The Spoon: Splash pad season is here

👙It's time to get ya ass into a swimsuit! Dozens of Minneapolis wading pools and splash pads open this weekend. (Interactive map)

• Limited lifeguard coverage also starts at Lake Nokomis Main Beach and Wirth Lake Beach.

🚗 Minnesota's new rideshare law gives drivers effectively the same increase they would've received under an agreement that Mayor Jacob Frey had said he reached with Uber earlier this year, according to a new labor union analysis. (Minnesota Reformer)

• The Minneapolis City Council had teed up a bigger pay raise for drivers, but the Legislature's eleventh-hour agreement overrode them.

❌ Republican legislative leaders asked Gov. Tim Walz to veto the 1,400-page "kitchen sink" bill that passed in the final hours of this year's legislative session. (Torey via X)

• They argued that the legislation, which rolled nine separate bills into one, violates the single-subject rule in the state constitution.