officers that they have been told to stop investigating pedophiles, human traffickers, and drug smugglers! Officers have been told NOT to take new criminal cases so they can instead go round up more random migrants. Morale is plummeting.
NEW: President Trump loves ICE. But a “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out, morally conflicted and miserable, @NickMiroff writes. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
seriously can they please pick between "he's going to launch a caliphate from the Bryant Park Whole Foods" and "he's going to make your cats get gay married and join a polycule"
The deranged crashout over Zohran Mamdani winning the Democratic primary has been much more revealing than the actual election which to be honest I was not even that interested in. In this segment a prominent VC tries to draw a connection between Mamdani's victory and the war…
‘america’s favourite’ by ralph goings (it’s a painting, incredibly).
🗳️ Minneapolis: Steve Brandt - Board of Estimate & Taxation Jamal Osman - City Council Ward 6 Soren Stevenson - City Council Ward Kedar Deshpande - Park & Recreation Board District 3 These candidates understand that strong communities are built by skilled workers who deserve…
🏆 ENDORSEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🏆 LIUNA Minnesota and North Dakota proudly endorses these champions for local office: 🗳️ Saint Paul Molly Coleman - City Council Ward 4 (August 12 Special Election) (1/2)