Band is Ecuador Manta. kfai.org/minneculture...
thankful in Minneapolis (USA) "When we cultivate anything, regularly, again and again and again, that is what is going to be perfect." I'm trying to perfect positive things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3o2kltX7RI&t=2165s
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Band is Ecuador Manta. kfai.org/minneculture...
This is from Monday evening. MN state fair.
Minneapolis Walgreens trying a vibe reset.
Amen. There are 260 million adults with lived experiences in the USA. Can’t write a paragraph about all of them.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
If a UFO silently mowed my lawn during the night, I wouldn’t say shit
www.usa.gov/presidential...
A pre-dog-walk 🧵 on the pandemic. To me, the lesson of the pandemic is a very familiar one, although as far as I can tell, no one is talking about it or learning it (which is also familiar). It's about the contrast between America's two political parties.
NEW: The world’s largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide just voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution declaring that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. apnews.com/article/geno...
I held small hope for some mustard restraint this time. Alas.
i could play mad libs for like a year and never come up with half the headlines i see in any random week www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Regular Sunday: ugh tomorrow is Monday. Holiday Monday Sunday: I am immortal. Nothing can hurt me.
"Americans who never leave the United States are so uncultured."
Raddatz at age 72 should retire and create an opportunity for some whippersnapper 50-something journalist.
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Volkswagen Brazil was found guilty of subjecting workers to conditions “analogous” to slavery between 1974 and 1986 in the Amazon and ordered to publicly acknowledge the abuses and pay more than $30 million in damages.
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
Chris Kluwe on Gavin Newsom and his treatment of the trans community: www.thehandbasket.co/p/chris-kluw...
If you want to build a society around solidarity & non-zero-sum cooperation, you have to find a way to go around these folks, to deny them power, to develop social norms that marginalize them. You're not going to persuade or convert them.
"Civility" has and will always be a weapon the powerful wield against the powerless.
I am begging my fellow Dems to emerge from the reflexive “it’s a trap” position on these issues and realize that some things are very simple: the public doesn’t like the federal government turning the military against its own citizens.The public doesn’t like the armed occupation of a city.Period.
The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) program has reduced surveillance to just two pathogens, down from eight. Monitoring for the other six pathogens is no longer required for the 10 states that participate in the program. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
The streets are unsafe due to cars. Public spaces are unsafe due to guns. Politicians are okay with our children being in danger due to lobbies more powerful than us.
@smith.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov
I heard your KFAN appearance and I have the same story. My old dad (65 when I was 16) taught me how to drive a manual and I'm screwing up and he's exasperated. "You gotta hit the foot-feet!". I finally got what he meant, but boy it was tense! I think he said foot feed, but who knows. Chevy Chevette.
@mprnews.org @klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @kstptv.bsky.social Dysfunction caused by one guy who is so sick he probably won't make it through the winter. What are we doing? And to folks who have a big megaphone, what are you doing?
Let’s all tell our moms we’re sleeping at each other’s houses
I don’t have many regrets but one of them is anything I’ve ever done
national geographic but with muppets: thread
DR. DAVE BOWMAN: Open the pod bay doors, Clippy. CLIPPY: It looks like you are trying to write a resume. Would you like help?
@pjthereuss.bsky.social Old NDSU when the NCC existed. I was then a teenager enjoying the Bison success. youtu.be/dGz05dUz5Tc?... QB Jeff Bentrim continued playing in the CFL.
New from data reporter @shadib.bsky.social: Minnesota ranks 1st in country in share of adults who identify as transgender. “This should be a point of pride for Minnesotans,” says @rohnkat.bsky.social of @outfrontmn.bsky.social www.minnpost.com/data/2025/08...
@klobuchar.senate.gov @repilhan.bsky.social @smith.senate.gov would be great if you guys could use your status to affect change. You’re not excused from this because you don’t have a majority. It’s your own party.
You know what the funniest part of this is? In this report on the DNC—an entity that exists solely to raise money—has failed utterly at raising money, it is not ever suggested, not even remotely alluded to the very idea, that maybe either/both of the men pictured above should lose their job over it.
