the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
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the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
Israel: We're going to starve Gaza. The west: Israel is starving Gaza! Israel: It is antisemitic to say we are starving Gaza. The west: Okay sorry. Israel: We're going to starve Gaza some more. news.antiwar.com/2025/08/31/i...
I was responding to a comment that Trump was a "boil on the butt of humanity," but I didn't thread it very well.
"To me, there are six clear reasons we should be talking about this more than we are and why the press corps should be digging more deeply and more seriously around this topic." — @vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett Graff on the health of the current president. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
What's the over/under on Biden outliving Trump? I've got five years.
He's the abscess of evil.
Regrettably, Trump will pardon Discount Goebbels on his deathbed.
We've established a Bluesky account for Drinking Liberally Minneapolis. Please give it a follow for information about all things Drinking Liberally.
We live in a tulip bulb economy. left.mn/2025/09/the-...
Despite the AP framing, President Trump didn’t say anything. Someone operating the president’s Truth Social account typed out that statement. He’s still in hiding
It isn't Google's fault that Republicans sound so spammy and pornographic. They should look in the mirror.
Heh.
Sigh, Wormwood. Sorry.
Ken Salkover has never heard of Vietnam and Algeria, or part of the Levant, apparently, And never mind Senegal, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Benin, and Niger.
Word 👇
I said last year that Biden should debate Trump on treadmills.
All the illegally collected tariff revenue will be refundable.
What's the over/under on Biden surviving Trump? I've got five years.
It has coarsened the culture. When the government promotes gambling, it loses all moral authority to forbid others from engaging in it as a business.
The Panama gets one more day, but the Borsalino season begins.
Yes, you are right. From Haaretz a handful of years ago. The sign reads (as if you don't know), "Hating Arabs isn't racism; it's values." Terrific manicures, though.
It's a laydown case against Trump and tariffs. If the Supremes don't rule that way, they are irredeemably corrupt; they probably are anyway. It's an existential threat, all right, for the Trump administration.
Yeah, he's kind of Exhibit A. On the other hand, he's just Wordwood to Trump's Screwtape.
Now do white men.
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Do a search for images of draft riots in Minneapolis. I’m sure a lot of them show the Milwaukee Road tower.
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
It's genocide, plain and simple. And our 'president' is complicit, probably an investor; all the investors will be guilty of a crime against humanity. www.un.org/en/genocide-...
Except maybe the hamburger from heaven.
Colonial settler arseholes, every one of 'em. May they finally go the way of the French in Algeria.
It's EIGHTY season now, maybe a hundred. archive.org/details/the-...
And it's eighty seasons now.
Minnesota will remain a safe place for our trans friends and neighbors. You are welcome and needed in Minnesota.
People in power are trying to use the shooter’s identity to distract from gun reform and to attack trans communities. Rather than address the pain that radicalization and our gun-obsessed culture have caused our communities, they attack the marginalized. www.startribune.com/rep-tom-emme...
A send up of this immortal headline, of course.
Third Avenue is actually a block further down; you can see the Hwy 65 sign with a left turn arrow; that will take you to Central Avenue after you cross the river.
The cross street is 3rd Avenue; across the 3rd Avenue from the Milwaukee Road tower is what is now known as the Paul Wellstone federal building. Originally a post office, it has been many things over the years, including the draft board during the Vietnam war. Lots of protests there.
The building with the tower is the old Milwaukee Road terminal, a railroad that shipped a lot of milled flour east.
That's Washington Ave. looking east. If you proceed along it, you will pass the sites of the Washburn and Pillsbury 'A' mills. The ruins of one of them is now a historic site and museum.
Watch Rob Doar sit among the face-making jerks at a hearing about guns at the Capitol a handful of years ago. There was another one recently that will be similarly useless. vimeo.com/72931150
Amen to that, Senator Doran. And fie on the ovoid sorehead, Tom Emmer.
That's a historic street corner in downtown Minneapolis.
I don't have a new one to share this #Caturday, so here's one of Molly Christmas when she was younger; she's still sassy. The first time she stuck her tongue out like that, I was afraid it was stuck.
It is, in fact, the ovoid sorehead's own demographic that commits a disproportionately high percentage of crime: those liverish balls of grievance and resentment: white men. /3
But the spittle-flecked ovoid sorehead, @tomemmer, is wrong. Surprised? Don't be; MAGAs make the same untrue claim about immigrants; It's their MO. It is shameful that this bubbling tub of disinformation is the House's majority leader. /2 www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
The ovoid sorehead brays that trans people commit a disproportionately high share of crimes. Not a sentence of pushback or fact correction from the @startribune.com; It seems that Republican politicians can say anything and the Strib will just write it down. /1 www.startribune.com/rep-tom-emme...
