rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
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rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
Beginning to think the media might have some bias hmm
lol this is what they fired him for saying
It’s shocking. Search Obama’s Twitter account for “Hortman,” “Minnesota,” “Minneapolis,” or even “MN.” I did. Not a goddamn thing. And yet he tweeted so quickly to extend prayers to “Charlie’s” (first name only) family. What the fuck are we doing here?
Got the same result along with an aggravating disclaimer at the very bottom. What is this world?
turns out making the FBI focus on abuelas with taco trucks leaves limited resources for actual danger
FYI there are a bunch of brand new accounts with AI profile pics rage-baiting in ppl's replies with tributes to That Guy. They're not real. Don't waste your energy on them. Block them and go touch grass.
I strongly second this. Images like this steal part of your soul. Some of us have to watch horrific things because it's part of what we do as journalists. It's part of being honest and bearing witness, looking so others don't have to do the same. If it can be avoided, avoid it at all costs.
Interacting with babies in public was one of the things I missed most during the height of COVID / masking!
As stated earlier by others, it does not matter what you post or do not post here. The right wing has their narrative they’re going to push, because they understand they are at war with democracy and that propaganda *works.*
Good lord. In 2023, about 1 out of every 5 federal judges received a threat serious enough to warrant investigation. And this year is on track to be higher.
Fox News host on mentally ill people who commit crimes: “Just kill them” www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/...
NATE!
Take your unsolicited advice out of here
Aw, that's kind of you - one of the bikes turned out not to be locked so I moved it over and made space for today. Not sure what to do next week.
I did that for awhile but it's challenging (because ebikes are big and heavy!) and I have since switched offices and there isn't a good place to rest it.
I have biked to work every month this year but I guess that ends now. The UMN parking office told me just to lock my e-bike to any available rack! I’m sure it would be there at the end of the day.
Love to bike to work and find the hanger (I pay for) too full for my bike. What’s my option here other than go back to driving?
This is not going to make me stop. Cyndy Martin killed a teenager in a hit and run last summer and didn’t have the human decency or good judgment to call an ambulance or attempt to help. She left him for dead. She shouldn’t be in any leadership position in the party. This is insane.
I think by "no sports," they mean Bluesky lacks right wing-coded engagement farming sports accounts that drive the discourse on X. We have actual sports here. It's nice.
screams into the void
A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.” In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
Compare #BrokenTimes and #BrokenPost coverage to @zeit.de, which consistently tells more truth than they. Translation: "One lie too many. Trump has turned the Republican Party into a den of lies."
Elections 2025: Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET). naomikritzer.com/2025/09/09/e...
Agreed
An end to an era. Kopplin's Coffee is closing the cafe. It's been effectively closed since 2020 but this is the official word now. With Black Sheep cafe in St. Paul, one of the founders of specialty coffee in the Midwest www.instagram.com/p/DOZNzOwkUB...
Here's where The Minnesota Star Tribune's news judgement is at today. Target employees' mandated return to the office pinned to the top all day with breathless updates (see next tweet), while a strike that started at the state's university system is buried.
This Reingold asshole needs to check her facts. The Qur'an is required reading FOR SOPHOMORES (But, seriously, it's a part of a unit in which they read the Jewish, Christian, & Islamic scriptures back to back; I taught the class she's talking about for five years)
Only in America would anyone turn child massacres into an industry--rather than banning weapons that are used to in mass murder.
Jacob Frey has been mayor of Minneapolis since 2017, and he claims to believe in “progressive governance”—but, like California’s Governor Gavin Newsom, he’s really just a conservative wearing the “progressive” label like a cloak. www.currentaffairs.org/news/omar-fa...
almost hard to remember when the center and right were having a years-long meltdown about free speech on campus because students protested Milo Yiannopoulos speeches
Donald Trump, in his idiot savant way, consistently has a more astute sense of what his vulnerabilities and weaknesses are than congressional Democrats ever do.
If you click through to the video, you’ll hear a young woman repeatedly telling a college professor that President Trump has declared that what the Professor had been teaching is illegal and she’ll be meeting with the head of the university about it. It’s chilling and scary.
If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.
Her false confidence in what an executive order means …
I filled out everything online and Walgreens didn’t ask which condition I had. (It would have been a long list)
To even call it a "sex scandal" is vastly understating it. A sex scandal is having an affair or or something like that. Really just embarrassing. Beyond a reasonable doubt, the most powerful man in the world has raped children and thought it was hilarious. He is an utterly depraved sociopath.
That’s what I remember from the Vote No campaign, the last time I door knocked in apartments
Two bicyclists (ages 78 and 11) killed by drivers in Greater Minnesota in the last two days. www.startribune.com/wrenshall-mi...
Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton????? A:
Sums it up nicely
Ugh.
