Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
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Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
This will be Sen Fateh's moment to court the support of the SW MPLS voters that went for Frey last time.
Why isn't anyone drawing comparisons to Singapore. DC statehood is at issue, Trump is speaking in terms not unlike Lee Kuan Yew and MAGA is likely ok with the image of Trump as benevolent dictator. I know there are key differences, but the focus on control, cleanliness and order is Singaporey.
Thank God! We'll never see this ghastly scene again after today, right?
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AI=Always "Interesting"
Here's an antidote to Cheeto and Tubberville groveling on incoherently. Original space explorer Sun Ra, Outer Space Ways, Inc. was, in 1972, ahead of these clowns. youtu.be/owCPrIEliZc?...
The US, en masse, has accepted the >40K humans each year dying in automobile crashes. We have become inured to this violence. I think for many, it's the same with guns -OR- they prioritize 2nd amendment rights over the "sanctity of human life" they will talk about out the other side of their mouth.
It's amazing. If we don't let them have 1/2 billion-a billion guns (rough estimate of when they may be happy), they're gonna run over us with their cars...even more than they already are.
You are probably right, but last year on the twitter, he did directly reply to one of my tweets critical of the Star Trib.
I agree. AND, I think that his appointment of folks like Tolkinnen, but also Maggie Koerth were partly a response to folks asking for new voices. I believe it is important to tell him Tolkinnen is off base.
All leaders and journalists need to read this: www.ruralmn.org/the-suicide-... Even the Center for Rural Policy and Development admits it's the guns: "Access to firearms: Among the many factors contributing to a higher suicide rate in rural Minnesota, the largest one may be access to firearms."
Yeah, the logic is rich: “if you don’t let us have 1/2 billion guns, we’re gonna start running you over…more.”
All leaders and journalists need to read this: www.ruralmn.org/the-suicide-... Even the Center for Rural Policy and Development admits it's the guns: "Access to firearms: Among the many factors contributing to a higher suicide rate in rural Minnesota, the largest one may be access to firearms."
As others have pointed out, the suicide rate (guns often involved) in rural Minnesota is much higher than in the Twin Cities. @startribune.com does a disservice to all Minnesotans when they publish myopic tripe like this Tolkinnen piece that ignores the elephant in the living room--gun suicide. 1/2
Makes me believe that if Steve Grove runs for public office, we'll get the dumbest, both-sides politics imaginable.
Tolkinnen's namby-pamby, smooth-brain treatment of guns in Minneapolis versus outstate (a completely dumb dichotomy to start with) in this @startribune.com piece is shameful. This is what you get with Steve Grove driving the bus. 2/2
I grew up shooting guns and did Minnesota gun safety training, c.1980s. We never talked about the 2nd Amendment and our "rights being taken away"? Know why? Because a decades-long campaign of fear led by the NRA, MN Gun Owners Caucus, etc made this all up. www.startribune.com/tolkkinen-sh... 1/2
Dare I say it…mRNA!
If you’re ever passing through Hinckley (on certain days of the week between May-Oct), be sure to stop at the Fire Museum
That Curt Brown book, Minnesota 1918, tells some of that story. I need to visit the Moose Lake Depot/museum.
A book that isn’t easy to read (even in English).
Trump is attacking unions, driving up costs, and dismantling workers’ rights. On Labor Day, we’re reminded that America deserves better. I’m proud to have helped author the PRO Act to expand workers’ rights & strengthen unions—and I’ll keep fighting to put workers first.
Wow, that is beautiful and reminds me a bit of ommatidia that make up the eyes of flies and other arthropods. Here's a close up of a krill eye showing the orderly packed ommatidia (image from Wikipedia). The glass swirls aren't uniformly packed--some have 4 sides/neighbors, some 5.
“I really feel as if the administration is engaged in reverse alchemy, and it’s turning America’s scientific gold into lead,” says David Sanders, a sleuth and biologist at Purdue University. #research #integrity
I'm gonna start calling this dud "Bayesian Vibe Police"
I stop frequently. It’s a treasure. In fact I signed up to do a full day trip there (and other places related to fire) in Oct through MPS community ed. Munger Bike Trail starts a block north of museum.
Happy Labor Day. Think I’ll watch this classic (hope I can stomach the violence. In addition to James Earl Jones and Chris Cooper, it features a young Will Oldham as a firebrand preacher. m.imdb.com/title/tt0093...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
Every single thing, EVERY SINGLE THING, that RFK has done was predictable and predicted. He is doing what every other fascist eugenicist has done before him. The disability community has been warning about this for YEARS. It is not in any way shape or form mysterious and unknowable.
Celebrating 12 years of marriage to this film shooter. Lots of adventures and fun. I love you Rebekah.
Making grilled soup today to cover the week.
They are back in, apparently (DVDs). Our campus library is checking them out. Here in Minneapolis. And, our county library has a ton of them. No Ads!
…it involved a hit man. 🤣
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Ha, too funny. I have to read this now.
In 1999 the army sourced all of its field watches only from marathon. Prior to that they used Benrus, Hamilton and others. That is if it’s related to his military service, he may have been issued a field watch.
I’ve been whining about this for years. It is a tangible thing our provressive politicians could change, but they will not unless we pressure them to do so. Our crosswalk law in Minnesota is a joke. With no enforcement, we flounder.
Same. And nothing until after the fact for the wed shooting.
Is Gov Walz wearing a Hamilton Khaki Field watch? Looks like it could be a 42mm Murph model, but it looks like a domed crystal, so not sure.
