Remember when the right was pissing their pants in hysterics over "cancel culture"?

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Has there yet been a lawsuit in those conservative states over the teaching of “gender ideology” for a class that includes Romeo and Juliette, or Jane Austin, or even Fun with Dick and Jane? It would at least be a chance for these bozos to learn what “ideology” actually means.

Willie be Willieing

So glad they caught the “radical left” guy! Did he have a copy of Das Kapital in his backpack?

Among the details in Seth A. Richardson's excellent, heartbreaking new Racket piece on the death of Palmer's Bar: owner Sarah Dwyer wrote to Mayor Jacob Frey twice to ask for more enforcement of city code to help clean up the neighborhood. Neither letter even received a reply. #DontRankFrey

They should also call the Department of Health the Department of Sickness, the Department of Justice the Department of Retribution, and the Department of Education the Department of Ignorance.

The fact that the Democratic Party is terrified of what the dynamic and popular Zohran Mamdani might do to the public perception of Democrats, yet oblivious to the awful damage Schumer and Jeffries are constantly doing to the same is all you need to know about how brain-dead the party is.

Hey all you assault weapon-owning, gun-loving dipshit Americans, wasn't your excuse all along that you might need them to fight the US government if it suddenly became authoritarian? Are you all just super busy right now or something?

Just want to say publicly in advance that if I'm ever in a federal prison, then anyone who has the power to pardon me is and has always been, in my estimation, an absolutely perfect gentleperson in all respects and has never done anything even remotely inappropriate.

“You couldn’t feel safer anywhere in the world than at a ukulele gathering.” —wisdom from MPR this morning (I believe it, though a Lynx game might be a close second)

I mean, its hard to argue with “Fuck Jacob Frey, fuck fascism and fuck Donald Trump.” but leave it to the fucking Star Tribune to write a fucking article about fucking decorum, so fuck the Star Tribune along with this other list.

Trump’s concern about antisemitism is about as selective as his concern for birds: it’s only there if there’s a university he wants to shake down or a windmill he wants to take down.

LTE in today’s Minnesota Star Tribune

#TIME4UNITY: Both sides in our city must recognize the unique & valuable contributions of the other. Young DSA-types provide energy, activism, & idealism we need to keep striving. Old school DFLers provide the anger, resentment, & cash needed to crush that first faction to dust.

Let's make a rule that everyone who scaremongers about "socialism" in local politics is required to state exactly what public assets or services they wish to return to private hands or what proposed public benefit or service they wish to block from being enacted. (1/2)

omar fateh had a video message from sen john hoffman who is still recovering from being shot last month

Now even the Radical Left Lunatics at the Wall Street Journal are joining the pile-on against Trump over the Epstein Hoax.

"Look at a place like Minneapolis. Post mass migration they're unsafe, they're violent, you cannot use the public parks." – Stephen Miller I still go to them regularly because it's only when I'm close to death that I feel most alive.

Can we just pause to appreciate the irony of this moment, when Trump’s habitual ass-kissers dare to defy him because they feel they must pander to the MAGA base?

Natasha Cloud for deputy mayor

The message that needs to go out to Democrats in primary races against progressive Muslims is that not only will peddling Islamophobia and fake charges of antisemitism not work, it will actually turn voters against you because we see what you're doing and are disgusted by it.

If Cuomo wins the primary, discourse will peter out once progressives lose. If Mamdani or Lander win, 4 months of the anti-progressive establishment howling for Eric Adams.

Does God watch press conferences? All of them, or just the most important ones?

President of UMN: It's hard budget times President of UMN: So we're going to cut instructional support down to 19% of total budget (down from 30% in 2001) President of UMN: And I need 500K to hire a Vice President for Strategic Initiatives* President of UMN: You know, austerity *yes this is real

The DC parade on CSPAN right now is hilarious. Tanks and trucks roll slowly by bearing bored soldiers, a band plays distorted CCR and Metallica riffs, the bleachers are more than half empty, storm clouds loom, Trump salutes and tries to look tough, no doubt absolutely fuming inside.

"just something to note as Craig throws her hat into the ring to replace Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN)" (screen shot of Racket article also linked in comment below)

“When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength.” —Donald Trump, 1990

"AI can replicate, but can it yearn? Can an algorithm understand the weight of a glance between two people who can’t express their feelings? Can code capture the way memory distorts and reshapes our past?" – Wong Kar-wai, asked for his thoughts on the use of AI in filmmaking

Police chief ridicules "detached bourgeois liberals.” Who knew we had a revolutionary in our midst, our very own Vladimir Lenin, valiantly fighting the bourgeoisie! Vive la révolution! Power to the people! Down with the capitalists and their hired protectors, the politicians and cops! Oh, wait . . .

“I am so ready to fight this guy. I might have felt pressure, but I have not felt one iota of intimidation. I’m not scared of his goddamn jail.” –MN AG Keith Ellison

thanks, China, but it’s a little late for that

the American Guide to Genocide

Boss to Gulag

the “party of fiscal responsibility” strikes again

state parking with @wentrogue.bsky.social

Minneapolitans, next time you get campaign lit from "We❤️Mpls," know this: "Who is Behind We Love Minneapolis? . . . landlords and Republicans. . . . These donors tend not to live in Minneapolis, Dahlin [@taylr.bsky.social] writes, and they also often donate to Republican candidates." @racketmn.com

They're not bringing their best.

watch an apparent humanoid synth get dressed down by a US senator

“Our international students, who once came here not only to learn from us, but also to experience our democratic values, free speech being central among those, are now being targeted and criminalized for internalizing those core values.”

It's sad that it's come to this, but from now on, no polls should be allowed to be published unless they are first certified as Not Fake News by the White House.

Silver linings: if SCOTUS rules that presidents have the authority to declare a "national emergency" (eg. the Canadian fentanyl lie) at will and issue fiats accordingly, presumably a future president can nationalize the entire energy industry due to the actual climate emergency.

good thing we got rid of that demented old president we had a hundred days ago

Rebecca Cunningham, President of the University of Minnesota, WHY IS YOUR NAME NOT ON THIS LETTER???!!!

JD to Pontiff, according to NYT: “I know you have not been feeling great but it’s good to see you in better health. I pray for you every day.” JD Vance killed the pope. Pass it on.