This other detail is even worse than Trump's letter: "Jeffrey showing early talents with money + women sells 'fully depreciated' [REDACTED] to Donald Trump for $22,500" Where [REDACTED] is the name of a woman holding a $22,500 mock check from DJT to Epstein.
Because it is a funeral. American democracy is dead and the new fascist facade is being solidified. American fascism uses Americas mythic past to try and destroy our collective future and this is a wonderful example of the unreality state fascism requires to hold maintain and build its power.
MSP locals — oops I had a year to make these and forgot! Looking for a local t-shirt company that can make a handful of these by Sept 17. Maybe also a quote from John Stamos calling it Crap Art… Zimmerman Dry goods cannot and I’m checking with Rebel Ink. All ideas appreciated!
The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
"papers, please" is legal and good according to the supreme court now rotten, broken husk of an institution
I’m looking at mountain bikes and one local chain m has only one or two at each location. So I can’t test the same model in two sizes at the same place, and I can’t test different models against each other head to head. It’s maddening.
someone on here suggested botlicker…
Good lord. We definitely need a slur for people who wear AI devices that record you, especially if that person considers the fucking thing to be their friend.
Anyway it’s an absolutely flawless demonstration of how Gemini works, which is to say by mixing up two similar sounding things and then changing the entire digital landscape around them so that you end up accidentally buying tickets to see Tal Bachman instead of James Blunt
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... if your ancestors fell for "stay in minnesota, the weather is probably always comparable to southern california!" because they were visiting in august you are descended from some of the biggest rubes in american history
There it is folks. The brilliant Dem strategy, according to the genius pundits with the ear of Dem leadership, is to let Trump keep doing everything he's doing but only if we can also help Republicans avoid paying a political price for hurting people long enough to hold the House and Senate in 2026
We tipped our sauna electricians because they went above and beyond.
And if you make an appointment they’ll still make you wait in the huge line to check in and corporate will only allow two people to work the pharmacy registers so you’ll be late to your next meeting
I fell for this one
"On the other hand, Mark E. is only forty-one (41) years old." 💀
It is your responsibility to actively run interference when this shit happens, and it’s not even particularly hard, particularly if you enjoy being passive aggressive (“noticed you didn’t include $colleague in this meeting, no worries I just forwarded it to her” type shit)
They have them every May for a week or two!
It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Honey crisp!
We got 7 apples on our one year old $30 Costco honey crisp tree and I just harvested the first two. Delicious. And at Kowalski’s prices, I think we’ll break even next year. 😂
Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants: The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.
Plaid on plaid is impressive
I heard we are getting something like this on 42nd Ave. Can’t wait to see the carnage it’ll cause.
Oh is that the plan?
Just about to ask the same
Thankful for the heat mode on my bedjet
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
A thread on “team don’t fight.” in addition, one of my many problems is that in the event that this team takes power, they will quickly become “team elite impunity” and “team don’t prosecute people for the crimes they’ve committed out in the open, let alone investigate others.”
And the biggest problem with that premise is that EVEN IF IT'S TACTICALLY CORRECT, it's a political disaster for them in the medium term, because it's completely at odds with presenting a posture of forceful, strong, vital opposition to the current crisis in our country.
Which is why "top Dems are spineless" isn't quite the whole story. Yes, they're afraid of the fight, for various reasons. But they're not paralyzed by fear, they're plotting an affirmative approach that is grounded in the premise that their fear is justified, that it's rational. That fear is smart.
How despicable do you have to be to get reprimanded by this dude? bsky.app/profile/ronf...
Omg!
It’s been a weird one!
Thunder
Nice! I got a pic but it is too identifying …
Lovely double rainbow 🌈 in MSP
The only wood-burning barrel I’ve used was the one we rented a couple times from Nomad Sauna and we got that one ripping hot and it was on the larger size, so I don’t think the form factor is the only issue.
Yes ours is electric. Goes up to like 220° because it’s technically a baseboard heater.
But it looked so good
Very normal thing to do.
I guess if it’s going to rain, it’s time to fire up the sauna 🔥
We need to recognize that Craig is just a Republican that supports gay marriage.
Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
Seen out and about in Chicago.
It’s noteworthy that, breaking with his longstanding practice, Trump has not left Washington, DC, for his golf resort home in Bedminster, NJ, since August 3 (or his Mar-a-Lago Club home in FL since May 4), and he hasn't traveled by airplane since his return from Alaska on August 16. Too ill to fly?
if anything, it was a good reminder why I see you so frequently.
dammit, I should have waited.
We have had a rough go with them too, so we use Costco but they don’t have new vaccines yet afaik
We have had a rough go with them too, so we use Costco but they don’t have new vaccines yet afaik
This is just delightful, thank you.
We drive to Costco for all our meds now, passing two Walgreens on the way ... but I wanted this today and it was my only option.
Good luck to ya!
Walgreens is such a shit show. But COVID + Flu vax done.
Nice - I couldn't find any CVS appointments for today so headed to Walgreens instead.