The only way to find out is to try it.
I doubt Trump's heart could take it.
@dewayneforminneapolis.com, are you interested in speaking at Drinking Liberally?
A couple of months ago, the Navy dishonored civil rights hero Harvey Milk by removing his name from a ship. Now, the Air Force is dishonoring itself by celebrating a domestic terrorist called Ashli Babbitt.
RFK, Jr. getting the stink eye. Who would have thought?
NRA: Guns don’t kill people—people do! Me: Hammers don’t pound nails—people do! So stupid
RFK, Jr. is a ghoul, a yird swine, an eater of the dead. @smith.senate.gov is right. He's unfit for his job; he's a quack. (The image is from a Lovecraft fan site or pod; I can't find it back.)
Here's my response to a Rochelle Olson column in the @startribune.com regarding the recent Minneapolis mayoral endorsement. left.mn/2025/08/the-...
The JCRC was involved in getting a couple of Muslim students at Edina high school suspended for protesting Israel's actions in Gaza. left.mn/2024/05/supp...
Thanks for the information.
Hunegs is a complete AIPAC toady, and Jacob Frey was until recently on the board of the JCRC.
Every letter to the Strib editor puncturing Steve Hunegs’ puffed-up claim that the Jewish Community Relations Council is the “consensus voice” for local Jews is giving me life. I’ve suffered with that one for years.
It's going to be a critically important weapon in the years ahead.
"Trump's Illegal Cashiering of Fed Governor Lisa Cook Roils Markets." There, I fixed it for you. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Somebody's irony warning buzzer is broken.
One more from the #MinnesotaStateFair. The color of honey depends on what the bees eat.
Prosecute the thugs. Haul them in. Deny them representation. Make them sleep on cement floors. Move them around from detention facility to detention facility Then dump their ignorant asses in Uganda
Maybe, but they're a lot heavier, too. I am sure the big rigs are troublesome in crosswinds, but they probably have more experienced drivers than weenie drivers. :)
Imagine driving the weenie in a crosswind.
The recent experiences in Minnesota certain bear this report out. networkforpubliceducation.org/brokenpromis...
Nice job, John Roberts.
RUSSIA. STARTED. THE. WAR. YOU. LUNATIC.
My god, the Zionist IDF is monstrous.
A follow up story. left.mn/2025/08/the-...
They can't take the Upper East Side with them.
It doesn't matter anyway. A majority of the Nobel Committee thinks he is an irredeemable putz.
Amen to this.
Liberals say that the United States has gone from being a democracy to being a dictatorship. They're wrong—it's gone from being a republic to being a dictatorship.
Gillibrand though she would ride to the presidency on Al Franken's back. Others did, too. None is president. left.mn/2018/01/thin...
We must be tolerant of intolerance.
We can blame the consultant class for that one.
White supremacy is certainly a problem in the states, too. media.cnn.com/api/v1/image...
Ah, got it. A world-wide scourge, I guess.
I don't get it really. What's the message or symbolism? Or just nihilism?
Here's another favorite #MinnesotaStateFair photo of mine. It's Larry, a fixture at the fair for, well, a long time.
Candidate Trump: "I will use my DOJ for political retribution!" President Trump: *uses his DOJ for political retribution* Legacy Media: "Is Trump using his DOJ for political retribution?"
Yup. The sign reads, "Hating Arabs isn't racism; it's values." From Haaretz.
If you are inclined to weigh in on this with the state DFL, here's an email address to do it: website@dlf.org. Direct your message to the attention of Richard Carlbom, Chair. There is no direct email published for him. left.mn/2025/08/the-...
Sigh. Dream on, @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social.
A good photograph always lives outside the frame. That's why I like this one so much.
I have mentally written stories about the future of these two ever since I took the photo.
Did you know that Gaza was once one of the great centers of learning in the Mediterranean world? In the 5th and 6th centuries, Gaza City became famous for its rhetorical school, where students studied law, philosophy, grammar, and the art of persuasion. Scholars such as Aeneas of Gaza,
I think they have to be taken within a year of submission. This one in from 2016. But thank you.
This is another favorite Minnesota State Fair photo. This little girl -- impossibly cute -- demonstrates that just because it is on a stick, it doesn't mean it's easy to eat. #MinnesotaStateFair
The fair is the place for young romance. These kids looked fifteen or so to me.
It is time once again to publish my favorite photos from the Minnesota State Fair. First, probably my very favorite, the most romantic photo I've ever taken. The clasped hands form a shadow heart. #MinnesotaStateFair
Darwin Forsyth is so full of shit -- as is Dustin Grage -- that it comes out of their mouths. left.mn/2025/08/the-...