Minnesota’s red flag law has helped law enforcement confiscate guns from people with violent plans, including threats of violence at schools, day care facilities or workplaces.

"Wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?" - the President of the United States of America www.kgw.com/article/news...

The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.

I've been reading perhaps too much into this weekend's @minnesotaorchestra.org program, the second of two season opening concerts. I found it to be a quite moving statement. The first three pieces by American composers and the fourth, circling back to the first, literally made in America.

one thing i will add about this interview: in it, klein is gapingly honest about the emotional drivers of his intellectual work, which is to his credit. what is less to his credit is how this vindicates the most central criticisms of him. he wants the world to be one way... but it's the other.

Wait: so the President of the United States shared a video of a fake news report, rooted in a conspiracy theory, that features an AI-generated version of himself promoting a policy that…doesn’t exist?

What Trump has wrought: a reversal of attitudes on immigration. Now we're an immigrant nation again, we need more immigrants to maintain our economy, and Trump's persecution of immigrants is just wrong.

Fascinating NPR-IPSOS poll on perceptions of crime by geography — www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

Recurring gripe of mine but it is incredible how National Conservatism is supposedly built around decrying lack of community, common project etc, while turning every “hate your neighbors” dial they can access up to 11. Make your professor terrified to say anything, don’t trust your doctor, etc

When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Nearly 7 million views for ABC's official YouTube video of Kimmel's 28-minute monologue overnight. It is already the most-viewed Kimmel clip of the year on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Watching a third of the country beclown and degrade themselves in cultish devotion to this stumbling turnip makes me want to puke.

In the Northland Tom Thomson 1915

Autumn Woods Tom Thomson 1915

New research is constantly confirming variations of the same basic fact: bicycling for transportation is an incredible way to fit a little bit of low intensity exercise into your daily routine (oh, and also to save a ton of money, and reduce carbon emissions, and improve your mental health).

I often think how among all the other things it is against, fascism (and its attendant authoritarianisms and make-believes) is fundamentally a war against complexity—against the inherent complexity and multiplicity of the universe and social reality—and against any efforts to understand them as such

So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

I'm calling it: this Friday, September 26th, will be the third (and final) Northstar Run. Come join me on the 4:30p northbound train, get off at Fridley, and then run back approximately 7.7 miles to Target Field Station!

This is the scene in which anglosphere media remain immersed so that they may know the mind of the median voter. Oops! All Plato's Cave.

Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border chief, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later closed by Trump administration officials.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “What I find here in desperate villages in southwestern Uganda is that not only are aid cuts killing children every day, but that the death toll is accelerating,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

I wrote about the Kimmel situation

Uptown is ALIVE

Minneapolis is a walking and rolling city. Minneapolis is a bicycling city. Minneapolis is a transit city. Stop by the Public Works tent at Open Streets Hennepin and let's talk about how to make it even more so!

this exists it is called thinking

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

I often talk about DC being an oral rather than a literate culture and this also applies to punditry in general: they base their opinions largely on what they've *heard* and on the vibes among their peers, not on what they've read or thought about

Poland's recent experience is a rich case study. This article about the "post-illiberal trilemma" is excellent www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/dem...

"Politics is not the nursery." www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

this is true, though, generically about many people on social media

the total lack of interest from business and media elites in defending the liberal norms that underpin civil society and like, modern capitalism for that matter has been truly shocking

It's Transit to Work Day in Minneapolis! Here's my transit commute hack: I take whichever Route 18 shows up first (northbound or southbound it doesn't matter) and use it to connect to an Orange Line BRT station at either Lake or 46th. And I speed into downtown from there.

the UK's new anti-trans rules are indefensible & will make global fascism stronger my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

NYT INVESTIGATION: Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches. NYT digs into links between a lucrative transaction involving the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis access to A.I. chips. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

On Thursday at Whittier Elementary, the City and MPS are jointly celebrating the 2025 Vision Zero for Youth Leadership Award! Minneapolis is making great strides in designing safer streets for our youngest road users, especially around schools. There will be treats 👇

REMINDER: Tomorrow is Transit to Work Day in Minneapolis! If you can, join me on transit tomorrow and please share a selfie or other photos from your commute. Then, on the way home, stop by The Commons for a celebration (inc. snacks) that the City is co-hosting with @moveminneapolis.bsky.social:

The world feels crazy right now, but we won’t lose hope. We will get through this, together.

“Transit in Minneapolis is getting faster and more reliable,” Schieferdecker said. “We want to raise the profile and awareness of transit, and encourage people to try or rediscover it.” www.startribune.com/city-leaders...

FYI: The City of Minneapolis has mailing lists for Bicycling and Walking news! If you're not signed up, you can add your email at the links below. Not a newsletter—emails come maybe 1-2 times a month. Bicycling: public.govdelivery.com/accounts/MPL... Walking: public.govdelivery.com/accounts/MPL...

Four visions of America at the Weisman Art Museum:

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous

For The Argument, I wrote about how the theory of attention that underpinned the iPhone failed, and what we should do about it: www.theargumentmag.com/p/youre-bein...

being online right now feels like being harry and marv just getting walloped by paint cans to the face ... except it is posts

At the Minnesota State Fair, a 12-day fête of starch and fat which marks the end of every summer, one vender rules them all: Sweet Martha’s Cookie Jar. It operates three stands at the fair and is more lucrative than any other food purveyor by a huge margin.

We were in Minneapolis this past weekend, and checked out the Minneapolis Cargo Bike Library (@mplscargobikelibrary.com) - an amazing community asset to help spread biking, through free access to cargo bikes! youtu.be/qxzL7mKbr00?...