I’m not sure where she lives, but this type of bread is still very available where I live in Minneapolis—country white, etc. And as a sourdough baker, I have no idea what she’s talking about. You can really soak butter into sourdough. Also, this⬇️
Just like Kellyanne Conway's "Alternative Facts"
Donald Trump incited a violent coup to overthrow the 2020 election and hold onto power. It will never be ok that he was not held accountable, including banning him from ever again holding public office.
My parents owned a hardware store and sold toys. I wanted a remote control Lancia Stratos, but got a Porsche 911 Turbo Carrera instead. Yeah, the Lancia is a rally car, but I can still appreciate the technical and engineering beauty of these bigger cars!
They could hang solar lights from the top of the posts, inaccessible by the metal scrapers. But, they're just gonna keep fiddling around with aluminum and copper wire.
I think I saw these in aid packages for unhoused folks. I don’t know about the material used for this one depicted, but I bought some of these that are compostable and made from some type of corn based plastic.
I'm gonna call the time up to this point, "pre-Mass Listeria."
This is a great, in depth piece about the Geiers. nymag.com/intelligence...
If only the curmudgeon would spend half the time they spent harassing you on alleyway speed patrols!
tech or commercial real estate?
Enjoy it. I'll use it in soups and sautees till it's gone. I only had big pepper so I sliced them. It's very flexible. This stuff is usually on the table at a lot of Southern restaurants and it keeps for months at RT. From Southern Living magazine here: www.southernliving.com/recipes/sout...
Southern table-fare. Splash on greens, meats or just about anything. I tend to heat the white wine vinegar or pickling vinegar and add a very tiny little bit of salt but you could do without it then I slice up the peppers and depending on how much heat you want you can add more ribs and seeds.
Starting today and continuing thru September, my photography will be exhibited at May Day Cafe in Powderhorn. Please check it out, and maybe get a notecard? Thank you so much Shae for coordinating!
Pepper vinegar!
I really don’t like navigate
Cool. I work on the daphnia eye
Wonder if it’s a white mutant with incomplete penetrance or variable expressivity, or both.
It’s time to take serious action at the State Capitol to address gun violence.
Tom Emmer *could* distinguish himself by being the rare Republican calling for gun regulation after this violent summer in his home state. Instead he’s doing this. What a sick, feckless coward.
Im gonna load up on it just so I can get a prescription for Prussian Blue, which is used to treat Cs-137 contamination. It just about cuts in half the elimination half-life of the Cs.
What about canons? If you really wanna get those gun owner caucus guys pissed, tell them you’re disappointed that they won’t support you in mounting a canon on the front of your house. It makes them mad.
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Un-winding my bike this afternoon was fun. More parking is needed AND this fills my heart with hope.
I have biked twice this year and drove one day. I much prefer the biking than the bus and driving last. But also both times I have biked, I get home and I am just absolutely spent.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
As you get ready for Labor Day weekend, remember to thank a union.
The concept of epigenetics can now be "applied to your skin." Our new lotion is a proprietary mix in a ratio of four parts homeopathy to 6 parts bs. Guaranteed to do nothing, but make you feel like $1000...down the drain.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
@montemader.bsky.social is saying straight facts. You can't say you are about protecting kids when your supporting a pedophile in the white house. These school shootings need to stop and they won't be stopped with thoughts and prayers. They need to be stopped with gun laws.
It's my best effort to date to honor/mimic this Atget photo:
Post a random picture, else everything will go bad in September.
And by the looks of it, these are high NPK yards that likely contribute to the eutrophication of the lakes as well as add pesticides and herbicides. I have sampled zooplankton from that channel for years and would be in favor or parks removing all the docks and establishing a buffer zone.
youtu.be/_-agl0pOQfs?...
It’s a m-f-in miracle.
Thou shalt not listen to a damn thing that RFK Jr. says.
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Crushing the MN Gun Caucus is a place to start. They support the worst policies like the binary trigger ban they just got overruled by the MN Supreme Court. I sent them an email yesterday telling them their positions are despicable. You should see the reply I got!
This is my nephew. And this is his gofundme page. www.gofundme.com/f/donate-for...
Yeah, I supposed we should start with that before going after his academic pedigree!
I'm highly in favor of dissolution of the "two cultures" in academia, but I'm gonna hold the line on this small lacunae of bias: The CDC director should be a scientist or clinician. Guy has BA and MA in humanities. Come on!
Attack on universities, de jour... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... Universities get federal grants and universities lobby, ipso facto, universities are spending grant dollars for lobbying until proven otherwise.
Jeff hall got to teach history of civil war at Brandeis.
If RFK Jr. will not resign, he must be impeached and removed, for the sake of the nation's health and safety.
the 146th shooting at a k-12 school so far in 2025. the 146th shooting at a k-12 school so far in 2025. the 146th shooting at a k-12 school so far in 2025.
Dr. Deb Houry (resigned from CDC yesterday) is giving live media interviews now outside the CDC. From what I can hear, she's speaking forcefully in favor of public health and against the nonsense the CDC is facing. Understand: She is a very cautious person. This means a lot! #USAnotRFK
“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis
Thank you to these brave folks at CDC. If you aren't aware, Donnny Dorko fired the director of the CDC via Truth Social yesterday and 3 high-level folks at CDC resigned. RFK, Jr. wants to prevent most of us from having access to vaccines, including the Covid vaccine for this season. #FireRFKjr
Stunning!
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Thanks. I don’t know these folks, but thought they could use some help.
Would be interesting to know if either the flag or the “drapery for Donny” were made in the USA and by a union printer.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
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We live in a country that is ok with going door to door rounding up brown skinned people but would lose their shit if we went door to door rounding up the instruments that fuel their worst realities of violent crime in the US.
Yeah. It’s happening here.