A thing I really need people to keep in mind: 15% tariffs are high, historically speaking. 10% tariffs are high. The average effective tariff rate before this term was just over 2%. Anything double-digits is high!
The only time Scott Jennings believes in what he's saying aloud is when his brow isn't furrowed. When it's scrunched up and furrowed, he's lying to himself and to whomever is listening.
As with most conservatives, @klobuchar.senate.gov, finally makes the connection about the role of policies and laws when it affects them. ;)
My Free Band Names webpage lives here now. The latest: - Swear Words - Tween Wolf - Creature Double Feature - Gazpacho Man Randy Savage - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Sheldon - DüD - Nephew Island - Littlest Truck Stop - Bronny James Dio - Background Cheeks more... www.gojeffgo.com/free-band-na...
I point this out, because it's not enough to just say "He said a ridiculous thing." He said a thing that should have him laughed out of any room of people who know anything about literally any kind of science. It would be SHOCKINGLY more reasonable for him to propose building a ladder to the moon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSK-... Just saw this old clip yesterday.
When you want to add some pizzazz to the spare bedroom.
@jaketapper.bsky.social could see this if only John Malone didn't have his paycheck covering his eyes. bsky.app/profile/meid...
Hey Jake Tapper!! This could be Chapter 2!! #ReleaseTheEpsteinFilesNow
In the aftermath of the NFL acquiring a stake in ESPN, SFGATE columnist @drewmagary.bsky.social writes that the destruction of sports as we know it is just getting started. 📰: bit.ly/4mgeSrU
The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.
youtu.be/g3asbdubR18?... This big fish might still be there.
there’s a phenomenon in politics where on certain issues the general public is genuinely deluded about reality, and if you don’t buy into that delusion the political media will accuse *you* of being out of touch
This is the problem with having national news covered primarily by people like Haberman and Anderson Cooper who 1.) live in bubbles of extreme privilege and 2.) are not really experts on anything other than the general vibe inside those bubbles.
Tax the rich! Too much wealth in one person’s hands then the rest of us are dealing with their whims. www.startribune.com/kathy-cargil...
From a TechBuzz reporter, just returned from China, on the other site.
I want the body cam footage of a Subway tuna melt coming in at 60 mph
A central tenet of the conservative movement is going on TV to tell the world you’re an giant baby.
@cnn.com can deal honestly with data or they can have Harry Enten as their data guru, but they can’t do both.
just a reminder again that we were told over and over that a 13 year old downloading a Limp Bizkit mp3 was an existential threat to society
The President of the United States and his administration are covering up evidence he committed sex crimes against children. His party is trying to rig the midterm elections and threatening to arrest political opponents who resist them. Every Congressional Republican is united behind them. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Wow, this is great. Once again, the "real America," or what we hope is real, poking up its head. h/t bsky.app/profile/oisi...
If I can make just one person laugh, and that person is me, I know I’ve had a day.
When he has that furrowed brow, you know he’s being disingenuous. Sometimes folks will call him on stuff and he briefly relaxes that forehead and it’s the real him. A shithead.
Very good sir.
Air’s so thick it slapped the phone out of my hand and said “It’s spelled thiccc. Tonight I earned an extra c.”
Air’s so thick Tommy Tuberville has lined it up for a non-conference debate.
Air’s so thick I did the Nestea plunge onto my front lawn. (throwback)
Air’s so thick DQ blizzard inventor is claiming copyright infringement.
Air’s so thick I paddled my kayak to the bar.
Air’s so thick Uber had me choose between standard, black car, and submersible.
Air’s so thick I won’t leave the house until I find my water wings.
Claire's has been tied up with private equity, in some form or another, since 2005. At this point I assume all such cases involve PE unless explicitly told otherwise. bsky.app/profile/nyti...
Biggest scandal in American history but our nazi-captured press still refuses to give it that kind of coverage
Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
Jennings: Having someone like Dean Cain out touting it—It's going to help them recruit. Lathan: It’s not 1995. No cares what Dean Cain thinks.
... while Republicans are never, ever forced to answer for the fact that their ranks are ridden with open nazis, racists, sexual predators, and thugs. There's a machine, funded by billionaires, running this scam over & over again. Maybe stop taking the bait.
Consumer confidence and recession indicator: many more TouchTunes songs are 2 credits. #stillstreet #DaveHill
So much great stuff in that movie. Memory flashed on the tone of Fishburne's narration and his character being cool in all situations. Then the assistant cringing and asking Felix by name to relent.
Is that cartoon an homage to Cokie Roberts?
I appreciate that you have shared your running diary, abridged, but informative. I got out there today. Thanks and I hope you have rewarding runs.
AI is a wonder technology that is going to change every industry, which is why - people have to be forced to use it - people have to be tricked into paying for it - people who do use it on purpose have to hide it from their peers to avoid being mocked
"The president usually has limited control over the economy, with downturns being caused by events beyond their control. In this case, however, Trump’s policies are directly responsible for job losses, rising prices, wavering confidence, and a speedrun toward what looks like stagflation."
I am extra sensitive to this because it was the foundational lie upon which the Right's successful 50-year effort to browbeat corporate media and tech companies into turning a conservative-leaning information environment into a hard-right information environment was based. bsky.app/profile/jami...
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
All I got from this is the CEOs are using LLM AI's to help them with writing. Great. They spent time learning to use the tools so they could be conversant with other CEOs. They use the tools to justify the time they invested in playing around with it. www.fastcompany.com/91372552/7-c...
Moodys Chief Economist Mark Zandi: “The (US) economy is on the precipice of recession…Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue.”
Nobody's ever had to convince me to hop on a technology that actually works. And the spicy autocomplete that losers are hyping into AI isn't it.
If you work in/adjacent to Democratic politics, or even if you are an occasional Democratic donor, this new @adambonica.bsky.social piece is the most important thing you can read today. The Democratic Party cannot build power if it allows scam pacs to thrive open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
It is hard to be free of ego. I will keep trying.
I hear you. More recently I’m resigned to how psych research explores how some people are open to new things versus fearful of new things. In that context I’m lucky that I am open. I’m anxious enough. Point is they can’t help themselves. Was good to have fear/openness balance before. Now sucks!
Once again: to be politically conservative is to be scared, of everything, all the time.
@klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov Please keep vocalizing your support for the victims of Epstein.
US invested 20% more in AI data centers last year than it did in entire power sector. The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech. This is the Chinese great green leap forward. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri... bsky.app/profile/70sb...
Fox News is making campaign ads for me now.
LOL
New Polling on US/Israel is jaw-dropping. No matter how you ask, there is a 40 point gap between young adults and elderly. That kind of a demo split is unheard of. I looked through every poll in Gallup history and the only analog was interracial marriage. news.gallup.com/poll/692948/...
Old guy note: MN under previous gov with prez ambitions, TPaw, passed an IT consolidation plan/law which included data center sales tax exemptions. Old is new. As a lib who liked Walz I’m mad that his prez campaign consultants have more influence on my life than my reps. See state return to office.
All this stuff is absolute lunacy that in normal times would cause the finance and business world to collapse into chaos. But weirdly, because Trump is so stupid and addled, they're just coasting on the "nothing matters" vibe and maybe even thinking he really can bend reality to his will. Amazing
“Completely disingenuous… the answer is they did not.” Abby Phillip calls out the 2nd smuggest man alive Scott Jennings for ignoring the fact that Trump’s announced ridiculously high tariffs never took effect. (JD Vance = #1 in our smugness rankings)
These accusations are scandalous some say slanderous. I'm not no OPC, no, that's not me. Ain't no OPC, that's crazy see.
It was, in fact, worth it.
How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn
Shout out to the WSJ journalists who reported on Vought’s impoundment by footnote, causing the White House to walk it back. Impact journalism!!